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03-13-2011, 09:22 PM
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#17876 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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Originally Posted by Greenstoner  ^ i wont feel the same even if we beat chicago this year, because the hawk is not the same | As good as a team we are this year, it would be a tough challenge to match / beat the Hawks of 2010. I hate to admit it; but that was one awesome team.
For this year's playoffs, I could care less who we beat. I just want the Nucks to hold the Holy Grail above their heads !!
Go Nucks Go !!!
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03-13-2011, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by The Hype | $55 + shipping = is it worth it?
Canucks team store is $80 for lettering/number
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03-13-2011, 11:01 PM
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#17878 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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Originally Posted by LUUUUUUUU nice jersey, frame that shit bro!
so the numbering and name bar was both done by MLL? | Yep, I think they did a really good job of it too. And to those wondering if it's worth the amount plus shipping...It all depends how soon you want it. Their turnaround time is crazy fast, which can be worth it. Also, $55 was for 3 layer letters/numbers. I'd assume for a Canucks jersey (1 layer) it would be cheaper. Might as well email him for a quote y'know?
Oh, and I'm not framing that one haha, I'm framing my team signed Team Canada 2010 jersey when it's all finished!
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03-13-2011, 11:38 PM
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#17879 | | Say NO to blade grinders!
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Originally Posted by murd0c You won't but after being in Chicago last year when they were playing here and wearing my nucks jersey at ESPN zone and having everyone yell and scream at me about how bad the Canucks suck. I hope they get smoked I don't give a fuck if it's the same team or not. | lol they closed all their locations down except for the Cali ones. So one less thing to worry about.
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03-13-2011, 11:48 PM
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#17880 | | WOAH! i think Vtec just kicked in!
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Originally Posted by The Hype Yep, I think they did a really good job of it too. And to those wondering if it's worth the amount plus shipping...It all depends how soon you want it. Their turnaround time is crazy fast, which can be worth it. Also, $55 was for 3 layer letters/numbers. I'd assume for a Canucks jersey (1 layer) it would be cheaper. Might as well email him for a quote y'know?
Oh, and I'm not framing that one haha, I'm framing my team signed Team Canada 2010 jersey when it's all finished! | seems like a good AND cheaper alternative to the stuff in vancouver.. now do i choose luongo, or hamhuis.. im actually thinking luongo cuz its a safer bet XD but i dont really wanna be labeled as that asian bandwagoner.. :/
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03-14-2011, 12:35 AM
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#17881 | | Banned (ABWS)?
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Originally Posted by tonyzoomzoom As good as a team we are this year, it would be a tough challenge to match / beat the Hawks of 2010. I hate to admit it; but that was one awesome team.
For this year's playoffs, I could care less who we beat. I just want the Nucks to hold the Holy Grail above their heads !!
Go Nucks Go !!! | Well in terms of "in your face screen the fuk out of your goalie" ability.
Byfuglien > Kesler.
And I think Byfuglien was a big factor in the playoffs. Underrated guy.
He was a pain in the ass, but he was pretty good in that series.
If I remember correctly, one or two games, he scored some timing goals to help the Hawks steal the game.
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03-14-2011, 01:35 AM
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Originally Posted by AzNightmare Well in terms of "in your face screen the fuk out of your goalie" ability.
Byfuglien > Kesler.
And I think Byfuglien was a big factor in the playoffs. Underrated guy.
He was a pain in the ass, but he was pretty good in that series.
If I remember correctly, one or two games, he scored some timing goals to help the Hawks steal the game. | I don't think he was underrated....he was a big factor and everyone knew he was in Luongo's head, play by play guys included. Not to even mention the goals he scored, him and Kane were probably the two biggest Nuck killers in that series.
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03-14-2011, 07:33 AM
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I was wondering if anyone has used the Canucks live app for there phone yet? I just heard about it on 1040 and for $10 you can stream all live rogers game on your phone. Posted via RS Mobile | |
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03-14-2011, 08:14 AM
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#17884 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Originally Posted by murd0c I was wondering if anyone has used the Canucks live app for there phone yet? I just heard about it on 1040 and for $10 you can stream all live rogers game on your phone. Posted via RS Mobile | Hope ya got a good data plan!
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03-14-2011, 09:00 AM
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The brain weighs about three pounds. It floats inside a boney skull, surrounded by spinal fluid, not quite in contact with the skull. Except when the head is jarred.
Then, the brain moves, ricocheting back and forth, colliding with the sides of the skull, like a superball in a squash court. With hard-enough contact, the brain bleeds. And the parts inside it – the neurons and pathways that we use to think, learn and remember – get damaged.
Why would we ever have thought otherwise?
Why would we ever have believed that when the dizziness goes away, everything goes back as it had been before? All the little hits, scores of them in every game, so inconsequential that we don't even know they've occurred – how could we not have known? How could we be so stupid?
I feel the same when I remember that the effects of smoking or of drunk driving were ignored for so long. I feel it when I think of women in the past having no right to vote and few rights of any kind, and when I think about slavery: How could people 50, 100 or 200 years ago not have known? How could they be so stupid?
I wonder what will make people say that about us 50 years from now. What are the big things we might be getting really wrong? Chemicals in our foods? Genetic modifications gone wrong? Climate change?
In sports, I think, the haunting question will be about head injuries. It wasn't until 1943 in the National Football League that helmets became mandatory; in the National Hockey League, not until 36 years after that, in 1979. The first goalie mask wasn't worn in the NHL until 1959.
And in a whole childhood and adolescence of playing goalie, I didn't wear a mask until 1965, when I had to wear one on my college team. How could I have been so stupid?
Smash, crash, bang, maim
A football wide receiver, 220 pounds, cuts across the middle of the field at 35 kilometres an hour; a linebacker, 240 pounds, cuts the other way at 20 km/hour. The wide receiver focuses on the ball; the linebacker focuses on the wide receiver, knowing that a good hit now won't just break up the pass but will break down the focus and will of that wide receiver for each succeeding pass in the game.
Two hockey players, almost as big as the football players, but going even faster, colliding with each other and with the boards, glass and ice exaggerating the force of every hit.
Boxers, snapping jabs and hooks at each other's head, round after round. (But no hitting below the belt; that's not fair.) Ultimate Fighting: Fist, foot, elbow, knee, bone against bone – get your opponent down, get him defenceless and pound away.
In addition, there are the countless mini-collisions that never make the “Highlights of the Night.” They make players feel a little dizzy, but then seconds later, almost every time, they feel fine. So they must be fine.
Years later, they may not be thinking so clearly or remembering so well, at a slightly younger age than other people, perhaps. But in the randomness of everything else in life, who's to know why? It could be genes or bad luck. Hockey player Reggie Fleming, known as “Cement Head”; football players Mike Webster, Owen Thomas or Mike McCoy; wrestler Chris Benoit …
A few weeks ago, I read about the suicide of Dave Duerson, a former all-pro safety with the Chicago Bears. He was 50. In recent years, Mr. Duerson had worked with the NFL players' union, dealing with retired players and their physical ailments, head injuries among them, and reading their doctors' reports. He had begun to have trouble himself remembering names and putting words together. Then, one day he shot himself, not in the head but the chest, so as to preserve his brain intact for future examination, bequeathing it to the NFL's brain bank.
On the same day, in the same newspapers, there was another story about Ollie Matson, an all-pro running back in the 1950s and 1960s for several NFL teams. He was 80 when he died, and for the last several years of his life he had been suffering from dementia; over the last four years, he hadn't spoken. Mr. Matson's death and dementia, it seemed, had to do with the consequences of old age. No connection was made to football or Dave Duerson.
A few days earlier, there had been a story about the death of Bobby Kuntz. He had been one of my favourite players as a kid. During the late 1950s and 1960s, he played for the Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, playing “both ways” as players of the time did – a running back on offence and a linebacker on defence.
He was small for the positions he played, and especially small for the way he played them. He'd put his head down and throw himself into the line or into the bodies of ball carriers, the sound of his collisions sharper and more resounding than any others – the kind that, as a fan, made you go “oooh” and laugh. He was fearless. In playground games, I used to pretend I was Bobby Kuntz, head down, fearless in my own mind.
Mr. Kuntz died at 79, having suffered from dementia the last 11 years of his life. The Kuntz family agreed to have his brain donated to a study of athletes and head injuries, the article said.
The myth of the ‘nature of the game'
What is our answer to those voices 50 years into the future? We can only say that we didn't want to know. We thought – we hoped – there wasn't a problem, because if there were, something would need to be done, and we didn't want to do it.
To do something would change the nature of the game. It may be all right, or inevitable, for everything in the world around the game to change; but the game itself is “pure” and must remain that way.
Hockey began in Montreal in 1875 because some rugby players wanted a game for the wintertime, and they wanted to hit each other. But the rugby players couldn't skate very fast, their bodies were smaller than ours are today, and they were playing on a smaller ice surface where they had little room to pick up momentum. With no substitutions allowed, the game moved at coasting speed.
Bigger ice surfaces changed the nature of the game; so did the forward pass; so did boards and glass; so did substitutions, shorter shifts and bigger bodies. Helmeted players in today's game are far more vulnerable to serious head injury than helmet-less players were in generations ago.
We choose to ignore the fact that the “nature” of any game is always changing. Today's hockey – in terms of speed, skill, style of play and force of impact – is almost unrecognizable from hockey 50 years ago, let alone 100. Likewise, helmets, facemasks, 300-plus-pound players and off-field, year-round training have transformed football.
These and other sports changed because someone thought of new ways to do things, others followed and nobody stopped them. In many cases, sports have had to change for reasons of safety or economics. For the sake of the players and fans and the game itself, these sports will and do need to change again.
A few days ago, I read the story of Bob Probert. He was a “goon” whose ability to fight got him into the NHL, and gave him the extra years and playing time he needed to learn how to play an all-around game. It has been calculated that Mr. Probert was in 240 NHL fights – few of which he lost – and countless more in his minor hockey years. Before he died last year, his wife reported, he had been forgetting things and frequently losing his temper. In a post-mortem examination, Boston University's School of Medicine recently reported, Mr. Probert was found to have chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy cells in his brain. He was 45.
The voices of the future will not be kind to us about how we understood and dealt with head injuries in sports. They will ask: How is it possible we didn't know, or chose not to know?
For players or former players, owners, managers, coaches, doctors and team doctors, league executives, lawyers, agents, the media, players' wives, partners and families, it's no longer possible not to know and not to be afraid, unless we willfully close our eyes.
Max Pacioretty was only the latest; he will not be the last. Arguments and explanations don't matter any more. The NHL has to risk the big steps that are needed: If some of them prove wrong, they'll still be far less wrong than what we have now.
It is time to stop being stupid.
| Interesting article from Ken Dryden in the Globe and Mail. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle1939428/ | |
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03-14-2011, 10:54 AM
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03-14-2011, 11:25 AM
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#17887 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by murd0c I was wondering if anyone has used the Canucks live app for there phone yet? I just heard about it on 1040 and for $10 you can stream all live rogers game on your phone. Posted via RS Mobile | I've seen it on my friend's phone, and the quality is actually pretty good. Only problem is that there is a 6-second (or so) delay, and we forgot that it doesn't show HNIC games. 
Edit: Delay is much longer than 6-seconds.
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03-14-2011, 11:39 AM
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#17888 | | In RS I Trust
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Originally Posted by Gumby I've seen it on my friend's phone, and the quality is actually pretty good. Only problem is that there is a 6-second (or so) delay, and we forgot that it doesn't show HNIC games. | Does he know how much data a game uses yet?
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03-14-2011, 11:58 AM
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#17889 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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Originally Posted by murd0c I was wondering if anyone has used the Canucks live app for there phone yet? I just heard about it on 1040 and for $10 you can stream all live rogers game on your phone. Posted via RS Mobile | I use it all the time. Greatest app ever. For $9.99 it's a fucking steal. When people always ask how much I'm like $9.99 and their like for a month? No dude $9.99 straight up people are shocked. I've been using it for 3 months now and it has barely ever lagged on me and the quality is good. I have yet to watch an entire game from start to finish yet so can't comment on how much data it uses though.
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03-14-2011, 12:11 PM
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An alternative is getting the Justin.tv app for iPhone. It used to be free, but apparently it's $4.99 now... but of course you can still install it for free with jailbroken apps.
Usually someone streams the Canucks game there... I've used it many times.
It uses about 200-300MB if watching an entire game.
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03-14-2011, 12:38 PM
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#17891 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by murd0c Does he know how much data a game uses yet? | No sorry, we've never used it to watch an entire game either.
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03-14-2011, 01:24 PM
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how do you see the puck if you're watching on a phone?
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03-14-2011, 01:28 PM
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#17893 | | RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001
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^ u watch the play
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03-14-2011, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul An alternative is getting the Justin.tv app for iPhone. It used to be free, but apparently it's $4.99 now... but of course you can still install it for free with jailbroken apps.
Usually someone streams the Canucks game there... I've used it many times.
It uses about 200-300MB if watching an entire game. | There is a Justin.tv app for android that I used to watch a couple of Canucks games, but the last few times, no one was streaming the games.
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03-14-2011, 02:10 PM
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#17895 | | Banned (ABWS)
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is the justin.tv app only for android and does iphone or blackberry have it yet?
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03-14-2011, 02:36 PM
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can't you just use the nhl gamecentre app for both android and iphone? I've used it on my android and it works great I've streamed quite a few games. You also get to choose which feed you want, home or away.
The only thing you need is another program called location spoofer to 'spoof' your location somewhere else because canada is a blackout area.
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03-14-2011, 02:43 PM
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#17897 | | The RS Freebie guru
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03-14-2011, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by winson604 I use it all the time. Greatest app ever. For $9.99 it's a fucking steal. When people always ask how much I'm like $9.99 and their like for a month? No dude $9.99 straight up people are shocked. I've been using it for 3 months now and it has barely ever lagged on me and the quality is good. I have yet to watch an entire game from start to finish yet so can't comment on how much data it uses though. | Agreed! Canucks live is the best app ever. It doesn't lag and the quality is pretty good for streaming. It does blackout with sound in the background once in a while saying something about overloading on the bandwidth/network. It does attract a crowd of people looking over wanting to watch the game too.
I checked at home one time and it's roughly 1 min to 1.5 min lag from the game on TV.
I remember checking on my phone bill, it uses roughly 150-250 mb per game.
I have a 1GB plan and it is more than enough if you watch 2-3 games a month.
Side note- CBC app is a fucking rip if you want to watch the Canucks game streaming. you have to pay $3.99 per game.
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03-14-2011, 04:09 PM
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When the Canucks app was first introduced, it says ROGERS customers wont have to worry about their data bucket when streaming with Canucks LIVE
i dont know if that still stands
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03-14-2011, 04:51 PM
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