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  1. Glad to do it, as far as I am concerned you were owed a few likes for your posts in the Hong Kong and other CCP related threads.
  2. The easiest way to shut down discourse you don't like is to claim that it is offensive. I am surprised any of the other 'phobias' weren't thrown around to cover all the bases.
  3. The Canucks official website is under the domain nhl.com, but the forum is under the domain name canucks.com. Its literally right there in your search bar. Again if the NHL was the one shutting down forums then they would have closed all of them down at once and not left some alive and closed down others.
  4. The forum is under the domain canucks.com, its not under nhl.com. Lots of teams don't have forums or have closed their forums ages ago. The NHL wasn't the one that forced those teams to close their forums.
  5. The Jackets and their management look awful in all of this. They hired Babcock despite his history. Then when first sign of misconduct was reported, it took them a day to put out that statement supporting Babcock. They showed their players that don't actually care about their well being. They also made their captain to look like a weak leader and a shill for management. The same goes for the NHLPA, their primary responsibility is to their union members but they too initially chose to side with the team. There are no winners in this scenario except maybe the guys that broke this story. I actually don't think Babcock meant any ill intent when this all went down. I think he is just an out of touch 60 year old man, who does not understand that there is a way to do this without making people uncomfortable. If he understood the way the kids in this generation use technology he would not have put them on the spot and asked them to pull up images on their phones. The way to do this was to speak to the players before hand, ask them to send the photos that they were comfortable with sharing to the IT department so they could set up a meeting where everyone got to know each other. I think Babcock is done after this debacle there is no way he gets another job in the NHL again.
  6. The format of Reddit doesn't allow for quality discussions, the upvote system means that click bait content gets pushed to the top. Its a good way to get information but its terrible for any nuanced discourse.
  7. I don't know who I am going to talk to about the team anymore, I don't really know any Canucks fans. I used to know a guy from high school who used to be a huge Canucks fan but we aren't really in touch anymore. This sucks as I have been more excited about this season than I have been in years and I am not someone who says that every year. Been on this forum for nearly half of my life. I remember at one point due to my mental health I had cut ties with everyone in my person life so CDC was the only avenue to express myself socially. I am in a much better place now but some of the connections I built here have really come to mean a lot to me. I am going to truly miss this place.
  8. I think he cares more about his former teammates than he is worried about his perception among us. I hate to say it but the relationship between players and fans is transactional, there is no real benefit for Horvat to seek our approval anymore.
  9. I agree with you that I highly doubt that Pettersson wasn't offered the captaincy but I think you are going too far Alf. Petey is a young Swede, just about all of them are excellent at English. If it weren't for their accent you wouldn't even know that they weren't native speakers. Petey is certainly not 'new to English'. He is a careful speaker and that's not because of a language barrier, he just gives thoughtful answers to any questions that he is asked and he is not someone that is really comfortable in front of a camera. If you listen to the Friedman interview a few days earlier he said himself that he especially enjoys speaking to Petey describing him as 'cerebral' even during their conversations.
  10. Kravtsov now with 1G 3A in 4 games, pretty strong start. Still think there is some potential here and the KHL is not a bad place for him to develop him game. The NHL is not a development league and Kravtsov at this point is nothing but a role player. Rather than just floating around for a couple of years, its best that he goes somewhere he can play meaningful minutes. Nichushkin is a good example of a guy going back working on his game and coming back to the NHL a much better player. Had he stayed I doubt he develops into anything more than a bit part player. Of course you get the typical cliched posts whenever a Russian player does decide to head back, "he wasn't willing to do what it takes so he took his ball and went home'. In some cases it is definitely true but in others the player in question is giving up a bigger paycheque and temporarily putting the dream to play in the NHL on hold to go back home and actually work on his game. Most of these guys come over far too soon based on advice from their agents, and fail to acclimate to NA. I would have said Podz could have stayed a little longer, but SKA is just a tough place for young players, so its probably best that he did come over when he did.
  11. How did you get that from my post? If a practice facility wasn't an advantage then teams wouldn't spend millions building one. The Canucks going to the Finals in 1982, 1994 and 2011 is a poor argument for why one is not needed. The Canucks having a poor start could have to do with a number of factors, one of which could be the lack of a practice facility but it is not the sole determining factor obviously.
  12. This is a poor argument. Its quite similar to some of the arguments against analytics, 'the 70s Canadiens and the 80s Oilers teams didn't use analytics so why bother with those analytics nerds.' If it wasn't useful then teams wouldn't be investing millions of dollars into it, and now that every team makes use of it, it puts you at a disadvantage if you don't have one. The game and times evolve, and if you aren't willing to change to adapt to those times then you get left behind. It doesn't only apply to the NHL either, it can be applied to any industry/business, 'Adapt or die'.
  13. This will end up being a mistake. Ducks are not going to be competing in the next two years so the cap savings will go to waste. Zegras is way too skilled to not improve on his point totals while will mean that the Ducks will end up paying more than they have to in a couple of years time. Considering that they will be competing with us in the future I have zero problem with this.
  14. Can't say I "know" anything but I do find it suspicious that similar comments were made the last time there was talk of a new contract. I am not saying Petey is lying that he wants to win, but imo it seems to be bit of a negotiation tactic as well. I also find it weird that Petey's agents made comments just a few months earlier stating that they were looking to get a deal done. Somehow now its decided that he isn't even going to negotiate until next off-season? Something seems off right here, management isn't going to come out and talk about it but I am sure based on the agent's comments they had to have some preliminary discussions. I am speculating but I think those discussions weren't particularly fruitful. I think whether it was term or dollars, there was probably a wide enough gulf for the discussions to be shelved from Petey's camp. He will have a lot of leverage next year, as if the discussions go nowhere again he can just accept the qualifying offer and head to UFA. I do ultimately believe that both sides will be sufficiently motivated next off-season to make compromises to get a deal done. Of course I acknowledge the possibility that I will be proven wrong but I don't believe for one second he has any intention of leaving. He is currently the face of the franchise and from a financial stand point it makes no sense to throw away all the equity he has earned in this market to go somewhere else. There are no guarantees that he will win a Cup with his next team. Even Horvat who has been frequently mentioned in this thread wanted to stay but the Canucks weren't ready to meet his lofty contract demands. That will not be the case with Pettersson, management knows there is no way they achieve any of the goals they have set out without him. Ultimately I don't think we will particularly love the terms of that contract as we probably won't be getting much of a discount but I do believe it will get done eventually.
  15. This isn't a very good argument. That 20M is going to spread out over 8 years, and it will count against the cap. That money was always going to be spent regardless. Even a notoriously cheapskate owner in Charles Wang gave Rick DiPietro a boatload of cash to go away and that was on a compliance buyout no less. I suppose you could credit ownership for spending to the cap but that's no longer that special anymore. If you look at the cap numbers, 2/3 of the NHL is pressed up against the ceiling. And the ones that aren't, only a handful of GMs don't have the green light to spend all the way to the cap if it makes sense for the direction of the franchise. Willingness to spend money on players (ie. talent) is no longer an advantage in the current NHL, its should be considered doing the bare minimum. I wouldn't say use the word cheap to describe our ownership but they are tight on the purse strings, the coaching saga last year was just another example of it. Its clear management did not have confidence in Boudreau but yet they weren't able to make a move and it may have cost us a season.
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