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Originally Posted by dying4acup
I actually wouldn't mind if the Canucks won a "token" game. Their tv and radio hosts would get hope, and be encouraged, only to have it taken away.
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I don't know about that. I have been listening to a lot of Vancouver radio this past week, and it's pretty safe to say that the only ones currently fooled by the Canucks are a handful of delusional fans. A perfect illustration of this point:
In the lead-up to Game #3, colour man Dave Tomlinson rather matter-of-factly predicted that the Canucks would rally and win the game to get the split and send the series back to Vancouver. He was met by an awkward radio silence, as both John Shorthouse and Blake Price were very perceptibly dumbfounded. Price finally—barely able to stifle his own incredulity—half chuckled and pointed to the statistical improbability of any sort of a comeback, and Shorthouse also had no choice to concede that the team appeared in no way poised to mount any sort of comeback.
A Stanley Cup Finals meltdown, an embarrassing collapse against an eighth seed, and a repeat performance against a very average Sharks team isn't fooling anyone any more. The Vancouver media is returning to the same position of jaded disbelief that characterised this market for the better part of three decades between the seventies to the nineties.