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There's another guy with a similar story who was on 1040 last month, almost the same story. Dad beat the shit out of him constantly, made him run behind the car, etc can't remember the guy's name, played a few hundred games in the NHL
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Dank memes cant melt steel beams
Miller does that on every penalty shot/shootout... Skates way out and then slowly glides back in
But he doesn't stand straight up like he isn't interested in the game.
I think that second of standing up out him in the wrong position when Boyle came in and made his move.
I am curious to hear his explanation on why he stood straight up for that full second.
__________________ Originally posted by Iceman_19 you should have tried to touch his penis. that really throws them off. Originally posted by The7even SumAznGuy > Billboa Originally posted by 1990TSI SumAznGuy> Internet > tinytrix
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and icing on the cake, lady driving a newer chrysler 200 infront of me... jumped out of her car, dropped her pants, did an immediate squat and did probably the longest public relief ever...... steam and all.
interesting article on AV
pretty much confirmed what we already know...Aquaman is a meddling owner who knows nothing about the process and how to build winning teams but only cares about profit
It’s midday Tuesday at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, and Alain Vigneault, very much in control, is directing the New York Rangers’ practice ahead of a Wednesday game against the Canucks.
It was here four years ago in mid-June, with Vigneault then behind the Vancouver bench, that the Canucks came within one win of the Stanley Cup.
Two years ago, Vigneault helped lead the Rangers to the Cup finals, but lost again.
Last season, Vigneault guided the team to the league’s best regular-season record and in the playoffs the Rangers fell one game short of another Cup final.
Without much popular acclaim, Vigneault has enjoyed great success in his NHL career. On Wednesday night, the 54-year-old will coach his 999th regular-season National Hockey League game; No. 1,000 will be in Edmonton on Friday. Only 23 others have stood behind the bench for 1,000 or more NHL games, and with 538 wins going into the Canucks game, Vigneault has a solid winning record.
However, it was 15 years ago, early in the 2000-01 season, when Vigneault was fired from his first NHL head-coaching job, with the Montreal Canadiens, an incredible gig for a Quebec City native in his late-30s who’d been a fringe NHL defenceman and then made a name coaching major junior in Quebec and then as an Ottawa Senators’ assistant.
The firing came just months after Vigneault had been a finalist for coach of the year. He sent out a pile of résumés. Nothing. His marriage suffered. He had two young daughters.
“I couldn’t find a job,” he said Tuesday. “A lot of bills.”
He eventually took a big step back and returned to junior. Getting back to the NHL looked like a trip to the moon. “I was just trying to work and pay my bills,” he said. “I was fortunate to do a job that I liked.”
Junior led to a season in the American Hockey League in charge of Vancouver’s affiliate – and then Vigneault was back in the NHL in 2006-07. The Canucks made the playoffs his first season and in the second, beset by injuries, they missed. Vigneault figured he was done for, but general manager Dave Nonis was fired instead. “Dave paid the note,” said Vigneault.
The coach’s hold remained tenuous. In 2008-09, there was a span of games, from just before Christmas through the end of January, when Vancouver couldn’t win at home and plummeted from a prime playoff position to out of contention. The Canucks owners wanted him gone. New general manager Mike Gillis parried the pressure.
“He never buckled,” said Vigneault of Gillis. “He didn’t know me from anything and he was right by my side.”
In 2010-11, the Canucks went on a run that eventually extended all the way to game seven the Stanley Cup final.
Vigneault was fired in Vancuver in 2013, after the Canucks suffered a second consecutive first-round playoff loss. The fiery John Tortorella, at the same time, lost his job in New York, leading to an odd job swap. For a while, the Rangers and Canucks, with their new coaches, were equals, but Vancouver faltered and New York surged.
On Tuesday, Henrik Lundqvist remembered the first months of Vigneault’s tenure in New York. On New Year’s Day, the season three months old, the Rangers were still outside the playoff picture. “His patience,” said New York’s star goaltender. “We were struggling but he kept his cool.” Vigneault preached “the process,” as he has for years. It’s a stoicism burned into him. The faith in the players was buoying, said Lundqvist. “That’s a good feeling.”
For Vigneault, it’s a third life. But imagining a Vigneault tenure here that somehow lasted doesn’t make sense. Even Scotty Bowman got fired. In the NHL, since the start of last season, half of all coaches are new to their current jobs. Half.
No coach can last forever in the same job. “It’s tough to be in that position for that long,” said Dan Boyle, the Rangers defenceman who previously had vied against Vigneault’s Canucks as a San Jose Shark At the same time, Vigneault is one of 13 current veteran NHL coaches, nearly half the league, but many, like Babcock, are fresh in their gigs. The 13 have all coached roughly 900 games or more. Alongside Vigneault, there are three more – Babcock in Toronto, Tortorella in Columbus and Arizona’s Dave Tippett – who are set to reach the 1,000-game mark this season.
One thing grates. Hockey Canada has never called. Two Cup finals – almost three – in five years. A four-time finalist for coach of the year. No calls. Like when he was out of work. “I haven’t been asked,” said Vigneault, “so I really don’t have anything to say.” His measured tone said what he needed to say.
Asked of advice to his younger self, the NHL assistant in his early 30s in Ottawa, Vigneault was frank. The time required to succeed is gigantic. Family pays. Work-life is not in balance. “You sacrifice a lot of things, on a personal level,” he said. “Once hockey season starts, basically all we do is work in hockey. The balance that people have in life, between their family lives and their work, is really tested and put the limit.”
He is willing to pay. “I’ve never felt I worked a day in my life,” he said. “I love the game. I was willing to make that sacrifice.”
Everything I've heard about Aqualini is that he's nothing but a scumbag
Members of the Aquilini family — who own the Vancouver Canucks — were fined the biggest amount in B.C. last year for worker-safety violations.
WorkSafeBC vice-president Al Johnson said on Monday that a farm vehicle used to transport workers on an Aquilini enterprise was not maintained in a "safe operating condition."
The Aquilini's were fined $125,277, topping a list of 260 penalties levied by the worker-safety agency last year.
Johnson said the fine was large because it was "the same type of violation as happened a year before."
"This was one of those things where they should have known better," he said.
The 570-hectare agricultural property, called the Golden Eagle blueberry farm, is located in the 16300 block of Aquilini Ave. in Pitt Meadows.
It is owned by Francesco Aquilini, Roberto Aquilini and Elisa Aquilini.
Johnson said the intent of the fine was to get the employer's attention.
"We use it as a tool to motivate employers' compliance. We're hoping this won't happen again," he said.
There were two incidents involving transportation safety. Johnson said the blueberry farm responded to the first incident in May, 2011 by promising to correct conditions.
He said that clearly didn't happen because they occurred a second time in July, 2011.
"This put the safety of the firm's workers and others at risk," said Johnson.
The $125,277 fine, which was the firm's second, came down in February, 2012 after working its way through the administrative system.
Golden Eagle rep John Negrin said that safety violations had been addressed and proper procedures were in place in a September, 2012 interview. He was not available on Monday.
The Aquilini's are one of B.C.'s wealthiest families.
Their net worth was estimated at $5 billion in a 2007 report.
Holdings include the Canucks, Rogers Arena and surrounding land which were valued at $500 million.
They also own and manage hotels; condo projects have been estimated at $1 billion.
Additional properties include office towers, golf courses and a pizza franchise.
The second and third highest penalties in WorkSafe's 2012 list, meanwhile, were imposed against Skylite Building Maintenance Ltd. for chronically exposing workers to asbestos, said Johnson. Each penalty was for $105,000.
looks like Hammer will be out for a considerable amount of time
so Canucks gave away Corrado for nothing to the fucking Laffs and they're rotting him away.
pure genius JB...pure genius
wait, i have an appropriate gif for that now
__________________ "There's a lot of dead people who had the right of way." "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." "I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them. They're just my beliefs, they make me feel good about who I am. But if they get in the way of a thing I want, like I wanna jack off or something, I just do that."
looks like Hammer will be out for a considerable amount of time
so Canucks gave away Corrado for nothing to the fucking Laffs and they're rotting him away.
pure genius JB...pure genius
wait, i have an appropriate gif for that now
If Corrado can't even crack a shit Laffs defence doesn't that tell you something???
If Corrado can't even crack a shit Laffs defence doesn't that tell you something???
it tells me that Babcock is steady on his pairings. He had a shitty preseason and I was on of the guys dumping on him but at the time, i didn't know we could've retained him. I don't think that's a knock on his ability, it's more on Babcock not willing to budge on his current d pairings. The guy hasn't even had a chance to "crack" the shit Laff's line up.
FYI: so far this season
Canucks GA - 81, Laffs GA - 72
Canucks GA/GP - 2.7, Laffs - 2.57
Canucks SA/GP - 30.0, Laffs - 30.6
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Remember, Canuck fans tend to have the laughable tendency of overvaluing their prospects
if you think i'm laughably overvaluing Corrado, you must like seeing Weber and Bartkowski fish pucks out of net. Not saying Corrado isn't gonna do that but having that option would've been nice cus with Hammer out and Sbisa still not close to returning, the prospect of giving more minutes to Bart and Weber is terrifying in that the Laffs shit defence will soon look like an All-Norris pairing but tantalizing in that we could just get Chychrun or Matthews after all.
Nowhere did i polish Corrado's knobs. Just emphasizing the fact that it was a retard move on JB's part.
__________________ "There's a lot of dead people who had the right of way." "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." "I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them. They're just my beliefs, they make me feel good about who I am. But if they get in the way of a thing I want, like I wanna jack off or something, I just do that."
There's another guy with a similar story who was on 1040 last month, almost the same story. Dad beat the shit out of him constantly, made him run behind the car, etc can't remember the guy's name, played a few hundred games in the NHL
Pretty sure it was O'Sullivan as well. He was on the midday show recently prior to the article and the CKNW interview.
looks like Hammer will be out for a considerable amount of time
so Canucks gave away Corrado for nothing to the fucking Laffs and they're rotting him away.
pure genius JB...pure genius
wait, i have an appropriate gif for that now
Looked up Brisebois (he's the guy we essentially traded Lack for)
Last season he had a horrifying -40.
I thinks he's -10 this season so far lol
Still, only at 18 so he's got a long way to go. Scouting report says he's mature and an on-ice leader and is one of the few bright spots on his shitty qmjhl team
__________________ "There's a lot of dead people who had the right of way." "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience." "I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them. They're just my beliefs, they make me feel good about who I am. But if they get in the way of a thing I want, like I wanna jack off or something, I just do that."
The longer he's out = less likely we'll get that 1st round pick for him
The longer he's out = Canucks will lose more due to the lack of depth on the back end.
The longer he's out = less likely we'll get that 1st round pick for him
The longer he's out = Canucks will lose more due to the lack of depth on the back end.
less likely we'll get that 1st round pick but better chance for us to get top 5 pick
I'm not torn at all, really as long as he recovers thats all that matters. As long as the Sedins stay healthy and the young kids progress thats all that really matters. We at least will get a first rounder out of Vrbata at the trade deadline
Florida Panthers forward Jaromir Jagr scored his 731st NHL goal Thursday to tie Marcel Dionne for fourth place on the League's all-time list.
Jagr scored 51 seconds into the first period of a 4-1 win against the Washington Capitals at BB&T Center. He has nine goals this season; he had gone eight games without one.
"I was waiting for a long time," Jagr said. "I had some chances; I just couldn't score. I'm glad it's behind me. Every record looks like there's a big karma around it and it's tough to break it. It's not the first time that I was stuck on a number. It's always like that. The great players, there's great charisma and great karma around it ... it's like a huge wall.”
Jagr scored on the first shot after an opening faceoff that was delayed 17 minutes to allow the required emergency personnel to arrive at the arena.
"He had some chances before that, but tonight it's good to get that goal," Panthers coach Gerard Gallant said. 'He's going to score more goals for us over his career, but tonight I'm sure he's pretty excited."
The 43-year-old is 10 goals behind Brett Hull for third place. Wayne Gretzky's 894 goals are most in NHL history, 93 more than Gordie Howe.
Jagr is fourth with 1,823 points, behind Howe (1,850), Mark Messier (1,887) and Gretzky (2,857).
Jagr, who made his NHL debut on Oct. 5, 1990, has played 1,577 games with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Capitals, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Dallas Stars, Boston Bruins, New Jersey Devils and Panthers.
Dionne scored his 731 goals in 1,348 games with the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and Rangers. He last played in the 1988-89 season.
Jagr missed three NHL seasons playing in the Kontinental Hockey League from 2008-11.
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Man.. shut up, no respect for the next one
