BananaMash

Amazingly fit, and his compete level is wild. I don't think I could be more happy with this pick.

Absolutely sick pick. Dude's got greasy hands, and is very creative.

Mazanec is a cooler name than Miller. We lost the trade boys.

We aren't a playoff team which means we literally have zero good players for Miller to play with. It's very sad, I am crying real tears.

People still act like the cap is 52 million, is funny.

Nobody loves misery and taking sports way too serious like a Canucks fan.

JT Miller is really cool, I am a happy boy.

I'm gonna go ahead and say, I get what you mean now. English is definitely super screwy when it comes to this too, I agree.

This is just being pedantic at this point. It's the easiest simple explanation to somebody unfamiliar with the topic.

You're talking about a group of individuals who make up a whopping estimated 0.6% of the population, and then you have to boil it down further to pick out these who might be transitioning with nefarious intention (which is, I would argue, extremely unlikely). There are intense deep running social issues that need to be addressed in terms of transgender people. Your posts reflects a portion them, but not in the way you think it does...

Oh, don't get me wrong I won't say there aren't extreme social issues on both sides. There are, and it's causing more issues for people than it solves.

Trans-women are individuals who transitioned from male to female. Male at birth.

I'm willing to accept that there's a whole multitude of possibilities. Like with most things as far as the medicine side of transition, I assume everything is "needs more research." By me saying the argument only holds real ground in relation to pre-transitioned individuals, I moreso mean that's the only situation I'd be comfortable saying the advantage is there definitively in most cases. I don't think you can use it as a fair argument in regard to those undergoing transition, at this point. You know what I mean?

I agree with some of your points in an perfect world, but at the same time I think that requires an environment where people aren't abused/socially outcast for identifying as transgender for it to work properly. Which, at least in North America, isn't the case. One of my friends is the type to own that she's a trans-woman very openly, and with pride, yet has been physically assaulted for it several times purely out of hatred. From what she's told me, many of her friends in the trans-community would love to take pride in the fact that that's who they are, but it's dangerous. Even in Canada.

Not even remotely close in the slightest, to be honest. Medical transition simply doesn't work that way. It's extremely closely monitored. For example, an individual transitioning from female to male will be monitored by doctors to be sure that hormone levels are falling within standard ranges for males. The genetic advantage argument only really has any ground when it comes to pre-transition individuals identifying as the other gender without having begun hormone replacement therapy (and gender reassignment surgery really doesn't play into it as much as you'd think). But, splitting pre-medical transition and successfully medically transitioned individuals is another slippery slope discussion that I can't pretend to have enough knowledge on to really talk about. Too many different social connotations that I don't understand, as I'm not trans myself.

The most discourse you're going to get in regard to women feeling "negatively impacted" by trans-women in any context is from the trans-exclusionary feminists, and those conversations are going to be little more than thinly-veiled transphobia masqueraded behind problems that don't really exist. Which is honestly how a lot of this thread feels too. There's definitely interesting discussion to be had in regard to this, but the way it's being presented is shameful. I understand the idea of a genetic advantage in sports, but the grey area is being totally ignored due to misunderstanding of transition. In North America most hormone replacement therapies are a combination of spironolactone (to block testosterone) and estrogen. It changes the body to an astounding degree, and one of the biggest side effects for most people is massive losses in strength, muscle mass, and endurance. When you no longer have the hormonal makeup of a male, is that genetic advantage gone? I can't answer that question, but I can say it's far different than men pretending to be girls. It's disheartening to see people buy into the idea that this is a huge issue. It's a discussion to be had, and most trans-women would probably tell you the same thing. I have a couple of very close friends who are trans, and they understand more than anybody that their social place and ability to participate in certain things is still foggy. They're not trying to "invade" anybody, they just want to live their life as happily as possible and have people actually work with them in terms of acceptance/finding where they fit instead of being met with rejection and scorn everywhere.

I'll be honest, the constant push to take human error out of hockey in general is something I don't particularly care for past reviews of goals. Sports for me are pure entertainment. I'm here for the dramatics/heartbreak just as much as the success. When you start trying to work flaws out of it and dehumanize what's happening, I think you lose some of the entertainment value. I understand why things have trended that way and I also understand when people enjoy it, but it's not how I personally like to consume entertainment. I want the unexpected, not perfection.

I don't think Jim Benning is perfect by any means, but how do you enjoy hockey at all when you're just radiating negativity 24/7 lmao It's just sports yo.

you drive a hard bargain. maybe for next season, I'm probably going back to school so I'll have more time again :D

im still here bb i just dont fantasy hockey because im lazy

So, Johnny Hockey is a bit of a whiny pissant, huh?

I don't see Chicago as being in as good of a position as everyone else, I suppose.

I kind of want Chicago to become extremely good again (at the same time as us). I miss that rivalry a lot.

Not to mention the idea of a cursed pick position is stupid lol Drafting is much less of a science outside of like, the top two picks than people seem to think.

Not a big deal imho. It's a semi-crapshoot from 4-12 in this draft, with everybody being pretty comparable talent wise. The top three would've been awesome, but the outcome is fine.