kelownabomberfan

I was thinking the same thing. I can only imagine all of the mis-spellings of Puja-alphabet if we pick him instead of Laine. Assuming that TO picks Auston Matthews. I still wouldn't rule out an offer from Arizona to get Matthews. It would have to be pretty huge.

Sweet - lets play him at LHD all year so then everyone can stop crying about why we need that bum Enstrom.

Doubt it. Teemu was picked while the cold war was still going.

so now what does Chevy do? Package up some excess baggage and wrap them up with Chicago's 22nd overall and trade up for a shot at Tkachuk or Chycrun?

I don't know. Who did we get?

Ehlers-Schief-Wheeler Connor-Little-Laine Perrault-Lowry-Dano Petan-Copp-Armia Stafford/Thorbs/Lemieux - fifth line, we only dress 3 defensemen all year

Finnish flash!!!! Laine is ours. Happy dance!!!

Yeah baby!!!!!!!!!!!!

curious to know what software they are using.

I've been playing with the draft simulator. It keeps putting Winnipeg at number 7 or 8. If that happens then I think we take Chychrun. I don't see Tkachuk still being available at the spot, but who knows.

yup I was mostly just posting with my tongue in my cheek...which I am prone to do from time to time...

Mike Kelly was a teacher. Tim Burke was a teacher. Mike O'Shea is a teacher. Lapo is a teacher. Time for a new descriptor. I like "leader", and "winner".

Probably should DI at least one OL - Bart Andrus

He was always better in a group anyway.

You have to wonder just how good this offense could be if they were able to play against no defence all year.

Nutty Numbers! Loved that album.

always be planning the Grey Cup parade. You don't want to be unprepared. Like we were in 1988.

Maybe Carolina will take Ladd back.

Seems my post on this has disappeared, for some reason. Anyway, I don't agree with your last sentence and never will.

Good question. I would ask my parents that. I know my nephew is enjoying his school right now save for one teacher who he claims is terrible. I know he may just have it in for the guy but when the teacher got sick and a sub was called in, the class immediately improved for those two weeks that the "bad" teacher was away, and my nephew said he learned more in those two weeks than in six months with the "bad" one. Apparently everyone knows this guy is a "bad" egg (according to my mom, who of course is actively involved in her grandkids education) but no one can do anything about him, as he has cleverly inserted himself inside the MTS apparatus, so is basically bullet-proof. I know Mark may say this isn't true, but I am just going off of what my mom, a retired teacher and former MTS member (not by choice) is telling me. Perhaps now with the Conservatives taking over the MTS's power may be curtailed a bit. I know the BCTF was ruling the roost here in BC under the NDP, who even gave the BCTF the power to discipline their own members. Guess how many were disciplined when a union was in charge of the discipline? Not many. Talk about a massive conflict of interest. Just ridiculous.

Both my parents were teachers, so I know from personal experience that its not an easy job. But that being said, there are a lot of teachers who give that extra effort, and some lazy ones who don't. What I don't like in the unionized model (and my parents didn't like it either) was that those lazy teachers are pretty impossible to dislodge. My mom always said one of the harder parts of the job was the parents, not the kids, as the parents can be total jerks sometimes. Mark - I think we' ve gone back and forth enough on this topic regarding the BCTF. I do throw up in my mouth a bit when you use verbiage like "BC has the fourth lowest paid teachers in Canada". That's just propaganda. If a lawyer is the fourth lowest paid lawyer in his firm, and still takes home $200K a year, vs another lawyer who makes $250K, that $200K lawyer is hard to feel sorry for. Canada as a whole has some of the highest paid teachers in the world. And I think that's awesome. It's a tough profession, and deserves to be rewarded. I also think that if BC is so bad off salary-wise for teachers, you would wonder why there are thousands of unemployed teachers here in BC right now. Teaching pays well, and so it's hard for me to feel sorry for anyone who says that its not enough. And inherent in your argument is the flawed assumption that if the BCTF hadn't been given the right to decide class size and composition, they would have received huge raises. I don't think the BCTF would have gotten those huge raises. But that's also assuming that the BCTF would be negotiating with a government that wasn't in a giant conflict of interest, and in the pocket of the unions. So it is hard to say what they would have gotten. In a perfect world, our government isn't in the pocket of any special interests, but I know that will never happen.

It can't be "It was a very good year" either.

and Trudeau said "don't you guys know that SMS's balance themselves!?"

No thanks. Enstrom for Eberle - done and done. And I mean done.

Mike Duffy should have taken over.