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  1. Clearly you make assumptions as I didn't imply that. What I DID imply was that the Rangers have chosen to do their rebuild in what I consider a better, quicker and more efficient way than how the Canucks have gone about it. On February 8 2018 Glen Sather and Jeff Gorton issued the famous Letter to their Fans telling them that they were going to rebuild and would be losing some familiar faces. And in less than two seasons, by way of shrewd trades, they've stockpiled a bunch of picks for the 2019 draft and 2020 drafts. Oh, and they drafted 10 players last years, with a handful considered hotshot high end prospects. Not bad for a year and a half's work following the letter to fans. And btw, I actually don't blame Benning at all. I blame an owner who thinks like Jerry Jones and looks over the shoulder of everyone in management as the defacto GM of the team.
  2. And just like that, the Rangers move ahead of the Canucks in rebuilding in a shorter amount of time. PLUS they still have a bunch of really good prospects coming. And they did it by not losing pending UFA's for nothing and trading some established players for young prospects but especially picks. Picks have been the currency in this league for a few years now and loading up allows a team to make deals like this. Sigh.
  3. You've yet to make a single point to actually support this. You're on here right now because these companies are BIG BUSINESS! And quite frankly, without these businesses, you'd still be typing your anti-capitalistic ramblings on a Commodore 64 right now. It takes money, lots of it, to push ahead with the technology dreams that originate in the basement or garage of visionaries. Otherwise those ideas would never see the light of day. The bottom line is these are businesses that yes have a huge amount of control of the internet, but hey kudos to them for having founders with the vision to create something that could transform the world. Should there be more regulation? Maybe, but that's not necessarily their issues to deal with. Monopolies universally seen as negative? Maybe in those countries where the average person doesn't get the chance to share the wealth and can't own shares in pension funds or RSP's like we can here. In those countries, they're referred to as oligopolies, owned by friends and family of whoever is leading those countries. So it's not working there either. At least in our capitalistic society, the market will always sort itself out (see Sears, Chrysler...etc). It may not be a quick as you'd want, but it will happen.
  4. I still can't make any sense of why the Canucks would want Lucic. ANY. When every other team in the league is trying to add speed and grit. Does JB think that THIS is the move that will save his job? 

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    2. 48MPHSlapShot

      48MPHSlapShot

      A pick swap may be more enticing with Krebs likely to slide. 

    3. 6string

      6string

      I would take Lucic over Eriksson in a heart beat. D'ya recall that push we made after the losing streak where we were in a playoff race and what did Eriksson do...crickets!

       

      He was awfull when we most needed him with those scoring chances, unforgiveable!

    4. King Heffy

      King Heffy

      Hell, I can't make sense of why Milan's parents would want Lucic.

  5. Watching the Bruins tonight whine about non-calls against them was strangely satisfying. The ironing was definitely delicious.

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    2. HerrDrFunk

      HerrDrFunk

      It'd be so sweet if this finals is the turning point that sends Boston into a championship drought. 

    3. bree2

      bree2

       sure I get you about karma, but I don't hold grudges, life is too short!  2011 was a lifetime ago. there has been a lot of hockey since then. 

       

    4. King Heffy

      King Heffy

      And the Bruins are still a bunch of gutless, cheap shoting floppers that cry like babies when they get exposed for the cowards that they are.  Love seeing these goofs get what they deserve.

  6. The family made their money as slumlords, so this is no surprise.
  7. Agree with you on MDS. I like his philosophy overall about the game and as a communicator. The future though will remain a question mark, not because of MDS, but because nothing has really changed with this ownership and management group. If anything, the way they've messed up this whole 2008 woman's Whitecaps controversy gives me even less confidence in how this team is run. We'll find out when the next international transfer window opens up how committed this organization actually is to winning.
  8. I just don't believe offer sheeting works in the old boy's tit for tat club. Offer sheet a player today, say goodbye to Pettersson tomorrow. And that's not even taking into account the potentially high cost of losing future first round picks and cap issues when our core young player's ELC's come up. There's no shortcut to building a long term winner folks.
  9. RIP Tim! Thanks for making me laugh out loud so many times over the years.
  10. Hometown bias? Hmmmm, luckily we have none of that here in Van.
  11. A different take on Ken Holland going to Edmonton. A little over-the-top but have to admit it made me smile just a bit. There are rants — and then there’s Jim Costa of ESPN 96.1 in Michigan vitriolic and bitter unloading on Ken Holland, former GM of the Detroit Red Wings and new GM of the Edmonton Oilers. On his Grand Rapids sports radio show with cohost “Big” Drew McCarthy, Costa let loose with an epic rant upon hearing that Holland was coming to Edmonton. It’s the kind of thing you might expect to hear from any number of Oilers fans about how GM Peter Chiarelli ruined the Oilers, but not what you’d expect about a GM that made the playoffs 25 years in a row and won four Stanley Cups. Nonetheless, the criticisms that Costa make are already being made from many fans in Edmonton unhappy that Holland was named GM. So here it is from the source: “I am bitter”, Costa said. “This man destroyed my hockey team for a decade. Do I have a right to be bitter? “I never bought the idea that Ken Holland was on board with Yzerman showing up. I think he was pushed out. And good for (owner) Chris Illitch, (new GM) Steve Yzerman and company, whoever made that final call to get Ken Holland out of the GM chair. Thank you, thank you, thank you. “This was coming. Ken Holland was forced up and eventually forced out and it’s probably a decade too late. But this is a great day for the Detroit Red Wings… Ken Holland drove this franchise into the ground. After 2009 when they appeared in the Stanley Cup Final and lost, we have stared at a decade of incompetence. Three playoff series wins in ten years when they’ve been trying to win. Resisting a rebuild and still putting out that subpar performance, signing mediocre players to five, six and seven year deals, giving them no-trade clauses on top of it. Bought at every single deadline up until about 18 months ago, when he had no choice (but to be a seller).” “You know who Ken Holland is?” Costa continued. “Ken Holland is a trust fund kid. Ken Holland inherited this big fortune. Ken Holland stepped in as a general manager in 1997, the Red Wings already a Stanley Cup champion. Scotty Bowman built that thing up. Jim Devellano built that thing up. European scouting ahead of its time built that thing up. He was handed the GM chair, just like a rich person hands down their fortune to their son or their daughter, who didn’t work for it, didn’t earn it but is now going to benefit from it. And Ken Holland would go on to win a Stanley Cup in ’98, when money was no object. (Owner) Chris Illitch opened up the pocketbook and they won it in ’02. Salary Cup comes in the mid-2000s, they ride that to a Stanley Cup, but when it was time for Ken Holland to build on his own merits, you saw what happened to him. Trust fund kid. Everything was handed to him. When he had to work for it, the franchise crumbled.” “Big” Drew McCarthy then chipped in, only moderating Costa’s comments somewhat: “Ken Holland makes his exit unceremoniously from the city of Detroit. Without fanfare. Without a send off. There will be no Ken Holland parade. There will not be a Ken Holland day. But, Jim, I think a lot of people have significantly more fond memories of Ken Holland than you do. You give him zero credit for the Cups?” Costa: “I can’t give him zero, but I can’t look at him as the visionary that created that dynasty. Again, he inherited a team with Yzerman, Fedorov, Lidstrom. They were able to out and sign Brett Hull, Luc Robitaille. Dominik Hasek demanded a trade to Detroit. Everything fell in Ken Holland’s lap. I mean, it would be hard to screw that up, right? But then when those guys retired and the salary cap was put in, they said, ‘Ken Holland, part of the being the GM is signing free agents, trading for players.’ What happened? I think we saw who Ken Holland really is as a general manager. When Jimmy Devellano is not there. When Jim Nill is not there. When Hakan Andersson the (Swedish) scout is gone, what happens? What happens to Ken Holland. You realize he’s not doing great.” McCarthy said he’s offered Oilers fans condolences on the amount of no-trade contracts coming Edmonton’s way. But he said that many Detroit fans would be offended by Costa’s anti-Holland rant. “Ken Holland was a great steward,” McCarthy said. “He was the steward of Gondor. He was handed a kingdom but wasn’t maybe a king. I think there’s a place where we can appreciate the goodness of Ken Holland’s tenure without elevating him to God-like status, while still recognizing that the deals he made in the last decade are what put this franchise in the rebuilding mode they are today…. Do you feel like it’s a somber day. Like they just lost this hockey genius? Like, ‘Oh no Edmonton is going to build up a dynasty now.”? No. That’s the true test of this. Is there any sadness in Hockey Town to lose out on Ken Holland’s brain? No.” Costa then addressed a common defence of Holland, that he was director of Detroit’s scouting when they drafted so many of the superstars who led the team to success, including Nicklas Lidstrom, Sergei Fedorov, Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg. “He drafted Datsyuk and Zetterberg,” Costa acknowledged. “Didn’t he kind of waste the second half of their careers?” The rant concluded with Costa saying: “Good luck Edmonton. You’re going to need it.” https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/cult-of-hockey/this-man-destroyed-my-hockey-team-for-a-decade-ken-holland-ripped-by-espn-sportscasters/wcm/1587c8ca-70b2-4992-8227-5ae295d666a4
  12. Oh for the love of God. It people like you that copy his crap and post on forums that sustain him. Why would Malkin come to a rebuilding team that has one of the longest travel schedules in the league. If anything, he'd want to go to Florida to retire (and play another season on two down there).
  13. I'm shocked. RIP Botch. And with three young kids, I'm now bummed.
  14. Over 35 and counting for me. Gotta admit that I've started thinking about this more and more the last couple of years. Ugh.
  15. Friedman could say that our sleezy owner has talked to an inanimate carbon rod and he'd get a reaction out of this market. I'd prefer the rod to Gretzky anyway.
  16. I'd already written this season off once Robbo and his players were fired. Nobody should have expected different results than what we're seeing now. What bothers me the most, is that you can move the chairs on the deck around all you want, but it's the same foul stench of this ownership and management group that captains this ship. Don't expect them to change their money making philosophy. From an ownership standpoint, the goal is to be a good investment, not to win consistently. Sad thing is we just sit, watch and pay for the same old same old while new expansion teams do better than us over the last 3 seasons. Frustrated as hell.
  17. Blackhawks jump 10? Wow. Oh why do you not have mercy on Canuck fans oh hockey Gods?

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    2. MJDDawg

      MJDDawg

      Buffalo, Oilers and Avs in top 3 would have given me an aneurysm.

    3. DADDYROCK

      DADDYROCK

      The fans here in Vancouver must be frustrated with a fourth year in a row of utter BS,NO SKILL INVOLVED DRAFT LOTTO.

      I know that I'm very dissappointed that we do not get the LUCKY OF THE DRAW!

      AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.AND AGAIN.

      IT STINKS ON ICE.

    4. MJDDawg

      MJDDawg

      @DADDYROCKYou can't even believe how frustrated I am. No lottery luck at all. EVER!! Meanwhile the Blackhawks, who've won 3 Cups in the last few years and who still have a good team jump 9 EFFING spots into the top 3. The Devils jumping up to win the lottery twice in the last three years.  I mean FFS hockey Gods... C'MON MAN!

  18. Another one of these threads huh? So you just ignoring the fact we'll need to sign the Alien, Boeser, Hughes...etc. all within a couple of years to what will be large deals> UFA's are not FREE. The team will once again have to overpay and extend term and probably NTC's (at least limited ones). We already have a boat anchor in Louie for another THREE seasons for God sakes but you want to add more non-core players to the list? Trading the existing boat anchors is easily doable? Right.
  19. Stopped listening to that idiot Pratt years ago. Gotta hand it to him though that he managed to carve a long radio career out of being an a** wipe.
  20. I liked what I saw from them in the first half. It was refreshing to see them pressing high up and having a creative build up. It was something we haven't seen from this team before. But man do you have to be fit to play that style and it looked like they started to run out of gas, which wasn't surprising. It was very noticeable to me how little the players stood around and whined about missed calls and just got on with it. Something that I always hated with Robbo's team. I'm intrigued though to see what this team can become once they've meshed as a team.
  21. Has nothing to do with the owners of the Caps or Lions. The province owns the stadium and they need more than a couple dozen home dates between those teams to pay the bills. So it’s really more of a convention Centre with a turf field than a stadium. The Caps owners were willing to build and pay for a natural turf outdoor stadium, but the ?!&$/ beaurocracy killed it. I have a tough time watching soccer played on concrete. Nothing looks natural. The turf is ugly and it affects the way the game is played.
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