GDT: Around the League 2019-20 v27: Congratulations, Tampa

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[snipes]

If you guys want a laugh read the last page of this thread on HFLeafs. One guy has our forward group in the bottom half of the Canadian division, just lol. McDavid and Draisaitl alone are better than any players any of the Canadian teams have.

Also Nuge >> Nylander AINEC.

TSN: - What do you think about the whole canadian division?

 

[King K Rool]

I didn't realize a Calgary Flame had never won a Hart Trophy.

I thought Iginla must have for 2002 but that was just the Art Ross.

 

[Delicious Pancakes]

If you guys want a laugh read the last page of this thread on HFLeafs. One guy has our forward group in the bottom half of the Canadian division, just lol. McDavid and Draisaitl alone are better than any players any of the Canadian teams have.

Also Nuge >> Nylander AINEC.

TSN: - What do you think about the whole canadian division?

Yeah half their fan base are out of touch and just live in the altered-reality of the Toronto echo chamber. Hopefully a heavy dose of games against the Oilers and the other Canadian teams will help wake some of them out of their fantasy and introduce them to the concept of humility. I'm not sure which would be more satisfying, the Leafs and Flames both missing the playoffs in the Canadian division, or the Leafs and Flames finishing 1-2 in the divsion and then losing in the first round to the Canadiens/Jets and Oilers.

 

[yukoner88]

I didn't realize a Calgary Flame had never won a Hart Trophy.

I thought Iginla must have for 2002 but that was just the Art Ross.

Jose Theodore got it that year. I don't think it's as much of a debate that people try to make it out to be.

Without Theodore going god mode that year, that habs squad is fishing for a lottery pick.

While we're looking at one calgary heartbreaker, the no goal call in '04 was the correct call.

 

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[Oilhawks]

I have a feeling that Hoffman has a handshake deal with a team already and just waiting for season start and LTIR confirmation

 

[Mav3rick07]

I have a feeling that Hoffman has a handshake deal with a team already and just waiting for season start and LTIR confirmation

So using this theory, the Oilers could have a handshake deal already done with someone because of Klefboms LTIR ?

 

[Senor Catface]

 

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[Oilhawks]

Delicious. How will the left coast handle this? They pretty much have to cave or look like hypocrites.

 

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[Morpheus]

Did anyone catch Jermaine Franklin on Jay & Dan last night on TSN?
He (J.F) was so calm and professional while filling in for Jay that Dan just sat there grounded. No silly jokes or faces.
Best episode yet.
Totally focused on sports news!
Flames lost their best local media person.

 

[bellagiobob]

 

[Ritchie Valens]

TSN just showed the Habs players Christmas video.

C-r-i-n-g-e-y-A-F.

 

[Ritchie Valens]

A senior officer from the OPP has now been been charged in relation to fraud involving these thefts.

Senior OPP officer from eastern Ontario facing fraud charges linked to Wayne Gretzky memorabilia

 

[Ritchie Valens]

Calgary Flames restructure goalie coaching staff, bring Jason Labarbera on board

Lol-barbera gets hired by the Flames to be a goalie coach.

 

[yukoner88]

Calgary Flames restructure goalie coaching staff, bring Jason Labarbera on board

Lol-barbera gets hired by the Flames to be a goalie coach.

Now watch them chase after a trade for dubnyk

 

[94 Oil Drops]

Delicious. How will the left coast handle this? They pretty much have to cave or look like hypocrites.

I've never understood this kind of thing... Very few indigenous people are actually offended by sports logos named after a tribe or something that contains aboriginal art. Also If I were to see an aboriginal Canadian wearing a t shirt with a Celtic cross or a Scottish flag I'd tell him I like his shirt and give the man a high five! Why? Cause I have Scottish roots and the shirt is cool! I don't care who wears it. It's not my business who of what color wears a symbol of someone else's culture. It simply shouldn't matter!

 

[Delicious Pancakes]

I've never understood this kind of thing... Very few indigenous people are actually offended by sports logos named after a tribe or something that contains aboriginal art. Also If I were to see an aboriginal Canadian wearing a t shirt with a Celtic cross or a Scottish flag I'd tell him I like his shirt and give the man a high five! Why? Cause I have Scottish roots and the shirt is cool! I don't care who wears it. It's not my business who of what color wears a symbol of someone else's culture. It simply shouldn't matter!

It's a little different when a people which has had so much taken away then sees somebody, a company or team appropriate a symbol to use as their own. It becomes another thing that has been taken without consent.

 

[Oilhawks]

It's a little different when a people which has had so much taken away then sees somebody, a company or team appropriate a symbol to use as their own. It becomes another thing that has been taken without consent.

I know what you mean and am not trying to deny or downplay it whatsoever, and we can really go down a rabbit hole with this sort of thing but Celtic peoples are historically quite arguably one of the most oppressed groups since the Roman invasion of what is now France, Spain, and the British Isles, through to their mistreatment (understatement) by Anglo-Saxons onward to more contemporary examples in North America (ex: labour-slaves that were a big part of the construction of modern America). Do Celtic peoples gain financial benefits from the Boston Celtics for example?

 

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[JordanGalhanth]

Re: the Canucks...the real irony is how this white professor (I looked up his Twitter) is whitesplaining to Indigenous people how they ought to feel about their own art. How racist.