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  1. While that's a nice thought. Honestly, if you watch the news; papers; social media. Covid is yesterdays news. it took a back seat to Ukraine. Which took a larger back seat to Will Smith slapping a guy. To the larger parts of the population, covid is effectively over. Watch and wait to see what happens.
  2. Which record do you feel could be broken in your lifetime?

     

    Teemu Selanne: 76 goal rookie season

     

    Paul Coffey:  48 goals in a season by a defenceman

     

    Wayne Gretzky:  50 goals in 39 games

     

    Wayne Gretzky: 92 goals in 80 games

     

    Bobby Orr: 139 point season for a defenceman

     

    Darryl Sittler:  10 points in one game?

     

     

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    2. Western Red

      Western Red

      @-AJ- Yea, that's the caveat for sure.

    3. Iron Fist

      Iron Fist

      don't think any are realistically possible. most likely to least likely in order-

       

      1. 48 goals by defenseman.

      2. 76 goal rookie season.

      3. 50 goals in 39 games

      4. 92 goal season.

       

       

      50 goals in 50 games would be fine too

    4. nuckin_futz

      nuckin_futz

      I really can't see any of them being broken. I still shake my head at Selanne's rookie season. Not only did he score 76 (16 more than our team record). He did so as a European coming over dealing with a new language and culture.

  3. Which is why we're seeing a massive migration or "The Great Resignation" as millions of people leave positions they've been at for years for similar or identical positions for far more money or more benefits as starting employees. People finally have options, it is absolutely amazing that someone in a position for almost a decade can be making less than a new hire; but that is what we're seeing. Like being a Rogers/Telus/Bell customer and seeing your bills climb endlessly; knowing you can join a new contract with one of the other big 3 providers with far lower bills and far better incentives. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/01/04/great-resignation-number-people-quitting-jobs-hit-record/9083256002/
  4. China is shutting down. Shanghai with 5 day rolling lockdown. Port cities to follow. This will mean further supply chain issues
  5. They collect pst off of every litre. Municipal levies and the provincial positively affect the coffees regionally. To my knowledge at least. Bottom line is we're getting gouged horribly, china is shutting down for a week or two based on recent outbreaks and that may spread to major port cities soon not just Shanghai. Things are going to get a lot harder in short order I'm thinking. Opinion based only but something HAS to give at this point
  6. One thing I would like to point out. Especially for the lurkers from AB who I hope are still around (you know who you are) Oil has now dropped back to around $100 a barrel ish from just under $140; production has and is increasing. But Fuel has dropped exactly 5 cents from its record highs. That's it. March is almost over which means another bump to the carbon tax which will see fuel prices increase by 15 to 20 cents again; even though the increase is a dime. This insanity at the pumps and clear and obvious price gouging of the people will only further exacerbate out of control inflation. The government will not step in to ease this, there will be no reduction or cap or hold in this carbon tax increase. Feds and provinces are making an absolute fortune in tax money from fuel sales. Think it's tough now? Wait 2 months.
  7. I take offense to this title...and will now go hide in a corner until this round is over
  8. From a humanitarian stand point; that sucks. The guy did some good things in Ottawa and kept a team there when Bettman et al would have moved it without blinking for the exact same reasons the Yotes should have been moved for almost 2 decades. From a hockey point of view, this is possibly beneficial to the Sens and their fans as he was one of the most hands on owners in the league and nothing happened without his direct involvement for a large number of years. This is what we call a bittersweet moment for many. RIP Melnyk. Thanks for the Alfredson years and for keeping a team in Ottawa when the league was breathing down your neck for years to move them. You may not have been popular, but you were a hockey fan first and foremost.
  9. We're not worried about needing a massive fleet of fighters though if we not only have the US manning the area with us, but having a fleet of home built and operated drones capable of taking out surface vessels. The biggest issue for us is the remoteness of the arctic and at this stage Chinese and Russian incursions in to it. If we sink or strand a force in our high arctic the environment will more than take care of the issue for us. MY thought process is saving $ in the long run while also ensuring a smaller more mobile force. Having the US is always our ace in the hole, but water is going to be more valuable than gold in short order and that is something we have in spades.
  10. I call Leaf sauce here. He's totally taking a team friendly deal because players having career years always leave millions on the table $8.5-$9.5 million, pffft as if he'd want that much. Right?
  11. At days end, I believe we should be doing what Turkey is. Drones. Their new age Bayaktar (sp) is capable of air to air fighting carries a solid amount of air to ground and now has a full 5 hour flight time while being ridiculously fast and agile. A fleet of these say 100 strong is more than enough to secure our arctic sovereignty and at a literal fraction of the price
  12. As long as we're the team that drafts the next Chara and Lidstrom I am happy.
  13. We are so spoiled as hockey fans to see this right now. Hughes at 22 with 53 points isn't even in the top 7 in NHL scoring, and we're not even talking just offensive players. These are all guys with solid defensive acumen and they're all just killing it on the scoreboards. Josi and Makar are and have absolutely walked away with it, but Makar might top out as a + 45 or better on the season it's absolutely unreal how good this kid is. We're blessed to have Hughes but I am greedy and want more.
  14. Yup. One second, lemme show you what happened here two days ago. It was literally awful. 2 trucks had train horns attached to their trucks. https://globalnews.ca/news/8708692/penticton-b-c-freedom-rally/
  15. Numbers are going down. Everything is being repealed and it appears at least as though there is little to no bumps in the transition back to post covid life. Except for the idiots on the slow roll convoy in the Okanagan using train horns attached to their trucks.....
  16. A little more on these idiots you mentioned. I stand by my statement. Being lambasted by these three is a gd badge of honour because a decent human being should in fact be opposed to everything they stand for. Trudeau faced harsh critics in the EU Parliament this week. Here's who launched the attacks When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently addressed the European Union Parliament and warned of growing threats to democracy, he received an angry backlash from some elected members who accused him of responding to the recent anti-vaccine mandate convoy protest like a dictator. The public rebukes by a handful of far-right, populist and anti-vaccine members of the European Parliament claiming Trudeau violated civil rights in response to the protest that occupied Ottawa for almost a month went viral on social media. Trudeau's Liberal government invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in history in February, giving police and other authorities extraordinary powers to disrupt the protest. The verbal thrashing came after Trudeau addressed the assembly in Brussels, Belgium, where 705 elected members (MEPs) from the 27 EU member states constitute the largest elected assembly in Europe. The European Union Parliament has a history of making news when outspoken members make controversial remarks. Some of those members represent parties that oppose the existence of the EU itself. CBC News takes a look at what was said, who said it and how the European Parliament is vastly different from parliaments elsewhere in the democratic world. What did MEPs say about Trudeau? Describing Trudeau as someone who "tramples" fundamental human rights and freedoms, Independent Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakušić said Canada once stood for civil rights but now seems more like a "dictatorship of the worst kind." "Under your quasi-liberal boot in recent months," Kolakušić said, "we watched how you trample women with horses, how you block the bank accounts of single parents so that they can't even pay their children's education and medicine, that they can't pay utilities, mortgages for their homes." Ontario's police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit, launched an investigation on Feb. 20 after a 49-year-old woman reported being seriously injured by a Toronto Police Service officer on a horse as police were clearing out people who had occupied Ottawa's downtown core. "Mr. Trudeau, you are a disgrace for any democracy," said German MEP Christine Anderson, the political spokesperson for the ID parliamentary group in the European Parliament through her party Alternative for Germany. Anderson went on to accuse Trudeau of civil rights violations during the trucker convoy protest, calling him a dictator who treats citizens as "terrorists." Another Alternative for Germany MEP, Bernhard Zimniok, accused Trudeau of "trampling on democratic rights" by cracking down on people for protesting "disproportionate" public health measures. Who are the MEPs who accused Trudeau of being a dictator? Mislav Kolakušić, whose speech in the assembly went viral on his Twitter feed, is a failed Croatian presidential candidate and is not affiliated with any political party in the European Parliament. He has aligned himself with anti-vaccine voices inside and outside of the assembly. Reuters reported earlier this year that Kolakušić had accused French President Emmanuel Macron of "murdering citizens" through vaccine mandates and that he claimed "tens of thousands of" Europeans had died from vaccine side-effects during the pandemic. Reuters said Europe's drug regulator pushed back against that claim, describing it as "incorrect" and a "misrepresentation of data." Kolakušić was also one of six MEPs censured by the European Parliament for refusing to present an EU Digital COVID certificate to enter the assembly. Anderson was another of the MPs punished in that incident. Both Anderson and Zimniok are members of the political party Alternative for Germany, described by the BBC as a far-right political party that employs rhetoric "tinged with Nazi overtones." A German court ruled recently that the party is "a suspected threat to democracy" after an administrative court in Cologne found that there are "sufficient indications of anti-constitutional goals within the AfD." Alternative for Germany is one of the national parties that fall under the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament. With 63 members from 10 countries, it is the fifth-largest group in the assembly. Identity and Democracy is made up of domestic political parties opposed to the EU. They hold far-right positions on issues like immigration, EU membership and social welfare. The ID group includes France's Rassemblement National party, which was founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen. What is the European Parliament? As the second-largest elected assembly in the world after India's Parliament (which has 788 seats to Europe's 705), the European Parliament is one of the seven institutions of the European Union. And while it's called a parliament, it more closely resembles a city council or the UN General Assembly than a parliament in the Westminster tradition. The assembly sits in two cities: Strasbourg, France and Brussels. It does not have a prime minister. The person who holds the title of "president" in the European Parliament is not a head of government in any sense. The president acts more like a Speaker in the Westminster system, presiding over sittings and chairing debates. The European Parliament also does not have government and opposition sides, so there are no equivalents to cabinet ministers sitting in the assembly. Unlike national parliaments, the European Parliament cannot propose legislation. That task is reserved for the European Commission, the appointed executive branch of the EU that functions as a cabinet and acts on behalf of elected member governments. The European Parliament can amend or reject legislation, has some budgetary approval powers and is required to approve some acts of international co-operation, such as data-sharing initiatives and funding for international development initiatives. The institution rarely makes the news unless it takes some extraordinary political action — such as refusing to approve the EU budget — or unless its members make outlandish or controversial statements. It also has a tradition of seating MEPs who are vehemently opposed to the European Union's existence. Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party and the Brexit Party — political entities assembled to pull the United Kingdom out of the EU — led his party to 29 seats in the European Parliament in 2019.
  17. So with Italy losing, are we officially in? Win lose or draw?? Edit nm, I see. One point in the next two games and they're in
  18. I would like to see something where they take the highest taxed areas and then make that the benchmark. Players playing in areas with lower or no tax issues would then kick in a percentage of their $$ towards the players injury or retirement fund. So Stamkos and his "team friendly contract" would now be getting hit as hard as anyone in Vancouver or New York. Kessel, same thing. Benn/Seguin. Yup. Make it equal because teams like the Jets or Jackets already have a near impossible time competing with New York area teams due to the big city life, California, Florida due to their weather and climate. Make it equal.
  19. Ryan's last statement is a teller for sure. I think if you're from the US it's a no brainer you're going back to the US. Let's keep that in mind on top of the taxation when we're looking at Millers potential next contract. he might very well not want to be here. This is a sentiment shared fairly widely around the league it seems. Taxes and nation of origin are huge factors for players.
  20. Pettersson will not be worth $9 million unless he starts winning board battles and becoming vastly more defensively responsible. That wrist injury seems to be a consistent issue and for a person who needs that hand to make some of those passes and that wrist shot it's a scary thing to bank on Horvat for me is a $6 million middle 6 centre. He's a great 2b, a suitable 2a; any team using him as a 1b or 1a is failing. At $6.75 that's a no from me especially with only 1 single 60 point season under him. Manson is not even a 20 point player, and while I am an advocate for the blue line being more defensively responsible than they are offensively, that is a scary amount to put towards an RHD who is still questionable defensively while not contributing offensively. Again, decent line up; just feel like there would be a ton of regret within 2-3 seasons.
  21. who is going to take a 30+ Horvat at nearly $7 million or a 33+ Miller at $9 million? That's the issue with contracts like that. Someone needs to be willing to eat 4-5 years at those cap hits if for whatever reason they don't work out.
  22. Why is Pettersson worth $9 million right now based on his play and longevity? Or Horvat at almost $7 million? Manson as a UFA at $5 million screams regret unless he magically finds some offensive gears and renews that defensive acumen. I mean it's nto a bad line up; but some of those numbers scream regret
  23. Just for fun, here's what she votes on/against. it's pretty obvious who and what she is. But somehow, she's worth listening to while being on the wrong side of history almost universally? Lemme just point out some of her finest motions in the last few years. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197475/CHRISTINE_ANDERSON/main-activities/motions-instit Against the designation of the EU being an LGBTQ friendly zone. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2021-0167_EN.html Criminalizing sexual education https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2019-0168_EN.html Motions to consider protests for racial equality following George Floyd's death "terrorists" or acts of terror including hate groups like "antifa" https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2020-0195_EN.html And so many more. This person dressing down Trudeau or any other leader means as much as that steaming dog turd on the road you almost stepped in and should be given as much thought or consideration.
  24. Oh grow the hell up lol. Some confused tart who doesn't even know how our nation works let alone our constitution being upset means less than nothing. All she did was echo the same lies and misinformation the idiots do just on a slightly larger stage But, just for fun. Why don't you show people what else she believes in. It will be fun. She makes Nigel farage look honest and intelligent.
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