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[Johnny Reefer]

Originally Posted by GreenSpottedPuffer

FWIW, both cities (Van and Calgary) have one cup. ....

Well, yes, Vancouver does have one cup. The Millionaires. 1915. Heck, even Victoria has one. The Cougars. 1925. The question asked was how many have the (Ca)nucks won. The answer to which all Albertans know is zero.

Originally Posted by GreenSpottedPuffer

.... But what I don't understand is why Oilers fans are always able to refrain from living in the past even though they had dynasty teams and many Stanley Cups but Flames fans always have to go back and live in 1989??? Rare to hear the Oil throw their 5 cups in other teams face and even rarer to hear Habs fans back up loosing with "...yeah but we have 24 Stanley cups what about you?" LOL.
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Perhaps because one is just slightly better than none, whereas with Edmonton having 5, there is less of a comparison.

Gotta disagree on trading Luongo. At least, not yet. Remember Cloutier? I think they should hang on to Lou.

What frustrates me is they seem to struggle year after year to build a legitimate "Okay, this a definite cup contender team. This is the team to beat." '82?...okay...kind of a fluke. '94?...came so close. A few years ago? Wasn't that a 105 point regular season? What happened? This year? This young Blackhawk team comes out of nowhere and becomes a better team so quickly. How'd they do that? The draft?

But I digress, as I have not followed the game closely enough in recent years to know, or even pretend to know, what the answers are. I suppose, too, that patience is a virtue. Apparently, some "in the know" picked the Canucks to not even make the playoffs this year. Just, that patience is running thin and I, as I'm sure others, are not getting any younger. I'm beginning to understand what it feels like to be a Cubs fan. I used to go to Canuck games as a kid in the early years of the 70s. Cheap seats in the nosebleeds with tickets from the Royal Bank. I'd like to see them win the damn thing at least once in my lifetime. And yes, I know that the Hawks have not won the cup since '61. Good luck to them.