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I spent my teanage years "Dating Myself" !!

Wikipedia has him as 5' 9" and 185 pounds. Room to grow, but certainly not "tiny".

I'm not sure if this has been said in that I don't have time to read some 60 or 70 pages. I put this loss on the coaches (either Green or Baumgartner or both). Why on Earth did they let Quinn Hughes have 2 plus minute shift near the end of the 3rd period? His exhaustion led to his penalty, led to the 4 on 3 overtime winner.

It's pure logic: All Calgary Flames are hated, Markstrom is a Calgary Flame, Therefore, Marhstrom is hated. Just like: the following (cat = normal cat) No cat has two tails, One cat has one more tail than no cat. Therefore, one cat has three tails!!

Justin Trudeau?

Had to comment here, I agree on Nash maybe not being the most talented, but it would be hard to find a more versatile athlete. I watched him play in high school in basketball. I watched him the BC Championship Rugby game, playing fullback. He was also the team's kicker and could placekick with either foot. He was a very good soccer player. Won the Victoria area long jump and triple jump. Also played some hockey and baseball, and many said that his best sport was lacrosse! On top of that, his coach Ian Hyde-Lay at St. MIchael's was almost as good an all rounder as well.

I have to chime in here on this. 6 years, grade 1 to grade 6 before I got a ribbon (3rd place in a relay race that had only 3 entrants!). Another 5 years before I found my event (pole vault) and began to get ribbons. Cut from about 5 different teams from grade 3 to grade 9 before I found my team (rugby, because they had a 2nd team)). 5 years of 2nd division, before I made 1st division (UVIC tour of Great Britain 1969). The same sort of thing happened in education, 2nd to lowest of 5 grade 7 divisions. Two years later, up to the 1st division or 4 in grade 9. One of top students in school by grade 12. Eventually taking honours courses in 4th year Math. If I had been given a participation ribbon, I doubt that I could have done this. I still have ALL my ribbons and awards because they were so hard to get. I even have my Dad's track ribbons and school rugby photo from North Vancouver High School in 1924. What we are witnessing in schools now, is students, and parents, are expecting an "A" or a "B" for just showing up.Sorry for the rant.

My favourite book growing up was 7 Habits of Highly Effective Bench Warmers! I played rugby for 35 years, most of it at div 2 and div 3. I had a few years at First Division (what is now called Premier league), but when I had a bad game, I'd be dropped. I loved the game, and 4 of the players in my position who played ahead of me, played for Canada or BC teams. I trained with them and against them, I analyzed what they did that I didn't (quite a bit!), so gradually I learned strategy, and training techniques. Same when I pole vaulted. I became an okay coach of over 80 teams in basketball, rugby and track, although I was never very great at any. So Baumgartner is in the same situation.

I leave no turn unstoned to solve my issues!

Back to basketball. You teach the players in defence to form a triangle between their check, and the ball and the player. Draw an imaginary line from ball to check, move about 1/3 of the way to you check, them drop a bit towards the hoop to form the defensive triangle. This stops players from just watching the ball or watching their check. Develop their peripheral vision by staring into the space between check and ball and use peripheral vision to see both their check and the ball at the same time. I have never played hockey, but would it work? Then maybe we wouldn't see this sort of defense.

Motte combines speed and a shot with the work ethic of Jannik Hansen.

Sounds like a Q-Anon version of the inauguration.

Or poorer defenses to be Mr. Negative here.

Win two, lose one, and they are at 4 - 6. Not out of it yet kiddo!

Hi Deb: This is an interesting point. As a teacher and a tutor for over 50 years I have really got to know a bit about teaching. I have always thought of myself of a learner, just a bit further ahead IN SOME AREAS, as my students. During a typical year I would see about 200 or so different students with 7 classes with around 30 students in each class. As a tutor, I see one student at a time. Somewhere, in between those extremes is a sweet spot that works with the budget of the school system. I have also taught in 5 private schools where the class sizes were from 5 to about 24 students. There is a difference. I would love to be able to get to each student, how to motivate them, what interests them, what type of a learner are they. I know nothing about the "terrible teacher" above, but I will say, that this is an important job and a difficult job to be successful at.

What we need is a "Harmonic Mean!!"

He had to go to the bathroom!!

Got my keg of Bubba Beer:

I have a Guinness. That's enough!

I've never played hockey but watched it since the early 60's. But I have coached basketball for over 20 years. When we came up with a dominating player on the other team (like McDavid), we used to go into a "box and one" zone defence. Here one player would shadow the dominating player one-on-one, while the other four players ran a zone defence in the shape of a box. Hockey teams play a zone defence on the power play, would this work in hockey??

Even 18th century Mathematicians like the "Eulers". Leonard Euler's last name was pronounced "Oiler". Here is his family crest:

I started teaching in Vancouver the year (1970) the Canucks played their first game. I vowed to keep teaching until they won the Stanley Cup. I hope they do soon!!

So YOU are the "Piano Man" I once had Hans Operknockerty come to tune my piano and he did such a terrible job I asked him to return and do it again. He replied, "Operknockerty tunes only once" !!

That's called a "GROIVID" !!

Four schools in the Cowichan area (Vancouver Island) with COVID problems today.