I don't know how many recall the Stanley Cup run of 1994 but I remember it vividly and I'm just wondering if we have the level of euphoria I recall feeling in '94. (Or are my senses just getting more and more decrepit?)
How about them Canucks!
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apparantly they are playing tomorrow
I didn't realize till recently that the crowd in boston were yelling B S - B S - B S, while
mason raymond was lying on the ice in agony.
I've never heard anything like that ever before. what a bunch of morons and unsportsmanlike
behavior.
I sure hope our crowd doesn't copy anything so tacky and rude if something like that happens in
our barn, i'm sure they won't.
on team 1040 they said the height of celebration and anticipation for this possible stanley cup victory
is much higher than 94, the number of people on the streets is reaching almost 100 thousand at times.
of course those big t vs they have in vancouver for those to come and watch the game weren't there
in 94, (at least I don't remember them being there).
because of the style of play the canucks have been showing, perhaps as the final game approaches,
there is some apprehention, and maybe some of the numbers are dropping, i'm not sure.
The one major difference in this run is that through all the series in the Canucks have never trailed. :smile:
but we know don't we, and they don't.
you're right they didn't.
and won't it be a shame, 'IF' after they were number one most of the year, finished number one in the
league, won the presidents' cup, never trailed in the playoffs, had the art ross trophy winner,
the selke cup winner, but at the end, are called losers.
most will only remember the result, and forget the process, and we'll have to listen to all of that
whining continue on by all of those canuck fans, most who don't know much about sport, competition,
let alone hockey, at all, they just want winners.
then will come the blame, it will be vineault, gillis, this player, that player, blame, blame,
someone must pay, to satisfy the pouters and complainers, maybe they'll blame the green men. lol
for me, win or lose, september comes around sooner than later, and away we all go again, brand new
slate, training camp, fresh faces, old faces, new goals and a new beginning, its all fun for me,
and the game of hockey will never get stale, its a great game, whomever plays it, (well maybe) lol
I'll be glad when tomorrows over, win or lose. It will be nice for the players if they win, for me
its all about them, they can have a good summer, travel around with the cup, and have no regrets,
having reached their goal.
This is an article in the G&M today and it talks about being a Canucks fan - thought I would share it with all the long-time Canuck fans here who remember how long and hard the journey has been.
"You are a Canucks fan.
You have been since you were 10, which is how old you were when your father took you and your sister to your first game at the Pacific Coliseum. It was the spring of 1982 and your dad got seats for a few playoff games that year as well.
You still have the white towel that fans were encouraged to bring to the arena as a tribute to coach Roger Nielson’s mock surrender in Chicago in those playoffs. It has the words Go Canucks in faded black magic marker on it. Yes, you were there for the beginnings of Towel Power.
You remember being sad when the Canucks got swept four games in the finals by the New York Islanders. But you learned that back then your team was made up mostly of what your dad called plumbers. And adorned in the most hideous uniforms in the league. Even though their record often stunk, you never considered abandoning your Canucks.
You were an early-stage diehard.
You were just finishing university when the Canucks went on their second Cup run in 1994. Your circle of friends all grew up as fans of the team, too. Now it had a legitimate superstar – Pavel Bure. It was the first time you remember being so proud of your squad. The Canucks were no longer a league joke.
June 14. Game 7 Madison Square Garden. You were in a bar in downtown Vancouver. You thought they were going to do it. For months afterward you would be haunted by the sound of Nathan LaFayette’s shot ringing off the post late in the game. That close to tying it. Instead it would be a 3-2 loss. When the game was over, someone ordered a round of shooters. And then another.
When you walked outside, the streets were packed. Someone had climbed a lamppost on Robson Street. A bottle flew from the crowd and hit him. The riot was on. When you walked through the front door of your house at four in the morning, you smelled like tear gas.
Two weeks later you were in Mexico at a tattoo parlour. You had the word CANUCKS tattooed across your bicep.
There was lots of pain in Canucksville after ’94. You had been going to about 20 games a year, but stopped when the team was sold to American John McCaw. Mike Keenan came in as coach and traded your favourite player, Trevor Linden. You teared up hearing the news. Still, you kept an eye on the team through the papers. You watched Sports Page at night. The Canucks were the girl you’d broken up with, but still loved.
You wanted to get back together, desperately.
Brian Burke helped make it happen. And so did Markus Naslund and the West Coast Express line. The Canucks were suddenly the talk of the league. Burke was building a team that might actually win the Cup. They were beating the top teams in the league – regularly.
Then one morning you woke up and heard about The Punch. And it was over. Todd Bertuzzi’s hit on Steve Moore would suck the life out of the organization. Typical, you thought. It seemed to go with supporting this team. Every time you wanted to love the Canucks, they seemed to find a way of breaking your heart.
Until this year.
Everything about it was different. There was the regular season like no other.
There was the tag: Stanley Cup favourites.
In the playoffs, your team finally beat those Chicago Blackhawks.
And then they got through Nashville and San Jose, thanks to bounces every team that wins the Stanley Cup seems to get.
You went downtown to join tens of thousands of others to watch Games 1 and 2 of the final. You brought your original “Towel Power” towel from the ’82 playoffs. After going up 2-0 in the series, you thought your boys might even sweep Boston. You were cocky. So were all your buddies. So was the city. Even after the Beantown massacres in Games 3 and 4 you still felt okay. After the big Game 5 win, you were convinced it was going to end in Boston. And then Roberto Luongo had another meltdown and now you have found yourself here.
Game 7. Again.
You don’t know what to think. They’ll do it, you tell people at work. You have to believe, you say. But even as you do, you know you’re not being honest. Because even you don’t completely believe. You have followed this team for almost 30 years. They have broken your heart more times than you care to remember. You have cursed them more often than you have anyone or anything in the world.
But you can’t stop loving them.
You know this is the best shot the Canucks have ever had to make history. That is why a loss would hurt so much more this time around. You will go downtown tonight to watch the game with the masses – even though you are bracing for the worst.
You are a Canucks fan."
Ghosts of playoffs past haunt fans - The Globe and Mail
For all of you who have hung in there year after year, decade after decade - I truly hope the boys hoist the Cup in Rogers Arena tonight.
GO, CANUCKS, GO!
"You are a Canucks fan.
You have been since you were 10, which is how old you were when your father took you and your sister to your first game at the Pacific Coliseum. It was the spring of 1982 and your dad got seats for a few playoff games that year as well.
You still have the white towel that fans were encouraged to bring to the arena as a tribute to coach Roger Nielson’s mock surrender in Chicago in those playoffs. It has the words Go Canucks in faded black magic marker on it. Yes, you were there for the beginnings of Towel Power.
You remember being sad when the Canucks got swept four games in the finals by the New York Islanders. But you learned that back then your team was made up mostly of what your dad called plumbers. And adorned in the most hideous uniforms in the league. Even though their record often stunk, you never considered abandoning your Canucks.
You were an early-stage diehard.
You were just finishing university when the Canucks went on their second Cup run in 1994. Your circle of friends all grew up as fans of the team, too. Now it had a legitimate superstar – Pavel Bure. It was the first time you remember being so proud of your squad. The Canucks were no longer a league joke.
June 14. Game 7 Madison Square Garden. You were in a bar in downtown Vancouver. You thought they were going to do it. For months afterward you would be haunted by the sound of Nathan LaFayette’s shot ringing off the post late in the game. That close to tying it. Instead it would be a 3-2 loss. When the game was over, someone ordered a round of shooters. And then another.
When you walked outside, the streets were packed. Someone had climbed a lamppost on Robson Street. A bottle flew from the crowd and hit him. The riot was on. When you walked through the front door of your house at four in the morning, you smelled like tear gas.
Two weeks later you were in Mexico at a tattoo parlour. You had the word CANUCKS tattooed across your bicep.
There was lots of pain in Canucksville after ’94. You had been going to about 20 games a year, but stopped when the team was sold to American John McCaw. Mike Keenan came in as coach and traded your favourite player, Trevor Linden. You teared up hearing the news. Still, you kept an eye on the team through the papers. You watched Sports Page at night. The Canucks were the girl you’d broken up with, but still loved.
You wanted to get back together, desperately.
Brian Burke helped make it happen. And so did Markus Naslund and the West Coast Express line. The Canucks were suddenly the talk of the league. Burke was building a team that might actually win the Cup. They were beating the top teams in the league – regularly.
Then one morning you woke up and heard about The Punch. And it was over. Todd Bertuzzi’s hit on Steve Moore would suck the life out of the organization. Typical, you thought. It seemed to go with supporting this team. Every time you wanted to love the Canucks, they seemed to find a way of breaking your heart.
Until this year.
Everything about it was different. There was the regular season like no other.
There was the tag: Stanley Cup favourites.
In the playoffs, your team finally beat those Chicago Blackhawks.
And then they got through Nashville and San Jose, thanks to bounces every team that wins the Stanley Cup seems to get.
You went downtown to join tens of thousands of others to watch Games 1 and 2 of the final. You brought your original “Towel Power” towel from the ’82 playoffs. After going up 2-0 in the series, you thought your boys might even sweep Boston. You were cocky. So were all your buddies. So was the city. Even after the Beantown massacres in Games 3 and 4 you still felt okay. After the big Game 5 win, you were convinced it was going to end in Boston. And then Roberto Luongo had another meltdown and now you have found yourself here.
Game 7. Again.
You don’t know what to think. They’ll do it, you tell people at work. You have to believe, you say. But even as you do, you know you’re not being honest. Because even you don’t completely believe. You have followed this team for almost 30 years. They have broken your heart more times than you care to remember. You have cursed them more often than you have anyone or anything in the world.
But you can’t stop loving them.
You know this is the best shot the Canucks have ever had to make history. That is why a loss would hurt so much more this time around. You will go downtown tonight to watch the game with the masses – even though you are bracing for the worst.
You are a Canucks fan."
Ghosts of playoffs past haunt fans - The Globe and Mail
For all of you who have hung in there year after year, decade after decade - I truly hope the boys hoist the Cup in Rogers Arena tonight.
GO, CANUCKS, GO!
I was 31 when the canucks were born, my fourth daughter was born that year, and so was secretariat.
We were die hard hockey lovers since we were kids, followed all of the NHL, 'habs', and went to
all the western hockey league games, 'new westminster royals', then came the canucks in l970, and
we all shifted our loyalties from whereever we all were, over to the canucks, an NHL team, something
we had wished for for many years, never thought we would see it, and now here it is.
yep, went through all of the above 'stuff' thru all of those years, up to the present.
hockey is a great sport, it has been and still is the activity that keeps winter from being kind
of boring, nothing compares to it in the world of sport, and now with NHL center ice, and HD television,
heaven is right in my living room.
One season we went out and bought a new television because the playoffs were starting, and we just
had to see them 'better'.
Hope the dream for those canucks players comes true tonight, I haven't really changed from how I felt
after game 6, so whatever happens, happens, and cup or no cup, my life won't change, i'm in neutral
gear now, just waiting, and we'll eat the rest of that canuck cake, win or lose.
Luongo is the person this game will have the most affect on, if he wins he will be a hero, if he
loses, hope his bags are packed for some hiding spot till the city regains its sanity.
We were die hard hockey lovers since we were kids, followed all of the NHL, 'habs', and went to
all the western hockey league games, 'new westminster royals', then came the canucks in l970, and
we all shifted our loyalties from whereever we all were, over to the canucks, an NHL team, something
we had wished for for many years, never thought we would see it, and now here it is.
yep, went through all of the above 'stuff' thru all of those years, up to the present.
hockey is a great sport, it has been and still is the activity that keeps winter from being kind
of boring, nothing compares to it in the world of sport, and now with NHL center ice, and HD television,
heaven is right in my living room.
One season we went out and bought a new television because the playoffs were starting, and we just
had to see them 'better'.
Hope the dream for those canucks players comes true tonight, I haven't really changed from how I felt
after game 6, so whatever happens, happens, and cup or no cup, my life won't change, i'm in neutral
gear now, just waiting, and we'll eat the rest of that canuck cake, win or lose.
Luongo is the person this game will have the most affect on, if he wins he will be a hero, if he
loses, hope his bags are packed for some hiding spot till the city regains its sanity.
I'm not a left coaster but I always liked the Canucks (behind a couple other teams) until they gassed it and let the Rangers win inn '94. Since then, they haven't been able to impress me: I'm not a fan of the Sedins (I think they're over-rated); I think Luongo has proven to be an under achiever and there's no one that really captures the heart the way someone like Trevor Linden used to.
On the flip side, I love Tim Thomas, and the way he refuses to let his career end (the same can be said of Mark Recchi). I view Chara with some bittersweetness, as a player my Isles let go of, far to cheaply. I love the grit that the entire bench of the Bruins brings, something I don't see with the Canucks.
Yeah the Canucks have never won it, while Boston has in my lifetime but I just can't bring myself to cheer for Vancouver and this myth about "the Cup coming to Canada". Its not as bad as if it were the Habs or Maple Laughs but I'm still cheering for the Bruins tonight.
On the flip side, I love Tim Thomas, and the way he refuses to let his career end (the same can be said of Mark Recchi). I view Chara with some bittersweetness, as a player my Isles let go of, far to cheaply. I love the grit that the entire bench of the Bruins brings, something I don't see with the Canucks.
Yeah the Canucks have never won it, while Boston has in my lifetime but I just can't bring myself to cheer for Vancouver and this myth about "the Cup coming to Canada". Its not as bad as if it were the Habs or Maple Laughs but I'm still cheering for the Bruins tonight.
If they lose he will be beating himself up, people have to put this in perspective, you don't ruin a person because their own thrills have been dashed, personally I'd question if a self respecting team would even want these people as fans. As good or bad as Luongo will be he can only be expected to try his best. :smile:
one sedin won the art ross trophy last year, the other is winning it this year, but yeah, guess they
have to be more bloodthirsty, and not behave to well, to satisfy many.
I use to complain about them, but they did what very few players can ever do, can't criticize facts,
and stats, and what one actually sees on the ice.
Not sure how anyone can say they are overrated, in the playoffs, brutal physical play and solid defense
is the name of the game in boston, (like marchant punching sedin five times in the face), no criticizm
to marchant only to sedin for not doing it back, and turning himself into a boston bully, and in playoffs all of the stars have a tough time, and it is usually the lunch bucket
brigade that has the room to skate and make plays.
luongo is nominated for the vezna, had a fabulous season,(season trophy, not playoffs), but that is easily forgotton, but
i'm sure he will remember it for the rest of his life.
thats right JLM, fans think its all about them, me me me, but it is all about the people who are actually
working in the organization, and playing the game.
just be happy, or sad for 'them', however it turns out, we are just watchers of a great game.
It will take them all summer, and some much longer to heal their bodies, and they will only have
about 2 1/2 months, and i'm sure when some of them arrive at training camp, there will still be
soreness and long term effects from (five punches to the face), multiple slashes to the back of
the legs, and how about mason raymond, that wasn't a suspendable hit, but the continuous push into
the boards while raymond was bent over seriously broke his vertebrae, (right thru), and he will be
months and months healing, surely boychuk, being a player, should be aware of how
hard he is pushing a player, who is bent in half, after using the can opener move on
him to create that position in the first place, it was the whole weight of boychuk
continuously pushing that caused the break, for gods sake, just let up a tad, raymond
was allready down and out and in a vulnerable position, STOP PUSHING HIM.
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Eeeee yup.... I'm sure they have all kinds of locker room stories to get them all psyched up and to make us Boston folks look moronish while portraying Canuck fans to be the men wearing white.
At any rate, I'll take the high road and wish you Canuck fans the best of luck. Both teams deserve to win and have played their hearts out and have up to this point given us the best series in some time.
One thing I really noticed in this series and I hope I don't sound like I'm stating the obvious. How important was Home ice in the series and how important was it for both teams to win at least one of the first two away games. Geez.
I don't believe this story. Furthermore... I assure you, not one Canuck would be recognized in Boston. In fact, I bet the Bruins themselves aren't even recognized in town.
If I was the owner of the Canucks, next week I'd trade Luongo and the Sedins.
Get every bit of cash for them I could, and call it a day. Done. Start fresh next year.
Get every bit of cash for them I could, and call it a day. Done. Start fresh next year.
What a disaster, this team believed its press clippings.
They thought all they had to do was show up and they
would win. Boston is playing tonight like those great
teams from the late sixties and seventies and they are
giving Vancouver a lesson in how hockey is played. I
am a Montreal fan usually but I always cheer for the original
six when my team is gone. Vancouver went for speed
and passing, Boston went with the old fashioned great
Canadian game and it is winning.
They should trade the Lou and get a goaltender and the
sisters should go as well. How about them Canuks?
They are a waste of space with big heads and suspect talent.
I couldn't be happier tonight. Go Bruins.
They thought all they had to do was show up and they
would win. Boston is playing tonight like those great
teams from the late sixties and seventies and they are
giving Vancouver a lesson in how hockey is played. I
am a Montreal fan usually but I always cheer for the original
six when my team is gone. Vancouver went for speed
and passing, Boston went with the old fashioned great
Canadian game and it is winning.
They should trade the Lou and get a goaltender and the
sisters should go as well. How about them Canuks?
They are a waste of space with big heads and suspect talent.
I couldn't be happier tonight. Go Bruins.