I have been one of those fans, all those years ago now. I was a fan who would say crazy things like “They’re going to win a Cup soon.” or “This is a team that is going to prove people wrong.”
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My parents came to Canada in 1991, and they saw the Canucks in their highest highs. And then when I was born they saw them in their lowest lows. And then just in a mediocre. Whenever I told them they won a game right now, they always reply “finally. They always lose.” Which, now looking at the board it makes more sense.
I am the same Shannon. I started watching the Canucks around 1983. Lots of years of pain and suffering. You know what? I still look back and am thankful for the good times. The 94 playoff run to the NYR game 7 final loss to this day. Is the best Stanley Cup playoffs I have ever watched for any team. I still have faith they will hoist that Cup before I am gone lol. Don't give up!! When you lose the ability to Dream. It's time to pack it in. 😊
Got to feel for you dude. A Bruins and Canuck fan hasn’t been fun. To say the least. One Cup in the last 50 years between them is brutal. Add in that the only reason either team won one is because they played each other in 2011. Yikes!
They deserved the cup in 2011. What a loss. A Canucks win would have changed the way the league built teams given how skilled they were. Vancouver needs a prophet to rise up and lead this team to greatness. It's depressing.
You can tell he still has hope because he's not wearing the Flying V hat as well lol
I would honestly love if the goal song was riot by 3 days grace. Just embrace the meme
Where would you get the yellow flying V jersey shan?
There was that fellow on Vancouver island who asked for cunuck players as his pall bearers…
So they could let him down one more time! 😅😅😅
Fortunately, I don't take hockey that seriously and will always be a fan of the Cunucks.
Wonder how this situation compares for other teams. Might make for a great series in the off-season.
2023: Stupidly gave up chance for Connor Bedard.
Glad to hear I am not the only one that was broken after the 2011 loss lol it took me a few years to start watching again.
Stick with them. I had the same attitude towards the Kings and they finally suprised me in 2012 and 2014. U just never know.
Just 1 only want to see 1
And if😢 it does happen in Vancouver game 7
That would be a quiet arena
"There's nowaythey're winning"
…kinda like
"Like There's no way Undertaker losing at wrestlemania"
One of my last requests in my will is that six Canucks be my pallbearers. That way they can let me down one last time
Avs fan here. I want to ask a question…. I remember that first series we had against Vancouver in 2001 en route to the Cup, and even though it was a sweep, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I really felt like any of those games could have gone for the Canucks. In fact I thought it was a harder series than the conference final even though we lost a game to the Blues that round. You only briefly mentioned it so I guess you probably didn't feel the same way?
You’re always more critical of the team you cheer for the most. I like other teams in the league but the bulk of my criticism goes to Columbus; i watch them more than any other team and i grew up going to games at Nationwide.
So for those wondering why he’s always been more critical of Vancouver, that’s why. It’s just the nature of things.
Love this! My sympathies..your irreverence for fan hardships brings a smile…
I was resigned after 1986 to never seeing Red Sox win a World Series..a year of very bad things for me only underscored by the ball Buckner missed. And yet then came 2004…it was what they did to come back vs Yankees that was beyond my wildest hopes..
if they do good this year time to be more optimistic… we’ve suffered long enough friend
I can relate. Growing up a Seattle Sports fan and going through a 21 year postseason draught with the Mariners it's had it's impact on general fandom for Seattle teams. Last year was awesome, but it just feels like a blip and what we saw in year 1 and what we're seeing in year 3 is what we can expect. I still love the sport and love going to games, but it leaves me not believing in the team. Even last year with the great run, I just kind of went wondering when it would fall off and even in each playoff series, I went in just hoping we wouldn't get swept. This is also why I'm not against expanding the playoffs. So many of those 21 years the Mariners were the first team out, and it is crushing to any fan. I worry that is happening to fans in Buffalo. The playoffs are absolutely amazing and probably the best in all the sports, so from a product perspective it would actually bring it down, but from a long term perspective a long playoff draught can kill a fanbase which is more harmful than doing something like the NBA.
The Canucks have been like, really had to start the season only to show flashes of brilliance later on (not enough to make the Playoffs but enough to get out of the race for really high draft pick)
Which is about the worst place to be, because you have to be great to win the cup but if you wanna become great sometimes you gotta be terrible first
The Vancouver fans booed Team Canada off the ice in 1972. Karma has a long memory!
It's not just the Canucks. What about a Canada based team winning a Stanley Cup? The Canucks were one that were close in 2011 and the Canadiens more recently. I think that's definitely worth discussion too. Maybe THG has discussed and I missed the video. If someone knows the link of THG discussing this, please post.
As a lifelong Canucks fan I totally agree and sympathize with this video. The Canucks are literally cursed with some kind of black magic and I'm serious about that. It's as if there's a witch doctor out there somewhere repeatedly sticking pins into a Johnny Canuck doll. Nothing else can reasonably explain 50+ years of complete incompetence and horrible luck in nearly every facet of the organization.
..I'm a Leafs fan..I remember their last cup in '67..Tell me about your woes…
Shannon’s 2011 Stanley Cup Final experience has big Monkey’s Paw energy.
as an eleven year old in 2011 i was also broken beyond repair on that night in june. barely cared about hockey for the next 12 years until just this past February when i became ready to feel pain again
I became a King's fan in 1969 so I understand completely. One of the lowest points of being a King's fan was in 2012 after a pitiful game against Detroit. You just never know when things could turn.
I became a Canucks fan in 93/94. I was 7 years old and I watched the entirety of the playoffs with my dad. I've been a fan ever since and it's been a rough ride. But Fandom doesn't stop just cause of a measly 3 decades.
I recall thr Mete beating my Red Sox in the 1986 World Series. That's when I realizes that the Red Sox would not win a World Series in my lifetime Then 2004 happened. You never know. I wish you the best of luck for the Canucks.
Shannon, can you make a video on the flyers past seasons since their last cup? They've looked good so far this year but have never really been good in the playoffs for a while, besides that lucky 2010 run.
I’ll always be a canuck fan the 2011 team had the visit to the children’s hospital my son was there he was only a month old but pictures I’ll always cherish
Ouff, this walk down memory lane is tough, but it could be amazing if they just bloody won. My fandom of this team started with the 1982 playoff run, so pretty similar to yours Shannon. Except after the 2011 run I really just tuned in for playoff, focusing more on being a dad of young-uns. Now that they're older I have a bit more time for regular season, so I'm ready to have my heart broken again. Yay!
I think your right. They got a good coach and will make the playoffs. I am also rooting for them and would like seeing them get a cup.Keep the faith.
I know we have failed for 53 years but this year is the year 😂
Having been a CBJ fan since the beginning (23 years and counting), I have gotten to see a Nash's Richard, Bob's 2 Vezina's, Mason's Calder, Foligno's Masterton, Tort's Jack Adams, a single playoff series win, a playoff play-in round win, a playoff appearance streak of 4, and 6 total playoff appearances (6/22 seasons). I think that is most of the achievements earned by CBJ as a team, player, or coach. I already consider VGK and SEA to have been overall better up to this point as a franchise.
Does it help knowing that VAN has had some "relative success" in that they have had intervals of regular playoff experience?
Long suffering Canucks fan here: and there's many good things different about this team vs. other times we've had a seemingly good team that was built on a house of cards. #1: the core of the team is built around draft picks that are set to peak at the right time, instead of relying on lucky trades for players who maybe are good only for a 2-3 year window at best; #2: their organically developed core includes a star defenceman, which in today's NHL is the most important type of core player to have and one that the Canucks haven't really had before; #3) we have all the right pieces for a Cup-winning core (2 great centers, a great winger, an outstanding defenceman and good goaltender).
But as a longtime Canucks fan, the only question in my mind right now is how badly the team's management team can screw this up completely.
Once I seen Pettersson in his rookie year, I was completely ready to dive into Canucks hockey full on. Before that I've always been more so a casual fan, as a kid I didn't really know of the West Coast Express and I only got into the Sedin era in that 2011 run, once they lost, I was out and didn't pay much attention to the Canucks. Something I quickly learned is to enjoy the great moments we do get, like the season opener this year, or Demkos performance in the bubble, Canucks first game after the covid stuff against the Leafs. Enjoy games like those and don't let the losses tarnish you so much is what I feel like is best.
Well, you can always be thankful you have the Bruins and all their playoff success to fall back on. Uhh, on second thought, never mind:(
I just watch the games on TV and I am a Canucks fan and to a lesser extent, a Flames fan. Whether they win or lose is no skin off my ass. When they win, the sun comes up the next day. When they lose, the sun still comes up. If the Canucks win the Cup, I get nothing. No money, no ring, nothing. I get to yell and cheer and that's about it. It's just a game that I watch. Hockey's a great game, fun to play and watch. Just my 2 cents…
I often joke to my wife that most predictions from hockey analysts boil down to "whatever is happening right now is going to keep happening"; this season has had many examples of this, not the least of which is the many analysts who are currently insisting that the Canucks will finish top 3 in the Pacific.
as a rangers fan i always hear older fans saying they think the 91-92 rangers were better than the 94 team as well. funny how that works
It's honestly hilarious just seeing the Colorado Sandwich which perfectly has the 2 original cups for the "dark time".
This felt like bringing up old trauma.
Laughs in flyers
The 2011 Canucks was the most heartbreaking. Everything just made it feel like they were gonna win the Stanley cup. That OT goal against Chicago that prevented the reverse sweep. Then it was all smooth sailing from there. Even in the Stanley cup finals Vancouver looked like they were gonna win. The home team scored the first goal in every game and won. So that would mean Vancouver would win Game 7 right? Nope. For some reason, they just didn't show up that night and let Boston score 4…
Shannon… My first time commenting here I believe. I think we're close in age but I didn't really invest my time and become a fan until 88 when Trevor Linden was drafted. Up till then my first fandom was the BC Lions. Got to meet the players in 86 after they'd won their first grey cup in decades.
Anyway, simply foe mental health reasons, I've learned to have boundaries around this team. But if I was being completely honest, I'm a lost cause. I just love this team… Especially right now, as I place much more value in player personalities, kindness and character then I did in the past.
The 2011 team came all so close to breaking me as well… Mostly because it was a ripping the heart out of my chest, then just for good measure… Take a flame torch to it with the riots that followed. Felt so ashamed and embarrassed… As I'm sure many of us felt at the time.
However… Time heals most things… For me I've learned to let it go and move on… Took a while though.
Anyway… Some how I remain not cynical, unlike most that have been following this team as long as you or I. I may be called an idiot for this fact but I wear it like a badge of honor. One things for sure… This franchise since I've been a fan, is never boring!!! At least we have that. Go canucks go!
Two amazing goal song suggestions Shannon!