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Thread in February #1: "Workers continue to die trying to install scaffolding 200 feet off the ground in icy conditions." Thread in February #2: "Costs for scaffolding installation skyrocket as 100's of extra workers hired and progress slowed in -40 weather, may not be complete in time for game, all due to trying to install scaffolding in February." Response from public: "Why are the Bombers so dumb as to take down the scaffolding and put it back up 3 months later?" "Something something Jets awesome Bombers dumb something something"

So to the Bruins it is.

I'm guessing their fans wouldn't be impressed if Grey Cup revenues fell millions short due to fans with limited resources choosing the hockey game over the football game, and would not be impressed if after 3 years of occupying a new stadium they had still not made a dent on the loan's principal. Moving the game back a few months likely solves the scheduling/revenue conflict; it just creates 2 additional costs: extended rental period for the temporary seats and extended period of time for snow clearing in the stadium. Miller doesn't want to bear those costs on his own. Seems fair. Why should he? So that's the divide right now. Work to close it. Or re-schedule to 2016. Either or.

The Heritage Classic is a token event that the Bombers host to supplement their revenue. Much like a One Direction concert. The crazed nonsensical shrieking that has lost all perspective coming from a potential reschedule is much like what I imagine One Direction fans would react like if the same thing happened to that concert. Not painting a good image here Jets fans.

So the Bombers take on a tonne of debt as part of the process of building a new stadium, which always was a risky proposition, but did it with the idea that within a few years of opening they would host a Grey Cup, which would bring in millions of revenue and help get that repayment schedule on track and moving in the right direction. And while there would be cost benefits from leaving the temporary seating up from that event to the Heritage Classic, there is a significant chance that is outweighed by the revenue loss from having two high-priced events that will draw from the same customer base so close together. Is Miller unfounded in that fear? That people will pick just one and the Bombers will lose out? Obviously he's totally out to lunch.

So, if you toss your hat on the ice, you should be banned? Banned without mercy. And flogged. And forced to watch the leaves play.

How many years left on Vermette's contract? If he's a UFA I'd pass. The Jets have impressed me with their drafting skills so far, and Kosmachuk was getting solid reviews at the young guns tourney.

How much outrage would there have been if they just got the deal done like they were supposed to? The Bombers have a very negative public image in this city right now and they certainly don't need to make it any worse. What are you, the Bombers mom?

Hmmm, an either or mentality where the Bombers come in last. And to think Miller has concerns over putting these two events so close together. What a fool.

Yes, the organization $85 million dollars in debt and counting should put the interests of a totally unrelated business ahead of their own.

While I doubt it's going to happen and there isn't a lot I'd give up to make it happen, I'd be happy if he ended up on our team. Much like I'd be happy if Crosby ended up here. Unlikely, complicated answer, not a chance. Kane's biggest issue is that he's never found linemates he has great chemistry with. So if the Jets got tired of searching for a guy who knows how to play set-up for Kane's particular brand of hockey, they might move him. But he is still a game-changer out there with his speed and physicality, even if his numbers are down, and the Jets know this. They are in no rush to move him. His contract is favourable, where as OReilly's is not. This deal is unlikely from the Jets end, but if offered, I'm guessing the Avs would think about it for quite a while. Throw in Postma and that would be tough to walk away from. That said, they want a top-end defenceman way more than a forward and a quasi-prospect defenceman. The Avs don't need a goalie - they're trying to figure out a way to keep Pickard up from the minors. Adding a 4th goalie into the equation would have zero interest for them. Pavelec as trade bait for another team? That's the complicated answer. It would not happen now, but if Hellebuyck continues to play at a top level in St Johns for another month, and if Pavelec continues to excel with the opportunities given to him in that same time frame, then I could see it happening (still pretty remote). Pavelec needs to have more success in the next while for teams to ignore the stank of some previous years. $3.9 million does not make him untradeable. $3.9 for a guy who's going to win 40% of his starts makes him untradeable. $3.9 for a guy who will win 65%? Teams in need will be interested. But he has to demonstrate he can do that for longer than this 3 week stretch. And the Jets are not "all-in" on Hutchinson yet. He will have to continue to excel over the next month with his opportunities too. So there is a circumstance where I could see Pavelec being traded, with him, Hutchinson and Hellebuyck all playing lights out hockey leading up to the deadline being a required condition, but it's still pretty remote. Petan - no. Trading a talented prospect for a high-salary RFA in the first season this team has a chance of making the playoffs is exactly the opposite of their strategy, and an all-round bad idea.

Likely will do this, very unlikely they will do more. Try to find a 25 to 40 point winger if possible on a team that needs a bottom pair defenceman and swap.

We interrupt your childish ongoing pot shots at the Riders for this public service announcement: The Riders at least won the grey cup in 2013 unlike the Cats who have lost 2 in a row. Are you going for a three peat this year? Pot shots at the Riders are perfectly acceptable over here. I have nothing against the Riders or their fans, but I certainly understand why constant chest-thumping from an organization that has won 4 Grey Cups in 104 seasons in a league that has single-digit teams would be tiresome to many.

Picard is not a big loss and will be replaced for less money, Great player but in the twilight of his career and not worth the 195k the bombers are paying him. Heenan is a big loss if he leaves but money will factor in. Hurl has had multiple opportunities to establish himself as a starter and hasn't, hardly a big loss if he leaves. Brackenridge is good would like to see him stay but our secondary is excellent and has lots of depth to replace him cheaper i.e. Legree. Peters came on as the year went on, could be a good one. Sweating bullets, hardly.. I was sort of with you and your reasoning, only moderate amounts of denial, until you got to the part where your "secondary was excellent". Your secondary sucks is statistically very average but in reality sucks. Your Dline might have been the best in the league, and without the tremendous amount of pressure they created I have little doubt the middle of the pack Rider secondary would have finished at the bottom.

Meh, it's kind of like opening a present that I bought and wrapped for myself. I am of course pleased with it, but since I had no doubt what was coming it's hard to get really wound up about it. But still, a very nice present, and thank you.

Actually what you said was that those goals were his fault and he was out of his position, which are both not true. You need to separate individual performances from career performance. If you're constantly using your opinion of his career as the verdict of what happened in an individual game, your opinion is dismissive and therefore easy to dismiss. For his terrible effort that nearly cost us the game, he was named first star. (That sentence may have sarcastic portions)

For starters, you're not allowed to throw things on the ice. Secondly...wait, there is no secondly. Let's see here, secondly, secondly, wait, I got one... Secondly, the credo of the leaves appears to be "You will take what we give you and you will like it!", and these fans violated that by not liking it, so off with their heads.

How do you know? I'd bet we can.We could but at the expense of going after Heenan or Holmes? Walters won't blow that much money on import receivers.You don't know this. The way Walters has been talking, I suspect he has the funds and cap space for 2-3 big FA splashes. There's no way both Heenan and Dressler could ever play on the same team. It's unpossible.

No one will offer him major dollars or pretend he's the starter, but if he decides to return to the CFL and go the free agent route, there will be teams interested. QBs are given chances and crap the bed all the time. He got a chance and didn't crap the bed. He was competent to the point of approaching good. You think a team like Saskatchewan, who became incompetent as soon as they lost Durant, wouldn't be interested in Brohm? Now they can't offer him any better of an opportunity than we can - compete to be our #2 - so if he comes back to the CFL there's a decent chance he's coming back here, but we won't be the only team his agent gets a call from.

I've been pretty dismissive of Heenan's potential relocation for the reason you mention, and I still wouldn't put the chance much higher than 20%, but that's 19 better than the 1% I would have given it a month ago. It must be Jpan's barbershop quartet - giving me some kind of false hope.

I'm not disappointed, but I am surprised. For years the NHL has paid lip service (at best) in trying to remove parts of the game that really don't belong. A few more rulings like this one and some of the others we've seen this year and I might finally believe them.

What that photo doesn't show tho is Pav making 2 or 3 saves prior to it and all the traffic in front of him including 6'5 inch Dustin Byfuglien. Seriously putting that goal on him when he made 2 or 3 big saves before hand and the team had at least 2 chances to clear the puck out of the zone and failed to do so is kind of ridiculous actually. It was 3 saves in that sequence prior to the deflection.

Good one. Is it that far off? Sheets was by far the best running back in the CFL.. he was dominant. And Butler was a high end Canadian starter. After seeing 4 different backs put up dominating games in 2014 behind that Oline, I'm inclined to say 2013 wasn't all on Sheets. Is anything in football ever all on one player? He was a game-breaking RB but of course he was helped by having a stellar OL in front of him. He's better than all 4 of the guys they used this year, but given the results they had with their run game this year it's hard to argue it was a big loss. They were getting results no matter who they put back there.

Two softies?!?! What game were you watching? The first goal he was being screened by 5 players standing within 2 feet of the crease and the second and third goals were deflected by players standing right in front of him. If you consider those soft goals I can't see how any goalie could ever meet your standards. Didn't you know? All goals let in by Pavelec are considered soft.

Good one. Is it that far off? Sheets was by far the best running back in the CFL.. he was dominant. And Butler was a high end Canadian starter. After seeing 4 different backs put up dominating games in 2014 behind that Oline, I'm inclined to say 2013 wasn't all on Sheets.