Spike
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I do love to hide behind this particular corner at work and scare one of my buddies
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don't care didn't ask
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pretty mouthy for someone that just got slapped out of t20
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7 is a high score you vagina
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all dogs like me, i'm a fucking dog magnet
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Can I visit
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Also soccer has some huge variation in official field sizes
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Baseball is notorious for this. Some of the stadiums give stupid benefits to the home teams
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How small is this stadium for Poms v Saffas? I feel like I could be hitting boundaries with a hollow plastic kids bat, and I’m an idiot with no athletic ability.
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@Devil-Dick Willie do you have a home yet
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Look I’m thinking that Cheveldayoff knew there was an incident but not criminal activity, we can say all we like about calling the cops but if all he was told was that there was an incident and that it is ‘resolved’ he probably thought nothing of it. the full details of what happened may still have been in the dark. Not that I’m defending anything that has happened I’m just trying to rationalise the results.
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I dunno, how much power over it do you think he had? He might have been in the circle but we can never know the details. He may have been told the matter was ‘resolved’. It is fishy as fuck but given how they scalped Q it makes me believe that Cheveldayoff had less to do with it, it is only good PR for Bettman to cut down Cheveldayoff as well. Quebec City won’t get a team, small city and they are all already hockey fans, doesn’t matter what team they like, they already love hockey. They want markets with no hockey presence so they can convert fans. Though, I’d pick the Nordiques all well the same
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Toews has only played 6 games, give him a break. Debrincat is very good, he is a 40+ goals a year player and Kubalik is around 30. Strome never played for Ottawa and Johnson was brought in to minimise the cap damage of Seabrook. Seth Jones has also only played six games in Colliton's mystery defence, unfair write off. Fleury is anything but underrated, he is the reigning Vezina from last season not 5-10 years ago. You're sleeping on Kirby Dach, Connor Murphy, Kevin Lankinen, and Adam Gaudette. This isn't a bad roster but the results have been bad. Then they have younger players like Stillman, Mitchell, Hagel, that are looking pretty good. Beaudin should probably be getting a look as well.
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The roster isn't bad at all, I've said that a dozen times in this thread, it's the bizarre level of play that is bad. A team with Vezina, Art Ross, Selke, Lindsey, and Smythe awards can't have a bad roster. Not just Quenville, why is everyone ignoring that Kevin Cheveldayoff was in those meetings and is the GM of the Winnipeg Jets. It's worse on Q though because he was the guy that got Aldrich hired. That is completely normal and there will not be punishment, it is just listed as an LTIR instead of a retirement, even though the player will never play again. They were not 'caught' every single team does this, and I'm pretty sure Arizona has had five or six players in the past they have traded for just to put on LTIR, and get the trade picks or whatever they wanted to sweeten the deal. Because the only major hurdle is that players can only be placed on the LTIR on the first day of the season so they'll count towards the cap up until that point, so it gives clubs pressure to be cap compliant before that. This is beneficial for multiple reasons, the player still gets paid what they are owed, otherwise retirement voids the contract, the team gets cap relief otherwise the contract would still count against the cap, and they get a lot of insurance money to pay the salary. Marian Hossa, Brent Seabrook, Nathan Horton, Henrik Zetterberg, are all still under LTIR contract but they've 'retired'.
