Kurgom

Don't know if patience will work for the PP. I'm actually pretty sure patience wont make the PP better at all.

What "got" Petey is most likely the coaching staff squandering his skill. He looks terrified to make greedy risky plays when that's what he should do every time he touches the puck. In places where I would remember him doing something special, he always goes for the "safe" option now.

Boeser was our best player in the last half of the third period, so maybe it worked. If we scored on a single PP we probably win or lose in a shootout. The PP has been atrocious for years now and some blame for it goes to green for sure.

The idea that inflation can be fixed by not printing money isn't a reasonable assumption. We would have higher inflation without the injections into the economy almost certainly. No where on earth is getting through this without some major inflation, especially considering the manufacturing and shipping center of the world is going through some major economic troubles. I don't know how to "fix" it, and Canada's economy is robust enough that things should normalize in 2 or so years, but it's easy to point fingers without viable solutions for problems caused by global pandemics. Canadian policy makers have consistently let down Canadians on a lot of things, but the economy hasn't been one of them.

I agree it's cowardly but it's not something surprising around the club scene, especially in downtown Vancouver.

How would they even know it's Bennings kid? Most people in this city don't even know what Benning looks like, let alone his kid. "Clubbing" is still macho-fueled garbage where people get in fist fights daily. Until the police say something otherwise I'm gonna say drunken words were slurred inside and then they got jumped.

nervous people tend to do that

How many years of our pp sucking ass has it been, it started blending together for me.

We didn't even get anything in return for the 6th overall pick. No one wanted the bum and he's never playing another game. The Canucks organization is only poorer for Virtanen and didn't gain anything comparable to the value of what they used to obtain him. The games given to Virtanen could have helped a different player give value to the Canucks, either by increasing their trade value through personal performance or possibly becoming a staple on the team, what he was supposed to be. To me that is a bust in every sense of the word. That kind of performance around anything would get you fired in most management positions in the world. But hockey is different, and Virtanen could just be a mistake of inexperience in the role.

Come on dude. We got garbage play out of Virtanen for 4 years hoping he would get better, if he was on a successful playoff team he wouldn't have played more than a handful of games. Now he'll never be in the NHL again and is doing drugs and abusing women in Russia. What else do you call that but a huge bust for #6 overall?

He's certainly not great at scouting and drafting. Trying to claim so is a joke, but he did draft Hughes (not exactly finding a Datsyuk but teams passed on him that are probably regretting it) and got him signed to a contract. That is enough to win a cup if Hughes stays. Overall his drafting is sub-par or average for the league, he's far better than Gillis who was terrible at it. Until we start seeing some of these later round picks actually convert into something useful it's hard to give him any props for picking highly rated players in the first round. I mean, it's better than picking Patrick White in the first round but I have yet to see anything amazing from this scouting team. Either way, 2 big busts in the first round isn't a great record but it's better than what we've had for a long time.

You keep bringing up Japan, but you know everyone in Japan wears masks even walking around outside to the train from home or the office. The reason they're doing better overall has nothing to do with vaccinations, and from what I hear near every adult in Tokyo is nearing 2 shots. Flimsy premise for your argument. Wear a mask, get a vaccine. That's what Japan seems to be doing. We couldn't even get the mask part down and you are comparing the results.

Nature doesn't "perform" evolution, this is a bad line of thinking that is used to push eugenics. Environments change and random genetic mutations will adapt to the changes with varying degrees of success. Getting a vaccine is a choice, not a gene. Japan not only is an Island but has the most socially responsible population in the world and it's not even close. The reason we aren't Japan is we will have people that go to work with covid when they're told not to go to work when sick, while in Japan a person will let their lights go out and not eat if they have to, to not spread the disease. Every single person wears a mask outside their house in cities, even outdoors. People starved to death during the state of emergency in Japan, and they've been more intense in their "lock downs" than ours. I honestly doubt there are many countries you could immigrate to and feel less authority from the government than Canada, especially with how the world has been shifting towards authoritarianism globally. I bet they'll regret it if they do. There is merit to what you are saying about divisive politics but bud, it's not any better anywhere else on the planet right now. At least in Canada, we're at a "you get chased off the internet" level of mob rule while other parts of the world will kill you for thinking the wrong things or praying to the wrong gods.

The problems facing the indigenous populations in Canada are multi-faceted and will take a long time to solve even if the country is finally willing to change now that Canada isn't an old white man's nation. Abolishing the "Indian Act" isn't an acceptable solution and we need first nations lawmakers working in unison with all the provinces and the Canadian justice system to draft an agreeable piece of legislature that will support first nations communities adequately. Unfortunately humans aren't good at empathy when the people being effected are far away and out of sight. There is a deep rooted ignorance in Canadians about the current situation of our indigenous peoples. That they are treated well and should "get over it." This is a good way to remind every day people of the current reality people living and working in their country today face. Freezing to death, running out of water and a gross level of racism most other minorities wont face, mostly for trying to preserve their culture. Now kids will sit through presentations on why they don't have school tomorrow while growing up, this is huge in combating ignorance. I don't have any right to tell first nations people what to do, but I hope we can look past the politics of making a national holiday, and what a national holiday can do.

Im not from those places. I don't hate China. I just want them to join the modern world and engage in basic diplomacy.

Their antagonizing is far above what could be considered geopolitical posturing. China became an integral part of the world economy, only to revert back to a nationalistic ethostate. We can't afford to continue the status quo with complete integration of China when they want the US out of Asia just so they can extort and invade whom they like. Chinese people don't get to get better lives at the cost of other Asian nations, which is what would happen if we just continue on like everything is fine and China is going to be "peaceful" forever. All that money we make with them going to amphibious assault crafts.

They don't care about their foreign image any more, the cat is out of the bag so to speak. They probably thought it wasn't worth hard line negotiating with the US and just let them go because things aren't too hot in China right now.

A dumb orange man did this and he wasn't even completely wrong in doing it, just jumped the gun because he wanted a win. The US did not force the CCP to arrest and torture Canadians. The US is our (and a lot of nation's, like Japan and Taiwan's) only real substantial ally on this planet and for obvious reasons will want a stable Canada with a strong economy for selfish reasons.

The government feels they can easily have most of their population believe they were detained with just reasons and the weak, corrupt west demanded their spies to stop the hostage game with Meng. They're right too, since they control everything. I hope people who hate the US a lot take time to think about why they were releases so fast, the US obviously made it happen in their negotiation. No other reason for the CCP to let them go without extorting more.

Not really, what is she a victim of, being on trial? The Micheals will never be the same and might not be able to live normal lives, she's a billionaire walking free. Don't get it twisted.

We're going to win about 4-1 and when the players are back in Canada they'll reveal the police raids and calls they got so they don't embarrass the national team in front of Chinese people. I wish I was joking.

Yeah no, North Korea isn't threatening anyone in any way. The country making the one place on Earth that understands what nuclear weapons can do militarize and build nukes isn't NK.

War with China wont be nuclear despite what all the doomers want. China considers nuclear weapons "paper tigers" and they'll call out the Americans' threats and invade whomever they want. Why do you think Japan and South Korea want nukes now?

Better to start WWIII then let China invade and exact "revenge" on Taiwan and then eventually Japan. I always wondered how history could repeat and many great thinkers said so, but when appeasement is the go to response to aggressive, anti-diplomatic policy from an authoritarian government gearing up for war, it really is just a farce.

China will always "escalate" the situation themselves when they feel like it. Using gloves to coddle them does nothing but embolden their bullying.