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Dennis Shapovalov makes it to the finals in Denmark https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/tennis/canadian-tennis-star-shapovalov-advances-to-first-career-atp-final/ar-AAJ25Uh?li=AAggNb9 " Shapovalov will play Filip Krajinovic of Serbia on Sunday for the title at the ATP 250 tournament. No Canadian has won on the ATP Tour since Milos Raonic in Brisbane in January 2016. Shapovalov was previously 0 for 7 in ATP semifinals before Saturday's win.' Think they meant no Canadian man has won......
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[GDT] Canucks @ Devils Oct 19 10 AM - European game of the week edition
Gurn replied to ForzaTikare's topic in Canucks Talk
Yeah, mention a hall of famer, generational player as if that mode would work for everyone. -
nice assumption, have you talked to the child's doctor to confirm there is no medical condition involved?
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https://www.sbncollegehockey.com/2016/6/20/11983612/bob-mckenzies-final-2016-nhl-draft-rankings "-The ranking of the top defensemen available has been interesting to watch all spring. McKenzie's list has them like this: 1. Juolevi(6th) 2. Sergachev(9th) 3. Bean(12th) 4. Chychrun(13th) 5. McAvoy(14th) 6. Fabbro(16th)' https://thehockeynews.com/news/article/final-rankings-the-top-120-prospects-for-the-2016-draft "6. Olli Juolevi, D – London Knights (OHL): The frame, the poise, the smoothness – Juolevi is the kind of defenseman the current NHL is built for and it’s only going to tip further in that direction. World junior gold and the Memorial Cup in the same year." https://www.tsn.ca/2016-nhl-central-scouting-rankings-na-skaters-goaltenders-1.470328 Had ollie at 5. So have you called the above people or groups to tell them Ollie can't be a 1st round pick? thanks for the laughs.
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you use a Botchford catchphrase, but unlike him you don't do your homework. you have also leapt to a conclusion, without evidence. Please quote me where I said Garth was bad. Please quote me where I "champion" Benning as great. And again you asked for one gm and got more than you asked for, then leapt to the assumption that the two that were provided to you were the only two. Had you asked for a list of ALL the gm's that messed up their first round draft picks and only got a list of two then maybe you could assume that the list is only two gms long. That however, would be assuming people decided to do all your homework for you, rather than they just got bored and stopped looking after finding two.
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[GDT] Vancouver Canucks @ St. Louis Blues | OCT. 17. 19. | 5PM PST | SN1
Gurn replied to Johnny Torts's topic in Canucks Talk
Ahhh, I remember that hit. Bert actually slowed down before hitting Jackman, guess he did not want to kill the guy. -
I'd say speed, and more specifically separation speed.
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dude, you asked for one other gm and people gave you two, now you want to change the goalposts. And you think you have proved something?
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Not the best version of these gals doing Stairway To Heaven, for that check out Kennedy Center's tribute to Led Zeppelin. However this is from Aug of this year. Ann is 69 and Nancy is 65. Still sound great. Long Live Rock.
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Why would you drive a truck with "an iffy rear end"?
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your life is too short to worry about "people at work". Priority list you family friends people at work
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injuries were the down fall of '11 team. And a power play that went cold at the wrong time.
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Most likely it's about the money. I think saying nothing until after the players got/get out of China would be a wise thing. A wiser thing would have been not going to China in the first place: The US and China trade war China jailing Canadian citizens as retaliation for the arrest of Meng Wanzhou are just the latest in very good reasons to stay the heck out of China. How many Canadians and Americans are over there right now, and how do you get them out of China quickly.?
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Perhaps he meant, in a week when NBA players are not in China, and thus not potential prisoners of the communist government?
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An Immigration Scheme Steering Newcomers Into The Trucking Industry
Gurn replied to -DLC-'s topic in Off-Topic General
apparently the deaths of those kids is now to be considered "the price of freedom" from red tape in Alberta and Ontario. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/elections/heather-mallick-alberta-ontario-vote-against-common-sense-in-favour-of-a-dangerous-doctrine/ar-AAIKJcZ?ocid=spartandhp " “Spare us from government oversight of meticulous truck driver training and licensing!” Crash victims do not cry this out as they sit in their own blood in the eerie silence post-smash on the flat highways of the West. “No taxpayer dollars for me,” they don’t tell horrified police officers wet with the surrounding carnage. The injured just beg for help, sometimes mutely with their eyes. But eccentric Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, chief doctrinaire of the province’s United Conservative Party, will swear these are the wails he heard. Strange that other premiers didn’t. Kenney has decided to revert to old trucking rules, which may make accidents again more likely. After the 2018 Humboldt bus crash in Saskatchewan — an inexperienced driver crashed a semi into a bus carrying a hockey team, killing 16 people and injuring 13 — provincial governments tried to prevent such a crash happening again. The young truck driver had been new. The small trucking company had been indifferent to federal and provincial safety rules, ignoring and faking paperwork. The driver, heartbroken by the accident he caused, was sentenced to eight years in jail. The company owner didn’t even show up in court for his $5,000 fine. It could all have been so different. The new post-Humboldt rules about safety in the trucking industry required $10,000 in fees for more training (113 hours) and better testing for licence applicants. Ironically, the Globe and Mail recently revealed the situation had been worse than imagined. For years, many small fly-by-night companies, particularly in B.C., had been luring ill-trained temporary foreign workers to Canada to drive semi-trailers for low pay and long hours without rest. What could go wrong? The new Alberta rules were sensible, but also compassionate, offering some reassurance to the bereft families about future safety. In fact, the Humboldt families had asked Kenney not to reverse the new rules. Kenney ignored them, an act that was not just reprehensible but in bad taste. What kind of man would apply pepper to their wounds? Kenney and his true believers — tangled are they in red tape — did it anyway. They have allowed exemptions that let some new drivers slip out of training, even retroactively, freeing farm truckers and school bus drivers from the training and testing. They would go back to the old system — it worked for the “last 30, 40 years,” the transport minister said — partly to ease short truck trips (when accidents presumably don’t happen.) For Kenney and his kind, doctrine is religion. All red tape is the same: bad. Facts are suspect. “Red tape makes government bigger and opportunity smaller,” Kenney’s government says flatly, asking voters to suggest government rules to cut. His callout website is positively manic. It’s like a store closing sale. All rules 30 per cent off! It suggests cutting safety codes, safety code exams, audits, inspections, building licensing, appeal boards, liquor bans in campsites, and extra pay for overtime. If the safety of schoolkids is the ketchup on the uninspected meat in one’s burger, what’s the matter with Alberta? What’s the matter with Kansas, or the U.S. red states? Why do voters knowingly damage their own interests to follow the Trumpish ultra-conservative libertarian dream of non-existent self-sufficiency? Canada is an organized country, a rules-based nation. By electing Kenney, at the absurd end of the extreme right — just as Ontario did with Doug Ford — they voted against common sense, choosing a failed doctrine involving bootstraps, whatever they are, which must be pulled on personally, never en masse. As Ontario has learned, it’s expensive to elect doctrinaires. They don’t do inventive things, they just flip everything the previous government did, out of spite. Successive governments become serial flippers. Alberta is flipping back to chaos. I can’t quite follow why Kenney might change the rules at the Alberta Boilers Safety Association but if it’s anything like highway safety, I wish Alberta’s boilers well. Canadian voters are not doctrinaire. If they were, they would enjoy paying extra to airlines for flying with luggage and sitting in squeezy/less squeezy seats. Instead they complain. There should be rules, they say. But not in Alberta and Ontario, not for the next few years. Heather Mallick is a columnist based in Toronto covering current affairs. Follow her on Twitter: @HeatherMallick -
Sundstrom never played on the best team in the league, Naslund did. But to each their own.
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I'd rather the Canuck team take the power play, every time someone gets upset with a Virtanen hit.
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You may be confusing who got the most points with who was the better player. Sundstrom never played for the Canucks when they were the best team in the league, while Naslund did. FWIW Naslund's points per game are .78 while B Mo finished at .64 per, while being the defensive conscience of the WCE. I'll also point out that Sundstrom had .86 per game for his career.
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Getting Tanti was great, moving Fraser to get him was a mistake though.
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I am being honest. Sundstrom was a better player than Morrison and Naslund was not a center. I would be doing a bunch of thinking before I'd put Naslund ahead of Morrison as well. Naslund had a better peak than Brendan but I'm not sure he had a better career than B Mo.
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[PGT] Philadelphia Flyers at Vancouver Canucks | Oct. 12, 2019
Gurn replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Yep, and he will get that confidence back while playing in Utica. Then a couple of weeks after he stops shying away from contact bring him up. -
This bit gets me every time I see it "accidents have speed noted "as a factor" Has anybody, anywhere, at any time, ever seen an accident that involved two stationary vehicles?