(1) Vancouver Canucks vs (5) Nashville Predators - Series Thread

[mattola]

great pics. I did some volunteer work while in junior highschool and we had some indiviudals in that program that had downs. they really teach you about the better things in life and the simpler. everyone should take some time and check that out.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Meh...Burnside is just like Damien Cox, his opinion in most cases should be ignored.

i usually do

just heard Burnside picked the hawks to beat the canucks round 1 and preds to beat the canucks round 2

i like his reverse whammy skills ... keep up the good work Scott

 

[The Q stache]

Congratz Canucks

 

[The Q stache]

Conflabit! I just wasted my 900th post on you numb nuts haha

 

[naslundfan19]

Woo!!! Heck of a series, Preds. You guys are going to be a handful for a long time in this league.

 

[WestEndVol]

Thanks for the kind words. The Preds goaltending and defense is pretty good, just need to get some weapons on offense. The Preds could become a dangerous team if the could add a top goal scorer but at what cost is my main concern. The Preds are a good team but until they get an offensive weapon, like a Stamkos, Perry, Kesler etc.... they wont get much respect.

 

[beantownmaniac]

Great series Preds fans, and congrats to you Nucks fans. Sorry I'm late. I just got my computer back today.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

lol SOB

Nothing like having dinner with the boys.... That's why you play the game right there.

great comment below the picture by a random person off twitter ... "I wonder if Ward scored twice this night too"

 

[mattola]

lol SOB

Nothing like having dinner with the boys.... That's why you play the game right there.

great comment below the picture by a random person off twitter ... "I wonder if Ward scored twice this night too"

Patrick Kane should hook up with SOB on how to pick up girls.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

shoulder surgery for Mike Fisher monday (darren dreger)

 

[puckhead]

shoulder surgery for Mike Fisher monday (darren dreger)

that's what happens when you try to win a face-off against Kesler.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

From HNIC: "Van-Nsh series on CBC delivered an average audience of 2.978 million, making it CBC’s highest-rated single Round 2 series ever."

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

From HNIC: "Van-Nsh series on CBC delivered an average audience of 2.978 million, making it CBC’s highest-rated single Round 2 series ever."

Hmm... I guess the rest of Canada is cheering for the Canucks after all.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Hmm... I guess the rest of Canada is cheering for the Canucks after all.

no ... i think its a combo of BC transplants around canada and people back east tuning in to hopefully see a collosal canucks trainwreck

/although i just heard Lanny MacDonald on the radio compare Kesler to Messier (oilers vintage) and end his interview with and emphatic "GO CANUCKS GO"

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

no ... i think its a combo of BC transplants around canada and people back east tuning in to hopefully see a collosal canucks trainwreck

/although i just heard Lanny MacDonald on the radio compare Kesler to Messier (oilers vintage) and end his interview with and emphatic "GO CANUCKS GO"

This coming from a former Leaf & Flame. Isn't that SACRILAGE?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

This coming from a former Leaf & Flame. Isn't that SACRILAGE?

maybe hes looking for a job

its like MacTavish on the TSN panel ... has he ever said a bad word about the canucks this post season ... totally angling for a job if Gillis decides to hang AV for making him look bad (ie destroying Keith Ballards confidence)

 

[puckhead]

/although i just heard Lanny MacDonald on the radio compare Kesler to Messier (oilers vintage) and end his interview with and emphatic "GO CANUCKS GO"

anyone hear from that little rat bastard fleury recently?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

anyone hear from that little rat bastard fleury recently?

lol at the hashtag he posted

#werenottalkingaboutthecanucksonthispageanymore

 

[DaBoltsNIsles]

maybe hes looking for a job

its like MacTavish on the TSN panel ... has he ever said a bad word about the canucks this post season ... totally angling for a job if Gillis decides to hang AV for making him look bad (ie destroying Keith Ballards confidence)

Could be. I could understand if it was the Canadiens because they've won so many Cups. I really don't understand this. Why is their so much animosity towards the Canucks from the rest of Canada? This is their 40th year in the league & they haven't won anything. Besides it's been awhile since a team from Canada won the Cup. This team could actually do it.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Could be. I could understand if it was the Canadiens because they've won so many Cups. I really don't understand this. Why is their so much animosity towards the Canucks from the rest of Canada? This is their 40th year in the league & they haven't won anything. Besides it's been awhile since a team from Canada won the Cup. This team could actually do it.

its origins dont really have anything to do with hockey ... we're canadas la-la land



"Are the Vancouver Canucks Canada's Team? ... No. They're not." -Edmonton Sun sports columnist Terry Jones, in his May 6 column.

"Canucks as Canada's team? No thanks" -April 28 posting of National Post blogger Joe O'Connor, in which he stated he would rather starve than cheer for the Canucks.

"Of some 2,500 posts related to the Vancouver-Nashville series on the Flames Forum at calgarypuck.com, the vast majority are virulently anti-Canuck ..." -Calgary Herald sports columnist Kevin Brooker, in his May 9 column.

As you can see, the rest of Canada, which we here in Vancouver officially refer to as A Good Place To Be From, has been busy reminding us that they do not like our hockey team.

What they really mean is they do not like Vancouver.

This, of course, is nothing new to Vancouver. The rest of Canada has always hated us because we're the prettiest girl in school, and the less pretty girls -you know, the kind who dress all in black and think they're intellectuals because they looked up "existentialism" -like to think we are dumber and shallower than they are, which normally we would respond to, except that we're too busy right now brushing our hair. We're getting ready to go out. We have a totally bitchin' night ahead of us. We're going out dancing.

The rest of Canada says, oh no, it's not you. It's nothing personal. It's not envy or anything like that.

We just don't like your team, the rest of Canada says. They're not Canadian.

Well, okay. Point taken. There is Ryan Kesler, who is American, and therefore someone who is only being nice so he can steal our oil and water. There are the Sedin twins, who National Post blogger Joe O'Connor referred to as "identically brilliant but somehow bland" -by which he means, I can only suppose, that he prefers brilliance with a side order of criminal charges and drug abuse, or that the Sedins have yet to commit the requisite violence needed to make it into a Don Cherry Rock'em Sock'em video. And there is Roberto Luongo, whose hair gel is Italian.

In our defence, we would point out the obvious, that many Canadians are not from Canada -Exhibit A, most of Vancouver -which even the Conservatives had figured out by election time.

But that's a fact that hasn't seemed to have penetrated hockey's thicker craniums. All those concussions. This is your brain on skates.

But what they really mean by the Canucks being un-Canadian is that Vancouver is un-Canadian -that here, frostbitten bodily extremities do not fall off during the winters as nature intended, that the coffee does not taste sufficiently enough of pencil shavings and that we no longer consider chicken à la king Chinese food.

Edmonton Sun columnist Terry Jones lumbered down this well-worn path by interviewing, of all people I have never heard of, Vancouverbased sportswriter Vesa Rantanen, NHL correspondent for a Finnish magazine that has three a's and two k's in its name.

"How Canadian a city is Vancouver to start with?" Rantanen mused in Jones's column. "It never snows. It never freezes. The city is not known about any real Canadian thing ... I find Vancouver the least Canadian city of all the places I've been.

"It's not just a climate thing, but attitude. This is more Northern California than Canada. Nothing bad about that, but I think outsiders see it as yuppie, expensive and shallow."

Well, duh. Tell us something we didn't know, Rantanen. We are yuppie, expensive and shallow. Look at the place! We'd be stupid not to be yuppie, expensive and shallow. I'm writing this column in my hot tub while sipping a clever little Okanagan Pinot Gris. Life is good here.

Which is stating the obvious. Which is like telling Edmontonians that they live on an ice rink where the only thing standing between them and the frigid blasts that come roaring out of Siberia are the frozen bodies of other Edmontonians, or like telling Calgarians that their uniquely colourful city explores the full range of the spectrum from tan to cowchip. And also that both of their hockey teams suck.

Not that we hold any of that against you, rest of Canada. You are who you are, and we are who we are.

All we would ask of you is don't hate us because we're beautiful.

Oh, who am I kidding?

Go ahead. Hate us.

We don't care.

In fact, we revel in it.

Because we have a dance to go to, and you don't, poor things.



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