So how do you explain syphilis ?
- VANTEL

God's way of controlling the population, only stupid or bad people contract it so they won't reproduce

This is totally a guess on my part of what will happen in the off season.

Sutter will be traded for a fourth round pick
Loui sent to Utica
Canucks trade for a RHD
Rafferty promoted.

UFA signings Toffoli Markstrom
- VANTEL

that would be a pretty stellar off-season (depending on the cost/terms of the contracts and the trade details.)

i'm also assuming that you expect louie to retire rather than play in utica. i agree that he'd rather retire than play in the ahl but i don't think benning will send him down. we can hope though.

This is totally a guess on my part of what will happen in the off season.

Sutter will be traded for a fourth round pick
Loui sent to Utica
Canucks trade for a RHD
Rafferty promoted.

UFA signings Toffoli Markstrom
- VANTEL

That would be nice, but I think the cap will have to crash a lot for teams to stay in business. There almost needs to be a complete reset with all sides coming to a new framework. Players will have to accept a new world order and if they don't, they won't have jobs. I'm glad we have a decent farm system right now because young and cheap will be the requirement.

The climate is loving this shutdown, has anyone seen the models over the planet? You can actually see the sky in China right now. As I said, it's all in God's masterplan to keep us in check
- Pacificgem

The pollution over India is almost gone. The different satellite images are staggering. Parts of India that hadn't seen the Himalayas in 3 or 4 decades can see them clearly now.

I now am enlightened
- VANTEL

that would be a pretty stellar off-season (depending on the cost/terms of the contracts and the trade details.)

i'm also assuming that you expect louie to retire rather than play in utica. i agree that he'd rather retire than play in the ahl but i don't think benning will send him down. we can hope though.
- RealityChecker

I don't know what will happen when NHL has everything back and cap set. I still think there will be a gifted buyout but my post was on the assumption there was none.

I don't think you can send Zack back down or Motte. I think they have earned the right to be here which would mean no room for Loui.

The pollution over India is almost gone. The different satellite images are staggering. Parts of India that hadn't seen the Himalayas in 3 or 4 decades can see them clearly now.
- Marwood

Have you been to India? It's the most beautiful sh!thole I've ever been to in my life. There's garbage in every corner of the country, it's disgraceful!!

It was better than paying Gagner to play for the Marlies
- VANTEL

I mean, six to the half. What’s the difference really?

Two different things, air quality doesn't always equate to warming or cooling. Some Chinese kids didn't even know the sky was blue
- Pacificgem

Depends on the current hoax being pushed or snowflake agenda

70s - the new ice age
80's - Acid RAin
90's - Ozone layer
2000's - Global Warming

Then they had to change it to 'climate change' because global warming wasn't gaining traction anymore and was such an obvious lie.

40+ years of being wrong in the name of fear-mongering for power and cash.

Have you been to India? It's the most beautiful sh!thole I've ever been to in my life. There's garbage in every corner of the country, it's disgraceful!!
- Pacificgem

Not on my list of top 5 places to go.

Had a few friends travel through and loved it but that was post high school over 30 years ago.

Depends on the current hoax being pushed or snowflake agenda

70s - the new ice age
80's - Acid RAin
90's - Ozone layer
2000's - Global Warming

Then they had to change it to 'climate change' because global warming wasn't gaining traction anymore and was such an obvious lie.

40+ years of being wrong in the name of fear-mongering for power and cash.



- LordHumungous

Did you read about the record snowfalls in Greenland? MASSIVE....this is how ice ages begin.

I don't know what will happen when NHL has everything back and cap set. I still think there will be a gifted buyout but my post was on the assumption there was none.

I don't think you can send Zack back down or Motte. I think they have earned the right to be here which would mean no room for Loui.
- VANTEL

i also think there will be a buyout but some doubt has started to creep in my mind after the league announced that the cap would be flat next year.

i don't understand why they would announce anything when the situation (economically and healthwise) is constantly changing. seemed unnecessary.

if they actually believe in a flat cap for next year, i think they're looking at the situation through escrow. keep the cap where it is and take back revenue from the players at the end of the season.

that basically means status quo until the next CBA which is 2023. at that point, we should be well past this pandemic and the economic landscape will be clear. they can then do the drastic moves to correct things. the question is: can all the teams wait until then?

Not on my list of top 5 places to go.

Had a few friends travel through and loved it but that was post high school over 30 years ago.
- Marwood

It's absolutely beautiful but that's all for not as it's a disgustingly dirty place. Kerela in the south west is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to...lush and tropical, but dirty as (frank).

Depends on the current hoax being pushed or snowflake agenda

70s - the new ice age
80's - Acid RAin
90's - Ozone layer
2000's - Global Warming

Then they had to change it to 'climate change' because global warming wasn't gaining traction anymore and was such an obvious lie.

40+ years of being wrong in the name of fear-mongering for power and cash.



- LordHumungous

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201908
The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for August 2019 was 0.92°C (1.66°F) above the 20th century average of 15.6°C (60.1°F) and tied with 2015 and 2017 as the second highest August temperature departure from average since global records began in 1880.

Did you read about the record snowfalls in Greenland? MASSIVE....this is how ice ages begin.
- Pacificgem

I think globally we need to put a five year moratorium on oil production, this will force us into alternative energy's. Now that I'm retired it makes total sense

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201908
The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for August 2019 was 0.92°C (1.66°F) above the 20th century average of 15.6°C (60.1°F) and tied with 2015 and 2017 as the second highest August temperature departure from average since global records began in 1880.


- RealityChecker

lol it's all cycles RC. It's easy to post the one that you think solidifies your argument but really if you go back long enough over time it's just repeated cycles...but you believe what you gotta believe man...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKmz7OGcyzU

lol it's all cycles RC. It's easy to post the one that you think solidifies your argument but really if you go back long enough over time it's just repeated cycles...but you believe what you gotta believe man...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKmz7OGcyzU
- LordHumungous

The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%–100% of publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this paper. Those results are consistent with the 97% consensus reported by Cook et al (Environ. Res. Lett. 8 024024) based on 11 944 abstracts of research papers, of which 4014 took a position on the cause of recent global warming. A survey of authors of those papers (N = 2412 papers) also supported a 97% consensus.
https://iopscience.iop.or...088/1748-9326/11/4/048002

Global average temperatures have increased by more than 1℃ since pre-industrial.
CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere are now well over 400ppm – their highest levels in over 800,000 years.
https://ourworldindata.or...ns#global-warming-to-date

but yeah, believe every conspiracy theory you want. every scientist and doctor are all in on these conspiracies/hoaxes.

Yes that kucherov 4th rounder was luck. The many depth 3-6 round picks that have been developed into nhl players were so “lucky”. I agree about EP and Hughes, but saying other teams and particularly Tbay aren’t good at drafting like we have been is truly stupid.
- neem55

Never said not good. Solid at drafting past Stamkos & Hedman.

Friedman wonders as part of the CBA talks between the NHL and NHLPA if they’d consider a lower salary cap with the players offering to rollback their salaries is they could get some type of escrow protection.

i also think there will be a buyout but some doubt has started to creep in my mind after the league announced that the cap would be flat next year.

i don't understand why they would announce anything when the situation (economically and healthwise) is constantly changing. seemed unnecessary.

if they actually believe in a flat cap for next year, i think they're looking at the situation through escrow. keep the cap where it is and take back revenue from the players at the end of the season.

that basically means status quo until the next CBA which is 2023. at that point, we should be well past this pandemic and the economic landscape will be clear. they can then do the drastic moves to correct things. the question is: can all the teams wait until then?
- RealityChecker

I honestly don't mind a flat cap for a couple of years. When I see Marner Matthews McDavid money being thrown around I think it is stupid. You cripple your cap hit for a good number of years . It doesn't stop there either, you get the next tier wanting 7-8 mil.

When I seen people here this summer saying pay Boeser 7 mil I almost puked.

Depends on the current hoax being pushed or snowflake agenda

70s - the new ice age
80's - Acid RAin
90's - Ozone layer
2000's - Global Warming

Then they had to change it to 'climate change' because global warming wasn't gaining traction anymore and was such an obvious lie.

40+ years of being wrong in the name of fear-mongering for power and cash.



- LordHumungous

I'm just wondering if you're familiar at all with what humans did to combat acid rain and the holes in the Ozone layer or if you think it all magically went away one day like the coronavirus.

This is totally a guess on my part of what will happen in the off season.

Sutter will be traded for a fourth round pick
Loui sent to Utica
Canucks trade for a RHD
Rafferty promoted.

UFA signings Toffoli Markstrom
- VANTEL

Sounds right to me. Hoping for a compliance buyout still.

'Negative prices are possible'

The type of oil that comes from Canada's oilsands is known as Western Canadian Select and it, too, has seen its price plunge in the current economic climate.

WCS typically trades at a discount to WTI since it is harder to transport and refine, but the sell off in WTI's price has pushed the price of WCS below zero — meaning Canadian oil companies are functionally having to pay to get rid of their product.

Raymond James analyst Jeremy McCrea told CBC News in an interview that he expects the price of WCS will continue to flirt with going below $0 for a little while yet.

"We did see WCS go negative this morning," he said in an interview. "As we look forward into the next month it does seem to get a little bit better but with storage so full and getting more full by the day it doesn't look too optimistic over the next couple months."
•Crude storage is filling fast as demand tumbles, piling pressure on oilpatch

Schieldrop says faced with these prices, many producers will have to stop pumping — possibly forever.

"The oil price is now ordering producers to halt production and it is happening at high speed and in an unorderly fashion,
he said. "This is creating damage to production and some of it will never come back online again."

Hedge fund executive Pierre Andurand of Andurand Capital said negative prices make sense in the current climate.

"There is no limit to the downside to prices when inventories and pipelines are full," he tweeted. "Negative prices are possible."
- Pacificgem

If Alberta can't sell it maybe they can eat it, shame they don't have any other industry. Canada's Russian province.

I honestly don't mind a flat cap for a couple of years. When I see Marner Matthews McDavid money being thrown around I think it is stupid. You cripple your cap hit for a good number of years . It doesn't stop there either, you get the next tier wanting 7-8 mil.

When I seen people here this summer saying pay Boeser 7 mil I almost puked.
- VANTEL

doesn't matter what the cap is; the top end players will always get a ridiculous amount of it.

there's going to be a lot of teams that struggle with a flat cap and the canucks will be one of them. it's beating a dead horse but why is a bottom-ish team near the cap limit every year? one way out for benning has always been a rising cap.

we'll see if he (and other cap strapped GMs) can navigate through a flat cap.