The team has not made a statement so Benning can say all he wants leave it alone it is personal , but people are going to speculate.
Last thurs he repeated twice Hamonic will be here Friday without a doubt. He also said that day the two RFAs were close to getting a deal done . They are not.
Just because he says leave it alone does not mean we will and we will form our own conclusions until the team resolves this. - VANTEL
petey and huggy might be holding out for other reasons, sweden went the no lockdown route and did fabulous. They could be waiting for the tick tock
petey and huggy might be holding out for other reasons, sweden went the no lockdown route and did fabulous. They could be waiting for the tick tock - Bettmanhatesus
Lordy is correct that Israel was a real leader in vaccinations and they did recently have an outbreak but this article from Fortune does a really good job of explaining why. Fortune is a centre-right publication but is considered very creditable in their reporting.
“Since April, Israel has fallen from first to 33rd in Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker of populations considered fully vaccinated. The program plateaued amid hesitancy from some in the Orthodox Jewish and Arab communities. About 61% of Israelis have been given two doses, lower than in European laggards earlier in the year such as France and Spain.
Following the spread of the Delta variant over the summer, Israel has seen cases climb, reaching an all-time high of 11,316 daily cases on Sept. 2. The number of people falling seriously sick and being hospitalized, though, has risen less than it did during the last coronavirus wave, peaking at 751 in late August, compared with 1,183 in mid-January. The trend is now downward.
Infections jumped because of the prevalence of cases among the unvaccinated, especially children. There were also so-called breakthrough infections in those who have been vaccinated, and the drop in efficacy of vaccines.
That said, unvaccinated people account for more than 10 times as many serious cases as those who have received two doses, showing that even with immunity waning, shots are providing protection.” - bloatedmosquito
Love seeing Lordy get served, then seeing him duck a response. That's some excellent police work right there
Trigger Warning: from Domas Thrance over at the Thathletic
5) Power play balance
Twice in Green’s four-season tenure behind the Vancouver bench, the Canucks have had a top 10 power play (2017-18 and 2019-20).
And in both of those seasons, it was the strength of the club’s second power play unit that really powered the overall team success with the man advantage.
On Wednesday, for the first time since camp opened, the Canucks worked on their power play in a practice session that was open to media. Under the watchful eye of first-year power play coach Jason King, who has taken over the responsibilities that were previously Newell Brown’s, the Canucks rolled out two relatively balanced-looking units that would seem to tell us a fair bit about their plans with the man advantage going into the season.
Both units operated in a 1-3-1, with shooters on their one-timer sides.
The first unit included one PTO player, but otherwise looked the way we might expect it to on opening night, with Ekman-Larsson up top, Garland and Miller on the flanks, Horvat in the bumper and Chiasson at the net front.
The second unit seemed to be a bit more in flux, with a couple of obvious placeholders for the club’s unsigned superstars. It featured Rathbone and Hunt switching out up top as they kept Hughes’ seat warm, Boeser on the left flank, Petan in Pettersson’s probable spot on the right flank, Höglander in the bumper and Pearson at the net front.
Aside from some uncertainty about whether the club will sign Chiasson, these units make a ton of sense as the first choice power play groups. It would certainly allow them to be completely unrelenting over two minutes of power play ice time with little drop off from one unit to the other.
And the presence of an additional net-front body in Chiasson is sort of key to enabling that. Chiasson is an exceptional power play piece, a true specialist, and his right-handed shot carries additional playmaking utility, too. If the Canucks opt to sign him and can plant him in front of the net, it frees them up to use Miller on the flank, where he’s become an exceptional initiator in recent seasons.
Of course, if Chiasson is signed, the club will have to figure out where to fit him into the lineup. And if he slots in at fourth-line right winger once Pettersson joins the team, well, the Canucks will likely have to press one of Pearson or Miller into penalty killing duty.
As for the presumptive Pettersson-Hughes power-play unit, the Canucks had tremendous success in 2019-20 with Pettersson, Boeser and Hughes up high. The only issue there, really, is that Boeser would be the only right-handed shot among the five skaters on that unit. Boeser’s evolution as a playmaker has been impressive, but if that’s the ultimate alignment, he’ll likely be counted on to do the bulk of initiating with everyone else on the ice being a one-timer option.
Boeser’s best attribute is his hockey IQ, but lining up a power play unit in this manner will be a big test for the 24-year-old winger.
LOL, I have a stutter. I had a 2 year old Daughter and at that time Van was turning into a cesspool. Time to leave. I do not Major in English. - Benny Blanco
Don't need to major in English to use the Oxford comma
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I could see leagues honouring covid opt outs for contracts signed previously, but honouring them for a contract signed in the past couple of months seems ridiculous. If you don't want to play, don't sign a contract?
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Today marks the 12th day prior to the start of the season. As a result the 2021-22 Playing Season Waiver period is officially open.
Clubs can now place players on waivers for the purpose of assigning them to another league.
