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I think it was Labatts that bought Granville Island, still their stuff tastes mostly the same and it's still pretty good. I've been quite enjoying another of the bought out by the big guys craft brewers to be honest. Goose Island IPA is hands down my favourite IPA. Nice balance and not overly hopped like some stupid IPAs. The Honkers Ale is damned good too. Just a shame that buying their beer supports the evil big companies. Stopped in at the Fernie Brewing Company tap room on the weekend while in Fernie, was kind of disappointed truthfully, they have a big lineup of beers but only had 6 on tap. Anyway they had a collaboration with Whistler Brewing company that was pretty tasty, Springshred Red session ale. Was solid stuff. Also rather enjoyed their Slingshot session IPA. not overly stupid on the hops and lots of flavour.

It's the REDBLACKS! way. They've bitched and moaned about everything, probably because the CFL was so desperate to make them good right away that they actually thought they were special.

Well my solution would have been to not hire him in the first place. I mean we fired the guy twice for good reasons

Blizzard games tended to have some interesting stories but this film concerns me greatly.... I think dungeons and dragonning it is a big concern. I also worry they'll try and stuff too many Easter eggs in for fans it will just be too silly.

If you do it well though you can have it both ways. Wrath of Kahn is held in such high regard precisely because it bridged the gap between examining a theme and combining it with some action. I've said it before in other threads that I hate the trend of action movies these days to be written around a couple big sequences. It's totally backwards and inorganic. The newer Trek movies suffered from that and so have the Transformers movies. We'll call it Michael Bay syndrome

Star Trek the Undiscovered Wrath of Kahn was just so lazy. I enjoyed it in the theatre cause I'm a sucker for call backs and references but after some time to reflect on the movie it's really a mash up of Wrath of Kahn and the Undiscovered Country filled with enormous plot holes and a story that really doesn't make much sense. I was excited about the idea of rebooting the universe a bit to avoid having to stick to some of the cluttered canon but it's like they just tried way to hard to give us some fan service rather than caring about making a movie that made sense. I actually liked most of the actors they got for the cast as well. I think they could all channel the original characters well enough, the thing just got so far off the rails it was more of a parody than anything.

He's an assistant coach though. Yes I see some validity in wanting to run an offense his way with the kind of players he wants, but sometimes that's not the best solution when you have a head coach and general manage above you in the pecking order each with their own ideas. Sometimes a coach has to be able to adapt to what he has. Adaptability is the best trait that a coach can have and I dunno that Lapo is all that adaptable.

I would like to see a new Trek series. I never really watched Enterprise, saw a few episodes here and there and never really got into it, Voyager to me was just terrible but when I was young I loved TNG and DS9, the latter being my favourite of the series. I think given the way people view TV now it would lend itself very well to some longer running story arcs as opposed to having an alien of the week situation. Just have to remember that Star Trek really isn't about the big space battles and adventure like Star Wars is (something I think they failed to recognize in the last couple movies). Keep it focussed on examining what humanity is and I think they've got something.

Hell Lapo wanted say in what players were brought in for the offense. Guy is a control freak. All I can say is the offense better be damned good this year cause I didn't care for the hire but knowing the ego he's bringing with him he better back it up.

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We said the same last year though

Does it really? Same questions about the OL, same questions about the DL far as I can see... They added some receivers and a bit of NI depth but there's still some questions about this team. I seem to recall people saying after FA last year that the team looked pretty good personnel wise as well. Given his history Walters doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt because this team has been lacking talent his whole tenure. I'm giving him a chance to come through for sure, but he doesn't get the benefit of the doubt because he hasn't earned that yet.

If you do enjoy Game of Thrones I would say do yourself a favour and read the books. They're very different at this point in the series and just on a completely different level. I always feel like people who only watch the show are short changing themselves. They've ****** up so much of the show I don't believe I'll even watch the new seasons until the books are finished. (Hurry up fat man, write the ******* things, you've had more than enough time)

You never have to justify taking the best player available and I quite frankly disagree entirely with drafting on need as opposed to BPA.

Yeah it's canon. They just recast it cause Norton didn't play well with others. Think they made a reference to Blonsky in agents of shield as well.

Mostly from the baby sitting community

then that means you yourself are one of them because it means you don't view the delusions as delusional.

Nothing makes the reffing better than giving them more to call or not call. God CFL can't we just leave it alone for a while and let the referees and players and coaches all adjust without having to change things every single season? It's too much and it's no wonder the reffing is such a monumental joke.

but different kinds of bad. Eakins had a better roster than Kreuger did and Kreuger got that team to play a lot better. When Eakins was fired last year Nelson had that team winning a hell of a lot more as well until the point that MacT stupidly gave way Petry and crippled the defense. This year is night and day from Eakins as well. Sure they still suck in the standings but the play is so much better and I am a firm believer that without the massive amount of impactful injuries that team would be significantly higher in the standings. Hell they were creeping close to a playoff race before Klefbom got hit with the bad luck. Then as people are getting excited for McDavid coming back and having 3 lines that present matchup problems RNH gets hurt. If you think it's the same old Oilers this year you're not paying attention.

Because Hall had been in the league for a couple years and had learned from a couple real coaches before Eakins showed up? You notice how the guys most affected by Eakns were Schultz and Yakupov who both only had the lock out season with Kreuger before Eakins came to town? Hell Eberle had his numbers crippled by Eakins too and immediately bounced back when he was fired, but I think with Schultz and Yakupov the damage was too much to their rookie brains. Even Nugent-Hopkins hasn't been the same offensive player since Eakins came to town that he was prior, though he did learn the defensive side of the game quite well, to the point where he cheats for D rather than O most of the time. It's hard to describe how bad the man was as a coach to people who don't follow the team closely. This is the guy who benched Yakupov after scoring a goal because he wanted him to end the game on a positive note.

would he be a bust if Eakins hadn't got his hands on him though? Before Eakins some people even talked like maybe he'd work out better than Hall or RNH.

So is that an admission that you didn't even bother to read it? Yakupov was the consensus #1 pick. None was taking anyone other than him at number 1, what I wrote were the reasons why other players weren't in the conversation for #1 despite how hindsight has worked out. Bad draft year is bad.

No Williams is just naturally manish, the guy I'd question about juicing is Nadal. Seriously the way he used to get hurt and come back even better, the way he could physically play... just seems like a classic case of a guy doing something to get an edge. And really if Sharapova was really taking something to improve her game she should ask for her money back.

That's not looking at the big picture. Galchenyuk was the other top forward and he hasn't done a whole lot either not to mention he was hurt so much he was never going to be the first overall pick. None of the other forwards have really distinguished themselves from that draft and the 2nd overall Ryan Murray has had his own issues and was not a sure fire guy to take at #1 either. Then you got a bunch of other D that have worked out but none of them were ever in consideration for first overall. Griffin Reinhart was highly touted but only as a defensive guy with limited offense and he still hasn't fully established himself in the NHL, Morgan Reilly was a guy who was also hurt too much leading into the draft to be taken first overall. Lindholm and Trouba have worked out nicely but neither of them were thought to be on that level, especially Trouba, he took a huge step his post draft year. He was even a bit of a reach where the Jets took him. It's a pretty shitty draft year all in all, forwards especially. Yakupovs problem is that he's an emotional player who really lacks hockey IQ. Now you can over come that with good coaching and we saw him as a rookie under Ralph Kreuger who was a very positive motivational coach that he led the Oilers in goals and was tied for the rookie lead in scoring, but then Eakins came in and really did break him. Schultz too. Just tore them down completely and left them lying in a ditch trying to recover and I am afraid that Yakupov at this point is simply afraid to play hockey the way he needs to because he's been jerked around so much. You put the kid in a stable situation and I think he's able to be saved and become a useful player, trouble is that things have become so toxic for him in Edmonton that he won't be saved there. I dunno why people think the Oilers can easily move Nugent-Hopkins either, have you not seen how much that team has struggled without him taking the difficult matchups? People always focus on his offense as a reason he's not living up to potential but the dude is a very good two way centre and without him taking the heavies it makes it really hard on Draisaitl and McDavid. You think it's coicidence that Draisaitls production fell off a cliff when RNH got hurt and suddenly he had to take the tougher matchups?