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Oops... Shea Pierre.... fixed. Change it back! I was happier thinking we signed Shea Weber.

What's left on the shopping list? We haven't seen most of these players, so maybe everything. Maybe nothing. Not much has changed from a fan perspective since the day after the opening of free agency. Just have to wait for the draft and wait for TC to know the answer to that question.

Once again, the usual whiners doing the usual whining. Just covering for Tburg - it's 6am on the coast.

Sounds like the trip was well worth it. I don't want to start a new thread for this - does anyone know when single game tickets go on sale?

Fumbles is a great name for a puppy. If Ottawa had a team puppy named Fumbles, I'm sure they'd like him a lot. They'd all just stay on the sidelines and scratch his floppy ears. It shouldn't be too hard to convince Desjardins that their team needs a puppy, and other than Wildly Overpaid Free Agent, Fumbles is probably the most appropriate name for Ottawa's new puppy.

What do the hep cats say these days? Pretty baller move from Ottawa.

The only time the Winnipeg media wants to talk to an assistant is when they don't have access. I bet you wouldn't even need one hand to count the number of interviews with assistants that were done when the media had unfettered access to them. Speaking of things I'd wager lots of money on, my guess is if I walked up to Wiecek mid-season and asked him to name the quarterbacks coach for the Bombers without checking the website, he wouldn't be able to do it. But yes, this policy is preventing him from finally winning the Pulitzer he so richly deserves. He is a fountain, nay, a volcano of football insight. And certainly not someone whose content and contributions could easily be replaced by about a third of the people who post on this site.

So...oh why even bother. Yes, it totally made sense to hamfistedly shoehorn his griping into a report on mini-camp. Yes, yes, yes, even though there was no name attached to the article, this was about the populace targeting the author, and not at all about a paragraph that stood out like a large placement of moosecrap on top of a white wedding cake. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, our bad, this was definitely not once again an example of well below-average journalism, but rather an example of how over-sensitive we are to noticing things that do not fit at all in the context of the rest of the article. Our bad. It turns out Wiecek is a fine sports reporter, and it was wrong of us to read his daily attempt to prove otherwise. It was unfair of us to expect a paid print journalist to have higher standards than Darren Cameron's blog. We're such meanies, learning English and knowing how to read. We should stop it.

Funny - no author shows up here, yet I'm willing to wager soooooooooooooooo much money that this was written by Wiecek. What a petulant ass.

I admit at this point I'd give strong consideration to moving Wheeler up to the first line for 2 reasons - the flashes of magic him and Scheiffle were showing earlier have lessened noticeably, and the size mismatch between the Getzlaf line and the Little line was pretty pronounced in the first two games. Moving Frolik down and bringing Wheeler up will offset that somewhat. Of course we have last change tonight and the advantage of matching lines as we choose, so Maurice may have entirely different plans for dealing with the Getzlaf line.

I would rather have a guy that can do both, you know...like most of the other GMs. Yeah, I'm not sure having 25% of your starting lineup really strong and 75% kinda meh is a formula for success. Every GM we've had has demonstrated some positives and some negatives. What with them being human and all...

Stoll is currently pursuing legal action against the Las Vegas Tourist Board for fraud and breach of contract. Apparently what happened in Vegas didn't stay in Vegas.

Hope he can find a path out from under his cloud. Best of luck to him with that. It's easy to fake happiness. It's nearly impossible to fake joy. Maybe his heart will be in it again someday.

Little went into the corner in the chase position and came out in the chase position. Didn't get a stick on Silvferberg's stick, didn't get a body on his body, didn't get an angle to force him outside. It was the equivalent of leaving his man unchecked, except he fooled his teammates into thinking Silvferberg was covered. One of them would have slid over to that lane much quicker if Little hadn't created the illusion of having his man. It wasn't a shining moment for him.

Ya he had a micro fracture... I'm an amateur doctor and I'm pretty sure that's not an actual medical term. I gave my butt a microfracture the last time I had chili.

I'm shocked. Shocked. 20 minutes prior to game time, Stone kicked open his hyperbaric chamber, pulled the IV tubes out of his arm, and stormed out of the ICU. The doctors ran after him pleading "Sir, sir, you shouldn't even be alive!!!" Science must unlock the key to his miracle healing power.

good old days ? Nope. Nope. I had kids. They did? Somehow I see it every shift of every game. If the NHL unveiled a new secret policy of slashing gets 5 and a game just in time for the playoffs, I'm fine with that. They didn't. The ref bit hard on a rather silly sell job from Stone. 5% of the time that slash gets 2 minutes. The other 95% of the time, there's no call at all. What will happen now is sometime in the next 7 days or so, one other player will get 5 and a game for a similar slash. That way the NHL will be able to say the call made last night was totally normal. And then no slash will get 5 and a game for the rest of the playoffs, because of course that's not normal.

Guess I grew up in a time where a 2-hander to the wrists, shins, and wherever else happened 20 times a game during the playoffs - for both teams. Without the theatrics from Stone I doubt it gets called at all.

There are still single tickets available for Wednesdays game, the $340 ones. Just got to keep clicking. People like me stare at them for a while before doing a catch and release. I got a cheap single for Monday.

Uh...first place in the conference deep! Just because their top line is a monster doesn't mean they're a one-line wonder. They also have Lowrys and Stempniaks on their team. And as strange as it sounds, I consider Ryan Getzlaf underrated. If cups were won on the sheer willpower of a team's captain...well the season would never end, as Getzlaf, Toews and Dustin Brown would be beating each other to death for eternity. Outside of knocking him out of the series with an injury, there is no amount of physicality that the Jets D can bring that will get Getzlaf to change his game. That said, Getzlaf normally plays setup man for Perry, and Perry can be taken off his game. Setup without the finish will work just fine for the Jets.

Could just use one of those picks to draft Waud.

Makes me wonder what Otis Amey is up to...

Players not being as good at the end of their careers as they were at the start is how sports normally works. Hope he enjoys his retirement.

seeing as he is built like a tank with good size... is Canadian and didnt cost us a thing... id expect him on the PR almost positively unless he shows zero football skills.. Skills are only part of the equation. It takes years to learn the nuances of the game at a professional level. Raw talent might open the door for a player but without the ability to execute those skills precisely you will not last long. Reaves complete lack of football experience has him waaaay behind the 8 ball in his quest for continued employment. Unless this kid is some kind of football prodigy he is years away from getting up to speed at the professional level. He is as raw a prospect as a team could ever find. Of course he's raw. What's the problem with that? All parties are going into this with their eyes open. He's a project and he knows it, and the Bombers know it. Scott McHenry isn't too far away from challenging Lui Pasaglia's record for games played, Justin Sorenson will probably get picked up three more times once Edmonton parts ways with him, and James Green isn't even on the back 9 of his career yet. Having the right passport matters in the CFL. That's just the way it is. And yes, the odds are long, and he's probably spend the full season on the PR just for the team to decide if he comes back to compete next year, but the potential upside is way higher than the downside. And considering he also worked out for Edmonton, the Bombers putting him on their neg list prior to signing him makes me think he showed enough in his workout that the Bombers felt they wouldn't be the only team interested in him.