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NHL Off-Season 2016 |OT2| I Want off Marc Bergevin's Wild Ride.

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zroid

Banned
Why Your Team Sucks: Vancouver Canucks

Missed the playoffs, finishing with 75 points. That actually sounds a lot better than it was. The loser point was quite generous to them. They were second-last in wins, and last in goal differential. Taking longer than 60 minutes to lose 13 of their games made them actually look much more respectable than they were.

This, of course, didn't stop a good portion of their fans from thinking this sad sack of a team would actually make the postseason because their division was that bad! Imagine cheering for a team that's practically last place in virtually every discernible thing, but thinking they're good enough to make the playoffs. Francesco Aquilini should send you guys a fruit basket; your horribly misplaced optimism is probably paying his alimony.
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Willie Desjardins, the human poster boy for the AHL Peter Principle when it comes to coaches! He was hired for such intangibles on his resume as "once coached the same junior team Trevor Linden played for." Wow! He is known for great strategy such as "don't give the Sedins a lot of ice time even though they're all you have" and "ice the fourth line after a goal against."
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It took the Canucks exactly two years and one NHL season to give up on one of their best prospects! After a decent rookie year, Jared McCann is gone, shipped away to Florida for Erik Gudbranson AND a 2nd round pick. Not only did they trade one of their best prospects for a defensive defenseman, they paid a high pick for the pleasure of doing so! This team finished second last in goals, and McCann had the seventh-most on the team (and all but two of the players in front of him were well above 30). "Hey, I've got an idea! We need to score some more goals, so let's trade a young guy who can score them for someone who can't score goals at all!"
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I live in Vancouver. When the Canucks are losing, soccer is more popular here. Fans of teams like Toronto and Edmonton have stridently suffered through way worse and still care. Montreal, scum that they are, sat through the torture porn that was their 2015-16 season. But, Canucks fans? They don't care, nor do they even pretend to. Hockey is more of a sign of social status in Vancouver, like yoga, or prohibitively unaffordable housing.
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Chris R

Member
Wait.... the Perds have an ALL YOU CAN DRINK seating area?

  • Unlimited draft beer from the All-Inclusive Zone bar

Almost makes me wish I was spending the night in Nashville instead of driving away after the game, only to come back the next
desert k
night.

edit: yay, got a ticket. Perds better crush the pens.
 
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CreeperBlocks

Banned
One of our new Prospects, Will Bitten has asked to be traded in the OHL. I mean who can blame him over what happened in Flint and its poor management. Would be nice if he was on the same team as Mete
 
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Calamari41

41 > 38
zroid said:
I'm sure a Leafs blog would find a thing or two
lol
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We're just a bunch of chill dudes living at the beach, trying to enjoy our hockey, Knott's Berry Farm funnel cakes, and carne asada fries in peace. Why would someone want to upset that?

Simon Belmont said:
Hey! Whose coaching Anaheim this year?
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Our dear friend Randy Carlyle, who brought us a Stanley Cup in my lifetime that I got to watch happen with my waking eyes. Great guy, welcome home buddy!
 
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dr.rocktopus

Banned
Chris R said:
Wait.... the Perds have an ALL YOU CAN DRINK seating area?

  • Unlimited draft beer from the All-Inclusive Zone bar

Almost makes me wish I was spending the night in Nashville instead of driving away after the game, only to come back the next
desert k
night.
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this must be why they call it smash
ed
ville
 
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iLLmAtlc

Member
Vancouver started turning its back on the canucks in 2013 playoffs already, they had to slash tickets in half!

I really wanna buy season tickets but I'm too broke atm
 
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Line_HTX

Member
NHL on NBC ‏@NHLonNBCSports 39m39 minutes ago

Even the #StanleyCup has to go through security at the airport...

(via KOTC)

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That's one huge weapon there.
 
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Quick

Banned
If I didn't know better, I'd say this guy I knew back in college is actually Tabris, or Tabris' protege.

I started following him on Instagram, and all he posts are his suit/formal wear collection, selfies wearing said collection, or sushi.

He goes to UBC. I'm pretty sure he wears his suits to school.

He's actually a nice guy from what I remember of him. So maybe not quite a Tabris.
 
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ElephantShell

Banned
Quick said:
If I didn't know better, I'd say this guy I knew back in college is actually Tabris, or Tabris' protege.

I started following him on Instagram, and all he posts are his suit/formal wear collection, selfies wearing said collection, or sushi.

He goes to UBC. I'm pretty sure he wears his suits to school.

He's actually a nice guy from what I remember of him. So maybe not quite a Tabris.
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Business program? Lots of business students at my university were like that.
 
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Quick

Banned
ElephantShell said:
Business program? Lots of business students at my university were like that.
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Something in Engineering I think.

I was in a business program before, we wore suits/business attire (closest we could at least) for presentations only. This was college though, not Uni.
 
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zroid

Banned
OMG I just heard a guy who called into a Toronto sports talk show
from Winnipeg
essentially argue Kaepernick was wrong because all lives matter (he actually said "what about the whites who've been wronged?")
 
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Yawnier

Banned
OCDChewie said:
Yeah, 2016 has probably been the worst year of my life because it keeps shitting via family passings.

Rest in peace, Gene.
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2016 has been a pretty shitty year man.

My mom ended up getting a malignant ovarian tumor removed this summer, but luckily the cancer didn't spread anywhere.
 
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Fata1moose

Banned
Quick said:
If I didn't know better, I'd say this guy I knew back in college is actually Tabris, or Tabris' protege.

I started following him on Instagram, and all he posts are his suit/formal wear collection, selfies wearing said collection, or sushi.

He goes to UBC. I'm pretty sure he wears his suits to school.

He's actually a nice guy from what I remember of him. So maybe not quite a Tabris.
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I know a guy that always wears suits, my friends claimed he even slept in his suits. :/
 
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