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Hilarious 😂Kicked in. All Canucks fans know this, for it is reality. Of course Flames fans deny this, like a crook pleading not guilty in court.
Anyways, it is this and other similar incidents which led to the vicious Canucks/Flames playoff rivalry, which goes on to this day.
(A real rivalry does not come from proximity & over-familiarity; it comes from anger / revenge and playoff meetings - the NHL always seem to forget this when they try to force rivalries by over-scheduling certain opponents)
Towel power '82; the skate kick in '89; refs in the Rangers pockets in '94; dirty-as-fuck Bruins handed a get-out-of-jail-free card by dirty NHL officials in 2011 - and Bettman who hates Canadian hockey in general, but hates the Canucks most of all.
It is an unwinnable argument to get into this with real Canucks fans. This is like Serbians talking about Kosovo & battling the Turks, or the Scottish about Falkirk or Culloden or Margaret Thatcher.
However, that doesn't excuse the times when the Canucks had owners who seemed to treat the franchise the way a slumlord treats an SRO.
Glory years are all too brief - decay and squandering draft picks & talent seem to outnumber it.
Horvat 8 x 8.5, good for him, but that's just too much money, the Canucks were right in getting whatever they could for him. If he earns that money, good on the Islanders, but I have a hunch by year 5 or 6, they will be regretting it. I doubt the Canucks offered him anything more than 7, maybe 7.5 per season. They clearly overpaid for Miller and they weren't going to do that again.
I think this is his peak year. His skating will get bad again . This is an albatross contract for Lou
Actually, repugnant as it may seem at this time, rebuilding isn’t a single botox treatment. It’s about stripping down to the bare essentials and having the the courage and wisdom build up from there more cohesively and intelligently.
Something has been fundamentally wrong with our beloved ‘Nucks post Sedin peak-y-ness. A few Dempko runs or Horvat streaks or Hughes flashing a Coffee reincarnation or a Bruce-all-mighty sprint is not a rebuild—it’s fleeting hope for the faithful, that turned into a bad Tammy Fay weepfest.
So Punt says lets give the new regime a chance to show what they got. I have to admit it was a heart tug to see Bo-go-bye-bye, yet the $/goal was going to be a future noose (can you hear the good/bad/ugly theme-song?). Points for ripping the band-aid off and starting a fresh round of IV Polysporin. If this radical surgery works, we will embrace our deliverance from mediocrity. If not, I will take a New G.M. and Coach for 300 Alex!
Something has been fundamentally wrong with our beloved ‘Nucks post Sedin peak-y-ness. A few Dempko runs or Horvat streaks or Hughes flashing a Coffee reincarnation or a Bruce-all-mighty sprint is not a rebuild—it’s fleeting hope for the faithful, that turned into a bad Tammy Fay weepfest.
So Punt says lets give the new regime a chance to show what they got. I have to admit it was a heart tug to see Bo-go-bye-bye, yet the $/goal was going to be a future noose (can you hear the good/bad/ugly theme-song?). Points for ripping the band-aid off and starting a fresh round of IV Polysporin. If this radical surgery works, we will embrace our deliverance from mediocrity. If not, I will take a New G.M. and Coach for 300 Alex!
Well - that was a joke.... that said, there is always a kernel of truth in a joke.
Lou knew that the contract was outrages, but all top talent gets outrages contracts.
The way the world is going - loads of people get payed too much (inflation / others making that amount / and so on) than what they paid last year or the year before.
Whether that is a pro contract or a jug of milk. It will go up higher... tomorrow...next week...next month.
A lot of people make way more than they should ( sports management, players, politicians and loads more), or that is what I think, but maybe I listened to my father too much.
That said - the 'Nucks messed up signing Miller and Kuzmenko, it assured that Bo could not be signed due to the cap.
Are any of them worth 1 mil or more a year? - well, if you asked my dearly departed father that - no one is worth 1 million a year.
Anyway, I do realize that a player that has good representation and they will get a great contract ( and piece of the action for that representation ) for the player.... well the sky is the limit.
All that said - the Canucks have a poor owner, and a poor management staff .... kinda like Toronto and pretty much every Canadian team. There is a reason that Canada hasn't had a Stanley Cup in 30 years. Don't expect one soon. Canada does not do business well.
Hockey is no longer a sport - its a business.
