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  1. become homeless, feign and malinger illness, get on permanent disability, apply to modular housing, wait 10 years and you're golden
  2. By what metrics? I recall that he was having a difficult time throughout his season there, apparently getting it together somewhat as the year progressed but still not wowing. e: importantly, who are his comparables from that league based on his season purely stats wise?
  3. I think we agree, then. My point is that he's not projecting to be as good as one would hope a 5th overall draft pick is.
  4. can you quote me any 'legit' sources, then, that argue Juolevi has been tracking as expected? why are you on a forum if you think anyone with a journalism gig inherently has a better opinion than everyone else?
  5. Mainly: CDC /r/canucks 4chan's /sp/ Canucks discords Hfboards and Twitter more occassionally lol There are definitely people who are more hopeful about Juolevi than others, but I never see anyone--sports journalist, random fan, or someone from the Canucks org--try to argue that he's had 3 great years or w/e. It's been tough for OJ, and we can admit that without saying he's a **** hockey player.
  6. It's the most popular opinion concerning OJ I've been hearing in the Canucks circles I frequent, and it's been so for a long time. CDC is homer central, and there are still lots of people being realists about him in this thread. He is a 5th overall pick who did not improve on his junior totals between his draft and +1 seasons and failed to crack one of the worst defensive corps in the league in his +3. He wasn't even performing particularly well in Finland. It's not controversial to say what he's shown isn't what was anticipated when Van picked him. Thinking back on OJ's last 3 years, can you really say he's developing according to plan? Are you interested in actually rebutting anything I've said, or are you happy asking 3-word questions that imply you don't like what my thoughts are without bothering to criticize?
  7. It was well established, even before his injury this year, that he has not been following his expected developmental course. It's unfortunate but is intelligent consensus. I never said his whole game is trash (I do, as said, expect him to play in the show); I just don't think he's going to be a game breaker or as good as one might have anticipated on his draft day. While there are up-sides to his game, are they good enough strengths to automate him to a higher tier? His defensive game absolutely appears to be something he's struggling with. He's weak on the boards and positionally not adapted to the professional game yet. He needs to learn how to win battles and understand how plays develop more intuitively. What about his game makes you think he'll become more than a 2nd pairing defenceman as I predicted in the post you disagree with?
  8. Oh for sure. I think he'll be in the NHL soon and become at least an average second pairing defenceman. It'd be really good for the team to have a young LHD core like the one listed locked up, imo. I still think he could be a good piece one day, which is why I highlighted that. It's frustrating that he's not projecting to be anywhere near as valuable a player as one M. Tkachuk, though. But I'll admit to having paranoias about him. It's like, at what point do we say he's not 'projecting' but is more or less what you'll always have? I don't think OJ is done developing, but the guy's a 2016 draft pick not cutting it defensively in his time in the AHL and losing most of it to injury. It's worrisome, and I can't say it's not. I do think he'll push through his struggles, though, unless he's impossible to teach. He has surprisingly good offensive instincts, apparently, and could possibly, as I've said before, make a career out of being a power play specialist. A defensive game can be taught way better than an offensive one.
  9. I /really/ hope Juolevi proves me wrong in 3 years, but I'm still upset at this pick. It would have been ok maybe if we were in a position to pick Byram and could run Hughes Byram Juolevi down the left side in a few years.
  10. A couple of weeks back, there was a guy set up downtown in a busy area with a whole bunch of signs reading 'Jesus is love' or w/e, preaching When I passed him I said "you're Jesus's &$&+#" I just wanted to say sorry God, hope we're still good fam
  11. legit just got 1-year probation i won't have a criminal record but sucks lol whoops
  12. I hereby establish the CDC Mafia Hall of Fame, elect myself leader with full powers related to its operations/functions, and induct myself as its first member, under the player and builder headings. 112 will be retired league-wide.
  13. It's unfortunate that when we go into any depth concerning how people are radicalized, we're not spending time talking about the absolutely senseless cruelty that happened in Christchurch and the many hundreds of lives that were either lost or affected personally. It feels that whenever we start talking about the problems underlying this and other massacres, we're turning it into debate about different ideologies, abstracting an issue that culminated in something real and intense for many people, and putting the talk away from how insanely horrific and deranged it is to do something like this, and how painful and terrible it must be to be related to/friends with someone involved--or one of the dead or injured. I don't want to spend too much time speculating on what influenced this guy to do it, whether he's a psychopath or not, whether anything could have been done to stop him, and what can be inferred from his case about mass shootings in general (and researched and applied, hopefully, in preventative stuff), particularly as might regard the radicalization process--and I'm not going to speculate because I don't think I actually know any of that. I just wanted to say that this incident, with its massiveness and relationship to internet culture, has really made me think about the ethics of how people share things online. I don't have conclusions yet--I'd like to wait for the research concerning his case to be done and hopefully, in time, published. But I am absolutely re-evaluating how I think reading online media and forum posts can affect a fragile intelligence such as the shooter's. It's all fun and memes until this guy takes it too far. I don't think talking about what can influence a person to do this is making excuses for the murderer. It's an important topic.
  14. The guy who wrote the lyrics pretended his 14-year-old son did because he was so embarrassed by it.
  15. honestly, should Van look at trading Markstrom?

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    2. Tre Mac

      Tre Mac

      Agree 100%  We could always sign another goalie to share the load with Thatchy D.  It's something you seriously have to put some thought into it, of course people rather just post a 'no' meme lol.  Good teams sell high, Belichick would trade him lol.

    3. Ghostsof1915

      Ghostsof1915

      Goalies aren't in high demand. If someone offers you a 1st round pick then yes consider it.

      But if it's a 4th rounder, why would you do it? 

      Should we trade EP40 or Horvat because his value is high? 

    4. Phil_314

      Phil_314

      Interesting, in the context of his current play I'm all for keeping him.

      In the context of the Seattle expansion draft though, if Demko proves himself as a viable option after they platoon them next year, then I'd be open to it.  Agreed with above, the value of the return has to be there.

  16. hey guys, it's c-c-c-combo breakoclock

  17. We're picking ninth. :picard:

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    2. -AJ-

      -AJ-

      I bet you're bang on. Falling in the draft is indicative of an improving team.

    3. Master 112

      Master 112

      Yeah. And there's a chance this is going to be another Pettersson situation where not picking (very) high helps us. But it still kinda hurts to see the team gain ground on its peers only after the playoffs became too far away.

    4. -AJ-

      -AJ-

      Yeah I can see that for sure and share the feelings somewhat. That said, unless we explode into a playoff team out of nowhere, which isn't terribly likely, there's probably got to be a few years of floundering just outside of the playoffs before we're finally good.

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