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  1. I think it wasn't so much the controversy as it was the mask off moment. Forever the rhetoric was "Well you should cheer for X because its Canadian and its good for the game" then when our team rolls around suddenly thats the unacceptable position.
  2. 8 points in 8 games, +5, healthy scratch for "performance" reasons is really suspect. Maybe he was giving the Dubois effort somewhere.
  3. Montreal was because of the historical hatred for Boston. Winnipeg didn't exist. That left Ottawa where many were also actively cheering against us. So "The rest of Canada" is misleading. Montreal wasn't cheering against us. The actual rest of Canada was.
  4. Said it before, I'll say it again, and I will likely have to keep saying it: I am super glad Benning did not draft Tkachuk. No its not sour grapes. I was happy with the Juolevi pick at the time, I thought Tkachuk's production in junior was a result of riding shotgun with Marner and Dvorak. I'll readily admit I was wrong on that part, but Tkachuk is such a repugnant player that I'm happy he isn't on this team. Say what you want about Benning and co. but the one thing they've prioritized over everything else is character, and I think that pays off. I don't get the people who constantly whine about not picking Tkachuk, I think its a good thing. There are tons of draft decisions every team makes that can be scrutinized but why that one in particular is the focal point I don't get. I can only assume its because Tkachuk stepped into the show right away whereas Juolevi needed seasoning. I think it says everything you need to know about the Calgary organization/fanbase that Tkachuk is being celebrated as being penciled in as the Flames next captain once Kneeordano hangs em up.
  5. If it were another player that might be believable. But when you've spent your entire career deliberately and consistently trying to injure and cheapshot your opponents from the moment you entered the league, you lose the benefit of the doubt.
  6. The Sedins weren't tough. We all know toughness is about deliberately cheapshotting your opponents in the hopes of hurting them and then hiding from retaliation. The Sedins just took torrents of physical and verbal abuse full on and performed anyway, which is the mark of a wuss.
  7. Its their hypocrisy that gets me. They whined about guys like the Sedins diving yet they cheer on Giordano, Gaudreau and are ready to christen Tkachuk as their next captain, which tells you all you need to know.
  8. Man seeing Tanev and Marky in Flames gear looks so wrong. I hope Marky gets caved in for 10 goals and Tanev is on the ice for all of them. In the nicest way possible of course.
  9. The Houses in a Song of Ice and Fire aren't like Hogwarts Houses. You aren't "sorted" into them, you're born in. Its not really a personality thing. The traits of each house vary so much and the characters have enough nuance that you can't really just assign real people to them. Case in point: Renly, Stannis and Robert all have wildly different demeanors. Loras and Margaery don't really have much in common. Sansa and Arya are essentially polar opposites, etc. Unless you're just going by physical descriptions, in which case they're pretty cut and dry. Petey and Brock would be Lannisters, Hughes would be a Tyrell, Horvat a Baratheon, etc.
  10. Yes, but a constant stream of reported altercations, incidents, coupled with behaviour that is simultaneously erratic and showboaty and also clingy and needy to me indicates more than just poor decision making.
  11. The billboard thing combined with everything else just makes it look like Kane might have some genuine mental health issues.
  12. Probably dropped a fortune trying to upgrade his wifi just to sit at home and play video games, if those player polls are to be believed.
  13. I was speaking about the group holistically, not matching them up piece by piece.
  14. So I think its safe to say we've improved our D at this point. I'm sure most Canucks fans would agree Schmidt + Hamonic + Rafferty/Juolevi/Rathbone/whoever is an upgrade over Tanev + Stecher + Fantenberg, as much as those guys were liked here. Obviously we'll have to see how the season actually unfolds, but it definitely doesn't look as doom and gloom as some were making it at the start of FA. Yes goaltending was downgraded, but with an upgraded D, coupled with the strides our youngsters are going to make this year I think things are pretty optimistic.
  15. We always need at least one defenseman to blame all our problems on. Myers has the fattest contract while not really being a number 1 D-men so he gets the dubious honor.
  16. He looks like he'll be a solid NHLer but most of the hype about him comes from the fact that he's one of the few rays of light on an otherwise bad Oilers D. I think this is a pretty fair bridge deal.
  17. It really does get irritating hearing about why the sky is falling and everyone needs to be fired after a prospect that was passed on has a good game. I know thats the MO in general, but in these specific instances it gets annoying. What if Podkolzin has 12 goals the next game and Newhook pees himself? Does this still apply.
  18. Time to retire the "Canucks" name too. Its only a matter of time until somebody complains. Might as well get out of ahead of everything in one fell swoop.
  19. It's not Vancouver, this kind of stuff is happening everywhere. The majority of people are not nearly as hysterical, but the squeaky wheel gets the grease and we've decided as a society that whoever screeches the loudest on twitter is who we listen to.
  20. You must be pretty ripped carrying goalposts around all the time.
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