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Official Francesco Aquilini Thread

Aqua back at the draft table, hob-knobbing with NHL execs and scouting his next GM/President. The world is slowly back to "normal".

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Vector said:
I actually original had The Lighthouse but wanted to keep the list down to three.

Also, racist. Holy hell was Lovecraft racist. Only thing scarier to him than weird angles and ancient alien demons were white women hooking up with black guys.
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My friend said to me not too long ago: "Oh, don't google Lovecraft's cat." I said "uh, why is it a drawing of a cat-thulu?" then I googled it, saw it's name and shut my internet off for the day.
 
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Tim Calhoun said:
Do we know which owners of other clubs play such a visible role at the draft? I don’t recognize the faces of other owners so couldn’t really catch any yesterday.
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Dundon for sure with Carolina. Easy to pick him out in the draft photo as he wore a sweater, not a suit. Very casual look.

Saw the Carolina draft photo, Dundon is 2 people away from Nadeau. The 2 beside him are the GM Waddell and the person who announced the pick.
 
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Hell we watched Darryl Katz son grow up every year on the draft stage. I missed this year did he still have the sideshow Bob hair?
 
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StreetHawk said:
Dundon for sure with Carolina. Easy to pick him out in the draft photo as he wore a sweater, not a suit. Very casual look.

Saw the Carolina draft photo, Dundon is 2 people away from Nadeau. The 2 beside him are the GM Waddell and the person who announced the pick.
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Carolina and Las Vegas are two teams that have very hands-on owners that seems to work out well for them.
 
I think a lot of teams with singular majority owners go. Like you wouldn't see the board of MLSE trucking up on stage, but Katz, Aquilini etc yes.
 
rypper said:
I think a lot of teams with singular majority owners go. Like you wouldn't see the board of MLSE trucking up on stage, but Katz, Aquilini etc yes.
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I guess it’s whether any of the other owners would position themself beside the draft pick vs being more off to the side and letting the GM and head scout be the 2 on either shoulder of the kid. Frankie likes to be up front for photo ops. First time we’ve seen him in 2023 I think.
 
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I guess it’s whether any of the other owners would position themself beside the draft pick vs being more off to the side and letting the GM and head scout be the 2 on either shoulder of the kid. Frankie likes to be up front for photo ops. First time we’ve seen him in 2023 I think.
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He's so vain and needs to show off that new ozempic bod.
 
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rypper said:
He's so vain and needs to show off that new ozempic bod.
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Answer hard questions he’s no where to be found. Photo op, right up front.

I just keep hearing him in 2019 say we are past the dark times yet where we are 4 years later with 3 straight PO misses where the team was out by the 1/5 mark of the season.
 
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Vector said:
I actually original had The Lighthouse but wanted to keep the list down to three.

Also, racist. Holy hell was Lovecraft racist. Only thing scarier to him than weird angles and ancient alien demons were white women hooking up with black guys.
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He apparently walked a lot of that back later on in life. A lot of it came from him being incredibly sheltered and a product of his times. The Great Depression and actually experiencing the world helped moderate his views.

(No, this is not saying that things like what he named his cat is okay or condoning racism, just acknowledging that he was receptive to changing his viewpoints and actually did.)
 
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Vector said:
I actually original had The Lighthouse but wanted to keep the list down to three.

Also, racist. Holy hell was Lovecraft racist. Only thing scarier to him than weird angles and ancient alien demons were white women hooking up with black guys.
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When Lovecraft was born everyone was racist. People adopt the ethics of their surroundings. I think it is safe to say he was probably more racist than your average chum... But its not the same as being so today.

Ethics comes from the words ethos (character), and from the Latin word mores (customs.) This is a good reminder IMO when we judge everyone who came before us as deplorables.

He was also raised by an insane mom. I think his works are very obviously fueled by these two things. His own xenofobia and his experiences watching his mother lose her mind...


I feel the need to say I dont think being racists is acceptable. People should be judged by their character and action. Judging people by their looks is unethical but also very unreliable.
 
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I never remembered owners going up in the past... like I don't really remember Arthur Griffiths up there (although I guess it's possible) and certainly not John McCaw, so I do find it a bit weird that Aqua is always there. I was trying to remember back to what other teams do, so I went back to the first draft I sorta paid attention to, which was the 1990 draft at BC Place, and man things were weird.

Owen Nolan stops for an interview before he even gets to the stage:



And Martin Brodeur goes up (no owner, just one team rep) and makes a public statement at the microphone:



(The French voice-over notes that at the Pan Pacific when they heard Brodeur's name, they excitedly asked if he was related to "King Richard").

But then by 1994 you can see Peter Karmanos and his skullet accompany Jim Rutherford when he goes up to draft Jeff O'Neill for the Whalers, but that may just be because he had only just bought the team.
 
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Jyrki21 said:
I never remembered owners going up in the past... like I don't really remember Arthur Griffiths up there (although I guess it's possible) and certainly not John McCaw, so I do find it a bit weird that Aqua is always there. I was trying to remember back to what other teams do, so I went back to the first draft I sorta paid attention to, which was the 1990 draft at BC Place, and man things were weird.

Owen Nolan stops for an interview before he even gets to the stage:



And Martin Brodeur goes up (no owner, just one team rep) and makes a public statement at the microphone:



(The French voice-over notes that at the Pan Pacific when they heard Brodeur's name, they excitedly asked if he was related to "King Richard").

But then by 1994 you can see Peter Karmanos and his skullet accompany Jim Rutherford when he goes up to draft Jeff O'Neill for the Whalers, but that may just be because he had only just bought the team.
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I think the trend started with Charles Wang? Definitely the whole 'bring a kid up on stage' thing did.
 
Pastor Of Muppetz said:
It was interesting seeing all of the ex Penguins brass on the podium for the Canucks..

Rutherford,Clancey,Tocchet,Allvin..
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It was interesting seeing all of the ex Penguins brass on the podium for the Canucks..

Rutherford,Clancey,Tocchet,Allvin..
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Maybe it was just me......but Bettman seemed to give the Canuck reps a bit of a 'cold shoulder' when they took to the podium, including the owner.

Sorry, but watching the Canucks 'fan-boy' owner taking to the stage for every draft is still grating.
 
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Jyrki21 said:
I never remembered owners going up in the past... like I don't really remember Arthur Griffiths up there (although I guess it's possible) and certainly not John McCaw, so I do find it a bit weird that Aqua is always there. I was trying to remember back to what other teams do, so I went back to the first draft I sorta paid attention to, which was the 1990 draft at BC Place, and man things were weird.

Owen Nolan stops for an interview before he even gets to the stage:



And Martin Brodeur goes up (no owner, just one team rep) and makes a public statement at the microphone:



(The French voice-over notes that at the Pan Pacific when they heard Brodeur's name, they excitedly asked if he was related to "King Richard").

But then by 1994 you can see Peter Karmanos and his skullet accompany Jim Rutherford when he goes up to draft Jeff O'Neill for the Whalers, but that may just be because he had only just bought the team.
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Devils’ exec is Tom McVie who was the head coach of their farm team in Utica. Strange times.
 
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