Monday Mailbag: Compliance

As some of you may know, I’ve still got two weeks left at my “day job” before transitioning into writing full time. Hours are heavy, and responsibilities are unexpected. I expected to leave at 6PM today, and stayed back four hours to do mandatory annual compliance courses. Will they matter to me at the end of the month? No. Were they due three days before my last day? You bet.

So yeah, that’s why this mailbag is a few hours late. On the bright side, overtime is nice. Let’s get to the questions!

This has been brought up by people a couple of times, and the answer is complicated. We’ll be addressing the ratio of auto-tweets to actual tweets. @CanucksArmy is going to become a very active twitter account this season, but automatic posting of articles will continue. Whether or not it’s two links to the same post at the same time remains to be seen, but auto-links are good for exposure, especially if someone publishes while a person with Twitter access isn’t available to tweet about it.

On that note, if you have suggestions for what you’d like to see on the Twitter account this season, have at it! We’re open to feedback.

While his first seven appearances with Vancouver were… not the best, you have to imagine that his dominant year with Utica is more reflective of what we’ll see moving forward. I don’t have much confidence in Markstrom becoming an elite NHL goaltender, but I’d say that in a decent sized sample, he can easily break 0.905. 

I doubt he’ll ever be better than Miller was at his peak, but right now? He might be close to his equal. Miller’s fall from grace has been.. something else.

You always go for the best player available. Was Boeser that guy when he was selected? Some might think so, others might now. But you should never pick based around a position or a timeline-based need. Get whoever you believe can become the best talent, develop them as best as you can, and if they don’t suit your needs, you now have a high-quality asset to trade for a better version of whoever you were going to select on a need-driven basis.

Maximize return on all investments, is the core point here.

The object of the game is to not cheer for losses; it’s to accept that your team isn’t particularly good, know the value of having a marquee draft pick, and not let yourself get particularly upset by failure. You’re still a fan of the team at the end of the day, and you want them to succeed. Watching those you cheer for be beaten up every night sucks, and you don’t want to encourage that process to happen. 

Accept the existence of the bad team, cheer for them to put in their best and most entertaining efforts, constantly accept the silver lining when that best effort is a 5-2 loss, fawn over your new prospect, repeat.

Fourteen chucks.