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  1. I don’t think you can take a one off fluke playoff round win as a show of anything concrete. People are confusing a very short stretch of good games a year ago (amongst years of futility) with a good team IMO.
  2. Pro’s and Con’s. Easier for the Canucks brass and staff to support the farm team and keep an eye on prospects. They can leverage some efficiencies by sharing some resources. We can save $1-2 million on the cap by only running with a 21 man roster most days since we can call a player up last minute a lot of times instead of carrying spares. Fans can get engaged with the prospects and the point means it more accessible for families and an opportunity to create new Canucks fans. Downside, more travel means less practice time. Vancouver Giants are going to feel the pain of this badly.
  3. Much better than me... it took 34 tries today for the Canucks to get into the top 2.
  4. I said diehards... not delusional trolls.
  5. He thinks he is being clever with something everyone knows. I can just imagine him giggling to himself thinking “oh boy, am I ever going to trick them all! No one else except me has access to the NHL schedule!.”
  6. There isn't the confusion you seem to think there is and you need to read this very carefully. Going out with someone doesn't mean they get to have sex with you... all the random stuff you posted to try to mitigate the circumstance don't matter at all. “Jakeis probably too young to understand the difference between sexual assault and being led on and going too far.”.... holy crap dude, there is no difference between those things. “going too far” is literally sexual assault... if someone hasn’t consented you don’t get to do it anyways because “they led you on” (which is an awful way to describe it as well). She said no. She said it repeatedly. That is it, that is the end, period. Nothing else needs to be said and there should be no confusion. Everything you posted after "c)" is honestly horrifying in terms of where your head is at. Giving him a pass because he was only 21 is honestly inexcusable on your part, he is a grown up and that wouldn't be OK when he was 14 years old. Even the concept that unless she fought back really hard, there is room for confusion should have completely left our thought processes in the 1950's. Go ask any woman how scared she is about how a man twice her size and several times her strength is going to react when rejected and you try to physically fight him. Once she has said no and he has ignored it several times, it is survival mode about how to get out of it with the least physical and emotional damage. You really need to consider your position because I can tell you it is just flat out wrong both legally and morally.
  7. .. and the classic “If I were a rich man... I would buy a big tall arena with seats by the dozen, right in the middle of the town. Replace a crappy owner and try to build a real hockey team to show...”
  8. Well it Gadjovich comes up and plays well, he should be.... and then that will make the Pearson signing even dumber. I don’t know if Gadjovich will really be an NHLer, but if he can become that, he has a skill set this teams completely lacks at the moment. It would be a shame to lose him because we chose to sign a vanilla middle 6 winger before the expansion draft for no particular reason when we could have signed him the day after.
  9. Overall in his tenure we have one of the worst records in the entire league. We are currently one of the worst teams in the league. One playoff round win in a year we got rescued from likely missing the playoffs by a pandemic is your counter argument to years of futility and terrible seasons? Go look at our record this year, it isn’t an aberration... it is the norm. GMs don’t get to keep their jobs for 7 years with a losing record... but here we are.
  10. 16. Bottom feeder team still after 7 years. You can even skip the first 15 if you want... it is a results league, not a development “try” league. No other GM with a losing record like he has gets as much tenure as he has. Bottom line is that the team is still bad and he has had 7 years to turn it around. We are right there with Ottawa and Buffalo with the length of futility... and at least they had the excuse of not spending near the cap the entire time.
  11. It only took 14 tries (on the 5th try we got the 2nd pick, but there we go!
  12. .. and according to the statement she did try to tell a bunch of folks and either no one believed her or thought it wasn't a big deal and she should be bragging about sleeping with an NHLer. Based on a bunch of the comments here, I can absolutely believe that was the response. I didn't realize that the appropriate first question when someone tells you about being sexually assaulted is supposed to be ".. but was the perpetrator good at hockey?"
  13. The expansion draft didn't factor into it, he was exempt whether he signed or not.
  14. Yep... if it became clear we couldn't make a deal why not give permission for his agent to try to make a deal with another club with us getting a pick to give up his rights if they made the deal. If they didn't at least try that angle, he didn't seem to want to play in the NHL much and appears to have just been leveraging the possibility for a better KHL contract.
  15. Well I guess we can close this thread as he is no longer Canucks property.
  16. There is no “charge” of rape in Canada, it is sexual assault... so I am not sure what you are talking about with how it would impact any charges/convictions. Sexual assault isn’t just “inappropriate” If it is the same complaint as the one on Twitter, she is absolutely saying he raped her.
  17. It has now been posted by Vintage. He was recalled this morning and already quarantining. He would be good to go next Saturday which means up to 8 games audition. I really hope that his recent success isn’t just due to the AHL being terrible this year with so many players on taxi squads. The good thing and Gadjovich is that he doesn’t have to be a top 6 guy and his game translates into a bottom 6 role. That lets him get his feet wet and still contribute in limited minutes.
  18. Nice job... with his 7 day quarantine he will still get a taste of the NHL to see what he needs to work on. He can get in 7-8 games. Lots of games against the same competition, so maybe we might even need his added toughness in the lineup. Rathbone should play all this week to see how he does.
  19. Correct, I hope for the sake of any alleged clients that he is not a lawyer... for their sake.
  20. Yes, he alleges he is a contract lawyer but can’t read basic labour contract clauses. He has shown repeatedly that he has no idea about contracts... even though he claims to work for major league sports teams. Now he has made it clear he doesn’t know about criminal law either. There is a possibility that he is a lawyer... just a really terrible one. I have met some of them who were as dumb as doorknobs.
  21. You are clearly not a lawyer. We don’t even have grand juries in Canada, you don’t know what you are talking about.
  22. Not true at all. She can absolutely be telling the truth, but there isn’t sufficient evidence to get him charged or convicted. It doesn’t mean she is lying. A grown up understands that sexual assault victims can be believed and the accused can also get the presumption of innocence. Victims have every right to be believed unless there is evidence that they are lying. Only about 1 in 10 substantiated assaults result in conviction, that doesn’t mean the victims are lying 90% of the time. On top of that, there are multiples of those numbers that go unreported or found unsubstantiated (not that the victim is lying... that there isn’t enough evidence to proceed). If I get sensitive about this stuff it is because of my experiences. You know all those stories of sexual assault in the military you are seeing in the news lately? I paid my way through university and spent a lot of years in the military police during the 90’s/00’s. I saw first hand how impossible it was to get convictions and how badly victims were treated by the system.
  23. ... and manifestly not true. The proportion of reported sexual assaults that result in charges is tiny. It is mostly the nature of the crime which generally happens in private there aren't outside witnesses to provide evidence. The burden of proof benefits the accused, not the victim, that is just the way it is.
  24. Well you didn't read very clearly to start.... "I physically couldn't hold him off any longer, after I said no well over a dozen times I just laid there, staring at the ceiling waiting for him to finish". That is indictable sexual assault... as it would the way you misinterpreted it too. A woman doesn't have to say no a dozen times for the law to take her seriously. The thing about our justice system is that it is designed to let off 100 guilty people just to make sure it doesn't convict an innocent person. That is a feature of the system and not a bug... but it is also why most sexual assault investigations don't end up in charges or findings of guilt. There has to be fairly overwhelming evidence, and that just doesn't often happen in a situation where there are two people alone telling different stories. That is why sexual assault goes unreported most of the time, why put yourself through it when it isn't likely to result in anything. Especially in a public case where all you are doing is opening yourself up for random idiots on the internet attacking your character. There isn't likely to be a conviction or even charges in this case unless there is more evidence that the statement. That is because Crown won't pursue a case that doesn't have any significant likelihood of conviction.
  25. Something was clearly up when that tweet was out and then he wasn't at the morning skate. It is fair game to discuss now that there has been something official, vs. some random person copying and pasting an unattributed post. https://www.tsn.ca/vancouver-canucks-place-jake-virtanen-on-leave-after-sexual-misconduct-allegation-1.1632712 Regardless of the veracity of this particular claim, the guy has been nothing but a dummy pretty much right from the start. He gets the benefit of due process, but the accuser also gets to be believed. Bunches of first hand accounts of him partying hard and acting badly, don't earn him much benefit of the doubt. Now his agent is going to have to get some PR stuff going for damager control and maybe put him in rehab or something. Welcome to playing in Europe Jake! The KHL is much more your speed. Shame on Benning for qualifying this guy and letting other high character guys like Stecher go. That line about wanting high character guys who love to play the game... it is only convenient when they want to justify overpaying someone.
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