The Unknown Poster

Keep stemp and Stafford.

With what Maurice is saying it sounds like Ladd was a warrior playing with significant injuries. It was tough not to get down on him but I said a day or two ago we need to wait and see why the injury is. Ladd and buff are very close. I wonder if that plays into it. I'd resign Ladd. I'd trade buff. Ladd is pretty consistent season to season.

"We're a whole hell of a lot better than we were at this time last year"

Maurice: "we have guys playing with broken bones" Ladds injury could have cost him two months had he chosen to have it looked at.

Maurice: "eight significant injuries".

You're right. Mostly minor changes but I think they have nine UFA's. So changes nonetheless.

Buff started hitting as the game progressed. He made one great defensive play. He directly cost one goal. Not good enough. Pavs was pavs. Miracle saves and softies.

Yeah for the most part the kids are alright. Lowry was tremendous. Hard to believe he's a rookie. Team is very exciting. Played the best team in the conference very hard and very close all series. Hard not to proud of the team over all. Will be another exciting off season with many changes coming.

pavs...........

Ugh

I can appreciate that opinion but you ignore facts all the time. It's selectice perception. Like the wrap sheet you wouldn't admit he had. There is common sense. The cop caught up to him and tried to deploy his stun gun. We see the altercation. The witnesses backed up the cops statement. Physically resisting a cop usually gets you an assault peace officer charge. The suspect likely wasn't trying to dance with him. In a perfect world the cop doesn't Fire his weapon. In a perfect world this suspect doesn't have warrants. Doesn't run. Doesn't resist. Doesn't fight with the cop. Unfortunately it's not a perfect world. My experience was to demonstrate that if anything I should be anti-cop. But I'm pro-facts.

Psssssst no one watch sportsnet. They are talking about how awful Buff is. Even had a few facts to back it up. Trouba got beat. It happens. He's played his heart out. A second year player. I'm not sure about enstrom. Darren Dreger was talking about him with lawless today and they were speculating he's be moved. I've always unabashedly loved him but maybe I'm wrong. It happens once in awhile.

Ducks were a good team that could afford to keep Perrault for a playoff run and risk losing him. He just couldn't be guaranteed the minutes he wanted there. Similar to Frolik here. We can give him the minutes. But we kept him because he's worth more to a playoff run then the risk of losing him for nothing.

You disagree Mike? It's easy to poke fun without adding anything at all. Completely gives up his defensive responsibility on the 2nd goal. That is wholly on him. Twelve seconds left in the period he ices it! I mean yeah if you love Buff there are positives to point to. He occasionally hits someone. But he's been awful this series. Flat out awful. Give me some facts if you disagree with me. Here's some: 1 point. Minus 4.

If buff needs a ride out of town im sure he'll have some offers.

Star wars is science fantasy. Star Trek is science fiction. Big difference.

And as I said playoffs meant no suspension. And as I said discussion on social media. Discussion means multiple sides to a story. You wouldnt know anything about that.

Maybe the force was hiding one of the twins. When Luke tried to strike down the emperor in anger, Vader stops him. Had vader just let him, things would have turned out differently.

I always forget about armia too. dreger just said he see chiarot as a top four d man.

They kept Kane for years until the issue was forced. Kane has and had more talent and potential than Burmi. We werent discussing talent. Exactly - we were discussing Burmistrov... If you want to keep setting these up for me, I don't mind. If you dont think Burmi has talent, then you're not a very good judge of talent.

He also had Count Dooku. its a silly concept really. The idea that evil guys never trust each other so there is only ever two...well Palpatine seemed to have a lot of control over his apprentices. And why would Vader go along with turning Luke to replace him? Is he that dense? Just stupid.

Well lets be honest, the Balance of the Force was a convoluted mess of an idea that Lucas made up to sound smart. It didnt jive with the originals but it sounded nice in TPM. It actually sucked because it made TPM too on-point in its portrayal of Anakin. Like its not enough that the kid has massive midichloriian counts or that was seemingly conceived by the Force itself and had incredible piloting skills but he also MUST be the subject of some goofy prophecy? It would have been better if he was just a regular Jedi that we knew turned bad but no one else knew of him to be anything special other than being very skilled. Like the council admits that something is clouding their ability to see clearly AND a sith appears after generations AND the subject of this prophecy shows up who exhibits emotions that give Yoda pause and the idiot council still trains him? Ugh.

I dont disagree at all that police and law enforcement stick together. As much as this will bother Earth, Ill refer to my own story briefly where I was wrongfully charged with a 100% made up crime because I got into an argument with a police officer that showed up to OUR call with a bad attitude. He (and the other officers that showed up after him) allowed guys wearing gang logos who had physically assaulted me and others and uttered death threats to walk away without so much as asking for their names. He lied in his statement and got his partner to lie. He originally was going to charge me with assaulting him but when I pointed out the video cameras, he convinced several people who were involved in a fight and under threat of them being charged, to swear that they had been assaulted by me (never happened, I wasnt even involved). The police tried to confiscate our video that very night and when we refused, they showed up two days later with a warrant and swat team. Fortunately we had made copies because the cops refused, upon numerous requests, to turn the video over to the crown. What they wanted to know from the video was, did it prove the cops were lying. Did it prove the cops did anything wrong. The fact it 100% exonerated me didnt matter to them. I was able to get a copy of the report made by the police video guys who simply said the video showed nothing of interest. I called Internal Affairs (PSU) to make a complaint and they claimed they watched the video but that it was too low quality to "see anything". Oddly enough, the police had used the same quality video in previous cases and when people had complained about the cops...it wasnt too low quality then. It wasnt low quality at all. PSU refused to take my complaint. They refused to read my complaint (which analyzed the video myself on a second by second basis and went through every line of the inaccurate police statements) and they refused to speak with me in person. I filed a complaint with LERA who had the exact same attitude as PSU but got so frustrated with me refusing to let it go that the investigator snapped "then come down here right now and show me what Im missing". So I did. And she was shocked. The video had several hundred people in it so it needed to be explained. But she went off the police reports which were lies and assumed them to be true which means she just assumed certain people in the video were me. When I went through it with her, she said you've got one of the strongest cases I've seen. These officers flat out lied. Remember, this wasnt to protect themselves. This was because one cop had a bad day and was angry and argued with me. So he set out to frame me for a crime he knew I didnt commit. Dastardly. The end result? Even the crown was so frustrated with the police she threatened the Captain to provide the video or else. Keep in mind we had our own copies which my lawyer argued should be sufficient under the circumstances but the crown took the position ours could be doctored. So she finally got the video, agreed it exonerated me but would only drop the charges if I dropped my LERA complaint. Now tell me why the crown was acting as de facto legal representation for the police? Shouldnt the crown want all incidents of misconduct to be invesitgated? I told my lawyer, screw it, lets call their bluff. If it goes to trial at least I can show the cops are liars and I can call in favours to have the media cover it. He said look, I guarantee this crown will go to trial out of spite. She doesnt care. It will cost you $10,000 and they will consider it a win. You will most likely win but you never know...maybe you get a judge who's very sympathetic to the police. And either way, every cop in town will know your face, name, address, lic number. He said he's seen it before, do you want cops sitting outside your home? Following you home from work? What if you have a couple of beers after work? You'll always be looking over your shoulder. So yeah man, I KNOW how the cops act. Biggest gang in the world. But still, if I ran, assaulted, tried to steal a weapon, I'd expect to be shot. Not all cops are bad. In fact, in my case, the partner was so-so bad. He let his partner drive the situation to a bad place. He swore in a statement that backed up the lies. But when questioned by LERA alone he admitted he couldnt "be sure" and "couldnt remember" which was as close to admitting his partner was a liar as he was willing to get. The investigator was very excited about the hearing we would have ended up having and believe me, so was I because I would have been allowed to question them. I had my Perry mason moment all ready to go. ;-)

I think Im missing your point. Do you mean Crystal Taman? Who was killed when a drunk off duty cop rammed into the back of her? That's not remotely the same. On a side note, Crystal's son became a cop.

Luke wasnt the same kind of Jedi as the originals were though. And who knows, maybe he gave up being a jedi once the Emperor was killed. Leia wasnt a Jedi at all.