30 years without a cup for Canadian teams: why?

[tfwnogf]

Yep, there's like one instance I would attribute not winning the cup to bad luck and it's the Canucks losing in the finals in 2011 after getting destroyed by injures, plus a generational goaltending performance, but even then, the Canucks didn't trade their 1st round pick that year, despite being the best team in the league the entire season, they should have gone all in.

Ok come on. If they were so elite they wouldn't need all those things to go their way or trade their 1st round pick. A truly elite team who scores 8 goals in 7 games in the cup final, and nearly choked R1 to the Hawks. Yeah right. Great regular season tho.

 

[NyQuil]

Every time a Canadian team has a good goalie they have a crap team in front of him. Every time they have a good team, the goalie sucks.

It's like the Blue Jays with hitters and pitchers.

 

[Summer Rose]

Yeah, it comes up as a weird flex sometimes by Americans when we really don't give a crap if it isn't your own team.

24 American teams lose every year too.

Club hockey is club hockey and international hockey is international hockey.

I find it an amusing situation that I would like to see continue as long as possible, if only for my own amusement. I would assume that a fair amount of Canadians do care about this (though I could be wrong), but those that do care aren’t very likely to care enough to make an account on a place like HF Boards however. It’s why I will generally root for an American team against a Canadian team in the playoffs on principle, with a few exceptions here and there.

At the end of the day it’s not really a big deal to me though.

 

[Fatass]

Could part of the reason be that playing on Canadian cities = living in a fishbowl while in US cities it’s living in anonymity?

 

[NyQuil]

I find it an amusing situation that I would like to see continue as long as possible, if only for my own amusement. I would assume that a fair amount of Canadians do care about this (though I could be wrong), but those that do care aren’t very likely to care enough to make an account on a place like HF Boards however. It’s why I will generally root for an American team against a Canadian team in the playoffs on principle, with a few exceptions here and there.

At the end of the day it’s not really a big deal to me though.

At this point, most Canadian fans want it to be their team that breaks the drought, which puts the other six Canadian teams at the bottom of the list of teams to cheer for.

Occasionally you will see some Eastern Canadian fans cheering for Western Canadian teams and vice versa.

Not a lot of intra-conference patriotism when it comes to club teams.

If it wasn't a lot of Canadian players lifting the Cup again and again and again I guess I might think it was some kind of issue.

 

[koyvoo]

Complete lack of self awareness, you've got it the opposite. Western fans of hockey (not just one team) get to watch Eastern games every day, while Eastern fans go to bed before Western teams play.

Eastern bias is a very real thing.

Eastern conference games are on in the busiest part of the day for people in the west. After work hours. It’s prime time hours for doing chores, after school activities with the kids etc.

Are you more likely to watch a hockey game at 4:00pm in the afternoon (the time eastern games are broadcast out west) or at 10:00pm at night (the time western games are broadcast out east)?

 

[Rowlet]

You would think so except for what I'm reading in this thread.

It's no wonder everyone was cheering for Boston.

Everyone cheers against the good Canadian teams in the finals, you'd know that if the Sens could make it there in the last 20 years.

Ok come on. If they were so elite they wouldn't need all those things to go their way or trade their 1st round pick. A truly elite team who scores 8 goals in 7 games in the cup final, and nearly choked R1 to the Hawks. Yeah right. Great regular season tho.

Every cup winning team needs everything to go right for them, and you know as well as I do that Hawks team was no normal 8th seed.

 

[NyQuil]

Everyone cheers against the good Canadian teams in the finals, you'd know that if the Sens could make it there in the last 20 years.

They did.

Thanks for proving my point about Western Conference hockey fans not having a clue.

 

[Three On Zero]

Because no Canadian team has been good enough to win.

 

[NeverForget06]

Four times Canadian teams have made it to Game 7 since then and they've lost all 4 times

 

[Rowlet]

They did.

Thanks for proving my point about Western Conference hockey fans not having a clue.

Yeah, barely. Nobody hates the Senators because they haven't done anything since 2006, I clearly knew they made it in 2006, otherwise I would have said they never made it.

 

[NyQuil]

Yeah, barely. Nobody hates the Senators because they haven't done anything since 2006, I clearly knew they made it in 2006, otherwise I would have said they never made it.

They made it in 2007.

Keep digging.

 

[tfwnogf]

Every cup winning team needs everything to go right for them, and you know as well as I do that Hawks team was no normal 8th seed.

That's why the Coyotes beat them the next year right? Or I guess Canucks lost in 2012 cause LA was no normal 8th seed either. If the Canucks were more elite than any other Canadian team, they wouldn't need you to come up with every excuse you can think of to defend them. The reality was they were a very good team who were exposed in the playoffs by the Hawks and Bruins. It is what it is.

 

[jbeck5]

Yeah, barely. Nobody hates the Senators because they haven't done anything since 2006, I clearly knew they made it in 2006, otherwise I would have said they never made it.

This has to be parody, right?

They made it in 2007.

Keep digging.

At first I thought he was serious, but now I think you're being trolled lol.

 

[NyQuil]

At first I thought he was serious, but now I think you're being trolled lol.

It’s always illuminating being lectured on the Senators by someone who clearly is missing a few key details.

 

[Rowlet]

That's why the Coyotes beat them the next year right? Or I guess Canucks lost in 2012 cause LA was no normal 8th seed either. If the Canucks were more elite than any other Canadian team, they wouldn't need you to come up with every excuse you can think of to defend them. The reality was they were a very good team who were exposed in the playoffs by the Hawks and Bruins. It is what it is.

I was talking about the 2011 team, not 2012, the 2012 team was much worse and they feasted on a terrible division while being worse overall.

They made it in 2007.

Keep digging.

No, they just weren't relevent enough to remember.

 

[NyQuil]

No, they just weren't relevent enough to remember.

LOL, not even mature enough to admit that you're wrong.

Adorable.

Don't worry, your thin reserves of credibility are officially exhausted in this thread.

I can see how you might think Vancouver is the only elite team out there when you have so little knowledge of the others.

 

[jbeck5]

It’s always illuminating being lectured on the Senators by someone who clearly is missing a few key details.

It's like he said "yeah yeah, I know Heatley got 40 goals or whatever in 2005"

He might actually be a comedic genius.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Every time a Canadian team has a good goalie they have a crap team in front of him. Every time they have a good team, the goalie sucks.

Except for the year the Senators had Hasek, got injured at the Olympics and didn’t play the rest of the regular season and the playoffs.

 

[DaPhazz]

It's easier to commit to a full rebuild when fans don't care too much about hockey.

 

[Seras]

Strange thing to care about, if it ain't the leafs winning idgaf if the oilers win or the jets.

Also most cups are won by a roster loaded with Canadian players

 

[tfwnogf]

I was talking about the 2011 team

Oh the team that wasn't more elite than any other Canadian team the past 30 years? I'm aware.

 

[Rockenator]

With seven teams from Canada in the NHL, you'd think that one would break through sooner or later. I grew up with the original six and watched them on TV - CKLW (Windsor) and Hockey Night In Canada. I was a Maple Leafs fan even though I lived in the suburbs of Detroit! "Bower makes the save! Clear the track for Eddie Shack." Perhaps the curse of Toronto. The Canadiens have had a couple good teams but some poor trades and bad drafting has hurt them. Right now, Winnipeg has the best chance of a team from Canada winning a Cup this year. With Edmonton close behind. But it's hard to be in the Stanley Cup Finals two years in a row. I always root for the team from Canada if they reach the finals. But, with Canada becoming the 51st state, this will all be moot. Just kidding folks. Loved Canada's win in the 4 Nations Face-Off.

 

[Rowlet]

Oh the team that wasn't more elite than any other Canadian team the past 30 years? I'm aware.

If you don't think so, that's fine, it's your opinion and I don't care, but painting the 2011 team with the brush used to paint the team other years isn't a good argument.

LOL, not even mature enough to admit that you're wrong.

Adorable.

Don't worry, your thin reserves of credibility are officially exhausted in this thread.

I can see how you might think Vancouver is the only elite team out there when you have so little knowledge of the others.

It's okay man, it's just my opinion, you don't have to get so worked up about it.

 

[tfwnogf]

If you don't think so, that's fine, it's your opinion and I don't care, but painting the 2011 team with the brush used to paint the team other years isn't a good argument.

Neither is saying b-but the Hawks weren't a normal 8th seed!!!! If they were such a good team, they should have overcome Boston with ease. Instead they got rocked because mentally they weren't that strong, which is why when Dave Bolland came back the Hawks surged and had a swagger that nearly overcame the Canucks. But go ahead and keep posting, it's entertaining.