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As someone mentioned before, it'll be a 3 year deal with escalating money....

They found BLM... Who else did they find, and who did they develop....?

It's a tough situation now for sure. The best point raised in this article was in a Homan quote where she said it's difficult to get enough funding for as many teams as Canada has. That's the key point. Other countries have one team... Maybe two. So all the funding goes to them and this is their full time job, paid by the government. We have a number of teams and all with limited funds. Some still work full time jobs and just practice around that. It's a lot tougher to be at the same level as the EurAsian teams that eat, sleep and breathe curling with their same team 24/7/365.

Who says they aren't also...?? And some more commentary:

oh boy........

Good for Thomas Milic getting the call to the Spengler. Still have hope he'll be an NHL goaltender for the Jets one day...

the winning TD this past GC is something that would have been intercepted in any other game vs Montreal..... it's just a classic play where someone like Alexander comes outta nowhere and picks it off to break Faj's heart yet again and leave him crying on his stomach on the field. But somehow didn't happen this time.... because **** us, right??

I don't care for Prukop one bit, but holy Christ, Corny is even worse..... that's a hard no.

actually surprised people aren't higher on Lawson.... this is a HUGE signing. The kid is very very good. He's as good or better than Jake ever was (and I say that as a really big fan of Fatboi)... if we can get Mason Bennett in there to rotate next year, that's a great 1-2 punch of NI NTs along the line...

this should be someone's signature.... just keep this direct quote around for awhile.

this is all it's about... JR knows it as well as anyone, and is just trying to help sell season tickets.

This is such a big thing over there right now. They are DESPERATE to turn the tide on that rapidly sliding attendance, so the whole league has been trying to blow smoke up their ass so the casuals, which make up the large majority of their fan base, start coming back ..

I had a nice chuckle over some Jon Ryan quotes on CKRM today....

I think a LOT of these guys want to be a part of the home town GC game....

That breakup on the goal line at the end of regulation will live in infamy.

I remember thinking at the time that he was going to be like Ryan Nugent Hopkins. Not a "generational" player, but a VERY good Top 6 C in the NHL....

he had injury problems going back to his Brandon time and there was talk at that draft about how much it would affect his draft ranking...

We are all very aware of how bad the QBing across the league is right now...

Yeah, Alford isn't coming back any time soon...

this. Patrick was a really good player for the Wheaties.... injuries just derailed what would have been a productive NHL career. BIG difference between him and guys like Daigle, Yak and PoolParty...

Good for him... best of luck!