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Down by the River

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  1. Aladeen

    “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”


    - United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

     

    #FreeAV

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      Just pointing out that if you wanted to make an argument for why someone shouldn't be banned you shouldn't start with complaining about rights you didn't have in the first place. FWIW I think the Canucks' organization as a whole is trash. If AV expressed the same sentiment as me and got banned for it then that sucks. 

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  2. Aladeen

    “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”


    - United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

     

    #FreeAV

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      @Bad_BOI_pete

      I have no idea what happened to AV or whether or not his banning was fair. You can argue that arbitrary decisions are made on this forum. It is simply odd to be making claims about rights to free speech while using a website where rights to free speech never existed in the first place. I'm all for upholding free speech, but I'm not stupid enough to to expect free speech in places where I have no right to such such a concept. 

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  3. Aladeen

    “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”


    - United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

     

    #FreeAV

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      Why is it that the people who most often talk about free speech are the ones who seem to have the poorest understanding of what it means?

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  4. Qwags

    Jannik Hansen: "You heard Jim on After Hours, you're hearing retool on the fly, fixing it as they go... they started this 10y ago when they fired AV. I haven't seen the fruits of this labour. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. The next step is shaking the tree, and from the top."

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      Hansen is my favorite voice in this market. 

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  5. Heretic

    So, if the current world view is to remove/take down statues of people that were involved with slavery, why is it that the pyramids in Egypt are not being destroyed? Afterall, the Egyptians used slaves to build them!

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      The Pyramids are not seen as a monument to slave owners (even if they were viewed that way at some point in history). A statue of an individual is much different. 

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  6. J-23

    What would be your top 5 of a 2017 re-draft?

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      Makar, Heiskanen, Pettersson, Hischier, Suzuki.

       

      D and C all day long. 

       

      HM: Drake Batherson. Easily the most value... top 10 in the draft but went in the 4th round. 

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  7. PunjabiCanucks

    Would you rather have Makar or Pettersson if were both had been available at 5

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      I'd take Makar over Mackinnon, so it isn't even a question of whether I'd take him over Petey. 

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  8. -DLC-

    The NHL's an absolute joke for posting this:
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    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      Bring back the Loui emoji

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  9. Down by the River

    Is there a good alternative to theScore app?

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      @kanucks25 The NHL standings are slow to update and when following baseball, the pitch-by-pitch section often glitches.

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  10. Fanuck

    ,,,,and that's a wrap.

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      Keep in mind that trades can come in like 30+ minutes after the deadline. 

  11. Down by the River

    Travis Green's response to Demko getting robbed says a lot about his coaching style.

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      A major knock against Green is his inability to adapt. How he handled his players getting robbed at gunpoint is a microcosm of that. He plays the same note regardless of circumstance. 

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  12. smithers joe

    next to quinn, who are our fastest skaters?

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      Does Quinn have ridiculous straightaway speed or is he just quick/elusive with phenomenal edgework?

      I might bet that guys like Horvat and maybe Dickinson could beat Hughes in a race from goal-line to goal-line. 

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  13. -DLC-

    Will never get tired of Lu's tweets, this one in response to someone who made their own backyard rink.

     

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      If it is in his own backyard, at least Torts can't bench him. 

  14. JM_

    JM_

    Rutherplan or Rurtherfix?

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      RutherCERB

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  15. N4ZZY

    Are you tired of the negativity on media about the Canucks? (Twitter, Canucks Board, Radio, etc)

     

     

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      @N4ZZYDrance is fine when it comes to print... his podcast with Farhan Lalji is, to me, impossible to get through. Not because what Drance says is necessarily wrong, but because he seems to regularly openly mock/laugh at the lack of success individual players are having. He is just extremely obnoxious, especially because he seems to be accentuating the length of his laugh for effect. Reeks of West Van privilege. 

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  16. N4ZZY

    Are you tired of the negativity on media about the Canucks? (Twitter, Canucks Board, Radio, etc)

     

     

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      The team is bad and deserves to be held accountable. That said, I find some media members (e.g., Thomas Drance) and a large portion of Twitter basically intolerable in terms of how they discuss the team's problems... too many people seem to hinge their identity to being as mean-spirited as possible about this team's lack of success. They predicted the team was bad and then derive pleasure from how bad the team is. 

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  17. Warhippy

    Sekeres reporting that high level Canucks meetings including all upper management, coaching and possibly Aqua Man are occurring today and tomorrow.

     

    Should be interesting.

     

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    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      @NewbieCanuckFanThere is a lot to gripe about with local media, but most of them do not have positive things to say about the Canucks organization. The Canucks over the weekend privately reached out to various media sources to criticize their coverage of the team (being too negative) and I don't think the media took too kindly to that. 

       

      The media who were shills for the team now literally work for the team (the former SN650 people). 

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  18. Alflives

    Quinn Hughes is playing FABULOUSLY!

    +3 

    25 min/game

    almost ppg.

     

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      Could the mods take away Alf's status update privileges? It's like he knows that half of CDC blocked him, so he posts all his dumb ramblings here instead. 

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  19. #Canucks

    Blackhawks fined $2M for response in the sexual allegations. If that the biggest NHL fine?

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      Lol. Evander Kane lost more $ in his suspension. 

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  20. Bad_BOI_pete

    sorry folks, I can't help myself. I love getting into debates, because i win them. and I love winning

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      @RubikThe ignore list unfortunately only works for posts, not status updates. 

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  21. Down by the River

    Putting an offer on a home is an awful process. Either someone outbids you or you are left questioning whether you offered more than what it is worth. 

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      We got outbid two weeks ago by $100,000... we just today put a bid on a place that received 17 offers... probably won't be getting that one either even though we went $40K over asking. 

       

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  22. Down by the River

    Does anyone want to take over the prospect tracking thread I usually do each year?

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      @Beary Sweet

       

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  23. Dazzle

    The media bias is really obvious.

    Not much of a peep about Vancouver, but Toronto's minor signings get attention. LOL.

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      The telecommunications monopoly in Canada is ridiculous. 

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  24. Down by the River

    Canucks just hired the guy who tried to hoard vaccines for members of Hollyburn in West Van. Tone deaf.

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      @Chickenspear

       

       

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  25. Down by the River

    Canucks just hired the guy who tried to hoard vaccines for members of Hollyburn in West Van. Tone deaf.

    1. Down by the River

      Down by the River

      @Jimmy McGillPublicly? Hollyburn a private club. My understanding is that the vaccines were intended for members only. They tried to use their pull to get their local pharmacy to divert vaccines to their club. It was not like the pop-ups that were open to the public. 

       

      Happy to change my mind if they tried to get the pharmacy to administer vaccines at their club while opening the club up to all persons... I'm just not sure that was the case. It sounds like rich people trying to find a way to get their vaccines sooner than others, including those in need. It happened during a time where vaccines were in shorter supply than they are now/were in the last while. 

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