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my holiday drink (be it Christmas, Easter, or Thanksgiving) is Rye n Ginger. There is nothing that says holidays to me like sitting around a table playing cards with family and a glass of rye n ginger. Not much for food traditions, except making pancakes and french toast...the old man always did that when we were growing up, and I've tried to keep it rolling a bit over the years.

Some of the cable channels have been running nothing but Christmas movies since end of November. We were chuckling because the Women's Network is around the same place as TSN/Sportsnet, so we scroll by it in the guide, and they've had nothing but Christmas movies on since American Thanksgiving... So, they're there, for sure...and on YTV and stuff.....just gotta hunt for 'em.

Talbot made some 5-bell saves, for sure, but the Oilers are a much better team than people give them credit for. The goals they scored were really nice. Some tic-tac-toe passing and then bar-down......

We have done Bad Santa followed by Vacation every year for a decade now, among our group. For me, personally, I'm a huge fan of Christmas specials, so I have to watch Charlie Brown, Rudolph, both Grinch's, Garfield, and this year I actually found Merry Christmas, Mr Bean! on TV, so I watched that for the first time in awhile. Always great. The girlfriend is obsessed with Tim Allen's "The Santa Clause" trilogy, so we watch all 3 of those every year as well. As soon as December arrives, our house is like Christmas puked in here...

I just realized that Spuds and TBurg are the exact polar opposite posters on this site.......I think the goal of every poster should be to sit somewhere right in the middle of those two, rationale-wise....

...Along with their entire 2nd line on IR.....

My favourite thing about the site since you guys LAST updated....both on mobile and desktop, being able to automatically go to the first unread post is a "life saver" around here!

Noel Thorpe staying with Montreal....Esks still looking for DC, but rumoured to be Benevides...

Sounds like just the Receivers Coach....

I'm curious how many potential FAs are going to want to jump over there because they think it's the best bet to win a GC this year....

Toronto had been doing this for awhile.....as in, when MOS was there.....and it's a policy he kept from that time. Simple.

We aren't the only team with the policy. In fact I think most teams operate this way now.

Looks fantastic on mobile!

Curious how much growth, if any, J-Homo shows in camp this year...

We didn't re-sign him, I believe, on account of all the drops.....we had a chance to bring him back, but chose not to re-sign him.

"Chris Jones is so good, we only need to play 16 games to win the Cup!!" -- Riders Fans

Kopitar is not the best player in the league, so no, he's not as good as Toews.....but he's really ******* good. 10m good? No....but close...

Import receivers I have a really hard time with paying big money in FA.....that's the kinda thing you just GOTTA be able to recruit for. There's so many down there that might not be NFL calibre, but would fit in nicely up here.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but there's a lot more to that Esks offense than just the QBs. That whole team was a lot deeper/more talented than the Riders currently are. I have no doubt Jones is going to do some serious house-cleaning and make a ton of changes, but still....long way to go.....

Kopitar is very very good. He's not as good as Toews, but he's really good. I don't hate that contract for him....

Pessimist =/= realist. Untrue....but in this guy's case, very much pessimist.....

Damn it...woulda loved to have him come home again, but I suppose MOS wants to keep that hat on. Also, there's an awful lot of you putting some serious stock in Trevor Harris. I don't know that he's necessarily the saviour for Sask that some of you think he might be.

Pretty much how I feel about all things. I don't buy into this "Anything that's good for the league..." stuff. I've suffered enough without a championship in 25 years.....**** EVERYONE that's not us....

Meanwhile Madani losing his mind on Twitter. That guy better relax a little...with all the weight he's packed on, he's likely to have a coronary over something like this...

Wowy....so Thorpe's gotta try and mend fences with Popp and Co......