Some thoughts after shovelling my way through the whole thread:
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Originally Posted by JurassicTunga12
Feels like we’re destined never to have an elite first line center again.
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What do you mean, ‘again’? The Flames have never had an elite first-line centre. The closest they ever had was Kent Nilsson, and he only played that way for one year. Even in '89, the elite centres in the league were Gretzky, Lemieux, Yzerman, Messier, with a case to be made for Nicholls, Savard, and Hawerchuk. What they did have was two legitimate (but not top-tier) #1s in Gilmour and Nieuwendyk.
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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
That or "The total salary cap hit of your signed roster for the playoffs needs to be cap compliant"
That way if the injured player is truly hurt then he can come back, but you'd need to make a decision about who drops off the roster.
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I like this idea very much.
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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
The Spurs lost deliberately for Duncan.
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One superstar can make or break a basketball team. Hockey is nothing like that. You ought to know better than to make such a silly comparison.
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Originally Posted by Sainters7
You can tell within that industry it's super important in a chest thumping way to be the one to break news...which is extremely dangerous, because it leads to misinformation in their race to break things first. I wonder if any in the industry realize we as the general public DO NOT CARE who breaks the freakin story first, just get it right!!
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Bang on, and it's thoroughly stupid, like a lot of things in that business. As Michael Lewis wrote in
Moneyball:
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Most reporters, in Billy [Beane]'s experience, are simply trying to be the first to find out something they'll all learn anyway before their deadlines. “They all want scoops,” he complains. “There are no scoops. Whatever we do will be in every paper tomorrow. There's no such thing as a paper that comes out in an hour.”
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Tweets, of course, come out instantly – but only if you rush madly to the keyboard and don't do any form of fact-checking or verification. If your principal goal is to get eyeballs on Twitter, that's not journalism, it's gossip. Twitter does very little good in the world, and so-called journalists who become obsessed with Twitter do even less.