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Around the NHL: Part IV

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Boy devils trolled us good the last two games. Now I guess they can go back to losing all their games
 
We don't have a player like Pettersson in our system. As much as we love Kravtsov, we can only hope he comes close to what EP is.

The Canucks don't have near the amount of quality prospects we have. Boeser, EP, and Quinn Hughes is a nice starting point. Jury is still out on Demko if/when he gets to the NHL. DiPietro is behind him.

That being said, it's taken them longer to get all these guys together. We started sucking last year. The Canucks have been bad for multiple seasons now.
 
JimmyG89 said:
We don't have a player like Pettersson in our system. As much as we love Kravtsov, we can only hope he comes close to what EP is.

The Canucks don't have near the amount of quality prospects we have. Boeser, EP, and Quinn Hughes is a nice starting point. Jury is still out on Demko if/when he gets to the NHL. DiPietro is behind him.

That being said, it's taken them longer to get all these guys together. We started sucking last year. The Canucks have been bad for multiple seasons now.
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The 2016 draft is a by glaring hole for them. A lot of high quality players taken right after their election.

In that same vein, you can see what they were shooting for in that draft, because it’s exactlty what they’re missing now. If they get their young, stud defenseman then, I think they’re challenging for a playoff spot now.

But for teams like the Canucks, the margin for error is small. They’re not a top free agent destination and so they really have to stick the landing when it comes to the draft.

That’s one of the reasons why I don’t think you’ll see a major overhaul to the draft lottery system. You’ve got at least 3 teams in Canada for whom it’s their only way to make a big splash or get an elite talent without having to trade for one.
 
So much awesomeness in one photo

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Edge said:
Anything dealing with your children, both before and after they’re born, is so difficult to put into words.

I’d never believed in love at first sight until I saw my children in their first seconds of life. But I was in love immediately and knew that my heart would never fully be mine ever again.

I will admit that while you’re expecting, there was a certain weird defense I’d put up. You don’t want to get too excited, you know your heart is on the line, and you know that there are risks that can come out of nowhere. You try not to think about the future, but it does happen.

And anything involving your kids is a different kind of pain. It’s different than your parents or your siblings or your friends. It’s even different than your spouse.

I think that kind of pain will always be there. The magnitude fades with time, you do your best to pursue happiness in other areas of your life, but it never fully goes away. You’ll always wonder, at least a little. And your heart hurts knowing that someone is going through it.

Because it’s a different kind of pain.
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That was beautiful, I don't have any children, but can totally imagine that I understand that special kind of love.
 
nyrage said:
I was going to say that I think they struggled at first during the coaching change, but started winning whey they got healthier.
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Watching some of their games, their young guys just seem hungrier. We have not been seeing that with the Rangers young group, with a couple of exceptions like ADA. With that said, if this continues, I don’t think it’s far fetched to see them pass us in the standings, and the Rangers very well fall to the bottom 5, when all is said and done.
 
EdJovanovski said:
No idea how people think the Canucks rebuild is going better than ours. They are so deep into theirs and are still absolute garbage. They’re the Oilers 2.0
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it said because they have their #1 center and possibly their #1 dman the 2 hardest pieces to get
 
Larrybiv said:
That was beautiful, I don't have any children, but can totally imagine that I understand that special kind of love.
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It's really hard.

When my 2nd daughter, who just turned 1 month old, was about 30 weeks in utero, they discovered fluid building up in her lungs and abdomen...it's a condition called hydrops, which in some instances has a 90% fatality rate (ours wasn't as severe). She was also growth restricted so there were a few problems. When we first heard about it I remember being in shock, and then melting down and crying like a baby when I took a shower that night thinking she was going to die.

Words can't express it. We lost a child with our first pregnancy but that one was only 8 weeks along and had genetic abnormalities...I could live with it. This one has no known issues..they didn't know why it was happening (and never could figure it out).

We had to go to ultrasounds 2 to 3 times a week. They told us she would be born in the NICU and probably stay there for a minimum of 3 months.

About 4 weeks before she was due we went in for our ultrasound...and the tech started to look real confused...and then she started consulting paperwork and couldn't understand what was going on..she hurried out the room and my wife and I really started to panic. The doctor came in and did the ultrasound herself.

The fluid was almost completely gone, in a span of 3 days from the previous ultrasound

No rhyme, no reason. Just gone.

We still had multiple trasounds a week but it stayed the same, fluid was almost compteyl gone, and what littlefluid was there was considered normal.

Baby was born, spent 2 days in the NICU for precautions, and we were released 4 days after she was born.

I'm not a religious person, I'm actually an athiest...but when stuff like this happens...well...

Anyways, I just wanted to say that even if the child isn't born...even if you haven't met them..this kind of news can be devastating. You really have no way of understanding till you go through it.

I feel for e.k...and for ek65 who had something similar happen.
 
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MahomesIsGod said:
yeah so im worried about buffalo passing us

they lost AGAIN
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Could you imagine if we put up any kind of points on this losing streak? In order to stay behind teams like buffalo and Vancouver we have to lose pretty much all of our games lol.
We can not adopt this mentality of losing like the vancouvers and buffalo of the world going forward. Grab a top 5,6,7 pick (maybe some ping pong ball luck to get top 2) this year and next year start growing and getting better.
 
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The bloom is off the rose in Montreal. They seem to be the team on the outside looking in regarding the east playoff race. They always seem to outshoot teams but can not put the puck in the net similar to seasons past.
 
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