Brad Marchand
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Been stewing on it for a while, but the Jays are starting to remind me of the Leafs.
Stats say they're a good team and should be better than they are, but they consistently find a way to underwhelm when it really matters.
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57 minutes ago, thedestroyerofworlds said:
Happy that the qualified for the Olympics next year. If healthy, I don't see any Canadian NBA player saying no.
Evidently Canada Basketball asked players to make a three-year committment to the national team for this Olympic qualifying cycle starting last year, so it's possible they turn down anyone who decided to skip out, which includes Wiggins. Murray was gonna play at this World Cup before dropping out due to fatigue, so I think he's safe to pencil in next year.
They could grant a few players exceptions to join the roster, mind you. There are others besides Wiggins that would be useful additions (Sharpe, Mathurin, Clarke, Boucher etc.)-
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5 minutes ago, Bounce000 said:
Oh so this is what it looks like when the hitters show up
They turned the hitting difficulty down to rookie on MLB The Show.
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24 minutes ago, bishopshodan said:
Our goal horn was from the BC ferries.
Did they change it?
The Canucks goal horn is three separate Khalenberg air horns that are synced together: KM-250, Airchime 3 (the pre-2008 goal horn) and S-302C (the model that the Jackets, Blues, Leafs, Flyers and Lightning also use in their horns). Picture here: https://www.thefaceoff.net/goalhorns/vancouver-canucks
The combination of the three is supposedly tuned to mimic a BC Ferries air horn, but I couldn't verify that piece of information. Anyway, that's why it sounds similar to those other teams' goal horns but is slightly different. I like it enough, it's pretty low on my list of things to change about Rogers Arena.
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Guess the Jays have discovered that the key to hitting with RISP is to be the bat.
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8 hours ago, -SN- said:
There are tons of kids playing soccer - it's the most popular sport in Canada for youths. We're 10th in the world in registered players.
Our coaches suck.
There's no long term development plan, tactics or skill developent plan (6-18) - coaches just put out the biggest, strongest kids and call it a day. Eventually those kids hit a brick wall (especially internationally) because they have no fundamentals.
Skill-based development is generally frowned upon.
Infrastructure sucks, fields are often garbage and there are very few indoor facilities.
CSA (along with the top tier teams in Canada) has been garbage for a long time and wil continue to be.
You've pretty much described everything that's wrong with the national team development program right now.
The current Canadian women's team plays incredibly uninsipred and bland football. The buildup is slow, the ball movement is incredibly predictable and the midfielders don't effectively link up with the forwards. It's almost as if they've become so used to Sinclair doing everything that they don't know what to do now that she's inevitably begun to show her age. They've relied so long on being able to bully weaker opponents with their athleticism that they never learned to adapt to the rest of the world catching up.
Sacking Priestman and bringing in someone with a better mind for tactical football might provide some short-term solutions but as you mentioned, as long as grassroots coaching ignores technical development and our infrastructure lags behind in quality, there's always gonna be a ceiling to what Canada can achieve internationally. Not having a domestic women's league also really hurts in that regard.
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1 hour ago, Coconuts said:
They signed Tanner "almost an entire draft class" Jeannot? I am shocked.
Jeannot they had to do it.
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4 hours ago, shiznak said:
I mean, he’s “good”, but he’s not 40m/yr good.
Just to put it into perspective, he’s making more money than Anthony Davis, Devin Booker, Trea Young, Jayson Tatum, Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving, and a lot more better players. Of course some of these guys, are only coming off their entry level contracts.
FVV got that huge contract partly so the Rockets could reach the cap floor: https://www.spotrac.com/nba/houston-rockets/cap/. They were about $40 million below the floor before he signed, which is almost exactly the AAV on his new deal.
There's very little chance Fred would have gotten that kind of money without a team desperate to add salary. I certainly didn't want him back with the Raptors at that price.
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1 minute ago, Crabcakes said:
Are you saying that enjoying Wolanin, Hirose, Briesbois in the final months of the season was nothing but an illusion and that they really aren't any better than OEL. The only advantage would be their lower cap hit
I actually liked what I saw from the three you mentioned, it was more a comment of how OEL last year wasn't any better than guys with next to no NHL experience.
The best case scenario for next year was that OEL returned to being the player he was in 2021-22 and even then he probably wasn't worth a +$7 million cap hit. Of course there's no guarantee that the Canucks will be able to find more cost-effective defencemen to replace him, but I still think there are better odds of that working than just hoping OEL can play way better than last year, even if he was injured.-
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Just now, MaxVerstappen33 said:
I think we played so hard down the stretch because the decision to buy him out was already made then. They wanted to see what they had with some of these AHL guys.
It was honestly pretty damning that the Canucks could play AHL call-ups and college free agents in OEL's place and not look any worse.
I really don't have as much problem with this as other people do because I'm not at all optimistic that he'll ever be worth his most recent cap hit ever again. There was no universe where the Canucks were gonna get out of his contract for free. The dead salary from the buyout was gonna either stay on the roster in the form of OEL or be removed at the expense of other premium assets (picks + prospects). At least now they have the certainty of knowing they can use whatever space they have to put the guys they want in his place.
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One thing I always appreciate about the Cup celebration is that the media members respect the players and give them space to celebrate. NBA and NFL players have a million cameras shoved in their face the moment the game ends.
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Just now, Crimson-JH said:
Trash and rats flinging all over the ice?
Just another evening in Florida.
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4 minutes ago, King Heffy said:
White can at least eat up some innings in a loaded game to give the rest of the bullpen a rest. Makes sense on the field too after Manoah got sent down.
Yeah, he'll probably be used as a bulk guy to back up Francis. In any event, I mean no disrespect to White. They could have called up nobody and I would have said it's better than keeping Bass around.
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21 minutes ago, Sean Monahan said:
I don't get why they're doing it now. Was there another roster move I missed?
More or less said that he sticks by his 'personal beliefs' yesterday, which basically confirmed that he only regretted causing a distraction. Front office probably decided that was the last straw.
About time, honestly. He hasn't shown a lick of meaningful remorse for the hateful stuff he shared. They called up Mitch White, who has been dreadful in his minor league rehab starts, but I'd still rather have him on the roster than Bass.
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5 minutes ago, Hairy Kneel said:Watched the 2nd intermission
Quoted McClean
"That was a chance for Sutherland to get bail out of a bad first decision and even it up".
wtf
Love that no matter what team you cheer for, we can all unite in our disdain for Ron MacLean.
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It's frankly annoying that teams can start scrums after clean hits and get away with coincidental penalties. Refs have been deliberately letting this happen for ages.
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1 hour ago, Gurn said:
I wonder if Alec gained weight this off season?
A few extra pounds, and the need for speed due to the pitch clock might be a part of his issues.
Perhaps an extra day of rest can get his pitch speed up a bit?
I saw someone else mention it - the pitch clock has effectively taken away the time Manoah used to use to reset himself after a bad pitch. If it's a pyschological issue with him (and it really seems to me like it's more than just a mechanics problem right now), then he's gonna need more than rest and conditioning to get out of it.
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3 hours ago, RUPERTKBD said:
In case anyone is interested, the ESA is currently beaming back live images from their Mars Orbiter.....(okay, "live" plus the almost 17 minutes it takes to get here)
ESA are a bunch of scrubs, can't even make probes that send signals faster than light speed.
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Team USA is apparently 0-12 in World Championship semifinals. Truly the Leafs of men's international hockey.
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12 minutes ago, Wilbur said:
Watching the game at a restaurant without volume, why did Manoah have to leave the game?
Two mound visits in one inning means you have to make a pitching change. Apparently Schneider forgot that Walker had made a visit earlier that inning. Manoah's fine.
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14 minutes ago, RUPERTKBD said:
I tune in and it's the top of the 5th and once again, the Jays are giving Kevin Gausman zero run support....
I think they heard you.
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Team admits to covering up sexual assault is only fined $2 million, forfeits no draft picks and gets Connor Bedard. It would be funny if it wasn't so ridiculous.
Don't even care that the Canucks didn't win the lottery, the Blackhawks winning it is just frankly a joke, rigged or not.
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Fourth best record in the major leagues, third best record in their own division. I hate the AL East.
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11 minutes ago, Devron said:
Rangers. The classic case of loading up on too much fire power
The wrong type of firepower IMO.
The Rangers, despite their talented forward group on paper, aren't especially effective at controlling 5 on 5 play. Their solution to that problem was to acquire two big name but aging and past their prime perimeter wingers to complement a roster already full of perimeter wingers.
Maybe it's coaching more than anything, but the Rangers basically bought new spoilers for a car with an underpowered engine. Looks nice, but doesn't do much to actually make your car faster.-
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[Official] Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball thread
in Off-Topic General
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Pretty much the whole team's hitting approach seems broken. Bichette himself mentioned it last month, guys can't decide what pitches they want to swing at (except maybe Davis Schneider) so they're always late on fastballs or chasing breaking pitches off the plate.
It would be one thing if it was just one or two players, but almost the entire team's power numbers are down from last year (home runs, slugging percentage etc). They hit and get on base well enough, but they can't consistently drive in runs and it feels like part of the reason is because they aren't hitting for power nearly enough.
The team's management and front office have talked quite a bit about laying off and hitting to the opposite field but most of their players are pull hitters. It's dumb and reductive, but I miss the days when the team encouraged players to take bigger swings and pull the ball more. At least it was more exciting when they lost.