Let's Get it Started
Posted 11:00 AM ET | Comments 1
Canucks start round one on Trevor Linden's birthday. It's a clear day in the city that originated Towel Power, and the skies over the North Shore Mountains are a retina-burning blue. The car flags are starting to bloom, and jersey-wearing fans are popping up like daffodils and tulips.
There's an aura of great hope in town, after last year's dark and horrible failure to make the playoffs. There's a new religion, and the Luongites are a passionate and fervent lot. Cloutier is long forgotten and there are hushed references to '82 and '94.
I, however, am a realistic fan, and am still smarting from the betrayal by the Westcoast Depress last year. My car flag, tattered, is still in a box in the trunk, and will remain there until it has a reason to be unfurled. To me, this will be a win in the first round.
I wish the Canucks luck, as they start into this most grueling of all sporting contests, and send a message to all Canucks fans to celebrate and/or commiserate without breaking things, as they are wont to do.
CG
April 11, 2007
There's an aura of great hope in town, after last year's dark and horrible failure to make the playoffs. There's a new religion, and the Luongites are a passionate and fervent lot. Cloutier is long forgotten and there are hushed references to '82 and '94.
I, however, am a realistic fan, and am still smarting from the betrayal by the Westcoast Depress last year. My car flag, tattered, is still in a box in the trunk, and will remain there until it has a reason to be unfurled. To me, this will be a win in the first round.
I wish the Canucks luck, as they start into this most grueling of all sporting contests, and send a message to all Canucks fans to celebrate and/or commiserate without breaking things, as they are wont to do.
CG
April 11, 2007
January 22, 2010 2:57 AM ET
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