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Yeah, I’m inclined to agree. I watch a lot of AHL hockey and I can’t say I’ve seen anyone faster.
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I think he skates like crazy, is mostly too big to take off the puck once he gets position on a defender, and incidentally scores goals in bunches.
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I’m laughing with you - brain fart brought on by advancing senility is my excuse, and I’m sticking to it.
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Yeah, he had a good game tonight. It’s great to see him gradually rectifying his weaknesses. He also took a couple of big hits tonight and survived unscathed - hopefully the worst of his health issues are behind him. If he fills out like Edler, we may end up with a 6’3” 220 lb D - much like another D on our team. Be interesting to see if he gains an inkling to hit much like another big Swedish guy on our team.
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There are question marks with Bailey’s defensive play - he is a work in progress - but he is an NHL skater, and hopefully Utica coaches can make him an NHL player. But he really is a very intriguing guy.
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Yeah, 7th overall in league scoring as a rookie D and within a point or two of several players. Another player to watch though is rw Bailey - Hattie tonight second Hattie in his last three games - now 19g 11a 30 pts in 39 games. 6’4” 210 or so and an amazing skater - the fastest player in Utica.
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P When any pairing gets hemmed in their own end it’s troublesome. It’s especially troubling when they can’t make a decent outlet pass or optionally skate it out. And we do have our problems getting the puck out under control, which often results in the other team immediately re-entering our zone before we can change our tired players - a not infrequent occurrence for Vancouver this year.
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If he can keep up his rate of the past 20 games (4g 21a 25 pts) - he’ll end up eith more than a point a game over the season as a rookie D. Not bad.
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Yeah, I don’t argue that nobody knows how it ends. He also just set up the winner by Jasek in OT 1g 3a for not a bad night’s work. The Comets had their three best skaters out in OT for the winner - Jasek, Bailey and Rafferty.
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Bailey with the hat trick tonight in Utica. This guy is 6’4” 210 and skates like nobody else in the AHL - he has amazing wheels and good hands 19g 11a 30 puts in 39 games. More interestingly, two hat tricks in his last three games.
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Always having the puck is also a pretty decent way to defend.
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For most of the season he was not employed on the PK, lately he has been. Tonight a beauty short handed goal assisted by Juolevi. We may still have a very interesting future pairing here. Juolevi’s defensive game is improving and hopefully this off season he finally gets to get into top shape because he hopefully won’t be recovering from injury. Both of them have decent size, the break-out and the PP are strengths of both of them.
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So, I looked up the first six guys on the list - three of them are 29. Two of them are midgets at 5’ 9”. Rafferty is 6’2” 192, and has 36 points in 40 games, that is a points per game of 0.9, none of those I checked have that. Rafferty is plus 19. One of them did have a five year NHL career. They are not really comparable.
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Conservative Party of Canada Holds Annual Convention
Ray_Cathode replied to DonLever's topic in Off-Topic General
Oh, you mean that economy that provided virtually all of the equalization payments for the rest of the country while producing the only product other than alcohol and tobacco that is burdened with an enormous, discriminatory federal tax - that province? That province that supplies Quebec with enormous equalization payments that subsidize Quebec’s low higher education costs, so that Quebec students can carry on protests about any fees at all while simultaneously protesting against the very industry that subsidizes it. You must mean that province that tried to get the line nine pipeline that carries Saudi oil to the Lakehead reversed so that it could carry Alberta oil east to displace Saudi oil, but was rejected by Trudeau who spent his holidays being entertained by OPEC oil interests. I’m not Albertan by any means, but it takes little imagination to see where they are coming from. -
“I don't want to be all doom and gloom but the 3 key factor weighed against this are Over valuation of stock, property and asset Geo-Political issues such as Mid East conflict and trade wars Personal/Consumer, Business and Corporate Debt levels. Now there is very little any government can do to avoid such issues, as much of it is based on market forces that are well outside of their control, consumer and personal debt levels are based on a persons inability to live within their means. Trade wars...well we've read about those for the last 17 months and the US seems happy to engage under the current administration without cause or worry to their own interests.” Actually, the first and third items above are directly controlled but the FED expanding credit via the banking system. These FED activities are responsible for creating bubbles in the economy. When the government creates vast amounts of credit at low interest rates people line up to take the cheap money and use it to invest in anything that might yield a greater return than the interest cost. The vast amount of government created credit has to go somewhere and essentially there are only two capital pools large enough to support it - real estate and the stock market. Since there is a limited supply of sound investments, the low interest rate combined with massive credit being available results in people making poor choices. In real estate a low interest rate causes people to take on mortgages they cannot afford at normal market rates, if a person can only afford a two thousand dollar mortgage (at say 3% interest - he can afford a home worth twice as much as he could at 6%) - and many people expand their debt up to the amount of payments they can afford. But what does that do? Well, the supply of housing is somewhat inflexible - it takes time to build new housing - so that results in massive price inflation of existing stocks - see Vancouver and Toronto. As the great economist, Thomas Sowell, points out in “The Housing Boom and Bust”, this effect is compounded in areas with extensive zoning restrictions that limit the provision of increased supply - most of the bust took place in the six states with the most extensive zoning restrictions. Now government compounds this problem by (in the US, for instance) providing guarantees to people who otherwise could not afford to buy, through quasi government entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In addition, Democrats such as Frank and Dodd, lobbied and threatened banks and credit unions (even organizing threatening protests at the homes of bankers) to grant these unsupportable mortgages. Theses operatives directly coerced the management of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to grant these mortgages, bad mortgages that were included in tranches sold fraudulently to banks and institutions all over the world. Obama later appointed Dodd and Frank to investigate the very problem that they were instrumental in creating. Of course, they levelled the blame directly at the very institutions they had coerced, and used that to lever vast new regulations of a banking industry already drowning in regulations that coerced them into doing business they should never have been in. Stock market bubbles burst on an accumulation of unmet, unrealistic expectations. Now their do tend to be survivors from these bubbles. Because of the vast sums involved it results in the creation of huge businesses that would be unlikely to be created in an entirely free market - think eBay, Amazon, Google etc. The vast amount of capital made available to these businesses allowed them to drive competition out of business - think department stores, book stores and so on. I am not arguing that those businesses are not great innovations, but that their near monopoly status is probably at least in part enabled by their access to vast amounts of capital at low cost. The other side of that equation is the huge numbers of business failures that accompanied their success. The unseen, of course, is the vast amount of government debt accumulated to finance it all.
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Is she a studly hockey player?
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And hopefully whoever Seattle takes from us clears some cap space.
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Tryamkin could displace Benn/Fantenburg and Rafferty replace Tanev or Stetcher (we might lose Tanev as his contract is up next year and we have no cap and expiring contracts to cover).
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Started in the AHL injured (played hurt in the Memorial Cup) and never seemed to completely recover. His skating suffered and he was just never the same.
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Exactly. That’s why I favour constitutional republics that protect individual rights.
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[GDT] Nucks @ Wild Jan 12, 2020 - 1pm Pacific - SNET
Ray_Cathode replied to xereau's topic in Canucks Talk
Everything happening in slow motion on this PP. It is maddening. Long, slow passes that the opposition has acres of time to adjust to. The first unit doesn’t try anything off the rush. The unit has all the signs of being over-coached and devoid of creativity. Once again their is no rotation of the unit, when they do not have a clear shot they don’t move laterally to open up a lane for a wrist shot and deflection. Totally frustrating on the two man advantage especially - too many players spread out wide, not enough of an attempt to create small outnumbered areas where two on ones and three on twos can be exploited. Finally score on a deflection of a low shot after lots lots of motion. -
Yeah, along with Jasek, MacEwen has been used both as a centre and a winger (of course he also played both in junior). Not a bad thing though for any of those players to be versatile - both MacEwen and Jasek have also been used on both special teams.
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Ah, if only truth was decided by majority vote, then we could allow lynch mobs to enforce the law.
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