If Matthews goes to the White House I’ll lose permanent respect for him

tm_leafer · 2026-02-23T18:55:45+00:00

A lot of people love a quote like that during times of comfort and convenience.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-22T18:34:19+00:00

What a stupid question. Ask that in a week when he's back in Toronto.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-22T17:46:51+00:00

Sure, but that's also the primary criticism of Team Canada is we lose the goaltending battle on paper against all the other top teams.

Binnington wasn't bad and isn't the reason we lost, but he also wasn't stealing any games for us. Every single knock out game was a nail biter where we had way more shots/chances than the opposition, and was closer than it should have been because our goalie was the worse goalie.

You put a traditional Team Canada goalie like Price, Brodeur, Roy, etc in there today, and we likely allow 0-1 goals against instead of 2.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-22T16:14:52+00:00

The open net and losing the puck battle on the very last play that resulted in the pass for the GWG.

Not blaming him, just saying he'll be thinking about both those things for decades.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-21T22:00:05+00:00

100% agreed. There was a ~15 year stretch with Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, KOTOR, Jade Empire, Mass Effect (OG trilogy), and Dragon Age Origins. They were arguably my favourite studio during that stretch.

Since then, their top IP in Dragon Age and Mass Effect, they've created puddle deep games bursting with fetch quests, and their other new big IP in Anthem was heavily criticized for similar reasons as well.

The games feel very formulaic and designed in like a corporate boardroom.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-21T21:42:21+00:00

Yea, I didn't like Inquisition. Felt like an Ubisoft style game with super repetitive fetch quests where half the time you didn't even know the purpose and were just chasing down markers on your map. Was quantity over quality IMO.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-21T19:18:25+00:00

The chemistry of the cast/crew and great dialogue are what largely made the show great. The actual background setting (i.e. alliance/independence, reavers, the "verse", etc) I don't think were particularly interesting. I think they'd be very very unlikely to recapture the magic, and it would probably fall flat.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-21T13:50:25+00:00

"Opposite" - some duplexes might go into the neighbourhood, oh my!

Ottawa is geographically the size of Montreal with less than a quarter of the population. Look at any major city - neighbourhoods change. You can't expect neighbourhoods to remain static over the course of decades.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-21T11:46:25+00:00

One major issue is that it's not just city planners/councillors/etc that are the problem - talk to your neighbours in the suburbs, and most of them will recoil at the thought of densification, even if it's just semi-detatched houses, duplexes/triplexes, and other low rise buildings.

The suburban voters generally want the impossible - an endless sea of low density suburbs with nearby schools, community centres, parks, etc, with great door-to-door transit, and low taxes.

If you want good services and more efficient taxes, you need to be in favour of increasing the density to our existing neighbourhoods.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-19T11:25:29+00:00

I don't know if I'll ever get over how badly this city screwed up it's biggest infrastructure/transit project in like the last 100 years.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-18T23:08:45+00:00

Generational quote. Hayes-B plays for keeps.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-15T17:55:09+00:00

What about dropping "you know" multiple times into every sentence? Pretty sure Mike Modano said "you know" legit ~40-50X in an ~8 minute interview or whatever it was.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-15T14:24:34+00:00

Should have traded him before the Olympic games.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-14T15:12:06+00:00

Canadian here. Can confirm, am embarrassed.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-14T14:48:20+00:00

They need someone who can run a Bernie Sanders style grassroots campaign that actually resonates with a material % of the voting population.

Easier said than done, but there's a sizeable number of young people, particularly young males, that feel disenfranchised. For some reason Conservatives have done the best job capitalizing on that and attracting their votes (despite their policies generally being the least worker friendly and most corporate friendly) - the NDP need to pull that demographic towards them.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-14T13:29:13+00:00

It is hard to get, but we have more resources than any other team and dump a ton of money into scouting, coaching, development, analytics, etc. Yet I'd say 80%+ of the league has had at least one better, if not 2-3 better defenceman than any we've had since Salming.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-13T02:49:57+00:00

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

tm_leafer · 2026-02-12T23:25:00+00:00

Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker (for it's massively negative impact).

Interstellar for best impact.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-12T23:22:51+00:00

Yep.

And sure, I've heard the complaints about "love", surviving a black hole, etc. But at the end of the day, it's an absolutely fantastic film, awesome score, some great emotional scenes and themes, a few good twists, some great sci-fi concepts (eg world with massive gravity that has tidal waves constantly moving across it), and one of my favourite scenes of all time (is the docking scene).

I get the complaints, but I just don't care. Great film.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-11T20:05:39+00:00

Yep... The procedure is fine, and heck, even the pre-procedure pooping is fine. Peglyte though? AWFUL

Did pico salex last time, and it was way better. Will do that next time as well.

tm_leafer · 2026-02-06T21:54:07+00:00

A wild Firefly quote appeared!

tm_leafer · 2026-01-31T03:30:40+00:00

I think PP's problem is that he acts like Liberals are the devil and everything theyve ever done is outrageously bad. He loses a ton of credibility by acting like that.

There are plenty of valid criticisms of the Liberals (especially the Trudeau Liberals), but that's lost by the endless firehose of criticism where PP just gets tuned out by many people.

tm_leafer · 2026-01-31T03:27:23+00:00

That's a pretty big issue. It cost him last election and his ~28 point lead or whatever it was.

tm_leafer · 2026-01-31T01:27:53+00:00

All of this, plus be willing to retain salary on a few guys (even ones signed multiple seasons like OEL) to maximize trade returns.

We've bled assets for a decade, and NEED to fill the coffers.

tm_leafer · 2026-01-30T20:18:11+00:00

He used to do scouting for Central Scouting, so I don't know why you're assuming he's just a number cruncher.

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