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Miss Korea Bob.Loblaw

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  1. Exactly. This smells like something went sour real fast and the GM did anything he could to ship him away. We won't know for another ten years.
  2. I'd probably take them over some of the boomers here. They don't take themselves seriously and that makes them pretty level-headed.
  3. Every dollar earned above $3.3 billion will increase the cap on a pro-rated level. The HRR would have to hit $4.8 billion for the NHL to increase the cap by a measly $1 mil. But given the current circumstances, that's just not going to happen. You are the first person that is actively predicting a consistent salary cap increase. I would merit your opinion more if you said the CBA is going to break down before its expiry and require re-negotiation.
  4. You are directly contradicting multiple statements made by Gary Bettman. WTF are you talking about? Here are some of the details from the CBA signed last summer. $4.8 billion is the magic number. They will be lucky if they hit 3 billion this year. They are also hemorrhaging dollars right now. The current agreement is an absolute mess, but everything indicates the cap will not go up. And in case I haven't stated before, let me repeat... THE COMMISSIONER IS SAYING WE'RE HAVING A FLAT CAP FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
  5. What on earth...? Bettman has explicitly stated in public that GMs have to prepare for a flat cap in the coming years. From a TSN Radio interview: From the press conference on the ESPN deal last month: So PLEASE... tell me the good reason you've kept secret from us that contradicts a statement from the NHL commissioner.
  6. Why would I become an Oilers fan? There is really bizarre mentality here where fans are expected to have blind loyalty in management. How does that make any sense? Honestly the hardest hockey fans this season are Sabres fans. I'd say they've had the worst 20 years but their fanbase is loyal to the team. But they are frustrated AF with the team's mismanagement. Fair or unfair, any struggling team in any sport will have calls for managers or coaches to get sacked. But you guys... you're acting like cult-members. As for Aquilini, you are correct. Benning could let Petey and Huggy walk unqualified and he still wouldn't get fired and you two would still talk about his "plan".
  7. Seems like you just don't have any opinion or know anything. Why are you on a sports forum if all you want to do is worship the GM?
  8. Well... Dallas came out the gates hot after their outbreak, so there's that... or you have post-outbreak Buffalo. Either way the Comets are gonna have a real workout coming for them.
  9. Well with the schedule that just came out you can kiss that cup dream goodbye... I think it's safe to say the team has underperformed this year. True, we seem in better shape than Calgary right now, but we have a younger core that'll still improve. The Flames are probably going to fire their GM and blow up their core in the summer.
  10. Redditors have a different kind of bias where everything Benning does is now viewed as a meme. He is one of the great laughingstocks of the sport that just keeps on giving and giving. At least they have a sense of humor over there.
  11. Holy crap how does anyone read this wall of text you're spewing out?? Next time you want someone to actually answer back, please clean things up a bit. It's like reading 15 text messages smashed into a single paragraph. We have heard time and time again from current ex-Canucks to retired ex-Canucks how Jim Benning just straight-up ghosted them when they hit free agency. More and more information will come out over the following years about how poor of a communicator Benning was with his players. So take it from them, not me. As for his cap management, I'm not really saying anything original here. He is WIDELY considered to be one of the (if not) worst GMs in the NHL. Zero GMs ever win every transaction but do you actually think he's been a good free agent GM? And yes, we had a cap problem last offseason. We have over $23 million locked up in a core of Rooster, Loui, Myers, Sutter, and Beagle. That... is BAAADDDDD. As for the rest of your nonsense, I'll just ignore it. You're just throwing everything at the wall hoping something will stick. Most of it I can't even read.
  12. So the general consensus you got from this re-signing... is that fans are happy with Benning today? Really? You're gonna say that with a straight face? Now now, let's not try to argue on technicalities. Benning, along with the rest of the fanbase, has no choice but to try and compartmentalize the losses. "Look at Tanev, Markstrom, Stecher vs Schmidt, Demko, Hamonic..." We replaced a reliable core with other players. Schmidt and Hamonic are doing okay, but recognize that our team has been miserable to watch. Say what you want about scheduling (which is a valid excuse), but everyone except Boeser and Demko have been out of form. The players are underperforming. I'd even say Travis Green was pretty close to getting fired. I said before the past is not important. The distant past doesn't matter (Luongo the one exception), but remember that these difficult decisions all stem from the choices Benning made. We cannot afford any depth on our forwards or defencemen because we already have a bunch of overpaid forwards and defencemen! For every player we lost, we have an albatross contract that's stuck on Vancouver's payroll. Can we afford to fill out our roster after re-signing Petey and Huggy? I reckon Benning will do something silly and go wild in free agency again.
  13. This forum is the last bastion for Jim Benning apologists. I think he is universally hated in every other Canucks community and universally "loved" by the overall hockey community for his ineptitude. He has become the butt of many hockey jokes. We have a reputation for being a team with one of the most exciting, talented cores in the NHL, that's being dragged down by poor contracts. People pity us. We ran into the cap situation past summer and it's only going to get worse as those young stars have to get paid.
  14. I'm trying to remember.... oh yes! The GM got fired! Good. I want the deja vu NOW! I could not care less what happened in 2007. This is not some Mayan calendar where history repeats itself. Even if I wish it did in this case. As for this past summer, it was poor. The fans were pissed. Pundits were boggled. The hockey community as a whole was amused. If Benning tried to trade away bad contracts, they would've been ones that HE signed. Most fans are sick and tired of Jim Benning. He is an embarrassment that has turned the Canucks into a management laughingstock. And now we are losing games and nobody is watching.
  15. It takes a special kind of denial to state that the Canucks were a top team last year. This is sports. The better team doesn't always win. Hockey is particularly random in that the better team will sometimes even get swept. We went on a mini-cinderella run but don't let an underdog performance delude you into thinking we are contenders. Either way, we are a bottom 10 team THIS year, and it makes absolute sense. We lost more than we gained, and bringing us back to topic, we are about to lose even more this off-season. The Pearson contract is vintage recklessness from Benning. VINTAGE.
  16. Sorry man, but what kind of athlete's attitude would that be from your best players? "It's not my fault we're losing. We're good enough"??
  17. I think the emperor's role in Shintoism is a bit overstated at times. Indeed the politicians and generals needed his approval, but the decision-making process was almost completely divorced from Showa. The same can be said for the Meiji Emperor, who oversaw an even greater transformation of Japan than his grandson, and yet we do not truly know how influential he really was. The Showa Emperor is actually very comparable to the Queen more than someone with actual political power. I think part of Mao's appeal to the Chinese was that he looked inward more than any of the other republican leaders (Sun Yatsen, Chiang). But he had a massive impact on revolution in third-world countries. Remember that Marxism or Leninism called on factory workers, not peasants to overthrow the order and become communist. He changed and nationalized that theory and made it work in a Chinese setting. It set the tone for how countries like Korea, Vietnam and Cuba would conduct their own revolutions. Now, the counterpoint to this would be what the peasants actually did and believed in. Imagine you're a village peasant. You are trying to get by and put food on the table. Life completely sucks for you. You're surrounded by religious groups, parties and bandits all promising you great things, but meanwhile your family is starving and dying. Here come the communists, driving away your enemies, and taking rice from the rich guy running the village! They're the only ones actually improving your life! Maybe if you joined the party, you could even get to have real meat for the first time! You have no idea what Mao says because you can't read, so you'll just say and do whatever the local cadre leader is doing! This is the type of history that gets me going, not the crazed thoughts of some megalomaniac.
  18. The Showa Emperor was more of a rubber stamper throughout his entire reign, probably more so after the war but yeah. Not a very influential character when it boils down. He just approved or disapproved of things while the military and the bureaucrats made the all the key decisions. This is the problem that I have with the OP's question. You cannot look only at any one individual and understand why Japan did the things and went the way they did. You can apply this same principle to literally any other country. It's why I'd argue the two lives of a soldier and his wife at home might tell more of a story than some guy at the top.
  19. I prefer a bottom-up view of history. Take a look at modern China and obviously Mao Zedong comes to mind, but that rarely if ever captures what really went down in the lives of ordinary people, and in this instance they really have to survive through a lot. The top-down perspective misses way too much of the good stuff and just isn't realistic for me. That doesn't necessarily answer your question, so... if not Hitler or Stalin I will say Mao Zedong is the most consequential historical figure from last century. He was a charismatic man with grand ideas that didn't work and led to a lot of pain and suffering in China.
  20. I think the Aquilinis have done okay as hands-on owners, but don't automatically consider that a good thing. Look at Harold Ballard and the Maple Leafs. Completely different situation, but I there's a point to be made.
  21. You are using your personal beliefs about transgenders and suggesting they should be segregated into their own leagues. They did something like that in baseball once. And then this happened: Oh yes... don't ignore the fact that for centuries black people were treated as some brutish, beastly race that would just ruin the good ol' ball game. Jackie was just too good. Why'd he have to go and ruin all the fun?
  22. I suspect the amount of time it takes before this thread gets locked is equal to the amount of time that Stealth is away from the computer.
  23. There may be a place for legitimate discussion on this, but not here. The political background of this forum (in general) is pretty right-wing, but an uninformed right-wing. They speak before they think, or they just have a very black-and-white view of this world. For gender-specific sports, the issue here is obviously focused on trans women. How much research have you read on HRT and the effects it has on trans women? What do you know about sport regulations and how long trans women have to be on HRT before they compete? How many trans women are competing in various sports today, and what percentage of them are considered highly successful (ie. winning titles)? And yes, most importantly, do you have empirical, scientific proof that trans people and their past give them an unfair advantage? People like to talk about things they just don't understand, and then they get upset because others think their opinion is trash. That's not the fault of a "politically charged climate". That's just being lazy.
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