Saving You Money on Canucks Tickets

[Cock Throppled]

I can save Vancouver Canucks fans a lot of money (leaving more for pooning?) by informing them the Canucks will not win a Stanley Cup any time before about 2050.

Allow me to explain - in the late 1970's, my father was cheated and greatly insulted and disrespected by the Vancouver Canucks ownership at the time. He requested apologies and redress, and was rudely rebuffed in a crude manner. My father was devastated financially, but more importantly for him, he was humiliated.

Summoning his grandfather's records of mystical, old country folk justice, he imposed an ancient Udinean curse upon the Canucks, ensuring they would never win a Stanley Cup in his lifetime.

And so it was.

I laughed at the time, but the Canucks never seemed to get much better.
They have mostly iced pathetic teams since, despite having good goalies. (My dad exempted the play of goalies, since he was an ex soccer goalie).

In 2011, since the Canucks had produced such a strong team, I decided to renew the curse just before the playoffs. I dug out my dad's old trunk, and found the Venetian book of lore from the Etruscans of Udine and reinforced the curse.

I admit, I thought I'd screwed it up when the Canucks went up 3-2 in games, but the curse held. (sorry about the riot. My dad never expected them to get to the finals).

So there you have it. Why the Canucks are so shitty, and will continue to be mostly mediocre, teasing fans of progress, but really never getting anywhere.

The curse runs out in 2048, and there will be no renewal, so until then - stay home, watch on TV and save your money.

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

I can save Vancouver Canucks fans a lot of money (leaving more for pooning?) by informing them the Canucks will not win a Stanley Cup any time before about 2050.

Allow me to explain - in the late 1970's, my father was cheated and greatly insulted and disrespected by the Vancouver Canucks ownership at the time. He requested apologies and redress, and was rudely rebuffed in a crude manner. My father was devastated financially, but more importantly for him, he was humiliated.

Summoning his grandfather's records of mystical, old country folk justice, he imposed an ancient Udinese curse upon the Canucks, ensuring they would never win a Stanley Cup in his lifetime.

And so it was.

I laughed at the time, but the Canucks never seemed to get much better.
They have mostly iced pathetic teams since, despite having good goalies. (My dad exempted the play of goalies, since he was an ex soccer goalie).

In 2011, since the Canucks had produced such a strong team, I decided to renew the curse just before the playoffs. I dug out my dad's old trunk, and found the Venetian book of lore from the Etruscans of Udine and reinforced the curse.

I admit, I thought I'd screwed it up when the Canucks went up 3-2 in games, but the curse held. (sorry about the riot. My dad never expected them to get to the finals).

So there you have it. Why the Canucks are so shitty, and will continue to be mostly mediocre, teasing fans of progress, but really never getting anywhere.

The curse runs out in 2048, and there will be no renewal, so until then - stay home, watch on TV and save your money.

LOL great story CT...

 

[escapefromstress]

It's an original story too. Google search came up with nothing. :thumb:





.... not that I doubted ...

 

[jackholes]

Thank you you just saved me $200k pls. But I have to ask what the Canucks did to your father? And I wonder how note did the same thing and we are truly fucked forever and a day. ��

 

[maniacalone]

I can save Vancouver Canucks fans a lot of money (leaving more for pooning?) by informing them the Canucks will not win a Stanley Cup any time before about 2050.

Allow me to explain - in the late 1970's, my father was cheated and greatly insulted and disrespected by the Vancouver Canucks ownership at the time. He requested apologies and redress, and was rudely rebuffed in a crude manner. My father was devastated financially, but more importantly for him, he was humiliated.

Summoning his grandfather's records of mystical, old country folk justice, he imposed an ancient Udinean curse upon the Canucks, ensuring they would never win a Stanley Cup in his lifetime.

And so it was.

I laughed at the time, but the Canucks never seemed to get much better.
They have mostly iced pathetic teams since, despite having good goalies. (My dad exempted the play of goalies, since he was an ex soccer goalie).

In 2011, since the Canucks had produced such a strong team, I decided to renew the curse just before the playoffs. I dug out my dad's old trunk, and found the Venetian book of lore from the Etruscans of Udine and reinforced the curse.

I admit, I thought I'd screwed it up when the Canucks went up 3-2 in games, but the curse held. (sorry about the riot. My dad never expected them to get to the finals).

So there you have it. Why the Canucks are so shitty, and will continue to be mostly mediocre, teasing fans of progress, but really never getting anywhere.

The curse runs out in 2048, and there will be no renewal, so until then - stay home, watch on TV and save your money.

Good post. How about the story of what ownership did to warrant the curse? Cubs had their goat, Red Sox traded the Bambino, what do we get to use?

 

[Cock Throppled]

Can't go into details about the business, but he was involved in the catering area. There was an issue of a drastic and unwarranted change to the contract that resulted in damaged product and cost us income. In an attempt to get an explanation, and rectify the situation a senior manager at WIC, Frank Griffiths controlling company, levelled some false accusations, threats and slurs. The guy was a racist idiot. My father had no recourse, and he could never get in touch with Griffiths to try to find out what happened. Years later, a friend arranged a rough apology by new management. A partial contract was re-instated, but the manager who started it all was retained, and still dealt rudely with my father. The damage had been done.

My dad is now dead, but his curse runs out in 2048 because that is the 100th year of his birthdate.

 

[escapefromstress]

As someone who doesn't expect to be around in 2048, and would like to see Vancouver celebrate a cup victory (to make up for that awful riot at least) maybe you could put in a good word with the Etruscan gods to give our team a break. Perhaps we've suffered enough?

This could require the sacrificing of virgins by throwing them into a volcano or something.

 

[ddcanz]

Thanks for the explanation. Sounds like your dad got a raw deal.

It may help to know that Frank Griffiths had his own curse, namely an idiot named Arthur for a son. Arthur took over his sports empire and squandered it all away- eventually giving away control to even bigger idiots from the US - who eventually lost interest and were bought out by the current idiots - who screwed over fellow Canadian partners in the process - to get their hands on the team. This team has a legacy of feeble ownership that goes far beyond the Griffiths.

(what's ironic is that one of the Vancouver partners who got screwed by Aquiini decided to buy the hapless Dallas Stars instead and, within a few years, had turned it into a far more powerful and entertaining team than what we're stuck with in Vancouver.)

As someone who doesn't expect to be around in 2048, and would like to see Vancouver celebrate a cup victory (to make up for that awful riot at least) maybe you could put in a good word with the Etruscan gods to give our team a break. Perhaps we've suffered enough?

Dallas Stars may be more entertaining with their high-end scoring power, but check the standings my friend.
We'll see where both teams are in a few years- until Dallas gets goaltending and a defense they are nothing better than the Oilers of 1998-2016- excluding Edmonchuk's unprecedented cup run in 2006 (thanks to stud-D Pronger and a goalie playing well over his head).
And thanks CT for enlightening us on the "curse"- it all makes sense to me now!
And BTW- my family has dealt with the Griffith's in the past with certain financial matters- everything was well above board and classy to the end, especially with Emily.