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Originally Posted by trancehead
Although i am impressed by the Kesler line, i find it disgusting that our supposed second line is leading this team. Hart and Art Ross winner of last year + this current years Art Ross winner and contending Hart finalist can't muster anything? I don't want it to be this way, but they way they are playing so far they do not look like playoff players. I hope they can step it up a gear.
Even Joe Thornton is appearing in the playoffs.
BlueG2 you make some valid points, but telling someone they cannot critique another until they themselves participate is complete nonsense. Its like telling a consumer he cannot badmouth a product because he has never produced his own.
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that is a horrible analogy. hockey is a business and entertainment, yes. we are consumers to the game, yes. BUT it isn't the same as purchasing a vaccum cleaner and not being happy with it.
Sports, and team sports are alot more complicated than just good and bad. Win or lose. The best team doesn't always win, and the favourites never always prevail. There are a shit load of factors such as players, refs, coaches that can affect the outcome of the game. Within that game, there are injuries, fatigue, audio, visual, phsyical stimuli. A rut in the ice, a water puddle, snow buldup on tape etc.. I just can't stand it when people who critique sports really don't know shit because they have never played. I would never critique the whitecaps for being a bunch of losers, because I don't know the game enough to have my own 2 cents without being confident I am making valid points.
People are too quick to assume things not in sports but in everyday life as well.
Lastly, all vancouver fans look at the burrows goal as great and he made a great play and it was unluck that campoli had the puck on edge and gave it away.
if that happened to vancouver, and it was edler who gave it up, we would be saying edler was a moron who should have got it out hard off the boards, and that luongo shoulda saved a fluttering puck that was going 60kph.