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I have a super spicy meme to share in the GDT today.
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Assuming soon. https://www.playstation.com/en-ca/games/path-of-exile-ps4/
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If Edler really wants to help the team, this is what he does. But I can also see the merits of being a one team long term guy, because today, its ultraaaaaaaaa rare. I am fine either way, but prefer the first.
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Zack will get his shot, probably next fall after we have a few openings. Hopefully sooner, if Trader Jim gets busy at the TDL.
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Feet to the fire.
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I have caught several Kings games this year. Every time, I noticed Muffin in a bad light, not a good one. Remarking how slow he looked. How forwards were blowing past him regularly. He was a really solid D man a few years ago. But, he has lost a step from a few years ago. His decline has been steep, and I know exactly why the Kings have parted ways. The Leafs' defensive woes have not been fixed with this trade, not even close!
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I think that with all the turnover coming on the Canucks' blue line, and with several of our D barely treading the 6/7 waters, Woo could surprise everyone and make the team out of camp next season.
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Browsed a few other boards, and sources. Apparently (and this is not far from the hyperbole I just had to endure) they just got Lidstrom and Brad Park all rolled up into one super human that isn't slow, or 30, or a veteran of some of the heaviest, longest playoff series in history over the last decade.
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Don't think so, the amount detected is really tiny, and its a known end metabolite that can show up and disappear, in this numbers, for a long time. If he was juicing, these numbers would be way higher, and other metabolites would also be found.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5700672/ Korean zombie movie. Unpredictable plot for a zombie flick, lots of action. 7.5/10
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He should also be considered for the Hart.
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I'd rather see Alberta build several refineries, distilleries and other end product plants, create some industry and jobs for Albertans, and a nice source of domestically produced gasoline or other oil based products for all Canadians. Makes more sense to me, to sell this stuff to Canadians than put in this pipeline? Turn the pipeline into refineries. Should have been done 30 years ago.
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https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/canucks-demko-feeling-calm-ahead-likely-season-debut/ Canucks’ Demko feeling calm ahead of likely season debut Iain MacIntyre @imacSportsnet January 17, 2019, 7:23 PM VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks should all try to get inside Thatcher Demko’s head. No, seriously. Hockey is a lot simpler in there. The prospect anointed the franchise’s goalie of the future from the day he was drafted in 2014 should finally get a chance this weekend, probably Friday night against the Buffalo Sabres, to start a game as a National Hockey League regular instead of as a tourist up from the minors on a day trip. As this seminal moment in his life approaches, the 22-year-old from San Diego and Boston College feels, well, calm. Demko is finishing a degree in applied psychology (with a minor in philosophy) and now we know to what he is applying this psychology. “I think pressure is a made up thing,” he said Thursday after his umpteenth practice since the Canucks traded Anders Nilsson to Ottawa on Jan. 2 and promoted Demko from the Utica Comets. “Everyone loves to talk about it, but you can’t really put your finger on what it is. It’s really up to the subject to determine whether they feel pressure or not. I don’t feel pressure; I’m just excited to start this new chapter for me.” We could all use some of Demko’s Zen, especially the Canucks. Still without brilliant rookie Elias Pettersson, who has been out two weeks with a sprained knee, Vancouver also prepared Thursday for the possibility of playing without its other ace centre, Bo Horvat. The Canucks’ leader suffered a bruised thigh when hit by Zack Kassian late in Wednesday’s 3-2 shootout loss to the Edmonton Oilers. The team was concerned enough to call up centre Tanner Kero from the American Hockey League, although Canucks coach Travis Green told reporters he expects Horvat to play on Friday. Pettersson, however, will not. He has been back on the ice for a week but still hasn’t skated through a full-contact practice with the Canucks. The sensational Swede may be able to play Sunday against the Detroit Red Wings or could wait until Vancouver’s final pre-all-star break game next Wednesday against Carolina. Demko is likely to make his season debut this weekend despite the career-best form of starter Jacob Markstrom, who stopped 28 of 30 Oilers shots Wednesday and is 10-3-2 since November. The Canucks have a short turnaround at Rogers Arena between Friday night’s game and Sunday’s matinee, and the coaching staff wants to find a start for Demko before Vancouver’s nine-day schedule break at the end of the month. Nobody thinks it’s a good idea to make Demko wait until February to play. His only NHL game was last March 31 when he stopped 25 of the first 26 shots he faced before allowing three straight late in the third period in what turned out to be a 5-4 overtime win against Columbus. The game, requested by Demko through his agent because he wanted to know before this season what the NHL looked like, was granted as a reward for the goaltender’s outstanding AHL campaign (.922 save percentage and 25-13-4 record). It was also a reflection of his importance to the Canucks’ future. “The circumstances were a little different last year, just coming up and getting thrown into the fire, so to speak,” Demko said. “This year, I feel like I’m much more part of the team. Obviously, I’ve been up (in the NHL) a little bit of time now instead of arriving from Utica at 2:30 in the morning, shaking guys’ hands and then going out for warmup. I’m comfortable in the room, even comfortable around the city. It doesn’t feel like something that’s abstract anymore.” No, it’s going to get real very soon for Demko. “He just always seems calm and controlled,” Green said. “You like that. (But) I also think he has a very high competitive edge to him, a lot like Marky. Maybe not as outgoing with it, but there’s a fire that burns pretty hot inside him and I think he has the mental makeup to be a goalie in the NHL.” Green has the advantage of having coached both Markstrom and Demko in the AHL before the bench boss was promoted by the Canucks ahead of last season. “I’ve liked him from Day 1,” Green said of Demko. “I like his focus, his commitment, wanting to get better. But I’m never going to sit here and say this guy is a bonafide starter. I wouldn’t say that about any player. You’ve got to go out and do it still, and there’s no sense putting those kind of words out there about a player. “I think he has the ability to be a very good goalie in the NHL. I’ve thought it from the first day I saw him. If we didn’t feel it was his time to be in the NHL, then he wouldn’t be here.” Green said he doesn’t need to put any more pressure on Demko than what the second-round pick puts on himself. But the goalie, of course, doesn’t believe in pressure. “I had to learn that (mindset) for sure,” he said. “I definitely felt a lot of pressure through my teenage years. You just kind of mature and when you can take a step back and look at it, it’s a lot easier to put things in perspective. Maybe that’s a good reason to play 2 1/2 years in the American League — to learn for this moment, so I’m not psyching myself out.”
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One of the things moving forward that most concerns me, is Edler's mobility. He gets walked, lots. It is going to get worse. Sooner than most will admit. Nostalgia and living in the past is probably not what is best for this building team. A tough choice needs to be made. And Benning's statement about Alex not being replaceable right now from within is not likely, is true, all of it. But it could be just platitudes, as this comment does not necessarily indicate that the Canucks are also prepared to move forward without what Alex brings. He should have probably been re-signed by now if the Canucks were really afraid of losing what he brings to the organization. Its very possible that we are seeing semi slick PR, a long let down, with fans coming to terms that Alex will probably leaving us the same way Hamhuis did, strung along until the last second, and then poof, gone. This is what my gut tells me is going on. If he was going to be signed, it would be done. Especially if he did give us a hometown discount. Speaking of, what would this be? What if he wants 3 years? Think he'd do 4-3-2? 9mil? He can probably get 5milx3-4yrs on the open market. 1 year at a time? 3 mill per. Or just cut him loose ala Hammer?
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Slow in Penticton. And lazy on back checking. Sure just a baby showcase tourney. But it matters how you play ever game, doesn't it?
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He needs some Mexican supplements.
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Canucks prospect Demko could be assistant Clark’s masterpiece Calgary Flames' Spencer Foo (15) scores against Vancouver Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko, right, as Jalen Chatfield (63) defends during the first period of a pre-season NHL hockey game in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday September 19, 2018. (Darryl Dyck/CP) Clark is the Vancouver Canucks’ goaltending professor. He was the goalie coach who helped Roberto Luongo elevate his game when he came to Vancouver, then built Sergei Bobrovsky into a Vezina Trophy-winner when Clark went to Columbus. In his first National Hockey League season back on the Canucks’ staff, Clark is helping starter Jacob Markstrom play the best goal of his life. But his masterpiece could one day be Thatcher Demko, the tremendous goaltending prospect from the minors who, since his call-up to the NHL on Jan. 4, has been taking a heavy course load at Clarkie U. The 23-year-old from San Diego is six-foot-four. That’s not what Ian Clark sees. “I always measure goaltenders from an anatomical-athletic perspective on length,” Clark told Sportsnet before Demko and the Canucks got a rest day on Monday. “Length is the key thing, not so much size. You can have a six-foot-four goaltender who lacks athleticism and he can’t lengthen himself (to make saves). But if you watch Andrei Vasilevskiy play (for Tampa), you’re amazed when you watch his length. And then he combines that with good structure and intelligent play. So he’s making simple saves simply and then out of nowhere, his leg comes out and that’s the length that he has. “In Thatcher’s case, for me the question is: Anatomically, working with that athletic ability, does he have length? He’s a long goalie and that is something that’s very promising.” Length is what allows goalies to extend, to reach or even contort to get to pucks. Height is little good if the goalie is not athletic enough or in the proper position to enable length. When Markstrom appeared beaten on a rebound on Sunday but instead thrust his left arm out and back to snare Florida Panther Nick Bjugstad’s point-blank shot during the Canucks’ 5-1 win, that was length. But even length doesn’t matter if the goalkeeper lacks the mental pace to read and anticipate puck movement at the NHL level. “If we’re chasing the game all the time, we’re too physical and will always have a tough time making those reads,” Clark said. “With all the offensive activity in the National Hockey League today – lower save percentage, more goals, more creativity, active D – the ability to have our eyes working for us is essential.” And that is why Canuck practices, seemingly endless for Demko at the moment since there’s no indication when head coach Travis Green will actually start him in a game, are vitally important to the 2014 second-round pick as he transitions to the NHL. Vancouver traded backup Anders Nilsson two weeks ago not so Demko could come up from the Utica Comets and try to lead the Canucks, but so he could train with Clark and work on the foundation the team hopes will eventually make him a No. 1 goalie in the NHL. “It’s a big adjustment,” Demko said. “The guys are moving quicker, shots are coming quicker and plays develop quicker as well. You definitely have to read the game quicker. “I just want to become acclimated as quickly as I can. It will come in time and with playing games and all that good stuff. But these practices are huge for me, just to see the shots and the pace and how strong guys are in front of me. So just keep getting acclimated and build confidence and get comfortable as the season goes along.” Demko first worked with Clark at training camp in September. When he suffered a concussion and was returned to Utica to start a third season in the American Hockey League, Demko travelled with what Clark described as a “laundry list” of things he needed to improve. That could be humbling, even a little insulting, to a player who had a brilliant college career at Boston College and was an AHL star last season when Demko posted a .922 save rate with the Comets. But Demko accepted Clark’s recommendations. “I haven’t been with Thatcher a lot, obviously,” Clark said. “What I can tell you is he spent his time down in Utica very well. He left with sort of a laundry list of things to think about and begin to develop, and I can tell you he has checked off a number of those things, which is great for the franchise. “Yeah, there’s some things Thatcher needs to develop. But my point is, he took it upon himself to use that time (in Utica) productively. He took things upon himself, which is the sign of a mature goaltender.” Demko said: “One thing Clarkie is really good at is putting everything into terms. The way he looks at the game is a little different, but in a good way. When the communication is there and everyone is on the same page, the player is going to have a better chance to develop successfully. When you can narrow it down to maybe five things that you can work on instead of trying to look at the big picture … that can be overwhelming sometimes. That list that Clarkie gave me I thought was pretty helpful.” Clark said he tells his goalies that they’re in charge of their development, and he is just there to assist. “I’m more of a compass than a GPS system for them,” he said. He’ll point them the right way, but the player has to get to the final destination on his own. Demko desperately wants to get there. He badly wants to play, too, but knows a game or two in January isn’t his destination. “This is what I’ve been working for,” he said. “I’ve got no right to come up and start demanding stuff. I’m just working hard every day and when they decide to give me a chance to play, I’ll be ready and be excited.”
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Elias is indeed making a case. I would be happy to see either get it.