The Vancouver Canucks are winning, but they’re also uneven. And there’s a rift between the stars.
Everything sure looks like a disaster in Canuck-land.
The stars aren’t getting along, like at all.
The team can’t score.
The coach is giving terse replies.
It’s never boring. It’s also never been quite like this.
So fans, are you feeling the angst?
I was first sad that I was going to miss most of their games this year but now I am feeling less sad — Justin McElroy via BlueSky
When you are a world traveller, there are things you have to accept about going away. One of those is that you won’t be near your favourite hockey team.
Obviously in the modern age, you can still track what’s going on because everything is online, but when you are far, far away that just becomes less of a priority. You do risk missing big moments, like last year’s fun playoff run — or in my case the trading of Alex Mogilny in 2000 and the slow dawn of a new era (I was in New Zealand) — but you also could very well risk missing the team’s stars being in such a bad spot they won’t even play together any more.
FUN TIMES!
This ain’t my first Canucks rodeo. So calm and unconcerned I may actually attain full enlightenment this season. — Andrew via BlueSky
Andrew’s told us this before. He knows the shot. If you are new to Canucks fandom, listen to your elders: life is pain and suffering.
The Canucks will never win.
They’ll just break your heart, endlessly.
So, go with Andrew, go the other way. Accept the pain and misery. Find your false beliefs, end your ignorance, seek the truth.
There are so many understandable scenarios: poor team plays poorly, team lacking talent battles hard, team of young raw talent plays inconsistently etc. The Canucks are so confusing, and I’m even more irritated that I just can’t stop trying to figure it out. — Gingerbreadperson on BlueSky
Be with Andrew. Accept the truth.
This kind of feels like what I expected the team to be last year. No idea if that was just a mirage, or if this is a group that can turn it around. — Sandro Desaulniers via BlueSky
It’s funny, when I spoke with Patrik Allvin on Friday, I said, listen coming into the season I, and many others, thought your team was clearly a playoff team, but needed more if it was going to be truly a contender.
He agreed.
Earlier this week, Jim Rutherford noted to me how last year everything went right and they had an excellent season, but that this year it was unreasonable to think things would break totally in their way again.
That obviously hasn’t happened. And now everything is a mess.
Last year was something of a mirage, though the team also nailed almost everything that came their way. The argument management seems to be making about this season’s struggles is it’s about preparation: a lack thereof to be clear.
Is it too late to pull that all back together?