The Unknown Poster

How disrespectful of Copp to wear #9.

He does not have to clear waivers to report to the Moose. The story was his club team would not release him to play in the AHL. But seeing as this is an NHL contract and the Jets have to pay him full price either way, I guess it works. Surely it means the Jets like him and intend to use him....Maybe they want to see if he can replace Peluso's contributions before committing to dumping Peluso.

TSN 1290 Winnipeg ✔ @TSN1290Radio The Winnipeg Jets announced today they have agreed to terms with forward Thomas Raffl on a one-year, one-way contract worth $575,000. Andrew Paterson @hustlerama Raffl signs 1 year deal with Jets - will be a very interesting afternoon on @TSN1290Radio TSN 1290 Winnipeg ✔ @TSN1290Radio Raffl attended Jets training camp on a tryout and will be assigned to the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League. ***Interesting. Im guessing it had to be one way to get out of his Club contract. Jets obviously like him.

Kirk Penton @PentonKirk Hajrullahu smacks a 57-yarder on his final boot. #Bombers

Interesting story and video here: http://globalnews.ca/news/2261587/shocking-video-in-alleged-police-brutality-case-shows-violent-arrest-of-california-woman/?hootPostID=61b50054071bbf1834070a9d806ae622

Paul Friesen ✔ @friesensunmedia Byfugllien missed practice to be with his wife for the birth of their child. #NHLJets.

I agree. Lighter side of sports. Jimmy K is funny. Was there a video to go along with that? It alludes to a video but was not linked in the story. I dont catch the late night shows often so I didnt see it.

I agree. Lighter side of sports. Jimmy K is funny.

@friesensunmedia: We're told whatever is keeping Byfuglien out of practice won't be an issue for Thursday's game. #NHLJets Because they traded him. Lol

Paul Friesen ✔ @friesensunmedia #NHLJets practising 3 on 3 OT now. Maurice in fine form today, sprinkling F-bombs like salt and pepper on fresh tomatoes.

HA! m.winnipegsun.com SportsSPORTS HockeyHOCKEY SPORTS - Hockey Tampa Bay Lightning's Tyler Johnson outed for past affair on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Kurtis Larson Today at 12:16 PM She "cheated" on her boyfriend with an NHLer named T.J. Sorry, Ben. Whoever you are. Your ex-girlfriend apparently two-timed you with an NHLer. As if that wasn't enough, she then proceeded to tell late-night TV viewers – which inevitably led to her story going viral. On Monday night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, a pedestrian was asked to reveal the most “impressive” thing she's ever done. Perhaps she took the question too literally. “I don’t know,” she started. “Cheat on my boyfriend, not have him find out.” She was reminded that Jimmy Kimmel Live is a TV show. “No, it's an old boyfriend, not the one I'm with now.” It seemed normal until the details trickled out. “The guy was a famous athlete,” she continued, eventually revealing more. His initials are “T.J.” Sport? “Hockey.” Team? “Tampa Bay." It didn't leave much to the imagination. Eventually the man behind the mic asks if it's 25-year-old Tampa Bay Lightning centre Tyler Johnson. Her reaction says it all.

@KatieSimpsonCTV: Mulcair accuses Harper of being a trade opportunist. Also, he said today the notion that the NDP is anti-trade is false. Lol

Ken Wiebe @WiebeSunSports Jay Harrison clears waivers and is assigned by #NHLJets to #MBMoose

Ken Wiebe @WiebeSunSports “@saraorlesky: #NHLJets practice about to start. Raffl and Peluso both on the ice.” Remember folks, today's roster deadline is 4 pm CT Sara Orlesky ✔ @saraorlesky Byfuglien is the only #NHLJets player missing from practice. Buff traded!! lol j/k Basically, by process of elimination the Jets either are working on a trade or working on a two-way deal with Raffl. They have to reduce to 23 (they have 24 now) by 3:00. If they were going to waive Peluso (or someone else), they would have had to yesterday. Is it confirmed Clitsome is not among the 24? I had read he had to be "on the roster" before being assigned to LTIR. They have some guys they could send to the Moose without waivers but I would think they would have done so yesterday. Sounds to me like Raffl gets a two-way or a release.

Daly thinks only 20 players in the NHL use recreational cocaine . The NHL seems like a very tone deaf organization and very naive. Also, it sounds like they want to test all players and if the coke (or other drug) use is high enough, the doctors would approach the players to discuss the issue. So you can do some coke. That's ok. Its the PR-busting addicts the NHL wants to clean up.

Well that was an atrocious RAW

Did I read correcy that the league has to work with the PA to make coke a banned substance? It isn't already???

Global News With just two weeks left in the federal election campaign, the Conservatives are now the top choice for voters, according to a new Ipsos poll conducted for Global News. But their lead is about as small as it can get – just one percentage point ahead of the Liberals. The poll, conducted between Oct. 2 and Oct. 5, surveyed 1,441 people online and found that 33 per cent of decided voters would vote for the Conservative Party, while 32 per cent would vote for the Liberal Party. “The only real movement that we’ve seen in the polling so far is the Conservatives and Liberals switch back and forth week to week by a point or a couple of points, and the NDP have gone through farily steady decline over the last couple of weeks,” Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos said in an interview Monday. The NDP – once the clear frontrunners in the campaign – has dropped to third with 26 per cent support, seven percentage points behind the Tories. Tom Mulcair’s NDP has seen a marked decline in support over the last few weeks, mostly due to the party’s stance on the niqab. The NDP and the Liberals have the same position on the Niqab, that it could be worn during the citizenship ceremony. That issue, Bricker said, is motivating the NDP’s decline in Quebec.

@mikeoncrime: Manitoba lumber company fined $25,000 after log sent flying through groin of employee, exiting out his buttocks. Story coming. #bn

Ken Wiebe @WiebeSunSports #NHLJets and Thomas Raffl are in discussions about a contract. No resolution yet. He's already under contract to Salzburg EC

Interesting lesson in "journalism" The Black Rod: Monday, October 05, 2015 Winnipeg Free Press: manipulating election coverage to boost Liberal fortunes How far will the Winnipeg Free Press go to manipulate their election coverage to promote the Liberals? We got the answer Saturday when FP columnist Dan Lett went so far as to invent a scenario which allegedly took place at an all-candidates meeting in Winnipeg South Centre, one of the ridings the Liberals hope to recapture in Winnipeg, and which he then used to smear the Conservative incumbent. Under the rubric 'Analysis', Lett, who had been the moderator at the meeting, wrote: "It was all going well until (Joyce) Bateman piqued the ire of the crowd when she starting reading off a list of names from the Liberal campaign -- volunteers, paid staff workers and candidates alike --who had been identified by the Tories as "enemies" of Israel." Mission accomplished. The column was gleefully snapped up and reprinted in pro-Liberal sites across the Web. It was enough to attract the attention of media watchdog Ezra Levant who did a bit of digging and discovered that Lett's observations were a crock. Joyce Bateman never used the term "enemies". That was a complete concoction by Dan Lett. And there was never any suggestion that the people referenced by Bateman "had been identified by the Tories as "enemies" of Israel." This, too, was a total invention. CBC Manitoba linked to video of the Winnipeg-South-Centre meeting. It showed the context of the FP smear. At the conclusion of the meeting, the candidates were allowed to make a short summation of their pitch to voters. Bateman commented that if Liberal candidate Jim Carr was elected, his colleagues in government would include: "Omar Alghabra, his colleague Liberal candidate, who called Israel's efforts to defend itself from Hamas rockets in 2014 blind and cruel. Borys Wrzesnewskyj, who called for the legalization of Hezbollah and its removal from the terror list. Darshan Kang, a Liberal candidate – his colleague, attended and spoke at a Gaza rally that turned violent in 2014. And Andrew Leslie, Liberal candidate and colleague of our Liberal candidate, accused Israel of indiscriminately bombing women and children." This prompted Lett to write: "It is hard in retrospect to escape the feeling the "enemies of Israel" blacklist Bateman was reading had a McCarthyesque blush to it. The names were read quickly and without any information establishing the veracity of the charges against the individuals named. It was a truly creepy moment." With that he proved he is not a reporter, not a journalist, nothing but a Liberal Party flak. Any real journalist knows that "google is your friend." It took 90 seconds to, ahem, "establish the veracity of the charges against the individuals named." https://nowtoronto.com/news/playing-tacky-politics-with-gaza/ JULY 26, 2014 8:20 AM As rockets by the hundreds flew between Gaza and Israel last week, I received an email from Cory Hann, director of communications for the Conservative Party of Canada. It referred to former Mississauga-Erindale Liberal MP Omar Alghabra's Facebook post calling Israel's response to Hamas rockets "blind and cruel." The email called Alghabra's remarks "offensive and ignorant. We are urging [Liberal leader] Justin Trudeau to condemn his remarks and demand an apology. We know that when we stand by Israel against anti-Semitic terrorists and extremists, that is Canada at our very best." **************** Vancouver Province: When asked if he was in favour of Hezbollah being taken off the terror list, [the Liberal member for Etobicoke] (Borys Wrzesnewskyj) said: 'Yes, I would be.' He likened the situation in the Middle East to Northern Ireland. That is in the Province of Aug. 21, 2006. His views on Hezbollah were so toxic he was eventually forced by the Liberal Party to resign. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/liberal-mp-borys-wrzesnewskyj-resigns/article22504547/ Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj resigns VANCOUVER — Canadian Press Published Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006 2:49PM EDT The Liberals' deputy foreign affairs critic has resigned after an uproar over his statements that Canada should negotiate directly with Lebanon's Hezbollah, which is on Canada's list of terrorist organizations. Borys Wrzesnewskyj created a backlash within his own party when he made the statement during a visit by opposition MPs to Lebanon last week. **********************' "In a column published Oct. 3, the use of quotation marks around enemies and enemies of Israel were intended for emphasis and were not intended to be seen as being quotes attributed to Joyce Bateman, Conservative candidate for Winnipeg South Centre." That's not even close to the apology owed Joyce Bateman for the fabricated scenario presented as truth by the Free Press.

Yes. I think he does more.

Tough decision though eh? Peluso fills the enforcer spot that you only want for, what, 30 games? Raffl is a far better player and can play every game and make the 4th line better. If Petan is on the 4th, doesnt Raffl-Copp-Petan sound decent? It does but then are we not talking about Peluso but Thorbun as odd-man out? He's 4th line RW. Yeah and I think Raffl is better than Thorburn but Thorburn is a sacred cow with the Jets.

It isn't subsidized through taxes. The consumer is paying an inflated price because the supply is artificially constrained. Lets say we made it so that only 100 bottles of Cola can be sold in Canada in a given year. How much do you think the price of Cola would sky rocket? However, tt is not just milk that is supply managed, it is cheese, eggs, and poultry as well. Why do we do this? If we stopped, would the farmers all cry poverty and say Harper is killing the dairy farm industry?

Im no athlete and I assume different athletes respond to different things but Im not sure coddling someone and telling them they're good and wonderful and will bounce back is more effective then telling them to get their head screwed on right or they will be replaced. If a pro athlete cant mentally handle the idea of being replaced, he's probably in the wrong business.