kilgore

Interesting forum topic. Keep our brains from going into overload thinking about the game tonight Mine started when I joined CDC. It was a homage to the lead character in a Kurt Vonnegut novel, Breakfast of Champions. A book that was one of a few that changed my thinking when I was younger. Don't want to get too deep but it put the final nail in the coffin for me escaping the effects of growing up in an fundamentalist religious house. The premise, that the main character finds out he is just a character in a novel, and the author, like god, is a big jokester putting him into different situations. Don't take life too seriously. If good things happen, if tragedy happens, its out of your hands. If there is a God, he's an amoral jokester. Kind of a cynical way to view the universe, I admit. But the best I've found. That philosophy had helped me live with the Canucks 54 years of suffering and teasing us.

So....I was trying to find out this. If he'd be back this playoffs sometime. Apparently not. Without Demko or Boeser, even if we manage to win tonight, it would be a tough slough against Dallas When I heard it was not life threatening, and not too serious for him, Dr. Kilgore at first was hoping it was just a case of blood thinning drugs to flush it out, a week of rest, and he'd be good to go. But I only play doctor in this post. So I guess not.

I love how Miller has basically taken the team under his wing. But sometimes i wonder how his assertiveness affects Quinn. No fault of Quinn, he is just more of a quiet kind of leader. He's just as passionate about winning as JT. But lets face it, JT is more captain material. His pro-active organizing the shirt for Garland, to wearing the Silovs shirt in practice, to the thoughtful honest interviews, to demanding the best from his teammates, like this or like the stick slam with Delia, ...no matter what skeavy media personality sees it and bases their next show around how Miller is a cancer because he's so impolite to his fellow teammates. I hope and believe that the two have a mutual understanding and that even the team as a whole understands that Miller is just more vocal, but Hughes is still the leader of the room. I can understand for the long term point of view that Quinn was a great choice. But in hindsight, I wonder if management regrets not giving the C to the one player who has already taken on that role. And probably already took it on even while Horvat was here. I just hope there isn't any uneasiness with Quinn about how prominent JT has naturally been elevated. And that its affected their relationship. There ain't no "Quinn Hughes" chants like the "J T Miller" chants. Anyways, I don't think its that important. People will think I'm dumping on Quinn. I''m not. But it is kind of odd how for years, maybe decades, we've been waiting for a captain like a Miller type to lead the team. And when we finally land a player like that, the C is given to another "quiet leader".

Good thing no one ran into you while you were jumping up of the ground, or you'd be charged with assault.

Its one thing to have self confidence, its another to step all over your coaches shoes

No he'll eventually demand a trade. And end up as an LA King.

Dare to dream

Hard to the net boys!

He basically jumped straight up on the same spot. Is that illegal? The other player ran into him. And actually bumped him forwards. Ridiculous that was a "charging" call.

It takes a serious degree of shame to reach Coiler levels of that skill

All our hitting this series is starting to take a toll on them

We have to match and surpass Edmontons arrogant assumption that they MUST win this series.

Not that it matters now, but why no overhead replay of the puck on the goal line on that first chance? It looked pretty close.