Cody9 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Lots of "What If" and there will always be a lot of them year after year after year! As I digress: What if we had kept Willie? OMG, I sure hope he wins the CUP - he deserves it along with his team. Especially I would want LA to win if they have to play the Rangers. It would be slap in the face to Messier who deserves it for the joke he was the 3 years he played here. What a waste of money - have you ever seen a more useless Canuck then him? We need huge CHANGES; we need PLAYOFF material PLAYERS here and until we get them, it'll continue to be: "NEXT year we will be BETTER". WE NEED many more BURROWS. Guys who play with their hearts and play big! I was at that game where he scored against Chicago and let me tell you we didn't even see the players shaking hands because we were all hugging and screaming until we left the building. We owe Alex a lot. I have more jerseys then I can count! When it comes PLAYOFF time, I always wear my #14 Jersey, and wear it proudly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRIPP3D Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Losing With Pride Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 What if Pavel Bure had a Robotic ACL and MCL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Losing With Pride Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 What if St. Louis didn't match the David Backes offer sheet? What if Jan Bulis hadn't piggy backed Hagman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisCo! Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 What if Vancouver had won the Stanley Cup last year? What if he still let in the same 3 goals, but Vancouver ended up winning the game 4-3 and becoming Stanley Cup Champions? We would NOT have started Schneider for Game 3 of the LA Series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 There wouldn't have been a riot and the team would have been quite different this past year - maybe we would have tried harder to get some new core players like Brown or Carter in LA. Maybe if pigs had wings they'd fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 One thing humans tend to do to the underestimate the role of luck in human activity. The Canucks were lucky to get by Chicago. Certainly the 7th game could have gone either way. I agree with the OP that the fallout would have been a lot different if the Canucks had lost. Frankly, I think the team would have been a better team going into next year if the Canucks had lost. I agree that both AV and Luongo would be gone, and Kesler and Raymond and others would not be so worn down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotesMagotes Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 One thing humans tend to do to the underestimate the role of luck in human activity. The Canucks were lucky to get by Chicago. Certainly the 7th game could have gone either way. I agree with the OP that the fallout would have been a lot different if the Canucks had lost. Frankly, I think the team would have been a better team going into next year if the Canucks had lost. I agree that both AV and Luongo would be gone, and Kesler and Raymond and others would not be so worn down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AV. Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Well if Burrows never scored, the rebound would have came to him and he would have past it out Kesler or Hamhuis. So.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 they maybe got caught looking ahead to the next round and got caught off guard by a motivated Chicago team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted May 22, 2012 Author Share Posted May 22, 2012 Well if Burrows never scored, the rebound would have came to him and he would have past it out Kesler or Hamhuis. So.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotesMagotes Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Do true Stanley Cup contenders do this? Especially after the same opponent got the better of them the previous 2 years. Speaking of motivation. Where was the motivation to finish them off in games 4 and 5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfall Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 I disagree. If you go back and watch game seven, the Canucks were clearly the better team, but for whatever reason, were unable to bury Chicago. It was the Hawks who were lucky to even get to OT.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TotesMagotes Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 How come when the Canucks are clearly the better team they only win by 1 goal but Chicago was clearly the better team against the Canucks in game 4 and 5 of that series? Plus when the Hawks lost they hadn't lost by more than two goals that series so they were pretty much in every game during the series. The thing that concerns me is that the Canucks rarely have games where their dominant effort is matched on the scoreboard. To me a championship team would be able to cream an opponent by 3+ goals a few times during the playoff run, esp in the earlier rounds. Is it in fact that the talent is really weak or overrated and that the coach is maximizing the talent to "dominate" by 1 goal or is the talent being hindered and should really be vastly outscoring the other team? To me the coach's job is get the output to match the work ethic and talent of the team relative to the other team. If they can slack off and can beat a weak team in a close game that's great. If they work really hard and can blow a weak team out of the water, that's great too. But if they work hard and stay in a close game how good are they really? I also have noticed through all of the playoff runs since AV was in charge that only the game against San Jose with the penalty box flasher was there a huge stomping of the other team in the playoffs. That doesn't give me much comfort since the team does work really hard in most games just to stay close and loses almost all of the ones they slack off in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Murray Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Yeah, I have thought about this many times. I would think the MG would have made some big acquisitions last summer (July 2011) then just getting guys like Sturm, Mancari... and this years trade deadline. If it wasn't for Luongo's save earlier it could have all ended. Remember: it was Burrows who took a penalty in OT just before he scored. Had Sharp scored all the blame would go to Burrows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedishCrowns Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 What if your mother told you that you were adobted and your biological father was Scott Stevens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Losing With Pride Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 What if your mother told you that you were adobted and your biological father was Scott Stevens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdcanucks02 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 then the game would have continued until someone else scored Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fateless Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 These threads bore me. Bring on July 1st already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gumballthechewy Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Daniel woulda scored it than. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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