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12 hours ago, aGENT said:
Even up island is a fair bit cheaper (though still not Alberta-bama level cheaper).
If you go to Port Alberni or Port Hardy, sure you can get 700k family homes. But even Qualicum/Parksville and the Comox Valley is 1 mil + homes. It's the premium you pay for above freezing tempatures in winter (in Canada).
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3 hours ago, 4petesake said:
I lived in Edmonton for 15 years and there was lots to like. The River valley was beautiful, nice downtown, lots of good clubs and smaller live music venues, Whyte Avenue was a fun place in the summer, plenty of sunshine in the winter and housing was affordable. Moved back here in ‘94 though so have no idea what it’s like now.
Home is where you make it.Pretty much the same, I moved there in 2019.
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2 hours ago, McBackup said:
Depends where honestly, and if you want smaller town living. There are still large parts of BC that are still exorbitantly overpriced. My parents house in Victoria has pretty much quintupled in value in less than 20 years of owning it. Its more about the price and value being out of alignment. Price is what you pay, value is what you get.
Yeah, Victoria is not far behind Vancouver. If you want to move to 100 Mile House or Prince Rupert I'm sure there are bagins to be had.
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14 hours ago, McBackup said:
I liken living in Vancouver to driving a Lamborghini, and Calgary to something like a Honda Civic. Is a Civic as nice as a Lamborghini? Not even close. But honestly if you aren't making Lamborghini money, you might be better off just getting the civic. Its a nice little car, reliable enough to get you from A to B, and affordable enough to keep money in your wallet to actually pay for other things,. The Lamborghini is awesome, but if the majority of your paycheque goes towards maintaining it, are you really getting your money's worth?
And then there's cities like Edmonton and Winnipeg which are closer to something like a 1975 Ford Pinto.
Honestly I was raised in coastal BC, and I love living here in Vancouver, but its getting so expensive I'm starting to question if I'm really getting my money's worth. I go hiking all the time, but after a certain point is that really worth the cost of living?
I bought a brand new 3 bed, 3 bath townhouse, with a detached garage, in a really nice neighborhood (10 minutes to downtown, 10 minutes to the U of A) in Edmonton for 500k. Would probably run ~2.5 mil for a similar home in a similar neighborhood (Kits maybe?) in Van. Vancouver is nice, but I don't want to start a family in a 1 bedroom condo.
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That line up looks rough, not going to be an easy task tonight. Best of luck to the call-ups, make this opportunity count!
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Just now, StanleyCupOneDay said:
At least 1 jersey tonight.3 already thrown!
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Podkolzin-Miller-Boeser
Pettersson-Horvat-Garland
Pearson-MattJVD-Hoglander
Dickinson-Sutter-Motte
I promise I can solve our bottom 6 C issues guys. I'm right handed, can win draws, and PK.
In all seriousness though:
Podz-Miller-Boeser
Pearson-Petterson-Hoglander
Motte-Horvat-Garland
Dickinson-Sutter-Lammiko/Highmore
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Will be tough without Horvat and Garland
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On 1/16/2022 at 12:04 PM, MikeBossy said:
I have to say it's times like right now when I love being a Canucks fan in Alberta. The chirping I put up with at the start of the season has become an enjoyable silence as Oiler fans realize that once again they likely have wasted another year of McDavid and Draisaitl in futility here in Coilerville. The Stanley Cup parade planning committee has become the "Run Koskkinen out of town" committee and soon EPS will be starting patrol along the bridges to make sure fans don't jump into the river.
Loved watching the Sens comeback and McDavids pouty press conference. That team has a leadership issue and bringing in Kane won't help and I am loving it. Yes Petey is having an off season but the Canucks are trying to stay competitive whereas the Coilers have a 3 to 4 year window to win with McDavid and Leon and so many holes to fill. Skinner isn't their goalie in waiting, Bouchard isn't the defensive d man they need and even Hyman can't score.
And their inbred cousins down the road the Flames - another wonderful team to watch implode :D
Are you a Canuck fan in Edmonton too? I feel alone out here, usually just resort to saying: "well at least there is one thing we can all agree on, the Flames suck" when I'm talking to Edmontonians.
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5 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:
Nice shot!
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On 1/7/2022 at 6:01 PM, KirkSave said:
Turning 30 isn't that big of a deal for d-men, especially ones like him who skate so well.
Lidstrom didn't start dominating until he was in his 30's. The notion that players in their 30's "have no option" but to regress is silly.
An 8 year deal might scare teams away but many GM's would sign a 5-6 year term for a player like him.
We're scarred from giving 30 year old Loui Player Name a 6 year deal.
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3 hours ago, Canucklehead53 said:
Roughly between 7,000 and 8,500 people die of influenza a year in Canada. Whereas covid has killed 30,000 in Canada since it started and many people have spoken out about questionable causes of death records for covid. With a population of about 38,000,000 that is 0.08% of the population over 2 years.
Covid started in 2019 so in 2 years it killed about twice as many people in Canada as the flu.
Omnicron has a crazy high transmission compared to the prior variants but ICU rates are low (relatively speaking) and don't seem to be following the same curve as infection rates.
A lot of people are saying it is time to consider what measures are necessary and justified.
I am not an expert so am not saying I have the answer but I do think critical thought on everyone's part is a good idea. Be unbiased and listen to everything while looking at the data and numbers yourself. You can't accurately quantify the impacts of the measures to things like mental health, economy, society, etc.
Healthy conversation is good but being positional in arguments is not effective communication.
Influenza kills 200 to 300 Canadians per year, with no public health measures attempting to abate it. Decades of influenza data is publicly available, just google "fluwatch" (it's a section of Stats Can). The data looks nothing like Covid data, nothing.
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14 hours ago, Rindiculous said:
But strictly by the numbers, our team was just as good defensively 5 on 5 under Green as Boudreau. The only change is an uptick in the offense 5 on 5. We've been very good defensively all year. All the numbers I've used were numbers over this entire season and we've still allowed the 3rd fewest 5 on 5 goals this year.
On your point of our D being old, yes it is, but people our considering our defense is bad right now, which objectively it is not. PK% is completely different than team defense and I've honestly blamed the PK more on the system and the forward utilization rather than the defense. They've cleared the front of the net decently well on the PK.
We are currently 34 games into a season where we've objectively been good on defense and the media and a lot of the fans have no reevaluated how good we are defensively. Maybe it's Brad Shaw a bit, but with the names on D I think they're almost all severely underrated.
PK is a massive difference too (which has a lot to do with the play of the D). Button said that under Green the team was trying to play more defensively to make up for a preceived weekness on the blue-line; and it showed. We were a good defensive team 5 on 5.
Bruce said; forget that, why would we play to our weekness? Let's push the pace, get our scorers doing their job and play to our strengths. We can still be decent defensively if we're just playing fast and taking away time and space and letting Demko handle the mistakes.
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23 minutes ago, khay said:
Maybe the comparison was more about playing style rather than the points.
The stylistic comparison wasn't as absurd.
No one is going to put up Gretzky's numbers, not even close.
This is what people were talking about. He's a slight kid who sees the ice really well and shoots the puck way harder than you'd think he could with that frame. No one thought he'd achieve anything close to Gretzky
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1 hour ago, DeNiro said:
Two things he needs to get back to.
Moving his feet and not thinking so much. You can tell he’s not playing on instinct right now. That extra second he’s taking is causing him to lose the puck too much.
Definitely. He's overthinking plays because things aren't going well and now things aren't going well because he's overthinking plays. It's a vicious loop.
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3 hours ago, Devron44 said:
I have a sick mind so I think Scorpion King would be a great name.
Not sure that sticks though unless he does that a few more times.
DemKO, Knockout maybe?
He'll always be "The Iron Goalie" to me
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55 minutes ago, Gawdzukes said:
Yeah it makes sense and I'm happy it looks like we're building a big collaborative brain. I never believed Trevor was there as a puppet or familiar face, on his part anyway (he's too serious minded), but someone with experience should be have been hired in one of those two positions. It also should have been a red flag to AQ that there was a disturbance in the force when TL split. Ironically I don't really think it set us back that much as we basically just accrued talent during this time, as was the plan. Even the high picks we gave away are still extremely valuable. Miller is worth as much or more and OEL/Garland speaks for itself. Unlike the States it's not conceivable to scorch earth tank in Canada like some newbies proclaim.
Anyways for the most part after twenty years of (very) successful hockey cumulating in a SCF 7th game and two President's trophies, one of the most dominant teams in history, 2 HOF players ending their careers, Gillis leaving the cupboards bare, sacrificing 1sts, and locking everyone in to NTC's, and zero flexibility I for one haven't batted an eye like some during this rebuild. I guess I'm old enough to understand 8 years of less than stellar results is not much considering what came before it, and regardless of how or what structure was lacking JB left us a pretty good group of players in order to move on to the next phase. A lot of impatient people screaming for compete 3-4 years ago were completely unrealistic.
As a side note I worked a number of years in several of the biggest Oil & Gas companies in the world while living in (spit) Calgary.
While I wasn't that high up I worked with the CEO directly at times and appreciate the necessary structure in a Billion dollar operation. What always struck me was how important and how much of the actual work was done by the Executive Secretaries. I don't know if that's a fair comparison to the AGM's but they were basically acting as pseudo CEO's, Directors, etc., for the day to day operations. And trust me their bark was as bad as their bite. 
Yeah, day-to-day management isn't for the CEO (or GM in case of an NHL team). You're right the EA's do a lot of the organizing. The CEO needs to make really high impact, big picture decisions and get them right.
I think the AGMs would be a comparable to the rest of the C-suite rather than he EAs, as I'm sure NHL teams have EAs too.
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34 minutes ago, -DLC- said:
LOL even when we win, some people find scapegoats and reason to be grumbling. Kind of sad to me that we can't just be positive for awhile.
I wonder if there's any joy in this game for some?
I'm having a great time on the Bruce train...it isn't going to be perfect, but we have other players who are now being leaned on. And teams will have to figure out WHO to focus on soon because we're coming at them from more than just one angle. That makes us a more well rounded team in the end. Focus on that half full cup for awhile? Have we not suffered enough lately? My God.....
I'm super happy with the team amd really enjoying watching games again (when I can). I just want Petey to bring some more offense. He's a good kid and a great player, he has it in him. I hope he can get back to producing 0.8+ points per game soon.
I don't mean to give off the impression I'm unhappy when I say I wish Petey would bring a little more. It's just that I know he's capable of it and I think his return to form will go along way in our playoff push.
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1 hour ago, Boudrias said:
That's 48 games have they reduced the schedule?
48 + the 34 already played =82
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3 minutes ago, EmilyM said:That's nuts. I don't even recall Hamonic scoring a goal, getting an assist, or participating in a fight let alone all three in a game.
It was a pretty forgetable season. But it happened, May 6th against Edmonton. The fight was against Chaisson lol.
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1 hour ago, Toyotasfan said:
Tanner Pearson with the Gordie Howe hat trick, I can’t remember the last Canuck to do that
Travis Hamonic, last season
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On 12/1/2021 at 5:07 PM, gurn said:
It is worth noting the Gripen fighter/bomber is a single engine plane, something Canada has previously not wanted, due to flights over our Northern air space.
It would be a long cold walk back to anywhere, if the single engine suffers a failure; and that is if they are lucky enough to come down on land.
Also going with the F-35 is fraught with issues as well. They are expensive, not all that 'stealthy' and had been previously selected by the Conservative government
I'm rather surprised they didn't just go with Boeing Super Hornets for the next 20-30 years, as crewed airplanes get eliminated in favour of smart drones.
F35 is a single engine fighter too, so they're on even footing in that regard.
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In the unlikely event it did join Canada, it would not be the 11th province: It would he the 4th territory.
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12 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
Surely we were 8-15-2 when Bruce took over? I guess they think nucks lost in regulation against LA, pretty sure we got an underserved point and BB is still undefeated in regulation, but maybe I dreamt it. This should be an easy win, so we'll probably lose 5-1
Good catch, you're right.
While I wasn't that high up I worked with the CEO directly at times and appreciate the necessary structure in a Billion dollar operation. What always struck me was how important and how much of the actual work was done by the Executive Secretaries. I don't know if that's a fair comparison to the AGM's but they were basically acting as pseudo CEO's, Directors, etc., for the day to day operations. And trust me their bark was as bad as their bite. 
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Edmonton has more parkland/greenspace as a % of total city area than any other major city in Canada. You can be 10 minutes from the tallest builidng west of Toronto and see nothing but forest and river.