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Car flags on...check Huge flag in living room door.....check Huge Canucks blanket hanging in upstairs window...check Small flag in other upstairs window....check Decals on entranceway window...check Decals on license plate holder....check Large Canuck skate logo beach towel hanging in window....check Canucks blanket on bed...check Canucks head band, wrist band, bracelets ready for action...check Finger and toe nails painted metallic blue...check To do list is not complete but we're getting there.

'94 I only went to one game back then. 2011 I was in my glory....folding seats at the zamboni entrance for many games (almost got run over by it once). Where the player's wives go for warm ups. That's really an awesome way to "feel" the game as well as see it. But the view isn't great at the other end of the ice so it's also nice to sit up higher and centre ice too. But feeling the puck smash the glass...or, even better, players getting body slammed into it. Quite the intense way to do hockey. This year .... after being deprived of hockey for awhile and then having missed the playoffs, it's special. Having it stripped away makes me really grateful for it all.

I kind of hate it but am trying to learn to love it in a "the more the merrier" way. But it's tough....people I've tried to talk hockey with for years who didn't care at all suddenly are the biggest fans. Can't name a player outside of Petey but.... Oh well...we are all Canucks. Just sad that many of them get tickets through work/whatever while the real fans are at home. At least we have each other and this place to unite and celebrate our team. The diehards.

Took a sick day today. Been dragging all week and need today to get playoff ready. So stoked, I can't even begin to tell you (well, except that you all are too so you already know the feeling!!) LFG my friends (Yes, my car also needs washing...this weekend) This baby's been around since '94, bringing it out of retirement. (Have a dozen or more flags but this one's kind of special)

I'm going to change it to waiting for Petey.

I have to tell you that this is such an emotional thing for me.... COVID was really tough. Caring for my Dad (who is super vulnerable) and working full time can be exhausting and mostly my life is work, shop, cook, clean, rinse, repeat. To have something SO exciting to look forward to is really giving me a huge boost when I need it most. This isn't hockey to me, it's life. It's what I do...I live and breathe for my family and this team. About to likely lose my job as our school is losing its location and finding another spot isn't coming so easily so it's a very anxious time of uncertainty for me. But one thing's for certain.....MY TEAM'S IN THE PLAYOFFS!!!!!! ABOUT TO GO PUT MY CAR FLAG ON and DAMN THAT FEELS GREAT! (I have several but my rule of thumb's been one flag per round.....screw it, they're all going on there!!)

Canucks win 5-3 Miller gwg LFG!!!!!!!!

"You mean as a kid that grew up in Kerrisdale and wants nothing more than for the Vancouver Canucks to win a Stanley Cup? A kid who grew up with a transistor radio under his pillow so he could to Jim Robson and Tom Larscheid past his bedtime? It's huge, it's great..."

I think we should do the same then. Our rink sells the tickets and there's great demand from OUR fans for them. I'd love it to be the norm actually. It's awful when our rink is flooded with fans from other teams.

Missing our MVP

Schmidt that piece of

Absolute bullshit reffing again I see.

Vilardi sticking his big nose in Z's business.

A lot of guys have "played" hockey. And sucked at it.

Well damn. Little chipppermunk

Is this real?

WOOOOHOOOOO

That's probably why I was out of whack....my Miller spidey senses didn't go off.

Oh ffs I thought the game started at 7!! So annoyed, just tuned in now.