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  1. OMG. Here I thought the "Pratt guarantee" like he made about coming back, assured everyone that the opposite would probably happen. I truly do not see him getting a significant audience, but good luck to him. I can't fault him for trying. Reading the article it seems like he'll also\ be competing with that other Pratt Cast. A more well known hollywood actor show. So yeah. There’s also the awkward fact that a “Pratt Cast” already exists. It’s a current podcast hosted by Stephanie Pratt, who, along with her brother Spencer Pratt, was on the reality TV series The Hills. With a sequel coming out — The Hills: New Beginnings — the Pratt Cast is apparently the “all access pass to everything happening on and off the camera.” I'm anticipating some very confused The Hills fans befuddled to hear rants about the Vancouver Canucks and bike lanes instead of celebrity gossip. . .
  2. Congrats Raptors. It was close. Almost dropped the ball again in the last few seconds. But they pulled it out. I ain't even mad. As long as Vancouver wins the Stanley cup next I'm good.
  3. Heck, that one looks better than the new stick n rink. If the whites are whitened up. That white stripe in the middle of the green makes all the difference. Put a Johnny Canuck shoulder patch on it instead of what's there. I'd like to see what that neon Seattle Seahawk style green would look with the dark blue too.
  4. They keep reworking the stick n rink logo endlessly. Which is bound to fail because the original was so boringly awful. But yet they never once try and bring back this gem. Love to see it in blue and green.
  5. They should've just added another "SO". It would describe the jerseys they are stitched on.
  6. Its the next day and I'm still on a high. Watching the Bruins fail miserably in their own arena, diving and pleading with the refs for a hand, and the ultimate high of watching Marchand, of all players, be the goat (old meaning) of the game on the GWG....priceless. I thought it was an even 50/50 split for me as to who I wanted to lose more. St. Louis because we'd be left at the top of the sad club, or Boston because......Boston. But after the fact, I'm so much better with this result. Having to hear stories all summer about different Bruins, like Marchand, bringing the Cup back to their home towns, plus having to hear congratulations to them in Vancouver in a couple of weeks from every GM would have been unbearable. UnBearable.
  7. This is what finally came out after years of calling for a new logo, or at least a good re-design, or a unique third jersey? I'll always love the black skate jersey, but that is mostly because of nostalgia. Red and yellow work if the major colour is black, and they are working as accents. But the logo, lets face it, was odd. The orca logo now looks too big. They should have just removed the "Vancouver". The white part of the logo is too large a block on the blue jersey. And OMG they once again try and re-work the awful stick-in-rink which never was a strong logo. When they first reworked it from the thin horizontal stick in a rectangle, the most boring logo ever invented, to a wonky tilted version it only made it a different kind of awful. And now they totally screw up the colours. Those green stripes are bizarre. There is no contrast. As a designer, I learned years ago that if you take a B&W picture, of a colour logo, you should be able to differentiate the design by the contrast. You can do a simple test of this by squinting your eyes. What happens? they blend into each other. And there is too much of either colour making it confusing. In one word, UGLY. Lazy designing. Nothing actually new. We have a city full of creative designers, and they managed to go backwards, with the best one of the "new" designs being reproduction of the '94 jersey. This exercise sadly reflects the way this organization has been going. Just like the word "rebuild", which they loathed to say, and worse, DO properly when they should have, the word "redesign" also missed the mark, was way to reserved, boring, and uninspiring. Tomorrow I'll tell you how I really feel.
  8. Congratulations Blues! Worst to First in a half a season. Incredible. Party at the Del Zottos! They earned their departure from the Sad Club. The most Canadian team in the league wins I'm not sayin I'm just sayin
  9. I didn't read all through all pages in the thread so maybe this has been mentioned but... Why would Edler's camp assume that the Sharks or any other team, would sign a 33 year old injury prone D to a 3+ year NMC and protect him from Seattle as well? Edit to add: What is with the attitude about Seattle anyways? Did he see what happened in Las Vegas? Does he really think he'd be that much ahead on the Sharks, who, by all indications, are now going to have to begin a years long rebuild. On top of all that, IMO Seattle would pass on a 35 year old Edler anyways. . .
  10. Golden State seems to have a plan going in to concentrate on the 3 point play, even if a 2 point play is there for the taking. And they are executing it pretty well. Unless Toronto starts to match that they'll lose.
  11. I think the announcers were a little quick to jump the gun calling out the fans cheering. First off, when the ball was turned over, on Durant no less, there was a natural cheer. And that cheering followed the play all the way to the basket being made. The fans didn't know until he fell down and couldn't get up how serious it was. I hate Toronto fans but I hardly think they'd be cheering an injury deliberately. As soon as the play stopped they cheered FOR him. I think the announcers misread the situation or were purposely stirring the pot.
  12. Seems like one of those situations where if it came down to a game 6 or 7 "he'd play, he'd play on crutches". When he wouldn't think about it if it were the regular season.
  13. A good point. I had put forward the thought before that both sides might feel better served with a shorter bridge deal. Boeser is a young talent on the verge of greatness, who, rightly so, thinks he can be a force in the league for years to come. You'd hope he has that kind of faith in himself. So he'd make a lot more with a higher wage, shorter term now, and then in a couple years when the cap goes up, and he'd have proven himself a top player, he'd get an even better salary stretched out to a longer end of contract date than he would now. And for the Canucks, they would be able to evaluate more what they had, how durable he is, how consistent. And so how much of the pot do they want to invest in him, compared to Hughes, Pettersson, and any other emerging stars at that time. But you raise some good points on retaining value, and getting ahead of the cap rise. It just takes faith in Boeser. Its a gamble either way for different reasons. From what I've watched of Brock, yeah, I'd take the risk and sign long term.
  14. And back then, a hit to the head, was not an automatic penalty. It was a legal hit then. The only fault of Rome was that he misjudged his hit by less than a second. Hey, if they'd have stuck to a new super harsh intolerance for any head shot after that, it would somewhat sooth that sore spot from 2011. But the fact that they've never had any call so harsh before and never gone back to anything close to the Rome suspension time for anything since, even when now head shots are more on the radar and in the books, is what I have a real problem with.
  15. Never seen a ref so much more wrong when he's right, and right when he's wrong
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