Well that was a good game yesterday. I wonder what all those people who thought the Canucks were dead and buried after game one are today. Last nights game got me thinking about the every twelve year thing. 1982,1994,2007- What?
Last year Canuck fans thought they were guaranteed a spot in the cup final. Not because they had a good team. Fate was on their side. The Canucks first trip to the Stanley cup final occurred in 1982. they were heavy underdogs against the Islander Dynasty. Potvin, Bossy, Smith and the Islanders took the Canucks out in four games.
The next time the Canucks went to the cup final was 1994. This was twelve years after the first run in 82. Oddly enough the Canucks would loose to another New York Team. This time it would be the Rangers. Messier, Leetch and Richter were going to bring the Cup to the Big Apple and the Canucks did their best to stop them.
So when the NHL came out of the lockout, Canuck fans were all over the fact that it had been twelve years since the last trip to the final. It was their destiny no matter what. The hype was that they had the team to go the distance. Why. They played an up tempo game and with the new rules the Canucks were going to be great. Well a funny thing happened an the way to the final. The Canucks struggled with their number one goalie going down early in the season. Then there was talk of the dressing room disturbances. Meanwhile the faithful kept saying don’t worry it is our destiny to go to the final every twelve years. We will be there and this time we will win.
Maybe Canuck fans were just wrong about the twelve “year” thing. I am here to give hope to all Canuck fans that this is the year. You see it is not twelve years since they last went to the finals. It is however twelve hockey seasons. For Canuck fans the lockout may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. If the Canucks make it to the finals this year then they can say well it was not twelve years but twelve season that we were suppose to go to the finals.
Puckhead
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