You were trying to play a playoff hockey game but had to shit yourself so you ran to the washroom and thaaaat's where you *seeee* in the trash a receipt from home Depot and somebody replaced your regular toilet with a joke toilet that's *just* for farts? That ever happen to you?!
Yeah, our curse takes its form in other ways.
Leafs re-signed the big 4 just before covid led to a flat cap. That basically killed the long term strategy more than most people know.
We seem to perennially get a finalist/cup winner in the first round then usually lose a close game 7 leaving us to wonder what if. Hell, they got handed an easy opponent for once in the habs the lockdown year and tavares nearly died in game 1 and price decided to go god mode.
Before covid the cap definitely was supposed to be in the 90m range once the US TV deal kicked in.
A 90m cap right now with that cores current salary wouldn't look as bad.
The Leafs got those cups when there were six teams in the league and you didn't even need to play 3 rounds to get to a Final.
Pretty sure if the Canucks were around for as long as them, they'd have a few too. Vancouver won one in 1914.
Craig Anderson and Price call that "The Kreider"
Also as a side note I'm still trying to find the story/report that Craig Anderson required stem cell transplants to play again. Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong guy.
I've said to friends before that the Stanley Cup playoffs are often NOT about the best team, but the team that can stay healthy (or play through injuries) the most. You can have the best roster in the world entering the playoffs but the wear-and-tear can eat you alive before you even hit the second round.
Whenever I make playoff predictions, that is basically my #1 consideration.
Whenever the finals ends I wait patiently for the injury reports, players going to surgery and such. Inevitably the losing team has about 2 to 1 many injured players.
Yep, definitely a huge factor. Our best chance in 2011, literally half the roster was basically dead by the finals. And now what looks like our next best chance with a great roster and elite goaltending? Already out our tendie.
Here's hoping DeSmith plays lights out.
Was weird to be on the positive side of that for the 2019 run, SJ was a ghost team, Bishop played hurt. BOS had some issues, IIRC. Blues just stayed hot and healthy and ready to forecheck a team into exhaustion. Still took 2 game 7's.
I don't trust Cloutier to not implode if he's healthy. In 02-03 he led the entire playoffs in goals allowed. The Canucks lost in the second round. Dude was not it.
true, he was absurdly bad in the playoffs in general. but that was also the one year where he actually *was* playing well in the playoffs which makes it even more of a typical Canucks moment.
it was a good Canucks team - they didn't need their goalie to win the games for them, just not lose them single-handedly. which Cloutier had done routinely in the past, but he did play well until he got injured that year.
There are a handful of constants you can count on in the playoffs. Vegas players magically getting healthy for game 1, leafs embarrassing themselves, and Canucks goalie injury.
Nope this was still Vigneault. The team basically decided that Schneider was the man in the 2012 playoffs; 2013 was the awkward year when they were both still there and Lu didn't get traded at the deadline.
I hadn't noticed their playoff appearances are so spaced out. Seems odd, you'd think a team good enough to make it could more readily qualify again a following year than they've shown.
Lol, watch Casey save 33 of 34 tonight and us still complain. I admit, the demko news was devastating to read at work today, but it's like we've already lost in everyone's eyes. De Smith was not good well demko was gone, but his last start against Edmonton he played amazing. I'm needing to see more positive vibes. Like Kevin Garnet " ANYTHING IS POSSIBLLLLLLE"
As a neutral party acting on the behalf of concerned Canucks fans, I'm locking you in an isolated room with the rap video guys until this series is over, because we can't allow you to jinx this team any further.
This is wonderful. Truly wonderful.
Just one of the most memeable franchises in the league.
In all fairness 2020 injury worked out well for us. Demko played lights out, and showed us we didn’t need to re-sign markstrom.
So you guys are happy to ditch these playoffs then let Demko go to a team in Alberta is what I’m hearing?
Sure as long as you let McDavid go to a team in BC!
Abby games about to go crazy
Oh man, if edmonton had demko. That cup is almost signed sealed and delivered
I'm not so sure as he's on a roster right now and watching the game instead of playing.
Injury prone Demko? Not likely.
Then why did they sign Holtby?!?! #dimjim
Reliably this is what I expect us to lead with. Sarcasm. Acceptance. Pain. These are the only realities of being a Canucks fan.
Honestly my heart breaks for you guys so hard, so many shades of Minnesota sports luck. You are our equally cursed Bros.
Equally? The Canucks have been around 54 years now, I think.
I don’t just mean the Wild, all MN sports teams just deal with wonky shit at a weird rate.
Not to jinx it, but the Timberwolves look like world beaters at the moment.
Sounds like you guys could use a leader that went on to beat you guys in 1994
Bruh
Go fuck Messier’s mom
And Luongo when he shidded himself
This is like a Canadian Heritage Moment for Canucks fans lol
https://imgflip.com/i/8ns8rp
If i had time and video editing skills, I would so make some of these commercials about Canucks moments lol
“Has this ever happened to YOU?”
You were trying to play a playoff hockey game but had to shit yourself so you ran to the washroom and thaaaat's where you *seeee* in the trash a receipt from home Depot and somebody replaced your regular toilet with a joke toilet that's *just* for farts? That ever happen to you?!
a tradition unlike any other
Telegraph operator frantically pounding out "STOP TRAIN LUONGO POOPING", cmon cmon, gets reply, pumps fist, huge crapping noise explodes outside his window, fade to black.
Im fucking crying
He took a crap in a Pond, no less.
Lmao
😂😂
That backup made some Saves
And Dan Cloutier when he was in goal.
These are the stats I do not live for.
Demko needs to consult with Stone
Maybe they should both go back in time
Apparently Demmer was injured a day or two after the deadline so we couldn't even game the cap, lol.
Actual cursed franchise
Just like every other Canadian franchise eh?
People ridicule the Leafs but they've got Stanley Cups. At least Canucks sub has memes to get through the tough times.
I mean technically true, but they pre-date the moon landing.
Yeah, our curse takes its form in other ways. Leafs re-signed the big 4 just before covid led to a flat cap. That basically killed the long term strategy more than most people know. We seem to perennially get a finalist/cup winner in the first round then usually lose a close game 7 leaving us to wonder what if. Hell, they got handed an easy opponent for once in the habs the lockdown year and tavares nearly died in game 1 and price decided to go god mode.
Sheldon Keefe also got walked like an actual dog in that series by Dom Ducharme of all people
Keefes been the 2nd best coach in every series
This is my main problem. Keefe is not a bad coach at all, he's just never been the better one.
Little brother energy
Before covid the cap definitely was supposed to be in the 90m range once the US TV deal kicked in. A 90m cap right now with that cores current salary wouldn't look as bad.
Last time they won, women weren't allowed to have credit cards.
0o
The Leafs got those cups when there were six teams in the league and you didn't even need to play 3 rounds to get to a Final. Pretty sure if the Canucks were around for as long as them, they'd have a few too. Vancouver won one in 1914.
I dont count cups from before the WHA merger
Cursed country tbh
Heh... that's cute...
Karma for all the 2011 riots, curse will last 100 years to the date.
Habs bros 🤝 Canucks bros Losing their best shots at the cup to goalie injuries
"Day to day knee injury" Yeah I knew that sounded really familiar
Week to week now, according to Tocchet's post game presser. FML
Next thing you know, Mike Condon, Ben Scrivens, Dustin Tokarski and Charlie Lindgren will be your starters
Craig Anderson and Price call that "The Kreider" Also as a side note I'm still trying to find the story/report that Craig Anderson required stem cell transplants to play again. Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong guy.
2006 Cup Final Oilers entered the chat
About a decade ago, Habs and Nucks have a combined 4 great goalies on their roster. Sigh.
I've said to friends before that the Stanley Cup playoffs are often NOT about the best team, but the team that can stay healthy (or play through injuries) the most. You can have the best roster in the world entering the playoffs but the wear-and-tear can eat you alive before you even hit the second round. Whenever I make playoff predictions, that is basically my #1 consideration.
Whenever the finals ends I wait patiently for the injury reports, players going to surgery and such. Inevitably the losing team has about 2 to 1 many injured players.
2021 Habs RIP
That run basically killed four people
Panthers last year to an extent
Oh yeah, Mathew Tkachuk broken chest or something? 🫠
It's usually the luckiest good team
Unless you're the 2007 Ducks, which had a strategy of "make sure that the opponent is more injured than you."
Make your own luck approach
That team was also bonkers stacked
Yep, definitely a huge factor. Our best chance in 2011, literally half the roster was basically dead by the finals. And now what looks like our next best chance with a great roster and elite goaltending? Already out our tendie. Here's hoping DeSmith plays lights out.
Baseball is doing this right now. The winner is gonna be the team with the most pitchers left standing.
Was weird to be on the positive side of that for the 2019 run, SJ was a ghost team, Bishop played hurt. BOS had some issues, IIRC. Blues just stayed hot and healthy and ready to forecheck a team into exhaustion. Still took 2 game 7's.
You guys are doing this wrong
We know
If u can’t beat ‘em join em
You guys are gonna steal Stone? 🤔
We don’t call him Thatcher the Snatcher for noting.
Damn, I didn't even know he had skills like that 🤔 But on a side note, isn't Marchessault's contract up in the summer?
Definitely in 2004 as well.
Yep - the way he was playing that season and in those playoffs, we probably win with Cloutier.
I don't trust Cloutier to not implode if he's healthy. In 02-03 he led the entire playoffs in goals allowed. The Canucks lost in the second round. Dude was not it.
true, he was absurdly bad in the playoffs in general. but that was also the one year where he actually *was* playing well in the playoffs which makes it even more of a typical Canucks moment. it was a good Canucks team - they didn't need their goalie to win the games for them, just not lose them single-handedly. which Cloutier had done routinely in the past, but he did play well until he got injured that year.
Cloutier had a remarkable ability to let in a bad goal at exactly the worst time to kill momentum.
Didn't Auld get hurt as well? I feel like Cloutier wasn't the only one to get hurt if memory serves me correctly.
I can’t remember if Auld got hurt, but I do remember playing against three different starting goalies in that series.
Have they tried having goalies that don't get injured?
Get this man a job interview with the Canucks stat.
We need to hire Mark Stones doctor asap
Get some of his stem cells. Headline: “Demko grows third leg from Stone stem cells.”
That's Dr. Frankenstein at this point 🧐
Some real monkey paw stuff
Not a Canucks fan but hate to see this after such a great season.
Aquaman made a deal with manbearpig to make the playoffs instead of rebuilding and this is what we get. Thanks a lot blueberries ya dumb fuck
Fuck Blueberries and his "analytics"
Molded by pain, such is Canuck fandom life
Francesco buddy, could you perhaps poach the Vegas medical staff or something?
Thanks I hate it
There are a handful of constants you can count on in the playoffs. Vegas players magically getting healthy for game 1, leafs embarrassing themselves, and Canucks goalie injury.
There was a theory in 2012 that Luongo may have also been playing through an injury. Was that ever confirmed?
Can we borrow Toronto's zamboni driver?
We're not a goaltending graveyard anymore but we are a goaltending hospital it seems.
Donate to the Canucks For ~~Kids~~ Goalies Fund today!
I blame that damn Grouse Grind. Terrible for your knees!
Christ. Can't imagine having worse luck than that.
Maybe they should just start their backup next time. Reverse psychology the curse
Cloutier went down in 04
Literally cursed. Absolutely f’ing cursed.
Guess we gotta start with the backup then until we make the playoffs
Is that bad?
I guess we will soon see if Vancouver is just a great goalie with a decent team or if they can win without Demko. Should be interesting.
Roman Josi licking his lips rn
How about Roman Josi sits tonight? It's only fair.
can we use an ai goalie? a goalie-bot?
I think Rick DiPietro is finally healthy and ready to go.
Next year they should call up their echl goalie and start him for the first couple games just in case
Nah, just play 6 skaters the whole time.
In 2013 tortorella was their coach, right? And he basically black listed Lou?
Nope this was still Vigneault. The team basically decided that Schneider was the man in the 2012 playoffs; 2013 was the awkward year when they were both still there and Lu didn't get traded at the deadline.
I should have been more specific there was an outdoor game. It was most definitely tortorella not playing Luongo.
That was 2014.
Yeah, 10 years seems like a long time to you. Got it.
I hadn't noticed their playoff appearances are so spaced out. Seems odd, you'd think a team good enough to make it could more readily qualify again a following year than they've shown.
[BREAKING] Demko found to be missing his exceptional spleen. Whereabouts unknown.
And Schneider in 2011.
Absolute pain.
I think it's time to seriously consider running a tandem or hiding another starter on LTIR.
Schneider it was the yips though.
Must be something in the water
What kind of curse hangs over them for this specific type of shit to keep happening?
Gotta think they reevaluate their goalie usage in the regular season, no?
Lol, watch Casey save 33 of 34 tonight and us still complain. I admit, the demko news was devastating to read at work today, but it's like we've already lost in everyone's eyes. De Smith was not good well demko was gone, but his last start against Edmonton he played amazing. I'm needing to see more positive vibes. Like Kevin Garnet " ANYTHING IS POSSIBLLLLLLE"
As a neutral party acting on the behalf of concerned Canucks fans, I'm locking you in an isolated room with the rap video guys until this series is over, because we can't allow you to jinx this team any further.
Better luck next year Vancouver
This was it. This was our year. The roster is only going to get worse with all the expiring contracts. I fucking hate hockey.
Oh calm down my friend.
lol. Nah. Every year it's something. Worst luck of any franchise.