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My current employer and previous employers 401k packages are/were a joke (however they are both publicly traded companies which watch their bottom lines extremely closely). I am an accountant so I know enough talk to keep a conversation going but am far from an investment expert. all I know is my dad's investment broker is setting my bro up with his company to go around the crap options employer provided 401ks have in them. Could be an IRA now that I think of it but those are extremely limited as well. oh well.

Agreed, I have actually started to like their hockey fans less and less over the years and my family comes from Canada.

However many companies will be reducing their match in the future and many employer sponsored 401k investment options are a joke. My advice (unless your employer has a sweet package) is to create something yourself. However, in response to your advice to gfhockey you are correct.

Very true. Go up there take care of business (i.e. don't embarrass themselves) and get back home to beat up on CC.

Better than nothing I guess.

There would be tons of guys that dominate in the O. The one thing I debate with my cousins (who are Cananadians and LOVE their CHL) is what about the 18-19 year olds that absolutely dominate the CHL and have nothing else to prove. The CHL is such a great league with so many awesome players however I wonder how beneficial it is to stay in the league only to score 130 pts against younger/smaller competition. My example is Nick Petan in Portland, the guy is 5'10 170lbs and he racked up 100+ pts last year. What benefit is there to playing against a bunch of 16-18 year olds and putting up another 130 pts? I believe he would be better off playing against older/bigger players to better develope himself. Oh well, just my 2 cents.

Ditto.

Germany beat the Czech, tourney is getting weird!

Agreed

Nice!

Haha me too. Actually I would like to give evidence that Canada does not blacklist their top notch players which head to college rather than play in the CHL. I gave the chucko example as evidence they blacklist their defected talent however I just remembered Schwartz was also a first round player and they let him on the U20 team (again it would have been tough to leave him off given he went in the 12-15 range). Can anyone else think of any others?

Ok good . It's hard to fully explain yourself typing from these dang iPhones.

Guy, I never once said toews was blacklisted. I was noting no one of toews caliber could ever be black listed. If you look at my initial post I noted as much. I do know others of less talent have, that being the year chucko wasn't invited when he went in the first round. I was actually on your side haha.

Sure it is. What other evidence could one possibly have?

Perfect, I totally get that the CHL is the top NHL feeder league but college hockey is a very tough league. All those Canucks simply think every good US player heads north.

I post on that site all the time. If you read many of their posts you know why I stick up for the talent in college hockey. Hopefully you weren't trying to bash me with your comment.

He actually explicitly noted "toewser" was almost blacklisted. In a subsequent post I gave you your evidence.

What do you know, a Don Lucia coached team gets up 3 in a laugher and starts to unravel.

This is bigger than the super bowl to Canada.

So I'm not a huge gopher fan but I like how Hudson fasching plays. Reminds me if goren or little more skilled Malone.

Yup that goal was nice. It was even better going against a b10 team.

I don't think he was ever considered on the "bubble" Canada was talking him up since he was 15. However I do remember when Chris Chucko wasn't even invited to the Canadian selection camp and he was a 1st round pick; that was sort of a big deal back then.

This canada game is a glorified men's league game. I think Canada's total shots equal their scoring chances.

You're an absolute mess!

Thank you.