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  1. LOL, well Lepsic was drafted as a center. And has done spot duty in the circle as well at the NHL level. Very small sample size tho...but his average is 58.8 and has 18 wins and 13 losses in the circle...dark horse center...!? He did not play any center during his time in the AHL with the Marlies. The Marlies website shows FO% and you can go back to the 2013/14 season. In all his games with the Marlies he took 0 draws.
  2. I love all the grit man...just got excited for this season! I am not sure how well we will do this season, but I think it's going to be an entertaining one to say the least. A lot of story lines going into the season...who's going to produce the missing offense? Which kids will take the next step? How will Utica do with all the influx of youth? We've got good competition for every roster spot all the way down to Utica and into the ECHL. There is guaranteed to be some surprises this year.
  3. Haha love it man! And challenges him to settle things with a game of Mario cart. What a beauty
  4. Well thank you very much sir. Cheers!
  5. Ya, they made 3 movies of it....Jackass 1, 2, and 3....ugh. My generation sucks. All my buddies went to go see it...
  6. Actually I stole the name from a book called the "Ballad of the Whiskey Robber". It's about a guy named Attila Ambrus, who is a real life robin hood of sorts. And also played in a european mens leauge as a back up goalie (he wasn't very good). But he would rob banks in his off time, and give the lady a rose at the bank teller each time he stole money. Then give a lot of the money he stole back to the poor neighbor hoods where he was from. He finally was caught and put in prison. He then escaped from prison, then got caught again...anyways I just love that this guy is a real person haha.
  7. What is worse is that people paid money to go see this movie in theatres...on a big screen...imagine that...and we wonder why our society is so messed up...lol
  8. C'mon, that doesn't fit the Vancouver media narrative at all. Remember, we wasted money on all these plugs and they're taking away roster spots from the kids...LOL. I love the fact people keep throwing out the argument that Beagle, Roussel, and Schaller will be taking valuable spots. When Benning has openly said he wants his young kids at the top end of the roster producing offense. The guys that should really worry about their roster spots are Gagne, Gaunce, and Granlund...the triple G's. However, due to Granlunds defensive proficiencies I think he's got less to worry about than the other 2. I'm pulling for Gaunce but i'm a realist and i'm not sure he beats out Schaller for a full time 4th line spot. Which means he gets put on waivers, and I have no doubt he would pass through. Gagne is really the only guy out of this group that is battling for a top 6 spot, and I hope the best for him. He will probably start the year somewhere in the top of the line up. But once Pettersson starts to get an understanding of how to play on the smaller ice I can see him passing Gagne and forcing him out of the line up by mid point of the season or even sooner. My ultimate dream tho is that Dahlen and Pettersson shine at camp and dominate as a pair during pre-season. Warranting both of them to be on the opening day roster. I am soooo hoping this happens. Those 2 are electric together! Lets face it, with the Sedins gone, our top end of our line up will not have a lot of chemistry. It will take time to build that up to see who fits with who the best. With Dahlen and Pettersson they have instant chemistry, the million dollar question being, can they do it at the NHL level...I am so excited to find out!!
  9. Baahhhaahhhaa...I like that name...gross tho...You have me pondering how a turd get's in ones crotch?? (I mean really, it's disturbing to think about it)...but then boom, there he is in all his glory. Ladies and gentlemen, Crotchturd the great hits the airwaves to make it all possible, now I can piece the puzzle of my odd disgusting thoughts together and put them into a form that my tiny brain can comprehend and understand.... Thank you Botchford for being a beaming example of all that is turdy and crotchy!!
  10. ...I tried....people quoting Botch TURD on there. Ugh...my sanity hurts!!
  11. What a goof. I can't stand most our media hacks in Vancouver anymore. It's getting so hard to listen to all the negativity. Every once in a blue moon they go bi-polar and start saying some nice things...then go right back to the drama after. They all try to build these "sports persona characters" because it sells. They only care about their image and will do anything to keep their popularity ratings up...it's hard to take anyone seriously who decides to go about their business this way. Not an ounce of integrity in the whole lot of em. Yuck. Botch TURD!!!
  12. Maybe, for sure there is always a chance of that. But I look at how quickly teams out west relocated their AHL clubs with little to no issue. Only hang up was finding venues. Which Utica already has. A team can move an AHL franchise pretty quickly. Obiously i'm just spit balling... But Utica would be way to enticing for an NHL team that has a "mediocre" AHL location to be at least thinking of the possiblility of moving to a ready made and ready to rock place like Utica. And there are quite a few mediocre AHL teams who draw crap all for attendance. Any NHL team would love to park their prospects in Utica. Bar none, the talk around the league has people looking straight in your direction. Cheers
  13. I'm loving all these dark horse defensemen we've been nabbing in the later rounds over the last few drafts (Rathbone, Brisbois, Gunnarsson, Brassard, Utunen). Some are showing quite a bit of promise! Brassard is a very intriguing prospect. He really came out of his shell last season. Would love to see him get a sniff in the AHL next year.
  14. Honestly, if Vancouver does move on from Utica I think it would be a mistake but I can see why they would want to do it. I do however think the concerns of Utica finding another hockey club to play in the arena will be short lived. Every NHL team out there knows about Utica and how great it's been for our prospects. I think you will have a line up of suitors willing to relocate their AHL franchise there. It has too many good things going on for it to ignore...great ownership who buys into the NHL teams philosophy, top venue with amazing fans, and is in a great location for any team out east really. I really really hope we stay in Utica. Cheers
  15. Aaaawww man, i'm gonna miss my Jasek updates from you haha. I had the same affliction for Hansen when he broke out years ago. I still remember seeing him in his first AHL game thinking this guy is gonna play!
  16. I got grilled back when we signed him because I said he could be a guy if paired with the right offensive talent that could put up 40-50 points in a season. I compared him to Brendan Morrison that way, in the sense that he was a good stable line mate for Bertuzzi and Naslund to work off of. Morrison was way more defnsively inclinded than Gagne, but I still think the mold fits. If you look at Gagnes stats he has had a couple up and down seasons (which makes sense as he's bounced around a lot lately). But if you look at his overall production over the years his average is around 40-45 points. I still think that given a stable environment like he had when he was in Edmonton that he will start to produce more effectively again. If he does he'll be a decent stop gap for the next 2 seasons as the kids develop. And easily tradeable if he does resume that kind of production again.
  17. What!!! ...It's an uneven surface I swear!!...LOL.
  18. I'm okay with Gaudette starting in Utica. He can really get a chance to sink his teeth into another 1C role like he did at Northeastern. Manitoba did great things for Kesler before he hit the Canucks roster. He wasn't there long but it helped him greatly. I can see a similar path for Gaudette...Kesler took a few seasons developing as a shut down 3 C with Burrows before really solidifying himself as a premier 2C in the league.
  19. Eriksson was my favorite garbage man in the NHL for years before he came here. Was a fan of him in Dallas and Boston. He's got such a knack for those kinds of greasy goals. I hope it comes back. Like you said, we haven't had the kinds of offensive threats that really create those kinds of rebounds for him to tap in. Sedins were all about a controlled game and not giving the puck away. More rebounds means more goals for Loui. I smell a come back!
  20. Wow, health and safety laws would have a hey day with these pictures haha.
  21. Just one more point. And i'm sorry for ragging on you in my other post. But I do hope we can come to a clear understanding. This all boils down to a major safety and environmental issue. We don't want this line failing on us do we? The inspection processes that are in place are the best they have ever been and can detect failure in pipelines way earlier than ever before. So we can hope to get another decade or two of safe operation, but what if it doesn't last that long? Then what? It would be a massive black hole money wise. With no twinning the line would be dead, and us tax payers stuck with the abandonement costs of it all. It's not a good scenario at all. Whether we want to agree or not, I just don't see how we can economically let this happen? It can't be justified. If we didn't need the money generated from the pipeline then I would have a differnt view. C'est la vie buh bye. I wouldn't miss it. But that isn't the case at all. We need our energy lines. They are vital to our countries economy.
  22. Not really, as the current pipeline is coming to it's end of age. And by our own environmental laws the "owner" of the pipeline is responsible for clean up and remidation of the entire pipeline and lease sites. The reason they wanted to twin the line is 2 fold. To prep for the end of life of the original line and to continue production through their new pipeline (but would produce through both until the old line is no longer safe to use)...if that new line isn't built then our government and Canadian tax payers will suffer due to the large costs associated with pipeline abandonment and site remidiation...now when I say end of life, they usually think of 100's of years for pipelines. But what they are finding is that the old pipe in the ground from the 50's has been forming stress cracks due to ground movement. The old pipe does not have the flexibility for ground movement like the new pipe does today...so yeah great investement... The only way this remains a good investment is if the line is twinned and the production keeps flowing. If the old line is abandoned due to safety reasons in 15-20 years time then by law we would have to go through the abandonment process (which if the Canadian government still owns will be millions of dollars worth of tax payer money going into it)...if the line is twinned and stays running then there are no issues as the new pipe is proposed on around 85 % of the existing pipeline route and would still be considered "operational"...so no abandonment process needed. KOS, you continue to just spin your own stories on this forum with out knowing the first thing at all about our oil and gas industry, I try time and time again in this thread to try and create an understanding of what is actually going on and you just continue to plug in your anti pipeline sentiment stories as some form of "proof". Most of the things you have posted on here I have carefully taken the time to respond to give you a better idea of my end of things...but you obviously don't care at all to see both sides... I really hope that you take the time to start learning about OUR end of the industry a bit better. WE are not the pirates you believe us to be.
  23. .........................man and we still have 2 more months of this!!........................
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