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Canucks winger Jack Skille is from Madison, Wisc., and balked at any political talk. And that said something because this election is profoundly more divisive than previous campaigns.

To say it’s a mess might be a massive understatement.

“I’m out,” said Skille. “I’ve always been taught not to talk politics, and it’s just a personal preference. The only thing I’ve got to figure out is how to get my vote in. My ballot showed up at my house in Denver and I don’t know the time frame of when I have to get it in.”

Ryan Miller knows about the ballot and can help Skille in that regard. But wrapping his head around this election process has left the East Lansing, Mich., native at a loss for words. The Canucks goaltender obviously hopes the talk of violence is just that — talk.

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“It just kind of blows me away with the theatre of it all,” said Miller. “You know that Trump and the Clintons were friendly … how much of this is theatre and much are you willing to do be president? It just goes to show you what politics can pull out of people. It’s been a lot of nasty stuff.

“I try not to be too public about my politics. I have very strong beliefs and I don’t think ether candidate captures what I think is my viewpoint of what it (country) can be. I do identify one, and I don’t want to say a lesser or two evils, it’s just a very confusing time in American history. We’re definitely unhappy with our Congress and we’re almost going to take it out on ourselves.

“The message being sent, I don’t know if it’s going to be heard. Our Congress and Senate, they’re just not working. The idea is to form a direction and everybody has just been so polarized and allowing things to fall by the wayside and die off.

“American is supposed to be a country of very different people coming together for a common cause and I do not see that in our government right now.”

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