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  1. So you're saying that there's no point to a thread that discusses what might have been? I think if we were running the team and our top managers were constantly living in the past and bringing up past shoulda, coulda, woulda's to make points, then I would get irritated by it as well. But since we're all just fans of the team and have no executive stake, I think it's OK for each person to express their opinions...but only if it's OK with you of course.
  2. Sarcasm...but if I had to choose between Loui or TT...I'll take Toffoli. Real worth? If LE made 1.75m, Sutter made 2.25m, Beagle and Roussel made 1.75m each, then that would have freed up about 9mil, so we'd still have TT and Stetch...but 20/20 hindsight doesn't help much. If we'd have offered LE, Beags and Rous those figures, they never would have signed. And if we only offered Sutter a 2.25m extension, he wouldn't have re-upped. So it sucks now but in reality we wouldn't have them without the overpriced contracts...gotta love free-agency eh? I think that the NHL needs a retention clause when it comes to UFA's, not just RFA's...another thread...another day...
  3. We got to keep Eriksson, Sutter, Beagle and Roussel...so there's that...
  4. We're officially sliding the goose into the oven now...in a few days it should be cooked...
  5. Apologies if discussed somewhere in the previous 15 pages...what is the status of Ferland? If the NHL rules him to be an eligible player then we MUST burn a spot to protect him do we not (full NMC)?
  6. ^THIS^...we have a losing record right now against EVERY team in our division except Ottawa (we're 5-0). So no matter how much we step it up we will also need help from the teams above us. No more head to heads against MTL so sweeping them can't help us. If all we do is beat up on Ottawa and Calgary then we will finish a comfortable 5th. We will need to beat up WPG (3 GR) / EDM (4 GR) / TML (3 GR)...take 2/3 off WPG + 3/4 off EDM & 2/3 off TML AND Les Habs need to stumble a bit in their remaining games...THEN just MAYBE we might have a shot to squeak into the playoffs in 4th place... That's A LOT of MAYBE's for sure...we will need help.
  7. It doesn't matter where you are on earth, if the game starts in 17 minutes, it starts in 17 minutes. Otherwise, I'm just gonna call a buddy in NFLD and ask him what the score was so I can lay down some cash and win big. A countdown timer is a countdown timer to an event time, no matter what time zone it is in or what time zone you're in...we should all be seeing the same countdown timer.
  8. NEXT HOME GAME WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10TH VS 2DAYS 0HOURS 42MINUTES 52SECONDS
  9. Yup...mine's different...it says 2 Days 0 hours 45 minutes 15 seconds
  10. I don't have a different Canucks homepage than you folks do...do I? I'm starting to wonder... OK, what does your countdown timer say right now (the one on the Canucks Homepage...NEXT HOME GAME...right side)?
  11. OK this is weird...if the game starts in 1 hour (7pm PST) why did the countdown clock count down to 6pm PST then reset to the next game in 2 days. Seriously, I've never looked at that countdown clock before, I'm just wondering why there's a discrepancy. Anyone know?
  12. According to the countdown clock it says the game starts in 2 minutes...is that correct?
  13. I still prefer the limited draft option...only the bottom 6 teams are eligible for #1, then the remaining 5 teams get tossed in with the next 2 in the standings to make the next 7 eligible for pick #2, then everyone that misses is in on #3. AND add the limit that no team can lotto a top 3 pick more than twice in any 5 year span and then you will have the MOST fair system to the bottom dwellers...but then again this is entertainment so Vince McBettman can pretty much do whatever he and the owners want anyways sooo...whatever...
  14. Not sure if covered but...countdown clock says game starts in 30 minutes, but the broadcast schedule says 7pm PST...I've never thought to check that before since I'm in MST but...is that normal?
  15. 20% of the top scorers in the NHL so far this year play for the Canucks tied 8th - Boeser tied 15th - Hughes tied 21st - Pettersson / Miller Winnipeg has another 20% (4 players)...no other team has more than 2...most have none. We certainly can score...we can't seem to defend.
  16. FRANCHISE MODE TECH QUESTION: Has anyone else noticed a glitch whereby you search for a player in the "Player Search" tab, you find a player who is currently unsigned by anyone, then when you go to find him in the Free Agent list he doesn't exist?
  17. Also see Joe Namath's sideline rant..."I want to kiss you"...very embarrassing and awkward for all, including the viewer.
  18. Years ago (early 90's), the company I worked for used to provide security in and around the Vancouver - New West harbour areas. We owned 11 Boston Whalers and operated them under the group known as the Protective Services Division. Once a year, the company's sales reps would conduct a massive fishing expedition up the coast (for the elite clientele) to the QC Isles. The life jackets we wore all said "PSD" on them (for the division that ran the watercraft as noted above). One time a client asked what the "PSD" stood for on his life jacket...one quick-witted sales rep piped up "Pacific Salmon Division"...I think the laughter scared away the fish...
  19. 1/ Epicurus was a Greek Philosopher...his job was to literally question everything. 2/ The above statement by him is simple...he has only examined 2 possible outcomes (a simple 4 part matrix) without examining the bigger picture. Kind of makes him a bit of a simple man instead of a deep thinker.
  20. Such an amazing post Joe, and good on you bud for keeping up the search. Jesus gave us a parable about just such a man...a merchant who searched for the perfect pearl, and when he found it, he treasured it forever. That pearl is out there for sure Joe...don't ever stop the journey until you have found it!
  21. To borrow a phrase..."The Truth is out There". The bigger problem is, what something that George Orwell alluded to when he was quoted "The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it". There are excellent answers to almost all of life's questions, but people tend to want to bury the truth about these things with phrases such as "God works in mysterious ways", or keeping the Bible in Latin so that peasants had to pay the clergy for their interpretation. Usually it is for personal or political gain, and it ends up clouding the truth...the best place to hide a tree is a forest. Catholics have some of the most distorted views of the truth. In the late 300's AD, Constantine of Rome gathered together all the clerics from the different sects in the entire Roman Empire and he muddied Christianity by appeasing to all of the different philosophies bowled up in one nice neat package that would keep the commoners happy. So now we have things such as eternal hellfire and the trinity, neither of which has any basis in the truth. The Catholic Hellfire doctrine was one of the most valuable pieces of propaganda in history...it made the Catholic church rich. Still to this day, millions of Catholics worldwide give so much money in hopes of keeping dead loved ones out of hell...what a crock of crap. The Bible states at 1 JOHN 4:8 that God IS Love...well if that is true, then how can a God of Love even think of creating a place like Hell where people live in eternal torture...it is against His very nature. The word translated into modern English (Sheol) simply means, the common grave of mankind...not some eternal torture. There are so many other lies that have been spouted as truth over the years that many people (like myself) have become completely disillusioned with any form organized religion run by a human. God and Jesus stated plainly a couple of very simple principles: 1/ (One of the original 10 commandments) Do not make for yourself any carved image to bow down to, to make into an idol. Do you see any idols in churches (crosses)? 2/ Jesus stated for humans to not be calling themselves Rabbi, Father or Teacher...yet what do we call these so-called "leaders" of the church? There is a simple truth out there for sure, but so many churches and organizations miss it by adding in their own made up lies that people just either get fed up searching, or they just go along with the lie because it either makes them feel good, or the people there seem to be really nice people. All I can say is, a lot of people are very happy living the lie (most of course don't know that they are living the lie). Let me know if you ever really do want to know the truth about God or the Bible...the simplicity of it all will amaze you Joe.
  22. As always in these discussions, sometimes it's hard to compare...no, we're not talking apples to oranges here, but we are talking Spartan Apples to Red Delicious Apples. Dahlin's style and trajectory is more along the "Lidstrom" line (2way) where-as QH and Makar are more "Karlsson" types (OFF). Another difference between Hughes and Makar is the LH vs LH offensive defenseman...in the future Makar might actually command a larger salary merely for the fact of being a more highly prized RHD with skills. But if Dahlin becomes the next (cringe to say it) Duncan Keith, Makar (RHD) becomes a Kris Letang or Erik Karlsson type and QH43 becomes the next (LHD) Brian Campbell, then I think all 3 will enjoy high level tier appreciation, status...and of course salary.
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