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The Brown Wizard wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:17 pm Red lobster rules. Its overflowing with orientals loving the ocean bugs and those neverending warm biscuits they keep bringing out
Meh... it’s kinda weak. Like a Denny’s Seafood restaurant.

I got no real good eats here in the Tri Cities. There’s a decent Indian place on Westwood, the Keg, a solid Greek restaurant by Costco, The Arms, KC’s, San Remo for pizza and KC’s no not KFC. KC’s is a good breakfast joint on prairie. Hopefully some decent restaurants open up after the province eventually opens up.
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Doyle Hargraves wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:22 pm
The Brown Wizard wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:17 pm Red lobster rules. Its overflowing with orientals loving the ocean bugs and those neverending warm biscuits they keep bringing out
Meh... it’s kinda weak. Like a Denny’s Seafood restaurant.

I got no real good eats here in the Tri Cities. There’s a decent Indian place on Westwood, the Keg, a solid Greek restaurant by Costco, The Arms, KC’s, San Remo for pizza and KC’s for breakfast. Hopefully some decent restaurants open up after the province eventually opens up.
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The Brown Wizard wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:25 pm
Doyle Hargraves wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:22 pm
The Brown Wizard wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:17 pm Red lobster rules. Its overflowing with orientals loving the ocean bugs and those neverending warm biscuits they keep bringing out
Meh... it’s kinda weak. Like a Denny’s Seafood restaurant.

I got no real good eats here in the Tri Cities. There’s a decent Indian place on Westwood, the Keg, a solid Greek restaurant by Costco, The Arms, KC’s, San Remo for pizza and KC’s for breakfast. Hopefully some decent restaurants open up after the province eventually opens up.
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Wing Ding Wednesday- then they doubled it to 10 cents. That place was fun from say 1990 -2000. It was a great place to go. The owners care more about the way the waitresses look than the quality of food or service. I go there the odd time as my buddy’s shop is over there, but it’s a dive big time. Been a couple bad ass beatings involving the bouncers and patrons there over the years as well. It gets an angry element in there from time to time..... though nothing like Frisco’s back in the day.
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I can’t believe Doyle has never heard of The Sizzler. I would’ve thought that would his jam
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Chef Boi RD wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:26 pm I can’t believe Doyle has never heard of The Sizzler. I would’ve thought that would his jam
Sizzler shipped out of western canada quite a while ago. Still going strong in New Zealand of all places
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ESQ wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:13 pm 96-97 was when we started to see the big drop-off in offence, with only 2 players cracking 100 points. Forsberg was on a better-than-100 point pace that year, but the injuries started.
Yeah, Forsberg basically had two problems that lead to missing a lot of games.

The first was that unlike many NHL stars, who had a "police" guarding them on the ice, Foppa did his own police work. He gave and he took on the ice, which of course does take it's toll. Not as bad as in the case of Lindros, he didn't suffer many concussions iirc, but a fairly similar situation. Guess it was a sign of the times.

But the main problem was his feet. He had extremely strong and rigid arches, the opposite of flat feet, which lead to his feet bearing his entire weight on the outside rim, and slowly becoming more and more twisted, so that he evemtually more or less walked (and skated) on the side of his feet. Add 100+kg of muscle and explosive skating, and you get a whole lot of stress fractures, healing in all the wrong ways. Eventually in 2006 he had an orthopedic team break all the bones in his right foot and the put them back together. Once that had healed enough so he could support his weight on that leg, they did the same thing to his left foot. Unfortunately this type of medieval torture did not help. His feet shrunk and twisted during games, so he had to adjust his skates between shifts, and eventually he gave up. Took quite some time though... 57 games (+5 playoff games) in 06/07, 9 games (+7 playoff games) in 07/08, 3 games in the SHL in 08/09, 23 games in the SHL in 09/10 plus 4 at the Olympics, 2 NHL games in 10/11 and then he finally gave up and called it quits, five years after the surgery that he hoped could salvage his career.
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Chef Boi RD wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:43 pm
theman wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:40 pm
Chef Boi RD wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:31 pm
theman wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:29 pm
Chef Boi RD wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:12 pm Mëds where would we find you on a night out in Terrace? Haryana, Chef Abhi’s or Sonbadas?
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Hanky Panky’s was the happening place.
Where would Doyle find Terraces version of the Dufferin Hotel?
The Coast? Or the hotel where the Skeena Bar is in. I assume it is still a dive.
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I think this 'Pettersson is overrated' conversation is borne of overreaction to the fact that he's had a funky season so far. If he had carried on his pace from last year, I don't think we'd be having this conversation. You look at his PPG last season and it was better than his rookie season. This season's a blip, and I don't think we've seen the best Pettersson yet.

Is he generational? Probably not. Does the team need him to be generational in order to win a Cup? Probably not.

He's a legit #1 centre, and I would put him in the top 10 of #1 centres in the league. Benning just has to build around him, Boeser, Hughes and Demko.
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Lancer wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:38 am I think this 'Pettersson is overrated' conversation is borne of overreaction to the fact that he's had a funky season so far. If he had carried on his pace from last year, I don't think we'd be having this conversation. You look at his PPG last season and it was better than his rookie season. This season's a blip, and I don't think we've seen the best Pettersson yet.

Is he generational? Probably not. Does the team need him to be generational in order to win a Cup? Probably not.

He's a legit #1 centre, and I would put him in the top 10 of #1 centres in the league. Benning just has to build around him, Boeser, Hughes and Demko.

And be prepared to move him in about 5 years before the big contract.. you just know there is a team that will give up good pieces - and too many of them- to get talent like this. :D
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Madcombinepilot wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:56 am
Lancer wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:38 am I think this 'Pettersson is overrated' conversation is borne of overreaction to the fact that he's had a funky season so far. If he had carried on his pace from last year, I don't think we'd be having this conversation. You look at his PPG last season and it was better than his rookie season. This season's a blip, and I don't think we've seen the best Pettersson yet.

Is he generational? Probably not. Does the team need him to be generational in order to win a Cup? Probably not.

He's a legit #1 centre, and I would put him in the top 10 of #1 centres in the league. Benning just has to build around him, Boeser, Hughes and Demko.

And be prepared to move him in about 5 years before the big contract.. you just know there is a team that will give up good pieces - and too many of them- to get talent like this. :D
Seldom does a team win a trade when giving away a star player - allow me to be skeptical of Benning's ability to fleece a GM in trading away Pettersson.
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Mëds wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:45 pm
Per wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:31 pm
Mëds wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:21 pm
Well no shit.....but I don't see the Foppa comparisons at all. Forsberg was 6'0 205lbs, Petey is 6'2" 176lbs. Sure he may possess a similar tenacity and drive to compete, but to date I've seen that work its way out as frustrated pouting, not in hard work on the boards and constantly frustrating defenders.

I'd be thrilled if Pete could be even a 90 point guy.
Oh, he’ll get there alright!

Remember how the twins started out with 30 point seasons and then worked their way up to 100?

Well, Petey started with consecutive 60+ point seasons, so all things being equal, he ought to reach 200 at his peak! 8-)
I mean a career 90 point guy. Hell, if he can be a career 82 point guy that would be great.

The Sedins were career 65 point players. They started slow, peaked, and dropped off.
Career, eh? OK, 90 goals over 82 games is an 1.097 ppg clip. So basically 1.10.

Only 34 players in the history of the NHL meet that criterion. But sure, we're talking generational... :drink:

Player......... Pos _GP_ _ G _ _ A _ _ P _ P/GP
Wayne Gretzky.. C 1 487 _894 1 963 2 857 1.92
Mario Lemieux.. C _915 _690 1 033 1 723 1.88
Newsy Lalonde.. C __99 _125 __42 _167 1.69
Shep Mayer...... R ___2 ___1 ___2 ___3 1.50
Mike Bossy....... R _752 _573 _553 1 126 1.50
Joe Malone...... C _126 _143 __33 _176 1.40
Bobby Orr........ D _657 _270 _645 _915 1.39
Connor McDavid C _382 _179 _343 _522 1.37
John English..... D ___3 ___1 ___3 ___4 1.33
Marcel Dionne... C 1 348 _731 1 040 1 771 1.31
Sidney Crosby... C 1 011 _473 _819 1 292 1.28
Peter Stastny.... C _977 _450 _789 1 239 1.27
Peter Forsberg.. C _708 _249 _636 _885 1.25
Kent Nilsson..... C _553 _264 _422 _686 1.24
Phil Esposito..... C 1 282 _717 _873 1 590 1.24
Guy Lafleur...... R 1 126 _560 _793 1 353 1.20
Joe Sakic........ C 1 378 _625 1 016 1 641 1.19
Dale Hawerchuk C 1 188 _518 _891 1 409 1.19
Evgeni Malkin... C _935 _424 _676 1 100 1.18
Pat LaFontaine.. C _865 _468 _545 1 013 1.17
Steve Yzerman.. C 1 514 _692 1 063 1 755 1.16
Todd Bergen..... C __14 __11 ___5 __16 1.14
Eric Lindros...... C _760 _372 _493 _865 1.14
Bernie Federko. C 1 000 _369 _761 1 130 1.13
Denis Savard.... C 1 196 _473 _865 1 338 1.12
Jari Kurri......... R 1 251 _601 _797 1 398 1.12
Bryan Trottier... C 1 279 _524 _901 1 425 1.11
Gilbert Perreault C 1 191 _512 _814 1 326 1.11
Pavel Bure....... R _702 _437 _342 _779 1.11
Jaromir Jagr..... R 1 733 _766 1 155 1 921 1.11
Alex Ovechkin... L 1 176 _717 _582 1 299 1.10
Harry Cameron.. D _129 __88 __54 _142 1.10
Bobby Hull....... L 1 063 _610 _560 1 170 1.10
Brett Hull........ R 1 269 _741 _650 1 391 1.10

It'd be amazing if he made that list! :thumbs:

He is at 0.93 right now, so not that far away. Ranking in at 154th of 7250 NHL players of all time; two slots behind Daniel Alfredsson, five ahead of Joe Thornton.

Assuming he keeps improving for another two or three years, then stays at that level for another five to eight before starting to lose some of his edge, he could end up up there. Definitely among the 100 greatest ppg scorers of all time, for sure.

Oh, btw, smart move by Shep Mayer and John English to quit after two and three games respectively, that way ensuring that they will be firmly lodged in the top ten for all eternity! :lol:
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Lancer wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 5:16 am
Madcombinepilot wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:56 am
Lancer wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:38 am I think this 'Pettersson is overrated' conversation is borne of overreaction to the fact that he's had a funky season so far. If he had carried on his pace from last year, I don't think we'd be having this conversation. You look at his PPG last season and it was better than his rookie season. This season's a blip, and I don't think we've seen the best Pettersson yet.

Is he generational? Probably not. Does the team need him to be generational in order to win a Cup? Probably not.

He's a legit #1 centre, and I would put him in the top 10 of #1 centres in the league. Benning just has to build around him, Boeser, Hughes and Demko.

And be prepared to move him in about 5 years before the big contract.. you just know there is a team that will give up good pieces - and too many of them- to get talent like this. :D
Seldom does a team win a trade when giving away a star player - allow me to be skeptical of Benning's ability to fleece a GM in trading away Pettersson.
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Pretty cool that both Bobby and Brett Hull ended with the exact same PPG.

Pettersson is Henrik like. Not the best in the league, but still a very good player.
I wouldn’t trade Henrik in a quality for quantity type trade, so I wouldn’t trade Petey.
Unless you can get an equivalent or better player one for one, you don’t trade a quality number one centre.
This whole thread is weird. He’s still a kid who we know preforms well in the playoffs. He had a poor start to this weird Covid season, but he’s turned that around. His upside is unknown. With some preseason games, I doubt he’ll ever start a season this poorly again.
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Pettersson is the team's best center, best forward, and has potential to get even better. He possesses the best shot, the best hands, the best vision, and his play is pretty good in his own end (and should improve with experience and continuing to physically mature). The only cracks are a question of whether he is prone to injury and the fact that he came into the league with a compete level off the charts and we've now seen a couple spells where he gets into his own head and doesn't get out of it by working harder.

Overrated if he's the "Swedish Gretzky," but not overrated if the expectation is that he ends no future Canuck will wear #40 if he plays in Vancouver until he is 30.
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Isn't this thread just a big 'ol strawman? Who exactly was it that said Petey was generational? C'mon stand up :)
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