How does one become an educated fan? Is there a degree for that? Are some degrees more respected than others?
There are fans that are more committed and perhaps more knowledgeable. But even that knowledge is questionable because we have incomplete information as fans. Also knowledgeable fans still have their opinions driven by their emotions.
What is the big picture? We are just fans I say be optimistic. Teams go up and down based on the strength of their cores. and the Canucks will have a good opportunity to be good right away no matter who is in charge. The future is bright. It is 1990, 2000, 2008 all over again. We will be good within two years and really good within 4.
It really won't with the current man in charge. He has demonstrated he is incapable of learning from mistakes and has repeated the same blunders over and over with cap management, contracts, trading etc. He's a slightly above average drafter but that doesn't compensate for the unmitigated disaster he's charted this team through. This team got incredibly lucky (unlucky in hindsight) to have bumbled into the playoffs last year with a 24 team field. Unless COVID-22 happens I'm not seeing this fortune come their way anytime soon.
This team has
never won a cup, sharing the ignominious honor with Buffalo for the longest existing team to have ZERO cups. I'd rather have the Senators' record and history. Following the team through the 94 and 11 heartbreakers, it's not outrageous that the fanbase feels it is due. Not due in the sense the league should just hand it to them, but due in the sense that ownership, who reaps the reputational and financial benefits of these fans, would take said fans seriously, fire the moron who can barely so much as run a whelk stand and hire a competent team committed to working at a Cup this decade.
