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  1. that would be nice if it could be done without the 2nd for sure, but I think they will get decent offers for Kapanen so if we could get out in front of the crowd and get the deal done sooner than later I'd be OK with losing the pick.
  2. +1 on the title Zaitsav is a very anchor contract, its just too much $ and term and would hurt too much right when we need to lock up the core. I think the opportunity with TO is around Marleau - he's only got 1 year left at 6 mil, and TO has one year of cap crunch ahead. After next season they're in better shape cap-wise so I'd be looking to gain assets around a Marleau deal. He might even do well with Bo. If he doesn't work out, oh well its one season. If I were Jim I'd be looking at seeing what they'd be willing to send along with Marleau, maybe we can squeeze Kapanen out of them if they get Hutty and say a 2020 2nd. I know he has the NMC but my bet is he'd go if they asked. He's a western Canada guy so I bet he'd like to finish his career there.
  3. Everyone's tradable, so its possible. But if NJ is willing to move Vatanen to TO they can get Nylander, and they can just bring up Smith and not gut their picks and prospect pool for our benefit. They can make other moves for less cost that improve them.
  4. Marleau is really the only palatable cap dump for us, its only 1 year but luckily for us, TO is cap crunched next year. He's the ideal trade target imo for getting assets from TO as there's no long term consequences and he might be able to be flipped for a later round pick if we don't make the playoffs. Plus he might be fine coming back to the Pacific. TO isn't going give up Flamingo-boy for just a cap dump tho. They'd be looking for a Hall type trade for a top pairing potential d. TO needs a lot of cap space, so I'd offer Tanev 50% retained for Marleau and Kapanen. TO sheds about 4 mil in cap space, so with Gardiner leaving that gives them 8 mil extra to help sign Marner. They can then find a partner for Flamingo-boy for another top 4 rhd.
  5. Well, nothing illegal. Scheer actually went further than Trudeau, Justin didn't have the face time with SNC that Scheer did. If its fine to strategize with oil companies about elections, its fine to ask your MOJAG to look at legal options to save an engineering firm. Both entities have a right to try to save and create Canadian jobs.
  6. thats not what happened and you know its nowhere near that simplistic. And its far from clear that she "did the right thing." he pretty much did once the story evolved a bit. No one blurts out all the info when the news "breaks" a story, no one knew at the time where the leaks were, etc. so they were in damage control. You can dislike Trudeau for that approach for sure, but it is the same one Harper used during Duffygate. I don't like it either but it is what it is. Looking back on this story after a blissful month of silence on it, it really is a faux-scandal. Some pretty smart and experienced folks have come forward to say JWR didn't understand her role.
  7. it makes sense depending on how the responsibilities are organized. Let Jim focus on drafting and GM to GM discussions, let the president set the organizational culture and goals. But it could also be done by one guy if he can delegate properly.
  8. I think its a smoke screen. Aqulini is really after Ralph Krueger.
  9. I hear the Jack-in-the-Box is one sneaky mother &^@#er too
  10. Hansen in his prime would fit perfectly on Greens team today. Testament to ass-busting and good character.
  11. I want to hear how its OK to plan election strategy with oil executives and former Koch lackeys, but trying to save SNC jobs is "corrupt".
  12. or a bad guy with a gun turning it on himself when he's finished. Which is how these things usually turn out.
  13. that was just full on speculation from a Province podcast with no factual basis, at all. Its click-bait.
  14. why not? they have a framework, plan and lots of people in place carrying it out. Its not like he's out there on his own making off the cuff decisions. You're making way too much out of his contract. And the narrative that FA is micromanaging the Canucks is just not supported by anything.
  15. I think they all had honest intentions. The narrative that there has to be corruption is blown out of the water by the fact that JWR would have been satisfied with an apology. How much corruption could there have been in that case? there doesn't have to be misdeeds for this situation to occur, just a whole lot of misunderstanding of the people involved and maybe some people about their jobs. People in high government posts lobby for their portfolio and/or their particular areas of the country all the time. If thats now "corrupt" then we're in big trouble. Its come out that Scheer met in private with oil exec's at a recent private conference. If you want to stop the relationship between government and business, then what do you think of this? According to a Globe and Mail report, Scheer and other top Tories met with oil industry executives at the Azuridge Estate Hotel just outside of Calgary on April 11. They gathered to share ideas about campaign strategies including using independent interest groups to rally the Conservative base. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/04/26/andrew-scheer-oil-executives_a_23717559/
  16. CDC is hyperbole He seems to maybe be cut from similar cloth to Jim, with all that scouting experience and it did start from the bottom too. Seems like a redundant skill set but then again more experienced eyes in a well structured system is always good.
  17. he was head amateur scout for AZ and Boston, and would have been there for the OEL, Boedker, and Turris picks and also Pastrnak and DeBrusk... so maybe he's a good fit in the scouting group but I really don't see what he adds here.
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