Standing_Tall#37

That is why Buffalo and us will be the laughing stock of the league for quite some time. I think what you’re describing is actually my criteria for ring of honour members.

I dunno, Bure was 3rd all time for goals per game in nhl history. His scoring clip is higher than ovechkin’s even. Had he not had only 1/2 a career, his stats would be vastly higher and his legacy in the NHL would be much more respected League-wide. I think there should only be 3 numbers in the rafters and arguably only 2 in GM place. 33,22 and maybe 10. we have the same amount of retired numbers as teams who had players that were instrumental in winning them multiple cups

The one I remember was the 07 playoffs Anaheim vs Ottawa. I was only 3 seasons removed from playing Jrs and I was having a bbq and people/old teammates over for beers. And we were cheering for Ottawa of course. But one of our buddies was pretty upset, that’s when we realized his Brother was in the Anaheim organization. Played for either Portland or Rockford? At the time

This may be the one aspect where our thinking is almost identical. I’ll tell you one thing in my personal experience from 2 nights ago. At work we were kind of discussing this and there was a lot of talk from people (who are still on pace to make 90-125,000 this year), that even when restrictions lift or if they do, they won’t be spending a dime on travel or luxury, as they feel there could be further hard times and they want to build up some safety funds for mortgage and truck payments etc. One of the young guys was even talking of trying sell some of his toys and extra vehicles just in case.

Very good points.

I completely agree with you. I just have no idea why it hasn’t collapsed either. It’s a form of inflation? I would think that these most recent bailouts would make it even more unstable.

I agree. I’m waiting for the other foot to fall, but when do you think this will all take place? My thinking is that once restrictions are lifted and people don’t spend, because they either have no money, or are fearful that this will happen again and would rather build a financial safety net.

Do you think it’s going to crumble?

Does anyone have a good app to recommend to watch things on the TSX?... I’ve just been using the standard one that comes with the phone, but I don’t really like it.

But I’m going to leave this alone. His actions are bad as are his friends and I hope people criticize the words said and this one incident and that’s all I’m going to say about it. This thread has upset me too much.

I don’t understand why you’re sticking up for them? Perhaps if your Bubbe has gone through what mine did 80 or so years ago, you’d understand how wrong that is

Yes they both allude to the fact that calling him a loser and a racist from one incident is highly anti-Semitic. And I just hope that the people that have this bias NEVER display it with Quinn Hughes either. I though that ideology went away in 1945 but I guess not. My Bubbe would be weeping in her grave if she heard this.

I’m definitely not defending his actions. What he said is deplorable and awful. What I’m saying is that people calling him racist and trash and slinging personal insults at him and those defending the people doing that should be ashamed. That is all. It is okay to discuss the incident but please don’t condone the personal attacks.

There’s people saying some things that could be seen as a bias against him and seen as an attack against people of my heritage. I see this response that you’ve posted as defending that attitude towards my personal heritage which is completely unacceptable. I don’t mind people calling his actions names and talking about the situation but when people start personally attack him to the manner that I’ve seen in this thread, I can’t think that there’s a deep seeded bias.

I feel that you’re making an anti-Semitic assumption based upon his last name only and I’m personally offended by it. https://thehockeywriters.com/brendan-leipsic-named-jewish-athlete-year/

I can’t help but feel that some people upset with Brendan Leipsic are being very anti-Semitic. I don’t understand how someone coming from his personal background would be racist. I think some of the criticism in this thread from posters comes from some of their sick dislike or prejudice of his personal heritage.

Yea the Hart is just awful.

It’s the most awful place in BC, a bunch of rednecks that think they’re sophisticated, just because there’s a city of a bunch of backwoods hillbillies in central B.C.

Definitely not. I personally feel that if anyone is caught with a gun and they aren’t in the military it should be an automatic 25 year jail sentence and tripled if a person does harm intentional or not.

That’s actually a very good point. That leads me to kind of an interesting point. What if somebody said something 10 years ago and they’ve grown as a person or they’ve become tolerant and grown with society and changed. Should they still be crucified for a text they sent maybe 10 years ago? I’m a big believer in people becoming better as they age.

True, they are things that should not be accepted or tolerated. It’s a bad example on my part because of the content of what they said and the attitude they have about it. I don’t know... really bothers me both what they were saying and on the flip side the lack of privacy(if that makes sense). But maybe we’ve reached that point in society where no one should be allowed to have a private conversation in case the seeds of horrible ideologies are planted.

I have a real problem with that. Not to say that I’d agree with the content of what they were saying. But the fact that they might be intoxicated or drugged up and maybe they’ve joked like that for years in what they thought was a private safe place. I don’t know I guess the big cities this” I’m offended”culture is leaving the real world behind. I absolutely hate that, I don’t think anybody has the right to tell anyone how to think and speak in their private life. I mean should you have to change your private life because something that you joked around with in your private life with some of your friends after a glass of wine offends me? I think it’s non of my &^@#ing business what you do in your private life, because it doesn’t concern me. Or am I and people of my region and their ideologies geographically out of touch? Should every one have to mandate their thoughts and speech within a very narrow range to be sure that we don’t offend anyone else of the 7.4 billion people on this planet, if they should happen to be eavesdropping on our private conversations? I don’t know... I guess I support free thought and the right to privacy, but that’s long gone me thinks.

Really?

I would think if people aren’t allowed in arenas, then pubs and restaurants would probably only be allowed to have 1/4 to 1/3 capacity for social distancing.

Well he is a pro hockey player...... that’s like saying “dolphins love the water”