Popular Post CanadianRugby Posted March 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 11, 2021 https://theathletic.com/2440424/2021/03/11/sabres-vs-canucks-after-50-years-and-no-stanley-cups-whose-fans-have-had-it-worse?source=user-shared-article Local writers poked some fun at the sad histories of these franchises. It was called a tie in the end. Here's what was said about Canuck history. Stanley Cup Final scars Drance’s case for the Canucks: If you think Stanley Cup Final pain is your ally in a misery duel with Canucks fans, you’re wrong. Canucks fans were born in the darkness. Fun fact: No franchise in NHL history that hasn’t previously won a Stanley Cup has ever lost in the Stanley Cup Final more than twice. Except for the Canucks. Fun fact #2: No franchise in NHL history that hasn’t previously won a Stanley Cup has ever lost in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. Except for the Canucks. And the Canucks have done that twice. Underrated miserable moment Drance’s case for the Canucks: Right at the inception, the Canucks were doomed. It was dubbed “Black Tuesday” by the local papers. In the smoke filled grand salon at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, 14 NHL member clubs gathered for a hopelessly rigged expansion draft that permitted teams to protect 17 players and two skaters (not that it stopped the GMs of the time boasting to their local papers about how well prepared they were not to lose anyone of value. You think?). Frankly, the expansion draft was a sideshow, the real prize was the first overall pick at the 1970 NHL entry draft and the right to select Gilbert Perreault. The proceedings began with a coin flip, which would determine two items: waiver priority, and the right to select the high or the low numbers on a big pinwheel that would be spun to decide which team got picked first in both the expansion and entry drafts. Punch Imlach, the Sabres GM, won the toss. One for one on the day, he picked the high numbers. And the Sabres won the first pick in the expansion draft. By this point the Sabres front office is just laughing, riding high. They’re two for two! Imlach picks the high numbers again. The wheel spins and when it stops, NHL president Clarence Campbell announces the Canucks have won the first overall pick in the 1970 NHL Draft. But wait, that can’t be right, no one remembers Perreault playing on Canada’s west coast. You see, as if to pour salt in the wound, Campbell had it wrong. Campbell had removed his glasses for the photo op. prior to the final spin. He’d misread the No. 11 as the No. 1. And so the Sabres had waiver priority, the first pick in the expansion draft, and the first pick in the entry draft. Buffalo made their NHL start with the French Connection line and were an elite team by their fifth season, while the Canucks were cursed to 12 years of absolute obscurity from the outset. 51 years later and the Canucks have still yet to select first overall in the draft, while the Sabres have done so three times. Not that a wide-angle understanding of NHL history stopped Tim Murray from having a meltdown in 2015. 1 2 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PhillipBlunt Posted March 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 11, 2021 I didn't think I could despise that worm like human any more than I already do, but reading this dreck sums up just what is wrong with Drance. 13 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JM_ Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 1 minute ago, PhillipBlunt said: I didn't think I could despise that worm like human any more than I already do, but reading this dreck sums up just what is wrong with Drance. damn it Phil, you took the words out of my mouth. I hate this kind of trash "journalism." 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post oldnews Posted March 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 11, 2021 (edited) "Misery" is for real world problems, struggles..... Hockey is a game. Grow some perspective and stop wallowing in your decision to feel sorry for yourself. (note: these comments are directed at Drance, not the OP). Edited March 11, 2021 by oldnews 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post 4petesake Posted March 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 11, 2021 It’s obvious Vancouver fans have it worse. Buffalo doesn’t have Drance. 1 5 22 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post oldnews Posted March 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 11, 2021 Fun fact: The Florida Panthers were on a Stanley Cup contending trajectory..... Until Drance arrived. #badmedicine. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSVII Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Depends how you define misery. Is getting super close but not quite getting it three times worse than never having a chance? Over the last 40 years I'll prefer our situation over Buffalo. theirs is a situation where having #1 picks come in makes no difference, total overhaul is needed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squamfan Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Drancer forgot this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Check out that beauty - Paddy Quinn. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 (edited) Canucks lost 8 straight that season... And then went 9 games without a loss down the stretch. Edited March 11, 2021 by oldnews 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 4petesake Posted March 11, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 11, 2021 6 minutes ago, DSVII said: Depends how you define misery. Is getting super close but not quite getting it three times worse than never having a chance? Let me get back to you, I’ll ask my wife. 1 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldoescobar Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Going to be even more painful as I have a feeling we will be watching Buffalo raise the cup before Vancouver as well. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucker 67 Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 BUF because of where they live? or VAN because they've never had a 1st overall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoKnows Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Lets just say I wouldn't consider either to be a model franchise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianRugby Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 9 minutes ago, Ronaldoescobar said: Going to be even more painful as I have a feeling we will be watching Buffalo raise the cup before Vancouver as well. I think the Kraken have a better shot lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Heffy Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Sabres lost a Cup with a series winning goal that was illegal at the time. As painful as our losses have been, that has to be worse. Wish @SabreFan1 still posted here for his input. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSVII Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 16 minutes ago, 4petesake said: Let me get back to you, I’ll ask my wife. You win the internets today my friend. Thank you for this haha 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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