...the Canucks organization made the choice to cultivate a market, rather than a fanbase, one that was always more excited about discovering the next new thing than anything they can ever actually have. If you were Canadian you had no choice but to put all your hope in Luongo for that gold medal game in 2010. The experience f---ed up everybody in Canada for months leading up to the game. ...there is an intense undertow that makes for a self-conscious fanbase. The riots, which added an element of profound consequence to Luongos Stanley Cup disappointment, began a hemorrhaging of regional psyche. Read this.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:41:28 +0000
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