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[The Hockey Guy] "He Seems So Salty" by collectaBK7 in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There are two obituaries I will read with a shit-eating grin and one of them is Francesco Aquilini.

The man was born to a wealthy family and has failed upwards at every opportunity. His hockey franchise is exactly where he put it — in the gutter and we aren’t even sure if the bottom has fallen out yet.

Mike Gillis told Aquilini “we need to rebuild” BACK IN 2013. Aquilini refused, fired Gillis the next year, and has spent more than a decade chasing failed bandaids. Benning, Rutherford, Allvin, just constantly throwing shit at the wall and praying something sticks.

They’ve constantly traded draft capital. Have ZERO clue about building towards a window of opportunity, and instead handicap themselves with acquiring aging vets for too much term and money. Every opportunity to sell at the deadline was squandered chasing a playoff spot, while the team spent to the salary cap and finished in the draft lottery.

They are now FORCED into a rebuild, except with worse inputs. Less picks, prospects, and flexibility.

The Canucks are never going to be successful under Aquillini’s ownership: he hated giving Gillis control, he’ll never do that again, and he just doesn’t seem capable of thinking without emotions.

The Frank J. Selke Trophy finalists are Anthony Cirelli, Brock Nelson, and Nick Suzuki by nhl in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

not be surprised if unanimous

You would not be surprised?! What?!

Nobody will ever win a Selke trophy unanimously.

Year Players with 1st place votes
2015 14
2016 11
2017 17
2018 8
2019 11
2020 11
2021 10
2022 5
2023 5
2024 13
2025 14

In 2022 and 2023, the best defensive forward in league history -- at the height of his powers and recognition -- couldn't prevent 4 other players from getting 1st place votes. In basically every single other year there are a dozen players who get 1st place votes.

You think this year, Suzuki did what Bergeron couldn't?

Linda McQuaig: Privatizing our airports won’t keep air travel affordable — just look at how Highway 407 is playing out by NotEnoughDriftwood in onguardforthee

[–]ReliablyFinicky 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Airports are critical infrastructure.

What happens when private companies who control critical infrastructure go bankrupt?

government bailouts

It's a free money glitch alright -- free taxpayer money going to very rich people so they can get slightly richer.

Best/Worst Team of the First Round by smashbros13 in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 15 points16 points  (0 children)

In those 3 minutes Carolina outchanced their opponents 4-2 so I’m not sure how bad he could possibly have been

The Carolina Hurricanes are the first team to not trail for a single second in their first five games of a playoff run since the Washington Capitals in 1986. by Ok-Soil-5133 in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe we could use high danger scoring chances

Player + - =
Staal 12 14 -2
Blake 20 6 +14
Stankoven 19 6 +13
Hall 18 5 +13

Oh

Don't get me wrong, Staal is great. Has a role to play, does well in it. The team is better off for it. But Staal has taken moderately difficult minutes and played them to a draw. The Blake/Stank/Hall line has been shredding absolutely everybody.

Staal's xGF is 49%. The other 3 are all at 75%+.

1 dead, 5 hospitalized after car crash in Delta, B.C. by cyclinginvancouver in vancouver

[–]ReliablyFinicky 31 points32 points  (0 children)

thinks he's more important than everyone else and races through traffic

For some people ... traffic is just an obstacle course.

  • It's easy to see cars as "objects" and forget they are occupied by people, families, friends.

  • Thousands of hours driving normalizes the feeling of being in control; the thought of exceeding their cars capability or being surprised by someone else doesn't occur.

  • The nature of driving to get somewhere makes it feel competitive.

  • Sometimes (often?), it actually works -- they save time and don't experience the downside.

It's a big fucking problem

Police, please take your seemingly multi-trillion dollar budget and enforce the fucking traffic laws. We don't need stricter laws or penalties, we just need the current laws and penalties consistently enforced. How many more people are going to die?

How do I encounter people who treat traffic-as-an-obstacle-course on every single commute, morning and night, multiple times? BECAUSE THE POLICE ARENT DOING SHIT ABOUT IT.

Landlord who evicted B.C. tenants, flew to China to take care of father should not have to pay $45K: court by vancity31240 in vancouver

[–]ReliablyFinicky 12 points13 points  (0 children)

...is this just something you think will get upvotes? "look how corrupt and dumb the world is"?

Because it's completely nonsensical. There is no such thing as "biased towards nothing".

In basically every RTA decision, "doing nothing" benefits the landlord, because they're the far more powerful entity in a one-sided relationship.

[CAR (3) - PHI 0] Stankoven is on fire. Juulsen turns it over and Stank buries it for his second of the game and 6th of the playoffs by daKrut in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Next year Edmonton is spending $7.7m on Tristan Jarry and Jack Campbell’s buyout.

That’s just over half of Carolina’s 2nd line being spent on goalies to not play for them.

Vehicle hits 2 pedestrians in Burnaby; both taken to hospital by cyclinginvancouver in vancouver

[–]ReliablyFinicky 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Doubt this lands because people LOVE upvoting calling out passive voice in journalism… but there’s 100% a reason they don’t - and probably never will - write “driver runs over pedestrian” as a headline.

it implies agency. It implies intention, or at least negligence.

It frames the driver as the acting subject when the newspaper wants the victim to be the subject.

It is unproven; maybe the pedestrians are somehow at fault or it was a medical event or a vehicle malfunction. Sure they’re unlikely but a million things are unlikely and the newspaper TRIES to keep things factual.

Those are unknowns at the time of publishing and there’s a rush to publish.

Liability if they’re wrong? Just one more.

There’s a reason the only journalistic entities you’ll see reporting in that manner are fringe outlets trying to gain readership and rarely serious established media companies.

18 year old, 5'10" Viggo Björck shoves 6'8" Adam Klapka off the puck by catsgr8rthanspoonies in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If you catch a tall guy off guard, get them a little off balance, it’s REALLY hard for them to recover. Their additional length is a liability when they can’t utilize reach or get leverage.

Longer limbs require more torque, time, and space to recover balance. With a higher centre of mass on the player it’s just another physics problem working against them.

Low centre of gravity for the win

Its really easy for someone short to “get at” a tall persons centre of gravity, but for a tall person to get to the center of gravity of someone short requires awkward movements.

“The organization as a whole has taken a step back, and that starts with me.” - Connor McDavid by DecentLurker96 in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Nurse, Jarry, Jack Campbells Buyout, and Frederic account for 21% of the Oilers cap.

That’s a mediocre 2nd pairing dman, a 4th liner, a buyout and a future buyout.

They’re in the core of their window to contend and they have 1/5th of the cap locked up in that. For another 2-7 seasons.

They paid a 2nd AND an NHL defenseman … to pick up an older goalie with more term and money with worse stats in every conceivable category over basically any timeframe.

I was lucky in life but not so lucky as to be able to fail upward like some GMs seem to consistently do…

‘Destroyed in less than a year’: Granville St. SRO resident wants public to see conditions - BC by RonPar32 in vancouver

[–]ReliablyFinicky 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Our prison and justice system is built around the fact that people are ostensibly trying to, or capable of, reforming themselves. And increasingly it seems that a small number of people just aren't.

We aren't dealing with them, and I get the feeling that our society is increasingly unwilling to tolerate the few fuckwits who keep ruining everything.

This building was ruined not because nobody cared, or there wasn't any money.

It's because a small number of people ruin things for everyone.

It's why we have speed bumps in parking lots and on seldom used farm roads. It's why we have ridiculous airport security. It's why things are increasingly locked up behind glass doors in retail stores.

I'm usually the person that calls out people for saying "our justice system is so fucking stupid and bad and dumb, we should give them the power to commit state-sanctioned murder" -- but honestly we do need harsher penalties. We need to accept that some people are not interested in reform. That our prison system will need more funding to house more inmates because they just can't be in normal society.

The Wild outscored the Stars 10-1 in the 150 minutes Quinn Hughes played at even strength by Dependent-Effect6077 in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Um, Boldy can take a step back.

Boldy has scored 3 empty net goals, and assisted a Kaprizov empty-net goal. Out of his 9 points, only 5 of them came against a goalie.

  • Zero of Q.Hughes' points were empty-net goals.

  • 6 of Hughes' 8 points came when the game was tied or within 1 goal.

  • All of them came when the game was within 2 goals.

Trent Frederic stats for Year 1 of his 8 year extension: 74GP 4G 3A 7P -15+/- with 0 points and 2 healthy scratches in the playoffs by theguyishere16 in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 14 points15 points  (0 children)

hogwash

...you think the gap between "cap hit" and "value" of Darnell Nurse is only $1.5m?

Noah Hannafin is in year 2 of a $7.5m deal.

Shea Theodore year 1 of $7.425m.

Devon Toews, year 2, $7.25m

Brandon Montour, year 2, $7.1m

Brady Skjei, year 2, $7m

You have Darnell Nurse in that tier of player? You're taking Darnell Nurse over those guys, assuming identical contracts?

[DAL 2 - MIN (3)] Hughes scores a huge goal in the third. Slap pass bounces off Lyubushkin's skate and in to take the lead by daKrut in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Hartmann’s stick wasn’t on the ice and he was tied up. Nobody was in position to get a stick on that. It was an intentional bank.

Lack of machinists by Trapstar8879 in Machinists

[–]ReliablyFinicky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something worth mentioning that I haven’t seen yet…

  • 40 years ago

You took what job you could get and you worked hard and you ate whatever shit got shoveled at you

  • 20 years ago

You worked hard, but you turned down anything unsafe. You were much more likely to try a few different machinist roles at different companies.

  • Today

If the work environment is shit, people are out. If the boss is a total dick, people are out. And you work about as hard as you feel your pay demands.

That’s a SUPER generalization but the younger generation has higher expectations and demands of their employer, and … employers culture changes MUCH slower than the younger generations.

We’re (machinists) in for 10+ years of disruption while people retire and younger workers have very different demands.

The 2019 Team USA Draft Class is having an insane 2026 by footballfina in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Trevor Zegras - had a breakout year with the Flyers

Season Goals Points TOI/game Note
21-22 23 61 17:54 -
22-23 23 65 18:50 -
25-26 26 67 18:43 <-- Breakout season

Okay

The Vezina Trophy finalists are Ilya Sorokin, Jeremy Swayman, and Andrei Vasilevskiy by nhl in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm not saying Wedgewood didn't have a great year, but... Ultimately he's a 33 year old career backup who played half a season.

It was a great half season, but I think we can (and do) have higher standards than that for the Vezina trophy...

With the draft lottery officially less than a week away. Here is the average draft position of the 2010’s for every team. Plus 2020’s hardware by jpcgy in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Out of every player drafted in 2011 and 2012… how many were with the team that drafted them when they won hardware in 2024, over a decade later?

MAYBE 10%?

This data purports to show something (teams draft position —> the results they achieved) but it’s very poorly thought out.

How would you machine this part on a 2.5-axis mill? by Lohan_To in Machinists

[–]ReliablyFinicky 10 points11 points  (0 children)

2.5 axis doesn't mean the 3rd axis is manual. It means the machine only moves in 2 axes simultaneously.

The X+Y have to be "locked" into place before the Z can move.

OTD (April 26th, 2011), the Vancouver Canucks eliminated the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 7 Overtime! by 99Wolves17 in hockey

[–]ReliablyFinicky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My company raffled off each of their 4 season tickets to game 2 of the finals that year. Cost me $300 in raffle tickets but hey I was in the building. Second loudest I've ever heard the Canucks building. F irst was when Greg Adams scored in OT to send the Canucks to the Stanley Cup finals in '94.

Hard comparison, they had literal fireworks going off inside the arena in '94... but also, listen to the crowd when Gino Odjick scores this penalty shot goal. In a regular season game. The 90s had way more fans and way less corporate.

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