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Got up this morning to check TSN’s website for the final score of the Canucks’ game that I missed last night to find that they’d lost 3-2 in overtime. Then I made the mistake of reading the comments posted to the story. These people need to get a life.
A loss in preseason and they’re saying that Vancouver has just proven that they’re going to completely meltdown, barely win any games, let alone make the playoffs, and that the city should cancel the parade. Damn Leafs fans sure do get bitter, don’t they? Sure, they’ve won 11 Stanley Cups. In a SIX TEAM LEAGUE.
Look, people. NO Canucks fan would be stupid enough to say that they’re going to go 82-0 and then 16-0 in the playoffs to win the Stanley Cup. They’re GOING TO LOSE GAMES. And Canucks fans also don’t *expect* to win the Cup at the start of every season (those are Habs fans – and with 23 cups, that’s fair).
The truth is, the two best Canadian teams last year (and it looks like this year as well) are the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames. Deal with it. Personally, I think that the Canucks will finish somewhere between 4th and 7th in the West this year. Same thing I predicted last year. The fact that Calgary had a train wreck at the end of the season that allowed the Canucks to pick up their second Northwest title in three years was an extra bonus. But if the Canucks hadn’t also been winning games, it wouldn’t have mattered what Calgary did.
They also said that the Canucks weren’t playing well, but that they just got hot at the right time. Uh…yes? Isn’t that the whole point? To get on a hot streak and win games at the end of the year?
Anyway, the rant is over. The Canucks lost, and now everyone can just get over it and start thinking about the regular season again.
