In the Words of Porky Pig...

...yabidy yabidy yab, that's all folk! The Canucks are done. Gone in round two. How long are we going to sing this song? How many more years do we have to sit and watch, getting our hopes up, to see the Canucks blow it in Round 2? In their last 38 years of existence they have only made it past the second round twice: 1982 and 1994: they found themselves in the cup final on both those occasions.

The worst part is, we actually had a contending team this year. This was it. And they blew it, like every other Canuck team in the history of the franchise (except 1982 and 1994). This city has not seen a Stanley Cup since 1915, yet places like Tampa Bay have raised hockey's holy grail where the people ask isn't a Lecavlier a type of car?

At what point does the bandwagon breakdown beyond repair?

Of course, come October, this will all be a distant memory, and we will be clawing our way into GM Place and sports bars across the city for another year of just maybe to end in well, maybe not... maybe next year...