JoeSchmoe

My personal favourite is Peanut Butter O'Henry. Skor and KitKat Chunky (chunky has way more chocolate than the 4 finger traditional KitKat) would be tied for 2nd. I know Coffee Crisps are huge with US people, but they aren't as popular here. On Halloween they're definitely a lower tier chocolate bar to have in the bag. Canadian Reese's PB Cups were another huge favourite, but they've messed with the chocolate to PB ratio when they shrinkflated them many years back. The chocolate seems more sugary and less chocolatey than it was as well. One hot tip is to go to Dollarama for your Canadian chocolate needs. They're $0.91, which is less than half price as anywhere else.

Euro chocolate standards are even higher than Canadian. Sometimes though, a regular chocolate bar is all you need. In beer terms, I don't need a Fin Du Monde while I'm sipping a beer poolside. Anything cold will do!

I'm surprised you guys aren't bringing back chocolate. Canadian law requires a higher cocoa fat % than in the US. If you've ever tried a Canadian KitKat side by side with a US KitKat, the difference is glaring.

They were doing it long before it was cool to make a non-adjunct non-macro lager. 30 years or so ago as teens, we'd guzzle La Fin Du Monde for the 9% ABV. Somewhere along the line I acquired a taste for it.

I've been living under a rock. Did Marty kill Rob Ray?

More than Anders Bjork?

Between the very bad Canadian dollar and US inflation being even worse than in Canada, I'm surprised there aren't a lot more people from the US shopping in Canada right now. Are the US border guards really strict on bringing across goods on day trips? Are there that many people without passports? Is the extra 5% (or so) sales tax and the gas/bridge toll still the limiting factor? Has anyone from the US side done the math?

I'm not saying they're trying to. I'm saying that given no one wants to come here, we're not getting better via trade or free agency and this may be our only way out.

Tanking is getting rid of anyone who shows any promise to help the team and trading them out for picks and prospects... even at a loss, just to get better lottery odds. Let's keep everyone that'll help the team and not overpay for any veterans on trade. There's relatively few players available to us via trade that we'd want anyways. Most players we'd want had the bargaining power to get the NMC and NTC even if the NHL total was 40% as you say. But in short, they'll have to end no trade clauses and raise caps in high tax jurisdictions for league parity. Otherwise, the drought will continue for Canada and other similar teams like the Sabres.

The whole point of this thread is that no trade clauses killed the ability for struggling teams in high tax markets to dig themselves outta a hole. The only way is through the draft.

We can't tank intentionally like last time. That's what killed us... The cupboards were so bare that the pieces Murray brought in weren't enough to overcome how badly he decimated the lineup. Same went for Edmonton. Between Tage, UPL, Dahlin, Tuch and a few others, we have some building blocks this time. Keep putting the best lineup we can out there and get high draft picks organically.

Unfortunately, in the today's era of No Trade Lists, we aren't getting that type of player here. It's not just us. There's a reason why no Canadian team has won a cup since 93.

I think Mortone would be a great fit. Possibly Misa too. Hagens is just another example of what we already have. Schaefer is going to be a star in the NHL, as he has been through every level he's played, but we don't need more of his style of defense.

This is exactly wrong. Selling everything to suck is part of the reason why we still suck. As opposed to the Colorado's, Toronto's, Pittsburgh's, etc that sucked organically... And had some key building blocks already in place to complement the young talent.

This might be our only way out. This year's draft looks to be deep at the top end, but none of the players are franchise changers. In my Ontario biased opinion, Schaefer, Mortone, and Misa have all passed Hagens, who's well behind Celebrini's NCAA pace from last year. One of the top 3 would be good cornerstone player, but they won't change us for next year. After sucking again next year, we win the lottery and snag McKenna, who looks like a true superstar in the making. I can't think of another way out of the bottom than this.

I don't. Dahlin is one of our only good players. Benson can go though.

I hear what you're saying but having that guy still doesn't solve the problem that Power wants to play forward and not play D.

He's not... But he's still not a good #1.

That was some of the worst defense that ever defensed.

Where are we if Cozens and Quinn play like everyone expected them to?

Not spending to the cap. Losing two of our best offensive players and not replacing them (it doesn't matter what they're doing now, they helped us last year). Quinn and Cozens taking a step backwards (a step backwards off a cliff). Not having D that can play D. Now we suck again.

Hey guys... Great discussion! I'm in Punta Cana right now enjoying a cocktail so I won't be reporting in as much as I might like. Hopefully you guys get this whole thing sorted out without me... The team is counting on you!

In my analysis, if we drafted a good player but traded them... we don't get credit for the player, only the return. Obviously we'd be a lot better off if we had Reinhart and Eichel, but we don't... So the analysis counts our current situation.

Here's who we've drafted in the 1st round along with who we have now for the picks. I'm going by memory here so I can update when more astute posters correct me on this. The long and short of this is we aren't even close to being able to field the core of a good team out of this list. Reinhart- Levi and 1st rounder (was it Kulich?) Eichel- Krebs, Tuch, and 1st rounder (Östlund?) Nylander - Joki Mittelstadt - Byram Dahlin - legit 1st round talent Cozens - currently not 1st round talent Johnson - currently not 1st round talent Quinn - currently not 1st round talent Power - possibly 1st round talent Rosen - no 1st round potential Savoie - McLeod Östlund - likely not 1st round potential Kulich - possible 1st round potential likely middle 6 Benson - possible 1st round potential likely 2nd line possible 1st line Helenius - possible 1st round potential.

Yes... And OJ had the two murders.