kelownabomberfan

2007

A few weeks ago while in Montreal I did a tour of the Bell Center with Mrs. KBF. Impressive building! We even were given access to the dressing room, which I actually found kind of under-whelming. Hard wooden seats and no stalls. Not sure if that's the new NHL style. Anyway, I got into a couple of arguments with our guide over the course of the tour, one being over Pacioretty - I said that he wasn't happy and was soon going to be traded and the guide claimed that everyone dreams of playing for Montreal so of course he was happy and wouldn't be traded (I won that one!!). The big argument we got into though was about the French language issue in Montreal. I said that because the coaches, and management apparently, have to be fluent in French, and apparently also Francophone, that this was a huge handicap as the Canadiens are really limited in who they can hire for their coaches and management team. The guide gave me this look and then said "there's lots of French Canadian coaches" to which I said "Fine, name four". Working together, we were able to come up with Guy Boucher, Alain Vigneault, Claude Julien and Michel Terrien (wherever he is now). This is a pretty limited selection. Should the Quebec Nordiques ever come back, they'd be handi-capped by the same issue, as the press and fans would demand the same thing. The guide was not happy about my hypothesis. But it is something I think that bears discussion. If Montreal can't hire the best people available for coaching and management, but only the best people who can speak French, is this an issue that will seriously hurt Montreal's chances of winning a Cup ever again? Discuss.

Have been hearing from multiple hockey sources here in Kelowna that Brossoit has been working out hard with the other goalies here and has looked good. Maybe following Carey Price's work-out every day will rub off on him!

Do AHL points count?

ok that's just funny...

It was the Argos I believe

This is like the weather. If you keep yelling "it's going to rain" you will eventually be right.

Zero. Little should change his name to Argon. (Chemistry joke)

Petan - Spengler Cup all star 2020

Berdin wall sounds pretty porous... Wasn't able to make it to the tournament this year as am in Europe right now but would have been interested in seeing Vesalainen in action. That said I've seen Ehlers, Roslo, and Connor at these tournaments and they didn't exactly light it up either.

https://goo.gl/images/i35Avq in 1972 she visited Hanoi and had a controversial picture taken sitting at a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun which angered a lot of people. John McCain to his credit did not hold any grudges. I was joking.

Hey guys sorry I am on a long Mediterranean cruise and couldn't get access to wi fi to log on. Guess I am eliminated. Aĺl I can say is I am happy to have missed both of the last two games. I hope we can win the Banjo Bowl! Back the week of the 10th. Greetings from Malta! KBF

That was Gordon Campbell's fault. She came after the fact. But yeah that was a blunder.

Lol ok that's quite a different perspective than mine. Eby is a moron who is deliberately trying to muddy the waters to push proportional representation through so that the NDP can try to hang onto power. And if the Liberals were so bad how come they keep winning elections? The bozos we have in power now aren't even governing with a mandate and that really grinds my gears.

What about it? It sucks.

Did a tour of the Bell Centre last week in Montreal and was watching the ice guys laying all the ads into the ice during our tour. I got the tour guide's goat when I asked him why Montreal limited themselves to such a shallow management and coaching pool because they could only hire French Canadians. He said "there are lots of French Canadian coaches". I said "name four". He couldn't name more than three. I gave him Claude Noel as a fourth.

The Liberals weren't too bad. Other than bringing in a carbon tax I didn't have much of a beef with them. They were very friendly to the economy overall. Unlike the bozos we have now.

When it comes to talking about how much the NDP sucks I will never shut up. That being said if we had to have the NDP I would take Notley over the unelected dumpster fire of a government we have here in BC, that's for sure. We have the Montreal Alouettes front office of governments right now.

Source? I see that they invested in a Greek port...

http://peteralanlloyd.com/senator-john-mccain-goes-back/ I got my years wrong. It was 2012 when we were at the Hanoi Hilton, not 2013.

I wonder if Jane Fonda is invited to the funeral...

I highly recommend if you are going to Vietnam on holiday that you take time to visit the Hanoi Hilton in....Hanoi. Well worth the time and gives you an appreciation for what prisoners like John McCain went through. Coincidentally when we were there in 2013 John McCain just happened to be in Hanoi and was going to be stopping in there only a few hours later. I thought that was kind of cool.

I think a lot of Democrat politicians should act more like John McCain too. A good role model for both sides to follow.

Still trying to understand why Wheels was so gassed in Round 3....