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Tallinder didn't seem quick today - his penalties were lazy.
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He looked sooooo calm today throughout the game. Was quite physical as well. Very nice to see him getting that much confidence from the coaches shown.
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But not medical adviser.
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He is still more kid than anything else. Good for him having a crib set up the way he wants it and that he plays video games.
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This is pretty common in Europe actually. It is like a pitcher throwing side arm - it catches you unprepared.
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I have and most of the time I saw it, I waved at it and then had the dig the puck out from behind me. It sucks.
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I could choose to post in German, for example, as I often tire of English but that doesn't mean I should expect many to understand me.
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I am not so sure as NDP seem to never be able to quite rid themselves of a faction that has no clue how to fund things but want funds for everything. SOMEHOW, NDP governments in Sask and Manitoba seemed to work and not kill a tax base but Alberta and BC ruin it for everyone it seems. If something "different" could come along that included a platform of responsible resource development, job creation through secondary industry, a progressive tax system that didn't punish success (e.g. go to a flat system without "tricks" but with a decent exemption floor for those who legitimately need help), a social welfare system that was genuine and not demeaning and fully accessible to those who truly need it but not accessible to those who simply choose not to contribute and, finally, a social justice system that is balanced so that we don't punish kids who get caught with weed with more vigour than someone who beats a woman or abuses and animal. Package that up and they would win in a landslide. Pipelines would flow but with Jimmy's environmental protections put in place. Jails would have criminals only with those who make mistakes working to pay off those mistakes but from within communities, revenue would come from fairly taxed wealth creation etc. etc. I can work. I have seen examples in places like Sweden and Finland though not perfect, it works.
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I hope you are enjoying writing in this style but please realize, if others are remotely similar to me, I find it unreadable. I stop at the first line as my head goes back to a time when forced to read bad poetry or similar. Bully for you trying to create a style but not sure how many even notice. I think you were comparing Bure to Boeser but you could also have been describing a beautiful sunset and your unfulfilled dream of being a dancer for all I could tell.
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Tanev alone is a lot more than "scraps" and how many players who are no longer going to be waiver eligible and are sitting out games are going to demand a king's ransom? Signing John Carlson versus acquiring a young Dman with ceiling to go with your emerging very young squad makes zero sense.
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You seem far more confident in what you think he is doing behind the scenes - I guess I judge him on what I see in the public eye. There is also the massive hypocrisy he has on Canadian resource development in terms of "social justice" requirements but he is seemingly unconcerned with the nearly 800,000 barrels of oil per day that Canada imports from foreign sources — a third of which were imports from OPEC members including Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates where both environmental and human rights violations exist in spades.
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OK, here are several examples of what he could do as the leader of Canada: Come out publicly and tell both the people of Alberta and BC that their respective Premiers have to stop their bickering and come to a consensus on the "sharing" or one will be imposed and will be done within xxxx timeframe Declare the current WTI differential to be an unfair trade practice akin to a softwood duty and that he will push for this to be a key part of the NAFTA process Declare Quebec's stance on Energy East to be unconstitutional Provide support for Keystone XL and leave the decision to the US Commit to a Canada-wide carbon tax policy versus Province by Province and then commit ALL revenue to Green Energy R&D - in otherwords, support a reduced carbon future directly versus seemingly being at war with on faction and nebulous on how to fund the other STOP the symbolic support of treaties that make no sense - if Canada' GHG contribution is in the 1.5% range but the impact is nearing double digit to our economy, lead your country versus trying to be "Bono" to the world
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Difference between pushing through ONE pipeline (and I don't see any tangible evidence they are indeed pushing) but there is so much more he and his government could do for this key sector to Canada's economy. Even giving some semblance of support to key role energy independence plays in a strong Canada versus saying anything but.
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No question the kid hits well!
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She is a bright young lady from Northern Ontario who is a Dr. of Dentistry and part of a practice in your BC City of Vancouver. She went to dental school in Florida and now has a practice in Vancouver - figure out the connections!
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Did you watch the hit? It was a very solid hit, guy ends up out of play/on ice and leads to his team dominating the puck possession. If he can hit men in a professional league during a playoff game, he will be just fine in NHL.
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He was a third round pick that was selected for a deep team for WJC and you call that disappointing?
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The age thing is massively overrated. Years in the league has far more bearing than it did even five year ago. Training is starting much earlier for kids. The cohort they grow up in obviously has cut off dates and there will be a spread as each cohort year spans 365 days but by draft year, that difference is much less important than it was in past eras.
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I thought he looked a bit tired but I was VERY impressed with how he not only fought of the clearly more physical play than regular season, he was initiating it! I know the kid is as thin as rail but he brain doesn't seem to know that. He was also not looking a bit intimidated or otherwise. He did look slower than usual and less able to make plays but Brynas was playing a trap most of the game.
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Trudeau is Captain Canada to our threatened steel workers. Our oil workers? Silence Rex Murphy: Trudeau is Captain Canada to our threatened steel workers. Our oil workers? Silence There is to be no 'feminist gender analysis' for steel. No talk of upstream and downstream emissions. No national steel tax. No weaning the steel industry off coal Steel and oil. Strength and energy. The world is built on both. They are both major Canadian industries. Steel. President Donald Trump hints or bluffs of tariffs on steel (and then defers it) and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delays a vacation (DEFCON 1 at Sussex Drive) to do a reassurance tour of Canada’s steel cities. He’s “got their backs,” he tells steel workers. And good for him! That’s what a prime minister should do for a Canadian industry and the people who work in it. And it shows in his approach to it. There is to be no “feminist gender analysis” for steel. No talk of upstream and downstream emissions. No national steel tax. No weaning the steel industry off coal. And therefore, at one of Trump’s many flighty musings, the PM undertook a full emergency tour with all the apparatus of his office, attended by national and local press, to assure all he is fighting for steel and its jobs. As said, he’s got their backs. Oil. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with workers at the Essar Steel Algoma plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., as MP Terry Sheehan looks on, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang As we say in Newfoundland, that’s a different quintal of fish. Alberta oil hasn’t been under the hint of a threat. It’s been on the rack of dozens of real ones. For reasons everybody knows Alberta has been in a savage downturn: layoffs by the thousands, capital flight, the locust onslaught of green apocalyptics, world prices, Fort Mac nearly burned down, the pre-emption of nearly every pipeline project, prime ministerial sit downs with vaporous, ferociously anti-Fort Mac Bill Nye, Neil Young wailings, the Lamentations of Leonardo Chinook DiCaprio, B.C.’s pledges to kill Trans Mountain whatever it takes, and foreign anti-oil money (see, please see, Vivian Krause’s reporting on this). Canada’s oil industry has tasted every plague and nuisance a careless world and fitful nature can command. Pounded then from every quarter as it has been, have we had a prime ministerial tour, an “I have your back” message for oil? The answer is so obvious the question itself is lunatic. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, center right, speaks to media while Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale looks on at EVRAZ Regina, a steel company in Regina, Sask., on Wednesday, March 14, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Michael Bell Should we in fastidious fairness point out that, well, there are no Trump threats of tariffs on Canadian oil? There’s a reason for that. Mainly because it’s housebound in Alberta. Trump can’t threaten a tariff on a product that doesn’t have the means of export. (Would there were an oil industry in Quebec and Ontario. How the lyrics to this song would change.) However, what Trump can’t do, Trudeau did. He imposed an ever-escalating internal tariff, his and Minister McKenna’s fabulous carbon (dioxide) tax. As good as a tariff in blocking a resurgence or growth of the industry was his retooling of the National Energy Board to incorporate always popular gender analysis, upstream and downstream emission inventories, and every other bureaucratic torment that the busy minds of climate warriors can invent and inflict. The cancellation of Energy East could be seen as a boost to the oil industry, though. If we’re talking about Saudi Arabia’s. Trudeau’s well-exercised love of visiting foreign lands really shouldn’t extend to supporting their industries as opposed to our own. Thirty-two Atlantic Liberal MPs, the whole roost of them, who know better, uttered barely a sad squeak when that thunderbolt fell. It could be said they didn’t have their oil industry’s back. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Scott Manson, director of operations, center right, tour EVRAZ Regina, a steel company in Regina, Saskatchewan on Wednesday March 14, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Michael Bell Does he have the Trans Mountain pipeline and the future of the oil industry’s back? Has the PM he gone to B.C. to state and insist on the national interest in completing the pipeline? Has he confuted the relentless propaganda of its permanent opponents? Has he ever argued with Greenpeace, Sierra Club, had one of his “conversations” with Aboriginal protestors where he made the case for the pipeline? Has he lived up to his deal with Rachel Notley? “No” to all these questions. So when the B.C. government threatens to do all in its power to stop the project, where’s the press conference? Where’s the “Just Watch Me” tour on that? Where is he when agitators, inside and outside the province, publicly pledge that it will never go ahead? When does he meet and support and publicize all the Aboriginal bands that support the pipeline? Everyone over the age of 7 knows that the Trudeau government’s “commitment” to the Trans Mountain pipeline is passionless, grudgingly reluctant, saturated with the hope that protests, court cases, civil disobedience, the B.C. government, and the simple passing of time will kill it. They know too that the Liberal party under Justin Trudeau’s glossy leadership has become no more than a gender-climate-social-justice coalition. And finally, they know as well that the so-called carbon tax is utterly ineffectual in its stated goal of lowering global emissions. China alone chokes it to nullity every day. It is rather our cosmopolitan PM’s grandest exercise in planet-saving virtue-signalling. And all it’s done for Canada so far is ignite what could be the first serious rift in the Confederation since Quebec danced so close to separation, seriously dampened our economy’s ability to preserve Canada’s great social supports, and placed us in direct contest with the very opposite policies of the world’s greatest economy next door. Here’s the distillation of this government’s policy on the oil industry: Too Bad We Can’t Get Rid Of It Now.
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Be careful to not get too happy about KHL numbers. The top KHL Dman this season in terms of points and apparently in line for the top D award, Philip Larsen. Even Marc Andre Gragnani was in top 10 in D in KHL (big Try was not) and other than a cup of coffee in NHL (incuding one for your Canucks), he isn't someone who you want to be behind in stats if you think you were ready for NHL. Tryamkin is an intriguing prospect but he is no more a lock for NHL top 4 than he was when he was on your team - he shows lots of promise but he has a long way to go in his own end and no assurance he will get there. People who keep thinking he is a sure NHL thing really just need to look at the Dmen in the KHL and check their average ice time, key stats etc. and then project back to NHL for the big guy.
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No. Apparently same voters as for Swedish Elite League MVP.