Believe in Blue

So here we go again! Another season over, another Presidents trophy to put on the shelf. But that means nothing to us. We only want one trophy and that is the Stanley Cup. We came so close to it last year but had our hearts broken like in '94. We have struggled through a grueling 82 game season. One that seemed to drag on longer than normal. It was hard to get interested in 82 games that really have no meaning. The real season starts tonight and the fans are just as ready as the players are. Vancouver is a sea of blue today and will stay that way until mid June. The beer is chilling in the fridge and the playoff beards have started to grow. Just believe 2012 is our year!

Lord Stanley

So here we are again on the verge of another hockey season. The Canucks came so close last year and it was a heart break when they didn't win. After the cup run of '94 the team went through a stretch of bad years and a part of me worries that we are heading for that again. But I am trying to stay optimistic I know we still have a good core of players and our system is filled with good young talent. I am hoping that we have the same kind of season as last year with one big difference.... A Stanley Cup win! I dream that one day I get to watch the Canucks hoist the cup and that I get to be at the Stanley Cup parade. But until then I have this picture. That is me with the Stanley Cup. That was a dream come true getting to touch it and reading all the names of the players I grew up idolizing. Now the next dream is to read the names of my Vancouver Canucks on it.

This is what we live for

We have been waiting forty years for this night. Game 7 of the Stanley Cup playoffs on home ice. Every kid in Canada dreams about this night when they are growing up. Only a lucky few every get to play out their dream and the rest of us watch. This is our dream too. We may not be on the ice playing but we are all Canucks. Vancouver is electric right now and we are ready to throw the biggest celebration the world has ever seen. Tonight history will be made!

Lord Stanley here we come

Finally after 17 years the Canucks have come back...... to the Stanley Cup finals. It has taken a lot of hard work and determination to get back here. A few not so good years and many heartbreaks but last night we punched our ticket back to the finals. The city is a buzz and it reminds me of the run in '94. But this time it is different, we aren't the underdogs and there is more pressure to win this year. Now we just sit back and await our opponent. 2011 is our year!

Forever a Canuck

We are all Canucks! You can never know what that means unless you are a die hard Canucks fan. We are a different breed, cut from a different cloth. We reflect the city and culture we live in. Yes we are quick to jump on the band waggon when things are great and even quicker to jump off of it when things go wrong. We yell Lou instead of boo, we make stupid parody songs as our anthems. We started towel power and will wave them until our arms fall off.  We have suffered through the ugliest uniforms. We have been so close to victory but have felt heartache too many times. We have gotten our hopes up so many times for great teams to only see our dreams dashed.




For the last two years we have watch as the Blackhawks have had our number. They taunted us, beat us up and humiliated us. We could do nothing to stop them. We watched as they hoisted the cup last year all knowing that it could have been us. This year was round three. They say the third time is a charm. We bullied them the first three games then decided to take a nap. It all came down to a game seven. Sixty minutes wasn't enough so fittingly it went to overtime. But this year was different. We finally beat our arch ermines and removed the thorn from our side. We proved that we are the better team. This year it's our time to raise the cup.

Off to round two. Lets go blue.