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  1. One of the best advice I've heard, but a very hard one to follow is... "you can always catch the next train". It's always stressful to try to earn every single last dollar and easy to kick yourself when you sell early... but there's never anything wrong with just simply taking profits. Many times I've sold stocks at like 20-30% profit... only for those companies to be bought out at like 2-3x times the price I sold them for (sometimes even 20x). Sure... I probably could be retiring at my Coal Harbour penthouse overlooking my Bentley and prepping to sail on yacht.... but hindsight is always 20/20. If only I could guess last week's lotto numbers 2 weeks ago, eh? You have to look at what the banks are offering you in terms of savings rate (1-2%) and what's a decent expected rate of return by portfolio managers (5-7%).... so if you pulled off 20% in one year.... you're already well ahead of the curve.
  2. I concur. Gaunce, as a 2-way player, as produced in every level he has played in, except for the NHL so far. He is pretty much a PPG player in the AHL. So if you extrapolate it to the NHL, and if he's given more ice-time and legit NHL linemates, he should easily put up 20-30 points as a 3rd liner. Gaunce has got the size, the strength, has improved his footspeed a lot (not quite to the level of Bo though), and is doing the little things right. It's way too soon to write him off.
  3. If that's the case, then going down the road for legalization is moot. It appears that most of the concerns are due to domestic reasons (driving, age limits, amounts, etc).
  4. It always looks bad when the top dog starts selling his/her share... but it's just common sense. Think of how money were invested, so it's not a bad time to finally cash some of it in. I'm just more curious as to what percentage he sold. Most entrepreneur starts up many businesses, thus he can simply be divesting to help start up other opportunities. Now if the CEO, all the board of directors and many upper management/executives starts off-loading share, now it's a cause for concern. I'm still not sure how they are having difficulties with legalizing marijuana. Just take existing laws with tobacco and alcohol and then adjust them for pot. Or just replicate the same laws in the states of Washington, Colorado, etc. No need to reinvent the wheel.
  5. It's a difficult stock to judge due to the nature of the business. Their accounting rules they use are IFRS, thus different from Canadian GAAP. So sometimes cross comparison to related companies may be akin to apples versus oranges. The way to do accounting is also akin to mining companies. Nothing wrong, just the rules of accounting haven't been updated to deal with marijuana companies. Canopy is also overvalued compared to the revenue they bring in and income(loss) they have.
  6. The Whitecaps last season really struggled after Manneh went down. While he's not the most skilled player, he definitely has speed and knows how make the other team more cautious. His hustle while on offense was great too. Remember all that rumour a few years back about how Manchester United was interested in Manneh? If only the Caps could have off-loaded him then, lol.
  7. Emerging industry, so it helps alleviate some risks. Lots of "marijuana" companies listed out there that probably has zero revenue, no licensing, etc.
  8. One thing to consider is whether Utica has room for him. Boeser will most likely be in the AHL, Virtanen could potentially be spending another stint down there too, a few AHLer/journeymans, guys graduating from the CHL/ECHL, some college prospects, etc. Yet at the same time, SHL doesn't always reward on merit and sometimes have ice-time based on seniority (as we saw with Jensen).
  9. True, but the 2nd is worth less than the 1st on paper. A team shouldn't be forced to have their asset depreciate just because that player doesn't sign and is picked up by another team.
  10. They should have it that the team that do sign that player needs to compensate the original drafting team with picks or choice of some prospects.
  11. This is his prime earning years, so it's only fair for himself (and family if he has any) to get his payday. With the new addition of Goldobin and Dahlen, plus with Boeser potentially making the jump next season, Virtanen competing for spots, other guys in the minor and who knows if the Canucks can draft some phenom who is capable of stepping in. I certainly hope that the Canucks can give Rodin another shot next season with maybe some out-clause. Would allow some prospects to spend more time in the AHL.
  12. I wonder, whatever happened to that pro-China city councilor that kept saying that mentioning Chinese buyer as a factor is racist? lol
  13. Seemed like he played a pretty good game against the Habs. It appears that he is now starting to have the coach's confidence, and along with playing with at least 1 better linemate (Sutter), he's starting to flourish a bit. His wrist shot seems to be giving goalies a hard time, whether they just don't have any experience with Gaunce or maybe it's better than many projected. At least on TV, it looked a bit Kesler like. I also like how he isn't afraid to try to drive to the net. He doesn't really have the speed, but his size, strength and more upright skating posture seems to be giving some defenseman some trouble.
  14. Maybe it's exhaustion setting in. In college he played only half as many games, with lower level of competition and less travel. Also.... after a few slapshots that got blocked, leading to goals against, maybe he's just more timid in pulling the trigger.
  15. Usually by age 24. If they don't become impact players by then, they're usually just become grinders like Steve Bernier, Raffi Torres, etc.
  16. Of course. Hypothetically, I'm not writing him off until he's at least 24 Just trying to dispel the whole myth part.
  17. Bertuzzi was more of the exception than the rule for powerforwards. Most powerfowards are usually ready to step into the NHL immediately, since they usually already have the strength and size to do so. Lucic, Dustin Brown, pre-concussion Booth, Iginla, Evander Kane, Landeskog, Kreider...... all were able to be impact players before the age of 24. The whole "power forwards taking longer" is just a myth.
  18. Yeah.... but they unnecessarily waited almost until the deadline to do it. Something about having more flexibility for a trade or something.
  19. Anyone catch during last game on TV that Gaunce was "sent down" to the AHL last minute? Something about the rationale behind it being a potential trade.
  20. Is there any way he will be in the SHL next season? Is Swedish hockey like soccer, where teams get promoted and regulated?
  21. Hopefully he can play in the top-tiered Swedish hockey league next season. If not, it'll be better if he's at Utica.
  22. The Canucks always needed Burrows.... even including trading him to help the rebuild.
  23. Fortunately, that just takes time and experience. Even Kesler wasn't even that good at faceoffs when he first started (he played wing a lot). Gaunce is cerebral and is a pretty big/strong guy.... once he gets to know the tendencies of other centres in the NHL and learn a little more from Malhotra... watch out.
  24. He can always imply things. Like saying how JV is a "work-in-progress", "making extra needed adjustments to life as a professional", or "need to pay extra focus on his food choices".
  25. His skating kind of reminds me of how Grabner skates. He's not very prone when trying to skate fast (Raymond and Etem lean forward a lot when going fast). Give higher maneuverability and makes you appear slower than you really are, thus maybe why we are seeing lots of JV catching defenders off-balance.
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