aftershocks
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What, it's okay as long as Canada keeps pace with the number of American men you expect will qualify for Finland.
Excuses, excuses!!!
Now can you explain some of the WTF scoring (especially on PCS) and placements in that men's jumping contest in Boston. 
Poor Han Yan with his gorgeous skating skills and out-sized headache-inducing quad-compatriot. Han seemed inspired at 4CCs with a fire lit under him re JB's success, but still Han was rated behind the young apparently already arrived quad-whippersnapper. Lucky MCM and Julian Yee, both of whom the judges didn't care would have been the recipients of the brutal cut-off. However, a couple of guys with quads who judges were saving scores for messed up big time and we get to see whether MCM can improve upon his 21st place effort in 2015, and whether or not Yee from Malaysia can repeat a clean, inspired performance for the fp. Righini's style is not my cup of tea, but the guy poured out his heart and soul on the ice and the judges went for all that emotion. OTOH, surprisingly, Misha Ge was uncharacteristically subdued with an unusually low-key yet clean, beautiful performance. It didn't rate so highly with the judges.
Fernandez is improved, yes, and he's the defending champ. But did he deserve 98!? Did he deserve 46+ on components. NO! Give him skating skills and transitions, but performance execution should take a slight hit, and he does not deserve in the 9s on CH and IN. Boyang at best should receive mid to high 6s on components.
Chan started out well, but faltered on his weakest jump. Except for Hanyu (who
say is "from another planet") all top five guys had errors, that should have affected their overly high scores. I think Kolyada deserved to be in front of Boyang, as Kolyada is a better overall skater. They are both young, as is Shoma, and so all three have much room to grow. Adam should have received higher PCS. Max is letting all the aesthetic snobbery criticism get to him. If Boyang can receive such high tech and get a bump on PCS to that degree, so should Max if he just realizes the quads are his money jumps and get off the artsy overcompensation trip which is psyching him out.Hopefully Chan lays down in the fp and pulls ahead of Fernandez, who gets too many gifts when he messes up. Oh, but I forgot, so did Chan used to get too many gifts when he messed up.
And that's where all this OTT quad worship by judges started becoming out-of-whack. Is it too late for Denis Ten to come back from 70s nowhere land? And what happened to Brezina? Hmmm, the judges were generous. I guess they didn't want to break Brez's heart for kinda breaking our hearts that he couldn't go clean with that beautiful Jeff Buttle-choreographed sp. 
Liam! I truly hope he is somewhere not watching Worlds, and preparing to come back strong and take his spot back from Nam next year. Oh, but with likely only two spots available again at Worlds for Canadian men, most likely it will be Nic to the rescue in Finland with Chan still in the game? (Hint, hint: It's useless Pat. Little Prince hails from another planet).
Pardon me for enjoying seeing Orser squirming in the kiss 'n cry for a change, and the judges helpless to bail out at least one of his skaters because there was no substance, no speed, and no artistry. Not much there to work with. Poor Nam should have been allowed a chance to fully regroup out of the huge spotlight. Was there some reason that they couldn't have sent sweet Nic in the first place fresh off his Junior Worlds silver medal triumph? I mean why not have Nam give up his last minute Worlds spot for Nic at the last minute?
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I don't know if "right" is exactly the right word, in this context. 
I bet skating isn't particularly enjoyable for him at the moment.
they are missing out on cashing in on. 
