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Warning: the following contains graphic images some may find disturbing (especially Rider fans, who cannot boast a single player in their 112 year history with 3 rings):

You should see his fingers.

OK, before heads explode around here

So Doug MacIver, Bob Molle, Moe Eliwonibi, Dan Goodspeed, Chris Greaves, Garry Sawatzky and Cornell Piper among others, but two stand above the rest: 1 (a) Buddy Tinsley, who excelled on both sides of the ball after arriving from Baylor and the Pittsburgh Steelers, and was a team captain for 10 years and legend has it almost drowned in the infamous Mud Bowl, and this beast at #1: Bill Frank. I’ll let Speedflex offer up the bio to give him his proper due, since he witnessed his play live and I could not do it justice. But the dude was a behemoth for the time, towering over others.

There are a number of options, but I know who you want to see there.

This game is looking like a carbon copy of the Ottawa loss a few weeks ago. Look like you are dominating early, get a goal called back, other team hangs around and gets a go ahead goal midway through the third, then the defence falls apart.

Not sure if they are allowed due to copyright issues (although they did wear that look for Teemu Selanne’s number retirement in Anaheim in the pre-game warm-up).

So, 2nd intermission poll question: Should the Jets make their 3rd jersey (worn tonight) the full time jersey? A - Yes B - No C - Colours and striping, yes, but use the new logo and shoulder logo.

How many goals were offside and counted before video replay? Feels like there is a goal called back every other game now.

Well our team D allowed only 5 shots that period, and on that goal Morrissey gave it up but was back in position to handle the one on one. That goal is on Dubois, not the whole team. But if you want to split hairs, I look forward to the next time Scheifele does exactly what Dubois did and gets the benefit of “it’s a team D problem”.

Voila.

FIFY.

Which makes him the greatest in CFL history

Some say Gretzky, some now say Ovechkin, another generation would have pointed to Hull or Richard, but to me (and to Gretzky himself) the greatest pure goal scorer in NHL history was and still is Mike Bossy. His .762 goals per game average is the all-time best (that’s an average of 62 goals a year in an 82 game season). Bossy has been fighting lung cancer for a few years now, and has terminated his treatment and has gone home to live his likely very few remaining days in palliative care. Here is a piece he wrote about talking to his 14 year old self as a 60 year old. Send a prayer his way. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/letter-to-my-younger-self-mike-bossy

Benjamin was voted the dirtiest player in the league by his peers in a player poll when he was with Ottawa. Once ran downfield 30 years on an interception return for a touchdown to spear a Bomber blocker who was on the ground out of bounds, earned him a suspension. When he got traded to Winnipeg in 1989 he actually was somewhat afraid to walk into the dressing room and face a few defensive players he knew he had knowingly taken cheap shots at, unsure how they might react if he offered to explain himself. As soon as he entered the dressing room, Ty Jones and James West walked right up to him and West said “Look, we don’t want to talk about things you have done in the past against us. You are our teammate now, so that stuff stays buried. We have your back now, just like we expect you to have ours.”

God, they’re even beginning to talk in broken syntax like Trump.

Any evidence that has happened?

Thought that player interviews were done based on media requests, not at the discretion of the club.

Wondered if Lowry was going to challenge for goalie interference on that second one. Hellebuyck got run over and had no chance. Kind of a weak tripping call there on Pionk.

Which would be worth a shrug if they didn’t carry such world influence and military power, and even more so be our next door neighbours. Robin Williams once described Canada as “that really nice couple in an apartment directly over a meth lab”. Which is more awkward than anything but not constantly intrusive, until the meth lab causes an explosion in which case your apartment also burns to the ground. So as much as America may deserve it, it will be hard to gloat and feel morally superior if they burn us to the ground too.