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Status Updates posted by Brad Marchand
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The Canucks are a lousy hockey team but a pretty entertaining reality show.
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@Brad Marchand i should bet money on the nucks tomorrow, watch em blow the Avs out, im actually considering it lol.
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Happy David Ayres Day, everyone.
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By my count, we've had fans of 6 different teams throw jerseys on the ice this season: Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal and New Jersey.
T'is the season for jersey tossing, I guess.
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This organization, from complaining about the media being too negative to muting out the crowd booing and whittling down the front office to a bunch of yes men, is a dictatorship.
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I love hockey but hate hockey culture.
It's hockey culture that has perpetuated the existence of the old boys club that seems to control pretty much everything that happens in the NHL. It's why clearly incompetent people, from referees to management to coaches to NHL executives, continue to get jobs they aren't qualified to have. It's why people like Kyle Beach can be sexually abused without anyone doing anything about it for years, if ever. It's why players abuse drugs and suffer from the long-term effects of injuries in silence. Everything is about keeping the gang together, hiring your buddies, gatekeeping anyone who tries to bring 'outsider' ideas into the mix, and most importantly, not 'rocking the boat' by calling out the status quo.
Hockey the sport is great and deserves better people in charge. Enough of the nepotistic, toxic old boys club and old school mentality that's clearly putting a stain on the sport's reputation and holding it back.
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are the nfl/nba/mlb any better though? but anyway, these are multi-million dollar businesses, they don't give a &^@# about these issues as long as they bring in big money. don't look to these guys if you want a role model for yourself or your kids. most of them work really hard to get here, but they also do drugs and let's be honest, not many of them have that true character. sure, they can put on the nice guy act for a 5 minute interview, but that's the least you can do if you're played millions.
there are some truly good exemplary guys in there as well, but you can't expect all of them to be that. that's never going to happen. nhl knows that, that's why they are so busy keeping up the image at least. sweeping things under a rug, not rocking the boat etc. think of kane's rape allegations, other kane's betting/gambling problem, the virtanen business. some of these allegations has been proven false in the end, but still, there's always a lot of drama around these players. and that's what has been revealed; god knows what else is under the surface.
perhaps i'm the one who's too cynical, but imo what you want is never going to happen. saying let's clean up the nhl is as ridiculous as saying let's clean up society. we can - and we should - do our best, but it's never going to be perfect. so while i get where you're coming from (very passionate and empathic place), we should demand a 100%, but we should never expect the perfect (100%) result. it just sucks for the nhl players that they are under this magnifying glass all the time.
just be sure that you are a true role model for kids around you, that's the only thing you can control anyway.
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I don't think you're being unreasonable when you say it won't ever be 100% perfect, because nothing ever is. I still think it's worth making an effort to improve the culture of hockey because it frankly isn't good enough right now.
Kids growing up wanting to play hockey shouldn't have to worry about being hazed and abused, we can at least do better there.
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Over/under on how many threads we'll see before next year's draft saying the Canucks should draft this guy?: https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/641020/elias-pettersson
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Tom Wilson lives rent-free in Jack Edwards' head.
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Canada's own Lance Stroll earned his first ever F1 pole position at the Turkish Grand Prix today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQkqz3iXgZM&ab_channel=FORMULA1
There's a motorsports thread but it's been archived. Incidentally, the last post was also from me, when Stroll earned his first podium finish in 2017.
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If Jonathan Marchessault was a Leaf, he would have even more people trying to waste his time.
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I don't think anyone envisioned 2020 unfolding this way.
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what?
i swear if you look at what i wrote and put in the time capsule
you'll clearly see i predicted a world wide pandemic
race protests/riots in the usa that would spread globally
gas at 78 cents a litre in vancouver
oh yeah
and that the nhl would elect to not designate vancouver as a hub city cuz the province does things too damn safely
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Something died and made Kevin Bieksa's head its final resting place:
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@Vanuckles Bieksa joins at about 1:30:05. Steve Dangle was there too and eventually got booted for Dan Murphy lmao.
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Do yourselves a favour and DON'T Google search Jamal Murray.
Or maybe do, perhaps you could use the levity, if you could call it that.
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Google 'spring break' if you want some cheap entertainment.
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Memes are therapy for me at this point.
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The Leafs subreddit is now dedicated to actual leaves: https://www.reddit.com/r/leafs/
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Someone on r/canucks is pretty adamant that Micheal Ferland will sign with the Canucks tomorrow. Won't waste a thread on this since that's the primary source and I'm not at all confident that this will actually happen, but the deal would be roughly 4x4:
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Benning's already said he's out on signing another top-6 forward... unless of course he sees him as a 3rd liner
4x4 is doable, and they'd have all summer to try to figure out a way to move Eriksson or otherwise free up more cap. Ferk would look pretty decent with Horvat and Pearson, moar heaviness, but they need a playmaker there.
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A reminder that people with opinions like these get to decide who wins NHL awards:
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つ ◕_◕ ༽つ CANUCKS LOTTERY BALL TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
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Stolen question from another forum: who finishes with more points: the Tampa Bay Lightning or Nikita Kucherov?
They're both sitting at 120 at the moment.
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I find it fascinating that none of the teams that set the regular season wins records in the NHL, NBA, NFL, or MLB went on to win their respective league championships that year:
- 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings won 62 games and lost in the conference finals
- 2015-16 Golden State Warriors won 73 games and lost in the NBA Finals
- 2007 New England Patriots won 16 games and lost in the Super Bowl
- 1906 Chicago Cubs won 116 games and lost in the World Series; 2001 Seattle Mariners won 116 games and lost in the ALCS