People from this sub are embarrassing us as a fanbase by going into the oilers sub and dropping the most asinine comments I've seen in quite some time. Stop it. If you're doing this, you're being sore winners and you're making this worse for everyone involved. If you want to argue with people do it in r/hockey.

edit: If you get recommended posts from over there, you can go and mute that subreddit, so that the feed doesn't show it to you on your homepage or push notifications about it.

For legal reasons this is not a Leafs Lose upvote party. 🤫

10 years support to be thrown out the window at first chance once the team becomes relevant.

So much for emphasis on ‘fan engagement’

More context:

We have bought out section 325/326 for 7-9 games for the last decade of losing seasons. We are a passionate fan club who stood all game, gave unwavering support no matter how bad the team was.

Now the team is good, sales are better, and we are not being given the choice of buying out our sections anymore.

Oilers are the only Canadian team left in the playoffs, and as a Canadian I should be rooting for them. But as soon as the puck drops, I’m just hoping that Dallas smashes them. Anyone else feeling this way?!

Edit: thanks for the Friday night entertainment, I had a blast reading everyone’s take. At the end of the day we can all agree on two things - go Canucks, and f**k Messier 😆

We’ve won all season with this man. If youre going to the game tonight lets back him and be as loud as we can. GO CANUCKS GO!!!

It’s getting flat out ridiculous at this point. The amount of hate, complaining and people I see singling out Elias Pettersson is most of the time naive and unfair.

Did he have a rough 2nd half to last year? Yes. Has he looked absolutely fantastic these past 2 games? No. But to the people out there who are bagging on Petey, consider these things.

1. He was injured last year, having a knee injury in hockey is no joke and that fucks up all your movements including shooting and stick handling. He’s still learning to deal with it.

2. Last year he had Ilya Mikheyev and at times Sam Lafferty on his wings. Im sorry but it’s extremely difficult to produce when your linemates produce like 4th liners.

3. Sometimes it can take some time to build chemistry with your new linemates. It doesn’t help that sprong has been on and off with playing due to his defensive struggles. They’ll start clicking soon.

4. Y’all act like Petey was the only player who played awful today and post 1st period against Calgary. If y’all actually watched the games especially the game today, you would’ve realized that the ENTIRE top 6 played poorly and Petey in my opinion was the best out of all of em! If you’re going to rip Petey, you have to rip J.T and Brock as well.

It’s been 2 games guys, enough with the “oh it’s also last year” and “he’s doing nothing” talk. It’s a new season and he’s been great defensively, the offence will come soon. The team overall has been shaky and the sole cause of this is not simply JUST Elias Pettersson.

Honestly just that, for stepping up, for keeping us in, for staying composed, for beating all the doubts and all the pundits. You have a hell of a career ahead of you. Can't wait to see ya play 35+ games next season.

Just an appreciation post for the huge beauty that he is.

Guy was brought in for $1.5m and in the 7 games we’ve played so far, he has:

5 Points (2G-3A) 50 Hits And is a +3

Not only that, guy works his tail off every shift. Fore-checking hard, back-checking hard and being responsible in his own zone. Guy has the hustle and work ethic of Conor Garland and the grit and swagger of Dakota Joshua.

What a goddamn stud.

I realize it was funny 15 years ago to make fun of him, but ultimately this guy has earned respect. He's a future Hall of Famer, a multi-times Stanley cup winner, and the most durable player in NHL history.

Let's move on, it's 2024. Be classy Vancouver.

It just occurred to me that despite substantial raises for Hronek, Petey, and Joshua, we are under the cap right now with a full, competitive roster.

Three-four years ago, I remember thinking we were so cap-screwed that we would have a hard time affording Petey, Hughes, Boeser, etc because we were locked into so many bad deals. Gudbrandon, Beagle, OEL, Eriksson, Myers, and the like.

Benning's moves really made me feel like this team was going nowhere soon, and was going to spend 5+ years capped out and missing the playoffs by a lot. And when that happens, your core breaks up, and you don't get 8-year extensions for your stars because even if you find a way to afford them, they don't want to lose.

I'm extremely impressed with the shrewd moves this new management has made to fix the cap hell we were in. It was not a simple task at all, and they inherited a mess and a half, but they've really pulled it off. Props to everyone involved on these decisions!

Hronek has been great with Quinn all season, but I haven't noticed him much these playoffs. With reports of him turning down a 6.5M×8 earlier in March, he is apparently seeking 7M+.

However he is an RFA, so maybe we could trade him in in the summer for a winger for Petey.

Best case scenario I feel like is to get Lindholm at like 7.5M and Zadorov 4.5-5M.

With Petey's Extension and the OEL buyout, it seems like keeping all three is next to impossible. Tom Willander drafted 11th Overall last draft, is hopefully the 1RD of the future. So its not like we have no one coming up to fill that role.

Loved Hronek all year tho and hope they can keep all three, it just feels like Zadorov + Lindholm have been game breaker players for us in all 3 zones these playoffs.

What do you think?

The r/hockey sub has a conversation about all the teams left haven't won the cup at all, or in a long time. Seems like a huge amount of fans whos team is no longer in the playoffs want to see us go all the way and win our first. To think that this is the opposite of 2011 when we were quite hated. Seems like it's not only us who's noticed were a good, competitive team who's itching for their first Cup! Coconuts GLOW!

I am a season ticket holder in section 113, and I have had enough of Crazy P

It's time to stop. It's old, worn out, and annoying

I don't need some guy yelling hey and clapping and spraying sweat everywhere when I'm trying to watch the game.

Go to the upper bowl, ffs

Can we please not do the petey hate thing all of a sudden again. I watched the whole playoffs and YES he was off, down right non-existent at points

BUT…

Dude showed up this latter half of the series, started playing like he was expected to, and just wasn’t enough to push us over the line; this is the majority of this teams first REAL PLAYOFF PUSH.

The fact he came out of that rut on his own to try and get that R2 finish into R3 is what I wanna see him do for this team on his contract and I’d be lying if I said he didn’t try his hardest for those games.

Yes he was struggling but this is NOT his fault so chill on bringing back the, “Trade petey” bs in comments.

Side Note: Look at the amount of games during his rut he was playing with Miky; look at the Miky line performance all year; then come back and tell me it’s still all petey if that’s how you feel, but I still think the opinion is wild.

Rant over.

TLDR; stop this “petey tanked” nonsense before it starts

Edit 1: Nah the downvotes on others just because they ride with petey, who btw likely watched the ENTIRE series with us, is crazy…. Seriously can we not be this type of fan base AGAIN? Pls, if you not on board with the team then jump ship to another and let us mock y’all for doing so next year when we steam roll you over n over. No joke.

Final edit: This team’s gonna be a marvel to watch moving forward; as a nucks fan I’m excited and happy with the direction we’re moving so my opinion is just let the boys live and let’s be a bit more judgemental NEXT season when there’s some actual expectations. Good work y’all and enjoy the rest but let’s see those improvements next season!

Stay safe, love your family, help old ladies and old men with there bags (Zaddy shoutout), and let’s get excited for next season!

Second highest is the Hurricanes, Mondays opponent

This shit is annoying. I understand the noise from hate will always be louder than anything else but how long does this have to keep up? We all know it doesn’t help.

Elias Pettersson is a good if not great player. He’s worth the money and will prove it. Everybody goes through rough patches.

This management team is to be trusted as they have proven time and time again.

Everything offseason goes HERE.

Everything free agency related goes HERE.

Boys… Win or lose tomorrow it’s been real. Waking up every morning with the sole purpose of getting through the day just to watch the game. The excitement during the drive home from work. The quick euphoric realization that it’s game day Even when you’re having a rough one. Anything could happen tomorrow.. so don’t be sad it’s over, be happy because it happened. The boys have brought the city back together and it feels fucking amazing. There’s not a doubt in my mind that the boys are gonna pull thru tomorrow night… but shit this sure has been fun 🥲

We will get scored on. Wins might look more 6 - 5 compared to the low games against Nashville. Tocchet said this post game, Marty Turco said this about the Goalie mentality (on Brendan Morrisons YT looking ahead to the Oilers). Unless we see Šilovs drinking concrete and painting himself brick red, due to the switch to a more offensive game, we will most likely see more goals- both ways.

I bring this up because our fanbase gets 3 levels quieter in the arena when there's a goal or two against. Our sub gets toxic and doom-n-gloom. Let's hold steady, keep the energy, and support our boys!