The Unknown Poster

Logan I respect your position with your kids. I'd try to shelter them enough to be kids as long as possible of I was a paren't. I have younger sisters so I know the lengths my parents go to keep tabs. As much as the iAge makes it easy for kids to see what they want it also makes it easy for parents to know what their kids are up to. In the picture the model is pulling her bottoms down. What of the bikini was cut that low....would that be different?

You are under valuing Postma.

That was my big take away, that they seemed more interested in an opportunity to win and a good environment. Toronto was low on the list because they suck and its a fishbowl. But beautiful warm cities like Miami and Glendale scored low too.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2015/02/18/hockey-players-dont-want-to-play-in-these-cities Of all the NHL cities, which would you least like to visit? If you said Edmonton or Winnipeg, it seems most NHLers agree. ESPN’s Craig Custance asked 10 hockey agents which three cities most commonly appear on no-trade clauses submitted by their clients. And it was no surprise who took top spot. The Edmonton Oilers – currently the second-worst team in the NHL – are usually looked over because of their “climate, lack of success and being a Canadian team,” Custance wrote. For similar reasons, the Winnipeg Jets were second on the list, followed by the last-place Buffalo Sabres. Rounding out ESPN’s list were the Ottawa Senators and the Toronto Maple Leafs, where the media market is so insane players don’t want any part of it. Florida and Arizona were honourable mentions, finishing just outside the top five. ***Interesting poll that really hits home that chance to win plays a bigger role than locale.

I've heard talk online that he's available. $6million, under contract through next season. Big guy. The type of nasty we could use.

Halischul back in a couple of weeks which should push Thorburn back down to the 4th line.

There will be more in-depth analysis of this in Dave Meltzer's wrestling observer newsletter either tonight (if he has time to include it) or next week.

I think their desire is to avoid forcing Buff to forward if they can help it.

www.wrestlingobserver.com Highlight notes from UFC press conference - far more testing and stricter penalties, and really a changing of the sport as we know itWednesday, 18 February 2015 11:20 The UFC announced today that it is looking at July 1, 2015, to implement a random out-of-competition drug testing program that will include all 585 fighters on the roster, as well as enhanced drug testing for headliners before fights. The company is looking at hiring a third party to handle its own testing, as well as work with athletic commissions before fights within their jurisdiction. The company will help fund commission testing as well as its own program. Lorenzo Fertitta and Dana White acknowledged that for them, things will probably get a lot worse before they get better, in an attempt to clean up the sport. They cited that they were aware of 19 fighters tested out of competition of late and that five failed, and said that showed them there is an issue that needed to be addressed. The other key statement is that they are pushing for stricter penalties, saying that they advocated two year suspensions instead of nine month suspensions for first offense. They also said that if WADA increased first suspensions for PED use to four years, they would support and follow that change. They also believe the key athletic commissions would also increase their own suspensiosn for offenders to make this a uniform policy, but that is still something that needs to be worked out. They said they were looking at this for some time, but the Anderson Silva positive test has sped up the process. They actually don't have deals in place, and are in talks with the few companies that handle drug testing, but were setting July 1 as the deadline for getting it implemented.

lets assume the Perrault injury has Chevy considering options. What would we be comfortable giving for Jordan Eberle? i could see Postma being attractive to the Oilers as a beginning. the problem is the Jets need most of our good assets.

How about Vermette for Postma straight up considering Postma is a young, puck moving D man. I realise bidding is going to shoot up Vermette's value though.

Chevy didnt trade for Stafford because he thought it helped the Jets contend for the cup. They arent stupid. They know they arent winning the cup. The only chance they have at the cup is the "anything can happen" mentality once you make the playoffs. its VERY important for the team to make the playoffs for a variety of reasons, not least of which is the free millions upon millions of dollars that comes with Playoff games. I think the Jets were in the market for a mid to bottom six winger. Now they need a top six winger. That will jack up the price. They could certainly trade their 2nd since they have two first rounders. Their reluctance to waive any D men is also telling - they believe, and rightfully so, that any of Postma, Pardy, Harrisson would be claimed. And that means those guys have value as trade pieces.

I wonder if this gets the Jets back in the Vermette sweepstakes...

Good to see you post Colin. Shows a lot of courage to respond in a thread where people are being critical of you (I dont know if its fair or not, no judgments from me). I do know that as a mostly lurker at OB back in the day, i enjoyed your posts so hopefully you will post here more!

Saw this in the twitter feed and thought it was really interesting: http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/tsn-posts-watched-month-five-years-even-without-nhl.html When Rogers outbid TSN for a 12-year national NHL rights package back in December 2013, it was described as “a massive blow” to TSN, and one that seemed likely to dramatically alter the Canadian media landscape, turning Rogers Sportsnet into the behemoth and TSN into the scrappy underdog. Even those of us who were optimistic about TSN’s NHL-less future thought they’d still take at least a partial step back. It hasn’t played out that way, though, and the latest ratings news is just another indication on that front. Despite no longer having rights to air NHL games nationally, January saw TSN post its highest-viewed month (in terms of average audience) in five years, and the second-highest viewed month ever in the network’s 30-year history (behind only February 2010, when they had tons of content from the Vancouver Olympics). How did TSN pull this off without their once-most-coveted rights, and what does it mean for the sports media landscape in Canada and the U.S.? Here are five key takeaways from the news. 1. Networks can build an event under the right circumstances: The value of gaining rights to broadcast already-popular sports live is easily apparent, and it’s helped American networks such as NBCSN (hockey in particular) and Fox Sports One (college football and the MLB postseason in particular) draw substantially more viewers than normal. The corollary is easier to forget, though; if the conditions are right, a network can make compelling TV out of something that wasn’t previously popular. TSN has done just this over the last couple of decades with their wall-to-wall coverage of the annual IIHF World U20 Championships (commonly known as the World Juniors), and this event was key to their record-setting January, with TSN and RDS (their French-language channel) combining for 7.1 million viewers (approximately one-fifth of the Canadian population) for the gold-medal game (a Canadian cable record) and Team Canada’s seven games averaging 3.1 million viewers. Not bad for a hockey tournament of under-20 players that was barely even televised a few decades back. Sean Fitz-Gerald had an excellent National Post feature on TSN’s involvement with the World Juniors this December, including this critical quote: “I don’t know if there’s anything that identifies TSN to Canadians more than the world juniors,” said Mark Milliere, TSN’s senior vice-president of production. “They are linked. And because it is young men playing with a flag on their chests over the holidays, when people have time on their hands … it becomes family moments, shared experiences.” Fitz-Gerald’s piece explores how this event went from little-known to mammoth media property in detail, but the key thread is that TSN was desperate for content when they got the rights in 1990, and they weren’t supposed to compete for existing sports properties. They managed to get the World Juniors away from the CBC, though, and went on to build it into a programming centrepiece. We’ve seen this executed successfully stateside, too, with ESPN-created events such as the X Games and the ESPYs. It’s a bold gamble, and it certainly doesn’t always work, but the time and effort they’ve put into building the World Juniors is arguably the key part of why TSN did better than ever this January without the NHL. 2. Don’t presume audiences are monolithic: The easy line about Canadian sports audiences is that they’re there for hockey and nothing else, which is why so many saw the NHL shift to Rogers as landscape-changing. However, there are significant audiences for lots of other sports, and that’s been illustrated by how TSN’s still doing well. Their CFL rights are still very valuable (even though those audiences fell off a bit this year, they’re still huge compared to most Canadian sports properties), and January saw the network find success with a wide variety of properties beyond the World Juniors, including the Pinty’s All-Star Curling Game (another made-for-TSN event), plus broadcasts of tennis’ Australian Open, the NFL playoffs and the inaugural NCAA college football playoffs. Yes, hockey’s big in Canada, but other sports have their followings too; ignore them at your peril. 3. There may be rising Canadian interest in NCAA sports: American college football and basketball haven’t always been a big deal in Canada, and as fans of those sports will attest, it can frequently be challenging to find a particular game. However, the numbers TSN pulled in for the college football playoff (564,000 across all three games, 698,000 for the Rose Bowl, a network record for an NCAA game) are impressive, and they suggest that may be changing. There may be a few factors involved here; TSN’s expansion to regional networks (and their loss of NHL rights) helped to make more NCAA regular-season games available, perhaps building interest over the course of the year, and the hype around the NCAA’s first-ever Division I FBS playoff certainly helped. Increased awareness of the role the NCAA plays in developing CFL talent may have helped too; keep in mind that regular-season CFL games averaged 660,000 viewers this year, so that’s a sizeable fanbase. There are also more Canadians starring in the NCAA in football and especially in basketball, which also helps; expect strong numbers when March Madness rolls around. Of course, this increased interest in NCAA sports isn’t necessarily seen as positive by all Canadians, especially when CIS football and basketball games struggle to gain TV coverage. 4. Live rights aren’t everything: TSN affirmed that they wouldn’t stop covering hockey when they lost the national NHL rights, and their strategic moves to lock up top hockey reporters and personalities like Bob McKenzie, Darren Dreger and James Duthie have helped to keep them an influential part of the NHL conversation (in Canada and beyond). Moreover, Sportsnet’s decision to “talk less about the business of the game, and more about great stars and great storytelling” has left an opportunity for TSN to fill on the hard-hitting side, and they’ve generally done that well. They’ve maintained their ability to cover hockey (and other sports) despite not having the NHL rights, and that’s likely part of what’s kept plenty of fans tuning into SportsCentre and their various analysis programs, sometimes even switching after watching a live game on another network. Prime-time SportsCentre drew 201,000 viewers on average in January, up 59 per cent from January 2014. Meanwhile, Sportsnet’s NHL ratings have been less than stellar so far, so much so that they’re complaining about ratings methodology. 5. Knocking off a titan isn’t easy: This is perhaps the vital lesson for American networks watching here, and it’s one we’ve seen play out south of the border too. Fox Sports One’s stated claims of being an “ESPN alternative” have been muted lately given the disparity in their ratings, and while NBC and CBS have their own cable networks, neither’s taking as much of a run at the Worldwide Leader. That’s probably smart, as the Canadian situation shows that even getting some prime rights doesn’t necessarily put you on top. We could see a repeat of this in the U.S., especially with the news that Fox has been granted World Cup rights through 2026. Yes, those rights will undoubtedly help them, just as the NHL rights helped Sportsnet. Betting on the World Cup alone to make Fox more prominent than ESPN would be silly, though. As TSN’s January shows, sometimes you can have a great month even without one of the country’s most valuable properties.

Was it SI that did the athletes photo shoot with several different athletes pictured naked?

Very very tough for Jets. Puts Chevy in a really tough position now as he *needs* to replace Perrault and teams will hold his feet to the fire. Where he was looking for a Winnick type player, he now needs a scorer. This has been a season of adversity for the Jets. On the flip side, getting him back for the (hopeful) playoffs would be tremendous.

his agent will remind Chevy of that this summer when they begin negotiating a contract. $8 million dollar man.

Yikes.

Sounds like Bruins want to trade Loui Eriksson. One year left at $4.5 million. What do you think?

Thats a great point. When we were kids and there was no internet (well Im not *that* old, I had the internet in my teens), we still managed to get a copy of a dirty magazine or a porn film. And in my case it wasnt my dad's. I dont think the cover is particularly sexualized, its just the bottoms are pulled down to show more skin. The debate in the CNN piece raised good points about naked people on the cover of more "artsy" magazines. I agree there is a difference been "healthy" nudity and sexualized nudity but Im not sure I see that here. And if a kid sees it and starts asking questions, it's an opportunity for the parent to talk to their kid. Friends of friends of mine have a kid who's a "problem" child and the more stories I hear, the more I shake my head. For example, the kid pulls his pants down and gyrates his hips and he refers to female genitals as a "rooster:.

Lawless now confirming Klingberg is recalled. Let's hope they can keep Buff on D. Maybe Stafford isnt out and they can slide Klingberg into the 2RW. Go: Ladd-Little-Wheeler Stafford-Scheif-Frolik Thorburn-Lowry-Klingberg Galiardi-Slater-Peluso

Ted Wyman @Ted_Wyman #NHLJets prospect @NikolajEhlers24 with 68 points during Halifax Mooseheads club record 30-game streak.

its because last game there were two incidents: opening seconds, Myers has a miscue with Hutch that leads to a scoring chance for Oilers so Myers sucks. And later, Chiarot leads a rush, fights through the Oilers' D and sets up a Jets goal on a great play so Chiarot is all-world. Interesting that they'd recall Klingberg. The usual re-call guy is Cormier. I would speculate that they need/want a faster more offensive body. Usually Cormier, if he even dresses, gets very limited 4th line minutes. I assume Klingberg would get real playing time in the top 9. The question is, are both Perrault & Stafford hurt and the two replacement forwards will be Klinger and Buff or does this allow them to keep Buff on the back end?

Armia and Klingberg both absent from IceCaps practice. Could be indicative of recalls to the Jets. if so, that means Perrault & Stafford would both be on IR.