Gurglesons
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Ice Storm was a really good book. Interested to check this out.
Easily the best team in the cap era to not win a cup. f*** the Lightning.
Easily the best team in the cap era to not win a cup. f*** the Lightning.
Planning on getting a copy too.Ice Storm was a really good book. Interested to check this out.
Easily the best team in the cap era to not win a cup. f*** the Lightning.
I still can’t look at or read anything about 2011.
If you spent years building up a successful business and then the government took it away from you and gave it to the local pedophile, and then kicked you in the nuts for good measure, that’s how I feel about 2011.
Yup.
Give me all the stories of 1994 you want, I can eat those up all day.
2011 was a dumpster fire of a failure and I will not look back at that team with rose coloured glasses.
It was a good run, and I enjoyed many aspects of it; especially the players we had and the opposing fanbases we pissed off.That despite years and years of drafting ineptitude, rookie GM Mike Gillis and cap specialist AGM Laurence Gilman was able to acquire enough veteran depth to compliment Burke's 1999 Sedin coup and Nonis's 2006 Luongo robbery and FINALLY beat the Hawks and get within 1 game of the SC?
SO MUCH FAILURE.
Yup.
Give me all the stories of 1994 you want, I can eat those up all day.
2011 was a dumpster fire of a failure and I will not look back at that team with rose coloured glasses.
It was a good run, and I enjoyed many aspects of it; especially the players we had and the opposing fanbases we pissed off.
But, in the end, our cup contending team didn't win the cup. That's a failure at the end of the day. A painful one.
I don't really hold much animosity towards the Bruins. I can even respect Marchand to a degree these days. But damn, if I said I was 'over' it, I'd be lying.
At the end of the day, though, it's a game and the emotional rollercoaster was fun.. but the end was just so bad and so embarrassing with the riot and all.
I find it impossible to have rose colored glasses for 2011 and I am surprised any hardcore fan would feel differently. It still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, but not for the reasons you might think and I'll explain.2011 and 94 teams are really similar, actually, when you consider how they became larger than life, and almost larger than the games they were playing.
Both had healthy mixes of homegrown warrior players like Kesler, Burrows, Linden, as well as BC boys like Courtnall and Ronning. The amazing show, but also secretive novelties of the f***ing Russian Rocket or twin brothers (has that happened anywhere else in team sports, ever?) Backstopped by beloved goaltenders.
Just memorable personalities and moments everywhere. Those two teams had a flair for the dramatic.
Of course, most other franchises have multiple teams like this, but we are of course the Canucks so it is slim pickings. Anyone who says something like they don't look back on 2011 with rose colored glasses like the do for 94, or that 2011 was an objective failure, comes across as a get-off-my-lawn old out of touch person.
The 2011 captured the enthusiasm, intrigue, and love of millions of people around the province. They ought to be celebrated.
Same. Also wish Gillis/AV/Players adapted to how the officials were calling that series before it was too late. It was clear that cross checking, interference, roughing between the whistles was all fair game. They should have embraced it, at least that way if the Bruins still got the calls with both teams playing the same way then it would look even worse on the league.I find it impossible to have rose colored glasses for 2011 and I am surprised any hardcore fan would feel differently. It still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, but not for the reasons you might think and I'll explain.
Initially after 2011 I hated the Bruins players passionately due to how the finals went and how utterly unfair and blatantly corrupt the officiating was, but with time those feelings have passed almost entirely.
Instead with time I've realized that it wasn't the players fault. You don't blame a toddler for bad behaviour, you blame the parents for not correcting the behaviour.
Instead I've been left with a hatred for how the league is run as a corrupt OBC, a hatred for Jeremy Jacobs and Jack Edwards who I hold responsible for why the Bruins fanbase is the most entitled and childish in the league, and a hatred for the eastern media for how they covered our team during that run.
Those are the things that leave a bitter in taste in my mouth about 2011 and I applaud anyone who can look past that and have rosy positive feelings about 2011. Instead I still feel cheated and it's still hard to really enjoy the NHL when the veil of it's enormous lack of integrity was pulled back for Canucks fans in 2011.
I find it impossible to have rose colored glasses for 2011 and I am surprised any hardcore fan would feel differently. It still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, but not for the reasons you might think and I'll explain.
Initially after 2011 I hated the Bruins players passionately due to how the finals went and how utterly unfair and blatantly corrupt the officiating was, but with time those feelings have passed almost entirely.
Instead with time I've realized that it wasn't the players fault. You don't blame a toddler for bad behaviour, you blame the parents for not correcting the behaviour.
Instead I've been left with a hatred for how the league is run as a corrupt OBC, a hatred for Jeremy Jacobs and Jack Edwards who I hold responsible for why the Bruins fanbase is the most entitled and childish in the league, and a hatred for the eastern media for how they covered our team during that run.
Those are the things that leave a bitter in taste in my mouth about 2011 and I applaud anyone who can look past that and have rosy positive feelings about 2011. Instead I still feel cheated and it's still hard to really enjoy the NHL when the veil of it's enormous lack of integrity was pulled back for Canucks fans in 2011.
You wanna blame someone, blame the Aquilinis for being sore winners before actually winning anything.I find it impossible to have rose colored glasses for 2011 and I am surprised any hardcore fan would feel differently. It still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, but not for the reasons you might think and I'll explain.
Initially after 2011 I hated the Bruins players passionately due to how the finals went and how utterly unfair and blatantly corrupt the officiating was, but with time those feelings have passed almost entirely.
Instead with time I've realized that it wasn't the players fault. You don't blame a toddler for bad behaviour, you blame the parents for not correcting the behaviour.
Instead I've been left with a hatred for how the league is run as a corrupt OBC, a hatred for Jeremy Jacobs and Jack Edwards who I hold responsible for why the Bruins fanbase is the most entitled and childish in the league, and a hatred for the eastern media for how they covered our team during that run.
Those are the things that leave a bitter in taste in my mouth about 2011 and I applaud anyone who can look past that and have rosy positive feelings about 2011. Instead I still feel cheated and it's still hard to really enjoy the NHL when the veil of it's enormous lack of integrity was pulled back for Canucks fans in 2011.
At least now we have been able to laugh at Toronto. Boston is their daddy now anyways.i lived in toronto that year. i remember being on bloor on the day of game seven thinking to myself, who are all these jackasses who went out and bought a divisional rival’s jersey just to hate on vancouver?
There are two ways to interpret your sentence. Either Boston has made the Leafs into Boston's daddy, or Boston has made Toronto their own daddy.At least now we have been able to laugh at Toronto. Boston has made them their daddy now.
There are two ways to interpret your sentence. Either Boston has made the Leafs into Boston's daddy, or Boston has made Toronto their own daddy.
Either way Toronto sucks.