Trollerblader Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I read an article this morning in the Sun about the Keith hit on Sedin. If you haven't read it make sure to at least scan, it's quite interesting: http://www.vancouver...7534/story.html I'll give you the gist. It's an article featuring a number of commentators from various regions and a snippet of their comments on the Keith-Sedin hit. While the Vancouverite bloggers and columnists are all calling for suspensions (or rather, just stating that they know there will be one), Chicago columnists and have said these awful things about the topic. Just a sample: #Canucks having Daniel Sedin see a 'specialist' after that hit by #Blackhawks Duncan Keith? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realnucksfan2010 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 They just envy us! I mean every one want to be where we are but can't cuz they suck! so who can blame them for saying what they are? I think i would to if thought that it might get the best team in the league off their game. Having said that what they are saying is quite funny and holds no truth, so why worry? Our tem knows that they have a great team and so does every one else, it is just propoganda, nothing more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Lol They are mad because we can be good for more then 1 year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
He-Man Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Did u just say bieksa is American? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaches Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Bieksa is not american. He is from ontario Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Swansons Moustache Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 God bless America They have some serious issues going on in that country. Remember the whole Freedom fries situation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobHo Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 They just mad cause we own them with a better team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trollerblader Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 Did u just say bieksa is American? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey16 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Bieksa is Canadian... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire_Spiky Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Broadcasters/New reporters are always going to be biased towards the hometown crowd. Doesn't amtter where you go you'll see it happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginu Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Everyone is biased and entitled to their self centered opinions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooBie604 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I read an article this morning in the Sun about the Keith hit on Sedin. If you haven't read it make sure to at least scan, it's quite interesting: http://www.vancouver...7534/story.html I'll give you the gist. It's an article featuring a number of commentators from various regions and a snippet of their comments on the Keith-Sedin hit. While the Vancouverite bloggers and columnists are all calling for suspensions (or rather, just stating that they know there will be one), Chicago columnists and have said these awful things about the topic. Just a sample: One guy goes as far as to say that Keith deserves it, but then backtracks to explain that the Canucks are gutless and implies that it's deserved. I guess that what I'm wondering is why this is thought to be acceptable. If Vancouver columnists wrote this about any player in the league, they would be tarred and feathered. Yet, when Chicago columnists write it, the day goes on and no one gives it a second though. It's easy to attribute it to the nature of American news -- to sensationalize everything and to overload your mind with too many superlatives and exaggerations. But I personally think it's something different. Never in my life have I read about an American Canuck player --like Kesler for example-- being criticized by American sports media. It's always those French-Canadian scumbags like LaPierre and Burrows, or those fragile Swedes. It seriously makes me wonder whether there's more depth to why the Canucks get hated on in the media outside of Canada. Maybe at the core of this, there's a not-so-well disguised level of bigotry driving it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpt Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 What's interesting is how we never get suspended yet other teams cheapshot us and are suspended. How dirty can we be when the league rarely has to discipline our team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Mauviette75 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 The media will destroy anyone who speaks ill of their country like the Dixie Chicks and is hugely driven by media propaganda to drive the public to have a sense of entitlement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplyHockey Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 The US is not liked in the world because they are strong and powerful. The Canucks are not liked in the NHL because they are strong and powerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckylager Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Wow, Chi-town reporters are really dumb. It would appear that all you need to be a "sports journalist" in Chicago is the ability to read and understand the directions on a shampoo bottle. Americans (in general) are just really angry at the world for not failing as badly as them. Clearly a proper education should be more of a priority than ufc, nickelback and war; especially if the career involves writing or comprehension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Peterson Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 The Canucks have a sense of fair play... a fast, good hitting team without cheap shot artists. To bad other teams can't say the same. For the last three years or so, the way the NHL has been going, with Inconsistent officiating at the top of the list, all I hope for is all our players to make it through the game unscathed. Sadly it is not to be. I think it is time we all take a stand. Letters to the papers, emails to the NHL... Remember...'CBS CARES'...The NHL does not" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooBie604 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 the dixie chicks were not really destroyed by the media. the media (apart from the ridiculous fox news) is relatively liberal. the people destroying the dixie chicks were the hicks down south (which happened to be a large constituency of their listeners. that's interesting, i would have imagined it would be the opposite. big cities tend to be cosmopolitan. just walking down the street you see people from every race/walks of life. and there's a lot of foreigners too, there to study, work or just live. so people in big cities are more liberal, more diverse, and more prone to accept differences. most of the animosity, in my experience has come from the states in the middle... of course the big cities are the ones with sports teams, so that's where you're going to hear/read things against other teams. but i really don't think teams like the rangers/the flyers/the bruins hate canadian teams more than they hate each other. in NY, you're way more likely to hear an anti-boston or anti-philly thing than anti-toronto or anti-vancouver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorevat Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Just go to tsn.ca and read the comments left after any Canuck story. It's filled with hate and vitriol and it's mostly left from people within Canada. To the haters all I can say is keep it coming. ............. YOUR HATE FUELS US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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