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  1. Yeah your right. Winnipeg was first, also very well done @Art Vandelay ! A greatly improved team.
  2. Am I correct; was Philly in 1st place yesterday? Well done!
  3. Look, be it pressure from the fan base, media, FAQ? There is a concerted effort every year to improve the performance. In some year, Benning made moves many supported. Example, Player Name? There were haters, or those opined against. Also, I believe more was consensus, those genuine to have a ''great'' winger for the Twins. For the 1st time ever. Maybe the 2016 team which had Michael Chaput & Jason Megna not a shining example. Or 2016 one where they did take their lumps and rebuild retool? I personally did not like the OEL/Garland deal. I knew we were much better for it this year. My opinion was we may have spent so much in cap / assets that we wont get to a top level. But the deal made us better... And Garland looks like he is worth it more than I evaluated at the time. I too am enthused about a 3-2-1 start. Was always going to cheer our boys on, a fan of our team regardless of even my own critique's.
  4. I drafted him in 2 leagues..., was surprised I did not have Jakub here when I saw this signing?
  5. Watched the Vegas / St Louis game yest oddly enough. Tarasenko was best on ground, err, ice...
  6. Makar is an absolute match up beast, so athletic. Fox is playing 27/28 minutes a night, killing penalties, taking top match ups. Some great young D the last cpl years. Including Hughes who might not be the best of them? But is still ahead of the curve even in a V good group! Makar, Hughes, Heskainen, McAvoy, Fox, Chychrun, Dahlin, Dobson in no particular order, Drysdale, Romanov & Boqvist might get there... Am I missing anyone?
  7. Just a mention? And offering no opinion. Private and public universities rely massively on both donations. And collaboration. With govt., institutions like hospitals, other labs, companis. Universities often own and sell both research, patents. Just as often also have their research owned by those who commissioned it. Circumstance is as wild as the deals that surround the industry. Simply because not all research was done by a pharmaceutical company means little. Which is why intellectual property in of its own is a specialized field of law.
  8. Florida of course has virtually the highest death rate...
  9. I cannot find it? In Florida teachers protested blocking students from entering school unless they wore masks; against the law passed by their Conservative Governor. A parent had a counter protest sign, paraphrasing; asking what proof they had that masks saved lives? The teacher held up two death certificates of two teachers in their school that had just passed away...
  10. Back to SDG! Gimme somma lovin, every day! Doo, doo, do doo do
  11. LOL, Hw about some white dudes dancing... Came from their own church house, gin house, school house, outhouse? Inspired by;
  12. One of my best friends here in Melbourne. Oddly also lived near us in Edmonton. Her brother avoided getting the vaccine. Her mum procrastinated. Bro brought home Covid. Her 78 year old dad was vaccinated when he had a heart attack in May. They all got Covid. Beck lives outside the family home. Had to isolate, is fine but still caught Covid with one shot even from a fast visit at a park. Dad with both shots, thanks, and had Covid is also fine. Brother 40 years old spent 4 days in hospital. 70 year old Mum, now 30 days in hospital, 14 in ICU and half of that on a ventilator to keep her alive. Now out of ICU and looking like she will make it. You dont get to visit a Covid ward. Cannot zoom call someone on a ventilator. Beck thought she would never see her Mum again!
  13. Ah,, ha! https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/lockdown-protester-denied-bail-after-alleged-attacks-on-police-on-horses/ar-AAPE66r?li=AAgfYrC Arrested then and now still denied bail. Enjoy yer' cell Thunda! Dennis Basic is accused of repeatedly hitting a policewoman's horse with a flagpole during a protest last year, and then hurling a traffic bollard at another mounted policewoman nine months later. Mr Basic was charged over the first incident and on bail when he hit the second policewoman in the head with the weighted plastic bollard, Melbourne Magistrates Court heard. The 36-year-old has spent 80 days in custody since he was arrested ...
  14. Oddly listening to Tom Cochrane right now as I read this. Lunatic Fringe up next... Good luck to Travis speaking to the actual topic.
  15. The way he fired that shot; clearly Podkolzin eats his spinach? What a shot! Yes only 7 minutes, but he also got shifts with Petey and Miller? The rest will come. LOL, Google translated quote from this article... Podkolzin must correctly perceive the situation and in no case hang his nose.
  16. Hawerchuck was amazing. A great player. But not on the same level as McDavid. How did this conversation / comparison surface?
  17. Say what you will about FAG? He & their family have never been shy about backing the team financially. Signed Matt Sundin. Spend to the cap every year. Over the cap; buried players as early as Steven Reinprecht absorbing his cap to make the David Booth deal. Buried Baertschi, Sam Gagner. We signed Luongo to a $64 mill deal; in 2011 this was the single highest paid hockey player in the World! They want to do well. Also made money; at times the Nucks have been rated by Forbes over a billion dollars. And at a peak I saw reports of profits as high as $50mill / annum. Not making that now the Canucks, at this time... The move to Abbotsford, once they bought the arena there also was inevitable. Moving backwards in history; my memory serves Brian Burke's very first Canuck deal, was to sign Paul Kariya's kid brother Steve. It was billed as building the franchise by making the minors team stronger. I am not at all surprised that they pumped some money in to v good AHL players. A bit surprised some made the opening roster. Now we have full control over the AHL roster. Hopefully it pays off! Goalies Markstrom & Demko are the only real success stories developed in our minors system the past 10 years? Is my memory bad, am I missing someone important? Tanev and Edler on D, Kesler, Hansen, Bieksa & Burrows were a long time ago.
  18. Well? Hughes will be among the among the 5 or 10 best drafted D of the last 10 years. And the best Vancouver has drafted in 50.
  19. I readily admit I question (ed) the OEL deal. More cause I believe in building through the draft. OEL does make the team better sooner. Seeing as I dont have a choice? I am going to cheer for Garland & OEL. Not jeer...
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