The city of Vancouver is a lot of things; vibrant, multicultural, expensive; but what it is not is a city of winners. Success has been difficult to achieve for the professional teams in Vancouver. Sure, you could point at the six Grey Cups won by the B.C. Lions, but the most recent was in 2011; leaving the Lions with the longest Grey Cup drought of any team in the CFL’s Western Conference.
The Vancouver Canucks have made the Stanley Cup Final on three separate occasions, but haven’t been able to seal the deal on a championship. And even the newer pro sports franchises in Van city, like the Whitecaps, have yet to enjoy prolific playoff success since joining Major League Soccer in 2011. Recently, new Whitecaps forward and German soccer legend, Thomas Müller, said: “I have a feeling that Vancouver people, they accept not winning.”
Maybe he has a point, it’s not like Vancouver has had much to cheer for in recent years. And while Müller might be right about the city’s mentality, I am never going to stop thinking, ‘This is our year’ at the start of every Canucks season.
