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  1. 8 hours ago, SabreFan1 said:

     

    Not a she or a they.  Still have a penis.  And on a TMI note.  It got groped on Monday by the lady doing a doppler scan of my kidney.  She's my new favourite med tech at the medical center I go to now.  :lol:

     

    *edit* added 2nd quote.

     

    Nice to see you're around, hope to see you at the new site. https://www.forumcanucks.com Especially with how good the Sabres future is looking.

     

    p.s. Can I get a referral? ;)

     

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  2. 2 hours ago, theo5789 said:

    I think that's the monthly amount.

     

    But yes feels like a short sighted decision. However all that matters in this market is that they are a successful team and the "fans" will spend. And now that we have our "new" forum, they are also saving on this cost as well while we maintain our community. So in the end, it's a smart business decision on their end?

     

    This reminds me of the Eddie Murphy Raw movie when he's talking about Johnny Carson and his wife getting divorced. He made a joke about how happy with a big smile Johnny looked in the paper one day when the caption read "Johnny worth 300 million". Next week Johnny was in the exact same pose but this time he had a huge frown and the caption read, Johnny getting divorced, wife wants half - 150 million. He then went on to talk about how his ex wasn't exactly doing 50% of the work in the relationship. Eddie was hypothetically asking, "so did his ex like get like a job cleaning on the weekends and she was all happily talking to Johnny each week saying "ok so here's my $75 ... now we have 300 million and 75 dollars. I want half. :lol:

     

    Anyways, saving $1800 a year doesn't seem like much of a big deal when they charge $47 for two hotdogs and two beers at a game to go along with $300 tickets. 

  3. 2 hours ago, stawns said:

    pretty much

    Didn't I see on here it only costs $150 a year or what is so costly if it has no employees or overhead? I would imagine it takes a fair bit of storage space but that's as cheap as borscht these days.

     

    1 hour ago, EddieVedder said:

    Doubt a message board is too much work. If you have ppl running a website, the message board isnt going to cost much more if at all.

    Yeah, I don't think it's costly. Personally I think FA got tired of people giving their opinions on how much we've sucked the past decade. This site certainly doesn't make any money or provide an avenue towards getting more money. That would be my guess.

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  4. 10 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said:

    True.  The running theory is Vintage is, or was, more than one person.  If you look at his posting history, it is quite different now than 10 years ago.  Sounds like different people.  His posts from 2010/2011 sound like he's pretty young, much different than now.

     

    If I had to guess, the Vintage of today is not the same person from 2010.  And he, or she, started working for the Canucks much later than 2010.  The Vintage of today is 100% a Vancouver Canucks employee.  Nobody could spend this much time on this forum without being paid.  He averages probably 50 posts per day plus all the research that goes into the posts.  He's not just replying to people.  He's posting relevant Canucks and NHL information daily...

     

    5 hours ago, -AJ- said:

    For the sake of my dignity, please don't look at my 2010 posts (jk I don't care), but my posting has changed quite significantly over the years too. I was just 17 when I joined CDC, and despite how mature I felt at the time, I changed quite a bit over my years at CDC.

     

    Yeah I agree. Sometimes people make very different paradigm shifts in the way they post. I know I've went though some pretty big conceptual shifts myself.

     

    I remember first posting in 2007 after lurking for some time under a different account name. Someone finally said something I thought was so unbelievably silly I had to respond. I couldn't believe this poster named @Millerdraft I think called me out on my quick hot take and could dish it out in return even better than me. I did quickly come to realize there were a fair number of posters that followed the Canucks even more closely than I did. My posting style has changed and I noticed others have as well. @DownUndaCanuck is one guy I remember as being dramatically different.

  5. 1 hour ago, Coconuts said:

    It's basically been an open secret for years, media folks would troll the forum for article material, ideas, and stances 

     

    We did a lot of their work for them

     

    You knew it, a lot of us did 

     

    There would be discussion and articles mirroring said discussion would pop up

     

    Wishing you the best

     

    Executives, management, and ownership out of touch with their source of income, the fanbase, shocker

    I don't think Drance has ever had an original thought in his entire repertoire. I'd imagine we write more than 50% of the media driven material here. I really miss real journalism.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Sativika said:

    I don't really remember exactly when I joined. It was post 2011 I believe. Sedins, Jannik and Kessler were still around. My handle at the time was NexusRift.

    There was a glitch with CDC a lil' while back and I had to sign in again with what is now Sativika.

     

    I can't express enough how much I enjoy being a part of CDC. I've belonged to a few forum sites and was a Mod on a couple. All voluntary, all fun! I guess online forums are going by the wayside. It's really a product made for desktop computers, of which I'm using right now and have been since 1997.

     

    I'm an oldster and have yet to use my old iPhone6 for anything other than calls and texts; still use email, and FB. Point I'm making I guess, is that it's out with the old and in with the new. At least there's hockey to watch. Gonna catch the youngens on the CanucksYouTube at 2pm.

    Go Canucks Go!!!!!!

     

    I find desktops have more way more powerful operating procedures. Both the function and the programming are far better. Phones are dumbing everything down so much in order to make them easy to use ... but in the end they lack creativity and overall end results. They are trying more and more to make desktops look and operate like a phone. It's annoying to no end.

  7. 4 hours ago, EddieVedder said:

    Yea makes no sense.

    What happened was FA came on here and didn't like seeing what the critics thought of the team, his personal business dealings,  and family drama.

     

     

     

    Insecure Billionaires. Talk about 1st world to the exponential extreme problems. Poor baby Francesco.

  8. 3 hours ago, stawns said:

    that's just a dumb take on it

    https://www.forumcanucks.com/

     

    This site looks like it will be almost identical except Vintage is taking a little break.

     

    We'll just have to make up for it by committee. 

     

    You can't just replace a player ... er I mean poster like @Vintage Canuck :towel:

     

    Hope to see you there. I really appreciate your calm demeanor towards the players, especially those people gang up on. Your coaching and playing background and unique views are very much appreciated as well.

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  9. 9 hours ago, 6of1_halfdozenofother said:

    I wouldn't be too certain about the bolded bit.  Based on how things are unfolding with trying to get @-Vintage Canuck- to join us over at the new forum, it would seem that at least one might be on the payroll (even if their job duties that they're being paid for did not involve engagement in the forum).  And if in fact @-Vintage Canuck- is a Canucks staffer, then I take back my desire to know their identity, and would instead go with @Warhippy's suggestion of at best letting us know what role they play in the org instead of self-identifying - because if they expose their full identity, then it may result in them losing their job, which I would never wish upon someone who does it with such precision and determination, since it's clear they love their job.

    Wouldn't knowing what role they are in defeat the whole point of remaining unknown?

  10. 28 minutes ago, -DLC- said:

    There are a lot of "marking specialists and strategists" out there. Good and bad...they don't all hit the mark.

     

    And I think we've managed to do so here....our numbers would support that.

     

    They need to spend more on analyzing on ice and less on off ice stuff.

     

    This seems like such a horrible call. Thank you so much for all the hours, effort, and love you have put forth here on CDC. To you, @-SN- . @-AJ- it is very much appreciated. Thanks as well to everyone for making this such a great place to visit.

     

    I suppose I'll have to like get a job or something now. :lol:

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  11. 4 minutes ago, Warhippy said:

    NO, this is bullshit.

     

    You come.  You come NAO

     

    Adulting can wait.  

     

    No Vintage no home.

     

    It's like moving in to a new house and trying to poop on weird new fangled toilet seats.  it isn't right, it isn't comfortable and it isn't home.  You come be our toilet seat dammit

     

    I can't believe this. Social media is horrible. I'll miss you all.

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  12. 12 minutes ago, aGENT said:

    It's a shame ARZ reportedly wants to start competing this season. For a cool $1m of actual salary, we could have taken say Crouse and his $17.2m ($4.3x4) in salary back, saving that penny-pinching org over $16m in cash commitment.

     

    Waiving him only clears ~$1.1m of his cap. Buying him out (which we already missed) would actually cost us MORE cap once you factor in his replacement.

     

    Every player playing in the NHL (and probably a few hundred who aren't) are "ok" by default.

     

    Myers could be a decent, complementary 2nd pair, offensive leaning D with size/intangibles, good leadership etc who occasionally brain farts and needs a good defensive D to cover him (the exact type of D who would also pair with Hughes, OEL, Schmidt etc that we've coincidentally been lacking).

     

    I'm not suggesting that properly partnered/roled and puck supported that he'd be better than Hughes, I'm saying that he'd more often than not be put in position to make a net positive difference to the lineup. Something he (nor a bunch of other Canucks in the past 5+ years) have been put in position to do. 

     

    One of these decades I'll figure out how this game works ... or not. :unsure:

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  13. Just now, aGENT said:

    What do you think building a TEAM actually is? 

     

    It's pretty complex I think. It definitely involves those things you mentioned. I don't think it makes every player "ok" by default just because they lack some of these conditions though. A player can both be bad and be in a bad situation as was Myers. I find good players still find a way to shine through in tough situations. You can see they are still playing good hockey despite the results. I just didn't even see basic good plays or instincts out of Myers from my vantage point.

     

    I'am sure you're right though and we'll see how good Myers really is this year. I am eagerly waiting to be wrong about him.

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