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The Vancouver Media Thread | Part VIII

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Maybe I'm wrong, but Gary Mason leaving out important Rutherford quotes, because "It was 1400+ words" is pretty scummy, knowing it would blow up.

His name is everywhere this week, accidentally on purpose.
 
Grip it N RYP it said:
Maybe I'm wrong, but Gary Mason leaving out important Rutherford quotes, because "It was 1400+ words" is pretty scummy, knowing it would blow up.

His name is everywhere this week, accidentally on purpose.
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I don't really think he did it on purpose. It does significantly alter the story from a "bombshell" (as HalBro called it) to, essentially, Rutherford confirming the obvious, though.
 
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I find it crazy nobody asked Tochett about the bombshell article by rutherford after practice.

It's a layup
 
kanucks25 said:
There's no Vancouver media on this road trip other than the woman who works for the Canucks that is only allowed to ask softball questions.
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This maybe a controversial take. I think as fans that are invested in the health of the franchise, I can live without the whole cycle of tirefire on ice/off ice circus stories after stories, and all the reaction articles that gets generated out of it.

I don't mind it when we had a really astute Gillis management that is smarter than the opportunists doing everything for extra clicks. But JR is sooooo surprisingly charmingly naive, please just let Allvin do the interviews from now on. I can live with softball questions in this crucial period of the franchise.
 
Jyrki21 said:
I don't really think he did it on purpose. It does significantly alter the story from a "bombshell" (as HalBro called it) to, essentially, Rutherford confirming the obvious, though.
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The journalist is foiled once again by reading comprehension.

You don't release a story like that on Twitter. Nothing good can come from that. If it's 1400+ words, put it in print.

Its really on Aquilini, this one.
 
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This morning on Halford & Brough they had David Amber on & he said something along the lines of how lucky they were to have a story like Petey/Miller to cover. I couldn’t help but coming away thinking how big of a dips*** someone has to be to think that.

After last season & finally having pride in the team, media think it’s “lucky” to have a story about our core crumbling due to personal drama to cover. It made me think a lot about our local guys & how many of them are secretly happy to have this rift to talk about daily instead of wins.
 
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Huggy43 said:
This morning on Halford & Brough they had David Amber on & he said something along the lines of how lucky they were to have a story like Petey/Miller to cover. I couldn’t help but coming away thinking how big of a dips*** someone has to be to think that.
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He is literally feeding his family and putting kids through college. I think it's incredibly noble. He has to do it. He is literally financially compelled to. And in the end, he has enough grace to try and give both sides a stage which makes him the natural Ron MacLean of the panel. It's a beautiful thing watching the torch get passed naturally and not clumsily. Good to know that Sportsnet arsed up and finally got it right when the dollar came calling. The institution of Hockey Night wasn't sold out in the end, but continued. It's good to be mad about programming choices instead of f***ing potential political nightmares.
 
Reverend Mayhem said:
He is literally feeding his family and putting kids through college. I think it's incredibly noble. He has to do it. He is literally financially compelled to. And in the end, he has enough grace to try and give both sides a stage which makes him the natural Ron MacLean of the panel. It's a beautiful thing watching the torch get passed naturally and not clumsily. Good to know that Sportsnet arsed up and finally got it right when the dollar came calling. The institution of Hockey Night wasn't sold out in the end, but continued. It's good to be mad about programming choices instead of f***ing potential political nightmares.
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Long gone are the days where journalists do deep dives and get a window into the truth. In 2025, journalism is literally about how many hits or views you can get to monetize it, which is more akin to selfishly using a situation for own personal gain. Real journalism (in the pure form of journalism, where you go find and report on truths to inform the public) is dead. Our media constantly beats this dead f***ing horse for selfish clicks and views constantly. Nothing really for us the consumer to gain, other than constant outrage and more views for them

Huggy43 said:
This morning on Halford & Brough they had David Amber on & he said something along the lines of how lucky they were to have a story like Petey/Miller to cover. I couldn’t help but coming away thinking how big of a dips*** someone has to be to think that.

After last season & finally having pride in the team, media think it’s “lucky” to have a story about our core crumbling due to personal drama to cover. It made me think a lot about our local guys & how many of them are secretly happy to have this rift to talk about daily instead of wins.
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Daily reminder that you do not dislike journalists enough.
 
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Hyzer said:
Long gone are the days where journalists do deep dives and get a window into the truth. In 2025, journalism is literally about how many hits or views you can get to monetize it, which is more akin to selfishly using a situation for own personal gain. Real journalism (in the pure form of journalism, where you go find and report on truths to inform the public) is dead.




Daily reminder that you do not dislike journalists enough.
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I don't disagree with what you said but you take that a step further and people start saying I'm a condescending lol.

accidental Mario in purpose.
 
Canucks LB said:
I find it crazy nobody asked Tochett about the bombshell article by rutherford after practice.

It's a layup
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Unlike is widely believed on these boards, the media is extremely vanilla in Vancouver. Has probably never been this soft and easy on the players, management and coach in the Canucks existence.
 
I say this as a Drance fan but Holy f*** was he being overly obtuse today on the radio during the crossover with Donnie and Dhali.
 
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Any one else catch Drance on The Whiteboard completely (and confidently) get the math wrong when describing what a .500 pts% is? Pretty funny. Dodd knew he was wrong but was (too) nice about it.
 
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rypper said:
I say this as a Drance fan but Holy f*** was he being overly obtuse today on the radio during the crossover with Donnie and Dhali.
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I was going to respond to this earlier but the board died around that time.

I've been listening to Drance regularly as of late and although I do think he's on point on most things he talks about, he just seems like one of those people that needs to be an obnoxious douche bag once in a while for whatever reason.

He basically berated Don Taylor of all people because Don suggested the Canucks could have beat the Habs / it was a close game and Drance was incredulous at that notion... despite it being a 1 goal game before the empty netter.

And then he throws out the "there's some hockey 101 knowledge for you" line which he probably thought was such a dunk but in reality it made him come off as a complete goofball.
 
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kanucks25 said:
I was going to respond to this earlier but the board died around that time.

I've been listening to Drance regularly as of late and although I do think he's on point on most things he talks about, he just seems like one of those people that needs to be an obnoxious douche bag once in a while for whatever reason.

He basically berated Don Taylor of all people because Don suggested the Canucks could have beat the Habs / it was a close game and Drance was incredulous at that notion... despite it being a 1 goal game before the empty netter.

And then he throws out the "there's some hockey 101 knowledge for you" line which he probably thought was such a dunk but in reality it made him come off as a complete goofball.
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He did acknowledge that it was a really stupid thing to say.

But yeah, I didnt like it either.
 
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Huggy43 said:
Brough saying he can’t enjoy Canuck games with EP40 in them because he’s too focused on EP40’s feeling, will react post game…etc

Uhh… Does anyone watch games like that? Seems like a new level of obsessed
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I agree with Brough.
Pettersson (40) has been such a distraction this season (and honestly for the majority of his career) that I find it quite refreshing to watch games where he isn't playing.
I think that's what Brough was getting at.
 


Frank is hilarious. FACT. not opinion.

Ok frank how did you measure this fact? Especially when a poll of the players in February said otherwise.

Find someone in your life who loves you, like Frank loves Rick.
 
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Frank is hilarious. FACT. not opinion.

Ok frank how did you measure this fact? Especially when a poll of the players in February said otherwise.

Find someone in your life who loves you, like Frank loves Rick.
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What poll? What was it for? Genuine curiosity.

But then unless the poll was hidden I would not expect anything other than a raving cheer.
 
theguardianII said:
What poll? What was it for? Genuine curiosity.

But then unless the poll was hidden I would not expect anything other than a raving cheer.
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The Athletic asked players which coach they would most like to play for other than their own. Tocchet was 10th.

But that's really besides the point which was laughing at Frank Seravalli for making a ridiculous statement.
 
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