189lb enforcers?

Brady Tkachuck can keep his number 7 in Vancouver, because you know full well that the Hockey Gods Hate the Canucks and will not allow us to pick the #1 Dman this draft.

Great post

What did it cost the Leafs, exactly?

Stoopid. Who here agrees that picking even one spot higher in each consecutive round is better than not. Especially when the whole concept involves collecting as many picks as possible for those drafts. Its not all about that first rounder. That’s stoop.

Though I applaud your clinging to the small point of age difference here, I smirk at your inability to concede my initial, sarcastic point that prospects are prospects, and nothing more. Anton Rodin being the king of recent failed projections on here and maybe the king of “steals” at the draft.

Tanking doesn’t just get you a high first rounder, it’s gets you the highest pick in each draft, which can and does make a difference. Lind.

He was hailed as MVP hero on here all the time. You know this to be true. No fp needed, if you are honest about how this site pumps up its kids.

Broken clocks Top 5 Trumps 23, all day. There is a breakdown of this somewhere on the net. I’ve seen it and bet you have too.

Guddy is valuable for a team needing what he brings to the game. We should know, we paid a heavy price for him. For a contender, Guddy could mean the difference and that price is massive in the eye of the beholder. Would it be what we paid? Would we take it? The though makes me cringe either way. The team is soft enough with him in the lineup, imagine it without him. As a Canucks fan, I don’t want to see him go. As a Guddy fan, I’d like to see him part of something without any R words.

Couldn’t have summed things up better. Solid post. Guddy has value, we may soon see it defined by other GMs. I would make him captain here and call it a day. Brendan Witt 2.0.

Evidently, I misremembered this fact. I suppose we could exchange him for Granny and continue the discussion, but no, Gaunce was who I was looking to discuss. Well, to be precise, the “checking center” role and value on a rebuilding team.

Toronto and Pittsburg will likely go after Guddy. I see him as a perfect fit for Toronto. What a nightmare it would be to see him come back here as a Leaf.

Edit: Misremembered Gaunce as being a protected player during the expansion draft. Deleted the post.

The only coincidence I notice is how everybody loves the high pick prospects, while damming any strategy to pick high, on purpose.

Anton Rodin was mr awesome once too. One Brock can’t stop a tank in stealth mode. Neither of these two hate facts are trolling.

Merry Christmas, Toews. That’s one perspective, sure. It doesn’t need to Be expressed that sinister or diabolical inorder to convey the joys of living within the socialist compliance-gun to your head drone-system which other miserable countries and cultures endure. Appologies, if required, but I did offer a caveat in my original response, as not to string your name or post to my point, in general. I made this point in response to this site’s very, very Left leaning and liberal majority’s Day-dreamy romanticism of the world’s governance systems that have its peoples in slavitude, rather than freedom to chose their own lot in life. We have enjoyed the best place/governance to live on earth, but we still find room to imagine “wage gaps” and “institutional racism” along side of “Gender” boogie men oppressors. I say, Go fight in Saudia Arabia if you truely want to fight oppression, etc. Rebels without a cause. Harper was not a “bad PM”. Let’s save the word bad for its intended meaning. Considering the shift the globalists made in terms of global warming, war and terrorism boogie men, etc, it was an adventure that saw the Cons land on their feet. It wasn’t all bad. JT has already proven he is a joke to the point of being ignored in public by world officials. He is viewed as his resume reads, a joke. I don’t think this is even debatable. Do I need to post the videos on YouTube about him being ignored and acting like a 14 year-old boy? It’s there, take a look. The man is an embarrassment on the world stage and he’s dragging us along for the ride. To hear a “westerner” philosophically detract or lament the freedoms of our “capitalist” civilization is to not only insult the peoples of the world who’ve understood and endured actual communism/socialism/totalitarian rule, but is to also embarrassingly demonstrate a profound and willful ignorance of what contextual freedom truely means for a human. Choices, that is freedom. We are free here, in every imaginable sense, comparatively. Rejoice. IMO, Feminist Trudeau is the silver-spoon-fed poster boy for busy-work proclamations in youth-like misunderstandings concerning true oppression, discrimination and strife in this world. With a bizarre sense of togetherness, the social media-educated, sycophantic crowd on here trudges along to the cucky-noise machine of ignorance. These SJWs that is, who seemingly have no clue about just how good we have it over here, to the point of openly embracing socialist views, which border, even borrow from, totalitarian idolizations are a testement to JT’s political choices. For these folks, I truely hope they achieve their ends, just somewhere else where their crushed Day-dreams won’t impede the rest of our freedoms of choice and destiny.

I don’t consider you as a leftist either. You dance the fence pretty good, enjoying the buffet of political ideologies without chaining yourself to any one. I like to think of myself as the same, but the Left leaves me with indigestion from some of its adherences, JT especially. Freedoms, agreed, make us better. The Left isn’t really about freedoms through, are they. They want you to change your behaviour and culture. They want you to use new words and cull yourself from your freedoms, as they see fit, depending on your demographic. Would you consider yourself as free if you were forced, or you kids were indoctrinated, to believe that a man was a woman? Would you feels as free if you were to pay for the promotion of the next wave of lifestyle choices? I mean, this one you’re already paying for, choice was not an option for you. You won’t school anyone here on the facts of taxation. We all get it. The point I make concerns the minority funding, make that, sexual minority funding, and how this should be an early warning bell for the country’s majority. Democracy, not applicable.

I may be misquoting the context here, I admit, but I think it’s always funny and sad at the same time how the socialist types think Harper-ish governments are the totalitarian ones.

Sex is not fluid. Sex has become synonymous with Gender, a weaponized word of the Left’s. Let’s not confuse science with certain strains of statistics when discussing our genetics or bodies, either. IMO, and I’m no more an expert than the rest of the white noise here, as long as we don’t interchange the words Sex and Gender, there is no issue. Prior to Trudeau, there wasn’t a daily lynching and hating of the LBQ folks, let’s start there. Nobody gives a &^@# who you all are mating with, except those loving “gods” of the Big 3, apparently. My issue with JT is merely the tax money being thrown at other people’s choices and sex lives by our weeping Mr. T. He must show more resolve than to cry into a hanky at every turn. The man was not assigned to be an empathetic ear; that is not his job, not what I pay him for. He is a dangerous man this way. My entire love for the Right is based on one aspect: the prevailing expectation that individuals and communities stand on their own two feet. I do not see this PM as developing and weaving the continuity between recognition, choice, and accountability. He is creating a culture of entitlement and expectation. Look no further than the shameful, marked protests for example of infantilism-like regression into a culture set to abandon its own principles and identity. Since when were masked SJW mobs a thing? Trudeau is a Canadian embarrassment for the ages. The pity-party mindset, so rife within the tolerant Left, is a socialist construct. The pity-party mindset costs me money I don’t have for things I don’t support. I don’t ask for my lifestyle to be subsidized and taught in schools, anymore than youz might. Hence the continued, expensive inequities borne by the passing whims of the Left, which irritate me to no end. Tax-funded Inclusion is one thing, pandering to a minories lifestyle is another. Prior to this election my gay friends weren’t oppressed in any way and were greatly tolerated and represented by the collective in the same regard as they currently are under the recently weaponized version of the word, inclusion. Pandering, I can think of no better word to describe this continual salute to the LGQXZZ community as it relates to the bygone boogie man Oppressors of the Right. Hence why I posted this picture... Categorically, Sex is assigned from a biological perspective and has f-all to do with a person’s feelings. Gender must then be what comes from the brain, as does religious belief and a whole gambit of feelz and afflictions. I don’t like the leftist game of changing my native deduction skills, a billion-years of evolutionary perception skillz, to suit the trending/prevailing feelings of any interest group out there. Any atheist reading this should understand the parallels between having to bow before any mob-derived expectation to show respect, not just tolerance, for “meh feelz” and muh beliefs. The “tolerant Left”, alright. Sex is not the word that is being deconstructed, but maybe it should be. Biologically, I am a male. Mentally, I can be any sexuality I want, but my sex will never change, not even under the knife, unless science catches up to the endocrine transplant theory behind my point. Asking you to call me anything else is asking too much. In no way should I be forced to look at a male pot plant and call it female, any more than I would a human’s biological sex. In no way is a man, a biological male, wearing make-up and a wig, a woman, to the eye and brain of a human. Granted, we humans may see and deduce this as sexual preference of the man, but not a sexual miracle requiring the surrendering of our faculties of reason. Like the Hippy said, “his” people had 5 genders, which I believe there were actually 7, but whatever, the point here is afurther example of this poly-business of, not the biological sex of a human, but their sexual nature, or sexual preference of humans. If inclusion is the goal, then let’s not allow folks like Jordan Peterson or myself, the difference between us two being a religious/belief one, be chastised by the mob for upholding science over the trending “feelings” aka Gender of folks who want to reinvent a biological term for sexuality, not sex. Truely, I think the whole “muh feelz” SJW-fest can be resolved by divorcing the word Gender from the concept of Sex, in an X Y context and leaving alone the right to let the eye do the thinking for us, as it always has. When my first kid was born, I heard, “It’s a boy!” from the doctor in the room. I had no complaint over his assumption. Same went for my two daughters, who were also both assigned a biological Sex at birth, without consideration of their future sexual preferences. On the birth certificate, same thing. Male and Female are the sexes of science, of which choice and feelz have no dominion. Gender, a subjective concept, I will concede that, is not part of a vernacular of which I plan of begin accomodating with any degree of seriousness, nor should I be compelled to do so, both socially and legally. At this leftist-rate, I fully expect us to be burning witches again, with the witch being science this time around, and with them in the Flames before the mob, our native intelligence and reason. JT is promoting a future we can’t possibly fund, where everyone has their day in the snowflake-sun. And who is he, but famous man’s kid, speaking and spending for me. No thanks.

The plan to pick 5th overall a few times or the plan to stay competitive?

Nothing wrong with l g b whatever the hell, nothing. Unless you’re the leader of a country and can actually find time to take part in celebrating other peoples sex lives on my dime. This guy is just the face of everything the leader of my country shouldn’t be, including a profuse crier and dope fiend. I’m being facetious, but there is very little to like about this man’s resume or command. He is an embarrassment. Right up there with Ronald Regan. At least Trump actually had a resume worth flipping through.

Division and Politics are one in same. *Imagine, it was meant to be taken literally. I find it funny how since the Left lost the election, we all became racists, bigots and woman haters. I don’t care for either side, but this is how I see things as of today:

Yes, the commingling of religion-based cultures is such a great idea, but why isn’t Israel or Saudia Arabia doing it with as much inviting “tolerance”? Nobody should think twice about it. Especially not the people charged with executing the needs of the People. Imagine If our Silver spoon-man took illegal immigration seriously. Imagine if he cited hate fact statistics on the subject. Imagine if he flipped the language of the Left on itself and played up the division of politics game, essentially forcing the country’s people into fragmented, special interest groups to stand on their own as equals. The hate, Imagine if the existing culture of the majority was expected to be respected and honoured. Again, is the Left demanding Saudia Arabia or Israel to temper their cultures and religious celebrations to suit meh feelings of foreigners?Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays, for instance. Yes, the tolerant Left. The outrage and hate, alright - base viewpoints; a direct product of social media.

What I like about you, and yes I recall your stance, is that you can move on from a position in argument and change your mind. Too many on here are absolutists, both the JB apologists and his detractors. Recognizing that this vessel was doomed since the early part of the decade was a severely unpopular opinion on this site for a long time. A full-on rebuild was viewed as sac religious. Most of us were there. No point in denying the point. Fast-forward a half-decade and here we are, several deplorable finishes and very few pieces in place to represent a new core, unless mediocracy was the plot in the epic, deep diving Orca plan all along. It is true, like our old friend Smithers Joe has mentioned above, there is no point debating the past and “shoulding” on each other, but we also must admit, in some part, that this accidental tank job of a botched strategy to “remain competitive” and to retool and “ fill the age gap” has not turned out as expected for JB, in multiple instances now... for the best. It’s like the man can succeed by the same measure wether he fails or kills it, as GM. If his plan fails, half of us cheer for the lotto pick. If he wins and floats in contention for the playoffs, half of us cheer too. What a binary fan base! Point being, Stealth tank, auto tank, shameless tank, mistake or playoffs, JB can only ever be out of favour with 50% of the fans. The 50% I belong to wanted an aggressive rebuild and a GM who meant to rebuild, not one who was accidentally picked high for years running and all the while not having collected picks along the way.

Is Joel Edmondson worth what we paid for Guddy? I would like to see him here as would I like Adam Lowry in place of Gaunce, as I said last year.