The hockey void.

Well, that's it. What else can I say? The Canucks are out of the playoffs. We fell in love and got dumped yet again.

Vancouver has this weird love affair with the Canucks (although I think this extends to all sport fans whose team has not won in the last century - it FEELS like a century!), we love them despite the fact that they behave a lot like that University boyfriend who would dump you on Fridays and get back together with you on Mondays. Always kept you hoping, always coming back but never, EVER, delivering the goods when it was necessary. Never around for a weekend date (which is when dates really matter - btw). NEVER wanting to hang out with your friends. NEVER waiting to meet your parents.

Anyway, this happens every year and it reminds me of this mantra we are to chant as mothers when children get into trouble: "I am not angry with you. I am angry with your behaviour". So I am not angry with the Canucks (although I am a little angry with Lou to tell the truth) but I am angry with their BEHAVIOUR. I say time to STOP  fooling around and WIN THE CUP ALREADY!!!!!!!!

I was out and about today and it feels like we are all walking around like zombies, (CLEAN SHAVEN zombies thankfully!) thinking: What am I going to do with all this free time now? I am here at Whole Foods wandering the aisles just because there is no hockey to watch. I have no excuse to leave work early anymore and there's really no need to buy anything because I have the problem of what to do with all of the purchased finger playoff food, including a few extra pounds of chicken wings.

So I ask ... now what? My friend in Boston said:  "You should choose another sport". Easy for her to say when her city holds the Celtics AND the Red Sox. We, in Vancouver, have, ... let me think, ... hang on ... mmmhhhh. Oh yeah, the Whitecaps!!! The Whitecaps? Who? Who are they? The Whitecaps, are you ready for this? are Vancouver's soccer team. Yes, sigh, I know. I can just hear everybody in the motherland laughing and asking "WHOA Canadians (but more particularly) people in VANCOUVER play soccer? (insert big time sarcasm here). Yes, yes we do. Yes, we suck at it. Yes, in the rain. Yes, in the rain ALL THE TIME.

So we sit here and wait. Wait until next year, all hopeful again while we watch and  listen to where Lou will choose to go live out his days and hoping Schneider steps up to the plate and delivers next season while running into the Sedins at Kitsilano Beach and Granville Island because now you see them everywhere as they actually have time to hang out with their families.

Yep, we will sit here and wait. Wait, wait, wait, while slowly falling in love again