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Didn't some once say, "A chicken in every pot"?

Almost all Math courses in BC now have a "financial literacy" section, and have had for a year or two. "Fake news" that schools do not teach about finance. How much is learned though, is a different topic!

A good book to read, or listen to on Audible.com is: "The Coddling of the American Mind". It's aimed at the USA, but almost everything is the same up here. You really get to understand how we have become such a "Whiney" bunch of people. Also, a Math puzzle that is appropo: If the lilly pads in a lake double every day, and started that on March 1st. The lake was completely covered in lily pads on March 30th. Question, when was the lake half covered? Welcome to exponential growth.

I think that Fantenburg is actually much greater than we are seeing. So I googled it and sure enough, only one-seventh to one-tenth of a "berg" is ever showing above water!!

I was going to write this limerick: "Always been a fan of the Canuck, But on draft numbers there was no luck. But getting EP40 and Hughes, Have stifled all the boos, And now they very rarely suck! " However after the last few games, I'm not sure I will....

Or rename the team the "British Columbia" Canucks.

On being a Captain: I have played with many different Captains (in rugby), and have been a Captain myself. In all cases, we knew that there were some players who were great at leading and motivating us on the field, that may not have been the Captain. I was there because of on field decisions needed someone who a good sense of tactics. However, I never was the player who lead my being outstanding, putting out massive tackles, making great runs. Now things are different in hockey, but does the Canuck's captain have a different job than been the team motivator?

A question to you knowledgeable fans out there. I have noticed that the Canucks' passing has not been very good lately. So I have 3 questions: (1) Does the league keep track of passes attempted and completed? (2) Does the league keep track of time of possession? (3) Is there an "unwritten rule" about that if you are close to the centre line you can dump it in without it being called for icing? If, how close?

“WYSIWYG” means "What You See Is What You Get", from ancient (1978-1984) computer talk. Icon understand that !!

Here are four things that I first saw with the Sedins. I like to think they invented them, but you guys know better. (1) The cycle game. I know they did not invent it, but they sure perfected it. (2) The hard shot from their own end to the far boards. Usually offside, but they had the other brother charging down to beat the devender and negate the offside. (3) The "up-and-under" pass, high in the air, from their end, to come down onto the other's stick near the far blue line. (4) The pass the puck to themselves from behind the net, by bouncing it off the net. I await the bombardment of "let me correct you" comments.

There is more than one way to get even when the ref misses a call. I remember a rugby game I was in, when our start player got tackled late, and no call made. A few minutes later, he deked the guy out and ran in a try. On his way back to centre he went by that guy, showing him that that is the way to get back at someone legally. You must understand that there is no fighting in rugby. (Lots of pushing and shoving, swinging of handbags, underhanded stuff. But no lets "drop the gloves" and go it type of fighting). Red cards mean you're out for the whole game, AND your team plays short a man for the rest of the game. In hockey, a good, clean hit, a goal or a beautiful set up evens things up.

Two things stick out for me. In the defensive end when there is open puck, the Canucks are often beaten to it because of the first two or three strides. Too many take long strides, while the opposition is taking short, choppy strides and getting there quicker. Thus we lose many puck battles in our defensive end. Secondly, I hope that do a major video analysis on defense against a defensive zone faceoff. They were terrible on that tonight, and haven't been great all year at it. And one other thing, over the past few years, sometimes the defense gets to running around like, what we would call in the 1960's, a Ch____e Fire Drill. As soob as that starts to happen, you know they are going to get scored upon. Let the bad game go, learn from it, and move on. Just remember that in the Stanley Cup finals in ___ years. (Fill in the blank).

Ho-hum another win. This winning all the time is getting boring! (Sarcasm...)

20 minutes to game time and I am wondering if the Canucks are Able to contain Kane?

Have a Happy New Year everybody. Oh wait, I know that you are going to have a Happy New Year because I have 2020 ForeSight!

I am actually 72. I was teaching Math up to Nov 6 of this year (2019). I was in my 50th year of teaching having started teaching in Vancouver in 1970. Because the Vancouver Canucks started in Vancouver in 1970, I had always vowed to keep teaching until they won the Stanley Cup. I don't think I can hang on.....

I always thought LOL stood for "Lots Of Love". Maybe that is why so many of my sympathy texts weere never answered!!

Back in the 50's we used to call the CCM bicycle the "Craziest Crate Made" !!

Oh, I totally agree. Hockey goal trends actually look more like a : y = - cos(x) curve from 0 to 180 degrees!!

Interesting problem. I was just working last week with tutoring a Foundations of Math 12 student in "lines, or curves, of best fit" and interpolating and extrapolating the results. If I use this data of (2016, 7), (2018, 10), (2019, 15) and (2020, 22), I get a line of best with an exponential equation of y= 0.0689716157 (1.328648205)^x. I know using all those decimals seems ridiculous, but when you round off it really affects the curve. Anyway, interpolating, I got a value of 8.6 goals for the year 2016-2017. Extrapolating I get 20.27 goals for 2019-2020, 26.93 goals for 2020-2021 and 35.78 goals for 2021-2022. After that it gets silly.

A few years ago there was posted a top 50 in US Collegiate Hockey. At number 1 was Boesser, at number 50, just in his first year in College was Gaudette. Guess who was number 2?.......Motte.

My only hope is that on Canuck's Penalty Kill they keep a better eye on Dreysital as he sets up shop on the right hand side. He is dangerous there.

Remember that Boeser has a sick father who is probably on his mind a lot.

Anyone notice (I haven't read all of the pages) that all of the Canuck's goals tonight were scored by players that Benning traded for. Seems that, as well as drafting well, he is improving in the trading department. By the way Roussel is on pace for 123 goals over an 82 game season, and Miller is on pace for 35 or 36 goals!

I haven't time to read all ten pages of comments, but I haven't seen anyone comment on this: There are two payers in the league, that I have seen, who "set up an office" on the power play. Ovechkin sets his up on the left and Draisaitl on the right. They both let their team draw the defense on a power play over to the opposite side, and then they get an open pass and slap shot it home. My question is why do the Canucks not keep one player watching this move? Last game versus Washington, I saw Ovechkin open for a shot at least four times, and last night, that is how Draisaitl got his two goals. In basketball defense we would call it a box and one, here we should use a triangle and one, with one person watching for that pass. Petterson used to do that for the Canucks on the power play, but you can see that the defense is much closer to him now, and he isn't as open.