HardCoreBlue

Ouch, thanks for that. To expand on my thought about Lapo, it depends on how specific his 'ideas' are, how specific he has mapped them out to make them work (which is an obvious thing to do as the OC) and how willing, when appropriate, he can to adapt to other ideas that may run counter to these original ideas he has mapped out that he may need to discard some. In other words, I hope he doesn't get tunnel vision, that's all I'm saying here.

And I'm hoping I'm misinterpreting a quote I read from him today: “I’m finally able to sit in a room for four hours and say ‘here are my ideas. Help me figure it out.’ That’s been neat for me,” he says. To me one of his significant downfalls as a coach is his stubbornness to move away from something, i.e., his ideas that he, and he alone, thinks is pure genius, that clearly in some cases aren't working regardless of the tweaks made to them. His statement above suggests to me he still takes the 'plan and push his ideas' approach onto his support staff/athletes rather that create and engage with them. Yes someone has to be in charge but he always needs to be receptive to ideas that may run counter to his own. I'm not sure he's wired that way. Time will tell if he's learned from his last go around with us.

Thanks for that memory, appreciate it, ugh.

As a smaller market team, will Jets ownership be willing to spend closer to the cap than they are presently for next year?

And like he should. Still good to seem them winning regardless of San Jose's play and standings. Winning is always good for chemistry, atmosphere and culture.

Time has come and gone for Edmonton, no?

That's actually a really good point, never thought of it that way.

Damn straight. I'm probably in the minority in never feeling good about supporting the Jets tanking/losing to increase their chances at getting the number 1 draft pick. I want them to win no matter where they are in the standings, no matter where the season is at. Look how Vancouver is getting blown out lately, Look at Toronto, Look at Edmonton. Historically look at how draft picks have helped teams move from have nots, to haves and the time frames, if any of these three teams secure Austin Matthews does in no way secure their 'have' status. Again, getting a player like Matthews would be great, but it's just a bonus that's it. I could really care less if we land Austen Matthews. If it happens, great, bonus but I'm not supporting the, 'this is what we need to put us over the top' type mentality. I'm more looking at the bigger picture needs and what our Coaching Staff, GM and Owners are going to do about getting this team to a better place.

Maybe, but your consistent sentiments like above really come across as, 'Whose my favorite Team? 'My favorite team is a team that wins all the time'. Yes, we all are frustrated, impatient, provide critique/opinions and want our team to win, but we also balance that with being ardent supporter that will defend this team anywhere, anytime. The Bombers could go 0 and 18 and I would still wear our colors proud and loud.

Spoken like a true dlineman,unbiased of course.

Worst. Defenseman. Ever. Second place, imo, goes to Tim Watters, couldn't stand how he was constantly outmuscled off the puck . ugh.

My guess is that's exactly why he didn't drop the gloves. He knows he would have been pummeled.

Sorry, just thinking out loud. How about the Bombers marketing group figure out a way to organize a section (or something) for all the Bomber fans who live in the enemy cities where the Bombers are travelling?

See Edmonton Oliers as a reference.

This brings back memories of how Lundholm usually 'celebrated' scoring a goal (the odd time he did shoot), i.e., when right back to centre ice like nothing happened. Classic. Which it also gets me thinking wasn't it Lundholm who deked himself into the corner on a penalty shot without even shooting it? Good times.

Thomas Steen, my all time favorite Jet.

Mark Kumpel, Tim Trimper, Jordy Douglas ugh :-)

No, just no. Now that My man Buff is retained, I'm jumping on the Myers wagon. He's a keeper imo. He has not reached is full potential, he's still young, and like Buff, he's an unique player that doesn't come around to often.

It's called pride I think.

Throw in some discipline and no lazy stick infractions.

No one player can make a team a cup contender. It's more like will retaining Ladd help put us over the top from pretenders to contenders? With what he's shown and with what's coming up the ranks I'd say possibly yes. Trading away Ladd I sense we break even unless Chevy completely hoodwinks someone.

It means being a consistently supportive team member especially in rough times, it means having a genuine presence in the community where you still go to the children's hospital even when you're dead tired and not because you're told too but you want too, it means appreciation for getting paid well for a sport a lot of us love playing and watching, it means committing too and acting on the system the coach has implemented making the necessary individual sacrifices/changes that's required, it means, like any profession, having a high level of emotional intelligence that can't be seen by shooting a puck into a net (see Evander Kane as an example), etc. I can guarantee that if you took all the multi talented yet narcissistic type players and put them all on the same team, dysfunctional and losses will follow. So yes other things than pure skill is what scouts, coaches and general managers look for, guaranteed.

That's strange, Rexall is usually noted for the best ice in the league. I don't think it's the ice that ails Trouba of late.

Depending on how lucartive her practice in Winnipeg is, in this day in age she wouldn't necessarily have to start over depending on their circumstances and sacrifices they are willing to make. A lot of professionals, even athletes, keep their homebase and work elsewhere, i.e., She stays in Winnipeg, he works in ?, they meet up when they can, not the greatest but doable.

My guess, and it's purely a guess, is that some (not all) entertainers do this for fun, thinking they are being clever, trying to get a rise out of people and thinking to themselves 'look what I can do', not knowing and/or not caring that what they do can indeed impact lives and cohesion. Sometimes for the good, sometimes for the bad, sometimes for both. Some of them live in this special world with their own way of doing things, experts in all of the social world ills that ail us commoners. :-)