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  1. Had an okay tournament for me. Had some games where he reached his potential but didn't elevate his game to reach that potential enough for me to be super happy with. Just okay for me. Love his leadership, but he needs to take more risks because when he does he changes the game. Just a hit too safe too often. A lot of little nhl plays he makes that are suited for a bottom six role but his skating is potentially going to be a concern, so hopefully it's just his stride and not the overall pace. He has a very slow moving stride so he might be appearing slower than he looks. Hopefully this is the case. Love his work off the puck defensively. Not sure if it was the game plan but I absolutely hated his role on the powerplay to just stay stationary in front of the net. I'd imagine that's a coaching decision though. Either way, not a great decision. Dunno why people are hating on buddy for saying he's similar to Jannik Hansen. That's not a terrible comparison. He has better hands than Hansen but stylistically plays a very similar game. I still think this kid needs to be unleashed by coaching to be a bit more individualistic. Travis Green might be a great coach for that, a coach like AV would have been horrible for him so hopefully Green can let the rookies continue to experiment, which is one of Green's strengths as a coach.
  2. Oh yeah. There's definitely some really really really toxic people there. HF can be an absolute cesspool or the best place to discuss hockey. One thing that always bothers me is people who can't be fans of the game, but only of their own team. It's like when somebody posts up a highlight reel goal and they all go, "yeah but what about their poor season 3 years ago?" or people that automatically just hate other teams for no reason lol.
  3. Most of the time though HF is where you're gonna find realistic fans too for the Canucks board. Cdc is littered with Homer's who hate it when you talk negatively of somebody who is playing like ass. The mods can sometimes be super overbearing, so much so that I've been accused of being a flames fan even though I've been on these boards longer than said moderator. A couple years ago everybody went full on hate mode saying I'm not a fan of of the team because I made the same accurate statements that people are saying now. Most Canucks fans on HF are actually great hockey fans, and there are some really great ones here too but you can't argue that cdc is filled with a lot of blind homerism.
  4. He's living up to the expectations I've set on him (years ago I was telling everybody to limit their expectations around the kid). His iq is getting better, which is the most important thing. He's still great defensively (nhl ready for the most part) but tends to overcommit to blocking shots, however has an elite sense in tracking players off of the puck which is an extremely underrated skill at the nhl level that most players don't ever seem to gain. He'll be in the nhl, but like I said years ago, limit expectations of a dynamic first line player. He can end up being that way but still lacks a lot of creativity and drive for this style of play and also could use some foot speed. Hopefully he ends up being an elite third line player who can move up and down the lineup. I really think he needs somebody to instill some trust into him that allows him to play unleashed before he settles into pure defensive roles. He has the skill to carry plays, he's just far too cautious far too often. He's as expected for anybody that's been scouting him for a while.
  5. It's an issue because a white guy took a potential job from a First Nations individual and the optics look bad because of colonialism. It's one of those, "Oh man, another white guy stealing from the Indigenous again?!" moments. People just be looking to be offended.
  6. Man, I can't wait for January 13th to see him wear this mask in game action! WHOOOOOO! SO EXCITED!
  7. I'll take you up on that friendly bet. What do you wanna wager?
  8. As would I, they're somewhat effective depending on material and fit. I just wouldn't fire somebody over holding different beliefs on the efficacy of masks.
  9. And no one in their right minds want their loved ones to die. The point is, is that there needs to be a line drawn somewhere, and it shouldn't be at locking everything up for an entire year until people go crazy and ruin the entire economy and the lives of future generations and it also shouldn't be at, "Hey we can save literally every life ever" because that's silly too. We can't keep every living person safe from covid, and we shouldn't be trying to do this at the cost of ruining every living beings lives for decades. We just reverted to the worst economic depression, surpassing the dirty 30s for unemployment for the sake of saving probably a hundred thousand lives of elderly individuals and thousands of lives of the rest of the age ranges. Now for most of you, this is fantastic news! Look at all of the lives saved! But nobody is willing to look at the millions upon millions of lives ruined. Of people who have saved up their lifetime's worth of savings to now enduring bankruptcy, to millions of people who went from having a lifelong career to having no job at all, from having a third generation family business to looking to where their next meal will come from. But at least you can sleep easy at night knowing your grandmother is still alive.
  10. I agree. Covid has a much higher spread rate, but that doesn't mean that you can't just throw out questions of morality when you cannot feasibly say where to draw the line between standard natural selection VS this new pandemic. Is it fair to say you were okay with H1n1 killing the hundreds of thousands it did and walking around without a mask?
  11. Another question to ask, is why are people still working and going to their jobs? If people stopped working we can save more lives too.
  12. I'm not misinformed. I'm actually on your side (all of your points are 100% valid) . I'm just curious at what point he was okay with nature taking its course in previous years as to now.
  13. I'm just gonna ask you a simple question, at what point are you okay shutting down peoples' livelihoods based on the death rate of a virus or bug? At what point are you okay with the masses losing their jobs, shutting down educations and performing mass lockdowns? I'd imagine standard influenza isn't enough for you (unless you've been actively praying for lockdowns, masks and social distancing for the past 20 years and we just didn't know about it) so you've been okay with some deaths (yes, even your aunts, uncles and even me!!!). So what is your tipping point to shutting everything down? Or were you actively irritated with society when H1n1 wasn't locking people down?
  14. You neglect the fact that you'll also kill people in other ways as well. Stress is one of the biggest leading factors in bodies breaking down and creating susceptibility to disease and other negative life impacts such as high blood pressure, heart attacks, organ damage, etc. I would know, I'd say probably 10% of emergency cases I deal with personally on a daily basis are stress induced. We neglect this because we look at death totals. In the uk they estimate 180,000 deaths are a result of stress induced incidents. Things like cancer, strokes, diabetes, heart related stuff, all linked to stress. By straying away from normalcy and routine, we add to those numbers significantly. Isolation leads to depression. This is the most stressful time in most peoples' lives. It's very easy to look at the black and white picture. We see total deaths and it's shocking. The elderly are at serious risk. Meanwhile, most other age groups are looking at other risks that are far more serious to them. Financial strain, further monopolization of industries, poor education, increased stress, soon to be higher taxes and further divide between inflation VS average income, traditions being banished, etc. There's a lot they're fighting for too. They're fighting for a standard of living. It's very easy to see from a health perspective that this is serious stuff. But for many, it really isn't. I have hardly any fear about getting the virus myself, and most of my peers don't because we are younger and statistically it doesn't affect us except for the very rare odd occasion. Most of my generation practices good health measures selflessly for people like grandparents or our fruends' grandparents or our own parents. We know that this is absolutely killing the economy and we are gonna pay for it. We know this is gonna lead to increased depression rates and that our mental health is gonna suffer for it. Most of us choose this because we've been raised to be selfless. However like it or not, the real world doesn't care about how selfless we are. Life always moves on without us. I think it's unfair to say they don't take it seriously, they just don't take it seriously in the manner you'd like them to.
  15. It's black and white to you though. It's not to a lot of people. You're okay with social lives being ruined, small businesses shutting down, the economy going into the toilet, etc. because it saves lives. You're willing to take up that sacrifice for a very small minority of the population to stay safe. Like it or not, by doing this we are absolutely ruining the future of many of those who would benefit from the world not tanking in this manner. You're thinking extremely short term while the other side is thinking extremely long term. Like it or not, this virus is extremely survivable if you're under the age of 70. Overwhelmingly survivable. The regular flu impacts lower ages far worse than covid does. We are sacrificing the future of many young generations and business owners and future business owners to save the lives of those already most vulnerable and likely to die. People have different values and this is obviously one of those cases. You claim they don't consider life, but they consider life in a different manner than you do. I'm not 100% certain but I'd estimate that anti-maskers are taking a stand for principal, rather than a stand against masks. These people aren't as stupid as you think they are. Most are actually very reasonable individuals and actually do research, they just have different priorities.
  16. Yeah it was a metric based on an opinion and I believe their metric was a shot from a specific distance away unscreened was considered a "bad goal". Don't quote me on that but I'm pretty sure that was the metric they used to analyze that one.
  17. I find that sad. People can't get out of tribalism and everybody that's not on your team is the enemy. I disagree with his view on masks, but I understand his position based on the likely facts presented to him. Some people attribute their logic to different aspects. Nobody here has 100% of the information on this virus, epidemiologists don't even have all of the answers. So it's easy to see with all of the inconsistent information from both sides to formulate an opinion based on the realities and communities you see around you. I'm fortunate enough to have a healthcare background and extra education on PPE and disease transmission as I work in a lab. But if somebody shouted to the heavens that wearing masks could halt the virus and you see majority of people around you wearing them whenever you went out and the transmission numbers continuing to skyrocket, it's easy to draw a conclusion that the masks aren't working. Dr. Fauci has screwed up with his messaging of masks. Efficacy numbers from reports have been inconsistent. The information that the virus is airborne could lead those with lesser of an education to believe that masks are useless. There's lots of factors that most pro-mask people don't even comprehend because they're stuck in their own thought bubbles an echo chambers. You have to also think these people are also ending up in their own echo chambers information they deem plausible being channeled to them as well. Instead of being so divisive, we should learn to understand others and come together rather than behaving like children and pointing the finger all of the time.
  18. While this is true, it's also an airborne disease, so yeah, it does just linger in the air. Majority of it is attached to droplet particles though, so you are right there.
  19. Gotta love everybody going from loving this guy to taking a dump on him overnight. Classic. I liked him as our anthem singer and that doesn't change because he has a different world view than mine. How quick everybody was to like him when he was trying to bring the world together at the start of the pandemic by uniting people and bringing joy, but now he's just a piece of trash apparently.
  20. I wondered that too but this years' draft I think would state otherwise. A really weak year for offensive defensemen in my opinion. Drysdale is the only one capable of putting up huge numbers but he does this at the cost of defense, unlike Makar and Hughes.
  21. The thing is that Columbus has one of the best d-cores in the league, meanwhile we have one of the worst haha
  22. I understand what you're saying and you're right, it's just a matter of how you interpreted my meanings. They're both freakish athletically, but Depietro relies on his athleticism a lot less from a single shooter vs goalie metric because he's better from a technical standpoint (positioning, positioning limbs to certain angles, etc.). He's calmer in net than Demko was at his age. More of the Carey Price aspects because he isn't the biggest goaltender so he has to be more flawless in the technicals than Demko needed to be. In the past couple years though Demko has really improved his technicals to the point of where he is a lot more calm in net and it's definitely benefitting his game. Against Vegas you saw what a more in controlled Demko was capable of.
  23. There's things he does tremendously well but he's infuriatingly inconsistent. As he's slowed down he's stopped holding the blue line because his speed to keep up with the play isn't there anymore and that's my biggest gripe with him. There's times where the forwards will do a good job of funneling the play towards him and then he just backs off and I miss the days where he'd be more inclined to hold onto the puck in the defensive end rather than to just go to the safe play. When Stecher was a rookie I remember watching a video of them during practice and he would tell Stecher to stop holding onto the puck in his own end (basically looking for breakout passes) and it absolutely drove me insane because he kept telling him to do the safe play of dumping it off the glass and out. Stecher came in as a possession offense kind of guy and if that's the route you're being instructed to go, you're leading your team away from possession metrics and that is a recipe for disaster. In front of the net though and below the goal line is where Edler really shines though. When he find opportunity to be physical and engaged, he can play extremely well. Some nights he just seems to shut that part of his game off though. In the Minny series he was absolutely fantastic and then onto a new team and you're wondering, "Where'd this guy go?!". 40% of the time I love his game and think he's a top 2 defenseman and 60% of the time I don't even feel he belongs in the NHL.
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