Because he won't wave the nmc
We deserve him, lazy, underachieving loser who is simply satisfied being a top player on a really bad team.
Yeah, one of the 'leaders' of this 'culture' they talk about so much. A great 'mentor' for the youth: No passion whatsoever, no desire to win, does not care about the cup, happy to cash his paycheque and dodge the press (who don't want to talk to him anyway - he made sure his interviews were so bland and tiresome that they care as little as he does), has no second gear - what you see is what you get.
Part of the "never change the way you play" style that has given this core their legacy of losing. Too bad they lucked out against Chicago. Given how they collapsed, we should have had even more to be embarrassed about after they "didn't change the way they played" for three straight losses into a game 7 overtime.
Sorry 'leadership group', there's nothing admirable about leading a team to 29th place finishes and first round collapses. Good teams know when to turn it up, how to find that extra gear, when to pounce and deliver the killing blow when there's blood in the water. That's not the Canucks, it never has been. Their sports psychologist reads "The Turtle and the Hare" to them before nap time, and reminds them all how much more important everything else in life is, and that hockey is only a game. Come to Vancouver, the retirement country club for Jimbo's reclamation projects and complacent veterans that wouldn't waive their NTC to play on Crosby's wing. No fire.
I'm sick of hearing Green talk about how everyone has to "earn everything", and that's "how it is for everyone." He states it like it's self-evident, while gifting Eriksson 18 minutes a night. I guess he "earned it" when him and his agent took Benning (and us) behind the wood shed for 6x6. In this culture that counts for a lot. Come lounge with team Sweden.