archangel2
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My resignation as a Canucks fan
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PavelBure10
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HairyKneel
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Hollywood Burrows
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I also quit supporting this garbage franchise years ago, but you don't see me posting a thread about it!
HairyKneel
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I'll certainly give you that. The drama queens that have a hissy fit and make an announcement about quitting being a fan are bloody hilarious.
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.
Raistlin
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PuckMunchkin
Very Nice, Very Evil!
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.
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.
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.
Shareefruck
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"cringe"/"cringey" is something people said long before zoomers hijacked it, people.
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!
LuckyDay
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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?
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?
HairyKneel
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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.
End on a Hinote
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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?
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?
Shareefruck
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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.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?
End on a Hinote
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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 forwardsLOL 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?
Shareefruck
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Ironically, that's exactly what I find melodramatic about it. Being a fan of a sports team itself shouldn't be that serious.It's an internet message board, it's not that serious
End on a Hinote
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Reverend Mayhem
Tell me all your thoughts on God
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.
LuckyDay
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I don't disagree. Stepping into the coaching role is the best thing he ever did. Stepping out of it was the worst. Quinn had the ability to make his players play better - a rare thing. But he couldn't do that as manager and as manager, he was more lucky than good IMO.
What my point is, is with ownership dinkering around so much like with refusing to pay Krutov, the Bure contract, and signing Messier, he should have quit. He may have been the GM but ownership was constantly doing their own thing without his say.
