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Similarity to the past hopefully means a different<br />
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It is 17 years to the day.<br />
May 24, 1994, Greg Adams shovels a loose<br />
puck past the Maple Leafs’ Felix Potvin<br />
only moments into the second overtime of<br />
game five of the Western Conference final;<br />
Vancouver’s old Pacific Coliseum erupts.<br />
Fireworks explode, towels are waving, the<br />
Canucks are going to the Stanley Cup finals.<br />
I was five years old that night.<br />
I don’t remember where I was or what<br />
team was enblazened on the pint-sized<br />
hockey stick I clutched, but I do remember<br />
Trevor Linden.<br />
I’m sure there are hockey gurus and diehard<br />
Canucks fans that can tell you the team<br />
line-ups, the pep talks spoken between periods,<br />
and what Adams had to eat before the<br />
game, but I remember Linden. The iconic<br />
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ture of excitement and disbelief, reflected<br />
the millions of similar expressions illuminated<br />
by TV screens all across the country.<br />
Vancouver spent the better part of the<br />
next two decades being consistently consistent,<br />
always a bridesmaid, never a bride.<br />
Going down in flames in the first or second<br />
round of the playoffs seemed to be inevitable.<br />
Linden, Bure, McLean, all but whispers<br />
in the rafters, kept alive through firsthand<br />
recounts of “The Save” or Bure’s magical<br />
game seven overtime winner against Calgary.<br />
I’m 22 now.<br />
I’ve long traded my childhood hockey stick<br />
for an awesome new, manly one. Vancouver’s<br />
jerseys are different and so are the names on<br />
the back, but the city’s quest for another ’94<br />
run has remained an annual disappointment.<br />
It is 17 years to the day.<br />
The May 24, 2011, game is dripping with<br />
similarities to that spring night all those<br />
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This is the farthest the team has reached<br />
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Garden in 1994, one win shy of hockey’s<br />
Holy Grail.<br />
As Kevin Bieksa wills his self-described<br />
“duck” of a shot into the San Jose net, confetti<br />
falls, players and fans embrace, and<br />
a weight the size of the Rockies is lifted<br />
from the city. And while anyone inside<br />
Vancouver’s locker room will tell you the<br />
job isn’t complete, the relief of living up<br />
to expectations 17 years in the making<br />
is pasted on the toothless grin of every<br />
Canuck.<br />
Amid the jubilation, as Henrik Sedin<br />
retraces the skates of Linden to accept the<br />
conference trophy, my uncontrollable smile<br />
is exactly as it was 17 years ago to the day.<br />
For a moment, I feel like I’m five years<br />
old again, watching the Canucks, whiteknuckling<br />
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