What Do You Want as a Canuck Fan?

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Cheer annoyingly and blissfully ignorant they will not only make the playoffs but win Lord Stanley's Holly Grail
5
14%
Be a realist and cheer for them to lose and get the best draft pick they can. Let's get the rebuild on!
4
11%
Pray to God that he will use his eternal energy (while others die) to help them squeak into the post-season
2
6%
Get more Sestito's on the team because we need more toughness, not young stud low drafted scoring machines
1
3%
Resigning Alex Burrows and David Booth is priority above all else
1
3%
Cheer for the leaves to fail and not make the playoffs thereby making us look like winners for trying harder
5
14%
Let Hockey Gods sort it out, there's beer to be sacrificed!-Who gives a shit, it's Bettman's world, we just live in it
5
14%
Post Tank it Torts™ as much as possible to annoy people and make them lose it
2
6%
Hope they barely make the playoffs so we can have a crap draft pick and get blown out in 1st round
2
6%
Get through the season without any injuries
8
23%
 
Total votes: 35

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Re: What Do You Want as a Canuck Fan?

Post by Meds »

SKYO wrote:Ya gotta quit trolling with the endless Sedin bashing Mëds.
That actually wasn't a shot at the Sedins, just a reference to the time frame. The asshole factor actually started to depart in a hurry after Burke left and took his "truculence" with him.

When the team committed to building around the Sedins though, and then Gillis wanted to go with the Detroit model, they forgot about guys like Holmstrom, Draper, Maltby, McCarty, Knuble, Macoun, Grimson.....players who don't necessarily put up a ton of points, but they are huge support players who know how to contribute in big ways at key times.....and those are the players who also would have had a response after the whistle for teams like the 2011 Bruins.

The Red Wings were so dominant through the late 90's and early 00's that when Gillis fixated on them as a team to model after, and AV bought into it, they may have focused too much on the core skill players of those teams, Yzerman, Shannahan, Fedorov, Larionov, Robataille, Hull, Hasek, Lidstrom, Chelios, etc.....

But no matter how you look at it, the skill component is the way to go, so long as there is a toughness to back it up.
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