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100 Things Canucks Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things...Fans Should Know) - Softcover

Garrett, John; Drance, Thomas; Halford, Mike

 
9781629373454: 100 Things Canucks Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things...Fans Should Know)
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ISBN 10: 1629373451 ISBN 13: 9781629373454
Verlag: Triumph Books, 2017

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Plenty of Canucks fans have taken in a game at Rogers Arena and will tell you they know just how to tell the Sedin twins apart. But only real fans can immediately recall Pavel Bure's penalty shot in the 1994 Stanley Cup final, or have hit the road to support their team in enemy territory. 100 Things Canucks Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource for true Vancouver Canucks fans. Whether you're a diehard from the days of Stan Smyl or a more recent supporter, these are the 100 things every fan needs to know and do in their lifetime. Experienced sportswriters Mike Halford and Thomas Drance have collected every essential piece of Canucks knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.

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Thomas Drance wrote about the Vancouver Canucks from 2011 to 2016 for a number of outlets, including The Nation Network and Sportsnet.ca, and appeared on air during Sportsnet's Canucks broadcasts. He is currently the VP of Communications and PR for the Florida Panthers. Mike Halford is the co-lead writer/editor for NBC Sports Digital's ProHockeyTalk and co-host of Kurtenblog Radio on TSN 1040 in Vancouver. John Garrett has served as the color commentator for Canucks games on Sportsnet Pacific since 2002. He also played goaltender for the Canucks from 1982 to 1985.

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100 Things Canucks Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

By Thomas Drance, Mike Halford

Triumph Books LLC

Copyright © 2017 Thomas Drance and Mike Halford
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-62937-345-4

Contents

Foreword by John Garrett, 
1. Brace for the Pain, 
2. Vancouver Has Long Been a Center of Hockey Innovation, 
3. An Identity Forged in Obscurity, 
4. The Canucks Got a Franchise Over Smythe's Dead Body, 
5. The Big Fumble, 
6. The Purchase, 
7. Sticker Shock, 
8. The Problem with Carpetbaggers, 
9. The Ballad of Bud Poile, 
10. Black Tuesday, 
11. The Canucks Got the Best of the 1970 Expansion Draft — and It Didn't Matter, 
12. How the Canucks Failed Dale Tallon, 
13. Quinn Had a Smart Trick for Making Vets Look Good at Training Camp, 
14. The Canucks' First Franchise Victory Was Over the Maple Leafs, 
15. The Early Teams Were Unbelievably Dysfunctional, 
16. From Laycoe to Stasiuk to McCreary, and All the Dysfunction in Between, 
17. Orland Kurtenbach Was a Stone-Cold Badass, 
18. The Original Owner of the Canucks Stole $3 Million from the Team, 
19. Vancouver's Hockey Fans: A Rambunctious History, 
20. All It Took for the Canucks to Make the Playoffs Was a Division Change ... and a Grenade, 
21. The Good Times, They Never Last, 
22. Shaky Jake and the European Invasion, 
23. Reasonably Good Players but a Bad Team, 
24. Why You Couldn't Help but Admire Stan Smyl, 
25. Milford Gave Away the Refrigerator but "Had Lots of Ice", 
26. "Fight Like a Bastard", 
27. The Unlikely King, 
28. The Battle of Quebec, 
29. The Miracle Run, 
30. The First Series Win, 
31. Clutch and Grab: Silencing the Three Crowns, 
32. White Towel: The Game God Couldn't Have Refereed, 
33. The First Canucks Fever, 
34. Watt a Pity: How Vancouver Missed Out on Two Elite Power Forwards, 
35. From Neely to Lucic: The Butterfly Effect of a Historically Bad Move, 
36. "Respectability for the Team", 
37. Quinngate, 
38. Burke the Bludgeon, 
39. Quinn Assembled an Elite Young Core, Mostly on the Trade Market, 
40. Steers and Cheers: How Trevor Linden Knew He'd Be a Canuck, 
41. Even Linden Doesn't Fully Understand How He Forged Such a Deep Connection with Vancouver's Hockey Fans, 
42. Quinn and Uncle Cliff: The Negotiations for the KLM Line, 
43. Culture Shock: On the NHL Experiences of Krutov and Larionov, 
44. Yes, Joel Otto Kicked It In, 
45. Mike Penny's Fateful Christmas Day Scouting Trip, 
46. The Controversial Drafting of Bure, 
47. We'll Probably Never Know For Sure How the Canucks Proved Bure Was Draft Eligible, 
48. Quinn Was a Coach First and Foremost, 
49. Clandestine Departures, a Sham Marriage, and a Michigan Arbiter: On Bure's Convoluted Path to the NHL, 
50. The Debut, 
51. Gino! Gino! Gino!, 
52. Pavelmania, 
53. 1991–92: The Canucks' First Winning Season, 
54. Burke Leaves, McPhee and Nedved Arrive, 
55. The Nedved Holdout, 
56. Don't Fit the 1994 Team for Glass Slippers, 
57. The Adjustment, 
58. April 26, 1994, 
59. Overtime: "The Save" and the Hook Pass, 
60. Liftoff, 
61. Greg Adams! Greg Adams! Greg Adams!, 
62. The Best Game in Franchise History, 
63. LaFayette and the Final Gasp, 
64. The Riot, 
65. Bure Didn't Threaten to Hold Out in the 1994 Playoffs, 
66. The Canucks Could've — and Should've — Signed Wayne Gretzky, 
67. Grand Larceny: How the Canucks Landed Markus Naslund, 
68. Wooing Mark Messier, 
69 Know Why Messier Is So Widely Detested by Canucks Fans, 
70. Why 1997–98 Was Linden's Toughest Season, 
71. Trading Blows: How Gino Odjick Got to Know Jason Strudwick, 
72. Eat Like John Garrett (If You Dare!), 
73. On Burke's Return, and the Start of a Rebuild, 
74. Accept That We'll Never Know Exactly Why Bure Held Out, 
75. Why the Bure Deal Wasn't as Bad as It Looked, 
76. "Välkommen Till Laget", 
77. The Dawn of the West Coast Express, 
78. Dan Cloutier, the Flub, and the Importance of Playoff Success, 
79. End of the Line: Steve Moore and Derailing the WCE, 
80. The Return of Linden, Vancouver's Prodigal Son, 
81. Make the Provies, 
82. Dave Nonis Wasn't Successful but Was a Conservative Steward, 
83. Gillis' New Approach to Winning in Vancouver, 
84. Vancouver Came Close to Losing the Sedins in Free Agency, 
85. A Doomed Extension: The Luongo Contract, 
86. Cap Management Was a Crucial Part of the Success of the 2010–11 Team, 
87. How Newell Brown and the 2010–11 Canucks Changed the Way Teams Enter the Zone on the Power Play, 
88. Slaying the Dragon, 
89. How Did "Slay the Dragon" Come to Be?, 
90. Beast Mode, 
91. Bieksa, the Stanchion, and the Guy Who Saw It All, 
92. Everybody Hates Vancouver, 
93. The Best-Laid Plans: Mitchell, Ballard, Baumgartner, and the Decimation of the Canucks Blueline, 
94. The Riot, Part Two, 
95. Become the Next Famous Superfan, 
96. Play Fantasy Football with Roberto Luongo, 
97. Boo Ryan Kesler, 
98. Torts Reform, 
99. Linden's Web, 
100. How Rollie the Goalie Dug Up the Graveyard, 
Acknowledgments, 
Sources,


CHAPTER 1

Brace for the Pain

First, know this: it's not easy being a fan of the Canucks. Though the modern Canucks have shed the doormat status they toiled in for their first 20 years, it's fair to say that the greatest moments in franchise history remain near misses, marred by civic catastrophe. Oh, and there were the losses.

Throughout Vancouver's history, few teams in the National Hockey League have been defeated with such regularity. Among the league's 30 teams, only recent expansion outfits Florida, Columbus, and Tampa Bay have a lower regular-season winning percentage.

And then there's the heartbreak. The Canucks have been to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals twice. And they've lost, twice. No other NHL team has done that.

There's something grim — yet appropriate — about those high-profile losses, and the higher-profile riots that followed. What makes being a Canucks fan so difficult, after all, isn't so much the losing or the scattered moments of public embarrassment. It's the repetition.

Some of the best Canucks stories involve patterns of hard luck and failure — patterns that often repeat, as history is wont to do. Like, say, trading a franchise icon to the Florida Panthers. Or, say, a gruff American head coach forcing a beloved player out the door. Often, bad things in Canucks history have happened in twos, so bracing for pain is inherently crucial to the experience. Longtime supporters not only know that things will go badly but also when they'll go badly. They can generally spot catastrophe from several kilometers out.

If there's one thing, then, that should be on every Canucks fan's bucket list, it's to make peace with the masochistic nature of fandom. It's an essential survival skill, necessary to preserve sanity. So how does one achieve the Buddhist-style detachment required to root for the Canucks? It helps to have a support group.

Though we — the authors of this book — have both grown up into objective adult professionals (depending on whom you talk to) we have also been die-hard Canucks fans for the better part of our lives. And many of our lifelong friends — not to mention fans we...

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Verlag
Triumph Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1629373451
ISBN 13 
9781629373454
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368
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