This edit to a Mark Messier Stanley Cup commercial will make Canucks fans smile (VIDEO)
“Every letter is earned.”
You’ve seen the commercial.
Some of the greatest legends to ever play in the NHL sitting in a dark room, spelling their last name to signify it being etched onto the Stanley Cup. It’s a pretty cool ad.
Players like Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr, and Sidney Crosby are featured.
In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, here it is:
Also featured in the video: Mark Messier.
Undoubtedly one of the greatest hockey players of all-time, for a variety of reasons, Messier is still the most hated player in Canucks history.
The “Messier era,” which lasted for three seasons between 1997 and 2000 in Vancouver, is a term used to signify one of the worst periods of time in Canucks history.
Unfairly or not, Messier has been blamed for indifferent play, stripping the captain’s C from Trevor Linden, taking the late Wayne Maki’s No. 11 jersey, the hiring of Mike Keenan, and ripping apart the core of the 1994 team. He earned $18 million over the course of three seasons, received another $2 million when the team bought him out, and squeezed out an extra $6 million years later when he won an arbitration case.
To this day, whenever Messier is featured in any fashion on a Canucks broadcast, fans flood Twitter with angry comments.
Rangers vs Canucks tonight and @Sportsnet has Mark Messier on. Just say you hate Vancouver. We all know you do 😒
— Nikki (@Rad_NikkiYVR) December 10, 2015
That’s why we can only assume a Canucks fan was responsible for the making of this video:
“Re-uploaded cause the first version had some editing mistakes,” the YouTube uploader wrote.
If you were a Canucks fan in the late 1990s, it had to make you smile.
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