#caps briefly

[fisheito]

wait. puss in boots rei? unfulfilled dream? as.. as in. kinda like. a last wish.? like. the last puss in boots movie.? perrito garu?????

[iwishiwasplayinglegorightnow]

SHE SPOKE!!! WE ACTUALLY HEAR HER SPEAK!!! LET US NEVER STOP HEARING HER VOICE!! THAT IS MY ANNABETH, LETS GOOO

[xinyuehui]

Can you put your plant away for now?

~✿ But it's beautiful ✿~

不良執念清除師│Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (2023)

[god-u]

[mariocki]

John Levene makes a brief appearance as an unnamed military policeman (a lance corporal, per his stripe) in The Jensen Code (ATV, 1973).

Although shot and transmitted in colour, the series master tapes were wiped and it now exists as black and white copies, barring an incomplete and damaged print of episode six.

[doozclops]

[daydreamerdrew]

Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandoes (1963) #13

[larsnicklas]

btw i think people who thought that the l.indholm k.uzmenko trade was a fleecing by c.algary are very silly! and got overwhelmed by the quantity of assets going back one way vs. the other. and i get it! it feels hefty! a first, two prospects, a conditional fourth, and a guy who nearly scored 40 goals last year going the other way feels like a lot for a rental! but let's break this down together, team! because i genuinely think this is one of those circumstances where both teams came out with what they wanted without giving up anything they really didn't want to.

the conditional fourth is basically for dealing in-division. this happened with the z.adorov trade and it's just the price of business. and because it's conditional, they don't have to worry about it until they have to worry about it.

the first round pick for next year is fairly negligible — the 2024 draft class has a steep drop-off after about the top 20; the v.ancouver pick would presumably be outside of that. of course, you'd like to keep your first round picks when you can but when the best right handed center on the market could be yours i think you pull the trigger.

kuz is going to be good, even great for them! e.lliotte mentioned that c.algary is in a weird limbo state rn; they don't want to tear everything down, so they do need current roster players who can help them keep on trucking as they do a little retool. kuz is perfect for that. the thing about him though is that he was absolutely not a fit for the current system with tocc. no matter where he went he was going to outdo what he was doing this year with the c.anucks, and i think pa and jr knew that perfectly well. you just have to eat that sometimes, knowing that you're going to send a guy away and then they're going to perform better. (i'm very glad to see him off to a quick start btw; sometimes a guy just needs a fresh start to get out of his own head.) and frankly, v.ancouver gets something they sorely need with moving kuz: cap space. his hit comes off the books for NEXT year, something that grants them more wiggle room as they maneuver a lot of guys due for raises

the two prospects are the wild card here. you never know. maybe joni j.urmo will suddenly outperform his development curve, but he's a long shot gamble. b.rzustewicz is the guy to keep an eye on here. he's having a MONSTER season with k.itchener; i don't watch the o as much as i watch the dub, but from what i've seen, if he can translate that offense to the next level i think c.algary will be very, very happy. and from v.an's pov, they did well to sell high. it's possible b.rzustewicz hits, but it's also possible that this is as high as his value will get. and i think the other thing to consider is that they achieved something i'm willing to bet they were REALLY focused on: not losing any of l.ekkerimaki, p.odkolzin, w.illander, or even ep II. b.rzustewicz's run this year allowed them to do that.

at the end of the day what it comes down to is this: the front office thinks the team has a legitimate shot. we can scream and wail about their historically high pdo all we want, but i think at this point we have to acknowledge that with under 30 games left, this team has proven to be the real deal. and some of that astronomical pdo (quality shots for, allowing many low danger perimeter shots against) is due to their play style. a number of players are having career seasons, including arguably the most important ones — your goalie, who's on the ice for 60+ minutes a game, and your franchise defenseman, who's out there for half the game, sometimes more, day in and day out. and even if everyone keeps up this torrid pace next year, it's not going to be the same group coming back — guys are playing themselves out of the c.anucks' realistic budget (looking at you, dak </3); they deserve to get paid. and of course there's the elephant in the room, the p.ettersson extension. this might be your best chance for a while, and if this year is lightning in a bottle, you HAVE to be ready to catch it. gotta put yourself into the best position possible.

when you grab l.indholm, you're doing several things in one fell swoop.

first, you get a guy that plays exactly the way t.occhet wants his guys to play: very smart, defensively sound, plays in all game states, can keep up on petey's wing OR center his own line.

he also brings something no other center on this team can bring! he plays righthanded! he's good at faceoffs and he can take the draws that have previously been on every single other center's off side! (yes, petey, jt, b.lueger, s.uter, å.man are all lefties). jt in particular does have a decent opposite side faceoff play but now with l.indholm, t.occhet has more options. it opens up a lot of possibilities.

by trading for l.indholm early, you've set the market and aren't at the whims of other deals being made. you've also given the team quite a decent chunk of time to get acclimated to l.indholm in the lineup and vice versa. the extra month+ vs. acquiring at the deadline is huge; coaches love that and players like it too since they have more time to learn a new system and build chemistry before the gauntlet of the playoffs

it sends a message to your room that the front office believes in them. l.indholm was arguably the biggest fish in the pond this year; he's certainly the best center that was actively being dangled in the trade market. that kind of makes your guys sit up straight, shoulders back.

if l.indholm is with the canucks.... he's NOT with c.olorado. or boston. or any other contenders. :)

IN CONCLUSION...... i think both teams did nicely. if you think pa and jr got fleeced i'm sorry but you just don't know puck!

[queerbauten]

How about you STOP THE GENOCIDE INSTEAD

[twilightarcade]

OC-tober daaaay 15 - meme...

[lostinmirkwood]

Nothing like taking a bath in the middle of an August heat wave. Both my quads charlie horsed in the middle of a set of lunges at this gym this evening and if I want any hope of using them tomorrow I need all the magic epsom salts, cbd, and mustard seed can offer.

[yabusame-houlen-official]

I want a pet Eurasian Tree Sparrow. And by "pet", I of course mean "Life-sized plush that I would treat oh-so-kindly and carry around everywhere"

Also, I was thinking about that last part and I wonder how many people, especially adults, on the sites I hang out on tend to carry plushes around the house and where they go. Because if I don't have my same set of plushes near me basically at all times, I do feel a bit less "secure".

It's probably the heavy neurodivergence in me though, lol.

[capisback]

Just wondering, if Ace remained as captain of the Spades, would they have considered him as a Supernova, too? Because based on the flashback with Yamato, Law and some other Supernovas were already making a name for themselves, and Ace was more than a rising star in the world of rookie pirate captains

[brockachu]

Lu and the Sedins were meant to win a cup together. Fucks me off that they didn’t.

hey, anon, c'mere. we're gonna hug for a moment.

Me. Fucking. Too. my dude. like i think about it all the time now that the sedins are working officially in the org, and higgy got promoted in player development just last week, and jannik hansen has been making more and more appearances in VAN media, and i'm p sure hamhuis moved back to BC b/c he's done at least one interview w/ VAN media in the past year, and bieksa's all over sportsnet sometimes even on canucks broadcasts. it's like. lu was done dirty by the org and by many many fans, by so much of the media, by the city basically. i would Never want him to feel obligated to come back to that.

but he did come back for hank & danny's jersey retirement. so a part of me hopes the bridge isn't fully burned. i hope he'd want to come back to VAN. i hope he'd want to join the org and be there when the c*p is finally Finally brought to the lower mainland. i'd hope we'd get to see that executive suite and it's filled with these hearts of that 2011 team.

the sedins & lu lifting a c*p together, even as hockey execs, i think that'd finally be some damn cosmic justice. i think i'd sob harder than watching bowie or boes lift it, and well i've only spent the past 6 years waxing poetic about boes and 8 years about bo. but of course, i cried about lu & the sedins first. it's been a long fucking decade.

[aro-oak]

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE AFTER A FULL WEEK OF MY TESTOSTERONE PRESCRIPTION GOING BACK AND FORTH ON READINESS AND PRICE ITS FINALLY READY FOR PICKUP AND ONLY $10

[loveofastarvingdog]

having a panic attack at the therapists office like having a heart attack at the hospital like YEAH that’s what you’re SUPPOSED to do!!