Rich

Agree the bigger the consulting company is, the worse it likely is. IBM and HP are mostly consulting services and if you are with the wrong company in a consultant role (mostly the big corporations) you are more likely to get overworked for average to mediocre pay. As long as they can bill you though, they will typically keep you employed. IT roles in Silicon Valley and startups may be considered cut throat as well, but I'm not sure those are much different then anyone trying to start a "new" business in any sector. If you work in an IT department for a company (still private sector), it typically isn't as bad. Some IT roles may still require you to work overtime or off time hours (evening / weekends) depending on whats going on or for support, but I wouldn't call that cut throat.

What I find very interesting is the Jets are projected to be $5M under the cap this year. That still puts them bottom 5 in the league for salary, but a $5M difference in overall salary is about 7% of the cap. As the cap has stayed relatively stagnant in the last few years, while I haven't actually done the analysis, it feels like the gap between the top spenders and low spenders is shrinking.

Next year. Signed a 3 year deal in 2015.

Yes. https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-expansion-draft-rules/c-281010592 Hutch has an NHL contract even if he is playing in the AHL, and would therefore qualify as a goaltender who is under contract for 2017-18. Don't think he would qualify if he was on an AHL only contract (for a player on an AHL contract to move up to the NHL, he would have to sign an NHL deal and I believe would have to go through waivers in that situation). And if not, they could have called him backup before the last game of the season so he is on the roster.

Helle is waiver exempt.

Its kind of like coming onto another teams fan forum and complaining that they take "shots" at your team. No idea why people do that and why they are surprised it happens.

Don't really see what the big deal is. You complain that you wouldn't want to skate around with that thing on your face ... well you don't have to, they do. Apparently it doesn't bother them.

I can think of 3 reasons off the top of my head: Wylie is 65. If he can get a few years at an NFL salary before he retires, can you really blame him? He is American, so there has to be an allure of coaching in your home country. The NFL is a higher level league with higher level talent than the CFL. It is the big show. Lots of people want to compete at the highest level they can to match themselves against the best of the best.

I said the idea of a premier league wouldn't work in the CFL, but it is the only way tailoring a schedule based on records makes sense to me for as sports league. And we don't have to do it just because the NFL does it. There are lots of things the NFL does, that we do. Especially when they need to come up with a way for a schedule to work for a 32 team league who only play 16 games each, and still weight game play within conference for playoff rankings to work. Every team can't play each other every year already. We don't have that problem in the CFL. We can make everyone play each other in a more equitable way. I don't like manufactured parity because I think it is ridiculous. I thought I was pretty clear in my original post on why I didn't like it: This is professional sports. It is not everyone gets a participation medal sports. If you want a better record, put together a better team and earn it.

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/