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Well get your **** together then...

$140 is the number I remember. $200k for a guy coming off one decent season would be crazy.

I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic.

Lol. I sat in the seat next to that guy and his girlfriend for a few years (around 2000-2004). I didn't know his real name, but everybody called him Meat (Bull Durham reference). That guy must have had to take a loan to afford all the beer he drank. He would start to come up the stairs with two beers, everybody in the section would start chanting for him to drink them, and he would demolish them both and go back for more. He also had a "ride the pony" bit he did for us...

What are you talking about? With the notable exception of the goalies, we've been the better team so far.

Another top 4 defenseman or a healthy Myers, maybe both, and an upgrade in goal. That's my wish list for next season. Unfortunately, it's a pretty weak fa class for the type of dman I would want. Alzner was a running joke here for awhile, but imo he'd be a great partner for Buff on the 2nd pairing.

7 pts in his last 5 games and balls out hustle every shift. Not sure what the expectations of him are if that's not good enough.

That would be a pretty big jump up the rankings.

Common sense dictates that the only solution to gun violence is to flood the streets with guns.

Couldn't agree more. The guy on the pa needs to switch to decaf.

Meh. His D in Hamilton was nothing special, and Sask's D was historically bad after he took it over from Hall.

What makes you think that?

He made a handful of bad passes and I thought it looked like he didn't know where he should be at times. Indecisive. I can't remember many specific plays to reference, but it just felt like it would be obvious to pick out who the kid up from the minors was in that game. I understand that the nerves of his first game and only having one or two practices would cause a lot of that. He had a few good plays too though. Carried it up a couple of times and made a nice pinch in the third that created a chance. Stu looked like he was doing a lot of coaching for him on the ice. They were talking after the whistle after most plays.

That's not how it looked in person. I thought he had pretty rough night.

Gotta defend Stu. In addition to the two softies, that mixup behind the net that led to a goal was also on Helle imo. He was way too indecisive with the puck and the dmen had no idea what he was going to do.

No reservations about checking out their stolen personal pictures?

This list is really surprising to me. How aren't Chris Schultz, Mike O'Shea, Terry Greer, & Mervyn Fernandez already in the HOF? Short(ish) CFL careers for Greer & Fernandez I suppose, but they're some of the first names I remember as stars in the CFL when I started watching football as a kid.

I'm firmly in the camp that thinks we need to bring someone in to create a 1a-1b situation. There are several pending fas who could fill that role; Johnson, Condon, Darling, even Mason. None of those guys, imo, are likely to go anywhere as the undisputed #1. Maybe Darling, but the supply of goalies is likely to be greater than the demand, and although he's looked good as as a backup, he's not a proven guy yet. Edit: I had Elliott on that list, but his recent hot streak probably keeps him a Flame.

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This is mostly true. I don't mind Ripper though. Several posters here are dicks to him and he handles it fairly well.

It's probably time to move on from this.

Just listened to a radio interview with Derek Taylor. He thinks the Riders will be 1st or 2nd in the West this season. That's a bold prediction.

So we agree neither guy adds much offense. Unfortunately for Petan, if he's not adding offense he's a liability. If nothing else, at least Thorburn is big and a decent skater so he can throw his weight around. I'll qualify this argument about the two of them by saying I think we should be able to do better than either one of them.

Petan has 12 points in 43 games and is both soft and terrible defensively. I agree with Maurice that Thorburn offers the team more than Petan does right now. Petan should be in the AHL playing top six minutes.

Good for Malkin for answering the challenge and good for Wheeler for kicking his ass. Sestito made the Pens look bad last night. I'd love to hear Lemieux's thoughts on how he was used.