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caps win 2-1. series tied. Hutch with 49 saves.

to be fair, popp wasn't consulted on the higgins hiring and higgins hired worman.

i agree with this. Also thought markett looked good.

Gotta admit, I'm looking forward to see Coombs. Barker just spoke quite highly of him on the pre-game with Irving.

Randy Turner being a huge troll now too. Wish these media guys would just shut up already.

Can you quote the tweet? god that took forever to find @CFL_News .@TSNScianitti says sources tell him the CBA likely to be ratified....via @TSN1200 #CFL #CFLPA

like this tweet by jpan The positivity around the @Wpg_BlueBombers despite the circumstances of the past weeks speaks volumes about character of this team. Ain't that the truth. None of our guys are pissing and moaning on twitter. Love it.

Just want to add, Josh Morrissey, i think there is a very very very VERY (cant say it enough but once more) VERY strong chance that he is on the JETS this season. He is a solid puck moving D man who is very good defenisvely. What a skater too. Unbelievably smooth out there.

about time. Been a long ass off season, longer than most it seems, well not really but sure seemed like it. Long long winter didn't help. Should be interesting, supposed to possibly rain later, (i say supposed to possibly cuz the weather people are crackheads who have no clue) bombers players all excited to be getting back on the field... love it, seems to be a different vibe around the team this year so far. dont care if we win or lose, just will be nice to see some basic vanilla football being played. wouldn't expect anything to spectacular to happen though. gonna be interested to see the qb's (obviously), rb's (cotton and grigsby in particular) (brooks also) and the D. wanna see what type of D we have. i'd suspect it will be very vanilla tonight but hey who cares, football is back.

arash madani just got called out by randy chevrier on twitter for basically being a troll. I'm not convinced a guy who works for sportsnet, tsn's main competition, actually knows as much as he thinks he does. why would players "confide" in a guy who works for sportsnet? sportsnet rarely to never mentions the CFL. ever. Madani reminds me of CNN, big time speculation all the time, very little facts, mostly wrong in what he thinks. Matt Scianetti (sp??) just tweeted that sources tell him the cba will be rattified. I'll take his word over madani's any day Arash seems to want to just, i dunno... it seems he just wants to break a story so bad that sometimes, he tries too hard.

has the cfl broke the union? lol. is this what is happening right now? it sure seems like it.

any relation to the LB we had last year, philip?

guess gbill was right and players were just blowing off some steam. Some of these guys should be careful what they say though, seen it in other sports where if you are too pro union, you kind of get blacklisted. the name ron hainsey comes to mind.

Mike McCullough and Labatte oh. interesting, he's been rather quiet actually. judging from some tweets by foley, i was certain he was. has mcCullough done a good job explaining it to foley and his team mates? cuz foley seems to think they are gaining nothing, completely ignoring the 600,000 plus increase in the cap.

Just curious Pete Dyakowski is the ticat player rep January is ours Im assuming foley is sasks? how come the other player reps are way more professional and classy than ricky foley? Although foley has never been accused of being classy and professional has he. or is labatte sasks rep?

do minor leagues get a 45 million/yr tv contract? do they get 20 30 40 even 50,000 people out to watch games? do they get huge ratings on tv like the CFL does? It's not as night and day as some of you are making it out to be.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_professional_sports_teams_of_the_United_States_and_Canada Yup, it's wikipedia but... The CFL is considered one of the 6 major league sports leagues in north america along with MLB, NHL,NFL,NBA AND MLS IF MLS is major leagues, then so is the CFL. Oh, for the record, you can't and will not change my opinion or mind on this so probably shouldn't bother trying too. When did Canada become the 51st state though is what i wonder.

The "fact" you are arguing is incorrect - this is not practise time. It's training camp. Players are being evaluated to decide who will make the team. If you feel this is unimportant we could have stuck with last years roster. If you feel that spending a large portion of training camp evaluating our backup import Olineman instead of our NI prospects, then I guess we'll just agree to disagree. Alrighty. Myself and 9 CFL teams will agree and you will disagree. I guess that's why Toronto is starting five Canadians on their OL tomorrow? Very cagey Barker... very cagey. we aren't Toronto though so that's your first mistake right there. We dont have the non import depth they do, we don't have the non import depth of any team, maybe ottawa but it's close. Gotta ask once again, you are all over the place here, going from should have taken coombs to now going on about non import offensive line? so which is it actually? did you want coombs or do you want us to have non import olinemen? what did you expect walters to do in one off season actually?

Texas was the best team in the league this year, finished first overall with 106 points. St Johns finished 4th in their conference with 99 points behind 3 other teams who did not have as much points as the texas team did. Fact is, St Johns is a bit of a Cinderella story, Texas was supposed to be in the finals, St Johns wasn't. why 6-3? Quite honestly, Texas is just a better team than St Johns. St Johns just got on a roll at the right time, Texas has been on a roll all year. Nope, Hutch played fine, St Johns even played pretty good, it's just the simple fact that TEXAS is just better. Sometimes in sports, you just play a team that is all around better than you are, that's what this series is. I'll be honest, I'll be surprised if this series goes to 6 games.

Yep - it's useless because the league isn't really a major league. It's not the 'final destination' and 90% of players are not here for the long term. They just want to play and hone their skills for the NFL. Striking won't accomplish that. Guess what though, you live in Canada. The CFL is indeed the major leagues here in Canada. I'm not sure how people fail to understand that Canada is not part of the USA. Why is the CFL not major league? because why? your reasons are flawed, 90 percent of NFL players dont last long either. What makes the CFL not the major leagues in the country you live in? The fact that Canada has like 300 ++ million less people than the USA does? In Canada, the CFL is as big as it gets, therefore it's a major league, just cuz its not on the same level as the NFL doesn't mean it isn't. The NFL should change its name to the AFL because basically its the american football league. You get it now? in Canada we got the Canadian football league.

if they vote this deal down, they will get nothing in the future. zilch zero nadda. The owners will not cave. This is the best they will get, it's a take it or leave it take it or risk getting nothing. Are the players that stupid?

however, if you believe madani's tweets to the right, maybe they wont accept it at all. if they don't, they are digging their own graves. They should all just shut up and vote.. get it over with. Quit playing the twitter and texting games. It's getting sickening already. I still think it passes by a large percentage.

duane forde said it best.. the CFLPA got a decent deal here but because the execs set such unrealistic expectations, it looks like a loss. This one is on flory for thinking they could get way more when reality is this is the best they could have gotten. Think this isn't fair? lol if the players went on strike, then you'd see a brutal deal for them. They were never gonna get what they wanted, thats why it looks like a loss on them, set unrealistic expectations that we all know were never gonna happen. Realistically what are there other options? strike and actually lose big time? go play in the arena league for way less? get a real job? nope, take this deal cuz if they didn't they wouldn't have got anything close to this in the future. These guys like to pretend they are heros or something, doing it for the future players of the league but reality is.. all they care about is getting the best deal for themselves. several execs have already said the bump in the salary cap will go to the canadians and the qbs. The average player here gains very little and honestly, it doesn't matter if they accepted it today, last night.. a week from now a year ago... that's who would get the money in the end.

why? it's pre-season game 1. It's irrelevant, lots of those guys playing tomorrow will be gone by Wednesday at the latest. Well, don't bother watching the game then. Everyone is sounding like Tim Burke this year... umm no, i'll be watching, i just don't think you should get all panicked and worried of a depth chart for our 1st pre-season game. YOu seem to have this idea that because these guys are penciled in week 1 of pre-season that that's where they will be come week 1 when it matters. That's not how it works tho, it's pre season, it's training camp, it's evaluation time, it's time to see what the new guys can do, crap or get off the pot really... Just not sure why you seem to get all hot and bothered over a depth chart for the first pre-season game of the year.

to be fair, the stupidity ended last night.. today it seems like acceptance has settled in.