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lol why not just announced we ain't closing down

rejoice we are still here cheering bitching and complaining about hockey considering all the crap that's going on around the world

hack the site so it just redirects everything to the new site there must be some hackers lurking around

outside of that temp season where he went from LA to Pitts to Van.. he's been pretty consistent

Sry what’s team friendly deal are we talking about? What 28 year old with a consistent production signed a 2mil contract with Pearson 40 points at the time 15-20 goals production? Gm upset? Gm are always upset at deals. Just like I’m sure gm are upset at all the deals ppl are giving to rookies with no little to no track records 8 year 7-8mil contracts based on potentials. You think pa is happy with Sanderson getting 8mil for just 77 games and 3x points? What’s hronek going to ask for next year? Especially if Sanderson only gets 30ish points again this season?

gimme a break.. he's on pace for 35-40 points every season over 82 games 15-20 goals.. can play up and down the lineup pk and everything for 3.25mil and we are complaining about that's a bad contract?? he pretty much on pace for as much as beauvillier.. does more on the ice for 1mil cheaper and people are saying beauvillier is not bad his contract is easily tradeable etc?? his cost per point is exactly where it needs to be 100k/point. where are you going to find these 30-40 point guy that can pk for 2mil?

ya i know what u mean.. i spent time doing that too and i go by to have a quick look every month also to make sure everything is good with the tenant if there's anything needed fixing etc.. first few months to first half year everything is good.. then later on i have no idea what changed.. maybe they are partying too much at the university lifestyle change etc.. i got really unlucky so i'm really tentative in terms of renting out.. or maybe i'll just end up selling it and buy a bigger place to rent out that can fit a small family or something.

Nope I “rented” it out to my friend. They don’t do enough to protect the owners from bad tenant. They ain’t gonna force me to pay or rent my place out. Between the 4 bad tenants I’m at a net loss rented out for 4 years lol the repairs cost more than all the rent I collected. I won the claims against the tenant but I’ve yet to see a penny from them. They are all international students though so I’m pretty sure they are not even in the country anymore. It’s next to sfu so most renters are students.

ottawa is probably just waiting for the NHL to release the sex scandal investigation result and suspend batherson so they can move on and terminate his contract at this point.. batherson was one of the few that never made a statement outright denying his involvement like others. so once he's gone they have plenty of cap space.. even if they don't terminate his contract but they suspend him for the season.. that'll free ottawa from their cap hell as 5mil falls off their dead cap next season.

a lot of strata banned renting out to airbnb.. personally my apartment is empty because it's a small apartment with only 1 bedroom i can't really rent it out to family.. and so far i had 4 renter.. 1 ran off during covid with 4 months payment lagging. and the other 3 cost significant dmg that i end up having to pay out of my own pocket to repair.. just not worth my headache.. i rather leave it empty and have it as a place to retreat when necessary since there's no mortgage left on it

anson carter put up 33 goals as soon as he came to vancouver playing with the sedins.. does that make him a legit 1st/2nd liner? coz he was out of the league 1 year later

too bad.. this is a terrible decision by the canucks imo this forum keeps the fan engaged and discuss about the canucks to keep interest up whether it's positive or negative. especially when the team sucks and the season ends in april every year. having a friendly discussion or having a fiery arguments with others during the downtime or the days off keeps thing interesting. i'll admit while being a season ticket holde for 10 years now i rarely go to the games in recent years except for the games with decent star powers from other team and end up giving most of my tickets away to friends for cheap.. and i can hardly watch a game on tv from start to finish because the canucks are so depressing to watch in the last 10 years.. now that cdc will be gone.. any games that i don't go in person i'm sure i'll probably end up just watching highlights since there's no where to discuss the game anymore lol so it really doesn't matter how they played other than if they win or lose.. oh well... end of an era.. it's nice to be arguing with ppl or agreeing with people here.. i don't hold any grudge or hate towards anyone except for a few that love to resort to personal attacks when people don't agree with them lol. i love the arguements and discussion it's entertaining.. maybe one day we'll have a new forum that's as lively as this one was..

For sure if you are starting from scratch. That’s why I said depends on the team composition. But if it’s based on today though it’s 100% Hughes no debate. Not only is he better offensively he’s signed to a massive steal of a contract compared to what’s coming up for EP. If starting from fresh and build for sure EP but if the team already have a 2c that could take the defensive responsibility than Hughes. He’s still got a much higher ceiling to grow and who knows in 3 years time he could be just as good as ep defensively

U mean Ruff the coach fans were chanting to fire at the beginning of last season? Who’s the 2 ahl coach? Coz he only had 1 coach during 5!/5 age? Great players production don’t get affected by coaching.. the coiler switched to an ahl coach doesn’t seem to affect mcdavid or drais

people say the same thing every year.. before it was madden lockwood lind gadjovich etc etc and they all amount to nothing.. until proven otherwise i have 0 faith in our farm system developing prospect properly.. i don't keep up with the farm team much but didn't they focus on winning rather than giving the prospect more ice time to develop couple years ago?

again MT might have moved us up the standings instead of finishing 2nd worse to maybe 4th-8th worse.. and based on that year that means we had a chance of winning the lottery if they finished 4th 5th or 8th. MT is good but 1 player ain't gonna turn this team from 2nd worst to 10+ this team up and down the lineup was still bad along with the aging twins.. MT was also playing a lot with gaudreau and monahan during that 1st season along with dougie hamilton.. those players are country miles better than horvat boeser and twilight year sedins. horvat boeser sedins are all super slow and i don't think compliments tkachuks game.. so i doubt he's scoring 48 points with the canucks. i mean sure if we have MT we might not have QH or heck EP.. but it could also mean we have MT and heiskanen or makar or whomever.. we wouldn't know.. but we'd definitely be drafting high in the EP and QH draft regardless if we have MT or not.. coz the team benning iced is bad

depends on the team make up. if i already have a hirshier type player on the team ppg selke caliber guy as a 2c.. i 100% would take Jack Hughes... offensively Jack hughes at age 20 and 21 blows EP age 20 21 out of the water.. Jack is over a ppg both season and prolly would have hit 100 if he didn't miss the 4 games and already is a 40 goal scorer while ep was slightly below a ppg both season and then struggled the following season.. so who to say if Jack hughes won't continue and be a 120 point guy by the time he reaches EP's age? the knock on jack hughes is he's god awful in the faceoff circle.. i wonder if he's better off just being a winger and have hirschier as the center.. though i think Jack hughes would explode this year offensively with better linemates. Meier is a massive upgrade over haula sharangovich tatar and mercer whom hughes played with last season. and if luke hughes can put up anything close to quinn's number.. so really depends on the team and situation.. pure offence i'll take hughes 2 way player probably EP? so really its gonna depend on situation and team composition.

i also have issue with the player that "leaked" the info to not go to the management annoymously first.. but decides to leak it to biz.. this 100% was done with ill intent to hopefully stir it into a big deal and get babs fired because he probably doesn't want to play for babs. if you have issue at work.. isn't the first thing you do is report to HR? and not go to the news outlet?? babs probably shouldn't have asked to see photos he probably should have like well i would love to know you all better.. here's some photos of me with my family etc etc.. if you would like to share feel free to share with us and your team mates in like a team meeting or team bonding session.

busting on OJ virtanen giving up and trading away mccann for gudbranson may very well have doomed the canucks witht he current core.. ive always bitched about his drafting since the virtanen pick i hated it.. i always hated players that were dominating the juniors because of their size coz it doesn't really tell the story.. he's bigger and faster than others hence he's dominating and looks good.. but when everyone in the nhl is big and fast.. he's no longer dominating like he was.. and if he hit on 1 or 2 2nd rounders in 7-8 years worth of drafting.. maybe it won't look so bad.. but reality is he didn't.. even the podkolzin pick is starting to not look that great with caulfield boldy newhook all still available. boldy was my pick at 10 he had top line talent written all over him and would have been a great winger for EP. kuz and boldy as ur 2 wingers on the top 2 line with EP and miller centering 1 each is pretty nasty in terms of offence. Podkolzin never striked me as a top 2 line talent and i think of him as a 3rd line hard nose checking grinder that have some offence.

if we gotten MT we might moved up the standing and won the lottery or we might have been just as bad.. i mean NJ Dallas and philly all leap frog us.. so maybe we won't get EP.. but ends up with hirschier Heiskanen or even Makar.. or maybe we are dumb enough and took patrick.. the 4, 5th and 8th worse team won the lottery that year.. so we mighta landed 1 of the 2 norris caliber defenceman instead of EP.. and honestly i doubt MT would make a difference in the standing.. the overall team roster was pretty bad.. he might get us an extra win or 2 which would slide us into the 4-8 spot for a chance at the top 3 pick instead haha

so "asking" to see your family photo is crossing the line nowadays?? if he demanded to see it and threatened to punish people for it then ya sure maybe.. you can politely say no i have too many personal photos or i don't feel comfortable sharing it? if he continue to push for it then ya sure.. all i see out of this is people that hated babcock spell blood in the water and blow this way out of proportion.. if my boss ask me to see photos on my phone.. i'll probably ask what for.. and depending on the answer i may say yes or no? if i say no what's he going to do? fire me?

Ok I stand corrected on the nba. So what does team option or player options have to do with a guaranteed non guaranteed contract? So if a player signs for 10 years with an extra option for 1 year player or team it’s irrelevant and doesn’t even affect his 10 years? So if you say add team option for nhl contracts you don’t think the players are going to push for higher cap on their guaranteed years to compensate? The cap is fine the way it is sucks some team have advantage with taxes but bad contracts or player declining over the contract or doesn’t live up to it is the teams problem. They take a gamble they lose. No one held a gun to their head to give out those contracts. Carolina seems to be doing just fine not giving out long term contracts to players in their late 20s just like they ain’t planning on keeping pesce beyond the season most likely. Most teams have bad contracts some are worse than others most of those teams manage to stay competitive Vancouver couldn’t. It’s not the bad contract that sinks this team it’s the bad team composition that sinks this team. Replace a loui we are a playoff team? Replace a OEL only this is a playoff team? Gimme a break stop making excuse using bad contract as the reason this team sucked for years.

lol a lot of nfl contracts are not fully guaranteed.. less than 10% of the players in nfl have a fully guaranteed nfl contracts.. and a lot of them do not have a fully guaranteed contract for injury... hamlin for example got a 45% paycut for IR pay when he had the cadiac arrest.. unless you are a star player with leverage it's hard to get a full injury guaranteed contract.. most have partial guaranteed where if they are cut or released while injured they will be paid the partial guaranteed amount. basically you want a get out of jail card for free and allow the GMs to be even more ridiculous with the contracts because you are proposing ways to to limit or get out of bad contracts that were the teams/gm fault in the first place. no one forced the gms to sign players at the tail end of their prime to long term contracts. the GM decides to sign them to long term so they can spread out the cap.. you think a player will say no to say a 10mil x 6 vs a 8mil x 8? but GM obviously would prefer the 8x8 even if it means the last 4 years of the contract is negative value because it allows them to sign an extra 2mil player during that 4 years of peak performance i dunno how you interpet team option/player option s a non guaranteed contract. it's an optional year for either side.. they either option for an extra year or they don't.. there's no buyout fee if the team decides to not exercise the option.. it's an OPTION.. and if the player opts in then they are stuck with the full cap hit/salary unless they negotiate a buyout. even if nhl have team option or player option.. doubt you can get any established players to sign a "team option" instead of giving them the extra year.. team options are usually for young players that you are overpaying for potential.. like the ones ottawa are throwing out there. it doesn't matter how you tailor the non guaranteed contract to the nhl.. it'll never happen.. just like it'll never happen in the nba or mlb

The only sports that doesn’t have guaranteed contract is what? NFL? Where most players in majority of the position will make as much as a nhl star player? And players will sit out hold out on final years to avoid injuries until they get an pextension? Plenty of teams have bad contracts buy out penalty etc and still make the playoff Minnesota have 10+ in buyout penalty and they still make the playoffs loui wasnt the sole reason we miss the playoff nor was OEL. Bad management grabbing incompatible players building bad chemistry did. Non guaranteed contracts you might as well have no hitting hockey. Who’s going to lay their body to block a shot? Who’s going to make a hit? If they land on IR they don’t even get paid the full amount just like the nfl for the non guaranteed contracts. Imagine training in the off season and gets an injury. The only reason nfl have non guaranteed contract is because it’s the most injured sports out there.. and most injury will cost minimum 25% of the season.. it wasn’t there so you can cut players for your mistake. Look at how many season injury in preseason and week 1? The insurance just to cover those guaranteed contract would be massive also cutting those players most still have signing bonus and even guaranteed money left.. those still counts against the cap. So essentially it’s kinda like a buyout. Let say if a players negotiated 50% signing bonus/salary spread over 5 years for 8mil the other part is non guaranteed.. if u cut the player say 3 years in.. there’s still 12 mil worth of dead cap spread over the remaining 3 years don’t see how that helps team get out of bad contract.. it’s even worse since it’s not spread out over double. Unless you are making league minimum most players will have some sort of signing bonus or partial guaranteed.. it only hurts the player and the only benefit the team gains is not having to pay

So discrimination based on age? So you rather pay the star players more money and let the mid players make less.. and want to be too heavy like toronto? Imagine paying each of your players say Demko Hughes pettersson miller all 1.5-2 mil more. Lol that’s already worse than overpaying 1 or 2 player by 2-3 mil each unless they straight up can’t play. Teams with no crazy top end players would probably just steam roll us since all the player just below the high ends would sign with those teams and have 4 lines and 3 pairings they can roll out vs a team with all the extra 1.5-2mil per top players and then roll out a 3rd 4th line all consisting of league minimum players. I take my chance with the balance teams. Your top 2 lines can only play so much lol. Their average players just need to not get streamrolled while their other players will completely steamroll the league minimums. You rather spend 6-10mil or more extra on ur star players depending how many you have just to fix 1 or 2 player that’s maybe 2-3 mil overpaid that you can always try to dump with sweetener retention or buyout that would cost less than paying the stars extra. Don’t see how your proposal fixes anything other than star gets paid more the rest of the league gets paid less and team become less competitive because they have to utilize more of the cap on star players and less money for depth.