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Dave Tallon: senior adviser and scout for the Canucks. YES
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Jun 24, 2022 18:23
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Bieska is good in that he's a bit more interesting and personable than most hockey talking heads with their thrilling insight "I spoke to commissioner Bettman and he indicated the league is concerned with the slate of missed icing calls lately." He just talks like he's used to being the vocal guy in a locker room and is clearly less funny than he thinks he is. He's far more interesting than say Kelly Hrudey sweating all over the place or Ron Mclean solemnly reciting Bruce Springsteen lyrics like that makes them profound somehow.
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Jun 24, 2022 18:26
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Dave Tallon: senior adviser and scout for the Canucks. What the gently caress is
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Jun 24, 2022 18:27
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Chicago hired Luke Richardson as coach Luke Richardson career highlights https://youtu.be/Hodb0LUALjI
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Jun 24, 2022 18:59
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Dave Tallon: senior adviser and scout for the Canucks. It's impossible to fail in this league as an executive.
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Jun 24, 2022 19:36
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https://twitter.com/DarrenDreger/status/1540405856696664064?t=inGic9Cf4iLXikCLTpUUiw&s=19 "it was very hard for me to choose not to live in Winnipeg and wait for someone else to pay me the same in six months."
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Jun 24, 2022 19:47
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https://twitter.com/NHLFlyers/status/1540386813717712897 cursed franchise. shut it down
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Jun 24, 2022 20:08
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Dave Tallon: senior adviser and scout for the Canucks.
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Jun 24, 2022 20:10
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triple sulk posted:https://twitter.com/NHLFlyers/status/1540386813717712897 That sounds real not good
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triple sulk posted:https://twitter.com/NHLFlyers/status/1540386813717712897 It is a bit funny that a surgery that forced a franchise to ruin their relationship with their star player is now commonplace though
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Jun 24, 2022 21:39
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ThinkTank posted:Sure the CBA has rules around temporary housing for recently recalled and traded players. It's not endless and expenses are a real challenge for guys who aren't full time NHLers. They don't go broke because of rent costs, but paying for an expensive place because they're millionaires (kinda) is a significant contributor when their careers end, often abruptly. The 'issue' (if you even want to call it that) is that the owner rents places out to players way under market value to a lot of his regular players. For a major city like Vancouver that can be $50k+ in unaccounted for benefit on the SPC. The CBA is very clear that teams cannot provide anything of value as enticements to players beyond salaried compensation and bonuses. Sidney Crosby lived with his team's owner and captain, Aaron Ekblad lived with Panthers captain Willie Mitchell, and many young stars from overseas had a veteran/mentor who took them in. Alexis Lafreniere and K'Andre Miller lived with friends of Chris Drury in the offseason so they could train with Ben Prentiss, a trainer whose services cost $2500 per week. The Rangers fly in top-of-the-line private jets and have great catering and facilities while the Oilers might pick up the tab at Joey and the Coyotes locker room problems are existential. There's tax and cost of living differences between cities. Sponsors pay players more in bigger markets. There's non-salary differences and the only reason the Canucks apartments are publicized is probably for prestige and publicity for the apartments. I mean, gently caress, if they were that nice, Mark Messier would've lived there instead of Point Roberts.
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Jun 24, 2022 21:51
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Zodijackylite posted:I mean, gently caress, if they were that nice, Mark Messier would've lived there instead of Point Roberts. Yup all true. However with regards to Point Roberts, no one lives there because it's nice. Players live there because there are significant tax advantages to living and being paid in the USA.
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Jun 24, 2022 22:11
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ThinkTank posted:Yup all true. However with regards to Point Roberts, no one lives there because it's nice. Players live there because there are significant tax advantages to living and being paid in the USA. Also, we tend to forget that it exists as part of Washington state. Mostly because it really shouldn’t, so I guess they count for something.
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Jun 24, 2022 22:18
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Eric the Mauve posted:Bednar does appear to be the very first coach of Jack Johnson that understands that he sucks. Torts was healthy scratching him by the end. I seem to remember him sitting out after Ian Cole came to town and in Playoff games in 2018.
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Jun 24, 2022 22:24
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What confuses me about Point Roberts is it has five gas stations. It's not even 5 square miles of land. I think it has just one grocery store too, ain't no way to avoid your neighbors out there.
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Jun 24, 2022 22:26
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Zodijackylite posted:Sidney Crosby lived with his team's owner and captain, Aaron Ekblad lived with Panthers captain Willie Mitchell, and many young stars from overseas had a veteran/mentor who took them in. Alexis Lafreniere and K'Andre Miller lived with friends of Chris Drury in the offseason so they could train with Ben Prentiss, a trainer whose services cost $2500 per week. The Rangers fly in top-of-the-line private jets and have great catering and facilities while the Oilers might pick up the tab at Joey and the Coyotes locker room problems are existential. funniest thing like this for me was when Torts got to the Rangers, the Rangers apparently were sending individual limos out for like every team activity since a lot of them lived in midtown and the practice rink is in Westchester. Torts immediately said "what the gently caress" and made all the players start driving themselves.
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Jun 24, 2022 22:46
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ThinkTank posted:Yup all true. However with regards to Point Roberts, no one lives there because it's nice. Players live there because there are significant tax advantages to living and being paid in the USA. I just wanted to mention Mark Messier.
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Jun 24, 2022 22:46
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xzzy posted:What confuses me about Point Roberts is it has five gas stations. It's not even 5 square miles of land. 90% of the traffic in Point Roberts is Vancouverites going down there to get cheaper gas
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Jun 24, 2022 23:01
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Twin Cinema posted:I now have a hazy memory of this happening, so I searched for news articles, and it looks like the Canes traded Johnson away because he wasn't willing to leave college for the NHL (he would join the NHL late in the season for 5 games, then become a regular in 07-08), and I assume there was some animosity between the two.
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Jun 24, 2022 23:40
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Call Your Grandma posted:he also bullies Elliotte Friedman That shtick got old real quick. He was refreshing for the first months, but he really isn't offering much.
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Jun 25, 2022 00:20
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I'm very excited for Dave Tallon to take over for Rutherford in a year or two.
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:funniest thing like this for me was when Torts got to the Rangers, the Rangers apparently were sending individual limos out for like every team activity since a lot of them lived in midtown and the practice rink is in Westchester. Torts immediately said "what the gently caress" and made all the players start driving themselves. Torts was right on this one.
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Jun 25, 2022 05:38
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DO YALL WANT A BOXC posted:funniest thing like this for me was when Torts got to the Rangers, the Rangers apparently were sending individual limos out for like every team activity since a lot of them lived in midtown and the practice rink is in Westchester. Torts immediately said "what the gently caress" and made all the players start driving themselves. The same Torts that insisted on living in Pt Roberts and would skip morning practice because of the commute to Vancouver.
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AsInHowe posted:Torts was right on this one. That’s right, they should have sent one car to pick up a bunch of guys. I get that the city is full, but if you’re going to put the facility that far away I don’t have any issue with the team providing transportation of some sort for the people that live next to the actual rink. We don’t need extra cars driving around in a city where you shouldn’t need to buy a car.
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Jhet posted:That’s right, they should have sent one car to pick up a bunch of guys. Bring everyone together, team bonding
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Jun 25, 2022 05:57
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Limos are cheap. Showing up in a limo just means wow cool you had $60.
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soggybagel posted:There's something very funny about this very moment in time the NHL being like NOW WE DO NFT's. They missed the easy goldrush that was happening when things like NBA Top Shot were popping off. I hate to be that guy but it's important to clarify that the zillion varieties of NFTs were never making people money or actually worth anything. The hype was entirely from barely concealed wash trading that every media outlet credulously reported as real people spending six figures on a link to a jpeg. The NHLPA is eons late to a party that didn't even happen.
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Jun 25, 2022 14:51
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AsInHowe posted:Torts was right on this one. This wouldn't have been a problem if all the players lived in Greenwich where they have garages.
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fisting by many posted:I hate to be that guy but it's important to clarify that the zillion varieties of NFTs were never making people money or actually worth anything. The hype was entirely from barely concealed wash trading that every media outlet credulously reported as real people spending six figures on a link to a jpeg. No poo poo. Which makes it funnier that the NHL is now getting on with it at this very moment. When even the perception now is the markets are eating poo poo.
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Game 5 3rd period was good up until the refs kind of closed off any chance of an Avalanche tie goal. You could see how frustrated Makar was with the double offside too.
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The NHL jumping on NFTs is a huge surprise considering the not-20-years-too-late musicians they have to play at their events
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You'll never guess what the impetus was behind the NFT deal, via The Athletic:NHL revenues reach record high thanks to jump in sponsorship, licensing deals posted:Financially speaking, the NHL is much closer to putting the downturn of the COVID-19 pandemic behind it. I love to place bets on the NHL directly from my bank account while drinking a brewski! The NFTs are clearly just burning stupid VC money so whatever.
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You're telling me that signing with ESPN raised all money across the board? You're telling me that Gary was wrong to keep us all away from ESPN, which we all said, forever? Hmm.
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Zodijackylite posted:There's tax and cost of living differences between cities. Sponsors pay players more in bigger markets. There's non-salary differences and the only reason the Canucks apartments are publicized is probably for prestige and publicity for the apartments. I mean, gently caress, if they were that nice, Mark Messier would've lived there instead of Point Roberts. they're some of the worst buildings in the city to live in. no one i know who has lived in them has anything nice to say about them. i don't think many of the players even live there. most of them are on the north shore or in olympic village
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I think the biggest problem with players finding housing isn't the money, but the uncertainty. Especially for mid-season and deadline acquisitions. Like a late season rental has no issues affording a place but if they might just be in the city for like 3 months, finding a super short term lease might be an issue. Or even if they think they might re-sign and set up long term they might want to wait til the offseason when it's official and they can get their families up too. In that case team connected housing is useful not for the cost, but because it is available and presumably they don't have to worry about leases, furnishing and all the other crap that comes with finding a place. Maybe there's a single dude on or two on the team that doesn't care and will want to save a couple bucks, but most guys will probably want their own place. Especially in places like Vancouver or Toronto, where anywhere connected to the team will insta-dox them to crazies.
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