Fun for Millionaires - Canucks?

Now that the Canucks are going to play a game in the old Vancouver Millionaires' uniforms, why not make it a yearly tradition charity game? Something that might inspire the players, catch the public interest and do some good for charities?

Hugh Lehman

A yearly game where the players would give up perhaps most of a one game salary to charity? The idea being that those previous Canucks, the Vancouver Millionaires of 1919, probably didn't even earn ANY pay for their Stanley Cup winning game! They played for the love of hockey.


It could easily be a charity event and raise a ton of money for those less able. The Canuck players will find incentive in the fact that most of them today ARE millionaires with the good fortune to be healthy and able to seek a personal life goal. While those guys in 1919 DID win a Stanley Cup that our modern era players have not yet been able to duplicate. 

Ryan Kessler

And the Canuck fans could be asked to donate cash or goods on Millionaire Retro game night!
They might even dress up in 1919 wear themselves! Have the music of the era too, have 'A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody' lyrics on the scoreboard for a singalong after the first period!

It could catch on and be a lot of fun for players, fans, and a great cause.  
What do you think, Mike Gillis?

David Booth - a mentality?

 I don't know about you, but I have a healthy respect for bears. I have seen some in the wild and am always impressed by their apparent health! Bears are magnificent but I try to stay away from them. We are displacing them from their territory every day and they have no where else to go so when we infringe we might expect a violent result. When I see them as mauling a hunter I have no compassion for the hunter. Yet they are hunted always as a trophy to represent the courage and prowess of the great white hunter.

Canuck's winger David Booth's idea of hunting has a different twist. Perhaps not brave enough to enter our wild country in BC to hunt a bear, David went to Alberta where 'bear-baitng' is legal. 

The term "bear baiting" may be used for the hunting practice of luring a bear to an arranged killing spot with bait. The 'hunter' places an amount of food, such as raw meat or sweets, every day at a given spot until he knows the food is being taken each day. Told by bear tracks. He then chooses a day to await the bear, killing it when it arrives to feed. Such bear baiting is legal in many states in the U.S. The Humane Society reports that, Bear baiting is banned in 18 of the 27 states that allow bear hunting. Sometimes, in those nine other states, bear baiting can account for up to 75% of the 'hunting' bear deaths.

The hunter needn't even get out of his car! No need for camouflage clothing, even Bozo could do it in full pink and yellow costume! So much for stealth, bravery and skill in the wilderness.  Why not just start up your pickup and run over the animal? In this case, the bear was just sniffing around at the bait when killed! 
Booth defended himself by posting a video link on Twitter. “You all know i (sic) shot a bear heres how ... you have every right not to watch just like i have the right to choose to hunt,” he tweeted along with a YouTube link. Evidently he was involved with a TV program called the Edge. (not joking)
YouTube, reacting to the disgust of so many took down the video.

It is not the fact that Booth was hunting, nor that he choose the cowardly practice of baiting to kill, it is the fact that he was proud enough to display his ignorance of wild creatures on a social network and the inconsideration of his position as a public person looked up to by many impressionable kids that reveals Booth's character.

I wonder if this is the kind of mentality we want representing the Vancouver Canucks? The fact that he makes over four million dollars a season and has been at best a fourth line player is enough to consider trading him this off season. Time to go, David, and take your big black rug with you.

We need better character than that on a Canadian team.




another great white hunter link - - - http://caterwauls.blogspot.ca/2005/05/california-bans-internet-hunting.html

Sports Media - signed sealed and delivered.

This is what I noticed long ago: On sports radio and TV, the sportscasters all say the exact same things, often word for word. It is obvious that the PR departments of most teams simply write the stories or reports and just send them off to the sports departments to mimic on air.

Stay away from the slightest inkling of negativity about a team. Or else. The Maple Leafs steered by Brian Burke are the lead in Ontario, with the Don Cherry revelations coming out of Toronto about Burke trying to get him fired.  The Canucks in Vancouver control what is said and who says it. Attested by what happened to Tommy Larscheid recently. He had just too much emotion about the Canucks and didn't hesitate to say when they were just plain bad. But he cared. And even when Brian was here he tried to get writers fired who were way too objective. Control of the media is now the norm.

Witness the revelations coming from the NFL about bounty hits on players. And never a word in the sports sections until players themselves brought it out! And the NBA broadcasting phoney crowd noise at games like laugh tracks on comedy shows, everyone cheering and having a wonderful time if you were watching on TV or listening on the radio .... until the fans IN the arena, watching on their portable TVs wondered where that crowd noise was coming from in a silent game! Did the sports media reveal this blatant cheating by the league? Nope.
And IF you could afford tickets to actually attend a hockey game, haven't you wondered why that music is soooo loud? It is so that no one can ever hear a disgruntled fan yelling at the refs or the team in between plays.  To me that used to be part of the fun, the heckling and comments. "Hey ref, you're worse than Eggo!" and "Hey ref, you must be pregnant, you missed two periods awready!"

Silence today is a no no because you might hear fan reaction to Luongo's third goal in the first five minutes! 

So in the latest goings on, we saw Cody Hodson traded out of the blue. The rumors persisted that Alain Vignault had a personality clash with Hodson. So he went. And the Canucks' head office, realising they had committed a PR blunder, sprang into action. They blamed Cody's Dad for engineering it. They blamed Cody's agent for instigating it. The said Cody asked for a trade. The Canucks referred to the Cody Hodson 'Camp' butting heads with the team, trying to make like it was one large corporation against another. Trying to make it seem fair and just while they badmouthed fan favorite Cody. But on Cody's minutes-after-the-trade interview, he was totally stunned by the news. Convincing everyone who saw it that it was not a known option to him, or a wanted option.
Of course I use the term, 'the Canucks' instead of naming any particular sports media because it is basically ALL of them who do exactly what they are told, when, where and how. When a sportscaster speaks, he is simply channeling the contrived opinion of the Canucks.

And they blunder on obediently, advertising dollars piling up, burying integrity beneath all that cash. They are signed sealed and delivered by the sports teams.

And the fans are screwed blued and tattooed. No matter what color jersey they are wearing.
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Can Vancouver win a second Stanley Cup?

The Vancouver Canucks are up against it. In spite of having (arguably) the best team in the NHL, it's not just the other teams they need to battle to win. They need to defeat the league too. What league? The National Hockey League.

'Oh,' you say, 'Here we go again with the everybody against the Canucks' conspiracy theory.'
Sore loser from last year? Not so.
The irrational argument is that you need hundreds of people to be involved in a conspiracy. If the NHL wanted a certain team to win, surely of all those players someone would tell. Gary Bettman couldn't keep it quiet. And what team would do it? And for what reason? You can't fix a hockey game by bribing the players. They're already millionaires! Hmm.

But we're not talking about the old Gangster style Chicago Blacksox. And it's not 1919 anymore, it is 2012! Yet we all know about players in various leagues who were caught shaving points. Or dropping just too many catches in the big game. And I'm not even mentioning boxing. There is gambling on every sport now. Even though most gangsters don't even know what ice hockey is!

But it is about engineering the league, the whole NHL. Maybe it should be called the GML? the Genetically Modified League. The NHL needs all the publicity it can get from big games. Stanley Cup finals especially. Big TV networks need more than coaxing to air hockey games. They all need ratings to sell advertising. It is suspected the NBA, NFL and MLB all are actively working against ANY league that could threaten their supremacy for the people's dollar and that television revenue. And now the NHL wants to play to those big markets. And get its share?  Ah, there it is.

You see? For the benefit of the whole league, the NHL powers that be need to have the big market teams as Stanley cup winners. So they WILL play to the big markets. So the TV execs will come calling. Or at least answer the phone. Would Tampa Bay versus Columbus in a cup final sink the league? Maybe.  So how to avoid that disastrous matchup?

Look at the last few champions: Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Pittsburgh Penguins, Detroit Red Wings. It is already going the way of the league fix. The GML. And who is next on this list of preferred winners? New York Rangers of course, with the Philadelphia Flyers close behind, probably in 2014. They're already gearing up New York for the win if you watch closely enough. The team is almost good enough with a little help. Hmm again. What kind of help? What would do it?

In the playoffs. Perhaps only a few calls or non calls from the refs.
We all saw what the non calls did to the Canucks last year. Had the Canucks been playing in games where the regular rules applied, their power play would have sunk the Boston Bruins, instead, the rules were tossed out and all the penalties that would normally have been called in a normal hockey game were ignored in order to have the big market team win the cup.

How is that achieved? A careful eye reveals the conspiracy. It doesn't take ALL the referees and linesmen to change the face of a game. only a couple. And they do it all the time anyway. The NHL is desperately afraid of lopsided games. Has been for years. If your team gets called for, say three penalties in the first period, two of which result in goals scored against you, you are free to cross-check, board, tackle and slash for the next period until you score too. No one wants an 8 to zip game. I must be 3 - 2, or 5 - 3.
The game has been controlled that way for years now. Always admitting that the refs are supposed to control the game, however they also often control the outcome of the game.

What about Canadian teams? Montreal and Toronto are so far below the talent line there is no possibility of a threat there, even though they are hotbeds of hockey. And the Village of Vancouver is so far west we might as well be in radioactive Japan! If Vancouver won the cup the league would probably LOSE viewership and money for the rich Eastern owners! So conspiracy sneaks in a side door. Prevent Vancouver from getting there. They were too close last year and in the final, all the TV viewer markets like New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia etc were tuned out! Nothing to sell for the networks.

So we have the Canucks, upstart Westerners, (even after 40 years) determined to have another go at the Cup, and we have the league, just as determined that they don't win it. Gary Bettman and the insiders want to share the cup only with the core where the money is, the Northeast.

Hugh Lehman

So the Canucks are up against it. Will have to battle Gary Bettman, certain league officials charged with the duty of controlling certain games, (read playoffs) and the opposition teams, also determined that they are going to win this year. It can all boil down to timely calls or non calls by the officials. Blink or don't blink.

I'm not sure what the Vancouver Millionaires needed to overcome to win our first Stanley Cup in 1919, but almost a hundred years later, in my opinion, we are battling more opponents than the other team on the ice to win our second.

Just sayin', but it's my prediction.

Go Canucks ... Gone?

They lost. Terrible disappointment. Riots in the city. Depression all around.
The Vancouver Canucks lost in the final game of the final series of the Stanley Cup playoffs.





Only one thing to do .....

Start cheering for the Toronto Maple Leafs, they will NEVER lose in the Stanley Cup finals!

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This Boston Bruins Fan is GREAT!

Here's a lil conspiracy theory for you

Ever wonder why the Canucks have so many Friday or Sunday games?
Ever wonder why they hardly ever play on Saturdays on CBC Hockey Night in Canada? And even when they do, in between periods Don and Ron just continue commenting on how the Leafs or Canadiens played in the earlier games?
Ever wonder about who makes up the CBC telecast schedule?
Ever wonder if the Eastern Powers ever even think about the 'Colonies' out West?
Ever notice any of this?
Hmm.
Just sayin'.