Issue #47 – Behaving Badly
“To err is human, to forgive divine.” -Alexander Pope
At some point, bad behavior catches up with you. Whether immediately or years down the road the long term effects can be catastrophic, not just on how a team is viewed in the present, but how it effects the standings later down the road.
The Canucks may be digging a hole that will turn against them later in the season, despite how well they play down the stretch. Perhaps the slow start is human. After all they have lost two top-six forwards and two top-six defensemen respectively. The failure of this group to manufacture wins, however, is irritating now, but may be unforgivable down the road.
Five months ago Luongo played his worst possible game at the worst possible time in his career and as a Canuck.
The time for turning the corner for the Canucks is now.
They may or may not continue with their impulsive, sloppy, arrogant play or they may pick up their game by the bootstraps and play the blue-collar, Coach Vee induced coma hockey that won them a division title three season ago (until more firepower arrives.)
One thing the Canucks are not (if we can reduced our selves to female analogies for a moment) is the skinny rich bitch from West Vancouver, much like the snot-nosed punks from Chicago. The BlackHawks have it all, they’ve been handed the world with a silver spoon, they know it, the Canucks know it. Move on.
Skinny bitch is not the Canucks game.
Their game is dependable if not exotic, cerebral if not sexy and (as mentioned before) blue-collar and not the least bit ostentatious or elitist.
Somehow at the beginning of the season detractors mistook this team for a starlet just because she had really nice tits (Luongo).
Beauty is fleeting in this league where journeymen are relegated to the minors or the KHL in lieu of younger, cheaper, faster talent.
Mike Gillis knows who this team is, so does Coach Vee. The media and the fans seem to be catching on. Maybe once the team realizes that beauty is in the eye of the beholder they might start winning some hockey games.