Down by the River

LAK are available for salary retention if two teams are looking to make a trade. Also reach out if you're one of the teams currently over the cap. Congrats to Tyson Foerster, Brett Berard, Juuso Maenpaa, Joshua Roy, Riley Kidney, Zack Ostapchuk, Isak Rosen, and Aleksi Heimosalmi for making their respective World Junior teams.

That was my point? Videos of the past were shorter because of a lack of 1st rd picks... not the case this year. Harder to create intrigue when over the last two years the average draft position of your first pick is like 61st overall.

Hard when you trade away all your first round picks.

I'm fusing Hughes and Ohlund and putting them on the 2011 team. No chance the Canucks don't win an extra game with that addition to the lineup.

Nice. Probably my most-listened to band over the pandemic.

I basically filled this out to tell my Queen/Adam Lambert story... My wife and I were riding a tram in Venice and saw a poster for Adam Lambert/Queen playing a show in Milan. We had rented a car and had planned to go to Milan a day later, but ever since seeing Queen in Montreal on VHS, I've wanted to see Queen live. Obviously I'm missing out on Freddie Mercury, but there isn't much I can do about this. Adam Lambert has a great voice and got rave reviews as Queen's new frontman. We buy tickets online, download his Montreal show to play in the car, and speed to Milan. And I mean speed. Two months later I would receive about $400 worth of speeding tickets delivered to my Canadian address because I didn't know that Italy uses photo radar and they just kept clocking me going 140+km to get to Milan. Anyway, we make it to Milan with time to spare. There is a line around the block to get into the show. And its full of kids. I mean like 12 years old, 14 years old, etc. I'm so happy to see such a young generation appreciate music from 40 years ago. Way to go Italian parents. We get into the venue and its a sea of 13 year old girls. Adam Lambert comes out first. He does some of his hits, which I interpret as a way to warm up the crowd before the rest of Queen comes on to play their songs. But then we're 4 songs deep. Six songs deep. My wife leans into me and says "I don't think Queen is coming". 60+ minutes later and the show is over. I leave, not with the exhilarated feeling of seeing a band I dreamed of seeing for nearly 20 years, but instead with the feeling of insecurity that I would be seen as some pedo hanging out at a teeny-bopper concert. My wife was not allowed to leave my side. Long story short, we think there was maybe a mistranslation on the poster (Adam Lambert of Queen is what it should have said) or I just misread the poster altogether. The result was spending about $600 to not see Queen.

Similar to Hall signing his one-year deal with the Sabres.

In terms of underrated playoff games: This had everything. One of the greatest set-play goals of all time, a Bieksa fight, Ben Eager losing his mind, and the Sedins making teams pay on the PP.

In terms of non-playoff games: Highlights:

I think at least in football there is a stronger sense of responsibility to teammates. Baseball might be the most individualistic of the major North American sports.

Seasons should be closer to 62 games than 82. The reason why NHL players have boring personalities is not just because of hockey culture. Canadians who make the NHL are primarily rich kids whose identities are based around being spoiled, playing hockey, video games, and hanging out with other kids like them. They're boring because they have nothing to offer by way of life experience and not just because hockey culture is stifling their personalities. There are obviously many exceptions to this, but I believe the trend is there.

Good. Playing for Team Canada is a privilege, not a right. Though, to correct the tweet a bit, I think it is that future refusal will result in bans, the bans won't be retroactive.

I'm super excited; this isn't a move we're making begrudgingly. My wife and I are in our 30s and want to start a family. I don't feel good about raising a child in a condo. I was a hyperactive kid and my parents had to kick me out of the house at 5pm everyday to burn off energy in the yard. I want that for my kid. Houses in Nanaimo are selling under asking. We won't be able to make the move for 6-8 months... hoping the market stays the way it is a while longer.

With work-from-home being more accepted, we're likely going to move to Nanaimo and commute 1-2 per week to the Mainland either via ferry or Harbour Air. Only way for us to afford a detached home.

That can be your opinion, but with respect, the link you posted is not a "study". It is simply a narrative review of existing research, which is a problematic way to summarize research on any phenomenon because (a) the review of research is not systematic and (b) there is room to subjectively interpret the existing research. The research on serial killers discussed in the link you provided is incredibly flawed because they lacked control groups that would allow a comparison of serial killers to others (e.g., violent offenders, non-violent offenders, general samples). What this means is that it is impossible to evaluate whether the prevalence of exposure to violent media among serial killers significantly differs, and differs in an important way (i.e., large effect sizes). For example, perhaps 95% of serial killers were exposed to violent media images... but without knowing the prevalence of such exposure in the general community (and this would need to be determined using the same methods as in the serial killer study) it is not possible to interpret whether media exposure is associated with serial killing. A less subjective means of summarizing the research on media and violence involves a meta-analytic study, which pools effect sizes from various studies (usually captures all studies on that particular topic) to statistically summarize the relationship between media exposure and violence. One of the useful things about meta-analyses is that they can also account for differences in research design quality. Old, widely cited studies that used meta-analytic techniques reported virtually no relationship between media exposure and violence once accounting for individual-level traits. This was especially true once adjusting for the quality of the study's research design: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0093854808316487?casa_token=HPToWIRUneoAAAAA:aZW3GlDYUGwP9BL__pEeCPNKNpL_UFTfn1Tq4nzripbjXviam3Huzk4UG76IS0JDdEZqR8w0ury5 More recent study reporting the same thing: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691620927666?casa_token=sGE3vnrujFcAAAAA%3At3y3KGS5CjOwXDi9889GjyQeITbGiNEZKqPmAdo6c28mIDNjoms0JN8Bdy7cupP6Cjc6hYzGMJxs https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691619850104?casa_token=cIDW9Y4XPbEAAAAA%3A7RsG-lWvOdSvr59wULfGsfsMSoQQ6hhicw4uIx5oin6R-aIC4K3SOEf_bn4M3VYZmwtzWvMVujRP

To be fair, nowhere in their post did they recommend censorship...

This is an oversimplification. Think about the millions (billions?) of people who are exposed to rap/glorification of violence who do not engage in violence. The idea that media influences criminal behavior is relatively inefficient because there are far too many false positives (i.e., 99.9% of persons exposed to such media are not influenced by it in a way that influences their own violence).

The LAK have a few more offers for UFAs kicking about, but we're done with our summer moves. Bringing in Alec Martinez on a one year deal was our major UFA signing, but we're also thrilled to have Nick Blankenburg join our D-corps and helps us further corner the market on Nicks. Evander Kane - Dylan Larkin - Tanner Jeannot Colin Blackwell - Tyson Foerster - Mike Hardman Nick Foligno - Nic Dowd - Nick Bjugstad Josh Leivo - Dakota Joshua - Christian Fischer Erik Karlsson - Alec Martinez Dimitry Orlov - Nick Blankenburg Nikita Zaitsev - William Borgen Jeremy Swayman Sam Montembeault The 2022-23 season marks year two of hopefully what will be no more than a 4-year rebuild. As always, we are open for business.

Burgos Jourdain has FOTN written all over it.

Don't listen to Pierre:

I don't get what being undrafted has to do with anything if he's in the NHL now. If anything, the fact he's here despite being undrafted is a positive, not a negative. It says he has a work ethic and wasn't propped up by GMs wanting to see their own picks have success to pad their resume. Whether or not Marchment would be a good signing is entirely dependent on how much/how long his contract is.

Sometimes the best athletes can have the worst skating mechanics because, at least initially, their athleticism lets them overcome things that lesser athletes would need to get ironed out as a 7 year old taking a few speed skating classes. If a guy is athletic and doesn't have an ego, skating is one of the most easily corrected attributes. Not saying they'll develop Bure-esque speed, but they'll at least become competent. Horvat is one of the clearest examples of this.

I'd like to see the draft more closely resemble the NHL. An additional round brings the league closer to reality. More than anything, I'd like for the draft to not take place over an entire month. This year the first pick was made May 31 and the last pick June 29.