Mr.TaterSalad

Am I tiny bit bitter that Kenny left us here in a hockey dark ages? Yes. Did I want Edmonton to lose this series because of that? Yes. But will I rant and rave about Kenny like I would have a year or two ago? Nah, life's too short to stay that mad at Kenny. Efffff you Ken Holland for what you did to us in Detroit lol, but good job in Edmonton getting to a Cup Final.

Peter DeBoer's coaching on the powerplay and match ups he sent out there just weren't working. When you can't score a single pp goal the entire series and you don't make any major adjustments that's on coaching. DeBoer did a subpar job here this series.

Robertson had a shot there at the end of the game too.

Well congratulations Kenny. You did what I didn't think you were capable of doing and made another Stanley Cup Final with another organization. I never thought Holland would be able to make another Cup Final and so he has. It helps to have two of the top five point scorers in the league, but still, Kenny put a team together that made it to the Cup Final.

I could just as well be insensitive and wrong with what I said and the way I said it too. So I should have either not said it at all or provided more context to the meaning.

If what I said is anti-Semetic I certainly didn't intend it to be and won't use it again. But we lampoon the Christian right types all the time for claiming they are God's chosen people. For acting as if America was founded and ordained by God. We mercilessly mock and deride them when they say this and then go and do something that flies in the face of what a just, loving God would do. I was simply making the same point there in my post about Israelis who act as if their nation was ordained by God and act as if they were the chosen people and then make clearly Islamophobic chants. In any case I won't say it in that manner again.

So then what is the exit strategy for Isreal without being a permanent occupying force? How do they prevent Hamas or a group akin to them from regaining power as the Taliban did in Afghanistan?

I don't hate Jewish people or the Jewish religion and take great offense to that being said. There is sizable a difference between criticizing the Isreali government and IDF and hating Jewish people. You're also ignoring all the times on here I've condemned Hamas and the barbaric acts on October 7th. I've made many posts here condemning Hamas and acknowledging their barbaric acts of terrorism.

Isn't Israel just in the same conundrum we were in with the Taliban and Afghanistan and the quagmire we got into with the Iraqi government? What is Israel's day after plan or exit strategy? We left Afghanistan and the Taliban took right back over and we had 20 years of war and occupation just to secede power back to the people with took out in the first place. Without the IDF being already more of an occupying force than it already is, what's to say Israel doesn't leave and within 6 months some version of Hamas or a Hamas-like government is back in power? It seems to me that for Hamas to permanently fall it has to happen from within, by the people of Gaza themselves, with outside support backing it up and not leading the charge. Maybe I will be wrong and Hamas will be gone for good from Gaza once the war is over, if it ever ends, and they will have been able to force regime change and successfully keep a new, non-Hamas regime in place.

When Palestinian people chant horrific things it gets condemn as anti-Semitic, but when Israeli people chant horrific things it's not Islamophobic?

Here are God's chosen people chanting may your village burn referring to people in Gaza. God sure chose some great people.

Here's the thing about the whole "hate America" argument though and why it fails for Democrats as a weapon against Republicans, many on the left hate this country too. Ask someone on the left what the best country in the world is and I bet you'll get very few to say America. You'll get a range of answers from Canada to Cuba to Finland to one of the Scandinavian countries to Uruguay. Heck, I certainly wouldn't say the USA myself. I'd probably agree with my progressive and left peers and answer either Canada, Denmark, or Finland. The left hates America for all sorts of reasons: from early colonialists stealing of land of native peoples and giving them blankets laced with small pox to our history of slavery and Jim Crow to the fact that we don't provide universal healthcare. So MAGA may hate America, but take a look at any protest with a majority left of center people at it, there aren't many flag waving, overly patriotic types at these events. And so the rights hatred of America, disguised as hyper patriotism, often wins out based on the way the media covers the left in this country.

On a good team, looking to make a deep playoff run, would Dalton be in the starting 5 of that team?

Edmonton dominating the game so far tonight. Looks like they might be advancing if they keep this pace of play up. I sort of wanted to be right about my prediction that Kenny would never make another Stanley Cup as a GM. Oh well!

Can someone with more basketball knowledge than me tell me why we don't want the Pistons to draft Dalton Knecht? An explosive, offensive minded, 6'6 wing who can shoot 43%+ from the 3pt line. Is he a liability on the other end on defense? Is he a Luke Kennard-esque spot shooter who can't create his own shots and scoring opportunities? What's the knock on Knecht and why we wouldn't want him at #5?

Promoting Arn's son after firing Troy Weaver is like promoting Martin Mayhew after firing Matt Millen. Langdon needs to be able to go out and interview and hire someone who has been divorced from this clown car off a front office. Hopefully he has the autonomy to completely remake this entire front office and not be forced to promote the next dolt in line for a job, in this case Tellem's son Eric.

When the skeptic guy Carmichael tries to bribe the devil/demon with a check at the end that made me laugh out loud. I also thought the scene where they showed his wife dying in bed and her having been the victim of him selling out to be #1 on the late night talk show circuit was both creepy and provoking.

As always, the irony escapes the people who chanted "lock her up!" in 2016 and claim to be the party of law & order.

Jonathan Turley on Fox News saying he's confident that the New York Appeallet Court will overturn this verdict.

AMAZING, GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS!!!!!!!

Can you imagine MAGA's reaction to Jackie Robinson back in 1947 when he broke the color barrier.

If these supposed "Christians" that are weeping for Trump and praying for Jesus to help him had actually read their own Bible they'd realize that Jesus went into the temple and cast out all the coin counters, change makers and grifters who sought to profit off the word of God and put their financial gain ahead of their love for their fellow man. From Matthew 21:12-17

Tom Gores doesn't know the season is over yet.