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None of this helps Gudbranson's case at all. What's his excuse this year when the Canucks are just below .500? There's a lot of teams worse than ours this year yet his stats stay the same. Can't keep the puck out of the net, can't put it in the opposition's net. Why don't defensemen on even the worst teams in the league perform as poorly as he does? IMO, Stetcher is a far better defenseman than Gudbranson, is much more effective on the ice, and would do a much better job than him.

Sigh, if only this were true. Guddy really didn't develop at all since coming from Florida. He's been on the ice for 40 goals against at even strength, basically double the amounts of Stetcher, Edler, Tanev, and even Pouliot. Sure, he faces better competition than Stetcher and Pouliot but that only matters if you actually perform. Getting destroyed in your own zone is not an excuse for "dzone starts". Even the worst teams in the league don't have defensemen with ratios that bad. Dion Phaneuf comes close and we all know how god awful he is. He's a defensive defenseman who can't prevent goals against. He's by far the worst at the team at it. That's with facing 2nd liners. If that wasn't enough, he handcuffs the team offensively when he's out there as well. Solid defensive play doesn't lead to doubling everyone else in goals against. It's not a one year anomaly either. He's seventh in the entire league in goals against as a defenseman and every defenseman ahead of him has more minutes played. That is not solid defensive play. He has the worst ratio of Goals for to goals against in the entire league.

Tom Pyatt holds the illustrious distinction of being one of only two players who have less points than Granlund over the past two seasons while getting more than 1500 minutes . Hopefully he can be a producer down in Utica.

Gaudette being sent down to Utica should be a huge boost for them.

Oh I know. I'm definitely not on the side of the "out to get us" crew. Thought I'd throw some more fuel onto this fire from a graphic I found

Not to be an "out to get us" sympathiser but Travis Green (and by extension, the Canucks) win over 70% of challenges. Meaning over 70% of the time Green things the refs/linesman are wrong, they are:

Nucor definitely. If you want a riskier, but potential for higher gains, AK Steel. Steel is a naturally cyclical market. Buy the stocks that have a good operating budget, free cash flow, and a good history like Nucor and you can't go too wrong. Most steel stocks carry debt but as long as they have good cash flow it is "good debt". Put both those stocks on watch and see how they flow going forward. Right now we have lower lows and lower highs without signs of coming back up yet. Put Bank of America on your watchlist as well. Bank stocks were a huge money maker after the 2008 recession and they are falling again. They won't fall as low as 2008 as they have been stingier and better run since 2008. They fell some more recently because of the Fed indicating they'd only have 2 interest rate hikes next year (was expected to be 3-4). Be very careful though. Only buy what you are willing to hold for years as it's very possible that you will be down for a while before the stock rebounds. Don't buy until you've seen more in 2019 as December is historically a bad month and there's no guarantee of a recession just yet.

It'll take the rest of this season and all of next season given his track record to convince me he's a league average starter.

Steel stocks have been hammered by the tariffs. Also known as buy it up now to profit once those tariffs are lifted or the emotional response to the tariffs dies down.

After claiming he'd put an end to corruption, Bolsonaro appoints a bunch of corrupt politicians for his cabinet. Anybody surprised? https://theintercept.com/2018/12/09/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-cabinet/

TSN statscentre: Elias Pettersson 1st on team with 15 offensive zone passes per game. Elias Pettersson 1st on team with 71% offensive zone pass completion percentage. https://www.tsn.ca/video/statscentre-pettersson-s-creative-playmaking~1560830/statscentre-pettersson-s-creative-playmaking~1560830

Crimes of Grindewald / 10 Super slow, focused way too much on relationships, way too many irrelevant scenes that do nothing for the movie or advance the plot.

I haven't been on the Virtanen bandwagon in the past but he's making me rethink that with his recent run of play. He's gone from looking lost to being a consistent difference maker. Still have him as a 20-25 goal 10-15 assist guy max but would love for him to prove me wrong.

I see, my apologies.

Rick Dhaliwal is about as credible as you can get. He tweets out exactly what he's told, no opinion, no bias. If he said it was not serious, that's what he was originally told. It may have changed since then.

Currently more exciting than anything Schaller's done on the ice. Wonder when/if he'll wake up.

Optically he can look okay. He hounds the puck carrier and keeps his feet moving. And he can play on the penalty kill, albeit not an excellent pker. 3 pts in 19 games. He's a -8 on even strength. Essentially provides no help 5 on 5, deployment is not great though. Has started to lose his man in coverage over the past 5-6 games. Edit: He's picked it up as the season has gone on. Didn't start well but looks better now.

Motte has definitely picked up his play, think I may have been wrong about him.

I actually really liked the 1st one but I had to get rid of number 2.

Playing Red Dead Redemption but the animations are way too slow for me. It's agonisingly slow doing any sort of action, most likely will return the game back this week. Probably not a popular opinion but I can't handle it.

Yup, shaping up to be another disappointing season offensively for Jake. Does a lot of the little things well but his offensive IQ really lets him down and stops him from using all that talent he has. He's still 22 years old so he's got some years to figure it out. Hopefully doesn't take that long.

Problem is it takes time for the vacuum to be filled by others. In the meantime, thousands are out of a job.

To summarize, The bailout was needed and good for Ontario workers. It was backed by all of the major parties. A very real possibility was not getting some of the bailout money back, which the Liberal government finally wrote off this year. Scheer, for some dumb reason, calls out the Liberal party for this. Also, the UAW is garbage (which I agree with, one of the worst unions out there).

So basically, the Conservatives screwed Canada over to the tune of a billion dollars to bail out an American company that went bankrupt anyways (ie took the money and transferred it to Fiat, folding the old company and any chance of getting the money back). Wonder how much the executives took from that.