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I recall a TSN anniversary special where Rod Smith was talking about them taking over CFL coverage. Said no one else wanted to cover CFL football (CBC and CTV had both dropped it), and it wasn’t really a profitable entity for the network,, but they needed to fill time on a 24 hour sports network. They invented Friday Night Football to create a buzz around the league and have a weekly “event” to make Friday night appointment television for them. Worked really well over time and boosted the visibility of the league on the network. They actually did quite a lot to support the league at the time. Not sure if anything has changed but I would agree that the rates they pay is what the league may be worth. Don’t see the broadcast networks or Sportsnet banging down the door to bid on CFL football. Broadcast TV has essentially given up on sports programming, save for HNIC.

I remember the movie “Internal Affairs” where Andy Garcia is being introduced into Internal Affairs as the new detective. The superintendent, basically a political hack, welcomes him with a speech about how the rumours about the hatred of cops investigating cops is overblown, how important the work is, how it is a necessary check on police misdeeds, and that this unit has the support and respect of the entire force - that they recognize his role in making the force more accountable and therefore better, an initiative all police believe in. The super leaves and Garcia’s unit sargeant, who stood by quietly while the speech was going on, shakes Garcia’s hand and says “Welcome to IA, you’ve just lost every friend you ever had in the LAPD”. The Blue Wall absolutely exists. Like Noah said, individuals can’t or won’t speak up against the system.

Me stumbling across this 4 page debate in the thread:

So I threw out some questions a short while ago on MLSE’s possible intentions and if the Toronto media had any play in this. Following up, here is a snippet from the Rod Paterson podcast and some Twitter responses: Any thoughts on this from anyone?

I don’t think you can go from AHL back down to the CHL. Don’t have a league rule to back up that assertion, but I don’t recall ever seeing it.

The complete lack of self awareness in those posts just highlights the failure that is the American educational system.

Funny, Naylor links to a non-existent post. It’s that kind of thing that leads to........conspiracy theories.

Should probably move these last few posts to the BLM thread.

5 or 6 too many.

And giveaway number 12 ends up in the back of the net.

It’s called giveaways. Jets have 11, Ottawa 6. Also Jets have 3 takeaways, Ottawa 5. And Hellebuyck has 2 brutal goals against tonight.

Not sure what game you are watching. They have lead in shots and time of possession in the offensive zone, and forced a lot of penalties which have helped those stats. It’s their turnovers leading to grade A chances that is their failing tonight, not extended zone time against.

That’s 3 breakaways and a 2 on 1 off of Jets’ turnovers this period. Smarten up guys.

Well the Jets are drawing penalties and outshooting them, but sloppy play leading to odd man rushes. And still passing up shot opportunities for that perfect pass. But Ehlers looks faster tonight.

Because Hellebuyck has a hole in his glove apparently.

Chippy McElbows with the power play goal to make it 2-1.

Ehlers with a bullet. Other than McDavid, can’t think of another player who creates a buzz when he picks up the puck in his own end and starts skating.

If one’s self worth is defined by the size of their post count on this site, they have bigger problems than being denied a false inflation due to merging.

Holy cow! That penalty kill looked like a Chinese fire drill for the Sens. Relentless pressure for the Jets with great puck movement. Nice start.

So one little advantage of the trade deadline for tonight - Sens traded 3 veteran defenceman away, so their back end will be thinner and less experienced.

I used to hear about police shootings at traffic stops and despite the horror I would always on the back of my white privileged mind say “yeah, but why did the black man not just listen to police commands and do as he was told. Should not have escalated to that level, BUT if the victim had just complied then we would not be here”. Then came cell video from bystanders. Seeing cops plant guns on the dead perp after police shootings to match their story that the suspect engaged in a high risk situation that forced them to shoot. Told myself “Ok, I have to concede that there are bad cops out there, but few and far between”. Then I saw cell phone video of black motorists being shot in front of their children for asking the question “what did I do?” and getting a bullet instead of an answer, seeing George Floyd begging for nine minutes for his life to no avail, to police showing their own body cam footage and describing a high level threat that even their own body cam doesn’t show, and I no longer ask “why did he just not comply and get out of the car?” The latest example here (please click on the link and watch the video, it is eye-opening). If I had a gun drawn on me from the get go, had an officer screaming at me to “get out or you’ll feel the lightning”, and then when I said “I’m afraid to get out” and was told “you should be scared” no way in Hell would I get out of that car. But since I am white, I have never been pulled over for no reason in the first place. Except once. As a teenager a few decades ago, before I realized the cultural insensitivity of black face, my buddies and I once went to a Halloween party dressed as the Jackson 5. In hindsight, very inappropriate costume and one I regret despite no intention to offend (and the costume was a hit at the party at the time). Funny thing though, got pulled over by the Winnipeg police that night as the 5 of us drove to the party. Once the officer got to the car door and quickly realized who he was actually dealing with, he promptly let us on our way with no real explanation for the stop in the first place (he wanted to check for license and registration, but somehow never followed through with that desired reason for the stop). Anyway, here is the latest disturbing video from the USA involving police and black motorists. I can’t help but wonder how many cops got away with this behaviour or worse before body cams and cell phone videos and it was just their honourable word against the thuggish black man who wouldn’t comply, knowing that was enough to absolve their authoritarian actions every time. A very long way to go to eradicate this kind of stuff . https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/12/us/caron-nazario-officer-fired/index.html

No problem. Appreciate you putting this up for every game, especially the mask collage. Any little bit to help is the least I can do. Keep up the great work getting us set for another Jets game thread!

Biggest trade of the day so far: Detroit also gets a 1st and 2nd round pick in the deal. Nice work Stevie Y.

Well, time to fire Maurice and Chevy. TSN just declared that the Jets “could have gone a long way” but just gave up on the season by not trading away a first and Heinola and Perfetti for a 10 game rental defenceman who will mess up their expansion draft plans as well. I would have been happy to see Oleksaik here, but I am betting he was either not really available as Dallas takes a run, or the price was ridiculously too high. Not that the cost matters to the talking heads at TSN who need filler.