12-18-2016, 10:59 PM
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#2481
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Chicago Native relocated to the stinking desert of Utah
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Yak has been a healthy scratch, and often an non-factor, in Hitch's physical "system"...IDK how hard the 'Hawks pursued Yak, but, he'd have been a better fit in the 'Hawks uptempo, motion, offense, than in St. Loo's "heavy" style.
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Last edited by thefoss1957; 12-18-2016 at 11:01 PM.
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12-19-2016, 02:15 PM
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#2482
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Glastonbury
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Quote:
Originally Posted by activeStick
Vancouver doesn't have the industry or commerce to be a world class city. For visitors from smaller cities, it seems like a city with lots of "energy" as another poster put it, but you'd never hear that from someone from a true world class city, like a New York, Toronto, Tokyo or LA.
Vancouver is however, gorgeous from June to September and definitely is fantastic to visit in the summer where you can stay in the city or take a short trip to the islands or interior.
Being pretty though, does not make a city world class.
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London, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, New York... world class.
Vancouver? Uh, no.
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12-19-2016, 02:23 PM
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#2483
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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We've certainly strayed from "cities nicer than Vancouver" to "World Class".
Let's put it this way: to live in, Calgary >>> Vancouver >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Edmonton
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12-19-2016, 02:23 PM
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#2484
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thefoss1957
Yak has been a healthy scratch, and often an non-factor, in Hitch's physical "system"...IDK how hard the 'Hawks pursued Yak, but, he'd have been a better fit in the 'Hawks uptempo, motion, offense, than in St. Loo's "heavy" style.
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Yak's problem has always been between the ears. Has the heart, and legs, and shot -- but if you don't know where to be, and where your line mates will be...
His best shot in this league is with a team that plays a simple fast system, with a line mate who does all the thinking and passing.
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12-19-2016, 02:27 PM
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#2485
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Elbows Up!!
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so nice to come to the e=ng thread and read about...Vancouver?
I just want to add that I was informed by some tier 1 fans that the greasers had the hardest schedule of any team in the nhl, by far. not even close, not Winnipeg nor calgary nor Vancouver. Edmonton.
high expectations on the rest of the season.
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12-19-2016, 02:37 PM
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#2486
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by McG
so nice to come to the e=ng thread and read about...Vancouver?
I just want to add that I was informed by some tier 1 fans that the greasers had the hardest schedule of any team in the nhl, by far. not even close, not Winnipeg nor calgary nor Vancouver. Edmonton.
high expectations on the rest of the season.
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Well, here's hoping St. Louis kicks the tar out of them tonight.
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12-20-2016, 11:29 AM
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#2487
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Elbows Up!!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dash_pinched
Well, here's hoping St. Louis kicks the tar out of them tonight.
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maybe nail plays and gets a couple of assists...no goals though.
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12-20-2016, 11:40 AM
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#2488
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Vancouver, BC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blender
Just dropping in, but this is bizarre.
Fine if you don't like Vancouver, and each to his own, but from any objective standpoint Vancouver is a world city. It's OK not to want to live there for whatever reason, but to try and argue that it is not one of the better cities in the country (if not the world, by city standards) is very provincial and somewhat comical.
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I'm sorry, but, no, Vancouver is NOT a world class city except in the mind of its own citizens. I have lived in this city (Vancouver) for the last 15 years; and it has nothing compared to the other truly world-class cities I've lived in (San Francisco, London England). I've also spent a long of time in Hong Kong, and lived in Montreal and Calgary (but the latter two don't count as world-class).
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12-20-2016, 12:20 PM
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#2489
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by McG
so nice to come to the e=ng thread and read about...Vancouver?
I just want to add that I was informed by some tier 1 fans that the greasers had the hardest schedule of any team in the nhl, by far. not even close, not Winnipeg nor calgary nor Vancouver. Edmonton.
high expectations on the rest of the season.
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Jankowski? Backlund/frolik 
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12-20-2016, 12:22 PM
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#2490
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sempuki
Yak's problem has always been between the ears. Has the heart, and legs, and shot -- but if you don't know where to be, and where your line mates will be...
His best shot in this league is with a team that plays a simple fast system, with a line mate who does all the thinking and passing.
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....Wrong quote on last post
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12-20-2016, 01:53 PM
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#2491
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One of the Nine
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Holy f-balls, can you guys STFU about world class cities already?
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12-20-2016, 01:54 PM
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#2492
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 4X4
Holy f-balls, can you guys STFU about world class cities already?
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I know! Its like they've never visited the hallowed terraces of Pyonyang!
Hail Glorious Leader!
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12-20-2016, 04:28 PM
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#2493
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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Mark Spector to the rescue to get us re-focused - A click-bait piece entitled "The hard lesson Sakic and the Avalanche can learn from the Oilers"
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/h...-learn-oilers/
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12-20-2016, 04:35 PM
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#2494
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CP Gamemaster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Gary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dash_pinched
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Wow...this just...wow. Why would the Avalanche ever want to use the Oilers as an example for anything?
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12-20-2016, 04:36 PM
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#2495
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Not sure
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Because, first round Picks?
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12-20-2016, 04:53 PM
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#2496
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Norm!
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my response to Spector
Come on Spector, you sound like you could be the next focus of the TV show intervention.
The Oilers are pretty much McDavid and Draisaitl and not much else. They have poor organizational depth, outside of McDavid and Draisaitl they are horrible at developing players and McDavid just needs someone to open the gate for him.
No team in the NHL is looking at the Oilers rebuild and its long road of misery and saying "Conswarnit that's how it should be done"
Quit snorting the koolaid man, drugs are bad mkay
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12-20-2016, 05:07 PM
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#2497
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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There is one lesson the Avs could learn from the Oilers... Just because someone helped you win multiple Cups as a player doesn't mean you should just make him your GM or head coach.
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12-20-2016, 05:32 PM
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#2498
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Calgary
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Win the lottery in a different year...? Is that the lesson?
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12-20-2016, 05:55 PM
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#2499
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First Line Centre
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Calgary
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Not to trade Nathan MacKinnon for a second pairing defenseman?
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12-20-2016, 05:57 PM
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#2500
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Franchise Player
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"Suck so bad they change the draft lottery odds because the league gets sick of you picking 1st overall."
"Then finish a little higher in the standings, fluke out and get the best player to come through the draft in 10 years."
"Then still suck, but at least you have a generational player to carry the suckage up to the middle of the standings."
Lesson over Sakic, did you get all that?
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