Quote:
Originally Posted by Cole436
I don't know what team you were watching, but they were an elite team. That 2011 team had an Art Ross winning 100 point player, a 94 point player who had won the Hart/Art Ross the year before, a second line centre who won the Selke while scoring 40 goals, one of the best third line centres in the league in Maholtra, arguably two number one defenders and Vezina nominated goalie. They had ten more points than any other team in the entire league, scored the most goals in the league and let in the least amount of goals in the league. They were without a doubt an elite team in the league at that time.
Now excuse while I throw up for writing that.
|
They also did all of that and made it through the playoffs by becoming the biggest divers in NHL history. I don't think there has ever been a team with such a reputation for whining and diving as that team. It got so bad in 2011 that it became the story of their cup run... Analysts, sports writers, and sports radio talk shows weren't talking about gritty plays or amazing goals like they do in every other teams playoff run... Instead, they were talking about the sedins taking punches to the face and whining to the refs, Kesler chicken-winging Shea Weber's stick to draw the power play that won them that series, burrows biting people, and luongo flopping around to draw penalties. Do u guys remember the montages of the Canucks diving displays from that season that were showing up on sportscentre? They're on YouTube still if u want to see them again.
That is why they don't deserve to be called elite... Because they disgraced the game in a way that is still being felt 3 years later. I know some of you will say that "every team dives" but nobody ever did it so much as the Canucks did. Because of that success in 2011, diving gets worse every year around the league and nothing has been done about it.
They never were elite and I'm going to enjoy watching their fall from grace.