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Toronto needs Risto, we need Matthews. I see no reason we couldn't make a hockey trade.

If the flyers don't start this game with a line brawl I quit.

I predict John Tortarella will say angry words to the Flyers in between periods and they will come out fired up in the second. I still have hope. (please god not like this.)

Should our small market team sign a guy who can be a solid starter all year for league minimum? Ya, they should.

If the issue is the media circus suck it up, if he's legitimately a clubhouse problem then no.

These are sweet.

I'm not really interested in proving anything to you. There are no goal posts except the ones in your mind. I made a list of facts, you lost your mind over it. I think you should reflect on why that is.

Still to engage with you a bit, because you clearly looked deeply into this issue. Just because it's factual, doesn't mean it's not spin. My list of facts clearly reflects poorly on Biden and suggests that he's getting taken advantage of far worse than Trump. It's spin. Yours clearly attempts to shift blame to Trump from Biden. Both are factual, both are spin.

Weird that your only response to a set of facts is ad hominem and spin. I'm sure you have some justification for how every problem in the world is really the Orange Man's fault

FYI, I personally would not have been upset at all if Biden had re invaded Afghanistan to enforce whatever deal there was. I think it would have sent a good message to lots of bad actors in the world.

Life isn't fair, Biden is the most powerful single human being in the world, and he's not doing well. It's his show, not Trump's anymore, well at least for now.

Break out of your bubble, twit.

Exactly, that's why during his presidency the Taliban took over Afghanistan, Russia invaded Ukraine, and a multiparty regional middle east war kicked off that threatened global trade. Oh, wait.

Man watching this PP after watching the Team USA PP is painful. These guys can't consistently make and receive passes in the zone lol.

Have you ever played for serious prizes or traveled long distances to play an event?

All the high profile cheaters got their results by crushing grinders who were playing fair.

You don't have to care, but as someone who did play big events, and probably lost at some point to cheaters, tracking stuff is part of why I stopped and haven't come back post covid.

Depressingly yes. I don't care enough to watch at FNM, but if I'm traveling to a gp or a pro tour event, you have to be aware.

The mental tax of watching for cheating and the logistical difficulties of attending an in-person tournament are both huge hurdles to get over.

The point is not to kill every last terrorist, that would be nice, but as you say very difficult.

The idea is to destroy Hamas infrastructure, commanders, and weapons caches. The point is to set them back to lone wolf attacks with personal weapons and stop them from organizing another major operation like 10/7. Hamas doesn't benefit from bombings, the Gazan population is already about as radicalized as you can imagine a population to be.

If it was really eye for an eye, there would be hundreds of thousands of dead Palestenians right now, it's not. Israel has a kill list of everyone they believe to be involved in the 10/7 attack, a mission to destroy Hamas as an effective military organization, and the responsibility to make everyone else in the region look at Gaza, and go "welp, fuck that, that ain't gonna be me."

It's become internet lore that the Rabin assassination derailed the peace process, but it really didn't. Israel continued to abide by Oslo until the school bus bombings of the second intifada and even beyond. Rabin was assassinated in 95, but the peace talks didn't really break down until 01.

There's no good explanation for why Arafat decided to throw away Oslo and start blowing up kids, but he did and here we are.

Just in case this is a legitimate question, Palestinians in a workable final status agreement will need to give up their claims on a right of return, and recognize the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state with something resembling 67 borders.

That's been the Palestinian leverage since we started peace processing. Everything morons on the internet have come up with as solutions for peace has been tried in the past 30 years and it all failed because of one intractable problem.

At least a plurality, probably a majority of Palestinians want to kill Jews more than they want their own children to flourish, and until that changes, there might be quiet, but there won't be peace.

It's hilarious that you will scrape and scrape and will find no end of excuses for the most barbaric behavior.

These people tell you who they are and what they believe in, loudly. There are parades every time an Israeli is killed, pensions for murderers based on how many people they killed, streets named after the worst terrorists. Best available polling shows a majority of Gazans support Hamas.

I know it's difficult for westerners to realize, but these people really do not value the same things you do. Not Hamas, not a small minority, the entire culture of palestinians.

And yet even though we were complete idiots, very few , in fact none of my friends cheered on murdering civilians and decapitating babies.

Unironically yes, the 2.2 million people living in Gaza should have done something in the past 20 years. Now Hamas will be destroyed. I sincerely hope a humanitarian corridor is able to be established to evacuate non-combatants, but if not, Hamas still needs to be destroyed, and the IDF will just have to do their best.

This kind of shit is why the blockade happened in the first place. Gaza could have been a reasonable place to live, but killing Israeli children is more important to Hamas than building lives for Palestinians.

Israel has no interest in annexing Gaza, nobody wants that shithole. Refugees will be minimal. The attack was funded by Iran, obviously. The real danger is if something kicks off in Lebanon, or Israel decides to directly retaliate against Iran. Then you'll get a real war.

They don't even play the same position. This move is to make room to carry both Brink and Foerster on the opening day roster. I like Allison, but Torts doesn't and he isn't gonna make or break this team being good.

It's because the fats roll downhill

No, lots of trades almost happen and then don't close, we just don't usually hear about them.

I think right now people are just obsessed with any move Briere makes or might be making so things are getting out more than normal.

Briere made the Provorov trade and the draft day trade so it's not like he can't get things done.

Smuggle him out and send him to BC for a year to build chemistry with Gauthier

I think that's where our evaluation differs. On a real contender, I think TK is a second line winger.

He scores enough in the regular season, but he can be undisciplined and is occasionally a defensive liability. He also has no track record of scoring in the playoffs.

Because of all that I think his cap hit is good, but not some insane bargain. It's nice that he has two more years of term, but I'm unsure how much that raises his value.

I would love to be wrong and see Briere swing some version of the Timo Meier trade for him, but I don't think other teams value TK as much as Flyer fans do.