coastal.view

yeah they joined when the shooting crisis happened

and dealt with that issue really well

very good public relations team in that org

and they are also changing the in game entertainment standards in the league

Hell yes I'm butt hurt,being a Canucks fan from the very beginning and from the very start getting screwed and having to take Talon instead of Perreault and so far the Sabres have had 2 / 1 0A picks and a second in just the last few years and Then Vegas comes into the league and dominates right off the get go.

Meanwhile here in Canuck land 4 that's right count em 4 consecutive years of getting screwed at the LOTTO DRAFT.

Ya It hurts more than just my butt.

@DADDYROCK  Not that one needs an excuse to hate the Leafs but hate them.  The Canucks were denied entry in the NHL earlier (blocked by the Leafs because they didn't want to have to have any kind of competition).  

You might ask, what difference does a few years make?  Back in the first expansion round in 1967, all the "new teams" were put into one division.  The "original six" remained in their division.  How the playoffs worked was that there was GUARANTEED one team from each division entry in the Stanley Cup Finals (that's how the Blues got into the Finals right off the bat & for consecutive seasons even though they were just an expansion team).

Just our luck, when the Canucks FINALLY were allowed in by teams like the Laffs (greed from expansion money finally convinced them), they changed the playoff formats again (to avoid that problem of an expansion club/newer team getting an easier path the Finals than say an original six team....teams were re-aligned in different divisions).