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Status Updates posted by Vinny in Vancouver
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Hope it's just me, but every once in a while when someone posts a trade for a RHD, I end up missing Tanev.
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I wonder if there's a way to check what percentage of threads in the past 3 months ended up getting side-tracked (even briefly) by a JT Miller-related post.
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In the past month, I've heard about shortage of lifeguards, home doctors, nurses, airport workers, programmers, dishwashers, security guards. Where did all the workers go?
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I feel it's a combination of things (also add ferry workers to the list)....
The expense here in the city...people can't afford to live here and it's impacting businesses. Our greedy powers that be think it's ok for corporations and foreign investors to gobble up property, flip and speculate but this is what happens. You don't have people "living" here, you have people parking money here and checking in/out like it's an atm. Much of which is laundered $$ and numbered corporations with no record of where the cash payments are coming from.
My ex neighbour (can't stand him) is a good example of all that's wrong here...came here and paid cash for properties (yes, more than one) and is now trying to rent the place next door for....$4,200/month. It's a 50+ year old building and he's done his own shoddy reno's. He's a money monger and the latest tenants told me what he's now asking. They paid $2200/month but it was being increased to $2500 so they said see ya. He and I had a few spats when he lived here as he NO respect for his neighbours. Used to trample on my ferns/plants because he couldn't reach his damn figs so he'd tromp on my side of the garden. Cares only about money...no sense of community.COVID also impacted things, as people re-thought what's important in life and working for scraps became a bit lower on the list. Grinding it out. People could stay at home and collect CERB instead.
Also, as stated, people have been put at risk in the service industry due to maniacs with no manners or self restraint. Lashing out (especially over mask guidelines, etc.).
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It really is a combination of people retiring, competition for workers giving workers the option to try something different, and a lack of affordability in a lot of our cities. A lot of people took advantage of the housing market to sell and make bank, and then move to rural, and either retire, or work from home with a better lifestyle bonus. That in turn leads to housing affordability being a problem....everywhere. There are so many homes being built, in a higher tax bracket, that when you have the choice to build, as a builder, a house that is expensive or affordable, you go to where the money is, which is tying up all of our house builders. Then couple that with...not being able to afford housing, you just end up going round and round. If BC Housing would just focus on housing, instead of social engineering, and pick a few places as up and coming and concentrate there, we'd be better off. Then you provide financial relief for schooling, and places to live to do that schooling, for trades and services careers. You chip away at the entire problem and move forward. Which is the opposite of what our NDP government wants to do.
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Always tried to joke about such bleak reality - but it's no laughing matter :^(
Globalization HAS been vunderbarr for well-positioned elites. & the other 99.9%? lifestyle-competition has become wayyy too pricey. The working class-poverty existence is basically under water, every step of the way.
& to this here layman, economists don't know/do shyte! What props up our own fiat currencies anyways? A question I'd been randomly asking folks over the past decade,+(approx). I fear we're about to alll go 1492-mode, & make a big, F***in' discovery in that realm.
As that currency-tsunami hits the plebs/hoi polloi, already the elites will have transitioned their ill-gotten gains into tangible assets, like farmland and pm's.
Every aspect seems outa' control. One will have to be mighty high up the food chain to avoid the coming pain.
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Hockey Canada CEO is a terrible leader. Questionable precedent-setting decisions.
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@King Heffy "Pride Hustle Desire" practices ruined the career of the Pride of Prince George Darcy Rota (dude scored FORTY TWO goals for us in a season a couple years before he was hired). That head coach was Bill Laforge. IMHO, nobody was worse (it just SEEM to be as bad because he was so awful, he was canned from the job like 20 or so games in lol)
"I'm sorry that he's dead but that doesn't change what he was when he was alive" Jim Corrnette.
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If a CEO knows there's funds going to settle sexual assault claims.
Even if it was started prior to you taking the job on as CEO, you know right then a culture change
is needed. And you need to do better.
These are young men. We need to mold them not only to be good hockey players, but good human beings as well.
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To all Rogers' customers, how will you spend your $9? I'm hoping they give businesses more than that... https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/rogers-credit-five-days
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Given the amount of times my friends and family have had to complain tooth and nail to Telus and still get lousy service.
I don't think Telus is "cool".
Eons ago I used to work for Fido. I thought it was a pretty good company. Just didn't have enough investment in it's network. Which sold out to Rogers.
It's sad the CRTC won't allow foreign owned companies into Canada. We desperately need competition.
Basically all the carriers suck.
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No originality in Alberta teams. First, Calgary poaches ex-Canucks players. Now, Edmonton is grabbing ex-Leafs players: Hyman, Connor Brown, Tyson Barrie, Cody Ceci, Seth Griffith, Jack Campbell.
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I completely forgot that the Avs got goalie Darcy Kuemper at the start of this season from the Coyotes. Burnaby Joe Sakic is turning out to be just as good an executive as he was a player.
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Kuemper was fairly decent in Minnesota early on and then had a really good but short run with the Kings. He then had a good stretch with the Coyotes through the Bubble Playoffs and then was pretty bad in 2020-2021.
I think Kuemper is one of those goalies that is good enough to backstop a very good team in front of him. He might still a game or two during a playoff run, but can't be relied on to steal a series. Made sense for Colorado to go with Kuemper instead of Grubauer, if only for some cap savings. Obviously it worked out perfectly for them.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Av's consider running with Francouz next season if Kuemper's contract demands are too high. They have a lot of cap space this summer but also a lot of players to re-sign (or replace).
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Too Good To Go. I highly recommend this. Even more with inflation driving up food prices.
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Since the Canucks joined the league (1970), the Leafs have won 0 team awards. The Canucks, on the other hand, have won the Western Conference championship 3 times and the President's Trophy twice.
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Now that the Canucks are out, will the "insiders" finally actually start divulging the supposed locker room issues within the team? Off the top of my head, Lalji, Hirsch, Dhaliwal, Seravalli, Drance, Friedman (?) are the ones that have mentioned dressing room issues.
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Post-firings:
- Farhan (with Drance, I believe) on Canucks management (April 20, 2022): "They want it to be built and look the way they're comfortable with...We both know there's a bit of a culture issue in the room...We really can't say more quite yet. They want to change the chemistry and culture in that room."
- Seravalli (March 21, 2022): "The change in the room, like, multiple players have reached out to say what a breath of fresh air it was after getting rid of Travis Hamonic."
Pre-firings:
- Dhaliwal (November 26, 2021): "I had a significant agent tell me this morning this is the stuff that will drive players not to play in Vancouver."
- Donnie (November 25, 2021): "Donnie just said that everyone is talking about a Miller v Horvat split in the dressing room but the thing they've heard is that it might be more of a situation where it's a Miller led veteran group that's fed up with the younger players on the team"
- Hirsch (November 14, 2021): "The problem isn't on the bench, the problem is in the locker room. These guys don't buy into the system... one of the biggest alpha dogs in the room doesn't buy into it, and when he doesn't, nobody else does and that's leadership. "
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Don't look now, but Petey's about to eclipse his season-high for points. How is that even possible given how badly he played most of the first half of the season???
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The realist in me will point out that he's played more games than ever before, allowing him more opportunities to pick up points. His points per game of 0.86 is still quite a bit lower than his first two seasons.
The optimist in me will point out that over his second half of 38 games, he has 46 points, which is 1.21 points per game, significantly above his best years and would put him on pace for 99 points over 82 games.
@JM_ The crazy thing is, as insane as his 17.4% shooting percentage is, it's lower than his current career average of 17.6%. He's just an incredible shooter.
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@-AJ-For a while there, he was actually playing on the third line as well.
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Interesting. There are only 8 East teams with a positive goal differential, and they are all in the playoffs. In the West, there are also only 8 teams with a positive goal differential, and 2 of them are not in the playoffs: Vegas and Vancouver. Both names start with a 'V'. Hmm...
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Please no more NMC or NTC contracts!
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If Jim Rutherford was our GM during the Benning years and wanted 'speed' and 'skill' among the forwards, who would the Canucks have drafted? Nylander (Virtanen), Konecny (Boeser), Tkachuk (Juolevi), Mittelstadt (Petey), Hughes, Caulfield (Podkolzin)?
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Hopefully Petey's back soon. If he's out long-term, this may affect Canucks' trade deadline plans.
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Maybe it's just me, but I don't think of 17 goals and 17 assists in 54 games as a "terrible performance". Of course a prospective buyer will try to minimize his impact and the Canucks will try to maximize it, but Boeser is a sniper who could play for any team in the league and right shooting snipers are scarce. Let's not undervalue him, and he isn't signing for 4.5. The only way to avoid a $7+ million qualifying offer is to NOT qualify him, thus making him an unrestricted free agent. If he's then a free agent, there will be a bidding war and Boeser is going to get PAID. The only way to avoid paying him that big ticket is to trade him because he is not going to take a home town discount. Why would he?
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@Curmudgeon 34 points in 54 games with significant amount of PP1 time should not get you $5 million a year, imo.
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Spring forward tonight. We lose 1 hour as 2 am becomes 3 am.
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Statement game for JT Miller after Boudreau publicly mused about trading him for McDavid! Lol. Next up for motivator Bruce: mention trading Boeser for Draisatl in next presser.
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JT-Boeser-Hoglander. Petey-Garland-Pearson. Bo-Dickinson-Podkolzin. Lammikko-Motte-Highmore.
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Well, it has been 20 games. Thanksgiving is in a few days. Surely something will happen by then?
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I think it really depends on this current road trip. If the team goes 0-5, then he’s definitely gone at the end of it. If they go 2-2-1, he might survive the next home stand. But 2-2-1 isn’t making any ground, and if the other teams in the division continue to win, then the Canucks are actually losing ground.
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If the Canucks get a new coach, I want them to get a coach who convinces them, "There is no bleeping way you should lose to X!"
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They finally found the Canucks whale that has been MIA this season in Fort Langley. I'm smelling a win streak coming up.
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Is there something wrong with me if I am still excited to watch the next Canucks game?