The Canucks were statistically average this decade, which is amazing because during this period they were almost never average. Select the top three moments of the decade? Where do we begin? (imacSportsnet)
were statistically average for this decade about to end, which is amazing because during this period the team was either exceptionally good or exceptionally bad but almost never average.
It wasn’t just that the Canucks came within a Game 7 of winning their first Stanley Cup, which is also how close they came in 1994 against the New York Rangers, it’s that the team that was by far the NHL’s best during a 117-point regular season failed to play its best when it mattered most. But mostly, 2011 is remembered on the West Coast with regret and resignation as the best chance squandered for Vancouver’s first Stanley Cup since the Millionaires won the old challenge cup in 1915.
Fired a month later, Gillis oversaw the rise and fall of the Canucks. And the bizarre trade mission involving Luongo, a two-year melodrama filled with anxious plot twists and disappointment, was preamble to the dark, chaotic seasons looming for a team that had become old and stale and badly needed rebuilding.
The most remarkable and appealing aspect of the entire trade saga is that in defeat, a humbled Luongo became more human and likeable than he’d been as a detached NHL superstar.
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