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Originally Posted by jonkaupp
My issue with the trade still has little to do with the players and much more to do with the contract. The Neal disaster can be bought out. The Lucic one
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That's a pretty reasonable position to take for why someone might dislike this trade. It of course overlooks the possibility that a buyout wasn't on the table, but it's a fair place to stand. That doesn't align with what you posted, though. There are a range of reasonable reactions to this trade, and the fact that this board doesn't universally dislike the trade for the reasons you do doesn't tell us much of anything about bias.
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And I really don’t see how stating that Calgary has a butter soft media, which it does, has anything to do with whether Edmonton’s propaganda machine is worse. It is. What’s the point? That two things can’t be bad at once?
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Of course they can, but the phrase "butter soft media" only makes sense as a relative statement. Calgary's media is about the same as Vancouver's and Winnipeg's (although I have a limited window into the Jets' media), probably a little less rose-coloured than Montreal's, and obviously not a complete embarrassment, which is what they are up north. Kind of have to leave Toronto aside, because there seems to be equal parts water-carrying optimism and garment-rending despair in that city, and all of it entirely over the top.