Sports are little more than entertainment, governments shouldn't be in the entertainment business. I don't want tax dollars funding full-time professional athletes. Too many people are playing the sports lottery as it is, rather than focusing on a proper education.

Amateur athletes should probably receive help when it comes to travel expenses for major competitions. Just not to the extent that anyone quits their day job to become a full time athlete. Full time athletes should be privately funded, whether by leagues or sponsorships. This isn't the 1930's, winning a sporting event doesn't prove anything about your country other than where the priorities are.

Exactly, and it sets a dangerous precedent.


So now in Canada for example can the Canadian National Baseball association sue and get the same funding and support the Canadian Hockey program? Will that make baseball better in Canada? No. I would likely just make hockey worse. Organizations should be free to distribute resources to their strengths if they see fit. That's why they have leaders and decision makers and not just accountants in charge. Communism doesn't work.

Apologies for the political post and the subsequent outfall.
- Buffalo--Sabres

In this case the strengths of US hockey is the woman's hockey program (check medal count).
If USA expects to have a good Woman's Ice Hockey team, they need to provide the players equipment and a stipend they can live on.

Anything with a signature of Elizabeth Warren should be totally IGNORED
- holeinone

god i hope calgary clinches tomorrow by beating LA just so ek can shut up with this Kings fantasy

god i hope calgary clinches tomorrow by beating LA just so ek can shut up with this Kings fantasy
- S Kaspar Rollins

seriously

Good for the ladies, they deserve it. For those who say they don't, You're an idiot !

Like to see USA Hockey books , profits , what some of these fat cats get paid , travel etc, Women were not asking for the moon ,

It's not about anything close to pay equity, they're not expecting the millions the men make overall.
- sAFETY

The men don't make "millions" playing for USA Hockey. You're mixing it up with NHL pay. The men most likely make peanuts playing for USA Hockey, too. Perhaps the men's peanuts are slightly larger (ex. $10K per player vs $6K) or it's that the men don't need those peanuts to get by (because they have NHL salaries), whereas the women do. It's hard to discuss the issue without having access to all of the numbers, and it doesn't help when people like Warren simply talk in vague terms about "pay equity" as though that ought to end discussion, rather going through an actual analysis of what women get versus what the men get and why.

The fact that it even had to go to these lengths is a historic and national embarrassment.

god i hope calgary clinches tomorrow by beating LA just so ek can shut up with this Kings fantasy
- S Kaspar Rollins

HOLY CRAP YES! --- He has zero concept that the top 8 in the west is over and has been for weeks. Only thing to be decided is the final top 8 standings. The rest is moot.

Sports are little more than entertainment, governments shouldn't be in the entertainment business. I don't want tax dollars funding full-time professional athletes. Too many people are playing the sports lottery as it is, rather than focusing on a proper education.

Amateur athletes should probably receive help when it comes to travel expenses for major competitions. Just not to the extent that anyone quits their day job to become a full time athlete. Full time athletes should be privately funded, whether by leagues or sponsorships. This isn't the 1930's, winning a sporting event doesn't prove anything about your country other than where the priorities are.
- Blue Clam

Can we leave the politics out of this?

I get enough of that crap everywhere else, I don't need it here.

Wanna praise or bash a politician? Then go elsewhere.

If you honestly think one is better than the other, then go ahead and keep living in your fantasy world. But keep it out of hockey forums.

F-politics, F anyone who engages in it, their mother and the horse they rode in on.

I'm very confused as to how the Kings are projected 93 points when they currently have 77. Are they projected to win every game until the end of the season, or is something wrong there?
- BasedHockeyGod

Just as confused as I am at how the league will retroactively take away a point from the Coyotes seeing as they have 63 presently and his projections have them at 62. I know we are a poor franchise but come on Ek.....

Just as confused as I am at how the league will retroactively take away a point from the Coyotes seeing as they have 63 presently and his projections have them at 62. I know we are a poor franchise but come on Ek.....
- gmiel1980

hes giving it to the kings .they need all the help they can get

Hey Ek. Will you be making tonight's predictions after you see who's winning the 7pm games?

Hey Ek. Boston and Winnipeg have scored. Are you picking them tonight?

Carolina scored. You better pick them.

Games started at 7. It's past 730 now. So tonight's predictions will be posted after the games are over? You should do very well tonight.

36 minutes late. Better late than never Ek. Good luck tonight.

Eklund knows these predictions make no sense and has been riddled with obvious errors throughout since day 1.

theory 1: he realized he can get more traffic, views and comments by being a moron. lets call this the "tanner effect".

theory 2: he is upset that his wife wasted a bunch of money on some random useless phd and wants to publicly humiliate her by publicizing her garbage work. lets call this the "divorce effect".
-Njuice

Yeah, saying and doing stupid things has been what is bringing home the bacon for this guy all these years. He will only change when the money stops rolling in.

Hey, awesome stuff.

I read today that men and women get paid the same money for US hockey representation. Problem is that the men are NHL guys, who get paid so much that these tournaments don't really affect them. I liken the Ladies to the CFL players. Need a job to live for the rest of the year.


http://www.usatoday.com/s...ey-team-boycott/99683488/

I read today that men and women get paid the same money for US hockey representation. Problem is that the men are NHL guys, who get paid so much that these tournaments don't really affect them. I liken the Ladies to the CFL players. Need a job to live for the rest of the year.


http://www.usatoday.com/s...ey-team-boycott/99683488/
- weirdoh

Does this account for maternity leave/PUP list?

Eklund knows these predictions make no sense and has been riddled with obvious errors throughout since day 1.

theory 1: he realized he can get more traffic, views and comments by being a moron. lets call this the "tanner effect".

theory 2: he is upset that his wife wasted a bunch of money on some random useless phd and wants to publicly humiliate her by publicizing her garbage work. lets call this the "divorce effect".
- Njuice

"Tanner effect" haha love it

Can we leave the politics out of this?

I get enough of that crap everywhere else, I don't need it here.

Wanna praise or bash a politician? Then go elsewhere.

If you honestly think one is better than the other, then go ahead and keep living in your fantasy world. But keep it out of hockey forums.

F-politics, F anyone who engages in it, their mother and the horse they rode in on.
- GalacticStone

But F Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren though