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LOL, we need to change that, get you to more games so you can experience a win, OR ban you from the arena until at least the 3rd round of bubble hockey. WHichever leads to more Canucks Wins. ; )
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^ thanks Rush17, While I am coming up to speed on the club I realized that the Tuukka Rask has been hurt for some time now, but not placed on IR, which explains why I am here. We would like to welcome Jack Campbell to the club, gets us a little bit deeper for the push, and Jack will be in the crease as soon as he is bubble ready.
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one? Hehehe, I go to nucks games when i can and BCHL games when i can and WHL games when i can, so i am a bad choice for your illistraton too, but i hear ya and that is why the owners will never agree to it, but as fans, imagine if about a hundred clubs were in three tiers starting with the 32 NHL teams in the top one..but had relegation to tier two instead of Crosby, Matthews, McDavid and company as the punishment for being bad. ; ) fans would win. Side note: I think TO does need a second team. but maybe in Hamilton instead of across the street?
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Toronto has arguably the biggest fanbase of the Canadian teams: and that fanbase can be replicated in many of the southern 'iffy' markets on the turn of a dime. Vancouver has 675 thousand people and lots of them watch hockey, and BC has 5 million and lots of us watch hockey. Phoenix has 4.5 million people and Arizona has 7.5. Not many watch hockey though, but it doesn't take too many % points when the city has 4.5 million instead of 675 thousand to turn around the revenue in a hurry. I think it is good to grow the sport into new markets in North America, but what may be even better would be the tier system that the Premiership has in soccer in ENgland for example. There are like the NHl/AHL/ECHL system like a hundred clubs and what the NHL could do is have 32 in teh NHL, another 32 in the AHL and another 32 in the ECHL and just like the premiership or WJH system: the last place team this year bumps ddown to the 2nd tier and their winner bumps up. Instant "anti tanking" right there. But its too wild a change and the owners would never vote to have a chance to drop to the AHL in a bad year. Too bad, as that format has made even Bolton worth billions. EDIT: as an aside, contracts could be done as strait % of revenue, you pay your Matthewses 12% or what not and your boydses 1% or what not and then it doesn't matter where you end up in the teir system, your income determines your salary expenditures: but your stars will demand a trade when you tank and drop a tier, that is for sure, just like in the Premiership. Another spitball idea is for the NHL to pony up and buy professional womens teams and recreate them into a duplicate WOmens league of the NHL: when the canucks are on the road playing Calgary, literally the Lady Canucks are at home hosting Calgary's Women. Do this for 32 NHL teams and you double the local games available for fans, giving women a bigger stage, and revenue will flow from that. The relative strength of the mens league would then bouy the womens a little, while also lending credence to it. Identical paralell leagues mandated under the NHL and literally each NHL club must have a womens team, makes it easy to implement and get something off the ground, again using %'s for salary instead of hard cash amounts.
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Thanks, my takeaway after all that is that February was devastating, in particular the five away game losses to open the month and the 4 home losses to close the month. Even one win in each of those two stretches would have really changed a lot of the discourse here today. I am fairly confident the team can take .600, they have done it before and recently playing to that level. No reason they can't carry it on to the end of April, then the fingernail biting last four in May...it is going to be a wild ride!
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Predict The Score Contest: WPG @ VAN March 22 2021
Primal Optimist replied to goalie13's topic in Canucks Talk
5-2 Vancouver GWG: Hogger -
Yeah, something like that ^ so 45% of 22679 is incredibly more than 200, which was my point, thank you for the link!
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So you are saying its working! The things we are sacrificing are really working at saving lives. Nice, thanks for that info. The families who have experienced a loss, some 22,679 in Canada alone, due to covid, you are in our hearts. ((wow your math says that 22,479 Canadians died of covid in just the care homes so far, wait that doesn't sound accurate at all. I think you may be mistaken))
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Love it! how can i add to it? how about.... Dubois, can't score, less LIttle, is more Paul Stastny's no Biznasty, and Blake Wheeler, snore snore. Kyle Connor, terminate this toy, in fact, 'have you seen this boy?" Terminator Zack Mac can DESTROY They never learn just crash and burn EJECT EJECT, oh boy! MC Sisu
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My backpack's got JETS, I am BObba the fette. bounty hunt for jabba hutt to finance my vette! ~mc chris The Jets are going to rue the day they traded Patrik Laine! and the rueing will begin on March 22nd! Canucks win maybe with up to 5 goals! Jets lose with not so much. 5-3, hogger with the gwg!! edit: more SISU?? Juolevi please!!
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True about the 'how to enforce it" thing. I bet its a proof of vaccination kind of system with "must have a mask on" being less stringently enforced for food and drink purposes, like masked to your seat, then you can relax. Tnucks1, I was at all those Victoria side WJC games, it was awesome. I live on the island and so going to a real Canucks live game is about the same cost if its in Vancouver for me as it is if it is them visiting Arizona. haha. Done both and the costs add up to about the same. I have managed to find Canucks tix for about a hundred though and a hotel on West Pender, about 6 blocks due north of the arena as the crow flies was under 100 bucks that night with a 25 dollar prepaid visa card as a special for booking online. Made my ticket and hotel and a hot dog about 200 dollars. That was the best i managed of about a trip per year for a decade now. I walk on the ferry and bus to the riverrock usually, haha. Fun but adds expense.
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I am already making semi solid plans to attend a game with some fellow fans from Canucks.com, but I think likely it will be a masks required game if they allow folks in in October. Maybe not if proof of vaccination instead. I will choose personally to wear a canucks mask though.
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I think fans are underestimating what mental health side effects, call it coping or not coping well, from covid issues has probably done to these young athletes. Young relative to me at 48 yrs at least. We are also a bit gun shy from the experience of EK's offense crawling up a hole and dying right after he signed with Vancouver. I don't think Holtby is as bad as this one weird season has canucks fans thinking. but he is also my backup tendy over in the fantasy hockey section of the site, haha, so I may be biased.
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As with the good folks in Tokyo for decades, I think after we are all vaccinated, or like a very large majority of us at least, in the post-covid world, you will just see people going about their business, some with masks, and some not. My families business places will likely insist on them for in person patronage, similar to the no shirt, no shoes, no service signs that we are all familiar with and don't argue about. Other business owners likely will not keep so strict a rule, but I am sure it will be very peaceful and free to choose by those in charge. Parents, owners, individuals, et cetera.
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^ I am army trained at a lot of things, and sewing is one of them. I made my own triple ply masks with my wifes machine when i heard the Jump Company of the Canadian Armed Forces was doing their own at work too. check this out! For those that think masks aren't 'manly' or what not.
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my nephew did his grade 12 year over there and loved it, he was mask friendly before covid was even a twinkle in some bats eye.
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I am a big Bonnie Henry fan, but i tell my wife every time we catch her on the news, not only does she make sense, but she is perfect to fall asleep to. Often those afternoon updates lead strait into pregame nap time for me, haha. As for masks: I think I am very firmly with the Japanese of the last several decades now in that I will be wearing a mask in public for the rest of my life. Not like walking down the street, but at a packed arena? YUP. It is now firmly part of my culture. haha.
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I wouldn't be opposed to at most 2500 fans in the building: in home unit groups, like single family seating with wide berths of nothing in the middle. That at least would bring in a quarter million a game at 100 bucks a ticket. ten home games remaining: 2.5 million in gate stubs. I would also like to actually hear and see some fellow fanatics making the noise (*and lets face it, the Canucks CAN do a little better at the canned noise at home games right? With a small homer club leading the fan noise the canned noise guy will know exactly when and where to use what recordings and volume settings, imo, to add more authenticity to the TV viewers experience (and there are millions of us) and then by the playoffs, if we limbo under that bar by the end of the season, we will be much more ahead on Vaccinations and could likely open it up even further!
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We now have 21 games left on the season. We have won 7 of the last ten and are a .500 club with a 7-2-1 record, the best last ten record in the division. That won't hold up mind you, but it is nice to see. Games in hand are tricky things, but all the teams ahead of us have some. From 1 g.i.h. to 4, the four clubs above us 2, 3, 7 and 7 points ahead of us respectively. To take advantage of games in hand they will have to win them. past games : Opponent : games remaining W Jan 30th, L Feb 19th, L Feb 21st, W Mar 1st, L Mar 2nd WPG March 22, March 24th, April 4th, April 6th :2W's 3L's, 4 g.r. L Jan 16th, L Jan 18th, L Feb 11th, W Feb 13th, L Feb 15th, W Feb 17th, CGY March 31st, April 8th, April 10th, May 8th :2W's 4L's, 4 g.r. W Jan 13th, L Jan 14th, L Feb 23rd, L Feb 25th, W Mar 13th EDM April 3rd, April 12th, April 14th, May 4th, May 5th :2W's 3L's, 5 g.r. L Feb 4th, L Feb 6th, L Feb 8th, W Mar 4th, W Mar 6th, TOR April 17th, April 19th, April 30th, May 1st :2W's 3L's, 4 g.r. W Jan 25th, W Jan 27th, W Jan 28th, W Mar 15th, W Mar 17th OTT April 22nd, April 24th, April 26th, April 28th :5W's 0L's, 4 g.r. W Jan 20th, L Jan 21st, L Jan 23rd, L Feb 1st, L Feb 2nd, W Mar 8th, L Mar 10th, W Mar 19th, L Mar 20th MTL :3W's 6L's, 0 g.r. Jan 6 wins, 5 losses Feb 2 wins, 9 losses, 2 ot losses Mar 8 wins 2 losses 1 shoot out loss STandings based list: Toronto, won just 4 of their last ten. Giants for sure at the top of the standings, but unbeatable? not by a long shot. Peak Toronto may have already passed by. Edmonton, I think here is the part to watch. Can we beat Edmonton at least 3 of the 5 remaining games? our playoff chances live and die by these 5 games, imo. Winnipeg, We will know more literally in two games time and we will be done with the Jets at the end of the first week of April. Immediacy is a word, the canucks NEED W's. Montreal, we are done with unless we have to meet in the playoffs, which i propose is not likely. I think Montreal fades out as Vancouver takes over the 4th spot. Calgary, 4 games remaining, one being the last game of the year, and one at the end of this month. Hope we can win the two in April and it seems likely. Ottawa, at the other end of the spectrum from Montreal, we have 4 games remaining and likely to win three of them as the expected result. Conclussion: February seemed likely to sink the Canucks as was pointed out well by others in the thread we would need to overcome historically unbeatable odds to come back to the playoffs after February's standings were in the books. Enter an 8-2-1 March Record to the rescue! Best in Division in March. Let us hope and wait to see if the final 3 games of March end the way the rest has gone. Could we go 10-2-2 or 10-3-1 for all of march? Bonus two of them are against our 'betters' in the standings. April has 14 games, seemingly every second day all month with just 2 two day breaks tossed in there. The boys have a week off after these Winnipeg games, and that break for physical health and rest, along with the mental health break of the pressure may be perfect for what we are about to face in the coming month. a 600 record in April would mean about 17 points for the month. Four of those 14 games are against Ottawa, hehe. EDIT: just a quick nod to home and away: we have 9 away games in April, 7 of them in a row to kick off the month. I think we can definatively state that 7 game road trip will determine our playoff chances. 3 Edm, 2 Wpg, 2 Cgy games. is 4 of 7 a success? I think we need 5 to have some margin for error in May. I am pretty good with the idea that the Canucks can be the first team to come back from a statistical chance of less than 4% of making the playoffs as of the end of February, because now it would appear we just need to play at .600. A feat the club has done often in the pandemic bubble and outperformed in March just now already. 4th place is ours to lose, 3rd a little tougher, but ideal. Have a great Sunday Nucks Fans and while we can't plan the parade route, we can start to pencil in mid May Vancouver Hockey!!!!