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A Thrilling Ride: The Vancouver Canucks' Fortieth Anniversary Season

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Being a diehard Canucks fan, this is the perfect memoir for a wonderfully memorable 40th season in the NHL. From pictures throughout the regular season all the way to game seven of the Stanley Cup Final and beyond, this book captures all the excitement, disappointment and triumph of our beloved Canucks. If you are a Canucks' fan, you won't want to miss out on this one!

This book is a must-have for any Canucks fan, especially those who want to remember their magical run of 2010/2011. The book is mostly pictures, interspersed with a few articles, so it's a quick read. And the best part is, the price from Amazon is *significantly* cheaper than ordering it from the Vancouver Sun (and you can get it shipped for free too, provided you buy something else at the same time).

If you followed this team for all 82 games of the regular season to be filled with excitement and belief into the Stanley Cup Playoffs, then like me you were left at the end of the season feeling like there had been devastating hole carved into your gut after game 7 of the finals. Now that some time has passed and the wound is a little less fresh it is time to take a step back and look at the amazing season that led up to these playoffs. The Bruins may have taken the cup away from us but no one can ever take away what was one of the best seasons for the Vancouver Canucks in many, many years. The numerous team records and individual records that were broken, the stats, the awards, etc. are all put together in one extremely well done book. Each picture will take you right back to that moment and it's kind of exciting to be able to re-live those moments, and to have this book gives you the chance to do that over and over again. It's like looking at a family photo album, you can look at a picture and it brings the memories rushing right back. This book somewhat suprised me at just how well it was put together. I bought 2 (helped save on shipping and handling of course), one for myself and one as a Christmas gift to my son who is an even bigger fan that me.

First of all at 160 pages what was the point? Second of all, as a Canuck fan, the embarrassment of possibly the worst showing in a Final by a 1st overall regular season team (yeah, yeah, yeah, it went seven games but none of the Nux's losses were close and the team wilted when the game got physical) makes me wonder, are Canuck fans really stupid enough to buy a book glorifying failure?

As far as the book, it's a rehash of mainly articles and pictures you can still get online in The Province newspaper archives. It's strictly a money grab rather than an in-depth analysis of why the team flopped at the Final stage. Sorry, but wait until a team actually "wins" a Stanley Cup before glorifying a season.

This thin book only adds fuel to those Canuck haters out there who think we're all as delusional as Tarrana Make Belief fans now.

The regular season of the Canucks may have been "thrilling" but they scraped by in the playoffs (by all rights, they should have lost to the Chicago BHs in the first round), changing thrilling to "nail-biting"... and ultimately frustratingly lacking in drive, heart, and good ol Canadian grit.

That is the main reason that they were hardly "Canada's team" (vs. say the 06 Oilers, who had grit and were underdogs...).

For die-hard Canuck fans (or folks who like frustration) only!