For a while now here at Nucks Misconduct, we’ve been telling anyone who’ll listen to “Embrace the Fake.”
The idea was that there’s no downside for throwing all of your emotional support behind this up and coming Canucks team. Even if they lost, it was just a weird, fake Stanley Cup playoffs anyways.
...Right?
Now that we’re through the play-ins and in the playoffs, it’s hard to say this feels fake anymore. Are you telling me that Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford is brushing off these playoffs as fake?
Jim Rutherford didn't have many answers on Tuesday.