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Fabbri stays healthy, puts up 30 pts = good contract Fabbri explodes, LTIR, no cap hit, Chris Illitch loses pocket change = who gives a ***

"Fabbri's contract is bad" is almost as bad a take as "Zadina is a bust"...

I think Dallas will shop Bishop and re-sign Khudobin. Going back to my thoughts on that, Yzerman should take 100% of that contract and their 1st round pick. We have the space, we need to solidify the G position. No guarantee Bernier won't go back to pre-January Bernier. Having Bishop for the next three years will only help us. I know he has a NMC, but we know they can be waived. Detroit might not be his best option for winning, but it might be his best option for playing, plus his history with Yzerman helps too.

It IS about politics. "Defund the Police" is a political action. BLM is a political group. And as I said, politics have no place in the NHL. Period. It's stopped being about equality a long time ago. Equality is law. It's a part of America's Constitution. Racism is now being exploited to push POLITICAL action. Cancelling games would be political, no matter how hard you try to justify it. The NHL has already established it's "Hockey is for Everyone" initiative. It's goal as stated by the NHL: Hockey is for Everyone™ uses the game of hockey - and the League's global influence - to drive positive social change and foster more inclusive communities. The league has also investigated and taken action whenever accusations of prejudice are made within the league. They have literally already made it clear what their views are on issues like racism, sexism and homophobia. Cancelling games would be nothing more than pressured mob appeasement. To cancel games over a sociopolitical issue will just cause further division among it's fan base. Not because they disagree with the message, but they disagree with the messenger or the way it's being delivered. Keep politics out of the NHL.

Yep. He was always solid in the regular season, even in Atlanta on a horrible team. But in the playoffs in high pressure situations, not so much. Dallas had to sign guys like Niemi and Bishop to bail him out. But there would be no such pressure on him in Detroit.

Nah, no Cup rings for him. But $1-2 million to back up Bernier (he seems to have earned the starting job regardless of who comes in) and not have to worry about playoffs is easy money.

Racism is real. Racism is stupid. On the other hand, if we look at how many players in the league are from Canada (almost half) and Europe (over a quarter) it seems out of place for the players to do things the way that the other leagues have been doing. Kneeling for anthems comes to mind. It's one thing to disrespect one's own flag and military. It's quite another to disrespect one's host country's flag and military if one is a visitor. Taking a couple of days off for reflection on the state of racism in the world and its implications on the lives of people everywhere is a reasonable action for a league with a lot of national, if not racial, diversity. I am glad to see any group of people acknowledge the need to improve racial relations without doing anything which is violent, destructive, or insulting to another group of people who likely despise racism as much as they do. Now if only we could convince racist people that their actions are stupid. Unfortunately, stupid is not fixable. All we can do is prevent it from spreading, and for that, we all need to speak up.

and you expect to be taken seriously

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Why would the NHL cancel games? They played during World War II. More recently, they played while there was an unpopular war happening in Iraq. They played after mass shootings (too many to name in the last 10 years). The show goes on. If NBA players want to cancel games, that's their choice. The NHL doesn't need to apologize for actually playing games. They are allowed that choice as well. Liberals need to stop attacking anyone who may have a different opinion or who is not as passionate about civil rights as they are. I have things I care about deeply that I know someone else might not. I don't attack people for it. The world isn't divided into civil rights activists and racists. Also, they talk about racism before every national anthem during these bubble games. Evander Kane probably isn't watching since his team didn't qualify for the playoffs. So the league is not ignoring the issue completely. He's the same idiot who criticized Crosby for not talking about civil rights more. Whatever happened to Gary Cooper? The strong, silent type.