Vancouver Canucks Movie - Celebrating Not Winning and Stuff
November 7, 2008
People make sports movies for lots of reasons.
Like being a massive underdog and winning anyway, or coming together as a team to overcome adversity, overthrowing racism and indifference, or even just to celebrate the awesomeness of what its like to be on a team.
There is usually a common thread running through these movies, and it usually pertains to one of two things:
Winning, or losing…a lot.
Your team won a championship? Hell, make a damn movie. Lose for 80 or 100 straight years? Sure, make a damn movie.
But…wallow in perpetual mediocrity for 38 years? Make a movie?
Ya, Watch the video after the jump:
7th Man meets quiet, uneventful demise.
November 5, 2008
It’s gone!?!
Yes, I think its gone.
We’ve been ranting about the redonkulous Canucks 7th man bulls*** for a while here at GoCanuckYourself, starting with this post, then chiming in on the CDC message boards HERE and HERE. And have even made and exclusive Canucks Fan Quotes 7th Man edition post on our site.
All dedicated to the lamest marketing ploy I’ve seen by a pro sports team since free AA battery night at a Springfield Isotopes game.
And I think that officially, we might have killed it.
Have a gander: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/sports/story.html?id=f6bcd024-cac3-4f6f-ad3d-63bb38c23c3f
Canucks 7th Man = fail
November 3, 2008
Imagine you really really wanted to be an awesome hockey player, so you gave yourself the Hart Trophy before you ever scored a goal or played a game.
Or better yet, you were in the NHL for like 30 years and you wanted to be a way better player, so your team announced you as the seasons MVP before the season started in hopes that you would become that good.
Thats pretty much how the Canucks went about it for this 7th man hullabaloo.
But in this case they ripped off the idea from football, and planned a big-ass overblown ceremony for their completely made-up corporate uber schlockiness like it was some sort of significant and important award that hadn’t been hatched in a corporate boardroom by marketing execs looking for a desparate way to increase brand loyalty in these troubled economic times. Read more
Mats Sundin to the Canucks?
October 31, 2008
Ok, so we know he’s training in Cali. He’s not been back to Toronto in ages….AAAAND….He was spotted sitting with Canucks GM Mike Gilles at the Canucks-Kings game on Thursday Night in Los Angeles!
Whaaaaaattt?
Hey Calgary…Go Canuck Yourself
October 10, 2008
Well that was a shellacking.
I don’t think I’ve seen a Canuck team play that well in like four years. Not that I’m planning the parade route but its nice to be able to get stoked that your team isn’t just a bunch of pansy europeans anymore.
6 - 0 Canucks, Goals by Henrik, Bernier, Burrows x 2, Ohland, Rypien and your mom.
Bernier was an assist away from a Gordie Howe hat-trick, which I don’t think has happened to the Canucks since Odjick was on board.
Good start, but lets not forget that Calgary looked like balls and that we play in the Western Conference.
Canucks Blog Contest Heating Up
August 25, 2008
We here at GoCanuckYourself.com attempted to get in the running to be featured as the official Canucks Blog for the upcoming season but we were denied under the grounds of “too many wiener jokes” and “grammatical equivalent to hari kari”.
Whatever the crap those mean.
So instead we’ll be relegated to another season of pooping on everybody else in their attempts at wit and introspective commentary.
Heres the link to the contest, where the finalists duke it out from either side of the blogger spectrum – rhymetastic wordsmithery and supercilious rule-baggery.
Design Curtis Sanford’s Mask
August 13, 2008
A new Canucks promotion - design our backup goalie Curtis Sanfords’ mask!
I can think of only two reasons they would do this: 1) Sanford’s to cheap or broke to hire an artist, or 2) It will be the least viewed piece of Canucks equipmentover the next year. Read more
Housekeeping or Spring Cleaning?
August 5, 2008
Ok. Players go. Management goes. I understand this.
But when said individual goes from potential general manager replacement status in an organization to interdivision rival’s new general manager….it puckers my backside. Read more
We’re Not Alone in the Suck
July 28, 2008
Ok dammitt, I got lambasted by a Calgary fan this weekend about one of the only indisputable parts of being a Canucks fan: The holy grail.
I can argue divisions, players, competition, coaching…but there’s one thing that none of us can dispute:
We haven’t won a Championship in 37 years. (And if your hanging on to that Vancouver Millionaires bulls**t from 1915 you need to punch yourself in the face). Read more
Aloha Mr. Krog
July 16, 2008
Jason Krog. 32. 198 NHL Games, nine seasons in the minors.
Seems kind of like getting a job at McDonalds, never moving off the deep frier and then leaving for Wendy’s to work the grill for more money. No?
Regardless, any stache like that is a friend of mine. Read more
