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  1. Honestly, even with how bad the games are these days, I'd buy it in a heartbeat if they made a PC version on Steam.
  2. Really wish they would take the time to make a proper game. They basically release an unfinished game every year with way more bugs and glitches than any AAA studio should allow.
  3. This isn't too surprising. Given the flat cap for years in addition to huge inflation, I would be surprised if the cap doesn't rise significantly, unless the economy suffers to an ever greater degree than inflation rises (and how much the cap has been held down with the flat cap). if I'm not mistaken, the NHL made record revenues (or close to it) this past year.
  4. Agreed. I don't expect him to get 75 points, but I could see it in the realm of possibility. It's more likely he gets closer to 40 points IMO.
  5. I agree. I literally think he could get anywhere from 30 to 75 points this year. He could be right up there with Pettersson as our best winger (if you consider Petey a winger) if he has a breakout year like some think he can.
  6. Cheap deal--going for a cup I presume. Surprised there are no performances bonuses, considering he's in that age range and it's a 1-year deal.
  7. Cool thing about this goal is that you can see Horvat gesturing to Miller to pass it to Boeser about three seconds before the goal. A classic Horvat PPG.
  8. It's woefully inadequate to me for a playoff team unless guys seriously overperform. If Dermott has a career year, he's probably a #4 guy, but it's probably very optimistic to assume he'll do that well. Myers is an acceptable 3/4 I think and Schenn was a solid #5 last year, but I'm not sure if we can expect him to continue playing so well. Rathbone is a huge wildcard and might not even be NHL-level yet. All AHL indications say he should be, but we've seen guys get stuck at the AHL superstar level before. If we get career years around the board from our bottom four, it's a pretty good d-core, but I think that would be unreasonably optimistic.
  9. -AJ-

    Wow Kuz!

    Why must it be a competition? Both are great.
  10. I'm surprised by how much I like this look.
  11. I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if he got even more than that on the open market, actually. I do think he has solid positive value. Not sky high or anything, but he is a valuable third line forward who can fill in on the 2nd line at times.
  12. Alas, he's even worse at faceoffs than Petey at a career average of 39.5%.
  13. Even for a bridge, that's a steal. Boeser's bridge was close to $6M, and that was with a slightly lower cap.
  14. Does feel a lot like Ferland 2.0 to me as well.
  15. Both. I still like the idea of letting him take draws and then him moving to the wing as Petey plays the centre role. If Petey can do it well, I'd be okay with him moving to the wing though and making JT a full-time centre.
  16. I'm not sure how badly he wants to stay in North America, but I do think he's probably either a serviceable 13th forward for many teams or otherwise a solid middle six AHL forward. His defense has almost never been questioned and is reliable in that sense.
  17. Don't think he'd get anything more than a PTO at this point from somebody. It's more likely he signs in Sweden or retires IMO.
  18. I still consider this the prettiest goal of this millenium, though maybe I'm an old fart who doesn't consider some pretty sweet modern goals.
  19. Horvat's pace has been much closer to 60 points per 82 games than 50, but injuries limit his games played. Another factor to consider is that Horvat is 27 years old and Kadri is nearly 32. They are at significantly different points of their career. Additionally, I do believe that locker room leadership and presence is very valuable and should be paid. Look at how the team fell apart when we lost Tanev and Markstrom, despite being similar on paper. It's hard to quantify the value of an intangible asset like that, but it certainly has significant value and I'd think almost any player would say as much. All that said, I would agree that $7M is a bit on the high side for Horvat, but other things would have to be considered in a deal like that as well, such as term and the presence or absence of trade/movement protection.
  20. Agreed, though from what I can tell, Kadri hasn't been much better than average defensively at best and the same can be said for his face-offs. That said, he's received a Selke vote here and there throughout his career, so maybe some people see something I'm missing.
  21. 7x7 is a gamble that is a high risk, high reward move for the Flames. If Kadri keeps it up long term, he's a steal. If he returns to scoring his more regular 50-60 point level, he's going to be a pricy forward.
  22. I definitely watch far fewer games when times are tough, though I have to admit CDC is pretty much a mainstay. That said, when we're losing a lot and negativity reigns supreme, I distance myself from hockey-related talk. I either get angry myself or jealous of the success of other teams and find that it's not healthy for me. Regarding taking a break altogether, I haven't done it strictly with hockey, but I have done a similar thing with watching YouTube videos. I used to be subscribed to several YouTube channels that put out a couple videos each day and began to find it incredibly draining to watch their content, even though I enjoyed it at first. It became a chore, another task to complete. I ended up cutting out a lot of YouTube from my life and although I now still watch quite a bit, I'm more disciplined about making sure I only subscribe to channels that infrequently put out content and I manage how many videos I want to watch. The closest I've come to this with hockey outside of the darker times of 2015 through 2018 or so was during the 2011 playoffs. During that run, I realized that my emotions were so severely affected by the outcome of the games (especially in the Finals) that it worried me. Should I be invested so deeply in something that has little to do with my life directly, yet also controls my emotions so heavily? Honestly, I'm not sure what I concluded after that, but suffice it to say that in tense moments during games, I try to remind myself of the perspective I gained in that time and not lose sight of the fact that, while I'm passionate and care deeply about how my Canucks perform, there are many things more important in life and the results of the game are not life and death.
  23. Very hard to break into the top two of Edmonton and Calgary now. Reminds me of the mid to late 80s. Who knows though, there are always a few big surprises every year and we could still have an insane year and challenge these guys.
  24. Pretty great 2022 Canucks Hype video YouTube just recommended to me. Doesn't have enough views, so I'm sharing it here:

     

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    2. -AJ-

      -AJ-

      @CRAZY_4_NAZZYNice! Didn't know it was yours, but I figured it could be a CDCer. It's well done.

       

      EDIT: Oh not yours, gotcha, haha.

    3. TNucks1

      TNucks1

      thats pretty rad, good vid...still wanted some greener in there lol.

    4. CRAZY_4_NAZZY

      CRAZY_4_NAZZY

      @-AJ- ooh no, its not mine, just was saying thank for sharing the video for us to see haha

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