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Frustrated Canucks fan's obituary gets in one last dig at the team

Published February 3, 2023 at 1:11 PM
BY TJ TUCKER
Hockey fandom can be a roller coaster ride. One season your team is pushing for a playoff spot, and the next everything can fall apart. The last two seasons for the Vancouver Canucks have been full on fall apart mode, with the team seemingly disintegrating right before fans' eyes. One of them has used his obituary to get in a dig at the team for one last time.

"He watched every Canucks game even when he swore he would never watch another Canucks game," said Kirsten Billings said of her father Russel Atkins, who watched his team lose 5-4 to the Tampa Bay Lightning the day before he passed away at 79.

After he passed, the family sent Atkins obituary to the local newspaper.

"Russell would've liked to have had six of the Vancouver Canucks to be his pallbearers so they could have let him down one more time," it read.

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Not long after the obit was printed, it started circulating among Vancouver fans on social media sites, eventually getting back to the family. Billing told CBC News that she inserted the joke herself knowing her father would love it.

"If the Canucks were playing, the TV was on and he was complaining," she said.

As a hockey fan myself, I get it. You'll always love your team, no matter how much they let you down. Rest in peace, Russell Atkins.
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