How can we lose when we’re so sincere?

blue | she/her | (mostly) nucks dman enthusiast

[prettyboybrock]

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Hi! I’m Blue (nickname). Canucks fan by way of fate - i decided to get into hockey and picked the silly whale team at random. Particularly fond of defensemen. CEO of Positively Canucks. Still learning. Sometimes i draw and make other things.

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drawings/art creations: #blue.art

memes & text posts: #blue.memes & #blue.textposts

data & other analyses: #blue.stats & #blue.analysis

things i'm sharing from other sources: #blue.uploads

gifs i've made: #blue.gifs

rambles: #blue.chats & #blue.hockeythoughts

positively canucks posts: #blue.poscan

POSCAN BINGO: THE CARD SO FAR

(formerly user captainlexapro)

[selkesson]

did you guys know that manny malhotra is the hc of the vancouver canucks and ryan johnson is the gm of the vancouver canucks and daniel and henrik sedin are the presidents of hockey operations of the vancouver canucks and this is REAL

[onetouchpass]

I know who you are / you'll be fine

boesersson x at the beach, in every life

[last-flight-of-dickarus]

oh i'm absolutely gonna cry

[last-flight-of-dickarus]

No you get it. This is it.

Poulin was 18 at her first olympics. Team canada wanted her to stay with a host family during training because she had never lived on her own before. So caroline ouellette, charline labonté, and kim st-pierre took in this teenage prodigy so she'd have exactly the mentors she needed, and 20 years later poulin is a five-time olympic medalist, captain of team canada, and captain of a champion team in a women's professional hockey league bigger than anything her mentors had. And caroline is on the ice to celebrate with her and be part of the future she worked for.

I love women supporting and uplifting and mentoring and creating the next generation of groundbreaking women in sports, and I love it when they're lesbians.

[fairybreadevangelist]

the orcas are jumping the sun is shining the mountains are calling the brooks are burbling the birds are singing the hills are alive with the sound of head coach manny mal-goat-tra

[ferntreat]

nhl having the most miserable playoffs of all time meanwhile vancouver canucks subplot

[selkesson]

CANUCKS HEAD COACH MANNY MALHOLTRA IS REAL WE HAVE BEEN SAVED

[rimouskis]

"happy pride to the nhl player who was preparing to come out and changed his mind. I hope he’s happy and loved." im new here. what's this post in reference to?

About 25 years ago, Tom Harrington was a CBC sports reporter and host of the Sports Journal magazine show. He was researching a story about an NHL player who was gay while working with a go-between who ran a support group in Toronto that helped professional and amateur athletes who were gay. Harrington was told there was a “prominent” NHL player who had been thinking about coming out. During the next year-and-a-half, Harrington said he worked with his go-between trying to convince the NHL player to do an interview, but the player was “extremely reluctant and afraid he’d be exposed.” Harrington tried to arrange a phone interview or a meeting with the player, who asked if his voice could be disguised in a phone call in case Harrington recognized him. Harrington promised the go-between he would never reveal the player’s identity unless he permitted it. “It was a step closer to the beginning of something, but it was also a window into just how terrified he was, and it said a lot about the culture at the time in professional male sports, where players didn’t feel they could even take the initial step to come out, let alone reveal themselves,” Harrington said in a phone interview. Harrington said the player eventually decided not to come out, saying he was too scared of the impact it would have on his family, hockey career and his life after hockey. “I remember saying at the time (to the go-between): ‘You know, there are a lot of people who would be very supportive of him. There would be businesses lining up to sponsor him to have him as a spokesperson. I’m telling you, there’s an untapped market for someone like this … the Jackie Robinson of gays in sports.’ But, ultimately, it failed. “I never knew who the player was and to this day I still don’t know who it was,” added Harrington, who retired last year after almost 44 years at CBC.

Cowan: Canadiens say they would be ‘welcoming’ and ‘supportive’ of gay teammate (January 22, 2026)

[chancellor-ake]

I could never wear any of those dumb “I hope both teams have fun” shirts because no I hope my team wins by 30 and the other team explodes on the field

[babygirlboeser]

so proud of our collective wife

[selkesson]

😭😭 if jim rutherford has no haters, it’s because bruce boudreau is dead

[starrynet]

which of these do you think is more accurate

pitchers are the goalies of baseball

catchers are the goalies of baseball

pitchers and catchers are kind of a package deal and together they are a goalie

what

Remaining time: 3 days 9 hours

[selkesson]

@ vancouver canucks friday afternoon manny malholtra coaching announcement ? manny is the new head coach announcement @ canucks??

[prettyboybrock]

this is very american™️ of me to say but the change of management in the canucks org is sorta akin to how it felt going from the first orange man term to the following not orange (but also old) man term 😭

[lettucemakar]

Been kinda trying to not engage with the Hart stuff and also no one really needs another thinkpiece about him lol. but the way it's been being handled in the playoffs has been really bothersome, I feel? burr under the saddle that's getting worse

The league obviously has never been some kind of moral effigy that's suddenly and inexplicably gone downhill. they've always had pieces of shit that they protect.

But I think there is a difference between "this guy is a piece of a shit but he's a good player so we're gonna sweep it under the rug, put our media on it so people either don't believe it or didn't know it happened. a dirty open secret we ignore." and what's happening now, of "this guy, very publicly, was on trial for a felony, and admitted, under oath, to things that are completely unacceptable. and we're going to purposefully, publicly, let him continue to play immediately. we're gonna mention it all the time, so everyone knows, and act like him getting away with it was a burden on him, and that you should be proud of him for getting away with it. Celebrate it." How good a player is has nothing to do with their moral character, and him being a good goalie should be completely irrelevant to this conversation. But even with that, it has felt like it's less "he's good despite his character," and more "he's good and we enjoy his character." There is no despite.

Same with Quenneville, where I just kept hearing about his "comeback." His comeback from what? Minor consequences of ruining two kid's lives by knowingly employing/recommending their molester? That's inspirational? But they literally are telling us that they think it is.

it's like a Trump-era brag, where they're showing who they are and are loudly proud of it, instead of it being this dirty underbelly. Maybe it's just a curse of announcers, but announcers represent the league, and it's also been socials, player interviews, and frankly, reporters.

and it being so obvious makes watching and engaging with it humiliating, in a way.

[gabelandeskog]

2026 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Quarterfinals: Czechia vs Finland | May 28, 2026

[trans1oa]

they're trying to out polite captain canada eachother wth is this