Carol Schram: Canucks will have younger players taking on bigger roles in the new season There are still some question marks around the final makeup of the Canucks rosters, but here's a look at five 25-and-under players who will get every opportunity to take on more responsibility for Vancouver in the 2020-21 season.

Well done Carol.

Thanks Carol!

“Bloomberg) --Earlier this month, Royal Dutch Shell Plc pulled the plug on its Convent refinery in Louisiana. Unlike many oil refineries shut in recent years, Convent was far from obsolete: it’s fairly big by U.S. standards and sophisticated enough to turn a wide range of crude oils into high-value fuels. Yet Shell, the world’s third-biggest oil major, wanted to radically reduce refining capacity and couldn’t find a buyer.

As Convent’s 700 workers found out they were out of a job, their counterparts on the other side of Pacific were firing up a new unit at Rongsheng Petrochemical’s giant Zhejiang complex in northeast China. It’s just one of at least four projects underway in the country, totaling 1.2 million barrels a day of crude-processing capacity, equivalent to the U.K.’s entire fleet.

The Covid crisis has hastened a seismic shift in the global refining industry as demand for plastics and fuels grows in China and the rest of Asia, where economies are quickly rebounding from the pandemic. In contrast, refineries in the U.S and Europe are grappling with a deeper economic crisis while the transition away from fossil fuels dims the long-term outlook for oil demand.

America has been top of the refining pack since the start of the oil age in the mid-nineteenth century, but China will dethrone the U.S. as early as next year, according to the International Energy Agency. In 1967, the year Convent opened, the U.S. had 35 times the refining capacity of China.”

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China releasing this man-made lab virus is working perfectly into their hands
- Pacificgem

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you have nearly 1.4b people that you don't care if they live or die.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you have nearly 1.4b people that you don't care if they live or die.
- Retinalz

It's funny, way back in 1930's the Americans were doing the exact same thing by creating these huge mega projects with little consideration of people and environment.

Before the US, it was England.

Now it's China's and India's turn and all of a sudden the West is in a state of panic.

- A_SteamingLombardi

- A_SteamingLombardi

Not sold on Virtanen. Doesn't vancouver have any other young players than gaudette, virtanen, demko and juolevi to compete for spots?

What about other guys like rafferty, hoglander?

Not sold on Virtanen. Doesn't vancouver have any other young players than gaudette, virtanen, demko and juolevi to compete for spots?

What about other guys like rafferty, hoglander?
- MisterBrown

Hi kaptaan.

Hi kaptaan.
- Marwood

Not sold on Virtanen. Doesn't vancouver have any other young players than gaudette, virtanen, demko and juolevi to compete for spots?

What about other guys like rafferty, hoglander?
- MisterBrown

No.

Hi kaptaan.
- Marwood

Not sold on Virtanen. Doesn't vancouver have any other young players than gaudette, virtanen, demko and juolevi to compete for spots?

What about other guys like rafferty, hoglander?
- MisterBrown

Hey Kap....I think you know the system well enough

Hi kaptaan.
- Marwood

Got our flu shots this morning, God damn it, I’m left handed so I got it in my right arm and now it’s sore

Thanks Carol

Got our flu shots this morning, God damn it, I’m left handed so I got it in my right arm and now it’s sore
- Pacificgem

Pussy. I also got a flu shot today and am fine.

Pussy. I also got a flu shot today and am fine.
- 1970vintage

I’m just researching that heavier (fat) people have an easier time than lean people like myself

“Never miss an opportunity to inspire someone around you”

Thanks Carol that pretty well sums up who's filling in on roster spots. Barring a trade of course; that would need Ferland on perma LTIR.

Canucks are likely going with a taxi squad and could keep Rafferty, Rathbone, Lind and Hoglander on sub-in-roles. Especially for the many back to backs in a condensed schedule.

Waiving Sven and LE for the squad and to be cap compliant is one move. Then, when rotating in the young guys, it would be just as easy to paper Sutter, Beagle and Rousel there too.

I’m just researching that heavier (fat) people have an easier time than lean people like myself

“Never miss an opportunity to inspire someone around you”
- Pacificgem

Lol?

The Doc said “you have to wait here 15min to make sure you’re ok”. I said how will we know? He said “ oh, you’ll know”

Lol?

The Doc said “you have to wait here 15min to make sure you’re ok”. I said how will we know? He said “ oh, you’ll know”
- 1970vintage

Fear is natural, it’s ok to be afraid, fear makes you think more clearly, without fear there wouldn’t be courage...stay strong my friend

Thanks Carol

Got our flu shots this morning, God damn it, I’m left handed so I got it in my right arm and now it’s sore
- Pacificgem

That's the tracking chip....