I don’t really care if they sign him or not. I only care that a thing that the GM wanted to do he was unable to do because of other things he did that are stopping him from things he wants to do. - 1970vintage
You used “to do” three times in one sentence. That’s hard to do.
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Jul 16 @ 12:15 PM ET
I don’t really care if they sign him or not. I only care that a thing that the GM wanted to do he was unable to do because of other things he did that are stopping him from things he wants to do. - 1970vintage
Thanks to new Arizona Coyotes president and CEO Xavier Gutierrez for chatting with me for @ForbesSports about his new job, the future of hockey in the desert, and how excited he is to see his team getting ready for games.
I don’t really care if they sign him or not. I only care that a thing that the GM wanted to do he was unable to do because of other things he did that are stopping him from things he wants to do. - 1970vintage
They wanted to sign him for next year (and could after the season). He wanted to be signed now. Not that big of a deal.
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Jul 16 @ 12:43 PM ET
the guy's decent. i don't want to make out that he can't play. he could definitely be serviceable.
...but he's nowhere near good enough to have the attitude he does. - RealityChecker
I'm pretty confident his time in Russia has served him a big slice of humble-pie. If he's been in steady decline since his first season there and from all I've heard about the KHL lifestyle I bet he would be a better teammate the second time around (thinking Radulov level transformation).
BUT I am not confident that he's more than a Jared Cowan and think the progress the NHL is making on the skills front makes Rathbone already further ahead on the depth chart
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Jul 16 @ 12:45 PM ET
I'm pretty confident his time in Russia has served him a big slice of humble-pie. If he's been in steady decline since his first season there and from all I've heard about the KHL lifestyle I bet he would be a better teammate the second time around (thinking Radulov level transformation).
BUT I am not confident that he's more than a Jared Cowan and think the progress the NHL is making on the skills front makes Rathbone already further ahead on the depth chart - WhiteLie
They wanted to sign him for next year (and could after the season). He wanted to be signed now. Not that big of a deal. - NewYorkNuck
That isn’t how I read it. The contract can’t be for this year, unless it was to “burn a year”, which in this case it isn’t the case. The holdup is the Canucks aren’t willing to add a one-way contract for next season because of their salary uncertainty.
Infectious disease specialist Dr. John Swartzberg says the NHL and NHL Players’ Association have made a massive mistake by staging team training camps in Southern U.S. cities where Covid infection rates are spiking.
“This is unwise, it’s bad judgement, it’s a horrific decision,” Dr. Swartzberg, a physician and researcher at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in California, said in an interview with TSN.
Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti, an infectious disease specialist at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga, Ont., said he would advise the NHL against having training camps anywhere in the U.S. right now.
“Community transmission is an important metric for Covid and right now in the U.S., it’s nuclear, it’s gargantuan especially in Florida,” Dr. Chakrabarti said. “Having training camps in the U.S. is a terrible non-evidence-based decision. I’m sure players will be wearing masks and washing hands but it’s like having a small umbrella outside. In the light rain it works well and you’re ok. But if you start getting winds and torrential rains, that umbrella isn’t going to do anything for you. Even in a ‘bubble’ you’re in a bucket of Covid ... You want to be charitable and maybe the NHL is so far into this that it’s just hard for them to pull back. But you look at this and say, ‘What are you thinking?’”
Dr. Prabhat Jha, an epidemiologist at the University of Toronto and director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael's Hospital, said it was “crazy” to hold training camps in communities in the southern U.S.
“There is so much uncontrolled community transmission that it’s almost impossible to think you could protect the players from getting the infection and bringing it here to Canada,” Dr. Jha said.
