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About the debate on the power play and how it’s counted. Why not do power play goals per penalty minutes? Doesn’t penalize teams for short power plays and doesn’t understate teams that blow an opportunity.

Best improved player this pre-season? Höglander by far. Seems he got speed lessons from Bo’s skate coach. Totally different player this year. He’s absolutely getting a full time roster spot.

It took me until just now the “1” on tv means period, not someone asleep at the shot clock

“You’re hot! No you’re hot. Oh you’re hot” Quality commercial time

Thank god I was smart enough to mute it. My ears would’ve died.

This is going to really suck if audio gets fixed and I have my volume at max.

Anyone know if there’s going to be a full game replay available after it ends for us shmucks stuck at work? Or is it livestream only?

Rachel Doerrie was eminently qualified to be hired by the Canucks for the position she held. Rachel Doerrie had a bit of an abrasive social media presence. Sometimes new hires that are qualified on paper for a job don’t work out in reality for whatever reason. All can be true at the same time. This is just normal business world stuff that happens all the time each and every single day. Canucks fans are just starved for topics to talk about because the season hasn’t started yet. Hopefully our new hire works out better.

Might just be my local area, but I’m seeing grocery prices go down a smidge on some items. Hopefully that continues and others in BC see some relief or at the very least no more massive hikes.

Let’s try not to turn this into yet another debate on guns especially when no guns were used. There’s other threads like in the Adults Table Club available for that and it needlessly distracts from the horrific act these two committed. I hope they are found quickly and I’m sending positive thoughts to those who have suddenly lost their loved ones. Terrible tragedy, such a sad day

On the personal side of things it’s important for everyone to spend their limited time on this planet doing things they love, regardless of what that is or what anyone else thinks about it. If watching hockey is no longer one of those things to you then it’s the right move and I wish you the best in the real world. On the hockey side of things over the last 3 seasons Miller has been 12th in NHL scoring. His cap hit is now 50th in the league with his newly signed contract. That’s consistently putting up points for great value in comparison even if this last season he really broke out. I understand concerns of the term especially given how often we’ve been stuck with albatross anchor contracts when players don’t work out, but this happens to every team and even the good players who do work out taper off from their climax performances at the end of their last contracts in the NHL. It’s how the business works. It feels like worrying about something that may or may not end up problematic. It’s possible we trade him for good value, it’s possible he consistently puts up serious numbers and yes it’s possible we’re stuck with an aging veteran player that makes too much money, but that’s not the only potential outcome. Regardless though I hope you take care.

Governor advocating violence against those he disagrees with, Schools not being able to teach history/reality, Constant Flooding, Mass Shootings, Hurricanes and Floridumb Freedumb. Yeah I’m sticking with any city/town in Canada over that mess of a state. Great beaches and hot weather doesn’t make up for the rest of the insanity going on down there.

Seems like Deja Vu. Whitecaps struggle until mid-late season, get a bunch of new players and then go on a tear. Hopefully history repeats. Cubas our new midfielder is by far the biggest difference maker on the team, though Gauld scores and sets up goals Cubas defensively and offensively is unmatched. He’s effective with and without the ball. His work rate and determination is world class already. He’s going to be such an integral piece for a very, very long time. We are so incredibly lucky to have him.

Since this is basically all people are going to talk about the next few days here’s my take on the overturned out call. If you look at the video the throw from third was above the catcher and if the catcher had tried to catch the ball then tried to tag the runner without moving their leg it would have been ok. Instead what the catcher did was put the knee down to block the runners foot from being able to reach home plate before he tagged the runner and the motion of the attempted knee block started before he caught the ball. Therefore it was the catcher not trying to keep position to catch the ball and get the tag, but it was him trying to block the runner as the runner had no place to be able to touch the home plate giving a precious few extra seconds for the catcher to get the out. It would have been very close without the catcher using their leg and the catcher decided not to risk it. It was the knee/leg that was the problem and created the imo correct overturn of the out call. If this rule wasn’t in place then any catcher could use their legs to block runners at the plate before making any tags and runs would be basically almost impossible to come by (even more so then they already are in today’s game). If this incident happens to us later on at some point I’ll feel the same way. You can’t block the runner from tagging home plate, which is why the vast majority of the time catchers are waiting on a throw from third they have their feet on either side of the plate giving a “foot or hand lane” so to speak for the runner to be able to reach home in order to avoid these kinds of calls.

About bloody time. All of them need to go to start to restore the trust of Canadians to make our favorite national sport safe for everyone and hold people accountable who don’t.

It’s like we’re soul mates lol. I always, always look at price per 100g/100ml when deciding what to buy food wise. I’ve never run into anyone else who does that before. On sale prices and/or bigger items aren’t always the cheaper options like most people are tricked into believing. Nor is the off brand items when compared to name brand. Those myths along with the refusal for people instinctively to round up “it’s not $2.00, it’s $1.00 for an item priced $1.99” are how grocery stores get you to spend wayyyy more money then you wanted to and rob you of potential savings.

The timing of someone feeling comfortable enough to come forward should have no impact on whether or not to believe a person. It’s a traumatic experience and creates long term personal problems. Some people who experience atrocity will never ever be able to tell anyone they know let alone come out publicly with all the scrutiny that comes with it. The default position to believe the accuser now is because for decades the opposite was true, no one believed victims without evidence in a he said she said situation (or other gender vs gender they vs they combination options) and of course there wasn’t any, just two sides and two stories. It’s also far, far, far more likely the accused is lying then the accuser. False accusations absolutely do happen and they shouldn’t and those accused shouldn’t have to deal with the scrutiny they get. The false accusers are doing a real disservice to actual victims of trauma. That said our end goal as a society should be to eradicate sexual assault/harassment/bad behaviour by making it socially unacceptable by creating public and personal backlash to those accused. How best do we achieve that? Well we’ve got 3 options to us: 1) Take it case by case and never really say one way or another as most incidents take place between only two people without any evidence. These things rarely happen in public, predators know they need to have a person isolated 2) Always believe the accused unless proven otherwise missing 90% of the guilty people. 3) Always believe the accuser unless proven otherwise missing 10% of the false accusations. There’s obviously no perfect answer and some good people do get caught up in lies and fabrications, but what other solution is there? No one will be truthful when accused of a crime if there’s no evidence to support the claim. So we’re left to decide on our own and because of that the vast majority of people have chosen option 3 as it’s the most likely to be the actual reality. That doesn’t mean it’s always right, but choosing option 2 means you’re mostly wrong and option 1 means we do nothing as a society towards stopping these horrific acts and creating a safer, better future.

That’s not the point they/we are making. I don’t think I even remember a post from you that wasn’t about bashing Benning btw, so you’re not exactly unbiased. The point is that this team is the same as what Benning constructed and instead of criticism for not doing anything the circle jerk brigade is lavishing the new management with praise for doing absolutely nothing! Had people just said hey give it time before judging I don’t think anyone would be arguing. However that’s not the case, people are hailing the new GM as great when they called the previous one an idiot with the exact same roster as the previous GM. That’s called hypocrisy and bias. Before you go making assumptions I do think as do most non-haters of Benning that it’s far too early to say either way or judge the new managements performance, it’s a wait and see. But for those licking their boots now who were screaming bloody murder with the old group then it’s extremely clear you have an agenda to drive in order to somehow feel you were right before the jury has even been seated.

Maybe I’m blind, but please point me to any non-hater of Benning (note that I didn’t say supporter, there’s a difference between them) saying his mistakes were because of Gillis. I’ll wait.

I dunno if it counts as frugal considering you have to make an investment up front, but a chest freezer was by far one of the best purchases I ever made. I still have food purchased at 50% the current cost if I were to go out and buy it now. If you eat lots of food that’s freezable the $200 or so it costs to get one gets paid for real fast in savings. I’m positive after only a year of owning one I’ve already paid off the cost in savings. It allows you to stock up when a really good sale is on too. I also live in an apartment so pretty much anyone living anywhere can fit a chest freezer somewhere in their home. One of the best and biggest cost savings decision I’ve ever made.

I thought it started July 31st?

People have been sleeping on this guy ever since he first put on his laces for the Canucks. They’re going to be pleasantly surprised next season. We got him for a steal.

No generational talent will ever have teams scared off them regardless of their size. This kid is the next if not soon to be better Crosby, Ovechkin, McDavid level player barring catastrophic injury. Those don’t come along very often, maybe once a decade. Every single team will be clamoring for him.

I hope he’s our next Tanev. Guy that comes out of nowhere to become a mainstay blue chip D-man. Hard for anyone to not root for him to force his way onto our roster.

I’ve had enough. @JamesB This is to you too and any other member of this club. That is blatantly false. If Boudreau started last year we would have made the playoffs and likely had won a round or two. Then this board would be ecstatic over just how far Benning had got us. Obviously of course that mistake is and was on Benning for his loyalty to a guy obviously in way over his head. Wow a non-hater criticizing Benning, shocking I know (even though we do it often). I get that this forum seems to get a hard on in bashing Benning as a terrible GM in every single thread ad nauseam, but making up lies isn’t necessary to highlight his errors. Has anyone who hates Benning actually read a post from those who don’t? Or do you just make up what others say in your head? Not one person says he was the perfect GM, not one. No one says he was a great GM either. The only time anyone ever talks about Benning in a positive way is at best a “he’s made mistakes, but he’s made some good moves too”. Yet the circle jerk brigade gets their knickers in a twist when anyone says anything positive and always has to chime in to argue that he’s actually the worst. Talk about letting a guy live rent free in your mind. Not giving credit for Hughes, Petey, Demko and Podkolzin or for building the team that had one of the best NHL records after removing the clueless coach while criticizing every mistake he’s made (there’s quite a few to choose from, no doubt) is pure biased bs. Either everything done during a GM’s tenure is on the GM both good and bad or you have an agenda to drive. It’s that simple. You may not like “sugar coating” or actually being realistic and objective about Benning’s performance here, but $&!# coating everything isn’t all that accurate either.