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Please stop using Hola. Generally if a service is free, you are the product. In this case, Hola uses their span of users to create areas in the world of available VPN locations, however while using the service, while you aren't using your IP, Hola has made it available for somebody else in the world to use. This means that you are responsible for whatever a stranger's internet traffic is, and your IP is attached to you / your ISP you. For example, somebody could watch / download child porn with your IP and you would be at fault.

If you really want to stay free, switch to Zenmate. There are also several alternatives for <$5/month that drastically increase your speed over free alternatives. Regardless, stop using Hola.

I bought 100 Things Canucks Fans Should Know &amp; Do Before They Die for my Dad for Christmas last year. He thought it was great and I read it and enjoyed it as well.

It's 100 short stories/tidbits about the Canucks - some you may know, others you may not. It's a fun light book to pick up and put down whenever you have a spare few minutes.

Hey, i actually grew up with ben in prescott. we went to elementary and highschool together, and played various sports. Bhutt being a 93 and me a 94 was always a mentor to me but he was never a guy you felt you had to look up to because he made everyone feel like they were his buddies even if they weren't in our friend group. He is a great guy and i'll be sure to show him this as i know he will be fired up to hear that the fan base loves him. Went to see him in TO the other night and talked to him after. He said it was surreal to see everyone and all the support hes receiving. We're just a town of 4000 people surrounded by smaller villages so everyone knows him and as you can guess everyone loves him. Heres a pic of us after if you guys are interested. https://www.instagram.com/p/-HzRCpuNG7/?taken-by=tobiasb94

you've gained a ton more canucks fans i'll tell you that much and its nice to see him start to get the recognition he deserves

The "Free Market" creates parity when it is done as outlined by Adam Smith in "The Wealth of Nations", who by the way, was completely against Capitalists.

Long story short:

• Supply vs Demand is moved by the "invisible hand of the market"
• Money is given in exchange for labor.
• Wages vs Cost of Business = Meet in the middle
• Low wages = No demand
• High cost = No supply
• Company vs Company kept price gouging in check by innovating to drive down price and up production for the best acceptable quality for the consumer at the cheapest cost
• Monopolies broken up by Government
• Regulation put in place to protect Labor
• Capitalists = Money hoarders = Bad
• Economic Power can't be created or destroyed, just moved.
• Capitalists hoard economic power. So economy runs at less than 100%.
• When hoarding is discouraged, economy runs better, because more people benefit.
• Pay based on value of job and skill rather than suppressed through lack of information by the people on top.

Basically the same holds true for the NHL:

• The salary CAP prevents monopoly
• NHL teams and players know all pay. Players fight for as much as they can get, while teams fight to pay them as little as possible.
• Players earn bonuses for playing better.
• Players are exchanged based on current $ value, actual value, and draft pick value. In this way, good management creates success, despite being limited to equal resources, much like we would see in the "real world."
• The NHL ends up as competitive as possible. The best players are on the ice, and no one dominates or stagnates over the long term as long as they make good choices.

Here's how it's pronounced. Source; I'm Swedish. Ö is a tough one to translate since there really isn't any sound in the english language (that i'm aware of) that serves as a good point of reference.

Thing is though, there's a long history of swedish players anglicising their names once they make the jump over to the NHL. So Hoglander would work in that context, plus it's sorta funny.

Hoaglander would serve as a middle road in a sense, and as such isn't correct by any definition.

That game had a little bit of everything.

And who would have thought that Hank had it in him to bump Quick like that. Not me that's for sure.

Good guys win but honestly, the game could have gone either way. If not for Steady Eddy, our first period turn over fest could have cost us big time.

I give a lot of credit to the Matthias, Vey, Dorsett line. While all other lines were failing, this line was the only line that was able to put pressure on the Kings and they were able to keep it up the entire game. Vey in particular had a strong game and I hope he can continue it tomorrow. His quick stick caused quite a lot of problems for the Kings on the forecheck. The three players worked really well together tonight.
The energy the Vey line had was in stark comparison to the possession black hole the Vrbata-Bonino-Higgins line was. This line was horrible and even though Bonino scored the tying goal, he played an extremely soft game.
Nice not to get swept by the Kings this season and even nicer winning a 4 point game on the road.

GCG!

• Here's a GIF of tough guy Quick calling out Lack.
  

The Middle - Science World and BC Place

The Bottom - Bridge

Both are available in high res from pexels completely free

/r/lazyman is a good program for this, only goes back to the start of the 2014-15 season.

Rutracker.org has torrents of Canucks games (and all NHL games) dating back to 2009-10 and plenty more classic games. Problem is, many of the older torrents of less notable games are dead. Some will yield success, but plenty won't. Any regular season game after 2013 and any playoff game is usually good.

Something that I think might be relevant (unless I'm just imagining things) is an episode of puck soup from 2 years ago when they had the VP and director of player safety on (see here), more specifically starting at around 34:30 when they are asked about slough footing. They do make a point of saying that just because something is dangerous doesn't mean it's illegal/suspendable, but unless I'm reading too much into what they're saying they seem to imply that the suspendable part of a slough foot is when a player gets their upper body tied up, their feet taken out from under them, and violently thrown to the ground in a way so that they can't protect themselves. Is that not what we saw in this play?

They talk about the Cody Hodgson trade at Ep 12. Sounds like AV griped to Kesler about how entitled Cody sounded just before the 10 minute mark.

I used to have the Roger's NHL GameCentre Live and that had a bunch of "classic" game options. Can't remember if there's anything from the WCE in there... and right now I can't seem to even find the page. Is that service done?

Did some more looking and Amazon does sell some full games - this list features a Ducks/Canucks matchup from November 2007: https://www.amazon.com/Anaheim-Ducks-at-Pittsburgh-Penguins/dp/B000X2P11I/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=NHL+season+2008&amp;qid=1562717113&amp;s=instant-video&amp;sr=1-1

Could only find it on the US site and it's not quite the full Express era but hopefully that helps get you on the right track to finding them!

>All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

Sun Tzu - The Art of War

This is Brandon's LinkedIn profile. Has everything listed except for the security guard thing (which would understandably be scrubbed/missing, although this website does have that information.)

He was a hire by Jim Weisbrod when he was working with the Flames. Brandon Benning lasted 8 months (and was let go not long after Weisbrod was fired) before being given his walking papers.

Not a great hire, given that Benning Jr. has zero practical experience in hockey and does not appear to have any qualifications as a scout.

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This video of Gaudette having his hair straightened was cute. What can I say? I'm starved for content. https://www.tiktok.com/@micaelakimchi/video/6809778538233859333

I also can't get over how greasy his hair looks after being straightened lol.

I just wanted to offer the insight that ligament tears are technically sprains... the colloquial use of the term ‘spraining your ankle’ usually refers or to a grade 1 sprain, where the ligament gets overstretched (grade 2 sprain is a partial tear, grade 3 sprain is a full tear).

Here is something to read if you want more information (scroll down to grades of ankle sprains)

https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/what-is-an-ankle-sprain

Give it to Petey. Hear me out guys:

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We could fund your flight round trip to the st louis game*. I say fire petey up this off season. Show up in St. Louis & throw it on the ice.

(665 currently online& here it is $655 round trip.....https://www.google.com/flights?lite=0#flt=YVR.STL.2019-04-05.YVRSEA0AS706~SEASTL0AS704*STL.YVR.2019-04-21.STLSLC0DL5798~SLCYVR0DL2804;c:CAD;e:1;sd:1;t:b;sp:2.CAD.65476*2.CAD.65476)

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That being said, it would be a far bigger statement if done in a Canadian arena. Obviously this is a joke & we aren't getting both Hughes. We are getting all three Hughes.

not sure if you are asking how it works or just simply how to do it but I'm bored so will just answer both lol..

it's software: quick google search comes up with this as a functional free one. Really quality ones will not be free though as each one has its own algorithm that upscales the photo. not knowledgeable on what's out there but I'm guessing a more expensive one will have a much more complicated algorithm that does a better job upscaling - which essentially is the software just making an assumption on what should be in a new pixel of the new photo. by the algorithm adding all these pixels, you end up with a higher resolution photo. when you take that photo and compare it to the old one, at the same size, the new one will look more "crisp" thanks to its new higher resolution

Just an FYI. You should shop around. I am downtown and get Novus. Currently 90/month including tv+internet. I used to have a Vonage internet home phone for 12/month. Currently use a Bell share plan with unlimited mins and no longer need a home phone.

Internet speed is 35MBs up and down. Capped at 400GB total. Overage is 5 dollars per 100GB.

As an Amazon Prime member I also got a fire stick and downloaded the NHL tv app. If I went internet only I know I could watch in market games with NordVPN as I have tested this. Choose not to because I get the games from my TV subscription.

218 for cable+internet is too high. Ask Telus to match the competition.

I've been using PureVPN for a few months and have been happy with it, but there's lots to choose from. NordVPN is another one I've heard good things about. /r/vpnreviews is a good place to check out for more info. Cheers :)

I'm not familiar with using one on a console but I believe it's possible, I just wouldn't have any information on it.

I used a site called StrongVPN, I believe it was a little pricey at $12 a month but I had heard good things about it. I was able to select cities to use so that if my default was say, Chicago, and I wanted to watch a Chicago game I could switch it elsewhere.

Really the only reason I went ahead with GCL + VPN was because it was the half-lockout year so they made GCL $50 for the half-season, which was definitely worth it.

I used a Russian IP (with HideMyAss) and signed up for GameCentre for $75 for the season. It's been great. I don't have cable, so I am running it through my xBox. No complaints. I'm hoping this loophole doesn't get closed.

Well, I have yet to test them this season, but depending on the browser you use, FoxyProxy is the easiest to get working, IMO. You have to find a proxy that works for you, but you can find all sorts of sites with lists of free ones: is one such example.

I'm currently at work, and will be going to the Sounders game after work... but if I remember, I'll try to tinker with it this weekend and let you know how it went.

Technically, you should be able to test it by loading up a proxy server in FoxyProxy, enable it, and then simply try to log in to GameCenter. If it works, it'll work come game time. Provided the proxy you choose is based in an area that will get the game, you should be set.

If for any reason it goes bonkers, I do believe NHL GCL can be accessed from Canada just fine as well, which means you can just use a Canadian Proxy instead.

Sadly, there's no way to know with 100% certainty without having a regionally blacked out game to test it on.

Ontario here - I get 90% of Canucks games. Only games nationally broadcast in either Canada or games that are shown for part or all of the game on the East Coast are blocked.

In those situations, I use a VPN from Private Internet Access. Germany is the only country that never has them blocked - even London, England, Switzerland, etc have blackouts, somehow.

Podz is a fucking stallion and with that flow I think I know what shampoo he's been using

You're correct, it is on a steady decline.

... Leicester was more than a 'basement' team at the beginning of the 2015 season. Their odds of winning the EPL at that time was 5000/1 (source). To put that in context, the Canucks have a 100/1 odds right now of winning the 2017 Stanley Cup (link).

Listen to this guy. He knows of what he speaks.

Another variable is the possibility that the salary cap will go up. I've read two predictions that put it at $62.2 or $63.5 million. So that's an extra three or four million.

In light of Vancouver's revenue windfall from the playoff run, you'd hope they'd be willing to spend up against the cap.

In any case, I don't think the Canucks will be participants in the Parise sweepstakes. That'd be too much money wrapped up in too few players.

I actually learned this today: you meant faze, not phase. I know; it's dumb.

http://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/faze-phase/

Edit - Grand Admiral Theron (Fleury??) has a good point. If you're not a mutant, you meant faze, not phase.

Hey, just to let you know, I found something called VPNGate that works quite well. Can now confirm, as I am preparing to watch the Canucks via Gamecenter, evidently in my "hotel in Japan" ;) lol

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Can’t find any proof other than this card. So we know he wore the A with the skate logo at least for one game. Bottom of the card says 1995 playoffs, but he didn’t have an A in the highlights I’ve seen.

https://www.amazon.com/Pavel-Hockey-1995-96-Playoff-One/dp/B01NBHA1S2

I was so excited when I cracked that book open and didn't get past Page 10, when Bruce Dowbiggin literally quotes "one frustrated poster from ProHockeyTalk.com." (I'm not kidding. Check it out on page 10 here: https://www.amazon.ca/Ice-Storm-Greatest-Vancouver-Canucks/dp/1771641312) Maybe it was because I was familiar with the team, but I didn't get the feeling I'd learn anything from this book. I found the insights lacking, the writing full of cliches and then he quoted an internet commenter. (But hey, I guess that means any one on this subrebbit might find their way into the next Dowbiggin book!)

Ice Storm: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Vancouver Canucks Team Ever https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NE6QWFE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_qm2BAbMXGT48G

e: I can't take the referral part out, just search the name on Amazon.com

Not in UK but in Europe. HockeyAuthentic.com were great for me (a heads up though you will possibly get hit with an extra import cost on top of the cost of the jersey). I think online is your best bet for buying jerseys in the UK, though maybe someone over at /r/EIHLHockey might know a few places that carry NHL stuff. If you've got a kindle I'd recommend a book called &quot;Ice Storm&quot; it's about the end of the last management group and how the team got to where they are now.