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Sigh, LASTNAME was waived today.
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Shouldn't he be an alumni versus roster page dude now?
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Fortnite.....
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Evander Kane files for Bankruptcy
Rob_Zepp replied to Chronic.Canuck's topic in General Hockey Discussion
I have seen sooooo much of this. It is common, brutal and sad. A lot of people think these kids and then young adults have the world at their door and no worries at all but they are basically an ATM for so many around them and without someone paying attention it can go surprisingly quickly. -
[Signing] CBJ Sign Del Zotto 1 year 2 way deal
Rob_Zepp replied to -DLC-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Dude can play volleyball. That I can tell you. People here may not be aware of that but this guy is a killer beach player. -
They are holding out for Sedinery.
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Evander Kane files for Bankruptcy
Rob_Zepp replied to Chronic.Canuck's topic in General Hockey Discussion
For all those piling on, think about the fact that these guys have little life training (financial or otherwise) and that money where SOMEWHERE and you bet your assets that his agents, "friends", "girlfriends" and many others made more than their fair share just hanging around this guy. See how many are there now to support him and get him back on his feet. As odd as it sounds, the kids that either go the college route or simply have more modest careers are the ones that usually are more financially set than many of those who spend the big bucks. Further, at least in years of old, there was zero training offered by NHL teams in this area. In Europe lots. Hopefully the NHLPA sees this as something they need to address and educate these kids out of the gate and even work with a major investment firm or two and start a program for them with some payroll savings plans. I feel nothing but sadness for this guy. Sure he was portraying something he wasn't but he likely never had a clue how much anything really cost as it was all fantasy to him. It becomes that when you essentially go from high school to million dollar plus contracts and no idea what it is like to budget, scrape by etc. etc. -
The WTF emoji is pretty good too.
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Four. Cheers.
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The confused emoji is on waivers. Rumours the Leafs will pick it up when the Stanley Cup parade route again this year remains silent.
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A few of top of head and sprinkled over time -Vancouver Signing Luongo to a 10 year contract - Edmonton signing Milan Lucic - Edmonton drafting essentially the same player (offensive talent, nothing else) for several drafts in a row when gifted so many high picks and so have wasted a generational talent and continue to do so - Edmonton hiring Chia - Vancouver signing Mark Messier - Calgary trading Brett Hull when he was exactly what they needed - Buffalo signing Taylor Hall to a 1 year contract - Toronto trading for Phil Kessel - Boston Red Sox signing David Price (love baseball so had to include one) - Florida signing Bobrovski In all of the above, there were no firm reasons to do any of them as better options existed and so there was little sense. LE signing made sense to Linden given what he felt the Sedins could use and LE was a solid performer at that stage of his career and the market dictated those terms/cost. None of the above fit what was trying to be accomplished at the respective times. Vancouver would not have lost Luongo singing a shorter deal OR they could have gone to the "goalie of the future" sooner if it was cap move. It seemed bad overall out of the gate. Vancouver did not have a viable option for the Sedins to play with the year LE was signed in the eyes of the team. In hindsight, it was a bad move. Agreed. At the time, though I would not have done it I understand it. The above and many more never made sense to anyone.
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Not at all. My point remains, at the time the decision made sense. LOTS of decisions are not logical at the time they are made. Those are the "bad transactions" out of the gate. What signing LE a bad decision in hindsight, bet your assets. Was it bad out of the gate, if your are Sedins/Linden not it was not. My own personal view is the rookie GM was too deferral to the President and the Sedins - THAT was "bad" but understandable. Hyperbole on dude, hyperbole on!
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Your take but holy hyperbole Batman. Hindsight is easy. At the time, the move made sense IF the Canucks ownership/President felt they could still compete. The reasoning made sense from that mindset. Your insistence on placing this all in GM when clearly he was one of the rebuild mentality (clearly after Linden was gone) seems pathological. That is for you to deal with and that's more than fine.
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For the time, he was brought in to extend the Twins dominance and I am sure Linden helped that push given his tie to the Sedins (that was Linden's undoing, not allowing a full rebuild). The market of the day and LE's record to that point made this a reasonable signing at the time. Hindsight is everything but to say it was "worst signing ever" is a bit much as there was both push and logic at the time IF the Canucks were going to still try and compete then. Another route, and one I thought was a better option myself, would have been not to do this and also to have moved Sedins (from a hockey move) but I understand why it wasn't done....inclusive of the Canuck President at the time.
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All I will add it is pretty clear a lot of the people posting on CDC about this issue (not just this thread) have clearly never been part of a professional hockey camp (let alone an NHL camp). Think of growing up with 30ish brothers and how many fights and less than nice tricks you would play on them....that is what a team is and sometimes the rough stuff goes too far and everyone involves knows that....Mom and Dad step in, have a chat and all is good. If there is a camp when such doesn't happen I would wonder about they guys far more.
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Don't you have that backwards? Most get bigger when they get excited.....
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KHL combine for selection squad. Looks shorter in that picture for sure. Not sure what that means as I know how tall he is. Again, why does it matter?
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Yup, that is apparently how it works. I am neither an epidemiologist or an infectious disease expert but I am decent at math and understand the formulas they are using and it appears the tipping point in the US is very close. I am curious what the rate of hospitalization and mortality rate will end up being once we determine pretty much full population exposure. Pretty severe but thank goodness not as bad as it could have been.
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Anti-vaxxers will take care of themselves....for good or bad. Natural herd immunity is not really going to be much different than what it is for the common cold...nature of RNA viruses....but hopefully over time its impact to MOST people will be about the same. Sad part is even the common cold still kills people. The vaccination is critical for those susceptible to such. For most others, they should simply wait.
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