donlever wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2026 11:42 am ....after Toppers blast across the bow but didn't bother...

Does he actually do those? As a general rule I thought he only targets the rudder.

Methinks this should be in the SKYO thread.

Methinks you’d be correct at this point.

Why do people believe BC boys want to come home and play (at a home town discount too)? The only players who do that are washed up vets and the Lil'Trojans of the league I agree it’s very unrealistic, particularly when one considers how much these players would lose in taxes, and how much more they ...

Not a fan of the top ticket price tag Mëds. Prefer the Hurricane/Panther strength in numbers methodology. That's one reason I was not losing much sleep over Hughes. Equivalence of 4 first rounders doesn’t hurt, either. The 4 firsts doesn’t apply here. The player in question will be UFA at the end of ...

Not a fan of the top ticket price tag Mëds. Prefer the Hurricane/Panther strength in numbers methodology. That's one reason I was not losing much sleep over Hughes. I never have been either Donny. It’s one of the reasons I was not a fan of Scooter’s contract…..as much as I don’t like the player (for ...

It'll cost 20 sheets a year to sign him in 2031. Hopefully we have built something else showing a semblance of success by then and don't need to recruit hugely expensive UFA's. If we're actually going that route and we are throwing coins in a wishing well half a decade early I'd rather us have a ...

Only the meatheads.

He will be 5 years older with way more miles on those weak shoulders.

I bet he plays 60% of the games during that contract.

The Alumni Staff…..

CoPoHO: Hank n’ Dank
GM: RJ
Head Coach: Manny
Asst Coach: Bieksa
Asst Coach: Burrows
Asst Coach: Bert
Video Coach: Schneider (the narratives would be amazing)

Player Development Coaches
Goaltending Coach: Edler
Fighting Coach: Cloutier
Skills Coach: Mogilny
Skating Coach: Bure

I’m hoping he emerges as a prime Kesler.

I’ll be satisfied if he hits your description.

And correction, 2 weeks earlier.

Past years started the 2nd week of October.

The league released the 2026-27 schedule today.

Starts a week earlier now. Sept 29.

Canucks play the Coil on opening night.

I wonder if it has to do with position as well. For Cootes vs Lekkerimaki….. Cootes could become a good 2C, but he almost certainly should be that quality 3C, and it is highly unlikely he becomes a 1C. Lekkerimaki could become a good scoring top-6 winger, but he likely won’t ever be useful in the bot ...

He’s 31, outside of some insane bidding war, no team was going to commit more than 4 years to a big-man, power forward, who will likely see his game drop off at 35. Yeah, I could have seen no one at more than 4 at the start of offseason (even if I thought someone desperate wiould go longer), but no ...

After signing a couple of "prove it" deals, Mantha finally proved it and didn't get the big contract. (And I was never thinking the contract would be huge, but this is a $9M guaranteed when I think he must have thought heading into the process he was looking at $20-35 M over 4-6 years). The funny ...

When I look at Seattle, I can’t help but think they are a badly managed expansion team. Perhaps some of that is because they came in after Vegas and despite essentially the same expansion rules, they were unable to fleece the rest of the league because GM’s had wised up. Either way, they just don’t l ...

Player One has 9 points in 37 games and has shown so far that he doesn’t have the strength to play in the NHL. Player Two has 78 points in 169 games and can play all ends of the ice. When you consider that they were taken in the same draft, one is not like the other. Lekkerimaki for Wright is not a s ...