This Canucks message to Bettman after Leafs lottery win is raising eyebrows
Elias Pettersson and Adam Foote got another ugly Canucks bounce Tuesday, and the club's social feed may have said what the market was feeling.
Toronto won the draft lottery with just an 8.5 percent shot, while Vancouver slid from the top spot to No. 3. For a fan base already beaten down by this season, that landed like another punch.
Then came the social-media twist.
A HockeyFeed report pointed out that the Canucks' official Instagram account appeared to unfollow Rogers shortly after the lottery results, a tiny move that quickly turned into a loud online joke.
That is why this took off. On the surface, it is nothing. In this market, right after Toronto jumped the line and Vancouver dropped again, it felt like a little burst of digital sour grapes.
And honestly, it fit the mood around the Canucks.
This franchise just finished a brutal year, and now even the draft lottery found a way to twist the knife. Vancouver did not fall out of the top three, but dropping from first to third still changes the temperature fast when Gavin McKenna is sitting at the top of the board.
Canucks appear to take shot at Bettman after Leafs draft lottery win
The Canucks do not need fans to explain why this hurt. A team that ended the season at 25-49-8 and a -100 goal differential was staring at the lottery as one of the only clean ways to change the story.
Instead, Toronto got the dream result and Vancouver got another reminder that nothing comes easy around this club.
Using the NHL's «Unfollow Tracker,» it was revealed that the Canucks' official Instagram account unfollowed Rogers just minutes after the draft lottery results were announced.
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That is what makes the Rogers angle so funny to people online. Rogers owns Sportsnet, Sportsnet carries the Leafs louder than anybody, and Vancouver fans already feel like they live in the wrong end of the country's hockey spotlight.
So whether the unfollow meant anything or not almost does not matter.
The timing made it look petty. The internet loves petty. And the Canucks are in no position to laugh off anything right now after the season they dragged through.
There is also a bigger point here. When stuff like this becomes a story, it tells you how raw the whole situation still is around the organization.
Vancouver should still get a major prospect at No. 3, and that matters a lot more than an Instagram follow list. But in the hours after another lottery slide, this was the kind of silly little moment that hit the market exactly right.
Because when the Leafs are celebrating and the Canucks are sliding again, even an unfollow can look like a statement.
Source : The Canucks stick it to Rogers/Sportsnet on social media after Leafs win the Draft Lottery
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