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    Scandinavians everywhere! Sports: loves hockey, soccer, tennis, volleyball, figure skating. Enjoys singing/dancing, theatre sports, sci-fi movies, comic-cons & saunas. T.V. faves: The Good Place, IT Crowd, The 100, The Masked Singer, dystopian Sci-Fi or almost anything from the DC & Marvel comic book worlds, can’t help but watch absurd US political theatre, Masterpiece Theatre, & stuff on the History Channel like Vikings, of course!

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  1. This is the worst ”boy who cried wolf” prank since the Y2K cyber-crash-warnings. Yawn!! See ya tomorrow, then the day after that, & the day after that…
  2. Other than being a fan of Louie,…a hard-luck viking but empty-net-time gold…or Jeff Cowan,…yes, your words do seem to be streaming from an alternate universe. Benning may have been a decent talent-scout, but he was a bungler as GM. Socially awkward at every turn, it was pretty clear early on that Jimbo was inept at managing relationships or interacting with people. Often it’s a mix of intangibles that motivate, fuel & guide teams onto championships, something Benning couldn’t appreciate with his deficiencies. He mismanaged the Nux’s team-chemistry in ways that Allvin appears to be solving. Drafting & keeping “Tuna’ in the fold for as long as he did, was perhaps his biggest gaff of all…letting Tanev walk away without proper out-reach or discussions, was easily his 2nd. Enjoy all of the fire & brimstone in your netherworld!
  3. Who are you?? Tanev is the best, he’s medication, he’s an anti-cancer! He wasn’t resigned & that’s when the team’s D really went to hell. Toffoli could have been given more respect & love too. Tanev is a heart & soul guy, and Hughes knows it! Quinn wishes he were already here to share that wealth of knowledge he has about this league’s craftiest players. Tan-man is consistent, reliable, stealy & calm. Logging minutes within a structured team is what Tanev is all about, he’s a textbook guy. If there are injuries on this up & coming D-corps…Chris could be there to help-out with ANY of their young defenseman thrown into the fray…so unlike what we would expect to see from the “chaos giraffe”.
  4. Phlffffftt! Not a chance! I’ll admit - Petey embellished there. But, when it works for the other teams…sometimes he’s been tempted to go there. RT will be fixing that. I wonder however, as the Canucks’ window is opening,…if we risk losing both Petey & Huggy, eventually - when it looks to close, again…or by the time they become free agents. Hughes may wish to reunite with his bros in NJ & Petey may jump at going to climates more friendly & markets that give him far more anonymity! The speculation about a supposed bite-mark on his hand?? Yah, that poor dude will always be under a freakin’ microscope, here. Lay off, people! The time really is NOW, while he’s an RFA & we cannot give any other marketplace the optics that we’re in anyway dissatisfied, or that he is…so that they won’t throw silly money offers at him, that we may be forced to match. Bringing in Tanev? Don't mortgage the farm, but woo him over, for sure! He was great during the Canucks’ last SCup final & during their bubble run. He’s uber-invested, popular & familiar as a forever-Canuck, a top-notch PRO whom this team can fully & very easily embrace, again. There’s already the incentive to rally around him to take care of some unfinished business - especially if BOS is the team that emerges from the east. He will definitely know how to both trigger & deal with McDavid & Draisatl. Chris’ on-ice courage, stealy calm & veteran experience is just a small part of the clutch-time leadership he’ll be able to offer!
  5. I beg to differ… This is modern-day stuff! This song is about the viking spirit going west! It’s here!!! Ahhhhh, ahhhh,aaahhhhh, ahh!!!
  6. Yes…we do need him. EP40 will “viking” power this team all the way to the Stanley Cup!
  7. I want to say, he will learn. Doesn’t every member of a winning team want to pull their own weight & contribute. Goals is not the only way to contribute. Wins is more relevant. Sure he scored a lot of goals last season…but the team did NOT make the play-offs. The next few weeks will be telling in as far as his character goes. Is he a selfish & egotistical being or a team/player? I believe Petey may be going through the same challenges. Petey will rise up like…Pavel Datsyk or Patrice Bergeron. Play the right way for the team & the rewards will come. Make the players around you better. Kuzmenko’s work ethic & coach-ability is being tested & so is the patience of his coaches & teammates. I hope all of his advisors, friends & family get on board with the coach’s program, too & I hope he doesn’t fall into the vice of back-biting or crying “woe is me”! Rise-up! We’re all rooting’ for ya Kuzy! Goals are secondary to the process! And the process…is the winning formula! The team needs spontaneous synergy, instinctive structure, & harmonious line-changes. Be a more reliable cog in the machine, dude! Cheers & have a…Merry Christmas!
  8. If it’s still here, January 1, 2024…do we all flock back? Is this another “Y2K”-like hoax, that someone other than ourselves has seemingly profited by…& who exactly would that be? Advertising? Increased liabilities or hackability? No more authorization, compensation, protections or perks for admin? Why??? It’s a mystery!
  9. Just un-close it…mistake made…do whatever course-correcting you feel needs to be done…..but stay!
  10. Zadorov arrived in just the nic of time, to suit up versus his old team. It’ll only be up from here!
  11. Burrows! Gotta love him! Bring him back, in any capacity, to be a lucky charm! He’s gotta have luck stored-up in spades after being vilified by certain refs, (Auger’s union bros), who narcissisticly favoured carry-over retribution for perceived slights while officiating, something wholly unwarranted & unfair. I no longer perceive the Vancouver Canucks to be struggling progressive outsiders,..now that they have a bonafide “insider” leading this team’s management group. The Canucks now possess their own popular narrative of how their young emerging-super-star captain Quinn Hughes, (member of the newest 1st family of hockey) is leading his long-suffering team onto new heights of success & threatening to overcome the longest SCup drought in hockey history. After witnessing the early success of several generously-rewarded US expansion teams down south, the Canucks & Sabres, deserve a little love & attention in compensation for the lack of generosity offered them, previously. Not to mention, compensation deserved for the atrocious officiating-bias the Canucks had to face, when VAN met perennial old-school media faves like the NYR (‘94), BOS (‘11) and the NYI dynasty (‘82) during SC-Finals past. Those on-ice officiating debaucles were suspicious, at best, in favoring the two league-hyped, Cup-starved & enabled O-6 teams in particular. If the Canucks have a season that puts them in play-off contention,..I sincerely hope the usual proven-to-be-suspect NHLOA officials, DO NOT make appearances in any series they play along the way, let alone during any possible SCFinal, in VAN’s future. Repeating officiating gaffs & misinterpreting or mishandling drama at this level, should be “disqualifying”, as it would be in any IIHF contest, where they seem to take eliminating the perception of bias far more seriously. The NHL, however, repeatedly states a “garbage opinion”, that it considers referees who have worked in more “complicated” games with “heightened drama” to be experienced! Hah! Those play-off games had more miscues, gaffs & controversy BECAUSE of the bias, poor temperament &/or incompetence of the officials involved. The most senior officials are NOT necessarily, the best! Sutherland &/or O’Rourke (or anyone else named Devorski or O’Halloran) are NOT entitled, by virtue of their seniority, to any more do-overs involving our ‘Nucks! Thank-you!!!
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