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@Dazzle That's a POS comment, fans like you are the reason why Canucks fans get a bad name. There's a time and a place to critique someone's work. If you didn't agree with his takes that is fine but your comment is incredibly insensitive. Botch did so much for young writers and he was one of the few media members who listened to the fans. Maybe if you actually read his work you wouldn't be so quick to call him negative.

@Dazzle

I think Botchford was really a Canuck's fan, and honestly wanted the team to be better, and win a Cup.  It was his job to sell copy, and Internet hits for his employers, which he did.  None of us here really knew him, but I always got the underlying impression that he was like on of us here, and very passionate about the Canucks and his views on making the team better.

@Dazzle.   I think what happens with death is that it puts things into perspective and allows us to think outside our own negative thoughts and see a bigger picture.  

It's not over romanticizing in my view....it's putting things aside in order to focus on what's important in the moment.  That someone young has passed, tragically and, by all accounts, unexpectedly, so the stuff from before is paused to pay respects.   As a journalist, we may have hated what he had to say (at times) but, it's about being more than that.  He was a husband, father, colleague, friend and so our attention is diverted to those things.

It's a very respectful thing to do in my mind  At the moment someone is ripped away from this earth, it's pointless to dwell in that place of negativity that may have once swirled around them.  Unless they did horrid and cruel things anyhow.

He seemed like a genuine, honest, fun loving person so even if he said things that were hard to hear or we disagreed with...it seems he was a good man.  So it's out of respect that we leave him with that.  Especially in light of the fact that his death was an untimely tragedy that no one saw coming.