The Unknown Poster

If anyone thinks Bettman is out to get Canadian teams they need counselling. If I'm on the BOD, I ask Bettman to stay.

I've never looked at the host city schedule before. But why wouldn't the draft and all star game rotate among all 30 teams? It should....

I think that dialogue was meant to show a disagreement between the perspectives of Palpatine and Vader. Vader saw Luke as his only chance to get out from under the Emporer. Palps saw Luke as the only threat to his power.

Suplexes shouldn't be unsafe. A rumble is a difficult place though to do them as there is a lot going on. I don't recall anyone else ever being injured from a Brock suplex. And it's usually his own head that gets busted open. There has been debated about whether he is reckless, purposely banging his head to get blood or if he is blading against complany policy. Awesome Kong didn't just get pregnant. She has some issues. She pretended to be pregnant after losing the baby. Also I think it was Dawn Marie who also got pregnant to WWE's annoyance. They don't look favourably on getting knocked up during a program. It was Austin who pushed hard for Kong to be hired. Wwe never wanted her.

Awesome Kong was sent home from TNA UK your after a locker room fight with Matt Hardy's wife. Del Rio is now injured from a Brock suplex from the rumble.

It's fun to laugh at the All Star Game but when it's our chance to host we will treat it like a big time event!

Regardless of where Stamkos plays he's going to get paid. So if his heart is set on leaving there isn't anything Tampa can do short of offering points in the framchise the league should disallow no trade clauses when a player is pending UFA.

Nope.

so.....doesn't sign an extension, won't waive no trade. Selfish jerk.

Wasn't that why Vader boarded the republic ship in the first place, because they intercepted a transmission about the plans?

Perhaps we need a MB election thread

So the word is that Darth Vader will play a larger role than expected in Rogue One. They have created costuming that is identical to his A New Hope suit as well as "battle armor" which sounds like its just the regular Vader suit but designed for the actor (or stunt man) to work action/fight scenes. It would be pretty cool to see an angry, powerful Vader cutting his way through rebel scum left and right.

I think he did alright with the Good & Bad but the Ugly is a reach. No one ever won the cup signing Stemp and Tlusty. its just a myth that the Jets failed by not keeping those guys. I thin they gambled that the youth movement would allow them to make the playoffs again (or be close enough that Chevy could bring in some help at the deadline) but I also dont think the fact it didnt work out that way is a huge surprise. I think Jets management is able to separate emotion from this and realise competing every year is better than blowing our wad this year. And you cant grade Chevy on the Ladd & Buff situation until it's resolved. Period.

in 22 Games Played. So what the odds he plays one more year down south or plays for the Jets?

All this chitter chatter about the Jets moving away from ladd and onto Buff, yet supposedly neither is available via trade, got me thinking. Perhaps the Jets feel they have whittled Ladd down to his bare minimum. And perhaps Ladd conceded some money and/or term given his play and the Free Agent landscape. Maybe the Jets called his bluff on how much he wants to stay here and got him down considerably. So they then turn to Buff to see how low they can nickel and dime him. And then spend February deciding whether to sign those deals for both or choose one and trade the other. It just seems odd to hear "contract talks broken off" and yet also hear "Player isnt available".

That was a decent SummerSlam. Im not sure why but I really liked it. Maybe it wont hold up. I dont recall any of the matches being awesome but all were good work and angles. You had the Best of Three, Hart Foundation vs Demolition that I remember being really good. Kerry Von Erich vs Mr Perfect which was good. Power & Glory which was an awesome team, though short lived, dominated the Rockers. Hogan vs Earthquake. Warrior vs Rude in a case (Rude was awesome at the time). Check it out!

Yes they did feud. When WWE signed the Road Warriors. it wasnt as awesome as you might expect. To prepare, they abruptly turned Demolition heel. At the same time, they pulled back on a Bret Hart singles push and reformed the Hart Foundation, having the Harts win the tag titles from Demolition (Smash & Crush) at SummerSlam 90. LOD helped Harts win. As part of the Demolition heel turn, they added Crush. There was speculation hat Axe had a heart condition, which he denies, but he was definitely being phased out as Demolition was almost always Smash and Crush. There was a pretty big Saturday Night's Main Event that had LOD and Ultimate Warrior vs Axe, Smash, Crush in a six man. LOD won all the matches and ended the feud pretty quickly. if I recall correctly, WrestleMania 7 might have been Demolitions final appearance (or final big appearance) for WWE, losing to a Japanese team. The Powers of Pain were another Road Warriors rip off at the time that ended up doing decent for themselves.

Smash became Repo Man. Then went to WCW as Blacktop Bully. He was fired from WCW for breaking the no blood policy. Later returned to WCW as an evil golfer. He's done a couple of WWE appearances as Repo Man (gimmick battle royale etc). Ax (Bill Eadie) was famous before Demolition as Masked Superstar. He sued WWE at some point over the Demolition name, claiming he came up with it. I assume he won since he's used Demolition all over the world since (and since they havent been back to WWE even though they are fan favorites). He's appeared as Ax and used the Demolition name with other partners as well as occasionally Smash in Japan and various independants. Near as I can tell, they last worked together in 2012 but I seem to recall them working Winnipeg more recently than that. Edit to add, I'd love for them to get a HOF induction soon. Tremendous theme music and had a great run. When they debuted (Barry Darsow was the second SMASH), they were Road Warrior rip offs but really came into their own and were in many ways, better than the LOD.

The penalty for non-intentional striking is ten games. So he's getting that for sure. Intentional is 20. I say they split the difference and go 15

Which front line players have Jets ownership let go?

Jeff Hardy is really him. Poetry, music, painting etc. All him. Edge, not really. By all accounts a super nice guy who felt terribly uncomfortable doing the Rated R Superstar gimmick with Lita. But he was a natural. Had he never cheated on his wife with Matt's girlfriend, who knows where his career might have gone, but surely not multiple time world champion. I met Edge and Christian. They were both quiet at the time, Edge a little more out going. Christian was sort of off-putting when I met him and I've heard he's less personable. But very witty. When he went singles, he could have faded away but he became super entertaining. He went to TNA because WWE made it very clear that no matter how over he was (and he was very over), they didnt see him as a top guy. When Christian came back to WWE, he was meant to be the one that turned on Jeff Hardy but the story was out so they changed it to Matt...unfortunately. Fans never bought Matt vs Jeff. Also, go back and watch that awesome Jericho/Christian/Trish angle that started as a little throw-away low card backstage comedy thing and ended up as a great angle at WrestleMania when Trish and Christian both turned. That was all Jericho (I imagine Christian and Trish contributed).

Great summation. Watching it again, Wideman's actions immediately before the hit seem to indicate surprise that there is a person in front of him even though it seems almost unbelievable that he didnt see him. But his "finishing" the contact was deliberately. 10 games at least.