Vancouver Canucks: 3 reasons why fans are getting frustrated

Losing, losing, losing

Let’s get the obvious out of the way, because Canucks fans would not be frustrated if this franchise was losing so much. Jason Botchford from the Vancouver Province pointed this interesting bit out:

Some rebuilding teams can be fun to watch when they’re at least winning every now and then.

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The Colorado Avalanche weren’t aiming for the playoffs this year, but they’re three points out of the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. The Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes are rebuilding, but hanging around in the East.

For the Canucks, this is the fourth time in five years where their season practically ended early in the new year, and they’ve played with little jump and effort in too many of these games.

The team hasn’t done a whole lot to stop the losing, either. Benning has seemingly overlooked this team’s pressing need for speedy forwards and reliable shutdown defencemen. They’ve tried the same gameplans with the same past-their-prime veterans over and over again. Remind me what the definition of insanity is?

If the Canucks could at least be somewhere between 17th-22nd in the league standings, fans would probably be a little more patient. But finishing in the bottom-five for the third consecutive years is unacceptable. And again, the team hasn’t done a whole lot in trying to change that.