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I'd rather just give a new guy a shot.. a guy who hasn't been here in the past.. If looking for guys with experience, i'd look hard at a guy like Orlando Steinhauer, Yes, he's in Hamilton right now but his contract must be up right away. Throw him the Assistant Coach Title along with DC title and go get him. Just not a fan of recycling guys we have had in the past. Plus, I know MOS and Steinhauer are good buddies so that plays a role. Are Kavis and MOS buddies? I don't know but generally coaches go after guys they know like and are familliar with, have a history with. Is there history between MOS and Kavis "the ultimate warrior" Reed? I don't know.

Holmes,Heenan,Stanley Bryant, James Green,Westerman,Banks or Jackson, Bear Woods, Our own guys like wild, washingtons,sears,anderson specifically. Maybe a few unheralded not really big name signings like a sam hurl or special team guys like that would be nice. Be really nice if we could get a Mulumba,Bilukidi or Matthews back.. Plus you gotta even add Graig Newman to the list, never played a game for us this season, think he was a bigger loss than we realized.

difference between ford and cotton is cotton signed well b4 free agency, ford signed well after.

He just signed a new contract, i say he's a safer bet than guys who haven't

probably due to the fact that at age 19, he was working for CTV and had hook-ups with the JETS. Dude was pretty young when he first got involved.

Got a PS3, it's a good system. Don't have tons of games, mainly sports game like hockey,football,fifa even, wrestling also. GTA and COD is really fun to play on the PS3 tho. Was thinking about a PS4 but... i don't know if i'll have the time to play it as much as i'd like too. Also play games on the PC and do find that the PC games are generally the best and easier to find.

This may be my mind playing tricks on me but i swear i heard at one point, Rod Black and Lisa Best were an item. Rod Black apparently was quite the ladies man back in his day.

Denmark is a safe bet, Turner is a safe bet. Leggett is a good one probably. Cotton. Willy.

OL - Heenan,Holmes,Bryant WR- Jackson or Banks RB/FB - James Green - special teams DEMON DL - Westerman LB- Bear Woods Our own guys like Anderson,Washington,Sears,Wild And I'd go after one of the LS's too. Matechuk,Fortin,Rempel if he is a FA. One of them for sure. No Jones because we have Goossen and I think it's unlikely Jones comes here, Think it's either Calgary or Sask for him. Brackenridge would be nice but he's not at the top of my want list because we have Mo Leg back there.

quite a bit of line shuffling for tonights game Ladd,Little,Wheeler Kane,Perreault,Buff Lowry,Scheif,Frolik Hali,Slater, Peluso Same D Hutch in net

Well, looking at the unofficial free agent list, there are definitely a few guys of interest. Holmes,Heenan for starters. How realistic are they? I don't know. Gotta make an offer tho. There are a couple International Oline available there too that might be interesting to take a look at but really when you look at the list, there are really only 3 maybe 5 guys max on the Oline side of things that are worth considering. You look at the other positions. Bear Woods? That would be nice, how likely is it that popp lets him walk tho? I don't know. There are a few guys out there tho for sure who we should be going after and honestly i think even if we weren't hosting the cup, we should be going after some of them. The Draft will be important too, should be able to get 2 solid picks at 2 and 11, pretty deep draft. Do i think they will go after guys just cuz we are hosting the grey cup? Nope, do i think they will go after a few guys because those guys available would help us out quite a lot regardless of hosting grey cup or not, you bet.

I'd rather see uss give a new guy a chance, why recycle defensive coaches we have had in the past? I'll never really understand that. From some wanting Lapolice back to wanting Kavis Reed back, I don't get it.

I think Maurice has realized that in order for this team to win, they need to play tight defensively. I don't think he's a D first coach tho, I think the way the roster is shaped up and the division we are in, defense is important. Maurice recognizes this, His carolina team wasn't exactly d first, I think Maurice just uses the players he has and puts them in the best position possible to win, Wasn't D first in Toronto either. The Jets have a strong defensive team really, Very strong D players. Noel was fine for what he was, he had a long history of being able to work with younger players and make them succeed, Kane did have his best year under Noel, Let's not forget that. So did Burmistrov for that matter, the best years of their careers were under Noel.

Outside of that first period, the case could be made that the Jets actually outplayed the WILD. And they definitely outplayed them in the third. The first goal in on Pavelec? why? cuz the wild player made a nice move in close on the powerplay and scored? I dunno man. Maybe that was a bad goal, i don't really think it was, but... backstrom let in a goal from behind the net (the kane goal) so really it evened out.

Sounds like a case of too many cooks and no real head chef in that kitchen there. Hard to say what will happen with BC, all i know is buono has a reputation and history of having no issues getting rid of veterans. I suspect several are let go. Marsh i think has punched his ticket out of town, see one his tweets there saying 24 (banks) should still be with the team. That in my opion means that's all she wrote for Marsh.

We are in somewhat of a unique position as a team, where we pretty much need national help across the board, yes the biggest need is obviously oline but it's not our only need, we could use a receiver, watson ain't getting any younger or healthier, we could use some dline, we definitely need oline, we all know that so really what it comes down too, is... a couple things. 1. Free Agency - let's just pretend we sign a ben heenan or tyler holmes, do we still need that oline help? Even one of them 2. Who has NFL aspirations, that's an important factor, That Danny Groulx seems like he might be a nice pick if there at 2, Tackle from Laval but.. Laval seems to produce guys who want to try the NFL, is it worth it to draft him at 2 only to find out that he wants to give the NFL a try? 3. It's a deep draft OLINE wise, there are about what? 10 OLINE guys there ranked in the top 15 or 20, Means we could probably get one at 11 also if we wanted too. Unique position to be in, could grab Demski at 2 and get an oline at 11 who may end up being better than the guy at 2. It's really hard to say.

K. Gonna say this, i don't really have any issues with the Riders, my family has a couple rider fans in it, my moms brother married a girl from SASK, and they are fine, she is ok. She has been a fan her entire life, that's fine. She was there in the bad times, the telethon to save the team times and the good times, stuck around through the bad and got rewarded with some good. That's fine. I do however think that several rider fans are only fans because the team has been good the lasts couple years, it seems to me that the riders have a large portion of bandwagon fans, when the going gets tough, lots of those fans get or will get going. No issue with the riders organization, they are pretty good and pretty much the example on how to run a community owned team, wouldn't it be nice if the bombers were pulling in those profits? I do take exception to the fans who are new who say they have been there the entire time, through the bad and the good times, that's BS. And any fan base who prides themselves on being the best fans in the league, well, that's fine, we all think our fan bases are the best.. the difference tho, the rest of the teams fans in the league don't need to come out and say it.

Blaming Maurice or Pavelec is like blaming ETCH and the D for the bombers when the Offense keeps going 2 and out all game 0 for 8 powerplay no even strength shots in the first But lets blame the coach and the goalie.

Obviously, you haven't been following the Bombers drafts. We used 1 high draft pick on Pencer (Stupid pick) and 1 on Goosen (TBD) in the last 6 years. and a bunch taken in the later rounds like every team does, what's your damn point?

Team never gave up. Not sure why people always want to point to the negatives. Reality is, down 3-0. didn't show up for 2 periods, never gave up, came back tied it up, That's the team showing fight, never give up. LOL @ fans blaming coaches, like the fans are some expert or something.

Yeah pretty flat in the first 2, some bad bounces, but they had some chances. They didn't quit, and that's the important part for me. Oh i agree. I liked seeing that, they never gave up, never folded. Tough 5 game trip, could have been 5-0 with some puck luck but 2-2-1? i'll take it. 5 games in 10 days is tough.

Take the best player available. If it's Demski, take him. If it's an Oline, take him. This having to take this guy or this position crap is part of the reason we are what we are right now Its not like we have a bunch of all star canadians anywhere on the roster.

we stopped sask late in the game TWICE one game and still lost, why? because our O just sucked so bad.

I'd take Demski for sure, But i'm not convinced he's still there when we pick, I think it's likely he goes 1st overall to Ottawa.

tough loss, hard to believe nashville had zero penalties called against them.