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 I do not understand anymore. 

The media, the fans, the team itself. I don't get this.

The media pisses me off because they spew a bunch of random crap like "The Canucks are the most hated team in the NHL" while I'm sitting there asking..."Source?" Did they poll the players of the NHL or all the fans and this was the result? They keep ragging on this whole "biting" incident when video evidence shows it as inconclusive. Apparently having one-and-a-half pests on our team means the whole world is against us. I will be honest. I have never been fond of Luongo. Yes, there are many fans that jump on your head and say "You say this after we're trailing 0-4 and not when we win." Well that is a bullshit argument. If we've won we usually don't find things to complain about because we're busy being happy. If we've lost then we want to know what went wrong so we can fix it and not make the same mistakes again!

So the fans piss me off too. 50% will rag on Luongo no matter what. Another 50% will cheer on him no matter what. Were us fans criticized for being the most polarizing fans of the NHL? Do you know what? After forty years of nothing, after year after year of disappointment...how do we even KNOW?

 

How do we even know what to do? In fact I shouldn't even say "we"...how do I KNOW what to do? I always want to stand by this team no matter what. I know a "true" fan will sit in front of the TV watching the agonizing hockey as we let in goals in the two-digits, but why should we do that? Despite what movies seem to have taught us, most of the time, almost all of the time, teams do not come back after massive deficits...especially if this is not the first time such a deficit has occurred.

 

And my parents? I don't really see them as dedicated Canuck fans despite watching longer than I have. The moment today's game started all my dad could do was complain, complain, complain. Even when it was 0-0. Our start was not bad, we just wiffed on chances. Unfortunately wiffing on chances could lead to the loss of the cup, but still...we actually had hunger, had heart at the start. The 8-1 loss? Probably a combination of well, the entire team. The 4-0 loss? Again our defence may not have been there, but I would consider again the entire team since we also did not score. However..when one says the entire team, the GOALTENDER is included too, and today? Those four goals? Three of them in such a short time went by Luongo which could be the easiest saves ever. Then I see, on the other side when the defence messes up and we get breakaways or two-on-ones or empty, gaping nets...the goaltender either saves them or we wiff. We miss, we don't hit the puck, ANYTHING.

 

I don't understand. Why is this so frustrating? People might say, and I may agree with them, that a team like the Canucks do not deserve the cup when you see the lopsided scores but I personally think it's rather unfair too, that their defence can make all the mistakes they want. We can get ALL THE  CHANCES WE WANT, but we cannot finish because they have this amazing goaltender. One who is not cocky, one who does not seem to have much of an ego, can stand on his head every game. While we let the Bruins score such easy goals. To me it's more like the losses we gave up was us making it easy on them rather than us failing horribly. You cannot possibly fail that horribly after such a season, after such a run, and after all that.
 

So really. My question is what is going on? What do I do anymore? I still will watch, even if it's very unlikely to get a goal by that Boston goaltender. I still believe we can win this game, today. But what afterwards? Despite the result, even if we win the next game with Luongo in next...do we still want him next year? I mean apparently we have the best cast of players in franchise history and we still end up having such lopsided scores? Is Kesler injured? Are the Sedins injured? I don't know. There is only so much a Burrows or Lapierre or Hansen or Torres can do. Our top players are not there, our defence is a mess...but we're supposed to be the best right?

 

Why isn't the other team like this too?  They've only lost by one goal. Why is it I only ever see our team doing these things for themselves, and causing such a polarizing opinion on the team, whether it be by the fans, the other fans, the media, or even other teams?  I  don't understand this team.

I certainly hope by the end of this day I'll be happy, or at least on Wednesday, but for now my HOPE  is that we can at least get some goals in, and my FEAR  is that the game does not end 12-0.