Mont Royale
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doing taxes suck !!
Procrastinate much?
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Rangers being good is good for hockey.
Now if only the Bruins and Blackhawks can get their act together.
Define "good for hockey". I notice you've mentioned that phrase a lot lately, regarding different teams and circumstances.
Is it the same as "good for Pierre's playoff pool picks"?
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Because it truly is NOT.
You've somehow turned BC into some sort of fantasy-land where you imagine lots of things to be true. Newsflash: BC, and the rest of Canada, is pretty much exactly the same as the United States. Sure, there are differences here and there, but for the most part, not a lot changes after you cross the 49th parallel.
Maybe it just seems different when you're on that top-quality grass!
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OK, then what are you supposed to do? If you don't change, as you claim is the case with the Peppers (and to which I disagree, but that is not the point), people bitch and moan. If you change, like Dylan or Metallica, people bitch and moan. If you keep playing for a hundred years, like the Rolling Stones, people bitch and moan. If you make two records and then quit, people bitch and moan. You can't win.
The only thing anybody can ask of an artist: be true to thyself. If you want to change, then change (Bowie, Neil Young). If you like what you're doing and want to keep it going - do that. As you say, people will bitch and moan in any case, so an artist shouldn't devote all their time to trying to please other people... and this is especially the case for artists who have had some success and don't have to worry about where their next meal or mortgage payment is coming from!
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5 years too late
Agreed.
Our PK is pretty good, anyway, and we have good defensive forward prospects. Let's spend our money on someone who can play D, and someone who can put da puck in da net.
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I'm rooting for the Devils because I don't like the Senators. I can't stand New Jersey's crappy fan support (75% attendance for a perrenial contender is pathetic), but the Senators are division rivals. Only time I'd ever root for a division rival in the playoffs is if they already beat the Habs, meaning the winner had to go through Montreal.
Ah, interesting.
For some reason, I haven't gotten around to hating the Senators yet. I respect them as a good team, actually. Though, come to think of it, I'm not happy with them for constantly losing to the Leafs in the playoffs! Anyway, I'm more anti-NJ (because of their style of play) than anti-Ottawa... to the extent that I care at all, that is.
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I view Kovalev as the "Canary in the mine". Yes, he is whining and perhaps needs to go because of it (die). But don't ignore what he is whining about.
Make up your mind, analogy-man - either Kovalev's a senior designer, or a canary!
Jokes aside, I agree with what you're saying. I still hope that Kovalev can come back and accept Carbonneau as the coach, and give top effort to the team (or better than this year, anyway). At the same time, I hope this season has proved to be a learning experience for Carbonneau, and he develops new methods of handling the veteran players.
Putting aside whether anyone agrees or disagrees with Carbo's decision to bench/demote Samsonov/Kovalev, he certainly owed them an explanation. All players, regardless of the level, need to know how they're not meeting the coach's expectations. Expecting improvement is unrealistic if that doesn't happen.
If Markov goes he goes. More money to be spent else where. This current roster isn't going anywhere.The world is not ending if Perez doesn't resign. Same for Souray and Markov.
I wasn't comparing the 2, just that they expect hard work.
A player of Markov's calibre doesn't grow on trees - and teams that have them don't like them to become available to other teams. I know you're constantly calling Gainey to "blow up the core", but a sense of stability with at least some of the veterans is necessary... as probably every Cup winning team demonstrates.
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GO DEVILS GO! B)
Just wondering... why would anybody root for the Devils?
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Or if he said: "Well, I might be lazy now, but when comes the year-end reports you'll see, I'll start working then! " but his laziness put the company bankrupt before they even got to the end of the year...
There's no question that Kovalev has to shoulder much of the blame.
But, brobin makes an excellent (and easily verified) point about salary not being motivational in itself, among others. We've also seen Carbo admit his communication in the Samsonov saga was partly to blame. It's too easy to say it's all Samsonov and Kovalev's fault, when both have performed at higher levels in the past. They both are at fault to a point - no question - but I don't think anybody knows to what degree.
I wonder if it's coincidence that Carbo's had the most difficulty with Russians (or them with him). If Kovalev's first Russian interview is to be believed, he has that perception. I don't believe Carbonneau dislikes Russians or anything like that, but I think it's possible that a rookie coach might be uneasy in dealing with established Russian stars who were underperforming, and lack of communication was the result.
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Yesterday on Au-dessus de la mélée Radio-canada sport show they said that the canadians deny that there was a meeting with Gainey and Kovy.
The damage-control machine swings into motion... again!
Actually, I thought that Gainey mentioned talking with Kovalev in his end of year press conference.
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And another reference to Carbonneau's communication abilities (or lack thereof). Although he seems comfortable with the kids, it seems he doesn't know how to handle the established stars.
Hopefully both Kovalev and Carbonneau bounce back next year...
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We hope that it weakens his bargaining power, but not his shot... we're so selfish!
Souray was actually pretty decent one on one this season it was 2 years ago when he was on the wrong end of too many highlight reels.I agree. His last play of the season was an effective check of Sundin, who would have been home free otherwise. Too bad it was the last straw for his shoulder.
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Movies
in The Lounge
I recently rented Dog Day Afternoon, an old Al Pacino movie. Excellent.
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I say yeah I hope the canadian dollar goes above a buck but then I'm on an angry streak at the moment and my anti-american side comes out.
I'm going to go hug my pillow talk to my people on the wall. They give me advice on life.
;)If the C$ is going above a buck, that's fine, but I'd like it to take a few years to get there... any quicker than that and the shock to the economy might bring about a recession. The economy is still adjusting to the more recent loonie ascension.
And, by 'at the moment' did you mean the last year or two? Seems your anti-American side has been out for awhile!
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I want a strong greenback. This is a bummer.
Canada's exports will suffer
Canada's manufacturers relied on the weak dollar for too long, and didn't make the necessary productivity investments as a result. A stronger dollar now gives them more buying power to make those investments, given that they generally come from the U.S. Over time, hopefully our productivity will improve relative to the U.S. Yes, it will be painful for many and fatal for some, but this is overdue.
Relying on a weak dollar (and resulting relatively inferior standard of living) is not a good long term plan, IMO.
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Get rid of Bouillon and replace him with a mobile and better puck-moving d-man. Also adding someone with some grit and a mean streak would be great.
I would have more patience with Bouillon. His season was disappointing, but better toward the end, which leads me to believe he wasn't ready when he came back from injury. As far as the points you mentioned, he has reasonable mobility and puck-moving skills, and definitely has grit and a mean streak.
I wouldn't be upset if Dandy and/or Streit were not part of the defence (even if it was because one or both found a way onto a forward line). An upper tier UFA defenseman to reduce Souray's minutes would be ideal.
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is it supposed to be in a cast?
I don't think so... he went in for an appendectomy.
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It's hard to pick out who will be your next Cho Seung-Hui. It's almost a complete toss up. There are thousands of depressed, lonely and/or antisocial people around yet only a microscopic percentage of them turn out to be school shooters. I know plenty of people who I and others find creepy and I've heard people joke about other students being "the next Kimveer Gill" and stuff like that. But in reality, we all know that it would come as a huge shock if it turned out to be true.
It's like picking up five dozen eggs and then smashing the one that is home to the deformed chick. Chances are you'll be letting the real culprit go and smashing an innocent chick at the same time.
You're right - there is no definitive way of identifying who will shoot a bunch of people. But I think society in general treats mental illness as a personal defect, when in reality it's not something that can be willfully controlled. In Cho's case, there seems to be numerous warning signs, and the system worked to a point in that it identified that he was a risk to himself (if not others), but unfortunately there was no follow-up. This might be because he refused treatment, but the question becomes should a mentally ill person be making decisions about their own treatment? As Fanpuck says, some form of forced treatment could have made the difference. (Easy to say, harder to implement, because of course this opens up another can of worms relating to individual rights and the state's role in 'fixing' people).
At any rate, your egg analogy is completely off base. This isn't about smashing anybody. It's about getting treatment to people who need it. It's not a bad thing if ill people are helped even though they were not about to kill anybody.
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http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/hockey...b27&k=37020
Hahaa... Negotiations tough with Markov? Read the article linked above.
Somewhat reassuring. Thanks for the link!
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You're not just a pretty face, Dirty Harry!
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Still a lot of rampant and sensationalized media speculation out there - but the fact is that when all is said and done, this is a sad and extremely damning comment on the system as it exists today. It appears that when the dust finally settles that this will be a highway littered with incompetence, poor judgements and a far too liberal approach to the problems we face today!
And the sadist truth of all, that can never be changed, is the fact that hindsight is always 20/20.....
True.
But hopefully, lessons will be learned from this. Changing the way 'the system' deals with the mentally ill could help prevent something similar from happening again (and after Columbine, this, and many other smaller-scale killings, does anybody doubt it will?). That is the only hope for anything good coming out of this tragedy.
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AC, the guy was 23. I don't think typical adolescent angst/confusion applies in this case - this is mental illness.
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What a tragedy. Unreal.
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I disagree...back in the 80s-early 90s, I used to say that the Habs would never be as bad as the Ballard-era Leafs, because the fans would never tolerate it, they'd tear down the building first. But then Reggie Fool and The Human Blueberry showed up, and the Habs went straight down the crapper, and people still kept going. They groused, they bled, they suffered, but they kept going. A garbage edition of the Habs may not sell out every single game, but they'll still make out like gangbusters at the gate, don't you worry.
Well, it's true their attendance didn't tank like it would in a market where hockey wasn't as entrenched, but it did decline. For example, the difference between their 2000-2001 attendance (94.5% capacity) and this season was 47,885 tickets. At, say, $100 a ticket, that's $4.8 million, not including concessions etc. Not an insignificant hit for the owners to take.
Compare that to the Leafs, who sucked much worse than the Habs ever did throughout the 80's, but always sold out.
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I agree. I think the whole mentality of a farm team is different from a 'regular' team. Guys are brought up and sent back all the time throughout the season, so I'd be surprised if anyone gets too bent out of shape about this. They know that the goal isn't to ice the best team, but to ice the team that will lead to the best end result for the Habs.