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Author Drance, Thomas, 1987- author.

Title 100 things Canucks fans should know and do before they die / Thomas Drance and Mike Halford ; foreword by John Garrett.

Publication Info. Chicago, Illinois : Triumph Books LLC, [2017]

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Plenty of Canucks fans have taken in a game at Rogers Arena and will tell you they know just how to tell the Sedin twins apart. But only real fans can immediately recall Pavel Bure's penalty shot in the 1994 Stanley Cup final, or have hit the road to support their team in enemy territory. 100 Things Canucks Fans Should Know & amp; Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource for true Vancouver Canucks fans. Whether you're a diehard from the days of Stan Smyl or a more recent supporter, these are the 100 things every fan needs to know and do in their lifetime. Experienced sportswriters Mike Halford and Thomas Drance have collected every essential piece of Canucks knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by John Garrett; 1. Brace for the Pain; 2. Vancouver Has Long Been a Center of Hockey Innovation; 3. An Identity Forged in Obscurity; 4. The Canucks Got a Franchise Over Smythe's Dead Body; 5. The Big Fumble; 6. The Purchase; 7. Sticker Shock; 8. The Problem with Carpetbaggers; 9. The Ballad of Bud Poile; 10. Black Tuesday; 11. The Canucks Got the Best of the 1970 Expansion Draft-and It Didn't Matter; 12. How the Canucks Failed Dale Tallon; 13. Quinn Had a Smart Trick for Making Vets Look Good at Training Camp.
14. The Canucks' First Franchise Victory Was Over the Maple Leafs15. The Early Teams Were Unbelievably Dysfunctional; 16. From Laycoe to Stasiuk to McCreary, and All the Dysfunction in Between; 17. Orland Kurtenbach Was a Stone-Cold Badass; 18. The Original Owner of the Canucks Stole 3 Million from the Team; 19. Vancouver's Hockey Fans: A Rambunctious History; 20. All It Took for the Canucks to Make the Playoffs Was a Division Change ... and a Grenade; 21. The Good Times, They Never Last; 22. Shaky Jake and the European Invasion; 23. Reasonably Good Players but a Bad Team.
24. Why You Couldn't Help but Admire Stan Smyl25. Milford Gave Away the Refrigerator but "Had Lots of Ice"; 26. "Fight Like a Bastard"; 27. The Unlikely King; 28. The Battle of Quebec; 29. The Miracle Run; 30. The First Series Win; 31. Clutch and Grab: Silencing the Three Crowns; 32. White Towel: The Game God Couldn't Have Refereed; 33. The First Canucks Fever; 34. Watt a Pity: How Vancouver Missed Out on Two Elite Power Forwards; 35. From Neely to Lucic: The Butterfly Effect of a Historically Bad Move; 36. "Respectability for the Team"; 37. Quinngate; 38. Burke the Bludgeon.
39. Quinn Assembled an Elite Young Core, Mostly on the Trade Market40. Steers and Cheers: How Linden Knew He'd Be a Canuck; 41. Even Linden Doesn't Fully Understand How He Forged Such a Deep Connection with Vancouver's Hockey Fans; 42. Quinn and Uncle Cliff: The Negotiations for the KLM Line; 43. Culture Shock: On the NHL Experiences of Krutov and Larionov; 44. Yes, Joel Otto Kicked It In; 45. Mike Penny's Fateful Chr istmas Day Scouting Trip; 46. The Controversial Drafting of Bure; 47. We'll Probably Never Know For Sure How the Canucks Proved Bure Was Draft Eligible.
48. Quinn Was a Coach First and Foremost49. Clandestine Departures, a Sham Marriage, and a Michigan Arbiter: On Bure's Convoluted Path to the NHL; 50. The Debut; 51. Gino! Gino! Gino!; 52. Pavelmania; 53. 1991-92: The Canucks' First Winning Season; 54. Burke Leaves, McPhee and Nedved Arrive; 55. The Nedved Holdout; 56. Don't Fit the 1994 Team for Glass Slippers; 57. The Adjustment; 58. April 26, 1994; 59. Overtime: "The Save" and the Hook Pass; 60. Liftoff; 61. Greg Adams! Greg Adams! Greg Adams!; 62. The Best Game in Franchise History; 63. LaFayette and the Final Gasp; 64. The Riot.
Note Vendor-supplied metadata.
Subject Vancouver Canucks (Hockey team) -- Miscellanea.
Vancouver Canucks (Hockey team) (OCoLC)fst00650016
Hockey -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Miscellanea.
Hockey -- Canada -- Miscellanea.
Hockey -- United States -- Miscellanea.
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Hockey. (OCoLC)fst00958540
British Columbia -- Vancouver. (OCoLC)fst01211882
Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01423854
Added Author Halford, Mike, 1979- author.
Added Title One hundred things Canucks fans should know and do before they die
Other Form: Print version: 9781629373454 1629373451 (DLC) 2017010953 (OCoLC)981972782
ISBN 9781633199071 (electronic bk.)
163319907X (electronic bk.)
9781633199057 (electronic bk.)
1633199053 (electronic bk.)
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