Tocchet's bang on so far, as the Knights rattled off wins against the Kings and Blackhawks to begin the Cassidy era. 'People are ripping the Knights too much for my liking, in the sense that, yeah, they didn't make the playoffs last year due to some (difficult) circumstances, but you look on paper and they've still got some really good hockey players,' Tocchet said on a preseason conference call with reporters. Rick Tocchet, the former NHL player and coach now analyzing the sport on TNT broadcasts, pushes back on the skepticism. And so here we are.After a turbulent offseason that saw Bruce Cassidy assume head-coaching duties, starting goalie Robin Lehner ruled out for the entire year, and star forward Max Pacioretty traded for future considerations (ie: nothing) to clear cap space, pundits and fans are low on Vegas, relatively speaking. Then the blond British clown flew in, like the American lapdog that he was, and told Zelensky neither the UK nor US would accept any such deals. Only thing missing was Zelensky and Putin meeting and signing. As they themselves put neutrality forward in the deal to be signed in March this year.

The Ukrainian government is open to any solutions that would guarantee it's long term security.Īnd that is actually true. If you claim they were, for supporting one side then NATO is at war today. Truth is, it is literally impossible to implement the agreements without Russian cooperation, which was not forthcoming. So the question to you, was Russia just supposed to let a liar slaughter thousands of ethnic Russians? Especially when Zelensky escalated by amassing an army. I don't know, instead of building up a force, you know, not build it up? Go talk to people? Zelensky had all the power to stop the unrest. Unless you're going to say it was a Ukraine Russia war? Are we going to rewrite history to this degree? Russia was supporting one side, of course, but it was not a party to the conflict. Russia was not part of the agreement in the same way Ukraine was. The Ukrainian government is open to any solutions that would guarantee it's long term security. Joining NATO would do that, but so would other solutions. Securing guarantees of further military support in case of future Russian invasions is.

And Ukraine has made clear that joining NATO is not it's priority. Truth is Ukraine didn't implement the agreements because it would take them one step away from joining NATO. Instead it was responded with further escalation from Russia. Zelensky ran on the promise to stop the conflict in Donbas.Īnother thing that would require cooperation from Russia. Was Ukraine supposed with completely withdraw it's defensive forces from eastern Ukraine while Russia continued to refuse to promise to do the same? Of course you think so, don't you. Russia refused to withdraw it's troops from the Donbass as stipulated by the agreement.

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