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Conditional 1st rounder; it being this year's draft depends on whether the Islanders finish strong or screw the pooch. Better wish them success.
Good to see a Finnish player added; should help a woeful defense / PK, since Finns are never slackers in that regard.
Flames up 3-1 over Nucks 94 3 round I think and Nucks won last 3 games to win series all 3 games in O/T
Never been illegal as long as it's not directed.
That was the case on that goal..deflection off the skate.
I know it's only been 34 yrs come April but it might be time for 'nucks fans to get over it?
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.
