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This story tells a different version from what you're saying - it quotes Jim Benning himself saying that Delorme was the one who was all over Petey from the beginning - before anyone else in the franchise even saw the kid actually. Although I can't find them right now, I recall watching videos of JB referring to Delorme as the one who championed Petey from the beginning - Delorme was the one pressuring management/scouting department to keep looking at EP. https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/kuzma-ron-delorme-delivered-first-hard-sell-to-get-elias-pettersson-on-canucks-draft-radar

Anyone else see this: https://blackhawkup.com/2020/03/26/blackhawks-free-agent-goalie-options-offseason/ I'm sure it's just some amateur blogger in his momma's basement but if he's thinking of poaching our guy (everyone calm down, I know signing ufa's is perfectly legal) then surely people with actual hockey credibility and real NHL jobs are thinking it too. Yeah, I laughed too at the part where he suggests......well, I'll let you read the funny parts on you're own.

Not sure about forum but if anyone knows how it may be the 'creative media' types...... How can I receive a file via email (pdf attachments), complete the document, sign it, then send it back through email without ever printing it or downloading special apps/software? Thanks in advance, stay healthy everyone.

What does Subban have to do with this ?

It's going to be all but impossible to enforce martial law in a country the size of Canada with people so widely distributed combined with the fact we have a very low ratio of military/police to civilian population. You correctly acknowledged that ppl simply don't care - so does anyone think a law that can't possibly be widely enforced is going to persuade the ppl that don't care to do the right thing?

Ummm, anyone else here remember the embarrassing 'Fox Glow Puck' debacle in the 90's?

Actually, if you just look at the 'big picture' there are some similarities - not in skill-set mind you but: -both similar age -both similar size -both OHL products that produced at similar levels in that league -both given up on by their draft team -both produced similar numbers in limited NHL appearances -both almost half-way through the 'average' pro-hockey career and still not established in the NHL yet Actually, if you look closely at just their stats from OHL/AHL/NHL, they are eerily similar. Yes, I know stats are just stats and not the whole picture but they tell you something about the player. They're not the same skill-set, but there's some general comparisons there imo even if it's just the fact they're similar ages/pro-experience that have bounced around a few franchises each and never panned-out - yet anyway.

Is all that even going to make a dent in what JB needs to re-up Marky &Tanev? Not to mention the money needed to qualify our RFA's?

That video was hard to watch/listen to. The narrator has an annoying tempo of speech and he butchers BR's name over and over.

Besides Baert, who's all but untouchable now because of injury, what have those other guys done exactly to be labeled as 'NHL talent'?

Gold imo is the hardest to win. But Silver is likely, as perhaps you're indicating, often the most bitter to end up with.

Imo, at the very least, if every player is available, we're co-favorites in a worlds 'best-vs-best' tournament. But 3rd seed, that's a stretch unless you're predicting injuries to McJesus, Crosby, MacKinnon, Drouin and Marner as well as some key defenders at the same time.

I'd be fine if the team made playoffs and won 1 or 2 games.

So because you lack information you automatically question his off-ice prep and development? Ok then, sounds rational......

Lol....our PK is doing BETTER without him in the line-up. Even less reason for him to be here now that other personell are doing his job better than him. https://canucksarmy.com/2019/10/13/pk-success/ I see ZERO reason for him not to be in Utica other than the fact it's better for the kids to be playing regularly in Utica instead of sitting in the press-box like LE is now.

This kid's father is literally dying before his very eyes and all you can think of is 'sign this paper and get here so you can entertain me'. No wonder our fan-base has such a crap reputation around the league.

If true, and Loui wants to play that game - he can discover the hard way that Edmonton would've been far better than Utica.

Yet you needed to tell everyone that, for no 'cred' of course. Yes, we know.

EP in Sweden. BB in North Dakota. QH in Michigan. OJ in Utica. You don't think these guys had older vets on their teams helping them out in all sorts of ways? None of these teams had superstars on them when these kids arrived so guess what type of players they had around them to relate with? Who did Green immediately pair with QH when he arrived? Could've been several others but he was paired immediately with a journeyman in Schenn. That wasn't done randomly.

Amusing that people actively want other GM's to stir the pot and try and screw TO. People realize outside of BC, for whatever reason, we're one of the least liked franchises out there? And we have arguably the best young core group of players on elc ever assembled in this organization? Let me guess we're not going to be in cap trouble so it's different.

Is it just me or are we kinda winning this ufa thing so far this year?

If I had to choose between Ferraro and MacKenzie, I would take MacKenzie.

Great signing for FLA. Nice to see a good Northern BC kid get a solid contract.

I get it, we're sick of being pushed around. But the possibility of having no picks in both the first two rounds in 2021? Do people think we have that kind of depth in the organization to sustain that price? I mean, Utica didn't even make the playoffs.

https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/nhl-lockout-board-of-governors-ratifies-cba-bettman-apologizes/ To me this confirms there was indeed dissent, but some owners took one for their collective team so to speak and still voted for it. Doesn't say specifically which owners had a problem with which part of the deal however. Having been involved in labor negotiations myself I have represented a group and voted in favor of a deal when I wasn't happy about parts of it, but accepted that the whole was better than nothing. I've also been advised how not having a 'unanimous' outcome wouldn't be good for overall optics or for our sides bargaining position strength. That said it'll be difficult for Vancouver to evade this penalty if in fact they ultimately voted to ratify this deal which it seems they did in the end.