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I find this incredibly misleading - yeah, maybe everyone can register, but zero mention of when they'll actually receive their vaccination. I keep hearing over and over about how people are 'circumventing' the system in this way or that (one person I know used their parents 'cabin' address in a remote town up north to get their vaccination , and I know several acquaintances (at least 3) who got their vaccination because they knew someone at a clinic that had 'extra' doses lying around that would expire and guess who got them - their friends.....). Meanwhile, law abiding citizens who are following all the measures and doing everything expected of them and more are left at risk.

You can't simply close the book on this season. There's a LOT of development and evaluating that can be done in the remaining schedule. We're poised to see guys like Lind, Rathbone, Bowey, Boyd, Highmore, Rafferty...maybe even MDP see game action. Even OJ, when he recovers should get more meaningful minutes. I'd say the remaining schedule, whether we make post season or not, is still very important from a franchise perspective.

To clarify, he's on the active roster or taxi squad?

I didn't interpret that there was any connection between his book and the lockdown other than that's when he began writing it. To me it reads as a narrative of his hockey career thus far with no real 'insights' that couldn't be learned by reading newspaper articles unfortunately. Personally, I'd be more interested in reading something that had an element to it that you wouldn't know of otherwise. There has to be that element for it to be interesting to me. Good luck with your project.

If whatever you feel the need to say requires a preface statement such as this - perhaps you should re-think what your are going to say and/or the way in which you say it. You don't get to censor people here because you may not like what they're going to reply with.

Agreed, but let's remember, Daly is a puppet for the owners. Neither he nor Bettman make a move unless the owners want them to. Still amazes me how the owners can escape any and all accountability by hiding behind these two puppets.

I'm not going to condemn or defend Pearson's contract by virtue of a simple 'numbers' side by side comparison to this one. We all know hockey is far more than a numbers game. JB said when he announced the Pearson signing that he was a huge presence in the leadership core of the team in the dressing room. We have no idea, despite what some people here may believe, what actually goes on with the team and how it's leadership works on the bench or off the ice but if JB says Pearson is a big part of it I have to take him at his word. He also mentioned Pearson had a important impact on the younger players currently on the team. When we let Tanev go, we saw how that affected Huggy - perhaps JB was willing to pay a premium to keep part of the leadership of the team in tact after seeing what losing some key vets did to the team last off season? Like I said, I'm not defending or condemning JB's signing, just that there's more to it than putting the contracts side by side on capfriendly and making judgements from there.

People were discussing whether Seattle would be interested in selecting Gadjo - but I thought he didn't meet the criteria of being exposed whereby any player being exposed would have to have played a minimum of 40 games this year or 70 games combined the last two seasons. Seems I'm still not 100% certain of the criteria?

I thought any player exposed had to meet the minimum NHL games played criteria? Gajo doesn't meet, no?

OK, so people get pissed off, then what? Typically this results in nothing but social media complaining - it's not hindsight, it's typically what happens when governments make decisions the general public doesn't like. The VAST majority of the time actions do not go beyond complaining. The government knew this, but made the decision to simply 'hope' that people would comply with their suggestions which, to me anyway, just affirms to me that the majority of decision makers at that level are totally out of touch with regular society. Call me a pessimist, but I knew from day 1 that if governments were opening the door to people to do this or that (including travel/eating out/ gyms/ect....) - they WOULD and they would do it in numbers.

I suspect the public backlash would've been the exact same as it is from the people who didn't travel anywhere during the pandemic but resented those that did - there'd be a lot of hoop-la on social media and literally NOTHING else. I believe the governments decision to not restrict domestic/international travel more severely had less to do with potential public backlash as you put it and more to do with the potential of adding to an already worsening escalating economic situation in the country.

Gotta love those threads that start with 'never gonna happen but I'm going to say it anyway just because I can'. For the record, I'm against spending any significant assets (such as a high pick and/or good prospect - which RBone certainly looks like at this point) on ridding ourselves of LE. At this point, Loui can sit on the Taxi squad indefinitely and contemplate his lack of contributions to the team. Unlike others, I don't begrudge him getting paid what he is, I begrudge what looks like a complete disinterest on his part to contribute anything worthwhile on the ice. As for other options, I don't know the exact financial details of a buyout but if it's not too punitive than perhaps that's the direction to go?

While unfortunate, it really only affects 4 potential teams - yes, it's a blow to those team who I know build for years to get a shot at this tournament. Whomever the CHL was penciling in to host would have to know this was going to be the likely outcome given the present situation across NA.

True, basically look at the futility of the Coilers before Holland arrived.

Thanks, this explanation makes sense. In my view, the pattern is representative of ownership expectations combined with an expensive, aging core. Aquaman has publicly stated that he directed JB to stay competitive (make the playoffs) at all costs during the Sedin era - he wanted his ill father to have the possibility to witness one more 'cup run' - as a result I wouldn't expect a team like that to be offloading NHL assets in favor of picks. In fact the patter directly represents what any GM would probably have to do with an aging core and an ownership expecting playoffs which would be to use the only asset you have (picks) to get players who could possibly get you to the post-season. I think a lot of people give JB a hard time because he didn't do a 'scorched earth' re-build (or anything close to that) but they forget he was operating the team under a directive from ownership to be in the playoffs every year - those two things (rebuild/make playoffs) cannot co-exist as we all know. Yes, I know this is my interpretation of JB's tenure, but it's backed up by public comments made by ownership as well as JB himself - I know JB has his detractors and his supporters, I just think a lot of critics of JB's work here in Vancouver completely absolve ownership of any responsibility - they often say we have great owners who spend to the cap ceiling every year but forget they essentially nixed any thought of a 'rebuild' by expecting playoffs every year.

Can you explain what this means please and where you got these numbers from? Thanks.

Sincerity, or damage control? I'm going with the former. Best of luck to you Hockey Gaud in the next phase of your career. I despise the franchise you are going to - but at the same time I wish you success on your new team.

Now that is a sobering thought. To think that my safety and the safety of those I love and care about is now in the hands of a society I've too often witnessed is out for themselves at the expense of anything and anyone is not something I'm confident in. Sorry folks.

I'm not 100% buying the argument that vaccinations are slow due to a limited supply. This might be partially correct, but it's definitely not the whole story. I've heard from several reputable sources (my old rec.hockey buddy is a senior manager at a large health authority in the lower mainland) that hundreds upon hundreds of doses are expiring daily because they can't give them out to people before they expire. My other university friend is a nurse in a large hospital in the Fraser Valley and he basically confirmed the same thing - doses going unused. If someone said it wasn't as much a supply issue (although supply is likely 'part' of it) - rather a distribution issue caused by mismanagement I'd believe that one though.

Good question - I suspect the truth will come out eventually either way in due time. Was it just a hockey trade plain and simple, or was it a message to the team that you don't violate team/league directives and break protocol no matter what?

Let me just confirm something - we're still talking about a guy who was found money, drafted in the 5th round 149th overall, who was healthy scratched numerous times this season, right? Ok, carry on everyone.

I mean, insert JV for Gaud and you could say the exact same thing about the player, no?

How does shedding a bit of cap at the trade deadline on an expiring contract, and not acquiring any other contract of any substantial value help us out at all? I'm not trying to be a d&#k, I just don't understand the comment?

You're probably right, I just saw Fleury as a more rugged/harder to play against defender which is what in my view we need more of.