Patty16

I have centre ice and have seen many games. And no i don't take the opinions of Avs fans or any team's fans..... and you are showing why. You cannot honestly suggest that a player is playing well when he's been in street clothes for 3 straight games and was barely playing before that. He may turn out just fine down the road, but he's still struggling right now as many young players do. Grigo has been avg 7-9 mins a game for a while, and he isnt regularly playing against top lines. If he was, and he was shutting them down as you suggest, he wouldn't be a healthy scratch and would most certainly be getting more mins.

Yes he also hasnt been on the ice against scoring lines so you wouldnt expert that either. Besides you can't hide behind linemates talent level when it's near universal opinion that he just hasn't been good enough to earn more minutes. You can show that even playing with John Scott.

He is going to have to be a lot better in his own end, that's not just a cooper thing. It would also help him quite a bit to push the attack little more and not dart side to side. Teams play defnse in the NHL and that means backchecking and they catch up to him too much. He's good enough to learn to adapt if he wants, but it's def not all Cooper's fault he's flailing.

Grigo playing that hard is about normal so i'm not too worried. He's also playing matt ellis level mins. But i imagine they're gonna give him lots more tonight. As will 90 and 88.

he's playing tonight, maybe he'll get more than the 7 mins of grinder line mins he's been playing.

The documentary was not aimed at showing his innocence but at exposing the system. Those who are saying but he was a bad man are missing the point and part of the *@$ problem. The system is supposed to give a fair shake to all, whether guilty or not, and Avery didn't get that. Implying that it's ok because he was bad and probably did it does not change the fact that he was likely set up by the police. The bullet, the key, the car, the DNA, and the judge making really really bad rulings (DNA evidence from the FBI should never have been allowed). He was no angel and many of those things you mention seem to be accurate although many of them weren't allowed as evidence at his trial. Way way too many people are trying to rationalize this away by saying so what he threatened people and burned a cat, so who cares if he got hosed at trial....again.

Grigorenko is not doing fine in COL, he's been avg under 10 mins a game for the last month, is now being a healthy scratch, he is not trending up and isn't showing he can score in the NHL 28 is having a bad year, no one can dispute that. But has shown way more Offense that grigenko has ever shown at the NHL level.

Yea i think fans get used to the generic smooth pbp guys who sound like theyre straight out of central casting.... so when they hear an unusual voice with a lot of personality they don't like it ESP his goal calls bc that means they're being scored on. With that said, DD is ok just way too vanilla to follow RJ

I hear you, but as anyone with Centre Ice can attest, it's pretty much an industry-wide thing. Rick may be a little slower than his prime, but i'll take him over the cookie cutty PbP guys most teams suffer

really not hurting him either, yet. He needs to show up in cuse and play. lots of young kids have requested trades and sometimes its for the best. There's more stuff being said about cooper not getting along with players, and many are saying that why Stammer hasnt re-signed yet.

yea but it was only bc Terry meddled in the party's plan

Yea he prob needs another year in american league, but i don't think he's willing to do that right now. It's a tough spot for him and any team that has his rights. He kinda got screwed by the rules a lot like Grigo, too good for Quebec league but couldn't go to AHL after being drafted so was forced to go back to Q where he reinforced his no defense habits. Even this year with lots of guys underachieving, as opposed to last year's TBL, he can't climb the roster. He's also been hurt too which has impacted that of course. I guess the real question is what do you give up for him,

Yes to a degree, it's not absolute immunity though. True, and even if it was close, Drury wouldn't dismiss a P's PI case. Need to have a real slam dunk for Def to win on SJ in his room.

Yea i think the timeline was he a requested a trade because he was sent down, not sent down bc of the request. http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/drouins-next-move-will-determine-how-messy-this-situation-becomes/ I've been to a ton of Lightning games and Druoin never really sticks out as a wow he's gonna be great some day kinda player. He's fast to be sure, but at this point he's more grigorenko than sure fire prospect. He certainly hasnt' been earning more ice time, and that org isn't going ot hand ice time to players who haven't earned it. He's also not really good in his own end yet so he can't be trusted with top line minutes.

Golisano? are you kidding me? i see why you always get flamed on here. Tommy boy just stayed out of the way and said dont spend too much. Who did he hire that made a difference? Darcy was in charge of all the player moves as he was for many years before Tommy.

same here and that one is driving me nuts. That and i wonder if the commercial breaks are longer on that app.

As i reread the bolded part, i think my tone wasn't conveyed properly. I was trying to be more academic/professorial than insinuating those were your thoughts. My bad eleven.

Yet to prove a case against that person you would need a smoking gun email text etc. Most reporters wont divulge their sources either since they are protected by a NY reporter's shield law. (it does have exceptions).

The BPD was made aware of the situation by someone who came forward. This likely means it was not the victim, who would typically file a report/complaint. its been reported they have his vehicle in custody so likely the incident took place in there.

True, but rape/sexual assault is different than robbery of a store. Many time people who are robbed aren't identified either. And it's my understanding that the BPD confirmed an investigation, it's not like they held a PC to announce it. Yes i kow they are the likely source of it anyway..... Do you think mandatory disclosure of alleged rape victims names does more good than harm? Would it not then prevent rape victims from coming forward especially in high profile cases knowing they will become celebrities and endure tons of hate mail/social media backlash? Those are the issues to be balanced, and there's def no perfect way to do that.

i have met them in Florida, they are scary. without regard to their policy positions, the ones (a whopping total of 3 who would admit it) i have met exhibit an exaggerated detachment from reality and facts. If they hear A is not true, but Trump said A, it really doesn't matter, they will believe A. also, the ones I met were incapable of any specific policy discussion. Beyond bumper sticker sayings, they have no way of articulating how they would implement what they support.

Exactly, and i'm not sure how to craft a rule prohibiting such things, since the exceptions would almost certainly swallow any new rule.

No its not. I'm simply pointing out that he was in a riskier setting if it was at the harborcenter in a hotel room w a young girl. It doesn't make it wrong nor do i hold him to some other standard. Other players choose differently, he doesn't. What i said is all young guys do dumb stuff, you did, i did, players do too. He was a less controllable setting, other players avoid those. It's not right or wrong. I don't know the facts and neither do you, I am making reasonable inferences from what's been put out there. I do not take those facts as gospel during an investigation.

The leak itself could be grounds for charges, but it wouldn't be defamation, although it should be punished. On of the problems here is that it's actually true hes being investigated, so he can't recover for something that's true. I agree the definition should be altered, but without getting into 1st Amend. jurisprudence here, it's just really hard to do constitutionally. People are by and large free to say dumb shhhhh without recourse. It speaks larger volumes to player choices, guys like crosby and stamkos, do dumb stuff but they control the situation better and usually have private security etc. Kane and Kane were diff situations, not saying it's all their fault but it's worth noting.

It is virtually impossible to sue a news org for defamation. There is really no way to institute litigation based on whats out there now, even if the allegations turn out to be false. Kane would have to show the news org knew it was false, and pub'd anyway w intent to cause harm. Easy defense for them is that they had credible source and reasonably relied on that source. to sue a person, non-news, he needs to show quite a bit more. defaming a public figure is a very high hurdle to clear. It's a pretty uphill battle, and one you dont' see taken very often since truth is a defense and the defendants would get to depose Kane. Does an athlete really want to testify on what he was doing late in a hotel (assuming he was there)???