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It's Tuesday April the 11 around 7:34AM and

Canucks, The Morning After

If you read this blog often, you might get the sense that I take much glee in those times when the Canucks lose. Not true. Really. I just really like the post-game depression and self loathing in the locker room and city, and then the fresh chum in the water for the press. I'm sick. I know.

The Province devotes both the front and back page to the loss last night. The front has the headline of "Another nail in Canucks' coffin." Ben Kuzma describes the game this way, "instead of barging through the door of opportunity, the Vancouver Canucks quickly tripped and fell flat on their faces Monday before regaining their composure in a crucial 4-2 loss to the Ducks at GM Place."

Over in The Sun, Iain Macintyre talks about the elusive puck luck, "Darn. This thing might be harder to fix than we thought. Turns out it wasn't the uniforms. Anyone thought about changing the stick tape?
Maybe it's the colour of the ice. Or the colour of the blue lines. Maybe it's the players."

Vancouver Canucks Oped goes the other way. Not the players, not the puck luck, not the uniforms. It's the coach. "If the Canucks miss the playoffs, I think we just watched the game that gets Canucks’ coach Marc Crawford fired next week." And then there is this, "That might have been the most poorly coached game that Crawford has ever anchored in Vancouver. And at the worst time possible."

Slightly related: Hockey Dirt finds that the NHL on NBC ratings are down 21% from 2-years ago on ABC before going on to say this, "Ratings in Canada have reportedly been solid, but will take a big hit in the Leaf-less playoffs. If the Canucks also succeed in playing themselves into an early golf season CBC executives will feel downright Bertuzzi'd." Bertuzzi'd. That's brilliant.

Totally unrelated: A good metaphor for the Canucks this season might to visit the Kevin Federline Myspace page. Complex. Frightening. Incompetent. Useless. Popozow.

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Posted by: gusgreeper

April 11, 2006 03:53 PM

i was going to say i can't believe im admitting this but please...look at what i write on my blog.
i umm have federline on my myspace i don't know why i guess i was hoping for hot photos of britney it is fo sho NOT for the music.