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The answer is no. Edmonton has 3 home games left, so to lose them all and win the road game (in Winnipeg) would give them a 5-13 record. Saskatchewan already has 6 wins, so they would finish 5th in the West. But it is possible they could still be better than both Hamilton and Ottawa (they play each other twice so of they split and lost all their other games they’d both finish with only 4 wins). EDIT: Answered this post before I saw @Bomber_fanaddict had already answered it correctly. Merci.

Happened five doors down from my house.

Given that the WHA team was founded and named in 1972 and the song was written in 1973 and released in 1974, it’s safe to say the team was NOT named after the song. Hatskin has been quoted as saying the NY Jets were a rebel team (from the AFL) with a rebel QB (Namath) who took on the big boys and won, and he like that and wanted his WHA team to have the same swagger and image. Hence the name.

He’s walked the walk pretty well in the last decade. 9th most total points over that time in the whole NHL, 21st overall in points per game, number one on the Jets in those categories and points per 60 minutes (yes, ahead of Ehlers from where I looked it up). People can chafe at his personality, but he has produced.

What exactly is the issue with the LIV Tour? I hear the noise about the human rights violations in Saudi Arabia, so it’s a good talking point for the PGA, but they themselves have 27 major sponsors who do $40 billion in business with the Saudis, have tournaments sponsored by banks with some shady business dealings (Deutsche Bank and Wells-Fargo come to mind), and they sanction the PGA China tour in a country with its own highly questionable human rights record. So is this a legitimate concern or just hypocrisy from the big boy on the block not wanting another group to cut into their monopoly? Opinions from those more in the know than me, please.

My understanding is that the appeals court based in Atlanta that has appellate jurisdiction over this case has 11 members, 6 of whom were Trump appointees (all from the Federalist Society, and 4 of whom Trump put on his short-list for SCOTUS before Comey-Barrett got picked), so already concerns about partisan voting on the issue (stunning that a court should have to worry about that, but again the entire SCOTUS balance has had this issue for decades, which should de-legitimize any decision coming out of it regardless of which party you support). Some portions of the appeal before the circuit court (emergency measures - say in this case a review of the Judge’s ruling that the investigation must completely stop while the documents are being examined by the Special Master) can be reviewed by the District Court Justice, who can also look at opinions on the case before the court. The District Court is assigned by the Supreme Court, with one of its Justices appointed to cover the region. The overseeing SCOTUS Justice for that district? Clarence Thomas.

The team looking to move him (which they acknowledged last season) and him asking for a trade are very different things. Even submitting a list of teams (which he was required to do as of July 1 when his full no-move lapsed) is different than asking outright for a trade. You said he asked for a trade, and wondered how I possibly could have missed it during the off-season. Now you admit you have no quote of source but are “deducing” it. Again, the team looking to move him and him asking are very different things. Please don’t lump him in the Evander Kane/Jacob Trouba/ Patrick Laine disgruntled group.

The same rumours that were swirling around Scheifele. Lowry’s salary is brought up when looking at his performance. He underperformed last year compared to the value of his contract, in many eyes. You need more than 20 points and third/fourth line production for the money he is making, even if he can win faceoffs. Respect aside, there is a reason teams make their best players captains - so that when they demand more from their teammates they can defend themselves against the “yeah, who are YOU to say that?” blowback with solid underlying numbers and game production.

Do you have a source for that? Could not find anything in Google, other than all the media articles or Twitter saying he SHOULD be traded, or WILL be traded. Those requests came from disgruntled fans, not Wheeler himself, from what I read. But I may have missed something.

Not if you believe the rumours that have been floating around. That aside, when the Captain has to lean on the group to say they need to be better, who will respond to a guy who had 21 points on a $3.25 million contract last year, and whose daddy they didn’t play hard for?

When did Wheeler ever ask for a trade?

The fact that the Super Bowl trophy is presented to the owner first each year tells you where the players rank on the hierarchy there. And that TV deal per team For one year is 42% of the players’ concussion settlement total amount. League has never cared about its players.

Nah, the Libtard snowflake sheeple are just falling for another Big Pharma/Bill Gates 5G nanotech tracking scam. FREEDOM! My body, my choice.

Marco Polo, William Howard Taft, Agatha Christie, Fay Wray, Gaylord Perry, Tommy Lee Jones, Oliver Stone, Pete Carroll, Dan Marino, Tom Hardy, Patrick Marleau, and Prince Harry were all born in this date, FWIW. Rocket Richard retired on this date, and Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

This may not be confirmed through other sources yet, but is reported:

I think the picture is supposed to represent the death of good taste in clothing. Sobriety appears to not have been involved when choosing that ensemble.

I blame the deejays. Beholden to the corporate sponsors, everyone afraid to say “booger” on air for fear of being fired! Dr John would never have stood for it. 🤣

True, but it is surprising when the media still reports it like it is some big deal to give a player time off, or ask questions to the head coach. Or how fans get bent out of shape. The tide is turning about the acceptability of it as far as athletes go, but it wasn’t too long ago this was still a controversial subject. And not all teams were so acquiescent. This shouldn’t really be a debate, and yet it is. This from only ten years ago: https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/brad-wilson/2012/11/post_37.html ”Should NFL players miss games because their children are being born? This uncomfortable issue strode on the national stage this week when Chicago cornerback Charles Tillman said he may miss Sunday night's potential Super Bowl preview with the Houston Texans because his wife is near giving birth. Tillman later said the baby will be born Monday and he'll be ready to play but not before stirring up a significant issue. Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said in September it would be an easy call for him. “I'm not missing the birth of my child,” said Roethlisberger to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Ed Bouchette. "There’s no chance. I know some fans probably don't want to hear that, but there’s no chance." The Philadelphia Eagles faced that situation this week with defensive end Darryl Tapp, who did not make the trip to New Orleans so he could be on hand for his daughter's birth. "(Family) does (come first)," Tapp said. "(The Eagles are) my family, too, but I went and talked to Coach Reid and he sent me away. ‘You've got to take care of this. This is your first one,' he said. I was happy to go but I definitely missed being out there with the guys." Reid's response to Tapp was the purely human one and the one most people would imagine they'd give. What kind of Gradgrindian boss wouldn't give an employee off for a child's birth? However, the counter argument is that NFL players are singularly well-compensated to show up 16 times a year and play. Missing a practice or a preseason game for a birth is one thing, but when it comes to games the player should recognize the uniqueness of his work situation and put the game over his family, the argument goes. That was the philosophy of then-Houston Oilers offensive line coach Bob Young when offensive tackle David Williams missed a game because his wife had given birth the night before. "This is like World War II when guys were going to war and something would come up but they had to go," Young said. "My wife told me she was having a baby and I said, 'Honey, I've got to go play a football game.' David let the guys down, and he let hundreds of thousands of fans down." Nowadays, it might be OK for a lineman like Williams to miss a game for a childbirth, but if high-profile skill position players did, the outcry from fantasy football sorts would be heard in China. In any case, the only humane thing to do is, of course, excuse the player for the birth and wish him well. Reid's response to Tapp was the right one, and one that all NFL officials should agree to follow.“

Reading all the comments on Twitter, Americans seem to be having that good chuckle at the absurdity of this, commenting on the wig or “is this where Liberals hang out?” Or Burger King references for Trump. What no one seems to be factoring in is the fact that a guy with a GUN was out looking to kill people and walking into a public place to do so. The attitude to guns is so casual there, this threat does not even register. Such a lost nation.

Both Manitoba and Ontario have decided not to follow the National holiday idea. Smart move, for the reasons Speedflex outlined.