jwizenhl Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Hard to switch gears when you have been hating your home team all year and the season is over you just switch to hating the next team closest to home throughout the playoffs. Your Canadians right? Where is the love? When I watched the Calgary games as the season dwindled down I was hoping for them to pull it out in the back of my mind. Same for the Jets, and the Leafs. For hockey lovers it is pain and sadness brought on by their home teams losing. These pains can be dreadful at times. Unfortunately, humans can't control themselves and react by hating. If you take hockey out of the equation a lot of people hate it when other people are happy, because they themselves aren't happy and they look really bad for being hateful~viscious circle. Don't be surprised there is a lot of hate in our world. Another funny thing is that we have a hockey culture in Vancouver that is pretty much PG based on hard work and perseverance. It is Blasphemy for people who believe hockey should be a bunch of goons on the ice bumping each others heads of for sport--one more reason to hate the canucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnickers87 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Aaron Ward said two things this year that stand out 1. You hate teams that are great 2. The Bruins, especially after the January Nucks game, are more hated then Vancouver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millerdraft Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 So, now that we have Samme Pahlsson, Byron Bitz, Zack Kassian, Dale Weise and the absurd question about team toughness has been more or less addressed, out come the other popular refrain that we're just divers & whiners? Shocking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnickers87 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 As for the false narrative that Canada didn't want the Canucks to win last year [http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110602/bc_canucks_poll_110601/20110602/?hub=BritishColumbiaHome Survey results released Wednesday by Angus Reid Public Opinion show that seven out of 10 Canadians say they're rooting for the Canucks in the Stanley Cup Final. Fellow pollster Ipsos Reid came up with similar results, finding that just over 60 per cent of Canadians are hoping that the Canucks will be the first Canadian team since 1993 to win the Stanley Cup. Those findings are a smack in the face for opinion writers who have claimed the Canucks aren't Canada's team in newspaper editorials across the country in recent weeks. Even fans of other Canadian teams are hopping on the Canucks bandwagon, Angus Reid found. That poll showed that over 70 per cent of Calgary Flames, Montreal Canadiens and Edmonton Oilers fans are supporting the Canucks, as well as 83 per cent of Toronto Maple Leafs fans and a whopping 93 per cent of Ottawa Senators fans. Nearly three-quarters of people across the country say the team is "very likely" or "moderately likely" to defeat the Boston Bruins and take home the coveted Stanley Cup. A region-by-region breakdown by Ipsos Reid shows that support for the home team outside of B.C. is highest in the prairies at 66 per cent and lowest in Quebec at 51 per cent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millerdraft Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 As for the false narrative that Canada didn't want the Canucks to win last year [http://www.ctvbc.ctv...ishColumbiaHome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Bieksa's Fault Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 As for the false narrative that Canada didn't want the Canucks to win last year [http://www.ctvbc.ctv...ishColumbiaHome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancouver1994 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 With CBC's funding cut by a whopping 10% and HNIC coming under fire at the GM's meeting, look for them to set a different tone these play offs and try to suck up to the Canadian teams and fan bases. Once HNIC begins raving about how different this Canucks team is this year and how they are tough and hard working and no longer relying on the power play, the opinion of the average Canadian viewer will change too. Last year, Canucks were trying to win by being smarter than their opponents. Turns out, when it comes to hockey, fans (and HNIC) prefer the equivalent of a plumber to a rocket scientist. Remember how Don Cherry despises Detroit? It's contagious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancouver1994 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 As for the false narrative that Canada didn't want the Canucks to win last year [http://www.ctvbc.ctv...ishColumbiaHome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tearloch7 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Bottom line is who really give a flying Ca-funkle WHAT some a-hole thinks? .. love the Canucks thru thick and thin, or bugger off .. simple really .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoneypuckOverlord Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Aaron Ward said two things this year that stand out 1. You hate teams that are great 2. The Bruins, especially after the January Nucks game, are more hated then Vancouver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck nit Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Chicago fans in mourning? lol they just won the cup 2 years ago.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pouria Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 VANCOUVER—How is it that the Canadian team with the best chance at the Stanley Cup is one of the most hated teams in hockey? Shouldn’t we love these guys? Mention the Vancouver Canucks in Vancouver and the love overflows. Mention the same team anywhere else in the league and the venom is palpable. Non-Canucks fans point to the team’s reputation for whining — GM Mike Gillis was fined during last season’s playoffs for complaining about the officiating — the diving abilities of the Sedin twins, the hair-pulling and finger-biting tactics of forward Alex Burrows. “They are the most arrogant team I played against and the most hated team I’ve ever played against,” former Boston Bruins forward Mark Recchi told an American radio station last year. Why exactly are the Canucks so despised? For a second year in a row, the team captured the President’s Trophy as the NHL’s top team and odds are the Canucks will have another extended run in the playoffs with their second chance in as many years of ending up in the finals. The Canucks will begin that quest Wednesday night in their playoff opener against the Los Angeles Kings. Cambridge, Ont., resident Jim Chaplin says one reason the Canucks are so despised is because they have an inflated opinion of themselves . “This is not a team that goes out and plays tough and backs up their talk. They hide behind officials and they don’t play an honourable, tough brand of hockey,” says Chaplin, who lived in Vancouver in his early 20s and is a lifelong Chicago Blackhawks fan. “Hockey fans love a good work ethic, players who hit and backcheck. Fans like fighters, not chirpers.” Chaplin thinks the Canucks’ reputation for being a dirty team reaches back years, starting with the 2004 Todd Bertuzzi hit on Steve Moore of the Colorado Avalanche. Kelly Kirch, program director for Sportsnet 960 The Fan in Calgary, says whenever the Canucks are raised as a topic on radio call-in shows, the response from callers is disdain . “What people don’t like the most about the team, I think, are the Canuck fans. The Canucks fans lose all sense of judgment; they think everyone else is against them and they aren’t graceful when they lose,” says Kirch. “There is an arrogance with the Canucks and while people can respect that they’re a very good team, no one likes them very much.” That’s why Kirch believes so many fans of other teams like seeing the Canucks lose. Canucks fan Sean Zandberg, one of the writers for the Canucks blog Nucks Misconduct, cites simple jealousy as the reason his team is so hated. “The Canucks have been so successful that everything they do is scrutinized,” he says. “No one hates a loser but they really hate the prom king.” Dont Know if its been posted, I havent posted on here in awhile but anyway I LOL'd pretty hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pouria Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Ken Hitchcock following a Vancouver defeat in O.T earlier this year. "you want to be liked, start losing." I personally love the hate we are getting. Another example is Sidney Crosby. They hate him so much because he is so good. He like the Sedins, are known as "Divers and Whiners." Ironically the players that are hated the most, are one of the top players in the world. I love this hate. Keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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