In the wake of the Blackhawks report:
I now understand why Craig Heisinger still holds his Assistant GM position. Cheveldayoff is used to ignoring sexual abuse cases.
https://www.arcticicehockey.com/2021/6/29/22554770/the-winnipeg-jets-silence-volumes-chicago-blackhawks-graham-james-craig-heisinger-kevin-cheveldayoff
Ownership has to fire Cheveldayoff and Heisinger to excorcise the stench from the organization.
Winnipeg is the home of Graham James and has been pained by the sexual assaults since 1997.
I don't think the fanbase is going to let this one go.
It really is a unique set of circumstances. All I'm saying it is very plausible that Scheifele was just trying to make a defensive play and it went horribly wrong when he ran out of time and space. I don't even see how a horrible collision doesn't occur if he makes the stick save given their skating paths.
His stick blade was still down with less than a second before impact. He was racing to stop the goal. I think he was in an impossible situation - stop the goal and make contact, or bail and be pilloried and no player would bail in that situation.
I respectfully disagree. If charging is call (and it was), how can future players in a puck race defend against a player trying to score on a wraparound?
Watch it in real speed and throw out the freeze frames and slo-mo's. If Scheifele is there 3/10's of a second earlier, he prevents the goal. He's travelling at about 30 km/hr in a straight line to stop the goal (either by playing the body or the puck) and realizes with less than half a second before impact that he's too late. The only thing he can do at this point is brace for impact.
I don't blame Evans for trying to score and I don't blame Scheifele (who I do not like) for trying to stop him. The skating paths these two players had to take before impact were a recipe for disaster, but they were each trying to make a hockey play.
Like I said, I like him, but he's got a Joe Thornton "hockey isn't everything" kind of philosophy which drives some people nuts.
He's a rare talent, though.
But, if I can be so bold to say right here and right now: Voracek is a better all-around player than Laine and we all know how popular Jake is with some people.
I don't think the Flyer fanbase would like Laine. Even Winnipeg is getting frustrated with his inconsistency.
I'm not sure where the TK angst is coming from because he looked really good to me in the last 2 games.
TK will give you way more effort game in, game out than Laine and I happen to like Laine because he has a rare scoring touch when given a proper centre.
The Jets were actually struggling heading into the playoffs last year and still almost beat the hottest team (and eventual Champs). The Blues did just enough to beat them and that's all that really matters.
The Blues showed last year that you don't need a superstar if you're outworking your opponent and you have a blueline that can really get the job done. B Schenn as you're top left winger? I could make an argument that Tarasenko had that potential but he was only .65 points per game through the playoffs.
And yes, a hot goalie helps a lot too, but Binnington didn't exactly light the world on fire in the playoffs either.
Rosanne Cash's story caught my eye as well. I'm not going to pretend that this could be a possibility, but illustrates the difficulty of diagnosing "migraines".
https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/singer-rosanne-cash-on-living-with-chiari-i-malformation-and/
I'll paraphrase Ta-Nehisi Coates: it's a powerful thing for POC to take control of a word that white people invented and weaponized.
I do get what you're saying though-it is the ugliest of words (and I talk like a sailor).
I'm going to address Peters' alleged racism with another generalization which I know can be troublesome.
We're nearing the end of the era wherein NHL hockey coaches were raised in rural Canada. Rural Canada (and especially the prairies) is about the whitest place you can exist (I'm excluding First Nations in that sentence for a reason).
I was raised in the rural Canadian Prairies and I was surrounded by racists. I go on facebook and I see they have not evolved to any degree. These people have never had to experience any other cultures and therefore don't understand or even appreciate them. To understand them would be an inconvenience. It would be like trying to understand the First Nations. Why would they need to understand FN when they hold all the power over them anyway?
Maybe one benefit of the urbanization of our countries is that there will be less and less yokels to climb their way into positions of power.
Just wondering what happens if Patrick outplays him in camp and pre-season and is forced to the third line for far too long so the org can save face with this ridiculous signing.
On the bright side, we have our new designated whipping boy.