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Why are the Canucks so bad? Is it because Jim Benning and Trevor Linden have assembled a very weak team, failed to reinvigorate the lineup with the speed and skill necessary in today’s NHL, and done little to instil confidence in their rebuild among the fan base?

Some would say yes. But in saying so, perhaps over and over again on Twitter, are you part of the problem?

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On Tuesday, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman implied as much, suggesting the vitriol the management group is facing these days is having an impact on the team’s business.

“The way it’s going there in Vancouver, it just seems so edgy and so nasty every day that it just affects the ways things get done there,” he told Andrew Walker and Scott Rintoul the day after the Canucks failed to add a single draft pick at the trade deadline. “Canadian markets are tough. It is bad there right now.”

Friedman never went so far as to say the fans are to blame for what’s about to be three consecutive losing seasons, but he did go on to suggest that the toughness of the Vancouver market could be “one of the reasons they’ve never won.”