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edit - can some tell me how to embed a video for future reference
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NINJA EDIT! - You paste the URL of the video without any bullshit around it.
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That has to be Steve Porter? Dude is sick!
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“The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place... and I don´t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But ain't about how hard you hit... It's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward... how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That´s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you worth, go out and get what you worth.” - Rocky Balboa
^ It's the kerning. It looks like they didn't want a really wide space to the left and right of each name. The odd thing is, they are all kerned differently. Whoever created those pictures definitely was not consistent.
The font is correct, though. At least, it's closer to the actual Canuck jersey font than 99% of the fake jerseys out there. The size of Kes' namebar is too big.
TSNBobMcKenzie: It's extremely doubtful Manny Malhotra (eye) will be able to play in this year's playoffs, but as remote a possibility as it is don't be surprised if he ramps up intensity of on-ice workouts to get himself in best possible shape in case there's any chance later.
Which brings up this purely hypothetical situation... If it's game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals and Manny is in game shape and it would be his first game back... Would you play Manny?
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Which brings up this purely hypothetical situation... If it's game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals and Manny is in game shape and it would be his first game back... Would you play Manny?
Dress 6 Dmen and keep him on the bench for faceoffs only.
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this far in the playoffs and im still surprised the canucks haven't had any serious enough injuries like last year to take guys out. hockey gods are smiling
this far in the playoffs and im still surprised the canucks haven't had any serious enough injuries like last year to take guys out. hockey gods are smiling
what you mean is, you're surprised salo is still semi healthy/playing :P Posted via RS Mobile
There is a Nike commercial about failure and it stars Michael Jordan.
It's been viewed more than 3.5 million times. It has 6,171 "likes" and just 102 "dislikes." In it, Jordan says: "I have lost almost 300 games."
Notice, he does not use the word "we."
In it, Jordan says there were 26 times where he was trusted to take the final shot — and he missed.
"I have failed over and over and over again in my life," Jordan says. "That is why I succeed."
He is vulnerable and superior and all at the same time. When you finish the 30-second clip, you like Jordan more than when you started it.
He has always made that — liking him — so easy. Roberto Luongo, however, has not.
Luongo is the goalie who can't seem to win, even when, well, he's winning. His goals-against average this postseason is 2.23 and his save percentage is .918. These are remarkable numbers if you consider he got shelled in two of his 13 starts
Luongo is 9-5 this postseason, and just three wins away from getting to the Stanley Cup final. But there exists an unhealthy amount of negativity and criticism which follows him.Luongo misplays a puck, giving up a goal, but wins and he's a liability. Antti Niemi does the exact same thing, but loses, and he's still a proven winner who nearly stole a game.
It suggests even if the Canucks do win it all, Luongo will not. Think of a main Olympics narrative. Team Canada won gold, Luongo apparently was just along for the ride.
"He never gets really a fair shake in this city and this league," Cory Schneider said Monday. "If we win it's not because of him and if we lose it's his fault, it seems like. It's kind of a lose-lose proposition for him. But he's ignored all the criticism, all the pressure and all the questions.
"I don't know what more people want from him."
Take the Patrick Marleau goal Sunday. Luongo was criticized on the CBC telecast for playing too deep. But it's playing that deep which allowed him to have the best season of his career.
"That's a high tip, I don't know why anyone would criticize him," Schneider said. "You have to play the shot. I am just surprised people are questioning that goal.
"We are deeper, and we are looking over screens because of it. Not too many screen shots have gone in on us all year."
The proof is in the numbers. Both Schneider and Luongo had monster regular seasons and did it playing deeper.
Some of this is on Luongo. Whether or not his stick broke in Game 1, and he said it did, when he coughed up the Joe Thornton goal shouldn't matter. There is nothing wrong with saying you made a mistake. You want people to embrace you? Own it. Don't be afraid of failure and try, whenever possible, to take responsibility. It makes you easier to like and admire, something Luongo may or may not be interested in.
If he was, maybe he could have said something like this:
"I made a mistake. My puck handling is a hundred times better than it used to be. Mistakes happen. But it's not going to stop me from playing the puck. I have to keep doing it to keep 220-pound forwards off my defencemen's backs."
If only.
The reality is the Canucks need Luongo to play the puck to neutralize San Jose's heavy forecheck.
"A big part of us spending less time in our end is Roberto stopping the puck, setting up our defence and sometimes himself beating the forecheck," Alain Vigneault said.
On Monday, a question was posed to Vigneault about Niemi. Essentially, it boiled down to this: Was Niemi's greatest quality that he's a winner?
The question implied, some concluded, that Vigneault's goalie did not share the same winner's attribute.
Luongo may have more skills than Niemi, some believe, but not the same, and elusive, championship gene in his DNA. It's a familiar theory, but one splattered with gold-coloured holes.
"People talk about the past but the fact is in the past Vancouver was not the best team," Schneider said. "This year we are where we are supposed to be and people don't seen satisfied with it.
"It's like they are waiting for the other shoe to drop. I don't get it. He's a big reason we are here."
The storyline the Canucks and Luongo have underachieved in postseasons past has been exaggerated. Has Luongo struggled at times? You bet. But, as Schneider pointed out, this is the first team he's been on which is a legitimate threat to win it all.
Similarly, Luongo's puck-handling issues have been overstated. Either that, or his improvements understated.
"You guys have seen him all year long, he has improved that area of his game," Vigneault said. "We have tremendous amount of confidence in him.
"I think he's worked on it a little bit more this year. It just proves it doesn't matter how old a player is, you can always get better if you work at something.
"Obviously, you don't become perfect. But you can improve and he has."
There is nothing wrong with being imperfect. Just ask Jordan.
Fuck CBC and their hate game, Canucks only Canadian team left and all they do is pick at little chincy shit and take cheap shots with no one there to defend
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