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Originally Posted by stemit14
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.
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You won't find a person who trashes that team as often as I do for their antics. They were a flat out unlikable, cheating bunch of diving losers. But no matter how much I despised them, and cheered against them, it doesn't negate how good that team was; they were elite in every aspect of the game.
It just happened to be that they were a bunch of diving, whining biters.