Vancouver Canucks 30 Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmployeeoftheMonth Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Well Tony Gallagher was around in medieval times so he should know all about curses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunningWild Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 What's the point of this article? I'm still trying to figure it out. Sometimes I think he's going through an extended mid life crisis and needs to take it out on everyone else. Angry man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linden16kesler17 Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at an (actually true) sports article. Win. << ...the truly morose would say Wednesday was just another day for the Canucks>> <<[Malholtra] won’t asked to be traded. Hell, why would he want to leave the Twilight zone?>> <<...defence that should be one of the best in the game is playing like somebody just yelled “fire.”>> Ahhh, so good. I needed that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertuzzipunch Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 I dont get it, what a terrible article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaMacNamedDre Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 The hockey media in this town is a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmployeeoftheMonth Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 The hockey media in this town is a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clutesi Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Meanwhile in Edmonton the team hasn't made the playoffs six years and the local media worship the management and players like Gods offering never a critical word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckleHorse Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 When Mike Gillis first took his job as general manager of the Vancouver Canucks one of the things he had the most difficulty understanding was the feeling of impending dread which seemed to overcome every fan and member of the media when it came to the fortunes of the team. He couldn’t understand why everyone was so negative and fatalistic, worried about when the next shoe would drop as the season progressed. He expressed it in different terms of course, but stated quite openly that he had absolutely no identification with those feelings whatsoever. After the time he’s been here — with all the personal tragedies and heartache he’s seen — and then taking this team to within one game of the big prize before experiencing just another pothole, perhaps he’s beginning to understand what the fans of this team may be feeling after the 43 years of absurdities that befall this team. Take the case of Ryan Kesler, for instance. The team drafts a beauty in this motivated American kid who is determined to make himself a great player, and with lots of work and encouragement from this management does just that. Then bleep starts to happen and injuries fall on this guy like locusts on a corn field. Part of it has been brought on by the way he’s been managed by the team and part of it by the way he seems to look for unnecessary contact. His broken foot injury clearly has nothing to do with any of that, you’re not going to ask a guy to stop blocking shots. But of all 20 plus guys on the roster, who gets the broken foot? Kesler? Really? While the truly morose would say Wednesday was just another day for the Canucks, the circus which was the scene at Rogers Arena — on a day when most teams probably wouldn’t have practised at all — was nothing short of total reinforcement for those who believe this team is somehow determined to tread the path of the Chicago Cubs. It was ridiculous. You have the team moving Aaron Volpatti to the Chicago Wolves, claiming they want him to play more and become more than a fourth-line winger. Really? That doesn’t even pass the giggle test for a team so bloated with good wingers they don’t know what to do with them. And Niklas Jensen is on the way. Then they put Steve Pinizzotto on the roster so they can send him down for conditioning with the intent of doing what exactly? Perhaps to visit Anton Rodin, another great centre prospect the team drafted whose career down there has gone the way of Kesler when it comes to injury. Right now he has a hernia problem. No, not a sports hernia, you’d expect that. It’s a normal, garden variety old-man hernia which will allow him to be back in just a couple of weeks to await his next mishap. Then Manny Malhotra shows up and practices with the team, saying he disagrees with the decision to essentially shut down his career after an earlier catastrophic eye injury that really helped scuttle the run to what should have been the team’s first Stanley Cup back in 2011. He doesn’t know whether he wants to try to play again but says he’ll go along with the decision for the time being and won’t asked to be traded. Hell, why would he want to leave the Twilight zone? All this 12 hours after the man who was supposed to be the No. 1 goalie this year intimates that having two No. 1 goalies the way they do isn’t really working for him. He didn’t say it in so many words but the implication was clear. In the same game at which your goalie determines that this “grab-the-brass-ring” or “dice rolling” system wasn’t his favourite way to go, your prize winger Zack Kassian obtained in a controversial trade the previous season sits scowling on the bench according to close observers while playing all of 6:52 on the fourth line. And throw in a loss at home to a team with half the talent and nearly $20 million U.S. cap space. Add the fact you still have the team’s top two scorers saying it’s okay if they don’t score every night and that you have to be able to win games 2-1, while at the same time a defence that should be one of the best in the game is playing like somebody just yelled “fire.” That’s just one 24-hour period. And this is the smartest, most thoughtful and thorough management group the club has ever had in place. Yes, perhaps now he has at least some sense of what over 40 years of this can do to people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strombone1 Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 It's so crazy that it almost makes my eyes wet. MacKinnon anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jai604 Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 muaeeeehhhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckfan85 Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 really?? no one sees this?? The Cam Neely trade? The "extra day" before 1994 game 7 that was instituted mysteriously and only helped the rangers who had a lot of knocks and bruises, took away the canucks momentum. Nathan Lafayette's goal post Joe Sakic- never wanted to play here. The Cam Neely trade and how it worked out in Boston drafting a power forward kid FROM VANCOUVER, who then beat us up in the cup finals. The death of Luc Bourdon? or the fact that we even drafted him instead of Kopitar Aaron Rome's suspension- the worst suspension in league history in the stanley cup finals. The reffing in the finals. The insane number of inujuries we had during the 2011 run, not to mention Manny's freak accident to a guy who was the heart and soul of this team...the first time we had a legit contending 3rd line that scored, won face offs... The Hodgson trade- why does such a smart GM trade truly one of our best players for a guy way further behind in development. Why didn't Cody like it here? Daniel Sedin Inury last year and the slap on the wrist the NHL gave Keith. This summer Justin Schultz chooses Edmonton... what? even they thought they were out of the running. What did AV say to Schultz in those meetings to piss him off??? Shea Weber- met with Gillis for 3 hours and still we couldn't figure out how to get him here. Shane Doan- go read the last article where Doan says he was really close to signing here... If we are not cursed, then who the hell is bro??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmployeeoftheMonth Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 really?? no one sees this?? The Cam Neely trade? The "extra day" before 1994 game 7 that was instituted mysteriously and only helped the rangers who had a lot of knocks and bruises, took away the canucks momentum. Nathan Lafayette's goal post Joe Sakic- never wanted to play here. The Cam Neely trade and how it worked out in Boston drafting a power forward kid FROM VANCOUVER, who then beat us up in the cup finals. The death of Luc Bourdon? or the fact that we even drafted him instead of Kopitar Aaron Rome's suspension- the worst suspension in league history in the stanley cup finals. The reffing in the finals. The insane number of inujuries we had during the 2011 run, not to mention Manny's freak accident to a guy who was the heart and soul of this team...the first time we had a legit contending 3rd line that scored, won face offs... The Hodgson trade- why does such a smart GM trade truly one of our best players for a guy way further behind in development. Why didn't Cody like it here? Daniel Sedin Inury last year and the slap on the wrist the NHL gave Keith. This summer Justin Schultz chooses Edmonton... what? even they thought they were out of the running. What did AV say to Schultz in those meetings to piss him off??? Shea Weber- met with Gillis for 3 hours and still we couldn't figure out how to get him here. Shane Doan- go read the last article where Doan says he was really close to signing here... If we are not cursed, then who the hell is bro??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckfan85 Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 maybe some of you guys are too young to realize this franchise's history, but the stanley cup run in 2011 epitomized it, it took everything we had with the best team we have ever had to just get to the finals- why was it so hard? we demolished teams in the regular season...that is what a curse does...that is the weight of a curse on you, it takes everything you have and still it is not enough. Gillis is falling into that curse too, he is trying not too, but all of a sudden our great roster is playing like junk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACanuck Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 OP you mean somewhere, somebody has got a bunch of crappy handmade Canuck player dolls with pins in them??? Dayum we are cursed... whatever, even if you believed in a curse eventually all curses get broken. Our time will come!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSVII Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Personally, I think the Ranger's Bambino curse went to us when they beat us in 94. The paranoid tin foil hat conspiracy theorist in me also thinks we should NEVER be matched against an original six team if we ever want to win the cup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaches Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 I find that Tony Gallagher rarely has anything productive to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEwantCUP Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 well duh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 Well Tony Gallagher was around in medieval times so he should know all about curses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clutesi Posted February 28, 2013 Share Posted February 28, 2013 It's been said here recently, by the time the nucks faced Boston in the finals theyd travelled16,000 miles in the season, the Bruins 4500. How can you travel that much more and still be successful, ? it's not a curse it's geograpHy that's killing us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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