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  1. Not a hope the first or second picks go for those two picks. Not a hope. Quantity over quality may work for some at the bar at closing time but in the NHL under the CAP, unless a hand is forced by a veteran player who wants out (e.g. demands a trade and/or won't re-sign), the days of this sort of deal are almost dead and certainly in terms of pick movement very dead.
  2. So you propose the team goes from a CAP friendly team that is developing from within with a sprinkling of veteran FAs to assist the process to a CAP strapped team who will need to pay EP40, Hughes and BB at least what they overpay MD while an underpaid leader in Horvat is asked to take a third line role when he is a better player than MD? Interesting proposal.
  3. Step 1: Eriksson + 10th for Lucic + 8th. (Why do Canucks do this without having Steps 2 and 3 confirmed, Lucic and 8th in this draft would be a horrible result from the 10th and LE....absolutely horrible) Step 2: 2nd rounder for Corey Perry + 9th. Perry’s 8.625 million dollar cap hit, combined with his chronic injuries, makes him a pure cap dump at this point. Not a hope an aging Ducks team will trade top 10 pick for a second rounder. Perry's cap hit hurts them for sure but this would be such a massively dumb move by the Ducks. Step 3: 8th overall + 9th overall for 3rd or 4th overall. This is possible. However, why would you move two top 10 picks in a great draft for that pick? BB is a great prospect but if you have 8 and 10, you likely get TWO future top six forwards. TWO.
  4. People seem to forget Goldy was a first round pick too. If you get picked in the first round, there was a reason.
  5. Yup, seems so just as happened in the US. How is that working out for the two countries?
  6. I just understand how a world brought up on South Park and Family Guy can be so perpetually offended. I agree with you that both ends of the political spectrum seem to embrace this anger/triggering potential but for some reason the entitlement to only have exactly what they want, how they want it and when the want it by the left extremists are more "dramatic" for some reason. Perhaps it is the whining and perhaps it is the ridiculous notion that life owes them something. The rightwing idiots simply seem so out of touch with that century they find themselves it feels as though they are one Darwin Award attempt away from ridding us of their presence anyway.
  7. https://quillette.com/2018/03/10/psychology-progressive-hostility/
  8. Well, database I have access to has roughly 8,000 players across seven professional leagues over about 20 years (on average...longer for NHL, shorter for others)....always happy to use a better one if you have it.
  9. The world is under the grips of a social experiment by those who typically are perpetually offended and want a level playing field for everyone - no differentiation/success allowed. In Canada, the last election you voted for the champion of things like peoplekind and such - similar rhetoric comes from many in Europe and even the US with the AOC her ilk. Pendulum swing - it will eventually come back as logic cannot stay out of whack that long (typically).
  10. Does your computer game allow these deals? Is the game called "Teams Bend Over for Canucks - The Full Penetration Edition"
  11. I doubt he will be playing in the NHL at 50 but between now and his early 30's, this is far from a concern. Nice to know you have concern for his elder years though.
  12. His disappearing window of time for an NHL career says hi back.
  13. Too bad. I wasn't up on those rules but would be nice for him. I don't know him personally but people I know that do know him say while he is very intense dude, he is really nice and a great guy to have around a camp fire or at a beach volleyball tourney etc.
  14. Or the guy they pick is the next mid first round EK. Point is, until the picks are used you cannot judge this trade at all. Further, Ottawa actually is pretty good a drafting.
  15. Perhaps Benning was simply knowing this kid simply didn't have the stuff to stick it out for the North American game?
  16. I like what this trade did for Carolina and giving other players opportunities and Hamilton was a great fit. Flames didn't seem to benefit much by way their season fizzled and now could have the curse of being the Leafs of West - great regular season team but.....
  17. Why have an age thing? If you are the best first year in the NHL player, you are the best first year in the NHL player. The age thing is silly even at 26. Who cares? What if someone 30 took up hockey and got into the league at 35 and scored 60 goals. However unlikely, why would that person be unqualified for the Calder?
  18. How can you say this when the draft picks haven't been used yet?
  19. This smells of a "make up call" to try and diffuse the legitimate anger with officiating after the Bozak slew foot.
  20. 1 goal every 15 games would be about 5 a year. Jake scored three times that many and at an age far younger than many similar players who have gone onto score 20 plus on a regular basis once they fully developed as NHL players. There are not "literally dozens" of players in the with Jake's combination of skills. Unique talent. Still under development. Canucks can either be patient to the age that their own coach says will be his "ready" point or not. You seem to clearly be in the "or not" camp.
  21. I do read. Perhaps you could read versus just googling headlines from 2001. This is from IPCC in 2018. IPCC Saying Extreme Weather Events NOT Getting Worse The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change’s (IPCC) newly-released climate report, once again, found little to no evidence global warming caused many types of extreme weather events to increase. “The IPCC once again reports that there is little basis for claiming that drought, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes have increased, much less increased due to” greenhouse gases, University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke, Jr. tweeted Sunday night. For example, the IPCC’s report noted that “there is only low confidence regarding changes in global tropical cyclone numbers under global warming over the last four decades.” Pielke pointed out this inconvenient data. Much like the IPCC’s 2013 climate assessment, the new special report confirmed what Pielke and others have said for years about the relationship between global warming and extreme weather. But don’t expect to hear that from many other media outlets, especially those that often cite individual weather events as evidence of man-made warming. For example, The Washington Post’s write-up of the IPCC’s report focused on the mainline findings — namely, that “the world is woefully off target” to keep future global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. The New York Times highlighted the IPCC’s warning of “a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040.” Neither WaPo nor NYT mentioned the report’s findings on extreme weather. The IPCC’s new report is meant to sound the alarm on global warming ahead of the UN climate summit, which is to be held in Poland this December. Delegates are expected to make further commitments to implement the Paris climate accord that calls for limiting future warming below 2 degrees Celsius by 2100. Aside from dire predictions, however, the IPCC’s new report also noted that many types of extreme weather events are not getting worse. When it comes to droughts, for example, the IPCC admits there is “low confidence in the sign of drought trends since 1950 at global scale. The report says there are “likely to be trends in some regions of the world,” including increasing droughts in the Mediterranean and decreasing droughts in parts of North America. The IPCC also noted there is “low confidence due to limited evidence, however, that anthropogenic climate change has affected the frequency and the magnitude of floods.” The report added that “streamflow trends since 1950 are non-statistically significant in most of the world’s largest rivers.”
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