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Man, I would love to see the Riders platoon Kuale and Hurl at MLB.

Predators won the season series 3-1-1. CBC, SN 360 at 7:00 p.m. Tagline: "Catfish vs Goldeye" Storyline: The series everyone in the media wanted, and the one many prognosticators say will determine the Stanley Cup finalist, if not the champion. Quote: “If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best" - Donald Cerrone, American boxer (paraphrased by Ric Flair: "If you want to be the man, you gotta beat the man") Quote #2: "OK, hear me out: We cancel the playoffs and just let the Jets and Predators play a two-month best-of-31 series for the Cup." - Sean McIndoe on twitter after Winnipeg beat Nashville 5-4 at home March 25, Season review: Game 1: Nashville wins 5-3 at home Nov. 20, their 7th win in 8 games, and climb to 12-6-2, within one point of 12-5-3 Winnipeg. Rinne and Hellebuyck are the goalies. 3 goals by Nashville in the 2nd period decided the game, Jets trailed 5-1 before two late cosmetic goals made it appear closer. Game 2: Winnipeg wins 6-4 on the road on December 19, maybe their biggest win of the year, the one that gives hope that this team can go all the way. After giving up 2 goals in the final minute of the first to trail 2-1, the Jets roared back with 2 Nic Ehlers goals to lead 4-3 after 2. Nashville tied it up early in the 3rd before Branden Tanev won it with 86 seconds left. Hellebuyck and Rinne were the goalies, Jets climbed to 20-10-5 and moved to within a point of both Nashville and St. Louis for top spot in the Central, while stopping the Preds 8 game undefeated streak. Game 3: Nashville wins 6-5 in Winnipeg on February 27 in the game that would ultimately decide the President's Trophy. A scoreless first period gave way to old time 1980's hockey in the second, as the teams poured in 6 goals in the last half of the period. Back and forth play had the Jets up 4-3 going into the final stanza, and it looked promising when trade deadline pick-up Paul Stastny scored with 10 minutes left. But the joy was short-lived as Nashville tied it up within the next 4 minutes, before Nashville's own deadline acquisition Ryan Hartman broke their hearts with a last minute goal. Hellebuyck and Rinne again between the pipes, Roman Josi had 5 assists. It was the only time all year the Jets would lose a game in regulation when leading after 2. Predators won their 5th straight (en route to a 10 game winning streak) and moved to 39-14-9 while Winnipeg fell to 37-17-9. Game 4: Nashville wins 3-1 at home on March 13 as a tired Jets squad wrapped up a 6 game road trip. 3 goals in the first 9 minutes against Michael Hutchinson (2 of them shorthanded) settled the game early, but Hellebuyck shut out the Preds the rest of the way in relief. Only Kyle Connor could beat Rinne on this night. Nashville jumped to 45-14-10 and into a tie for the league lead, while Winnipeg fell to 41-19-10. Little did we know then that the Jets would only lose once more to close out the regular season. Game 5: Winnipeg wins 5-4 in a shootout to clinch a playoff spot on March 25. Down 2-0 after 1 (including a last second goal against), Winnipeg roared back in the second to tie it at 3 before exiting the second down by a goal. It was Winnipeg's turn to turn a 3rd period deficit into a win when Blake Wheeler tied it one minute in. Mark Scheifele scored the only goal in the shootout against Juuse Saros while Hellebuyck stopped all 3 of his shootout foes. Jets climbed to 46-19-10 with win 5 of what would be a 6 for 6 home stand, while Nashville fell to 48-16-10. Fun fact: With 114 points, Winnipeg set an NHL record for most points in a season by a team that did not lead their division (or their conference, for that matter) in points. In fact, only 2 teams in NHL history have had more points in a regular season and not had home advantage in a series - Philadelphia had 118 when they went up against 127 point juggernaut Montreal in the 1976 Stanley Cup finals, and 115 point Montreal lost to 117 point Calgary in the 1989 Cup finals . The 231 combined points for these teams is the 6th highest total all-time for playoff opponents (behind the 2 aforementioned pairings, Montreal (129)-Boston (113) in the '78 Final, Montreal (132) - NYI (106) in the '77 semi-final, and that same Montreal team against Boston (106) in the '77 Cup Final. Fun fact #2: Since the original expansion in 1967-68, the #1 and #2 regular season teams have met a total of 14 times, but only 7 since the league went to a full 4 round playoff series in 1980. The #1 team has won 10 of 14, but the #2 team has won the last 2. No meeting had ever occurred earlier than the Conference Finals before last year, but the Jets-Preds meeting is the second straight year the #1 and #2 teams have met in Round 2, after Pittsburgh and Washington did it for the first time ever just last season: Mtl (1) 4-2 over Bos (2), 1969 semi-finals Bos(2) 4-0 over Chi (1), 1970 semi-finals Bos (1) 4-2 over NYR (2), 1972 Finals Phi (2) 4-2 over Bos (1), 1974 Finals Phi (1) 4-2 over Buf (2), 1975 Finals Mtl (1) 4-0 over Phi (2), 1976 Finals Mtl (1) 4-2 over Bos (2), 1978 Finals Edm (1) 4-1 over NYI (2), 1984 Finals Edm (1) 4-1 over Phi (2), 1985 Finals Edm (1) 4-3 over Phi (2), 1987 Finals Cal (1) 4-2 over Mtl (2), 1989 Finals NYR (1) 4-3 over NJ (2), 1994 Conf. Finals (In double OT!) Col (2) 4-2 over Det (1), 1996 Conf. Finals Pit (2) 4-3 over Was (1), 2017 Division Finals

Fear the WhiteOut! Accept the MustardStain?

Jets goals in this series: To crush the Predators, see them driven from the arena, and finally, to hear the lamentations of Carrie Underwood.

Leggett will be participating in mini-camp apparently

Dear Mr Negatron What good are such statements about who said what first ... Bombers & Jets win it all in same year ... that would be a freak of nature ... sort of like putting all your free cash flow into lottery tickets guareenting poverty forever Predictions and forecasts are useful if it can help govern good actions .... otherwise they are no more than narcissistic ego ... annoying and antisocial.... but yeah the Bombers are going to win the Grey Cup this year

I certainly think most agree that it would've been foolish to even consider firing our coach and GM after getting us the best record we've had in more than 15 years. Also, if our current trend holds true, Calgary will be unseated from the throne by us this season. I mean, just saying we've gone from fifth, to fourth, to third and then second each year of MOS's tenure here. Now, on the other hand, one cannot deny MOS has made some unfortunate miscalculations in his time here. He certainly knows special teams, but he's taken some bad gambles with them by going for a low percentage 61 yard FG in one playoff game and then calling a fake punt at a bad time in the other. Yeah I know it could've worked and we'd be singing his praises, but I still disagree with what he did both times and feel you just need to be a little smarter in playing your cards as a coach. The other problem is not holding our defensive coordinator accountable when I think many other coaches would've fired him. Mike O'Shea does understand the problem in what happened with our pass defense last year from the moves that were made, but I don't think it's going to be completely fixed until the scheme is done away with. We got our QB and got most of the talent we need on offense to get this done, but we gotta get a stingy defense out there, and unfortunately I don't think that's going to happen until we get a new DC. Give O'Shea rope, but let's hope he didn't miss the window of opportunity already.

that Carrie Underwood won't get a seat or something?

Wtf....... hes going to be 35 at the start of the season. I sure hope he is their starter lmao

Education and Showers to name 2.

His name is Charles Chulada... His name is Charles Chulada... His name is Charles Chulada... His name is Charles Chulada... His name is Charles Chulada... His name is Charles Chulada... He plays a mean Sax too...

This is going to be a big, physical series. I can't see them sitting Chiarot for Enstrom. I think they keep Toby in the press box.

Kuale?!?! What... this guy wasn't available?

Boeser is a bit questionable on that list... only played 62 games... Moot argument - Barzal will win.

Yeah, I dont recall the source but around that time I was reading up on him and it was said many thought he was the best "goalie of the future" for the Jets. Between Helle, Comrie and now Berdin, we look to be well stocked in that department anyway.

He was drafted in 2016... after Helle's rookie season, Helle was outstanding that first year...

Perreault. Enstrom. Kulikov. Thats about it. Mason was back on the ice today. Ehlers is good to go.

Laine was a Calder finalist last year and the jets weren't in the playoffs

Heath was talented, but I often wondered if he was free-lancing too may times.

Boeser and Keller shouldnt be on the list. Gourde and Connor should be but theres a theme here. Gourde? Tbay. Playoffs. Connor? Jets. Playoffs. Boeser? Barzal? Keller? No playoffs.

This guy is a hell of a hero https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/22/us/waffle-house-shooting-hero-tennessee/index.html Has Trump not uttered one word about this? In an unrelated note, the hero is black and the guy with the AR-15 killing people is white.

A little local history: AWE's first show was November 19th 2003 at Coyotes Nightclub featuring Buff Bagwell & Shane Madison vs Adam Knight & Chi Chi Cruz in the main event. They also had an "MMA Exhibition" between Dan Severn and Donny Dicaprio. What's funny is, a rival promoter, Ernie Todd of the Canadian Wrestling Federation (which was a local affiliate of the NWA), apparently reported the Severn/Dicaprio match to the Boxing Commission and wanted people arrested illegally promoting a prize fight. That show was promoted by my former partner Mike and while Jeff Dyck might have been involved I do not believe he was involved financially. I think his initial relationship with Mike was providing promotion through his magazine "Heat". Coyotes sort of became a battle ground in 2003. A long-time promoter named Bobby Jay (he appeared on WWE TV a few times in the "jobber" role when they ran locally), had closed down his promotion, TRCW. This was basically the end of the war of '02 between TRCW and our promotion. My partner Mike used to be booker for TRCW and thats how we met. Mike got fired and he and I joined forces to start our own thing. When TRCW closed down, Bobby came and worked for us. In 2003 he came to use and said Coyotes was interested in running a big show with imports and Bobby wanted to do it, but would do it friendly using our talent. It was delicate because our main venue was the LID which was a competitor of Coyotes. So we agreed. But as it turns out, Bobby was actually talking to Coyotes about running weekly shows and wanting to "get back" at us. He went to our roster members to gauge interest in screwing us. One of them tipped us off. So Bobby decided it wasnt worth the hassle. But since Coyotes was interested and everyone knew it, everyone wanted to get in there. the aforementioned CWF, owned by Ernie Todd, actually got in there on a weekly deal paying a very strong fee per show. But the CWF sucked at the time. That was October 2003, I believe. In August, my partner Mike had quit our promotion in somewhat of a powerplay (basically we were not going to continue as partners and one of us had to go - Mike quit, assuming most of the roster would quit with him, and thus, I'd be forced out, which didnt happen). Mike then pursued the Coyotes deal but since they had a contract with CWF, there was nothing they could do other then go down to the bar every week and point out all the flaws in the CWF. So after about three weeks, Coyotes kicks CWF out (there was a threat of a lawsuit) and AWE was born. But Coyotes was burned on the idea of paying for wrestling. AWE ran their November debut off the gate (ie. they financed it themselves and sold tickets to recoup costs). Coyotes provided advertising. That first show was fairly busy but lost money. Money was borrowed to meet payroll. Coyotes was happy with their end though and offered AWE to run weekly, but off the gate. AWE didn't want any part of losing money and declined. By January, Mike and the AWE crew were all back in my promotion (Mike and I had been co-defendants in a wrestling-related lawsuit and thats what got us friendly again). We worked together for all of 2004. Mike had been vocal to me about his desire to run more AWE shows and now Dyck was involved as a partner. Mike explained their plan as running quarterly big shows with big import talent and he'd want to use some of my talent roster and that it would all be friendly and win-win. They planned their second show for Nov 2004 featuring Sid Vicious among others. But it didnt come together in time. This plan was to tape the show and air it as a Pay Per View (on delay). In January 2005, Mike called me asking if I'd consider investing. He said Dyck did not have his half of the seed money. I declined. The plan presented was that the show would cost X amount (like $20,000-$30,000) but only about $5000 up front (airfare, deposits etc). So they only needed $5000 and would hope the show was so successful, it covered the expenses on the back end. I wanted no part of that (we ran a show in 2002 in a similar way and it was idiotic and a disaster). According to Mike, he had his half of the $5000 (I believe he said his gf lent it to him) but Dyck didnt have his, but was considering borrowing it from "bikers". However he got it, Dyck ended up with his half and they planned the big event for March (no Sid this time). Throughout the process, Mike had included me on group emails to talent. But in December, he sent a group email to his key people but *not* me. Unfortunately for him, he accidentally added the wrong person (same first name and similar last night) and that person anonymously sent it to me. It detailed the plan for AWE to pretend we were all working together but to screw us with talent jumping ship and them securing a weekly show deal with Canad Inns (which never happened). When I confronted Mike, he denied it. I then read him the email...and he was silent. So AWE did go forward in March 2005 at the IGAC (and we were competitors until spring 2006 when AWE went on hiatus). Their March event had Jamie Noble, Rikishi, Billy Gunn & Jim Duggan. As I recall, they drew really well, like probably in the 1200 range (Unless Im confusing that with a WFX show). But they were back there in October and I see a result online listing 298 fans. And that was at IGAC so it would have looked horrendous. That had Bagwell, Rikishi, Gunn, Brian Christopher, Dan Severn (vs Omega in a "shoot fight") & Lex Luger. They ran again in December at IGAC with the Steiner Bros etc. They ran several shows in small towns but they werent big and didnt draw well. If I recall correctly, Dyck's business at the time was a bottled water company (I think they sued him over their money being misappropriated to fund wrestling). I recall another show at IGAC that I was backstage at but cant find any results. It featured Beefcake, Sunny among others and I remember it didnt draw well and Sunny was unhappy because they didnt have the right music. AWE then folded (the word was, they owed a lot of money so went bankrupt). And in 2007, WFX began. Their first show was at the Convention Centre and drew flies. I was backstage (Mike and I were friendly again). Show featured Ultimo Dragon, Joey Mercury, Brian Christopher, Buff Bagwell, Angel Williams, Orlando Jordan, Jon Heidenreich, and Rikishi. Oh and Kishi's cousin....I cant remember which Samoan, Tonga Kid maybe? Doing a Umaga impersonation. The height of WFX success was their next show, at Marlborough Hotel with Jerry Lawler, Billy Gunn, Ultimo Dragon vs Kenny Omega, Chris Masters, Virgil etc. It was super packed. I was backstage producing segments and running Gorilla for the Rumble main event. Funny stories from that show: The ring announcer almost walked off half way through the show because Mike yelled at him too much. And since the ball room is on an upper floor, you need to get the ring up there. It was too large for the service elevator so these poor kids carried the ring up the stairs. Only one problem, Marlborough is so old, the stair case actually gets narrower as you rise. Half way up, the ring posts became wedged between the floor and the ceiling. Mike looks at the situation and orders the crew to smash a hole in the ceiling! (I believe there was a lawsuit over that). In the end, I think the posts had to be cut and then welded back together. By the following month, Dyck had bought the Church and thats where they taped the rest of their shows. I dont remember when their last show was, but it was a weird ECW thing with Shane Douglas. I remember because we had a show the same night at Dylan's and we out drew them. One of the many problems with the vision was them taping TV at these events, so they'd have 6 half hour episodes to tape which means fans saw the same guys over and over and over again. And they were TV matches (not balls to the walls, short time limits). I recall a story where the boys perceived the show as not being very good so in the main event Johnny Devine decided to have a really good match. Can't recall his opponent, might have been local by Shawn Houston. Anyway, he disregards the 10 minute time limit and goes like 30 minutes, feeling they can edit it down later but he wants to give the local fans in attendance a good match. Mike is radio'ing the ref to tell them to end it and they disregard. Devine walks backstage and Mike is ready to kill him. They stepped into a private office and "settled" it (with contrasting outcomes depending who tells the story). Dyck ended up leaving town and going to Vegas. He and Mike had a falling out. And that's the story of AWE/WFX.

They deserve each other.

It actually went on sale a week or so ago so I managed to snag myself one on pre-order. It's just weird, normally Canada gets pre-order copies at the same time as the US. I knew BB was going to have it, but I just didn't know when and I like to collect my steelbooks.

wow you have done your homework. It is expected for the 2nd round schedule to be released tomorrow

Punish the Predators defense , don't take penalties, score goals, series win.

So....the Bombers have taken a Leak?

No, nerd reference actually. Kingdom Come by Alex Ross.