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50 years and still no Cup in sight

Fans share reactions to the dismal performance of the Vancouver Canucks

By JEN SHANNON

anucks fans are heating
up as their team’s perfor-
mance is cooling down.
The Canucks have lost
nine out of the last 11 games they've
played. They suffered a 7-1 blow-
out against the Colorado Avalanche
and a close 1-0 loss against the
Chicago Blackhawks. Their recent
victory being a 2-1 win against the
Montreal Canadiens.

Josh Lewis, a season ticket holder,
is disappointed with the Canucks’
performance this season.

“As fans of a team, you always hope
for the best. And when things go
bad, you become extremely critical,”
Lewis said. “We have an emotional
attachment to the success of a team.”

Noah Denommee-Robert, a
hospitality supervisor at Rogers
Arena, has seen fans getting increas-
ingly angry at the Canucks manage-
ment team.

“T could hear tons of fans chant-
ing like, ‘fire the general manager’

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said. He’s been a Canucks fan since

2015, and said he’s never seen fans

get this agitated, even when the team

suffered poor performances in the
ast.

Georald, a Canucks fan since 1977
who didn't give his last name, said
he blames the
owners, not the
management, for
the team’s losing

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he needs to do.”

The Aquilini Investment Group
has owned the Vancouver Canucks
and Rogers Arena since 2006.

It acquired a 50 per cent share in
2004 and bought the other 50 per
cent two years later.

Denommee-Robert is also
putting the blame on the owners.
“They're super passionate, don't
get me wrong,” he said. “But it's
become pretty evident that they're
pretty hands-on in their approach
to the team, and they don't
necessarily let the
management do
what they think is
best.”

>> Mike Martignago
@MikeMartignago

games .”

how the team is doing
now, but I could never
jump ship,” he said.
“I'm just going
to enjoy
whatever's
going on
here.”

Marcia Cadorath, a long-
time Jets fan, is impressed
with how the Canucks are
performing.

“The Canucks have beat
[the Jets], so it’s very disap-
pointing ... I feel the Canucks
have a good team this year, and
I don’t say that easily,” she said.

Cadorath has tickets for the
Canucks - Jets game on Dec. 10
and is hoping for a Jets win.

Despite the Canucks’ perfor-
mance this season, fans aren't ready
to jump ship just yet.

Lewis said he has the best
seats in the house and would
go through a decade of
awful teams to keep his
tickets.

“We're literally
eight feet above the
Hockey Night in
Canada cameras.
So the angle is
everything
you remem-
from

hockey

watching

as a kid.”

Denommee-
Robert said it
would feel wrong
to switch his alle-
giance at this point.
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