nucksflailtogether
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I was watching the Lightning game today and it brought to mind watching past playoff embarrassments for the Canucks, when it suddenly occurred to me...has any other team suffered even close to the amount of absolute eggs the Canucks have laid in the playoffs? And I'm talking about single game shalackings, not series sweeps. I mean every playoff team has a game get away from them here and there, but with the Canucks were talking about a serious record of futility in this regard.
Here's a list of them off the top of my head, since my first playoff year as a fan in 2001:
2001:
Avs 5 - Canucks 1 game 4 - caps off a sweep. This one honestly wasn't too bad.
2002:
Wings 4 - Canucks 0 game 5 - Cloutier melts down, Canucks crash back to earth
2003:
Blues 6- Canucks 0 game 1 - pretty shocking effort, coming off the heals of losing division on the last day.
Wild 7 Canucks 2 game 5 - WTF?
Wild 6 Canucks 2 game 6 - WTF?
2004:
Flames 4 Canucks 0 game 4 - series turning game, Canucks go on to lose in 7
2007:
Ducks 5- Canucks 1 game 1 - not shocking, best team in the league vs. a tired Canucks team
2009:
Blackhawks 6 - Canucks 3 - game 2 - not the worst, this year didn't have too many notables, which is probably why I remember it with less shuddering than I remember other years
2010:
Blackhawks 5 - Canucks 1 - game 6 - awful effort in an elimination game
2011:
Hawks 7 - Canucks 2 - game 4, we get a mulligan right?
Hawks 5- Canucks 0 - game 5 - anyone home?
And then you have the Stanley Cup final, featuring 4 brutal blowouts. A generational level of suck/injuries/reffing/suspension/whatever.
Bruins 8 - Canucks 1 - game 3 - awful
Bruins 4- Canucks 0 - game 4 - great response
Bruins 5 - Canuck s2 - game 6 - two late goals make a 4-0 down after 1 game look somewhat respectable when it was really just trash
Bruins 4- Canucks 0 - game 7 - Should we have been surprised?
2012:
Fine, no single game blowouts. Just the first PT winner to go down so quick ( 5 games)
2013: Can't recall that series, too depressing to watch after losing the first 2 at home.
2015: Games 3 and 4 were horrific, can't recall the exact scores, maybe not 'blowouts' but yeesh...
Anyways I might've forgotten a few, or exaggerated how bad it was, but does anybody have any memories that stand out from these games? And any reason to hope that our up and coming core can stay in games when we do (hopefully) end up crawling out of the basement?
Here's a list of them off the top of my head, since my first playoff year as a fan in 2001:
2001:
Avs 5 - Canucks 1 game 4 - caps off a sweep. This one honestly wasn't too bad.
2002:
Wings 4 - Canucks 0 game 5 - Cloutier melts down, Canucks crash back to earth
2003:
Blues 6- Canucks 0 game 1 - pretty shocking effort, coming off the heals of losing division on the last day.
Wild 7 Canucks 2 game 5 - WTF?
Wild 6 Canucks 2 game 6 - WTF?
2004:
Flames 4 Canucks 0 game 4 - series turning game, Canucks go on to lose in 7
2007:
Ducks 5- Canucks 1 game 1 - not shocking, best team in the league vs. a tired Canucks team
2009:
Blackhawks 6 - Canucks 3 - game 2 - not the worst, this year didn't have too many notables, which is probably why I remember it with less shuddering than I remember other years
2010:
Blackhawks 5 - Canucks 1 - game 6 - awful effort in an elimination game
2011:
Hawks 7 - Canucks 2 - game 4, we get a mulligan right?
Hawks 5- Canucks 0 - game 5 - anyone home?
And then you have the Stanley Cup final, featuring 4 brutal blowouts. A generational level of suck/injuries/reffing/suspension/whatever.
Bruins 8 - Canucks 1 - game 3 - awful
Bruins 4- Canucks 0 - game 4 - great response
Bruins 5 - Canuck s2 - game 6 - two late goals make a 4-0 down after 1 game look somewhat respectable when it was really just trash
Bruins 4- Canucks 0 - game 7 - Should we have been surprised?
2012:
Fine, no single game blowouts. Just the first PT winner to go down so quick ( 5 games)
2013: Can't recall that series, too depressing to watch after losing the first 2 at home.
2015: Games 3 and 4 were horrific, can't recall the exact scores, maybe not 'blowouts' but yeesh...
Anyways I might've forgotten a few, or exaggerated how bad it was, but does anybody have any memories that stand out from these games? And any reason to hope that our up and coming core can stay in games when we do (hopefully) end up crawling out of the basement?