First a quick note. I’ve stopped even reading the troll’s posts, so I don’t know what he said and I won’t be responding to him.

And another thing, in certain areas we’re getting to the point where we’ve developed so much good young talent that we can let some of it just walk away, see: Mrabure, Leonard, Demski and Van Gylswyk. This was Taman’s great downfall imo, at least as it related to Canadians – ok, maybe second great downfall after the outrageous contracts given to certain players – but it was only a downfall because he wasn’t able to replace these players in other ways and our overall NI talent level began to drop. The regime, otoh, IS able to replace players and acquire talent in many ways, including Canadian talent, see: Evans, Messam, Harty, Bladek, Mrabure, Zver, Dyakowski, etc. etc. This regime is probably better at acquiring talent than any other regime we’ve ever had, EVER! During the season I found myself almost instinctively wondering if we were going to trade Demski and Van Gylswyk, because we were almost sure to lose them in the off season and if we traded them then at least we’d get something for them, but I now see that was was old regime thinking. If the right trade came up I’m sure we would have done it, but given that we are now so much better at acquiring talent, their value to us as depth at the time was greater than their trade value to us. If we traded Van Gylswyk in the middle of the season and then Crapigna had gotten injured we would have been screwed, for example. And the mid round pick we might have gotten for him would have been a very long shot to become a star, and we can find depth players many other ways, so Van Gylswyk’s depth value became more than his trade value. The Jones regime has completely changed this equation for us because of his ability to acquire talent in many different ways. Jones = sustainability. As long as we have Jones we’re going to have some of the best talent and overall talent in the league. What we need now is the finishing touchs, the last elements that will make us a championship team. Hughes is obviously part of that, but the biggest issue this year is still at QB, albeit at the next level up. We now have two guys who are capable of being a very good #1, imo, but this year we need to go from capable to established and knocking on the door as one of the top one or two contenders.

The Human Flame was the biggest public safety concern in rider game history. Until the avalanche scare of 2017.
Maybe the flame would have turned all that snow into simple rain.

Awesome watching you be owned yup
Give it up already bud

You are a credit to the riderfan base Greg. Too bad for the beer can throwers, manure dumpers and Burris bra wearers

Thank you Greg, well said.

Alberta domination is back. Best teams, best 2 QB’s in the league. Too bad our hockey teams can’t get their acts together

True. What he did with being 1st or 2nd in the West every year was maintain Alberta domination

Should be a great season Scott – looking forward to it.