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Frankly the "building for the future" story we've been told has been exposed as a scam. How can you build for the future around guys like Trouba who are just going to leave after they've developed their skills here? At some point you have to build a team for THIS YEAR, because you never know what the future may hold. Sure, Laine and Connor could be great but will we be able to afford them both along with Scheifele and others? Will they even want to stay? Smart GMs know you can't predict the future. Notice how all the teams that are trash year after year are also YOUNG year after year. Edmonton has been full of young talent for a DECADE. It doesn't work!!

Just plain ignorant really. Who's getting free tickets to this event? I dropped $425+ for my tickets, because it is a once-in-a-lifetime event. 30,000 other people have done the same, or in some cases spent way more. Get the Alberta sized stick out of your ass already.

Yeah we've barely got 750k people in this city, I think we support events just fine. If the stadium was 30k seats it would be sold out and everyone would be happy, but because it's 33k and we're still a few hundred short of a sellout, it's all "we don't support events and won't pay retail value, etc, etc"... gimme a break. I'm sure when the puck drops, the place will be packed.

Who cares about wins? The team is young, right? Isn't that the goal? To have the youngest team? Forever young, I wanna be, forever young...

Jk of course. I know how much it sucks dealing with these kinds of incidents. Thanks for all the work you do to keep the site running.

Will we be receiving compensation? I did some of my best work in the previous week

Yeah I'm thinking Macho Harris, Jeff Keeping, Ryan Smith, and Bruce Johnson are all ahead of Wild Ian

I loved it. I mentioned it in the Upcoming Movies thread because I'm not too bright.

I wouldn't even recognize Sask's flag if I saw it. But I would bet my life that there is wheat on it somewhere

We appear to be the 6th-youngest team. I would have guessed youngest. Nice to see Wayner back with the Oilers. I'm pumped to see him play at IGF.

WHAT! Get real. No chance.

I think the "Canada's Team" thing comes more from the Cowboys being referred to as "America's Team". Which to be honest is just as much nonsense as the Riders being Canada's Team.

I think he's referring to outside of Canada and I have to admit I've seen the same thing in Mexico... one guy was decked out head to toe in Rider gear lookin like someone puked all over him. Can't say I've seen any Bomber gear internationally. Small sample size for me though.

Ohhhh Sammy Yes!!!!! ???

I'm not sure how Matthias finds himself on the second line but the other two are legit top-6 players. It's not that bad.

I think the line blender will be at full power for the first part of the season

Yeah you're right, my numbers are off, they had 22K+ in 2012 and that was a record. However I believe my point remains valid.

Oh yeah I misremembered. Ours went McDavid - Kane - Crosby - Benn - Ovi

Reports that the line rushes today are: Ehlers - Scheifele - Wheeler Matthias - Little - Stafford Laine - Perreault - Connor Tanev - Lowry - Armia Burmi - Thorburn Morrissey - Byfuglien Enstrom - Myers Stuart - Postma Chiarot Interesting stuff, let the bitching about young guys not being gifted top-6 spots begin

McDavid went number one in my league if you can believe that. I was super pumped to take Crosby at 2. Nit looking great at the moment but hopefully he's back soon.

Looks like pretty much the worst fantasy hockey team i've ever seen

It's really all about the season ticket base. The crowd doesn't vary much from that. When there are 26K season ticket holders, the crowds naturally are a lot better than when there are <22K like there are now. The amount of people buying tickets on a game-to-game basis is only like 3-4 thousand. It's gotta be a pretty special event such as Banjo Bowl or Milt Stegall day to get more people out. Maybe the West semi will do it, maybe not.

2007 East Semi Final - attendance 22,843 Previous home playoff game was in 2003, a 4 year wait. This time it's a 5 year wait so maybe that will be the 11,000 fan difference, I don't know. 2008 East Semi Final was not a sellout either, at 27,493. 2011 East Final had over 30K, but that year season ticket sales were at an all-time high and Swaggerville had the city invested in the team. So I guess we'll see! I'd love a sellout but I'm not counting on it.

Miz vs Ziggler should have been the main event, no question. Not sure what they were thinking with that one. Refresh my memory, what is a slingshot power bomb and did they mess it up? I can't recall. I'm not a fan of Carmella. Just not buying what she's selling. She's weak on the mic and that attempt at the moonwalk looks ridiculous. Decent submission move that she uses though. I hate the high-pitched diva-scream that she over-uses in the ring. If I had to rank Smackdown's women she would be at the bottom.

Can't say this is limited to Trump and his supporters. Some leaders of the BLM movement say the same things... violence is justified to get what they want. You can say that one side has more legitimate reasons but both have called for violence to achieve their goals.