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Old 01-15-2024, 11:48 AM   #16961
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They likely have every Canadian team on their list.
No, just Vancouver 5 times.

But tbh I'd like to see some NT lists of past players revealed just to see how accurate the paranoia of Canadian fans has been vs reality. And who the least popular markets are IRL.

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Old 01-15-2024, 11:51 AM   #16962
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No, just Vancouver 5 times.
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Old 01-15-2024, 11:53 AM   #16963
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Edmonton's not 100% trash...based on the smell there's some feces in there also. Probably like 70/30.
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Edmonton smells like an acrid industrial park and rotten fish mixed together. And the smell lingers with you like a skunk spray after you leave. It's awful.

I'm not trying to make a joke, that's how it smelt and my clothes smelt like that for weeks after I left and washed everything multiple times. You have both these smells in Vancouver in the industrial areas out in Delta and then the rendering plants in the DTES. Edmonton has those smells mixed together and all over the city. It's my theory as to how WEM came into existence. They were trying to make a bio-dome to escape this smell so it just kept getting bigger and bigger.

The fish part especially makes no sense. Edmonton is in a land locked province. How the #### does it smell like fish!?
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Edmonton smells like an acrid industrial park and rotten fish mixed together. And the smell lingers with you like a skunk spray after you leave. It's awful.

I'm not trying to make a joke, that's how it smelt and my clothes smelt like that for weeks after I left and washed everything multiple times. You have both these smells in Vancouver in the industrial areas out in Delta and then the rendering plants in the DTES. Edmonton has those smells mixed together and all over the city. It's my theory as to how WEM came into existence. They were trying to make a bio-dome to escape this smell so it just kept getting bigger and bigger.

The fish part especially makes no sense. Edmonton is in a land locked province. How the #### does it smell like fish!?
What are you talking about? There's been fishy business going on in Edmonton for decades.
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Old 01-15-2024, 12:07 PM   #16966
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It is an Acrid industrial park. Literally. There is no approach to edmonton that does not pass through a heavy industrial zone. West is concrete and a dump, east and north are oil refineries/ other petrochemical, and south is the airport and surrounding industrial warehousing and fabricating.

The smell is various. Some areas smell all the time (downtown, east). Some areas smell depending on where the wind blows. A few don't smell at all (the top quality pitched about these neighborhoods or commuter cities is invariably "Feel like you're not in Edmonton!")

The fish smell is partially from old sewers downtown, partially from actual fishkill in the river (yes, the river does have fish), and partially other rotting matter. It's particularly bad in spring as the level of aggregate matter in the river increases substantially during the melt.
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Old 01-15-2024, 12:08 PM   #16967
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No, just Vancouver 5 times.

But tbh I'd like to see some NT lists of past players revealed just to see how accurate the paranoia of Canadian fans has been vs reality. And who the least popular markets are IRL.
This is an old article.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...lgary-buffalo/

It had the Oilers and Jets as the most common teams on no-trade lists. This has probably changed somewhat given that both teams are more competitive at the moment. Following them were the NYI and Buffalo. Toronto Maple Leafs, New Jersey Devils, Calgary Flames, Arizona Coyotes, Carolina Hurricanes and Montreal Canadiens also received votes.

Let's face it, weather plays a big part. If most people, not just hockey players, had the choice of making millions in place with cold winters or a place with mild winters, most people would try to shoot for the warmer places. But it seems obvious that competitiveness plays a roll as well. Another poll showed that Raleigh was a desirable destination, and I have no doubt that Arizona would be too if they got their crap together.
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Old 01-15-2024, 12:08 PM   #16968
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Edmonton smells like an acrid industrial park and rotten fish mixed together. And the smell lingers with you like a skunk spray after you leave. It's awful.

I'm not trying to make a joke, that's how it smelt and my clothes smelt like that for weeks after I left and washed everything multiple times. You have both these smells in Vancouver in the industrial areas out in Delta and then the rendering plants in the DTES. Edmonton has those smells mixed together and all over the city. It's my theory as to how WEM came into existence. They were trying to make a bio-dome to escape this smell so it just kept getting bigger and bigger.

The fish part especially makes no sense. Edmonton is in a land locked province. How the #### does it smell like fish!?
Speaking of smells...Vancouver DT these days my god..

Smells like Urine and Meth. I can't beleive how things have changed on Granville and even in Yaletown 🤮
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Old 01-15-2024, 12:12 PM   #16969
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How much of this observation is due to league wide NTCs?

I would have to assume that any player with a NTC has Winnipeg on their list. Very limiting in what one can do, hence strong drafting.
It likely does play a big part where he's well aware that it's not a prime destination for players, so his best chance to get talent is with his picks. But once he uses the pick, unless he thinks the player isn't going to become much, he's not going to let that go.

But when he has made trades he's done well to sell players pretty high like Laine, Kane, and now Dubois. He has been willing to trade a first plus a conditional pick to add to his team in the past if they look like they're an upper end playoff team. But I think that's as far as hell go. He's very patient, and I don't think his job is in Jeoparfy if they go out of the playoffs in the first round.
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Speaking of smells...Vancouver DT these days my god..

Smells like Urine and Meth. I can't beleive how things have changed on Granville and even in Yaletown ��
I moved back to the LML 5 years ago and have been downtown once, and that was enough for me. It was really bad.
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Old 01-15-2024, 12:21 PM   #16971
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I moved back to the LML 5 years ago and have been downtown once, and that was enough for me. It was really bad.

It's icky! But the smell doesn't linger in my clothes for days. Just mild unpleasantness and a "I won't come back for a while" and you move on!
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Old 01-15-2024, 12:50 PM   #16972
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Maybe I've just become noseblind to my clothes smelling like Edmonton because it's been almost 15 years.
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Old 01-15-2024, 01:37 PM   #16973
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Word out of Colorado is Landeskog isn't coming back, Nichushkin has entered the Player Assistance Program and is out indefinitely. They need some top 6 additions.
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Word out of Colorado is Landeskog isn't coming back, Nichushkin has entered the Player Assistance Program and is out indefinitely. They need some top 6 additions.
I thought that Landeskog was finally around Colorado, and skating now. I read somewhere that he'll definitely miss the regular season, but I thought that might show up for the playoffs.
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Old 01-15-2024, 02:46 PM   #16976
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I thought that Landeskog was finally around Colorado, and skating now. I read somewhere that he'll definitely miss the regular season, but I thought that might show up for the playoffs.
This was my understanding as well. He's out for the regular season and playoffs were a shrug. Nikshkushkin out could really ramp up an ask for lindholm.
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This is an old article.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...lgary-buffalo/

It had the Oilers and Jets as the most common teams on no-trade lists. This has probably changed somewhat given that both teams are more competitive at the moment. Following them were the NYI and Buffalo. Toronto Maple Leafs, New Jersey Devils, Calgary Flames, Arizona Coyotes, Carolina Hurricanes and Montreal Canadiens also received votes.

Let's face it, weather plays a big part. If most people, not just hockey players, had the choice of making millions in place with cold winters or a place with mild winters, most people would try to shoot for the warmer places. But it seems obvious that competitiveness plays a roll as well. Another poll showed that Raleigh was a desirable destination, and I have no doubt that Arizona would be too if they got their crap together.
Back in the day, Bryzgalov:

"You don't want to go to Winnipeg, right? Not many people live there, not many Russian people there. Plus it's cold. There's no excitement except the hockey. No park, no entertaining for the families, for the kids. It's going to be tough life for your family.

"I've been there for just once, maybe twice, when I play in minors. It was really cold. I used the tunnels between the buildings to get to the arena. Because it was minus 40-something. Real cold."

He threatened to go to Russia if the Yotes went back to Winnipeg.
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He threatened to go to Russia if the Yotes went back to Winnipeg.
He threatened to go back to cold weather if the team moved to a place with cold weather?
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What balmy part weather of Russia did Bryzgalov come from?
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