[GDT/PGT] Vancouver Canucks vs Toronto Maple Leaves | April 18 | SNP

[aGENT]

1 hour ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:

Bowey and Highmore will not play tonight.

Went back a few pages... Do we have any idea on the lineup?

[IBatch]

47 minutes ago, Silky mitts said:

Expecting a L can’t blame them . Best case is we bottom out and get a top four pick .

Not really.  Best case we sweep TO and OTT... this becomes a big FU to the league and this happens.  Except that's us not St. louis 

[Dumb Nuck]

20 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:

You don’t like surprises?

Only good ones.

[4petesake]

10 minutes ago, ilduce39 said:

I think he was hit pretty hard by Covid and still out.  (One of the few guys we need to get some game action - typical luck)

I don’t know when or where but DiPietro has not played a game in over a year. He is one of the guys that needs to play, and soon.

[Dumb Nuck]

5 minutes ago, IBatch said:

Answer honestly....i know it's still four hours away from game time but have you being doing this yet ?

Nope, I have scruples.

[-Vintage Canuck-]

8 minutes ago, aGENT said:

Went back a few pages... Do we have any idea on the lineup?

I think we will have to wait until the warm-up. 

[Silky mitts]

9 minutes ago, IBatch said:

Not really.  Best case we sweep TO and OTT... this becomes a big FU to the league and this happens.  Except that's us not St. louis 

That is also not gonna happen lol. Covid ain’t no joke .

[Me_]

They’ll play tonight, o’ they’ll all play tonight! They’ll play their Covidhearts out!

[Dumb Nuck]

2 minutes ago, Silky mitts said:

That is also not gonna happen lol. Covid ain’t no joke .

A cold, the flu and COVID walk into a bar...........

[wloutet]

2 hours ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

In 30 minutes it was sunny, then storm clouds moved in, we got, thunder, lightening, hail, wind, snow, then sheets of rain. And back to sunshine. So basically the four seasons in 30 minutes

Wow, that's shorter to listening to it by Vivaldi!

[Me_]

4 minutes ago, Dumb Nuck said:

A cold, the flu and COVID walk into a bar...........

... the COVIC caught, the cold and the flu die of Covid and Covid dies too.

 

no joke. 
 

Edited April 18, 2021 by Me_

[johngould21]

18 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said:

I think we will have to wait until the warm-up. 

Yes, this will be interesting for sure.

[-Vintage Canuck-]

 

[Ghostsof1915]

41 minutes ago, Wayne Glensky said:

Please please please give Lind some games. Management needs to suck up its pride and understand this season is done. Sit Hughes and Pettersson for the rest of the season and play the rookies. 

Can he play defence? The team looks pretty depleted right now. 

[Phil_314]

Wonder if the team will have to run Miller/ Boeser/ Vesey predominantly since we don't know how affected the regulars are still (and as their replacement we will be running taxi squad guys), and with Demko out hopefully at least Holtby can play.

No matter the result, as long as they don't sustain more damage (from Covid still to be recovered from or injury) it should be viewed as a job well done for the boys (no Petey/ Hughes/ Demko/ Juolevi/ Schmidt/ Virtanen/ Motte).

Edited April 18, 2021 by Phil_314

[Googlie]

4 hours ago, debluvscanucks said:

He also was responsible for the plague, SARS and earthquakes.  You heard it here first.

"Oh, did I do that too?  I've been a naughty boy"

 

                                               Tyrion Lannister - ASOIAF   

[-NucksFan]

15 hours ago, bree2 said:

its called COVID, not the flu. professional athletes  can get very sick  with it and  some have even suffered with long term effects.  some players around the league have said they are still not back to normal!

Add in the fact that it was a variant 

and I saw Green had thanked 2 UBC specialists, doctors in respiratory / lung surgeon 

 

[Wayne Glensky]

5 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

Can he play defence? The team looks pretty depleted right now. 

Hughes got hit hard. I’d rather him not get a long term injury during meaningless games. Bring up Woo at this point.

[alt kilgore]

19 hours ago, Boudrias said:

That damn Harper screwed us again. No home made drugs! Such an obvious need and yet Trudeau in 6 years hasn't corrected the problem? We can grow dope at home so surely we can make our own drugs. The Canadian health care system delivers what care at half the cost. I would challenge whether you have any numbers on what the Canadian system costs?

 

Enough of that. I have been a big supporter of Utica because of the limited travel which gives more practice time, more workout time. At one time I thought Utica might appeal to unsigned university players and thusly they sign with the Canucks. All this aside the development time line is now at a point where the traffic between the AHL team and the Canucks might be more of a factor. Moving players easily between the two could be more of a priority. 

 

Yup, Harper's CERTA deal with the EU assured Canadians pay 10% more for drugs than other single payer countries, only compounded Mulroney's giveaway to the pharmaceuticals, and selling off of Connaught Labs.

But Trudeau hasn't gone out of his way to correct any of that either.

 

As far as health care spending, I don't have the exact total numbers, but whatever it is, there are tons of studies showing Canadians pay roughly half per capita than our neighbours to the South for health care. 

 

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/#item-spendingcomparison_gdp-per-capita-and-health-consumption-spending-per-capita-2019

 

According to the graph on there, from 2019,

Canada spends $5418 per person

USA spends $10,966 per person

 

 

 

As far as Utica.....I hadn't commented on that but since you brought it up, its a balance.  Good point about practice time also increasing with less travel.  When we were a part of the Chicago Wolves organization we were at least a little more central.  And maybe that's the best compromise. Maybe an American city even more central than Chicago.  A compromise for not only AHL league travel, but for recalls, whether Canucks are at home or away.

 

On the other hand, having the farm team very close to the main team has its advantages too. Bad for the AHL team travel.  But for half the games for the Canucks they will play at Rogers Arena, so having that ability to call up and send down prospects easier would be helpful to the big club.  And for fans it would be fantastic to attend games and follow the prospects more readily.

 

 

[-Vintage Canuck-]