vancouver is not ballot box stuffing... i bet you most of our votes are coming from back east... i live in ontario, and for all my leaf hating, my canucks are *loved* out there... we're, quoted from many ontario fans, "probably the most exciting team in the nhl".
i drove to buffalo last year for a nucks/sabres match.... buffalo sold out 3 games all season: 2 leafs games, and that canucks game... so that should tell you something aboot the nucks' suipport back east