Henrik Lundqvist has a heart problem and will not play this coming season
- manvanfan

Serious? Maybe they can label it COVID?

When retiring, should anyone care if they care about the effect of your current or past employer?
I sure as fu ck don't.
- Reubenkincade

Sure I’m a me 1st guy as long as it doesn’t effect others close to me. In a league where everyone else milks LTIR he had to be honest. The NHL is far from honest in so many ways so why did he choose what he did? Answer is what helps Florida over not good for Vancouver. So he isn’t deserving. JMO. I don’t need him in the ROH to appreciate what he did here.

Top C on their teams yes but many of those teams are far from contending which a 1C is a major part of it. Add a true top D & that team usually can go deep as long in goal it doesn’t stop them. Depth at C is huge and it starts with a true top C to start it all.

Scoring 30 & getting 70pts is great but how many of those ride the coattails of others & pad srats on the PP? The Skinner & Laine of the world don’t drag teams to success.
- Nighthawk

What are you even talking about anymore? If you are a top 31 player in center or right wing or left wing, you are a top line player. Whether one team has 3 of the top 31 left wingers or another team has 2 of the top 31 centers.

If one forward is projected as 1st line quality every year. It would take 90 years to get legit first line players in the NHL. Clearly doesn't happen, so maybe it's time to lower the standard of what a first line player is. Top 31 in your position is a first line player.

Being the 18th best right winger in the game doesn't make you an elite 2nd liner. Being the 33 best right winger in the game makes you an elite 2nd liner.

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#Canucks goalie prospect Matthew Thiessen's NCAA season paused until at least Jan 1, 2021 due to a Covid 19 outbreak.

- Shuswap Wap

What are you even talking about anymore? If you are a top 31 player in center or right wing or left wing, you are a top line player. Whether one team has 3 of the top 31 left wingers or another team has 2 of the top 31 centers.

If one forward is projected as 1st line quality every year. It would take 90 years to get legit first line players in the NHL. Clearly doesn't happen, so maybe it's time to lower the standard of what a first line player is. Top 31 in your position is a first line player.

Being the 18th best right winger in the game doesn't make you an elite 2nd liner. Being the 33 best right winger in the game makes you an elite 2nd liner.
- manvanfan

Of the 93 top line players not all are elite. Most are but the 3rd wheel is a compliment.

The PP more easily shows a teams true top line. That said some teams use 2 C’s when that deep. Crosby/Malkin & AM/JT Stamkos/Point for example.

Of the 93 top line players not all are elite. Most are but the 3rd wheel is a compliment.

The PP more easily shows a teams true top line. That said some teams use 2 C’s when that deep. Crosby/Malkin & AM/JT Stamkos/Point for example.
- Nighthawk

Maybe you should look less at where a player plays on his team and how a player plays.


Not much different then when they said Horvat had a ceiling of 3LC. Somehow he turned out to be an elite 2LC.

- Shuswap Wap

That’s got to be from Hawaii. I’ve spent a small fortune eating at roadside shrimp trucks when visiting Oahu and they all look like that one.

ROH is what it is

I wonder if Edler will go to the rafters? He played his whole career here. His heart was definitely in Vancouver. All time leading Dman ( for now).

Can't believe I am making a case in favor of a Swede with a five letter name
- VANTEL

You've turned over a new leaf

Not at all, I've been following all the protocols. Today is the best I've felt in a week, it's more than just a flu.
- VanHockeyGuy

More like a cold? How old are you? I'm intrigued because I only know one third hand account of someone having it.

- Shuswap Wap

More like a cold? How old are you? I'm intrigued because I only know one third hand account of someone having it.
- Pres.cup

It's like the worst case of the flu ++, I first noticed when I lost my sense of taste and smell, then a mild head cold, shortness of breath and fever. I'm 62 and in good shape, the first few days hit hard. Much better today.

It's like the worst case of the flu ++, I first noticed when I lost my sense of taste and smell, then a mild head cold, shortness of breath and fever. I'm 62 and in good shape, the first few days hit hard. Much better today.
- VanHockeyGuy

Good to hear you pulled through the worst of it man, stay strong

It's like the worst case of the flu ++, I first noticed when I lost my sense of taste and smell, then a mild head cold, shortness of breath and fever. I'm 62 and in good shape, the first few days hit hard. Much better today.
- VanHockeyGuy

I get the same symptoms if I think about the LE contract....haha glad you're doing better!

Serious? Maybe they can label it COVID?
- LordHumungous

How’s the wasteland? Heard they finally shut everything cause there’s too many idiots in the hospital

I get the same symptoms if I think about the LE contract....haha glad you're doing better!
- canucksfan1944

Seems like symptoms may vary. Mine are headache, nausea and extreme sense of agitation.

It's like the worst case of the flu ++, I first noticed when I lost my sense of taste and smell, then a mild head cold, shortness of breath and fever. I'm 62 and in good shape, the first few days hit hard. Much better today.
- VanHockeyGuy

Good to hear you are starting to feel better.
A friend of my daughter also had covid, same symptoms and he felt the same flu++.
He is a 20 year lod male, in good shape.

It's like the worst case of the flu ++, I first noticed when I lost my sense of taste and smell, then a mild head cold, shortness of breath and fever. I'm 62 and in good shape, the first few days hit hard. Much better today.
- VanHockeyGuy

62?

It is toxic on there . I have spent a lot less time in there recently.

My Shaw box has voice activation and about a month and a half ago I found out it had an active Netflix account still on it . I am like a kid in a candy shop now all the free movies and series.

I bet the owner is wondering though WTF is a Vantel. Now their account is set up for Dad Mom Kids and Vantel
- VANTEL

(frank), now you're making me laugh. Must be Christmas, you're getting all cheery and poope.

really? they're conducting covid tests on dead people? seems wasteful. any source on this info?
- RealityChecker

Ontario government website.

They're putting all "covid related" deaths in a pile so as not to exclude anyone, including suicides, ODs and accidents. If look it up but I had surgery yesterday and the brain isn't high functioning, it's just high.

He's just virtue signalling.
- Marwood

Don't quite have the hang of it yet, is when you call someone out for something non PC, like when I get on my anti xenophobic rant, that's virtue signaling.

His foil hat fell off and he received a transmission from the Russians.
- 1970vintage

Fine, here's a source. If you feel like digging there's lots more.

https://lakesuperiornews....ms-as-covid-19-fatalities

I'm just wondering what the standards are for deciding who is and isn't a first line player in the league? Score 30 goals and 70 points? You got to hit someone at 2.68 p/60. Must have 1.02 avg SH TOI per game.

The top 31 centers in the league are the top 31 centers. Whether they are elite or not makes no difference.
- manvanfan

The top producing 93 forwards are the first line forwards... I'd say. That's why some teams have 4 or 5 1st line players and some have 1 or 2

What are you even talking about anymore? If you are a top 31 player in center or right wing or left wing, you are a top line player. Whether one team has 3 of the top 31 left wingers or another team has 2 of the top 31 centers.

If one forward is projected as 1st line quality every year. It would take 90 years to get legit first line players in the NHL. Clearly doesn't happen, so maybe it's time to lower the standard of what a first line player is. Top 31 in your position is a first line player.

Being the 18th best right winger in the game doesn't make you an elite 2nd liner. Being the 33 best right winger in the game makes you an elite 2nd liner.
- manvanfan

I agree 100 percent.

On another subject, death rate per 1000 is lower then in was in 2014,15,16. Source is the cia death index, it doesn't make sense that the pandemic hasn't increased the death rates and I wonder if, from a purely statistical view, the Covid deaths would not have died from underlying ailments? Because of you subtract covid deaths, the death rate drops to a lower level, just doesn't make statistical sense, I need an economist to explain it to me.

It's like the worst case of the flu ++, I first noticed when I lost my sense of taste and smell, then a mild head cold, shortness of breath and fever. I'm 62 and in good shape, the first few days hit hard. Much better today.
- VanHockeyGuy

Glad it's not sticking around too long. I've heard vitamin d deficiency accounts for 80 percent of hospitalizations.
Hope you feel better, it makes it real when one knows someone who has it.

I had Norwalk virus in 2004, that was the worse I've ever felt, pissing fluids from every orifice. 😝