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They stuck with him through a ton of incompetence already, why would that change?

I don't know what to make of this, they must have really liked this Bailey kid. Paid a lot for him. I will defer to our scouts and hope this is a great move.

Or we stop them from scoring

A couple frustrating losses for sure. However, I thought we outplayed them pretty significantly last game in the first and then periods 2 and 3 were kind of even. It was a closer game than the score dictated because St. Loo had all the puck luck and we had none to speak of. We are going to need more at home, but I think we will get more at home. Those suggesting that St. Loo is hitting us out of the building need to look at the stats. The first game in Loo we outhit them, and last game we finished a couple hit shy of them. Our team will look a lot better getting Lowry/JoMo out against the Thomas line, and getting our first line out against their weak defensively 2nd line again. Match ups are huge in the playoffs and it is now advantage Winnipeg next game. I expect an entirely different result.

What talk? talk from who? Fans? Media? I'm not against the idea of moving on from him, but Jets management have not said a word to anyone regarding the matter. Bottom line is he is the only play driver they have for the 2nd line. If they are to move on from him they better be able to find another comparable play driver. Ehlers return could be a good thing or a bad thing, it will depend on cost. I don't believe for a second the Jets have no interest in him and I think they would be crazy not to, however, I do believe they have a max number on his worth and that number is probably not going to get it done.

Kate is awful, actually antagonizes her own panel for some odd reason. She thinks she is the star of the panel and gets upset at them if she perceives they are upstaging her. Just weird really.

Never....although Vince McMahon may have different plans for ya.

Gotta give St. Loo some credit. They are playing us as hard as they can until we inevitable run them out of gas. It's kind of our game plan to wear teams down with our exceptional depth. It's how we are built. Roll 4 lines and just wear teams down until the wheels fall off.

If Laine ever learned to move his feet, and play with the edge that his size suggests he can, he would be elite. I don't know how to qualify him as anything other than a lazy player with extreme amounts of skill. Skill never trumps effort anymore, this isn't the 80's. It's too bad that this hasn't dawned on him yet, and looks likely that it never will. I doubt he ever doesn't have a place in the NHL somewhere, but his salary and his role is going to diminish a lot.

My only real point of concern this year is OL, really. Everything else I feel ranges from good to really good. Roster usage is going to be what it is, but I trust that we have the horses. Home GC so we will either be winning and roster usage becomes a non issue, or it costs us a game or two and the heat gets turned up on it. It's GC or bust this year, gotta be.

Zach Shnitzer has a podcast? What's a podcast? JK....really like his work on there and I still hold a grudge against Bauming for screwing Harris out of MOP. I will begrudgingly admit that he and Zach are very enjoyable to watch talking Bombers. I see Booch knows how to send comments to them on it, I don't so he must be a babyface too.

Probably the least of my concerns is the secondary, I think we will be really strong there again. I don't see Griffen as a prototypical CFL safety though. I will freely admit I don't know enough about his abilities to qualify my opinion as anything more than a hunch though. I, too like what he might bring closer to the LOS though.

Hey, us guys over 50 have at least 5 numbers in our SIN. I agree. I watched a bunch of Lapo's youtube work last year and it was top notch. Some of the best actual football analysis I've seen. Gotta hand it to YT as well, one of the oldest platforms out there and they remain relevant even to teens.

Tik Tok is so 2022.....us old guys trying to keep up with our teenagers just learn an app like Tik Tok to find out they've all moved on from that now.

One does not have to be particularly woke to think that making unwanted sexual advances on an employee, then holding her employment over her head when she rebuts your advances is pretty cringe. The fact we let him keep playing in our league is also cringy. I'm GenX and this disturbs me and we GenXers have seen a lot of this in the past.

Not suggesting you were concerned, just stating that your observations are our plan.

This is playoff hockey. The ice gets small, the forechecking and physicality ramps up. St. Louis plays that type of style so I never expected anything different. Our ability to roll 4 effective lines has worn them down in the last two games, and that is precisely how our team was built to win in the playoffs. I really see no cause for concern whatsoever. Next round we will either play Dallas, who plays a similar style, or Colorado that plays far more wide open. If it's Dallas just keep on keeping on, and if it's Colorado we will need to sharpen our pencils a bit. They are playing at a higher pace because they are allowing each other to do so.

It's the President's trophy, Trump should come to Canada and personally hand it to a Canadian team. Love to see what would happen. (I do know it is not a trophy named for the President of the US)

I hope it's not the end for Apples, but he will have to play at a contract similar or slightly less than the one he is getting now. I would imagine someone else will pay him more.

You gotta think that BO is going to get 20+ touches a game. Doesn`t leave much for anyone else in the backfield. I want to see more out of our backfield but we got to spread the rock around with the passing game too. Buck happened. Say what you want about Lapo but he was way more creative than Buck with formations, motion, and progressions. Buck was far more of a risk taker, and that worked for a time but his overall playbook was more vanilla than Lapos....and that`s saying something.

More than likely spells the end of Apples. Iafallo at 3.66 is a much better spend though.

Not really what I meant, but your point is valid. What I am saying is that he will get limited reps in the backfield to also not wear him down too much and because they will want him preparing and ready to excel at returner. Should he be a more valuable asset on offence than on teams we may flip the script but with BO back there reps are going to be hard to come by anyway. The days of teams lining up two RBs in the same backfield are long gone. I think MCI will get far more offensive reps than Logan.

I agree. He is a lowlife, and unfortunately, the Argos seem to have quite a low bar on who they will employ. Mind you the Riders would likely snap up a guy of his character just as quickly.

Yep, if Kelly wasn't such a bad apple he wouldn't be in this conversation. However, he has been, and likely will be again, chaos for every team he's played for. If he had half a noodle in his head he could be a franchise guy for many years for the Argos, heck he might even be in the NFL.

I'll take an aging vet that may drop off, over the STRONG possibility that my QB does something epically stupid that derails the season, or locker room. 600k is not an outlandish QB salary. It's high, but top tier QB money has actually come down somewhat from Reilly and BLM days.