Tre Mac

2007 was by far and away the worst. Not a single NHL game played by any of those picks. A four year old randomly picking from a list draftees could've likely produced better results.

'96 was bad but '07 was worse. 

2007 - Lest we forget

Now that’s cold

wind chills are expected to be -15 to -25 tonight and tomorrow, here

Colder than a Bell Canada financial officers heart. 

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Just passed the King George overpass.

CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL FOR SEAL JUST PASSED THE KING GEORGE OVERPASS. GIVING THE SEAL THE KIND OF SEND OFF HE DESERVES.  SEE YOU IN 20

Just announced on the radio, I am sure VC will make a thread with a press release, I didn't hear all the details.

Oh, I swooped in and did it 

I'd apply but don't really want to.

@debluvscanucks  *REALLY* weird thing is, the guy that gave him that cheap hit was Chris Tierney.  I think he's good friends with Horvat & was one of the groomsmen at Horvat's wedding.  Maybe Bo should return the wedding gift back to Tierney and pick better friends?

I'm shocked there isn't more uproar from people for that hit and how it wasn't another 5 min major penalty shocked me... People went crazy when Matheson threw Pettersson to the ice, here Brock was hit from behind, on the numbers, at the boards in a very vulnerable position which should be an automatic major, but it was just a 2 min penalty.... All because Brock didn't sell it like he was injured, you can bet your you know what if he was laying on the ice after that it would of been an automatic 5 and ejection, but because he didn't they just deemed it as a regular penalty and this is why I call this league a Bush League. How are you supposed to remove a dangerous hit like this if you only make it dangerous if the other player gets hurt only, joke league.

Once again, this is how bad the reffing can be in the NHL, in preseason games or playoffs a penalty is a penalty,period.

When they call some crappy little thing(usually by the ref furthest away from the play) and then allow hits from behind to get the same 2 minutes it hardly sends a safety first type of message.

they did, it was the 4 door smart car

Not so smart for buying car? 

I can buy a Can-Am Spyder. Buy rain gear, and use my backpack and haul more stuff and have fun for less than a Smart car. 

I'm pretty sure I have more assists than Sutter.

Being wingman to a famous person like Alf means you’ll get plent of assists from him.....errrr, opps you guys are talking about hockey.

Marky is deployed with Petey more often tho.

Well when he starts to do good I'll learn to spell his name right.

Nah. We're already trading Goldobin, Granlund, and our 2020 1st for Huberdeau

so confused now

i thought goldy was required

to ensure tryamkin returns

oh dear

what is happening with that plan

@Tre Mac

Thanks a lot.  Now I have that Journey song dancing around in my head. 

Well I'll be playing that song over and over til I get sick of it now so it won't drive me crazy all day. 

"Alexa, play Don't Stop Believin' by Journey" 

I like Worgen of Stormwind better.

WPG | WAS | VGK | TB

1. My hometown until 2007, last Canadian team

2. Would be so bloody entertaining seeing Ovechkin get REALLY excited

3. Cinderella story, the misfits win against all odds

4. Tampa's won the Cup before, but it would still be nice for Stamkos

Wpg>Vgk>Wsh>TB

Winnipeg>Tampa

Don't care about the rest. 

Damn, Deb. Getting out of control! Surprised Canucks security didnt try to escort you out. hahaha

Security...we have a female celebrating a little too much, and now she's just thrown her cowbell into the crowd. LOL. Sadly I could almost see that happening.

ODIN, we offer a sacrifice ( @debluvscanucks Cow Bell ) to your greatness.  All we ask for in return is to win the coming NHL draft lottery.  PLEASE!  (You can have Deb too, if needed). 

the hockey god is against us. i don't know what we did to make her so mad at us.

Time to sacrifice a sheep at center ice.  The Hockey gods demand blood and they must be appeased.

Tampa will win the Cup, and the Canucks will draft first overall. I just killed hockeygod, skewering them with their scepter.

PETA is full of $&!# with activists not scientists. Cows may produce a lot of methane but thats only due to the diet they are put on. On a regular grass fed diet they don't produce nearly as much methane. Other animals and livestock also don't produce many chemicals that affect climate change. There does need to be a shift though in the livestock market in which animals are fed natural proper diets to prevent climate change and are treated more humanely. It would come at an extra cost to producers and consumers but would just lead to a trend in which people eat less meat. Which isn't a bad thing.

Peta kills more animals than they save... Terrible orginization

"don't tax my chicken" 

I've seen this bumper sticking in AB a few times: People Eating Tasty Animals.

I agree with @RetroCanuck tho, the industry could do things better. 

I havent had a birthday party in years, dont feel bad.

Forgot about Tre

@Roger Neilson's Towel is that Goldy's next Halloween costume?

That's why I'm hiding inside today. 

At first I was confused when I noticed it. It's been so long since I have felt it's warm caress on my face, I almost forgot what it felt like. 

What is it?

Even if McDavid somehow makes it to the end of his contract before being resigned, does anyone think the Oilers won't throw the league max his way? 

I mean, if we just want to send a symbolic "F you" to Edmonton, I'm all for it but it's not going to land him.

Relax it was sarcasm, thought the emoticon thingy conveyed that lol.  They would deserve it though.  #$%@ 'em.

Tre Mac is right #$%@ em. When Virtanen comes up, I'm going to enjoy watching him crunch McDiver.

I drink 2%. It's delicious.

Not fat but still rocking a gut, but I do drink 2% milk.  Now watch me throw this football over dem mountains.

Calcium is a hard substance.

"One man's meat, is another man's poison."

"Judge a man not by what he says, but rather, the questions he asks."

@smithers joe and what if he doesn't have a wife or family?

Who asks questions without question marks? 

White text.

Soft glue.

If you can read this text.

You've got my shoe.

Spell check of the day:

stay 

say

White text. Soft glue. If you can read this text. You've got my shoe.

If y u can only re d parts of t  s text. Y   h   n't got a  u    g clue.

Testing testing testing

i don't believe that the sedins are  done.  they have gone through down times before and came through it. we as fans, too quickly write people off. rhe sedins  are still leaders and if WD plays them too much, it may be a mistake but  i can see where they still believe in their leaders.  eventually the role of the sedins will be reduced. horvat will move into the lead role in time.  great young player but you go home with who brought you. coaching decisions are where they should be. we have some very good coaches making these decisions.  

I am willie desjardins and I think money isn't everything. our first line is real good. They battle hard they have a good thing going with the cycle game and it's just real good

They haven't been producing enough lately and I believe they're still got more to give. Don't think they're done yet. Just hope our offense can start clicking again, we could definitely use it.

Not sure about the pillow, but you might just want a ball gag, for a couple of reasons....

wow another back to back ??

Bring a few pillows. Sell them for a big mark up, the market will be there. Make money while you sleep...literally. 

Your status makes my skull battery hurt. I think you overcharged it.

No one can hack my super-computer! :^)

Respeck it

If we really want to update the national anthem to reflect modern sensitivities, as in changing “in all thy sons command” to “in all of us command,” we’ve got a lot of work to do. 

“O Canada.” Start with “O.” It is such an 18th-century form of address. Nobody uses it anymore. When students text me, they write “Hey, Prof.” It’s 2016. We should go for “Hey Canada” rather than “O Canada.” Personally, I’d put a comma after Hey – a vocative comma, if I remember my grammar. But grammar is so last-century. We can probably leave it out. 

As for “Our home and native land”: A couple of problems here. Who exactly are the “we” represented by “our.” It’s only the native land of people who were born here, so right away we’re excluding immigrants. Not very inclusive of us!

Then there’s the problem of whose land it is, exactly. Natives are pretty clear it’s their land. So we should probably change to “Our home, but Native land.” And they prefer “First Nations” to “Native” so it should be “Our home, but First Nations’ land – and water, mineral, air and space rights,” just to represent their constitutional position accurately.

But that raises the problem of “our” again: “Our home, but First Nations’ land, water, etc. …”  seems to imply First Nations aren’t part of the “we” behind “our,” which of course is exactly what radical First Nations activists argue. Maybe it would be best to finesse that by saying “Shared home, but First Nations’ land, water, etc.”

Moving on: “True patriot love in all of us command” still needs work, despite its recent improvement. “True” is derivative of “truth” – or maybe it’s the other way ’round. But both are, as we say in the universities, “problematic constructs.” What is truth, after all, but an imposed set of value memes? Or is it tropes? Trope, meme: I always get them wrong way ’round. Whatever. In the 21st century we can’t really sing “true” with a straight face. (The ideological ramifications of singing – in unison, slavishly – we’ll leave for another time.)

“Patriot?” Patriotism, as we know, is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Actually, oftentimes the first refuge (see Trump, Donald). Do we really want to validate unthinking acquiescence in conspiratorially constructed national mythics? Not to mention that “patriotism” derives from “pater,” which is Latin for father, or from the ancient Greek “patris,” for fatherland, which makes it extremely patriarchal. Patriarchy is no longer us. 

As for the “love” part of “true patriot love,” is there a more conflicted, complex or confusing concept than “love”? What is this thing, as the songwriter wrote? What do we mean precisely when we refer to “patriot love”? Is it responsible to insert such a notoriously ambiguous concept into national verse? And is patriot love really the only variety of love we want to privilege in Canada?

“In all of us command” is certainly better than “in all thy sons command.” But, again, who is “us”? And isn’t “command” inappropriately authoritarian?

“With glowing hearts”? Real hearts don’t glow. If your heart is glowing, you have a problem. Hearts may swell but when yours does, you need medication. 

Same with “true North strong and free.” Free is more an American concept, isn’t it? And strength is a very old-fashioned virtue, even assuming it still is a virtue. Millennial Canada surely favours “empathetic” and “diverse.” We’re a soft-power super-power. 

Finally, “standing on guard for thee.” “Thee”? Really? And isn’t all the standing on guard overly paranoiac? Who do we think we’re standing on guard against? 

Once you start, you never know where you’ll end up. Perhaps at bottom the meaning of the anthem is not so much the import of the words themselves as the fact that they are the same words previous generations of Canadians sang. The point – and the beauty – is the harmony echoing back and forth through time.

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Or so I thought...

What about 'far and wide'?

This is offensive to fat people and has been hurting feels since the words were planted into the anthem. #fatlivesmatter #equalityforfatpeople #conpensatethefatcommunity

it will probably become "in all thy daughters command" soon enough

I have a picture of KSI in my head now, thanks

You should try Barcelos

I'm still disappointed in BP nachos. Bring back the OLD nachos!!!

Vrbata's has a guy that hooked him up

Unfortunately the spell wears off eventually. See Higgins/Prust

the sleep therapy worked so good some guys never quite woke up again..