TrueBlue4ever

Try less Botox next time.

Cuz Alouettes is so Anglophile?

Not looking to defend the Leads at all here, hope they crash and burn again. Will say though that I don’t think any other team has as tough a road (if things play out as expected) to get the Cup. Tampa first round, Boston second round, one of Carolina, NJ, or NYR 3rd round, Colorado 4th round (if the predicted results occur). So if they do go on a run they can’t say they had an easy path (yet - we’ll see how it plays out).

I agree. We are likely hooped from being a Stanley Cup winner. Suppose we had traded for Timo Meier and Chychrun. Arizona for something from Ottawa for Chychryn we could not offer given our respective positions I. The standings, a chance at a top 10 draft pick this year. So to say we were sleeping when Ottawa made the deal is disingenuous. The assets available were different. Arizona apparently wanted two guaranteed first rounders if one was not top 10. Plus other assets given what other draft choices Ottawa gave up. For Timo, Jets would give up another first, second (which we already traded for Neittereider) and 7th plus 4 players. Already now talking about dealing g more 1st rounders than we have to give away. And to acquire a higher first round pick, most obvious way is to move PLD to Montreal for their extra 1st rounder. So move Dubois, probably assets like Heinola, Lucius, Gustafson, and 3 1sts, 3 2nds (one of which could become another 1st), a 6th and a 7th to land 2 more years of Chychrun and one year of Meier at $10 million since has already ensured through his agent he won’t consider signing with Winnipeg long-term. Is that really strengthening your club by doing everything you can now? The only way the answer is yes is if those moves GUARANTEE a Cup win this year, and of course no one can guarantee that. Otherwise this definitely weakens the team. Especially since we can’t rebuild on the fly like Vegas who can attract big name free agents, and have to build through the draft, which we just mortgaged with these proposed trades. Sucks but Winnipeg just can’t compete with some other cities, and it’s not the GM so much as it is the market and the current CBA which allows no-move clauses.

That’s not comparing apples to oranges, that’s comparing a fruit basket to a sack of door knobs. Or to paraphrase Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction: “It ain't no f***in' ballpark either. It ain't the same ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same f***in sport!” Convincing a CFL player to spend summer in Winnipeg vs in Toronto or Montreal or BC has no comparison to convincing an NHL player to spend winters in Winnipeg vs Vegas or Tampa for tax purposes, or LA or Dallas for weather, or New York for nightlife. And last I checked, CFL players don’t get a no-movement clause. Hope has nothing to do with the reality that the NHL team in Winnipeg is playing against a stacked deck, and the only way to attract talent is by having an already Stanley Cup contending team on hand, and the only way to get that here is a draft/develop/ hopefully retain system, and not by trading for talent.

No, but we could trade Lowry for $1 to a team that needs a future Selke winner.

Another “final” tour. This makes the 10th rendition of “final” for them. Just wait a couple of years, they’ll be back again.

Shootout!

Free hockey!

Someone might want to cover Kopitar.

Stenlund with the shorty. Does he feel lucky? And break out the Andrea! With a laser like that, how does Stenlund only have 5 goals this year?

Nino not afraid to play a heavy game. Josh with 4 points already. Connor and Stenlund hit the twine and Andrea is on standby before the 3rd period after 2 goals in the last 3 games.

Still Chychrun.

Tait does write the standard pro-Bomber patter for the website, but still does so without the fanboy gushing. It’s par for the course for club-hired guns across sports. Plus, the club’s recent success makes it easier for him to appear even-handed in his praise. But I still like that when on CJOB he can be objective and call a spade a spade, especially on game day if the performance is lacking.

@Bubba ZanettiThanks for the personal notification, and I’m flattered by your interest in me to let me know about your present state of arousal, but I prefer women. (Not that there’s a nothing wrong with that).

Hey, if you and your MBB Alberta crew want to sit around and circle jerk your manscaped stiffies all day, fill your boots. Just don’t post cartoons about it here. OK, Millennial? 😁

Why is it that the most ridiculous Simpsons jokes become the ones that actually come true?

The first of 3 MBB questions noted, although thankfully the “erection” reference replaced by “excitement” (on that note, way too much “hard on” meme-ing going on when discussing player signings. We’re all happy with the off-season, but there are other ways to express it than like being a bunch of 14 year olds in math class getting random woodies and announcing it to the teacher. That’s just weird). Anyway, Zach was looking forward to playing with this group but noted that you forgot to mention Agudosi, Grant, and O’Leary-Orange as well. Kenny Lawler agreed that this was going to be a “light ‘em up” year, called for Zach to throw 50 TDs. Also admitted the Elks signing last year was all about the money, but no regrets and was happy to re-set the bar for receiver salaries league-wide. Basically said no, he doesn’t budget per group, because it is unclear how the market will price itself each year. Only focussing on this year right now because they are in the Grey Cup window, so not thinking about how expensive a Schoen re-signing will be in the future. Admits in past years when the club was re-building he would take a longer term approach. Also says (when asked by DT if receiver is now the 2nd most important position in the CFL) besides the QB, the left tackle and rush ends are the key pieces since it is a throwing league and you need to protect your QB and get after the opposing QB, but acknowledges the importance of receivers and sees why prices are going up for them. Also said when making money decisions on who to re-sign or not, looks at the depth on hand that can step up and replace the more expensive existing veteran players (cited Tui and Kolankowski as examples as to why Couture was not re-signed). Says the cap was spent on keeping the core, when in other years with less depth or talent they would spend more in free agency to bring in new guys. There were other things I might have missed, skimmed through it on the CJOB audio vault.

A bit premature for the R.I.P. thread, but was unaware of his hospitalization. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/entertainment/tom-sizemore-end-of-life-decision/index.html

True that.

Dubois has been playing like he’s injured for the last month and a half.

Jones made some early missteps when she could have put real pressure on Einarson. Missed a tap back for 4 which could also have been played as a take out for 3 in the 3rd end, only scored 1. Drew heavy allowing Einarson an easy draw with backing for her 1 in the 4th when a better draw might have led to a steal of up to 3. Then drew light for a steal of 2 in the 5th and Einarson never gave up control after that. The 5-ender in the 9th was really Jones going for broke to set up a steal knowing she had to gamble. Einarson just kept picking rocks out and rather than just conceding 1 or 2 Jones ignored the rocks in the house trying to generate the steal, hence the big score. The better team won yesterday, now she needs to up her game for the Worlds.

So either Einerson wins her 4th consecutive championship, tying Colleen Jones’s all-time record, or Jen Jones wins her 7th overall title, breaking Colleen Jones’s all-time record.

Done!

You don’t know? Thought you had all the inside dirt on his signing.