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But Main Street's still all cracked and broken...

I always find it so disconcerting when you post with such a positive attitude. Why I'm positive far more often than I'm negative. If you have different perception might I suggest being wrong less often so I don't have to correct as much?

Stoked to crack a beer and watch some football tonight. Doesn't matter who plays or if it's a good game or not, football is back baby!

Kevin Smith is a lousy director and even he will admit to that, but he's a solid writer with regards to dialogue. That's what made his good movies good was the dialogue. I personally enjoy his movies but I can understand why people would not appreciate them. Lots of people want more from movies than a back and forth between characters.

Is the Shark Club in Winnipeg as ****** baggy as in Calgary? I've never been to the one in CGY, but I will go with YES I've also never been to the one in Calgary, but YES. Having been dragged to both clubs here and in Calgary, I can say although the d-bag quotient is significant here, it does not match Calgary levels even on it's worst day. But not surprising, since I find that things associated with Alberta pretty much automatically are always higher on the d-bag scale. This is what happens when you give rig pigs money.

The Bombers still lack the real top end Nis but the depth is there for sure.

That kind of analysis from TSN? Nooooooooooooo

Tomorrow evening might be difficult.

I'd expect everyone who didn't make the cut to feel they didn't get a fair shot. Part of being an athlete is having that ego and unfailing belief in yourself. Fact is though he was in camp with qbs who had been around the team last year and mostly been around the league a bit more. He was in tough from the get go and didn't do enough to jump ahead of anyone. Such is life.

Is the Shark Club in Winnipeg as ****** baggy as in Calgary?

The hardest part is coming up with a team name... Can I just go with "**** everything about Saskatchewan"?

some people follow the team and know what happened rather than making incorrect assumptions.

Maybe, maybe not, but the point is that Marve has earned the opportunity to be the backup. He has effectively moved the offense in limited reps while Brohm has shown a lot more bad than good (in practice as well as in game action). How are we ever going to know what we have in Marve if we don't give him a decent amount of playing time? If this were true do you really believe he'd be the backup? At this point I truly believe that if Marve took a **** on your kitchen table you'd kiss his feet in thanks.

The Marve fan club needs to pump their brakes a bit. Even Marve understands he needs to get better at some things, why can't the fanbois accept that? I like the guy too, I hope he does keep progressing, but pretending that he doesn't have things to work on is just getting annoying.

Brendan Taman learned from Dave Ritchie. Never trust a rookie when you can sign a veteran.

Again though, Pitlick is a good bottom 6 player when healthy.. but he's never ******* healthy. Is it the scouts fault that a guy keeps getting hurt? I don't believe it is it's just the way it works. Scouting is only part of the issue as well, development plays a much bigger role and no one is going to claim that the Oilers were great at developing players. It's only been recently that the farm team has actually started to develop any players. Prior to that most of the development happend with guys who went directly into the NHL. Going to the terrible farm team was basically a death sentence for careers.

I'm going out on a limb and I'm going to pick Cotton

Again with the outright ignorance. Jordan Eberle wasn't a can't miss pick and he worked out just fine. Yeah he was still in the first round but at twenty something that was a great pick. Anton Lander has developed into a solid depth player, all it took was Eakins being fired. Klefbom wasn't a can't miss pick either and he's developing just nicely, again first round but not one of the first over alls. Marincin was a 2nd round pick that is also developing nicely, Tyler Pitlick was a solid draft pick in the 2nd round too who would be a solid depth player except for the fact that he keeps getting hurt. That's not really on a scouting staff either. There are some other guys developing in the minors it's just that most of them are the types of players that generally take 4 or 5 years to start to be NHL ready and given that their rebuild really only started 5 years ago it makes sense there isn't a lot of NHL depth right? Especially when you consider that they had even less on the farm than they did in the NHL when they kicked that off. You have to look in depth and not just fall into the "herp derp oilerz suck" kind of analysis. Tambellini outside of the first round used his draft picks trying to get size. That's not really on the scouts if the GM just says "who's the best big player?" and then picks that guy. Craig McTavish did do a better job of selecting better prospects in later rounds, but again too soon to call on a lot of them. The scouts were fired for good reasons, they didn't do enough, but I still say it was lack of development that was a bigger issue than anything. Part of developing is having a good organization top to bottom so you can bring players along slowly and Edmonton simply didn't have that. Their amateur scouts weren't the worst. They weren't the best but not the worst either. The pro-scouts though were terrible. Just outright useless and that was a big problem.

Doug Brown said it best with regards to Marve I think. He's just a spark for the team. Brings an energy and excitement level to the team because of how he plays. Hopefully he keeps progressing as a passer and can climb the depth chart because I think there is something to be said for a guy that can spark a team.

There was a lot of talk earlier in the year that the scouting department was going to be changed around. As for the timing, I'd assume that all the scouting work is already done for the draft. It's interesting but always happens when there's a new GM in town. I don't know if the amateur scouts were that bad for the Oilers, Tambellini had a very funny way of drafting and McTavish appeared to do better in later rounds. There's also the development aspect to consider which I think is the biggest issue the Oilers have faced. Their farm system was pretty much non-existent until only a few years ago.

Special place in hell for people who post that gif

but the thing is, they have opportunities to improve themselves if they want to put in the work. Go get educated, find an entry level job with some upward mobility. Work in a field that pays higher without a lot of skills required. This country is great because you CAN improve your situation if you want to. Tough life? No education? Just excuses when it comes right down to it. The people who do the best in this country are the ones who know what they want and have the drive to go out and get it. For some yes. For others, easier said than done. Who said it was easy? Fact remains though if someone wants it they can get it. It makes it more of an accomplishment. If it was easy everyone would do it rather than being content to coast by at their minimum wage job. Life is about choices and finding out where you want to be. If you're happy to coast by in a minimum wage job that's a choice you've made. If you want to do better than that and do what is required to do better that's another choice you've made. Why should people who choose to work minimum wage jobs get a hand out at the expense of people who chose to make something more of themselves? You cant possibly believe that every person working a minimum wage job is just making the choice to not better themselves. in a lot of cases it's true. Sure there's some people who have some type of handicap but for someone with an able body and mind it really does come down to whether or not they are motivated to do more than flip burgers all their life.

but the thing is, they have opportunities to improve themselves if they want to put in the work. Go get educated, find an entry level job with some upward mobility. Work in a field that pays higher without a lot of skills required. This country is great because you CAN improve your situation if you want to. Tough life? No education? Just excuses when it comes right down to it. The people who do the best in this country are the ones who know what they want and have the drive to go out and get it. For some yes. For others, easier said than done. Who said it was easy? Fact remains though if someone wants it they can get it. It makes it more of an accomplishment. If it was easy everyone would do it rather than being content to coast by at their minimum wage job. Life is about choices and finding out where you want to be. If you're happy to coast by in a minimum wage job that's a choice you've made. If you want to do better than that and do what is required to do better that's another choice you've made. Why should people who choose to work minimum wage jobs get a hand out at the expense of people who chose to make something more of themselves?

but the thing is, they have opportunities to improve themselves if they want to put in the work. Go get educated, find an entry level job with some upward mobility. Work in a field that pays higher without a lot of skills required. This country is great because you CAN improve your situation if you want to. Tough life? No education? Just excuses when it comes right down to it. The people who do the best in this country are the ones who know what they want and have the drive to go out and get it.