Pendleton

Big raise for Perez, from 4M.

If they left the west coast and headed right, they're just gonna end up down south.

He's named after everyone on the Titanic, can't be a good sign

This will be good content for the where it all began episode of your Netflix doc

It all starts with the parents. They have been trying to downplay and sweep it under the rug since day one. I recall reading the police report back when the story first broke a couple years ago. The Millers were essentially refusing to cooperate, the Dad tried to chalk it up as general horseplay aka boys being boys. Of course a kid is never going to properly comprehend his actions or feel remorse, if mom and dad are patting him on the back telling him it wasn't that bad. That attitude is what made almost every team put him on their do not draft list, more so than the incident itself. If he was truly ashamed, and had made efforts to make amends because it's the right thing to do - this story would essentially be over by now, in terms of having been able to move on with his career. But the prevailing take away from teams was that he says what he thinks he needs to say in order to minimize and try to get past it for his own benefit. The family to this day, still just aren't getting it. Dad on twitter liking and retweeting comments that refer the incident being exaggerated. Sister tweeting videos of the victim attempting to sway public opinion of his character.

Yep

Yeah he doesn't need to be dropping the gloves, or at least not with any frequency. But he can at least show that he gives a f*** about his teammates and has a bit of fire in his belly. That said, almost every other superstar in the game (Crosby, Ovechkin, McDavid, MacKinnon) has dropped the flippers at least once, even just to show the rest of the league that they are not going to be picked on and to show their teammates they have their backs

Watching a sport that is literally known for this stuff and then complaining about it, is complete Karen behavior. Not to mention the fact that these scrums absolutely happen in football and even baseball for that matter. Besides, there are universal concepts at play here. I don't care if it's professional hockey players or school children on the playground. If you start an altercation, have your friends all pile in to have your back, and then stand there while they are out numbered - you are a coward. You know damn well that it's complete bitch boy move by Matthews. Hockey has provided more than enough actual opportunities to complain about toxic hockey culture, no need to go reaching.

Being a non fighter is not the same as having no fight. The body language here is pretty damn telling. Everyone else on the ice is desperately moving about trying to defend their teammates, and he's just standing there like he's afraid to chip a nail. You don't have to drop the gloves and start throwing haymakers but at least grab someone and even out the numbers. Maybe he'll mature out of it but he really just seems like too much of a diva to ever be the emotional leader of winning team.

Double post

Ducks are firmly in the Bedard sweepstakes, a Leafs win is best for all

The Ducks are pretty bad, better not lose to them

We are tied in wins

Assigned to the AHL though. Unless he suddenly makes himself the hardest working guy in that league, he's pretty much out of rope in terms of convincing anyone he could help a winning NHL team.

He's one of those guys who falls into they category of most talented players that no one wants. He's never figured out that teams will always prefer a hardworking, reliable 30 point guy over one who sells out for offense in order to score 40.

Padres because they've never won and I appreciate their complete balls to the wall effort to change that.

Someone mentioned Cimber as being the right guy if they intent on pulling Gausman there, and that made sense to me. Completely different look, and gives up very few HR. But hindsight and whatever.

Tapia for manager

2023 5th available for a 2022 pick

Offered you a free pick next year for 49 and you declined?