Seems like many Vancouver fans are fans of winning only. i.e. not really Canuck fans or even hockey fans.  Ready to go into full gloat mode or doom and gloom mode depending on how the wind is blowing.

Sad really, shows an underlying self-consciousness of not wanting to commit to anything for fear of looking foolish in the end. Get with it that’s what the power of conviction is all about. The Canucks have had their share of success in the past, just no championships yet.  So what if they have turned into a team that resembles the opponents that Vancouver media and fans once deemed “lowly” like the Minnesota Wild.

Many elite teams have risen to the position of nearly winning a Stanley cup and then disappeared into the abyss.  They’ve just done it with more class than Vancouver fans and media.

I’m just sayin eh.....

Posted by Martin from Victoria on 03/09/08 at 11:40 AM ET

I keep reading statements from windbags about how Canucks fans are bandwagon jumpers, not real hockey fans, etc,etc.  The myth gets to be tedious.  I’ve been a Canucks fan since they entered the NHL in 1970.  Even though I had cheered for Bobby Orr and the Bruins before that and was living 900 miles away in Terrace, BC, I immediately switched to a Canucks fan since the NHL saw fit to put a team in my home province.  I have been there all along the roller coaster ride for 38 years and 37 seasons.  I don’t know any fellow Canucks fans who have said to me they no longer watch them because they don’t win or have switched to cheering for other teams because they are winners.  That only exists in the minds of Canucks haters.  As for the media in Vancouver, most of them aren’t from this province and when visiting other cities around Canada and around the world, I see little difference in their media’s and Vancouver.  I also find it hilarious that someone who consistently needs to come to Alannah’s (sp) site to put others down in order to make himself feel better is an authority on “class.”

Posted by mr perfect from perfectville (Coquitlam) on 03/10/08 at 12:38 PM ET

Martin, I don’t think you understand us true Canuck fans at all.  Like “mr perfect”, I’ve been a fan since 1970.  I had no choice, they are my team and will be regardless of wins or losses.  The thing about being a true Canuck fan is that over the years you develop a wee bit of cynicism, the Canucks have often been the team with potential, the team that looks great on paper, the team that should be performing better than it is.  Us true Canuck fans are able to fully embrace this reality and still call the Canucks our team.  I’m not sure how it’s done in Toronto (or whatever part of Ontario you come from) but here in BC, we bitch and moan when our team doesn’t do as well as we’d like, but we do so knowing that they are OUR team no matter what.  That’s what being a real fan of the Canucks is about, that’s what the power of conviction is about.

Posted by Devin from Victoria on 03/10/08 at 01:47 PM ET