chris.brock

Good to know. How much snow is up there? We are trying to choose a lake for tomorrow.

It all looks good on paper but come April, things are different when bodies are getting banged around with reckless abandon I honestly hope you're right because I want to win, but in my gut I think you're wrong and a balanced team is better for success

I'm not familiar with Oleksy, maybe he's got some grit, it might be just a minor league deal but... The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired defenceman Steven Oleksy from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for right winger Adam Cracknell, the team announced on Monday. In Dubas We Trust.

That's what I think, but I don't think Dubas and Babcock are looking to acquire players like Simmonds Any player with grit seems to find themselves on another team, Martin, Polak, Komarov Babs said "our toughness is our power play", that didn't work out too well Saturday night, guys like Ron Hainsey shouldn't have to drop the gloves either

I don't understand that one. McAvoy saw Hyman coming but just stood there admiring his pass and didn't protect himself at all. Shoulder on shoulder. Chris Wagner should have got the hearing for his intent to injure, head shot on Reilly because it was retaliation.

here's the weather stats people confirming this- https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/toronto-coldest-october-november-38-years-fifth-coldest-stretch-on-record-below-seasonal-milder-december/119251/

AM has 15 goals in 14 games now, who does that? yeah, he might be pretty expensive come contract time

it's stuffed and I was hoping that Trump might be spurred but he's been quiet, other than Oshawa there's 3 in the USA closing

Kappi is on pace to score 30, so does that justify $9 or 10 mill with respect to Nylander's 20 goals $7 mill, with a bad attitude to boot? The numbers don't add up. When the final calculations are done, I would guess Nylander will be traded. Hopefully we get a good return.

The cup, priceless Bri. I know what you are saying it's just that damn salary cap and there's only gonna be so much $$$ to go around.

I think it's expensive, both his previous seasons he only scored 20 goals playing with AM. I like it though. He will help us this season and post season and we can move him in the summer if needed.

no, even with the employee discount, the dealership, salesperson and car company all make a profit and now when they advertise employee pricing for everyone, it is actually employee pricing for everyone

Don't expect to see this guy at your dealership Geoff, lol.

Don't schedule any off the grid fishing trips for late May/ early June Julian, lol, I know I'm not, just in case. IMO there's about 6 teams that have a decent shot, including the Leafs. So, with everyone staying healthy, a bit of luck and some bounces, it's possible.

I loved this play last night, I was laughing, Marner grabs a new stick at full speed...

Junk Engineering Executed Poorly ?

A totally dumb way to do it, needlessly complicated too. It should be 1 vs 8. If the season ended now, the Leafs would play Tampa. What kind of reward is that for TOR and TAM having excellent seasons? It makes a long season even less meaningful. I think this system was set up to create division rivalries. That's fine, but it still should be 1 vs 8 when the playoffs start.

I feel the same. For me 3 Yamaha outboards, 2 Yammi sleds, Yammi gas scooter, my wife drives a Nissan. I drive a Jeep because I wanted a Jeep, but I won't be surprised when the repairs start happening. My wife bought a Rogue. I was kinda hoping she was going to choose the Qashqai because the whole thing is build in Japan. I do like my big, heavy Stihl chainsaw though, it seems well made, but I would love to try one of these.

I also hear ya. But outraged isn't the right word, disappointed is more fitting, since it was the tax payers that saved the company when they were on the brink and lately the company has been netting $billions. This wasn't a surprise either. Oshawa has been slowly whittled down over the years. Running 1 shift in the whole plant isn't sustainable. The writing was on the wall, it was just a matter of when if they didn't add a new product. I like my blue collar job. It suits me just fine in many aspects. I don't have to make sales, or deal with any office politics, or try to climb the corporate ladder. When I leave at the end of the day I forget about the place and they forget about me. It's a shame these jobs aren't going to be around. A company can be profitable and it's workers can be paid a decent wage for an honest days work.

Where I work the company is using many, many robots for simple, repetitive tasks. If the task requires some finesse, robots aren't able to do that kinda thing yet and it requires an actual person on the job. With so many robots, daily one or more of them often gets buggered up and won't function and causes plenty of down time. Sometimes they need a special part from the US to be repaired to get things moving again. I've seen small parts being flown up by helicopter just to get production going again asap. That must be expensive.

I hear ya Art, but it's the $3.5 bill grant from the tax payers to bail out GM in 2009 that makes their decision to close Oshawa a little personal and disappointing.

just some points - it's a capitalist system, GM can do whatever they want, it's the promises they broke to get a bail out that isn't cool - GM has been profitable for years, netting billions after getting a grant from the Ontario tax payers pockets for billions -the NA auto workers wage represents about 6% of a vehicle sticker price -GM uses the excuse they want to concentrate on self driving and electric cars, that makes no sense, I guess Mexicans are better at assembling electric cars, lol -the Canadian union for GM Oshawa says the closing will result in a loss of 1 billion in yearly tax dollars collected, prov. and fed combined I have a 3 year old son. I'm worried what the job market will look like when he is ready to hit the work force. I want him to strive a lot higher than an auto worker, but the erosion of the middle class is disturbing.

that's not the numbers I found $13.7 Billion to GM and Chrysler together, $3.5 B was never paid back and was written off GM had to maintain at least 20% of it's N American operations in Canada.

weird timing, Trump has backed off tariffs, NAFTA is sorted out, CDN dollar is pretty low??? before your next purchase you GM guys should consider the mantra "you don't build here, we don't buy here"

4-0 early, keep your heads up Leafs, some flyers might be looking for a big hit