My resignation as a Canucks fan

HairyKneel

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Yeah I also resigned as a Canucks fan a while back, but I never posted a thread. The end to the English premier league season is just so much more entertaining than another boring ass NHL playoffs. Happy for you guys though!

You must be a big fan of watching paint dry.
 

JAK

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If someone really wanted to make an announcement, they should print out copies and tape it to the windows of GM Place, take pictures, then send it to the press.
 

PuckMunchkin

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I think a big part of my fandom died when Linden retired. With no cup...


Edit. This looks really out if context.

This thread got me thinking what would it take to make me just cut ties with the canucks all together.

My favourites players have got some rotten endings to their Canuck stories.

Bure ran out of town.

Näslund hated and retiring a Ranger.

Linden shamed and traded and then ending up taking bullets for Benning.

Luongo ran out of town.

I think Im just sticking around.
 
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HairyKneel

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The Linden trade was a stroke of brilliance in the end.

Luongo wanted to go....... and he wanted to go after he got yanked against the Sharks.


Bure..... they absolutely did him dirty. Starting with trying to pay him in Canadian funds to not bringing back Igor from Switzerland.

I've been at big this team since I was 5 so in the last 49 years; believe me I've been pissed at management dozens of times. I guess I just never made an announcement on a message board that I was taking my ball and going home.
 

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If I hear one more Canucks fan here criticize our management/coaching staff/direction of team I am going to quit being a fan forever and never post here again!
 
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Fire Roger Neilsen and not pay him so he has to sue. Like Pat Quinn, Roger never won a cup but the systems he invented and pioneered did (most famously the Left Wing Lock, aka The Trap). And he could get his players motivated. Infamously, Mark Messier had him fired in New York and he did so publicly, so this is another hidden reason Canucks fans didn't take to Messier that ownership didn't understand.

Speaking of, also the weird way Pat Quinn was fired. I honestly can't believe he stuck around as long as he did with ownership's shenanigans - like, why didn't he quit before they did that?
 
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HairyKneel

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Fire Roger Neilsen and not pay him so he has to sue. Like Pat Quinn, Roger never won a cup but the systems he invented and pioneered did (most famously the Left Wing Lock, aka The Trap). And he could get his players motivated. Infamously, Mark Messier had him fired in New York and he did so publicly, so this is another hidden reason Canucks fans didn't take to Messier that ownership didn't understand.

Speaking of, also the weird way Pat Quinn was fired. I honestly can't believe he stuck around as long as he did with ownership's shenanigans - like, why didn't he quit before they did that?

I'm the biggest Pat Quinn honk ever but he deserved to get the hook in 1997. He was asleep at the wheel for three years. He did a lot of good things for seven years and then crapped his pants while on atomic Metamucil for three and I'm not even bringing up the Larionov fiasco. He let his pitbulls loose on the best player this franchise had ever had.
 

Shareefruck

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LOL This reminds me of a thread I started before the start of last season stating I was taking a leave of absence as a Canucks fan as I was fed up with their lack of production.

Well, as you can see I didn't quite follow up with that. But in my defense, who could have predicted the solid season they had last year? :dunno:
No offense, but whether you could or couldn't have predicted the season being successful wouldn't make starting a thread to announce your resignation any less of an embarrassingly melodramatic drama queen thing to do.
 

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LOL This reminds me of a thread I started before the start of last season stating I was taking a leave of absence as a Canucks fan as I was fed up with their lack of production.

Well, as you can see I didn't quite follow up with that. But in my defense, who could have predicted the solid season they had last year? :dunno:
Last year was actually pretty apparent they were going to do better than previous years. Most here had them pegged as a wildcard team who definitely overachieved that in the end. This year we have shaky goaltending and terrible defense and injured forwards
 
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Reverend Mayhem

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I think a big part of my fandom died when Linden retired. With no cup...


Edit. This looks really out if context.

This thread got me thinking what would it take to make me just cut ties with the canucks all together.

My favourites players have got some rotten endings to their Canuck stories.

Bure ran out of town.

Näslund hated and retiring a Ranger.

Linden shamed and traded and then ending up taking bullets for Benning.

Luongo ran out of town.

I think Im just sticking around.

Our fans on average have always kind of sucked? What're you just now figuring this out? We literally rioted - once in the age of the camera phone over a f***ing sports game. I mean if that ain't a dead giveaway, I don't know what is. Some of us ain't playing with a full deck of cards. I myself very closely teeter the line between humanity and insanity and have to check myself every once in a while.

Oh, and if anyone is thinking of "no real fan rioted" spare me. I caught one of the last Skytrains out before it shut down for service that day. I saw what I saw.

-- I meant the first couple questions in rhetorically folksy way.
 
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