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something to keep an eye on: The Edmonton Oilers have sent a 50 page document to Alberta Health Services, outlining their request to have ~15% fan attendance toward the end of the regular season, and if it goes well, to have that increased for playoffs. Would act as a sort of Canary In The Coal Mine for the CFL.....Again, something to keep an eye on.....

"outside of Quebec everyone is friendly to all races and cultures..." Indigenous Canadians: "HA!"

BBT was a fantastic show until they decided that everyone needed to be in a relationship. Lame. When it was just the nerds and the one chick, it was really really funny. I always say the best years for that show were when Sara Gilbert was a semi-regular performer on the show.

I was really late to Breaking Bad, but enjoyed that. It's a tough watch at some points...way too dark for me...but I powered through. I've enjoyed Better Call Saul on Netflix as well. My wife and I re-binge How I Met Your Mother every single year. Far and away our favourite show of all time.

Jesus Christ, iHeart...... making my brain hurt on this board every single day.

Good for Einar...she's fantastic. Some people questioned whether a team of 4 skips could make it work, but they definitely did. I still feel like this team is winning in spite of Val Sweeting and they could do better at the 3rd position, but they're getting it done regardless. Shame that Jonesy **** her pants in the tie breaker, but that's how she goes sometimes. Manitoba's women's curling future is extremely bright with a number of good teams. On to the Brier now, starting Friday, where Manitoba's men's division is not so bright. A couple of "just okay" teams and the best curler we've produced in at least a decade, Matt Dunstone, is skipping the dirty Gappers...what a shame.

Buck as an analyst is sensational. One of the best in the league. Buck as PBP (with Tabler) is not good...

He's a troll folks... Let it go.

The big ones... Lotta money grubbing assholes.

Shulman and Buck are the best broadcast tandem in baseball. I'd listen to those guys BS and tell stories any day...

Randomly associated thought: If the Olys were right now, who would be Canada's starter? Finland and USA have the best goaltending right now, and oddly Canada isn't the factory it once was. MAF starting with Chris Driedger backing up and maybe Carter Hart or Jordan Binnington as 3rd string?

Trade the best goaltender in the world because you want to get as much for him as you can. Get the absolute **** out of here. This is why you can't have nice things... You don't appreciate what you have. Every team in the league would kill to have Helle. What a ******* terrible post.

Curling is always quiet. It's how it's meant to be. I'm loving it way more without fans.

All I know is radio people across Canada are fired up angry about it. It's really just dollars and cents for them. There weren't enough people listening to justify a separate broadcast. The simulcast will sound awful on radio but it'll sav le Rogers money and give the shareholders larger dividends.... Ugh.

Football is different because there's way more players and way more staff. The expenses are way higher. The only comparison is NFL and they've obviously got exponentially more money.

this. You think you're going to teach Corey Perry anything after this many years? Don't give him the attention he craves. The way you stick it to him is by thumping those assholes by 5 goals next time, and hopefully he's in the box for 1 or 2 of 'em.....

REGINA -- The CFL is unlikely to begin its season on its scheduled May start date due to continuing financial uncertainty, according to TSN football insider Dave Naylor. On Tuesday, the CFL analyst tweeted that the league and the CFL players association (CFLPA) were putting the final touches on the league’s return to play protocol for staging games in 2021. Naylor said most of the protocol was developed last summer for the proposed bubble in Winnipeg. There is also overlap of people working on the CFL’s return to play protocol that also worked on the NHL’s document, however the CFL has other challenges. “You’re going to have to satisfy the provincial authorities with not the same amount of resources that you’re putting behind it,” Naylor said. Naylor felt the proposal was being offered to provinces by “late this week," but might not be offered to all provinces with CFL teams at the same time. “You give it to one government and they sign off on it then you feel confident you’re going to the next province or if you give it to one provincial government and they say 'hey, we have an issue with this, if you address it by the time you get to the others you’ve already addressed what may be a red flag,'” Naylor said. With case numbers slowly trending downward, the league's return to play plan might appear less dangerous than when the NHL began its season in January. COVID-19 numbers were soaring in Canada and the vaccine rollout had only just begun. The protocol will focus primarily on COVID-19 testing and stopping the spread of the virus. “It’s really just laying out how much testing, when does the testing happen and what’s the protocol for players that test positive," Naylor said. "Also how are players going to interact and train and practice in hopefully a preventative protocol that would avoid any spread of the disease if somebody was carrying it." While government approval is a major part of the return to play process for the league, Naylor said getting fans in the stands also provides another road block. “Before you can even get into a conversation about how many fans you’re going to be able to put into stands, you have to get approval just to be able to play the games and hold team activity,” Naylor said. “I think the fans in the stands issue can be largely dependent on how much virus there is.” Naylor revealed in one Canadian province, a committee was formed to discuss fans in the stands with provincial authorities in 2020. However, discussions quickly came to a halt with the second wave hit. “That was essentially put on hold with the idea being that the conversation would be resumed once it came around to the end of winter, cases came down, vaccine rollout and the governments might be more willing to engage in that topic,” Naylor said. The CFL’s regular season is scheduled to begin Jun. 10, however, there are still restrictions in place that would make it difficult to begin on the anticipated start date. The United States-Canada border is still closed and many CFL teams laid off staff that will need to be re-hired to prepare for the season. “Still got a lot of the population that isn’t going to be vaccinated. Teams are going to need some lead up to this because, as we know, they’ve laid people off,” Naylor said. The league averaged 23,000 fans per game in 2019 and gate revenue is the highest source of revenue for teams. “I don’t think the league wants to begin the season without fans in stands, I think they might be willing to do so if it were only a few weeks,” Naylor said. Based on numbers from the Saskatchewan Roughriders 2020 Annual General Meeting, the team made $17.1 million from gate receipts in 2019-20, which makes up approximately 43 per cent of their revenue. It’s unclear at what the capacity of stadiums will be, but it’s not expected to return to 100 per cent this season. “If you want games without fans in the stands, you’re basically asking owners to throw tons of money away that they’ll never get back,” Naylor said.

exactly this...

there's always a good chance of Manitoba winning because we have so many good ******* teams, period. Even if we only have 1 or 2 in the bonspiel, we've got a better than good shot of winning because we're that much better than everyone else on any given day. Virtually every province has benefitted from our curling expertise in some way. One of the things that absolutely makes me sick to my stomach these days is we sent our best male curler over to the ******* GAP of all places, to wear green and help those inbred, knuckle dragging cousin-f***ers win a f***ing Brier......absolutely gross.

not that I have any love for the Sens, but few things would please me more than to see Calgary and Vancouver sucking the hind *** at the bottom...just fabulous.

I used to think like this, and then I did a bunch of reading and realized that 62% is still CRAZY high effectiveness. Most vaccines aren't normally that high. And the 90%+ is basically unheard of. It's never been done before. So, as someone else just posted, you want ANY of the vaccines...it'll get the job done.

let's get the JJ One Shot rolling ASAP and things will really be humming along.....

**** the Habs and their Dead Cat Bounce... The better team is taking over now.

fwiw, Legghio and Larry Arugala are close friends and workout partners. Says he spoke highly of Osh and the Bombers. He's a good guy to model your kicking game after, for sure.