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  1. Benning has made too many mistakes this offseason to be forgiven. His biggest problem is that he showed no loyalty to anyone. On his interview, he's sitting there saying no time, no time. He would have had a lot of time if he showed some loyalty and focused on the players he needed to resign instead of making a potentially bad trade for OEL.
  2. Looks like Biden's executive order will allow transgender athletes to compete in schools against the gender they identify with. I have four questions on this. 1. Does this mean any guy can simply say that he identifies as a female then participate in contact sports like wrestling etc? There is a lot of opportunities for abuse. 2. Do transgender athletes also have to share the same dressing rooms with the female athletes? As a father of a daughter, I am not sure I am comfortable with that nor make my daughter come home to get changed. 3. Why can’t they create a new category? Female athletes, male athletes and transgender athletes And my forth and biggest question. Is this fair for biological females? What do you think? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-executive-order-schools-transgender-athletes-girls-sports
  3. Chance to get rid of the Eriksson contract?
  4. Who from the top six would you move down for Motte? The only person I can think of is Hoglander and he's actually been really good on the second line.
  5. What's with Torts and star players? Everywhere he goes a star gets traded from his team.
  6. I don't understand. He owes money and is filing for bankruptcy yet he might not play for health concerns for his family? What about financial concerns? Maybe I'm old school but if I have that much debt, I am hauling my butt to work.
  7. Life was slowly getting back to normal. We have to wear a mas everywhere we go and show a green health code from our mobile phones to show that we weren't in any affected areas but there has been cases showing up around the country and those areas get shut down pretty quickly so it is very unpredictable now.
  8. He could have the best season of his career and he would still not be worth the amount of money he gets paid.
  9. People need to get tougher skin. People get offended out of nothing these days.
  10. It offends me that people find it offensive.
  11. He's just a good hockey player to me. He doesn't really have a specialty, he's not really a pest. He's just an average player to me. He is still just getting his feet wet in the legue though so it might take him a while to really figure out who he is on the ice.
  12. The Capitals are not known as a defensive team.
  13. Loui was Mr Garbage goals. The amount of rebounds Petey and Brock or Miller can generated. It'll be Christmas for the guy every game.
  14. Demko showed it in the playoffs but I'm glad we have Holtby. A short showup in the playoffs is different from the grind of a full year.
  15. Just from what Eriksson was when he was in Dallas and to a lesser extent Boston and forget about the years he had here. I just want to see what happens if Eriksson is lined up alongside Pettersson.Maybe Pettersson can get him going enough to warrant a team to take him on?
  16. What? Virtanen not getting any love?
  17. Why would we do that? We are no threat to any country and no country is a threat to us.
  18. I just feel we give Benning way too much credit for his hits as compared to his misses in the draft. Benning gave us Pettersson, Hughes and Boeser but at the same time, he got us Virtanen and Juolevi. Even though there were clearly better choices on the board.
  19. Yeah, I have a great source for Linden and Brackett. Me and my memory. I remember the situation well and I remember what everyone was saying about the situation so I can maintain my opinion of Benning forcing out Linden and Brackett. And what about Gaudette? He is a roster player on the third line who is easily replaceable. If you are going to give Benning a lot of credit on that then you can say Nonis was a better GM then Benning since he got Edler in the third round and Alex Burrows as a free agent. Schmidt hasn't played a game for the Canucks so it's too early to say he was a home run and you are right Myers was not a terrible contract. It's just a really, really bad one.
  20. The best thing he ever did was draft Boeser, Pettersson and Hughes and trade for Miller. Other than that he signed Eriksson, Sutter (foundational piece) and a lot of other terrible contracts, he drafted Virtanen and Juolevi when there were better players on the board. He forced out Linden and Brackett. Made the playoffs once in 5 years. He took too much time screwing around with the Coyotes and his free agents bolted. Far from a great GM. I would say he is adequate at best.
  21. Swallow my pride and ride a bus for 6.5 million dollars a year? The salary is enough of a posh amenity.
  22. At least ask the guy right?
  23. Why didn't JB just try to get 2.5 mil more and outright try to sign Petro instead?
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