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  1. You put him next to Scheer? LMAO LOL LOl LOL LOL Scheer the guy who made a mockery of the speaker of the house and has been caught in numerous lies. The reason I find this funny is that Scheer has less experience than Trudeau, has NEVER held a real job and has been in politics since he was 18, has been caught being a religious idiot in his position and caught lying while ebign part of one of the more troubled governments in Canadian history that owns the greatest sum total addition to the canadian national debt And you'll vote for him while hating Trudeau for some of the same things. Left wing, right wing...the electorate are idiots because liberal, tory....same old story
  2. No problem. That number would be even more skewed towards centers had jagr not went on his crazy 5-6 Art Ross run in a row in the 90's. Centers tend to get more points because they tend to be the number 1 transition point of puck from defensive to offensive movement. Wingers score a ton of points no question but by and large centers score more
  3. I could see that honestly. I see a more aggressive Sharp in him myself but eberle is a fair comparison
  4. Glass V Lind Glass plays top line on one of the more dominant teams in the WHL with Overhardt and McKenzie. Glass is absolutely a great prospect, but enjoys far more preferential placement based on his 1st line status. Lind plays on a slightly less dominant Rockets team. With less overall scoring and a far mroe defensive minded game due to a lack of scoring forward of quality.Paired nominally with Topping and a revolving lw due of Bruggen-Cate and Twarynski, he is almost 30 to 40 points ahead of his regular line mates and this is on nominal second line duties as Dube and Twarynski are normally the 1st line pairing with Mattson Glass Is an incredible prospect without question. We'd be lucky to have him. But to discount Kole Lind at all in thsi conversation is absolutely ridiculous. I watch Lind play and have seen him play on average 30+ games over the last 3 seasons. He has something Glass doesn't have. he is the kind of winger you win championships with. he drives the play, he is defensively responsible and he is feisty. When watching him matched against glass. He made Cody his b10tch handily. Owned him in the corners, pestered him relentlessly and when Glass was faced with a far more aggressive Lind, Glass coughed up the puck. I will not discount either of these prospect but they are literally paper thin neck and neck as far as I am concerned and it is baffling as to why NOBODY has Lind in their top 50 prospects. As for would I trade Lind for Glass straight across 1 for 1. I'd actually have to see some playoff action with those two kids again before actually committing to it. Because while Glass is a stud without question, Kole on wing brings some sort of nuance to this club we haven't seen for a while; whereas Glass is a shade more passive in the Sedin please don't punch me sense
  5. 6 of the last 12 Art Ross winners have been centers going back to 2005 Going back to 1980 25 of the last 37 art ross winners have been centers.
  6. Just wanna put this here http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=170320 Auston Matthews, 46 points in 36 games in the Swiss A league pfft Elias Petterson 55 points in 43 games http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=186266 Elias is better.
  7. Yup and when him and Petterson are on the ice together announcers and the voting crowd for the Calder race are going to have fits
  8. The elderly don't pay taxes anymore either. See where I'm going with that?
  9. With statements like these I cannot see Scheer beating Trudeau. Vice interviewed Scheer post party win back in May. https://news.vice.com/en_ca/article/a3j8ab/andrew-scheer-will-oppose-transgender-rights-fight-gun-regulations-fund-homeschooling A divided Conservative Party narrowly elected Andrew Scheer as its leader on Saturday evening, defying expectations set for the 38-year-old Saskatchewanian. Scheer has long been known as a social conservative, but faced little scrutiny in the race, after being left in the shadow of Kevin O’Leary and Maxime Bernier, the two frontrunners with socially progressive records. Thanks to his long tenure as speaker of the House of Commons — and his nominal neutrality in that role — Scheer’s record on the issues is considerably more thin than his competitors. And for those who want to read up on the new Tory leader, it might be hard — his campaign policy site was offline within moments of his victory, replaced with a unilingual “thank you” landing page. So what does he actually stand for? SOCIAL ISSUES It’s no secret in Ottawa that Scheer is a dedicated social conservative. Campaign Life Coalition, an aggressively pro-life and anti-gay marriage religious organization, gives Scheer top marks for his voting record. That record includes votes against bills to legalize gay marriage, enshrine human rights protections for transgender people, and to allow physician-assisted dying. Scheer has also voted in favour of legislation that would re-define when, during pregnancy, a fetus is considered a human being and to criminalize sex work. “Scheer has an impeccable voting record on life & family issues during his long career as a federal MP,” writes the lobby group, which gave him a B- grade. Campaign Life Coalition stopped short of endorsing Scheer, noting that he had “made the unfortunate decision to promise the liberal media that that his government would mimic Harper’s policy of not reopening the abortion debate.” And in the end, Scheer only won the leadership thanks to support from Pierre Lemieux and Brad Trost, two ardent social conservatives that the Coalition had backed. “I’m not going to put myself in a binary box that you might want me to be in.” It’s no coincidence, as Scheer’s social conservative goes back more than a decade. In railing against legislation to expand the right to marry to same-sex couples, Scheer told the House of Commons that “the government may force all Canadians to recognize homosexual marriages” but that it would fail “because marriage does not come from the state and does not depend on the government.” Despite that, Scheer has more recently voted to strike the traditional definition of marriage from the Conservative Party policy book. At his first press conference after being elected leader on Saturday, Scheer dodged questions from journalists on his social conservative bona fides. Scheer said that while he supports allowing his MPs to speak their mind, he’s going to push them to focus on the issues that “bring us together,” adding: “I’m not going to put myself in a binary box that you might want me to be in.” But when VICE News asked where he stood on C-16, which would extend human rights protections for transgender people, Scheer was a little more direct. “I voted against it,” Scheer said. When pressed on whether he’d repeal the law, once it becomes law, he refused to answer. He did say that “the left” can, “in the name of tolerance, become intolerant.” EDUCATION Two aspects of Scheer’s policy book that received little scrutiny are his comments on how he’d get the federal government involved in education, which is normally a provincial matter. Scheer, himself the parent of five, sends his school-age kids to a Christian school in Regina. That has undoubtedly led to his commitment to make it more attractive for parents to send their kids to religious schools. “Our colleges and universities are becoming no-go zones for open dialogue.” He committed to unveiling an annual tax deduction of $4,000 per child for parents who send their kids to “independent schools,” and another $1,000 per child for those who homeschool their children. (Some tuition for religious schools may already be tax deductible, depending on the school, but Scheer’s policy would create a deduction for all non-public schools.) More controversially, Scheer has threatened to pull federal grants from any university in Canada that does not “do not foster a culture of free speech and inquiry.” Scheer hasn’t detailed what, exactly, that means, and refused to clarify when asked by VICE News on Saturday. “We’ll put forward a detailed policy that speaks to how it will work,” Scheer said. The policy on his website specifically criticized “the establishment of safe-spaces, forbidden topics, and banning of speakers and campus clubs,” writing that “our colleges and universities are becoming no-go zones for open dialogue.” Revoking federal funding for post-secondary education is no idle threat. Scheer’s policy specifically singles out the grants and programs that provide billions of dollars towards researching cancer, genetic diseases, technology, and social sciences. The federal government also provides billions in infrastructure cash to universities across the country. CLIMATE CHANGE Scheer has made it clear that he’ll be campaigning against the Trudeau government’s price on carbon. He’s committed to repealing the price if he should be elected prime minister, but has vowed to support provinces who wish to fight against the federal price in the interim. Instead of the pricing scheme, Scheer has largely just taken, nearly word-for-word, the Harper government’s plan on reducing CO2 emissions — “a sector by sector approach to reduce greenhouse gases in cooperation with industry and the United States.” It remains unclear exactly what that sector-by-sector approach actually entails. Scheer isn’t without any environmental policy, however. His policy page insists he will focus on “real threats” to the environment. The only plan listed is to “make it illegal to dump raw sewage into public waterways.” That may sound like a no-brainer, but it’s exactly what Montreal did in 2015, with the green light from the Trudeau government. FOREIGN POLICY The new leader’s foreign policy resembles the approach taken by the Conservatives while in government. On Ukraine, Scheer has promised to “do everything possible to fully equip Ukraine” and to reboot his government’s program to share satellite imagery with the Ukrainian armed forces (which was shut down due to red tape and regulatory hurdles) in order to “defeat the Putin-backed terrorists occupying their territory.” Scheer also promised to work with pro-democracy groups within Russia to encourage “political change.” The new leader would also send Canada’s fighter jets back to Iraq and Syria to join coalition efforts to defeat the Islamic State. The jets were pulled from their mission by Prime MInister Justin Trudeau last year. His policy website also committs to prioritizing “real refugees,” which means “accepting people directly from their home countries, rather than prioritizing those who have already fled,” Scheer writes. This was a common strategy of the Harper government, to focus on religious minorities — particularly Christians — facing persecution in the Middle East, over refugees who have managed to escape to refugee camps. PROPERTY RIGHTS Tucked in Scheer’s policy book is an old mainstay of the Reform Party: Adding property rights to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. While Conservatives have talked frequently about wanting to avoid reopening the constitution, Scheer would do exactly that by encouraging provinces to agree to the proposal, one-at-a-time. The concept of property rights has long been put forward by conservatives, but has never really been seriously considered on the federal level. Scheer, on his campaign site, envisions that doing so would give individuals the ability to fight back against expropriation of their property. But, in reality, it’s not entirely clear how something like this could work and what effects it would have. It could even frustrate natural resource infrastructure projects, like pipelines, by giving landowners — and First Nations — a constitutional veto over the use of their land. It was the Harper government that frequently chastised the Supreme Court for interpreting the Charter too broadly, and for expanding section seven — life, liberty, and security of the person — to do everything from striking down prohibitions on sex work to effectively legalizing assisted suicide. GUNS The most detailed policy on Scheer’s campaign website is his position on firearms. Scheer, who is Ottawa-born and a Saskatchewan transplant, writes extensively how gun owners and hunters are safety-oriented and brags that “I dropped a buck from 400 metres away using a friend’s .308 precision rifle.” “I dropped a buck from 400 metres away using a friend’s .308 precision rifle.” Scheer would, as prime minister, launch a review of all firearms regulations with an eye to reducing red tape for gun owners. He would also remove the RCMP’s ability to classify guns as restricted “because of how they look” and create a new ombudsman whose job it would be to advocate for gun owners and review regulations. He has also committed to repealing UN regulations on firearms markings, lift regulations that limit magazine capacity, and decriminalize regulatory infractions.
  10. That os in fact the reality. Like being the shinier turd in the pile Ya. Polls. Hows hillary liking them polls
  11. Check your numbers. http://m.huffingtonpost.ca/gabriel-yiu/bc-ndp-lost-decade_b_16252392.html
  12. Ok and? Alberta is growing again and it is not because of oil for the first time in over 60 years. Why?
  13. You mean Horgan is doing exactly the same that the Libs promised? Alf you must hace missed the last 16 years. Just look at BCs debt since 1999
  14. BC tanked in the 90s like much of Canada due to 2 major reasons 1. Sweden's sustaunable forest practices act. Which neutered the logging industry 2. Nafta. Which caused the entire country to hemorrhage jobs. When yiu factor in the leaky condo crisis that Willy Wooden Shoes helped happen it affected the housing industry too. By the numbers though the BC Liberals took over a province coming out of a recession. As evidenced by the surplus they inherited in their first two years.
  15. I'm looking at the numbers and Alberta leads the country in every possible economic indicator. I have to guess it's because of the government leading them. Prior to the election I mean they were leaders, then the new government turned the whole province in to a wasteland and now they're leaders again so... I can see how you'd be confused. I am too trying to follow that line of reasoning
  16. Oh beauty thanks Sid. Still looking like the late signing is to our maximum benefit in the long run
  17. I don't think any major moves happen until next season or with the return being picks for next season. Have a feeling Lindenning/Aquaman want next seasons draft party to be very much worth watching for Vancouver fans
  18. I've been thinking about that too. If I recall the end of the NCAA season coincides with the last day of the NHL season. If he goes right up until the finals he would only get two games in, thus being impossible to burn a year off of his ELC for games played. Hate to say it, but with Seattle coming in really soon, looking at who we'd have to protect vs who we'd be likely to expose...Benning might have positioned us better than he even did with the Vegas expansion draft. Two of the few forwards we could/would expose is Gagner/Eriksson and on D Hutton/Del Zotto Leaving the Hockey Gaud to start his actual ELC contract next year
  19. One thing Scheer will never live down are his ties to "The Rebel Media" He was busted with them numerous times and tried to down play it. Then swore to distance himself, only to hire their former media manager and director of The Rebel Media in Hamish Marshall. Strong supporters of white nationalism and Donald Trump. https://thewalrus.ca/andrew-scheers-ties-to-rebel-media-are-now-impossible-to-deny/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hamish-marshall-andrew-scheer-conservative-campaign-1.4358811
  20. One of the Conservative mantras during the last election was how Trudeau had no experience at all. How he was running on his dads name and how he "was just not ready" Trudeau is bumbling from social gaff to social gaff but has yet to harm the country. Andrew Scheers only two jobs as an adult were insurance for his friends firm and serving/waitering. He's literally been in parliament and politics since he volunteered in the OLO (opposition leader's office) at age 19. Scheers hyper religious views and comments on the LGBT community and abortion coupled with his lack of life experience make him a serious long shot to even maintain the number of seats the Conservatives have. Anyone with a political eye knows that the former Conservative campaign has given True Dough an absolute arsenal of joking points to lobby towards Scheer that people will immediately recognize
  21. Really...Scheer has gone full Trump in Israel http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/02/26/andrew-scheer-jerusalem-israel_a_23371546/
  22. Factor in Scheers ridiculous religious statements. Lack of any genuine platform. His being a career politician plus his admiration of trump and it will take a miracle for the Libs to out right lose the next election to Scheer
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