At least it’s somewhat heartening to see that the jury of Vancouver faithful is pretty divided in the comments after the article. Some think the writer is a complete hack and the Nucks lost to the better team, the other half have colanders on their heads.

If this were the NBA, but since when has Bettman proved the competence to pull that kind of thing off?

A conspiracy theory? Are you fucking kidding me? There were just as many missed calls that would have gone against the Canucks. I get so tired of people being sore losers. Can’t you just go and pout like all the rest of the fan base? Asshole.

I cannot STAND this sort of shit. Both Vancouver dailies have the been the definition of batshit insane since yesterday. It’s infuriating.

Don’t see how you can argue against it … sound, logical argument backed up with exhaustively catalogued empirical evidence.

was the one saying that the rule changes were made to put old players at a disadvantage because they needed to “re-learn the game.” Yes, because nobody plays hockey before they make the NHL. They just learn it right when they get there. Not like the same rules had been used throughout Kane’s youth as in the NHL.

AAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

It’s better than accepting the blame themselves for jinxing it with their parade-route promotion.

I have said, far too often to the people around me, that I don’t believe in conspiracies simply because they require smart people to do two things that they cannot do: work well together and keep quiet about it. But what if just one person convinced a bunch of mediocre minds to do something? Could they?

That was a wreck of a train of thought. Anyhoo, I think that both sides had a bunch of calls go both ways, and who is to really say who got the shorter end? I think that the Canucks got the benefit of more calls than we did. We just field a better team. We can beat the refs in Canada. We rule. Hard.

"The better team always wins a seven-game series," Daniel said. "We can look and say we were unlucky in some games, but it’s not about luck. You get luck. They have three really skilled lines up front and in the end that won them the series."

"It’s easy," Daniel said when asked why the Canucks had so much difficulty protecting leads. "It’s because they had three skilled lines and they come in waves. They come and they score. That’s the bottom line."

What a hack job by that reporter. Those delusional enough to think a conspiracy existed or the referees were biased and unfair should heed the words of their team’s players who actually played the game.