I'm sorry but your math is just as misinformed as other topics.

He played 50 games.

You can't give a guy 5.5 million for 8 goals in 50 games when there's other comparable players getting 3 or less.

Either he's ineffective or he's injured. If he's both, he can't get 5.5.

I'd literally rather take Duchene and JVR for 4 than Bertuzzi at 5.5.

That's 34 goals instead of 8 with 1.5 to spare.
- Rare_Jewel

Another arrogant know it all bumhole. Just what this place needs 🤮

Big essay post
- PrinceLH

You seeing how (frank)ing long this post was should've been enough to tell you that there's no reason to post it and that this entire conversation needs to (frank)ing die.

Another arrogant know it all bumhole. Just what this place needs 🤮
- joel878

Joel. Always making friends

Oh I watched Bertuzzi in the playoffs. I watched him go -6 in the last 3 games against Florida as they blew the series lead.

He scored goals but he was also on the ice for a lot of goals against.

That's literally what the Leafs already do too much of.

Next you're going to want Erik Karlsson on the 3rd pairing again.

Bertuzzi at 3 million or less would have been fine. But at 5.5, that's a waste of cap space. Glad it's only 1 year.
- Rare_Jewel

Actually they don't but hey you're the guy who's okay with sexual assault aslong as you're paid enough. Do the women in your life know you'd be cool with it aslong as you got something worthwhile out of it? It shouldn't surprise me you know nothing about hockey or anything else. (frank)ing incompetent.

Yes I read you say 2014. That was just one of a bunch of things you said that are just not true.

Ukraine gave up its nukes in 1994, not 2014. There was no agreement when they did so that Russia would get Crimea. That happened 20 years later when the Russian soldiers and sailors took control of Ukrainian ships and bases in Crimea.

You can argue anything you want but you don’t get to make up facts.
- Canada Cup

I did get the 1994 and 2014 dates incorrect. That would have been under Clinton/Gore. But still, Obama allowed the Russians to take Crimea and settled it there. He also did the same thing to Israel and gave the Palestinian authority the West Bank settlements. That was the Oslo Accords. Why was Obama unilaterally giving up other people's land to appease others?

Yeah, Samsonov played hurt.

Holl is gone.
- GreatGigInTheSky

Nah, he got hurt against Florida.

If he was hurt before the playoffs, the coach should be fired for not playing Woll earlier than he did considering how good he was at the end of the year and how good he was in the playoffs when given the chance.

After getting demolished in Game 1, if Samsonov was injured, Woll should have started in Game 2. But he didn't. Because he was fine. Until he actually got hurt against Florida.

Holl is one player out of 20+ who played. You don't get to blame every goal on him, sorry bud. Doesn't work like that. I didn't like him, thought he sucked but McCabe isn't any better. Neither was Brodie on the PK. The Leafs defending went to poop in the playoffs, especially against Tampa Bay. They had a horseshoe up their ass that entire series and really shouldn't have even won it considering how badly they were outplayed for most of it.

Klingberg is as bad or worse than Holl in his own end. Definitely can't kill penalties. Lost Schenn, which is gonna hurt in the playoffs. Giordano is another year older, Rielly still has no defensive help on his pairing and all the wingers they signed are terrible in their own zone.

It's gonna be a shooting gallery next season at this rate.

Biden is a corrupt liar and a thief. Everything Trump was accused of, Biden or a Clinton already did it. Woo Hoo!

Treliving has done a pretty good job so far. Go Leafs

Nah, he got hurt against Florida.

If he was hurt before the playoffs, the coach should be fired for not playing Woll considering how good he was.

Holl is one player out of 20+ who played. You don't get to blame every goal on him, sorry bud. Doesn't work like that. The Leafs defending went to poop in the playoffs, especially against Tampa Bay. They had a horseshoe up their ass that entire series and really shouldn't have even won it considering how badly they were outplayed for most of it.

Klingberg is as bad or worse than Holl in his own end. Definitely can't kill penalties. Lost Schenn, which is gonna hurt in the playoffs. Giordano is another year older, Rielly still has no defensive help on his pairing and all the wingers they signed are terrible in their own zone.

It's gonna be a shooting gallery next season at this rate.
- Rare_Jewel

He was. We've been over this already last week. And yeah, I agree. Keefe should've been fired.

Watch the goals against. Holl was the direct cause of basically every goal he was on the ice for. Like, actually.

Joel. Always making friends
- drexel

You've made a lot yourself the last 8 pages.

Go Leafs Go. Wooh!!!

Time to get on topic before I get a vacation. Dozzer will not be pleased.

Enough of things we can't control.....like who they get for Willy in a trade. It's time for Treliving to coerce the Flames into giving us two good pieces for Willy and solidify our defense. Zadorov or Hanifan. Either will do plus another piece.

He was. We've been over this already last week. And yeah, I agree. Keefe should've been fired.

Watch the goals against. Holl was the direct cause of basically every goal he was on the ice for. Like, actually.
- GreatGigInTheSky

He wasn't. If he was actually injured, he wouldn't have started Game 2 after being demolished in Game 1. Everybody plays with knocks in the playoffs so if he was truly, actually injured to the point he was giving up 3+ goals a game because of it, then Keefe should have put in Woll a lot earlier.

Get ready for Klingberg to make all the same mistakes, if not more.

He was -25 in Dallas and -25 in Anaheim. Factually worse than Holl.

Your new whipping boy awaits you. Wear protection.

WORLD / EYE ON WORLD
US tries to refute 'rumors' about its bio-labs in Ukraine, but can we believe it?
By GT staff reporters
Published: Mar 10, 2022 01:46 AM

Ukrainian soldiers set up roadblocks in Irpin, Ukraine, on March 4, 2022.Photo:Xinhua
Ukrainian soldiers set up roadblocks in Irpin, Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. Photo:Xinhua


Many topics on the Russia-Ukraine conflict have popped up since it began on February 24. One of them refers to US-controlled bio-labs in Ukraine, which have attracted the attention of netizens in Russia, the US and China.

During a routine press conference on Tuesday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson mentioned the 26 bio-labs and other related facilities in Ukraine, under the absolute control of the US Department of Defense, as well as the US' 336 biological labs in 30 countries, asking "what is the true intention of the US?"

The US authorities have tried to refute so-called rumors about these labs, but can we believe them?

Before answering this question, let us go over the two latest events that happened in February during the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

First, on February 3, one day before the opening of the Games, some politicians from the US House of Representatives called on seven scientists who initially believed COVID-19 might have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to provide answers under oath. They said these scientists suddenly reversed course after privately speaking with Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. These politicians also reportedly sent harassing emails to these scientists to force them to smear Collins and Fauci.

Second, on February 4, 21 scientists from the US and its allies like Japan released a co-signed open letter to smear China for "disturbing the investigation into virus origins" and called for "a new investigation" into the WIV, which they claimed to be "a true expression for the ideals underlying the Olympic movement."

In the past two years of the COVID-10 pandemic, China has repeatedly explained that the virus came from nature and the West's accusations about the WIV are totally groundless. China has also invited experts from the World Health Organization and US media outlets like NBC to come and see the WIV.

However, the US government and many US media reports kept hyping the lab leak theory and threatened scientists and journalists who did not agree with that. But the US is now facing its own lab leak questions on its bio labs in Ukraine.

Unlike the groundless US slandering about the WIV, there are genuine concerns about the US labs in Ukraine.

The US has said that these labs are run by the Ukrainian government and sponsored by the US. It said that it supports these labs in order to reduce biological weapons proliferation. The US also said these labs conduct research on some dangerous pathogens and provide support for Ukraine's medical and public health research.

An agreement signed by the US Department of Defense and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in 2005, was aimed to prevent bio-weapons and pathogens from being abused, and Ukraine seems to run those labs.

However, interesting details can be seen upon close examination. The agreement said that the US Department of Defense has the right to audit and examine materials, training of personnel and services provided in accordance with the agreement.

The most important part is that the agreement says that the Ministry of Health of Ukraine shall transfer to the US Department of Defense copies of dangerous pathogen strains collected in Ukraine.

Moreover, the information transmitted under this agreement or developed as a result of its implementation and considered by the US Department of Defense as "sensitive" shall be withheld from public disclosure.

These details seem to overturn the statement by the US that the labs are run by the Ukraine, and that the US is simply a sponsor.

Some international experts have said that the real purpose of the cooperation between the US and Ukraine is to let Ukraine take responsibility for any security accidents at the labs. Anatoly Tsyganok, a member of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences and associate professor at the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, told the Global Times previously that the US has banned testing of bio-weapons on its territory, so it is choosing other countries as test fields for its potential biological arsenal.

This is why the US moves to establish similar labs in Central Asian countries have stirred controversy and concerns over public security accidents. An article published on US website Salon.com in 2013 said that residents of Almaty, Kazakhstan had opposed a lab that was built in "cooperation" with the US.

The US also claims that the labs are used to prevent the dangers of biological weapons and only engage in medical research, which is equally unconvincing.

An article published in US media outlet Politico said that North Korea may try to weaponize the coronavirus. North Korea "could use this legitimate vaccine aspiration as a way to enhance their biotechnology capability," Andrew Weber, former assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs during the Obama administration, was quoted by Politico as saying.

"They could buy equipment from Western or Chinese sources that would be necessary for their vaccine effort, and then next year they could turn around and use it to produce biological weapons," said Weber.

Moreover, the US has plenty of history in this regard. According to Insider, a US-based website, the US military has conducted dangerous bio-warfare experiments on Americans, using the guise of medical research.

Considering the US and NATO's pressure on Russia via NATO's eastward expansion, which pushed Russia into conflict with Ukraine, the possibility of the labs turning into US factories for making bio-weapons cannot be ruled out.

"The US Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program has provided technical support to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health since 2005 to improve public health laboratories, whose mission is analogous to that of the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention," Weber said in a recent interview.

The US has a rich repertoire of measures to pressure its rivals. As long as the country does not forego its ambition of creating a unipolar world, its actions under the cover of "peace" and "protection" cannot be trusted. Other countries, such as China, who are independent from US geopolitical influence, should examine its purposes.

This is the fundamental difference between the US and China, a country that seeks to uphold multilateralism, and seeks to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
- PrinceLH

Wait, you’re using the official news agency of the People’s Republic of China to support your claim that there are US bio weapons in Ukraine?

The unvaccinated are losers!!! Because of the Science!!! Boom!!! Joe Biden is the best!!!

Go Leafs Go!!! Boom!!!

If Donald Trump's kids left behind a laptop and a diary, Donald could actually be guilty.

The Leafs are the best!!! Better than all the rest!!! Better than anyone!!!!

Treliving has done well so far.

Dubas, you're fired!!!!

I did get the 1994 and 2014 dates incorrect. That would have been under Clinton/Gore. But still, Obama allowed the Russians to take Crimea and settled it there. He also did the same thing to Israel and gave the Palestinian authority the West Bank settlements. That was the Oslo Accords. Why was Obama unilaterally giving up other people's land to appease others?
- PrinceLH

You just make poop up. Obama didn’t give Crimea to Russia. They took it and went after more of Eastern Ukraine who didn’t get much support from the west. Now that Russia has moved against the rest of Ukraine, the US and Europe are supporting Ukraine because poop is getting real. Oh wait, the real story is that Russia and China say it’s bio weapons.

Max Domi
1 year
3 milly

Bertuzzi, Domi, Klingberg and Reaves.

Bertuzzi-Matthews-Marner
Knies-Tavares-Nylander
Domi-Kampf-Jarnkrok
Reaves-Holmberg-Lafferty

Much tougher/poop disturber forward group. No room for Robertson though. Wonder if they move him for a D
- PlatosRepucklic

I was thinking Jankrok would be moved.. Why does he have a M-NMC?

You need to do some research

You can be anti Putin and anti Ukraine. As we all should be
- drexel

You said Ukraine was equally as terrible as Russia.

One of the dumbest posts I've read here in a long time.

"Equally terrible regimes"?

Jesus christ lol
- Fakepartofme

I know right?

That drexel is one dumb frank.

Need a different guy than Brodie to play with Rielly.

Zadorov, Pesce, Oleksiak, etc...

I wonder what everyone would do if an old man sniffed their daughter.

Popped on simply wanting to say holy poop was I ever wrong about Bertuzzi and wwwwwwwooooooooowwwwwwwww lol 😂

I remember when people accused Donald Trump of the things that Joe Biden's daughter described in her diary. Hunter's laptop is DiSiNfOrMaTiOn.

Stick to hockey if you can't be bothered with the Truth.