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While watching the hockey playoffs, I’ve noticed the players’ mouthguards are constantly hanging out of their mouths. The players seem to enjoy chewing on them. Aren’t the guards intended to protect the wearer’s mouth/teeth? What’s the use of having a mouthguard if it’s not worn properly? It’s like wearing a jockstrap on your knee.
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TOM C. NEWELL
(Doesn’t seem like the best use of the equipment, for sure)
Will he re-sign?
Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers states he is in no hurry to sign a new contract. He appears to be upset because the Oilers did not win the Stanley Cup. Too bad, you carry on and try to win it next season. No one is entitled to the Stanley Cup; you have to earn it as a whole team. To me, that means his agent will be shopping around to see if he can get a better deal with another NHL team. Sounds like there is no dedication on his part to stay with the Edmonton Oilers if a better offer comes along. There is no doubt that he is one of the top players in the league, but overrated, most definitely. I believe he had one goal in this last series. To me, he is definitely no Wayne Gretzky. I hope he gets his head out of the darkness and into the sunshine. Nobody is entitled to the Stanley Cup, and neither is Connor McDavid. You earn it.
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JIM EATON
(Cut the guy some slack. The season barely ended)
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Make it more meaty
Re: CHARLEBOIS: Where’s the beef? Priced out of the Canadian grill, online, June 5. A very good read by Dr. Sylvain Charlebois on the Canadian beef industry. While he brings up some very good points, a more direct approach would be to put up a timeline, starting in 1990, showing what the farmer got paid per pound for the cow and what a pound of hamburger cost. Go every five years or so. It will show where the money is going. Spoiler alert: It is not to the farmer.
STEVE WALKER
(Something to chew on.)
Staying home
Canadians not vacationing and travelling to the United States is really having a very negative impact on U.S. towns and cities nearest to the Canadian border. Super! All kinds of U.S. governors, mayors and business-people have convened meetings with Canadian mayors and politicians, saying they love Canadians and when we do not visit the U.S.A., we hurt them economically. That’s great because Donald wants to annex Canada to become the 51st U.S. state. Hopefully these hurting U.S. border towns and communities and their political representatives will pressure their citizens to vote more for democrats instead of Donald’s Republicans next year in the U.S. mid-term elections, which would greatly limit Donald’s autocratic tendencies and help change his tune about us becoming the 51st state. Until this becomes a reality, we should keep this pressure on the U.S.A. by spending our powerful Canadian dollars in our own great country.
R. J. MOSKAL
(The Donald is making few friends north of the border)
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