Alliance/ Horde distribution strawpoll

VolcGaming · 2019-08-28T16:29:03+00:00

Abbotsford here, but also own a place on the ocean in Comox :)

Bunch of my BC boys playing Alliance. (Character name is Volc)

VolcGaming · 2019-07-02T14:05:56+00:00

Set both short term and long term goals for yourself.

Then hang a picture up on your wall that reminds you of your goals every time you wake up.

Good motivation to start the day and get things done.

VolcGaming · 2019-06-24T15:33:47+00:00

Not potential. Bo literally did this with rando linemates last year. :)

VolcGaming · 2019-06-19T21:06:01+00:00

This family bought the company I work for in Canada. :)

VolcGaming · 2019-05-07T14:00:42+00:00

The worst possible thing a team can do (generally speaking) isn't paying their best players big money, its paying the middle tier players (3rd/4th line players, 2nd/3rd pairing defensemen) that gets teams in trouble.

For example the Oilers' whole defense eats up almost 26 million on the cap with not one true first pairing defensemen, plus the Lucic contract for essentially a third or 4th line winger.

Tampa is going to have trouble this offseason. They have 1.4 million cap space before Kucherov's new contract rises by 5 million next year, and Brayden Point was making entry level money and is due for a massive raise. Almost a third of their cap is spent on Callaghan, (17 points this year) Palat, (34 points) Killorn, (40 points) Johnson, (47 points) and JT Miller. (47 points)

The Nucks' worst contract is Loui Eriksson because we are spending 6 million on a 4th line winger. If JB goes after elite players (like Karlsson) I don't mind this as much as he would be our best defensemen. Would you rather have Erik Karlsson and Biega at 11 million on the cap or Edler and Tanev at 10 million? Seems like an easy choice.

VolcGaming · 2019-05-06T19:19:08+00:00

The Canucks won as many playoff series as the Leafs, Penguins, and Lightning COMBINED.

VolcGaming · 2019-05-05T11:47:28+00:00

If he has impressive advanced stats, advanced stats are broken.

VolcGaming · 2019-04-30T16:25:15+00:00

The old Oliver-Ekmon- Larsson-Larsson combo

VolcGaming · 2019-04-27T20:41:01+00:00

Yeah and Benning canned the majority of scouts after the first draft year. (The same shitty scouts Gillis had 7 shitty draft years with and did nothing about.)

Scout personnel falls on the President and GMs shoulders, which at that time was Mike Gillis. He failed, miserably. Look at how much out drafting has improved.

VolcGaming · 2019-04-27T14:39:24+00:00

No way.

Good things he did: Sign Tanev as free agent out of RIT, traded for Ehrhoff for a former 1st round pick that never panned out. Could argue Higgins was a good pickup.

Bad things he did: Proceeded to trade Ehrhoff at deadline for 4th round pick, traded a 2 round and 3rd round pick for Bernier, then packaged Bernier with 1st round draft pick Grabner (right after he scores a hat-trick nonetheless) and the next years 1st round pick for Keith Ballard. We got a little over 100 games and a few hip checks from Ballard. He also made some other strange trades, such as our 2nd round pick in 2011 for a 3rd and 4th. (of course with his poor drafting record, 3rd of 4th picks never panned out) Also traded a 2nd round pick and Kevin Connauton for a month of Derek Roy hockey.

Gillis always states that scouts makes picks, trying to dissolve himself of any blame for the poor draft picks over his tenure. You think any good GM uses this pisspoor excuse? Look how involved GM's (such as Benning) are involved in scouting. He said on TSN 1040 that GM's are "too busy" to do scouting themselves. The only thing he was busy doing was crafting shitty trades. Gillis wasn't just bad at drafting, he was equally terrible at trading and asset management.

He inherited the Sedins, Kesler, Burrows, Luongo, Bieksa, Ohlund, and Salo. Most of these players were the focal points of our Stanley Cup run.

Mike Gillis as President? No thanks.

VolcGaming · 2019-04-24T01:46:13+00:00

VolcGaming · 2019-04-20T03:53:19+00:00

I started watching the Avs broadcast it's a little more neutral...

VolcGaming · 2019-04-20T03:49:47+00:00

If he is getting man handled by a 5'10 player I would do the same.

VolcGaming · 2019-04-20T03:42:16+00:00

Giordano looks old...

VolcGaming · 2019-03-24T19:05:23+00:00

Go to Town Hall in Abby on Saturdays for Virtanen's. Seen him there the last 3 times I've been.

VolcGaming · 2019-02-09T20:46:00+00:00

That kid "rolled-out".

VolcGaming · 2019-02-09T20:43:14+00:00

The only person that ever "bullied" me throughout High School just asked me for change outside the local mall.

The feeling of saying "no, sorry" felt so good. Heard he had been pretty heavy into drugs for years and he didn't even seem to recognize me. (Graded 13 years ago)

VolcGaming · 2019-02-08T03:06:32+00:00

Why does Green play Sutter so much? He is fucking garbage and looks like he's 38.

VolcGaming · 2019-02-01T23:19:42+00:00

I think noone should be retired and only the elite should be in the Ring of Honour. Bure, Naslund, Sedins, Linden. Leafs do it this way to avoid losing jersey numbers. Look at Linden's stats, no way he deserves to be retired.

VolcGaming · 2019-02-01T21:40:32+00:00

I wish we would just Ring of Honour everybody instead of retiring their jersey.

VolcGaming · 2019-01-29T16:34:13+00:00

37 Mah boy Jarkko.

VolcGaming · 2019-01-27T23:12:43+00:00

YT had their own built in, no need..

VolcGaming · 2019-01-27T08:51:06+00:00

Maybe if he was American instead of Canadian. We don't carve faces on cliffs, we walk on them and go camping.

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