LeafsFanDan

Boeser keeps talking to Marky every whistle..any idea what he keeps saying?

Uh, have you not seen clips of Holtby talking to him self? Thats alarming, disturbing etc.. if you aren't affected or can rationalize it thats great but I can't and I am willing to bet others aren't. Here is an athlete that we support on our dime we pay his salary by buying tickets and the guy is acting creepy and manic. A high level professional earned his spot through hard work sacrifice and drive and not because he is guided by a higher power how ridiculous why aren't you seeing my point? By giving into superstition you are throwing away all your percieved talents and skills and essentially start to "buy in" to a mentality that you don't have control but something higher than you does - in our field of science of the mind when a subject loses control of their mind and their actions they lose their ability to affect and effect the outcome and this fact completely undermines the word "elite world athelte".

Uh what you mean? I live in Van in a building and it has 4th and 13th floor. Of course buildings have floors, 4th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 25th whatever how high the building is...what do floors have to do with anything why bring floors into an educated argument?

Problem arises when players skip the hardwork sleep or extra practice time in "lue" of superstition.

Your comment made no sense.. banning superstition will quickly be accepted, its not in a contact or anyone's best interest to leave sports over ban of superstition. What do you mean bye bye sports? Clearly you aren't a serious person who studies mental issues or performance related dilemmas.

Problem is that while superstition can be excusable at some basic level its not acceptable at proffessional level. By buying into superstition the players effectively give power to a force greater than then selves. They undermine their own abilities and training and relinquish control of the outcome to a force/entity they call superstition. I work in psychology and in my circles its widely accepted that superstition is deeply damaging at proffesional levels be it sports, gambling, performance whatever. Imagine a doctor being super stitious or a teacher, basically setting their training aside to follow some imaginary belief. Has 0 place in sports, sooner fans understand this the better I feel.

**Before we get into this article I want to make it clear this is a opinion piece, not backed up by any sources or references and is not intended to offend anyone.** Seeing as the Canucks got their first win in 7 games after changing up their dress code and dressing up "casually" for the pre-game you can make a sure bet the players will do so again out of long standing tradition in hockey called "superstition". Now for many fans like my self you can't help but shake your head at the fact that superstition is still around in modern day NHL. Lets break down why my argument against it makes sense. Exhibit A. A player on team "X" regularly drinks 2 bottles of water per game, in one of the games he decided to drink 3 bottles of water and his team lost by 7 goals and the player had no points and was a minus 5. The player blames superstition and doesn't ever drink 3 bottles again. Fact check - in reality drinking 3 bottles may actually increase the players performance over time, one coincidence and a player is self subbotaging his own opportunities to improve due to superstition. This is a basic example of how superstition can hinder performance. Exhibit B. Players who buy into superstition focus a lot of energy into un proven theories rather than focusing on actual tangible processes to improve. Rather than putting extra minutes into the gym or skipping desert at a meal a player simply thinks they can talk to goal posts or avoid touching a trophy to avoid "bad curse" ? How is that accepted in modern day professional sports? As a fan who spends 100$/game i expect athletes to be professional, intelligent and rational students of the game. It boggles my mind that the owners and coaching staff allow bizzare and mentally unstable practices like superstition beliefs to cloud judgemental and impede performance of a professional athletes. Superstition is fake, unproven, dangerous and has no place in highly competitive professional sports. It wears down psyche and creates unrealistic expectations and false beliefs. Some people may argue there is no harm to the players having a little "fun" but my point that its not fun to see, not fun to hear, rather its distracting and alarming. And as someone who supports and invests into the product on the ice I would like to perhaps inquire how to start a petition to ban or remove superstitious rituals from hockey. Curious to hear people's opinions on the topic.

Calgary with a time out thinks they can still pull a win like the Bachelor franchise trying to still recover from Chris Harisson interview

Wait CANUCKS WON?

Boeser

Calgary pull the goalie, Brock Boeser please score empty net

On the radio Hersh told Myers to stay back and don't worry about points and goals.. good thing Myers didn't listen

Hahahahha i called this wjn

I thought that was Salo for a solid 3 seconds there

Calgary got away with a lot of penalties tonight, not sure if anyone else noticed

So frustrating that even at full hussle and effort all Canucks can muster is a single goal on 40 shots.. gotta wonder how unfair can life be for a fan

With that post Canucks set a record for most pings in a season.... should be the head line

Miller at times feels like he is subbotaging the play.. easy tap in there why miss

We just can't get a save when we need one, goalie quality is so critical than ever before in modern NHL it seems goalies suddenly become so valuable

Marky was and is the king of soft goals but he is now entering his prime as a goalie, sucks he will give his best to the Flames when Canucks invested serious time and money training him

Booom called it

Canucks seem sooo hungry man i am calling this their win tonight you can just sense it

Canucks clogging the middle zone finally - this defence minded focus is working.. teams assume Canucks will play full attack so they prep their game plan accordingly... But when Canucks go all in defence Calgary can't pivot enough to adapt, game seems super tilted to Canucks

Announcer takes a shot at Elliot lol

Canucks don't seem deflated at all tonight.. the vote of confidence from ownership must have paid divident tonight