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  1. Dortmund are the Leafs of the Bundesliga, Jesus.

  2. The Canucks are a lousy hockey team but a pretty entertaining reality show.

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    2. Brad Marchand

      Brad Marchand

      The real meta is to put money against the Canucks when they take the lead. Then you either enjoy them winning (fat chance) or rake in the money when they inevitably blow it.

    3. TNucks1

      TNucks1

      @Brad Marchand i should bet money on the nucks tomorrow, watch em blow the Avs out, im actually considering it lol.

    4. smithers joe

      smithers joe

      are we talking about the team or the fans?

  3. Happy David Ayres Day, everyone.

    1. Nuxfanabroad

      Nuxfanabroad

      Should be a national holiday indicating when the leafs start falling.

  4. 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.

    1. hammertime

      hammertime

      Canadian markets so weird free agents don't want to sign here.

    2. Coconuts

      Coconuts

      I doubt anyone knows, but it'd be interesting to know which season has seen the most jerseys tossed by different teams 

       

      A minimum of one jersey thrown for each team featured, not multiple jerseys by the same teams 

    3. Captain Canuck #12

      Captain Canuck #12

      Canadian teams should just have jersey toss night once a year and let these fans get that out of their system (then donate the jerseys to charity)!

  5. 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.

    1. Lil B From The Pack

      Lil B From The Pack

      wow couldn't keep it simply at "Thank You Jim" smh 

    2. Dazzle

      Dazzle

      Good thing the media is good at manufacturing controversies.

       

      This behaviour by the Canucks organization isn't going down well.

  6. 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.

    1. Rubik

      Rubik

      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.

    2. Rubik

      Rubik

      but your cover photo is hilarious :lol: true meme material, has the potential to be a classic.

    3. Brad Marchand

      Brad Marchand

      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.

  7. 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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    2. Ghostsof1915

      Ghostsof1915

      Thing 1 and Thing 2? 

    3. -Vintage Canuck-

      -Vintage Canuck-

      On a similar note, we had Taylor Hall on the Canucks in the 1980s.

    4. Elias Pettersson

      Elias Pettersson

      Who is Elias Pettersson?

  8. Nate Schmidt wants you.

    1. NewbieCanuckFan

      NewbieCanuckFan

      Nate Schmidt was in the navy???

       

       

  9. Status update only to bump another status off the main page.

  10. Tom Wilson lives rent-free in Jack Edwards' head.

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    2. JM_

      JM_

      watched the hit a few times.. not sure how this can't be 5+ games. Not sure how Cap's coach can call that a "hockey hit'? maybe in the 1940s. 

    3. Wilbur

      Wilbur

      Sounds like Wilson has been invited to an in person hearing.

    4. Phil_314

      Phil_314

      yeah, the shoulder came up and he shifted left to go from hitting Carlo's body to squarely engage the head.  How he doesn't get suspended for awhile is beyond me.

  11. 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.

  12. If Jonathan Marchessault was a Leaf, he would have even more people trying to waste his time.

  13. I don't think anyone envisioned 2020 unfolding this way.

    1. luckylager

      luckylager

      Still 6months to go!

      Second half could be all rainbows and unicorns.

       

      Fingers crossed

    2. coastal.view

      coastal.view

      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

       

  14. Something died and made Kevin Bieksa's head its final resting place:

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    1. Bissurnette

      Bissurnette

      Were they doing a zoom call for game 7? Tried Youtubing it, didn't find anything.

    2. Sean Monahan

      Sean Monahan

      is that Steve Dangle at the bottom?

    3. Brad Marchand

      Brad Marchand


      @Vanuckles Bieksa joins at about 1:30:05. Steve Dangle was there too and eventually got booted for Dan Murphy lmao.

  15. 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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    2. smithers joe

      smithers joe

      thanks for the warning.

    3. Shift-4

      Shift-4

      also don't think about a giraffe

    4. J-23

      J-23

      Too late, was up all night yesterday and saw the story. Rip to my eyes.

  16. Google 'spring break' if you want some cheap entertainment.

    1. -AJ-

      -AJ-

      More depressing than anything else, really.

  17. Memes are therapy for me at this point.

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    2. DADDYROCK

      DADDYROCK

      Memes remind me of GARY LARSON,so brilliant and funny in one picture.

    3. Qwags

      Qwags

      I'm in it for the Soundclown and music remixes that have no right to be as good as they are.

    4. Shift-4
  18. The Leafs subreddit is now dedicated to actual leaves: https://www.reddit.com/r/leafs/

    1. Alflives

      Alflives

      Just put this site into my favourites   ::D

       

    2. Coconuts

      Coconuts

      "Contrary to popular belief, the number one threat of maples are not the Boston Bruins but Asian Long Horned Beetles." 

    3. Coconuts

      Coconuts

      I never thought I'd be entertained by Leafs reddit but I was wrong

       

      Post image

  19. 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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    2. Trebreh

      Trebreh

      how will we fit him, Benn and Myers when we still have to sign Boeser though? 

       

       

    3. Gaudette Celly

      Gaudette Celly

      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.

    4. Tystick

      Tystick

      If true then yes please.

      The guy was a pest in the playoffs.

  20. A reminder that people with opinions like these get to decide who wins NHL awards: 

     

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    2. SabreFan1

      SabreFan1

      :picard:

       

      Look at me!  I'm contrarian and that makes me cool, right?!  RIGHT?!

    3. Brad Marchand

      Brad Marchand

      It's honestly part of the reason why I want the voting rights for the NHL awards stripped from the PHWA. Most of these guys don't even follow half the guys they're voting for.

    4. DADDYROCK

      DADDYROCK

      As a Canuck Fan I must say I hope E.P. wins the Calder, when EP was at the All-Star game most of the big time players wanted to meet him.

      Only the very elite rookies ( to me) 18- 23 years olds don't do what PETEY was doing.

      So if he doesn't win the Calder it is a league Travesty.

  21. つ ◕_◕ ༽つ CANUCKS LOTTERY BALL TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

    1. Generational.EP40

      Generational.EP40

      つ ◕_◕ ༽つ CANUCKS LOTTERY BALL TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ 
  22. 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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    2. Nuxfanabroad

      Nuxfanabroad

      Can't believe Claude Lemieux got 160 pts!

    3. -AJ-

      -AJ-

      I thought Kucherov would slow down at the time of that thread, but he hasn't. It continues to be super close.

    4. Pears

      Pears

      I think I’ll say Kucherov tbh. Dude is showing no signs of slowing down. 

  23. 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
    1. goalie13

      goalie13

      Some close ones...

       

      The '72 Dolphins won every game that was available to them and won the Super Bowl.  Not their fault they had 2 fewer regular season games.

       

      The '76-'77 Canadiens only lost 8 games on an 80 game schedule (60 wins) and went on to win the Stanley Cup.

    2. King Heffy

      King Heffy

      2018 Clemson Tigers in NCAA.

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