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@mattsekeres @LawhiLeonard2 Canucks trade Hronek and 24th pick to San Jose for second overall pick?

@LawhiLeonard2 Stenberg *and* Bjorck? 🤨

Has to be Manny. Keeping Foote & risking Malhotra would be foolish and lead to questions about autonomy from ownership.

@mattsekeres My problem with Foote was not the system, it was the deployment of players. Playing Hronek 28-30 mins per game in mean nothing games then giving him practice off due to heavy usage, I can’t think of a worse culture to set.

@ThomasDrance @CoryHergott His best attribute is faceoffs. Sure you would like to see more playmaking ability, but it I there. He has a better shot with a playmaking winger.

@CoryHergott yeah he's a classic "design a regular role for him with consistent line mates for 40 games and then make a decision" guy. I think it's possible he'll need to be a winger. But he was p. effectively relative to the team environment this year + never rly got a fair shake imo.

I feel like Raty would really benefit from a coaching change to Manny. He’s not a player that I want to see the club give up on rather than continue his development as a full time NHL C. He has utility for the bottom six of this lineup & I think there’s untapped potential there.

@ThomasDrance @ngreenizan With assets attached of course? I prefer the Sean Monahan type of reclamation. Still young after a bad year.

@ngreenizan I like this concept and he would have value. Full NMC is the fly in the ointment. VAN's primary trade targets this summer tho should be "every single one of the worst contracts in hockey"

If the Oilers retained a bit & traded Nurse to Vancouver with large sweetener & then the Canucks kept him for the minimum time required w/r/t leagues contract retention rules, then flipped him a deadline or two down the line, does he have value at 3.5-ish AAV or is he just bad?

@JamieBonkiewicz Better option. We are all in the same boat. Salary is average for your state. Healthcare same as your state. Pension same as your state. Then watch how everyone’s lives improve as politicians improve theirs.

Let’s normalize paying Congress only for the days they actually work, not a salary.

@globalnews Does it make sense that when a sniper gets captured or killed the Russians may grab his Canadian gun? Then use it?

Canadian-made rifles 'fraudulently diverted' to Russia, manufacturer says. globalnews.ca/news/11852014/…

@Steve_Dangle Wow Torts does it so fast. He wears out his welcome with ever increasing speed. It is impressive really. To not learn anything. After being in the media.

WOW holy hell that's more than I expected

@garymasonglobe The answer is promote Malhotra now. Have a coach dedicated to development with long term chemistry the first priority.

So it would be better to let him (theoretically) go to the Leafs and when they decide to fire (theoretically) Foote midway through the season they have to start looking afield for his replacement, which the team had in Abbotsford. Seems pretty short-sighted in my view

@ThomasDrance @QuinnTaylor06 Agreed I have Reid fifth and Verhoeff sixth but I see Verhoeff the safer pick.

@QuinnTaylor06 I’m not sure I’d take Reid over him tbh

Viggo Björck winning puck battles against NHL players and holding his own in the circle against Ryan O’freaking’Reilly at 18. Because he’s 5-foot-9.5, however, as per NHL tradition, the third best player in the class will be available in the teens (just test driving this take).

@ThomasDrance Play driving centres do not fall like undersized wingers tend to do. I have Bjorck fourth on my list after Carels but razor thin margins. Just ahead of Reid and Verhoeff.

@ThomasDrance @AlfieLau This is basically Elliotte Friedman, probably the best connected in media, vs everyone else. If anyone else, frankly, we wait for Elliotte to confirm.

@AlfieLau No. Between Dhaliwal, Irf, Sat, PJ, Farhan, Mason and occasionally me, there is still stuff that gets broken locally.

More like 99% Toronto media 1% local

@ryanwhitney6 Gonna be wearing that zero jersey a long time with predictions like this, sweep by Colorado incoming.

Vegas is for real Unless Edmonton was truly horse shit which would mean Anaheim isnt even that good and if that’s the case they still haven’t beat a real team but I don’t believe that anymore Hart has found his game. Eichel is a superstar. Marner could win MVP this is nuts. Wagon

@shaynagoldman_ Stan Boman was the wrong hire, followed by a string of disaster trades and signings. Podkolzin might be the only good move. Boman should have been fired.

personally would have hired Knoblauch a new (full time!) defensive coach and given him a more capable roster/goaltending situation. but management's got to blame someone!

@jtbourne I love the decision to let Celebrini wear the C. It was apparently a player lead effort. I bet Sid urged Celebrini to keep it. Young captains have more prestige.

Sid not having the C for a Canadian team he’s playing on is insane. Greats always talk about learning from the greats before them. If he’s there, he’s obviously the captain, just give him the letter. Doesn’t matter but sometimes we twist ourselves in knots overthinking stuff.

@scottcwheeler Schaefer?

There are only three defensemen in the world (Q. Hughes, Makar, Werenski) that I’d be confident are better than L. Hutson at this point. I think you could make a case for his impact vs. any of Heiskanen, Seider, Sanderson, Bouchard, Dahlin, McAvoy, etc. Superstar.

@jtbourne Canucks robbed Abbotsford of every good player there to get the Canucks going. Trading the vets at the deadline depleted the lineup even further. Oh you want him for Toronto? Yeah Malhotra is terrible😉

Hey with all this Malhotra talk, and this being safe space, is it fair to at least ask about his most recent coaching year?

@DanBilzerian Einstein was anti Israel. Also Jewish.

For the eugenicists on here, my lineage is mostly Armenian Norwegian and Swiss. I have a great grandfather on my dad’s side was jewish. Just like a guy who is 48% Korean and 12% Italian couldn’t go around larping as an Italian, and a black guy who is 12% Chinese would never be referred to as Asian I am not ethnically jewish. According to Hitler 1/8th jew was a pure blood German. That said Bobby Fisher was 100% jewish and he blamed the jews for everything. He said they were criminals, that worshiped the devil, he denied the holocaust and claimed jews were controlling the world until his dying day. Bobby had one of the highest recorded IQs in human history. Low IQ antisemitism is an Israeli hasbara term popularized by Nick to discourage the criticism of jews.

@sitkamedia @Emily_Lowan We don’t want data centres ever!

The BC Greens are calling for a moratorium on AI data centres “until the regulatory safeguards are in place to protect people and planet.” Leader @Emily_Lowan explains why she thinks that’s the right move 👇

@CTVVancouver No fucking data centres ever! Fuck AI!

‘Metro Vancouver is running out of water’: Skepticism surrounding new AI data centres ctvnews.ca/vancouver/arti…

@MaritStiles Conspiracy to obstruct justice. All should be charged that voted to change the law for corrupt purposes.

When records were about to come out, Doug Ford changed the law to bury them. When court cases started heating up, he changed the law to nullify them. Is this Queen's Park or the Kremlin? Why does this Premier think he's above the law?