Chrysalis99
Fredo Fatquilini SUCKS
The media treatment of this team has been downright disgraceful.
Everyone loves underdogs and David v Goliath situations. The rags-to-riches rise of the Canucks this season and the Silovs saviour stories literally write themselves. In any sane unbiased media environment, reporters should be falling over themselves to praise this team's story arc. It's just great emotion-based reporting - full stop.
Instead, it's a firehose of how "unlucky" Edmonton has been and how Vancouver has gotten "errant bounces".
CBC especially - as a supposedly national broadcaster - has been transparently tilted.
I get that McJesus and several other high-profile Oilers are Canadian and we have almost none on our squad, but this is about fanbases more than it is about players. They seem to forget that.
So, yeah. As horrifyingly bad as the reffing has been, this media bullshit is almost worse for me.
For last night anyway, I didnt have to switch to Canucks radio and was happy listening to the American coverage. It was great with Olcsyk on the game and the studio crew very complementary of the Canucks. Compared to prior ESPN games with the Nashville series and the idiot women color commentator. She was getting players names wrong and watching a different game than I was with her horrible takes. I switched to Canucks radio and adjusted the TV playback to match and turn her sorry azz off. Hopefully she won't be on anymore Canucks games, or any games for that matter. Whoever she was should be fired.