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He had no choice but to sign the bridge because he was an RFA. The fact that deal was only a one year deal and not long term says a lot about him not wanting to be here. Also wide spread rumours his wife did not like Winnipeg. Happy wife happy life When he did sign in Calgary, most people were surprised at the cap hit he signed for (lower then fans here expected) and would have been happy to have him for that price. The Jets could have easily given Frolik the money he is making now. Money could have gone to him that rather went to Stafford or Perrrault. Do the math and it tells me he didn't want to be here. Or you can choose to criticize Chevy for the unlikely decision that he didn't want Frolik and rather then trading him in that final year decided to lose him for nothing and not make a competitive offer.

Stempniak we could have re-signed but Frolik was not signing here so this is akin to making the argument that Crosby would make this team better if we had him over Thorburn.

I don't like this idea of tailoring the schedule to match lower teams against lower teams and higher teams against higher teams. It is manufactured parity and it rewards teams for for being bad and penalises teams for being good. Divisions aren't completely equitable either but the cross over was put in to compensate for that. If you really want this type of system, you need a "premier" league and lower level leagues and you get promoted / demoted after a season. At least then can't get some team who got an easier ride because they sucked last year, make it into the playoffs because of that, get hot at the right time and win a championship. However, the promotion / demotion concept won't work with a 9 team league.

I really don't know if these reports are true or not. I posted links to the articles because Twitter and the internet were abuzz with them. The thing that I find most disappointing when I heard these rumours, is that I wouldn't be surprised if they were true and I wouldn't be surprised if they were false. I give it 50 / 50 that it actually happened. And that feeling of mine is 100% based on the actions and words of Trump that have led up to this point in time. It is disappointing to me that I find it plausible and unsurprising if the next President of the United States of America actually did these things.

My bad. I was under the impression that fake news and sensational sound bites was the world we lived in now with Trump as the President of the United States America.

New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-intelligence.html?_r=0

Sure. CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia/

Twitter and the internet blowing up with reports that the Russians have enough dirt and video on Trump to blackmail him if they are so inclined.

He has been the goalie coach in Boston forever.

They let Willy go because there were other teams who were going to offer him starter money and they couldn't because Durant was their starter.

Terrorists rarely see themselves as terrorists, they see themselves as fighting for a cause they believe in. Definition of good in those cases is relative to how you were brought up and what your belief system is, and how oppressed you feel.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/wise-up-winnipeg-lawsuit-1.3926954

There are doctors out there that would argue there is no such thing as a mild concussion. You are either concussed or not.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jim-bell-blue-bombers-siloam-mission-1.3924332

http://morningbigblue.com/community/guidelines/ Far too much of this going on in these parts by a number of posters of late. Will be a crackdown on those that break this rule.

Out of curiosity, I went through some recent Sun articles tonight (yes I started with Friesen) and couldn't find anything incrimination on Chipman's comments from the press box. Was very curious on what may have been said and printed to cause this whole stir. Headed over to HFBoards, and full credit to one of the moderators there, who dug this up from last August. (link to his post http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/showthread.php?t=2170351&page=2) (link to Friesen's article about when Wheeler was named captain in August http://www.winnipegsun.com/2016/08/31/jets-naming-captain-today) I don't know if this is what caused this whole ruckus, and if it is, if this really warranted the reaction it did. I suspect this would be the icing on the Friesen cake that would put them over the top. Friesen really is the reason I decided to stop reading the Sun. Decided I couldn't support them anymore because of him.

The current model goes through Hockey Canada. They probably have a bidding process on how cities approach them, but Hockey Canada decides who and when they take a bid forward. I'm guessing the reason for this is the IIHF probably only allows one bid per country.

He won't get enough games to be pensionable if he isn't playing. I believe I once read it is the team who he is playing for when he becomes pension eligible that pays for the pension. So they will cut him before he gets there. Edit: Actually, it looks like he might have vested already. You need 3 seasons to vest and he has played games in 3 different seasons.

It is the same issue we've been seeing with the Grey Cup. Event organisers have gotten greedy and prices to these things have sky-rocketed. I saw an article I think on the 2015 World Juniors (also in Montreal and Toronto) where the comment was if these prices were charged for the tournament in Europe, the arenas would be completely empty. So they reduced the prices for 2017, but obviously not for a saturated market who had the event 2 years earlier.

I don't disagree but that is not today's reality. If the fans want true objective reporting, they need to pay for it. But they don't. The clubs interest is protecting its image and brand so they aren't going to subsidize the media to criticize them. And if the media is no longer strong enough to fight back, the club will continue to "bully" them for their own self interest. That's human nature. The new reality is the majority of fans are no longer willing to pay for journalism. That weakens the voice and power of journalists. Blame the fans.

He is. He just happened to put his suite in the middle of the press box ... probably because it is a better view for him, and it allows him to sell one more box if he doesn't use up one of the "normal" ones.

I do think that Wiecek tends to take a negative vibe more than not in his reporting, but to be fair, he wasn't the one who reported whatever it was that got them banished. So all print media media got banished away to the outskirts of the press box for the actions of one of them. At least, that is the assumption Wiecek is making was the reason.