Vancouver Rioting?
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I'm sorry but the Ref's did not throw this series one way or another. Yes the suspension's were way inconsistent and skewed in Boston's favor, as well as the general media coverage (I'm looking at you Bite-Gate). And yes, NHL Playoff Ref's are usually very suspect (I'm a Wings fan BTW), but ref's cannot sway scoring of 21-4 (the aggregate of Boston's four wins). Vancouver played very poorly tonight, they didn't have great puck control, all the best chances they had at an open net occured when the puck was just outside of stick reach, and they took generic shots. They never controlled the flow of the game and the Ref's didn't change that. Hell there were only like 3 penalties tonight (as well as 1 or 2 that should have been called) which is a far cry from the buttloads we've been seeing out of these twoTheDutchin said:
Right, the refs totally made Tomas block all your shoots. Its more than just refs when you look at the scores of the games boston won. You don't deserve to win unless you win, simple as that. Bad calls happen on both sides and you just take it as part of the game.TheDutchin said:
As I remember it, there was a large amount of police and RCMP on the streets and lots of roads were closed to prevent this from happening. I'm surprised that they weren't better prepared for this considering this happened in 1994.Atticus113 said:
Ya you can hardly say the refs were against the Canucks (I am a Canucks fan btw) I mean did you see the hit to the head on Chara? Comon if anything they were trying to make the Bruins lose. Thomas was just too good and Vancouver played a lousy game. Sad but true.Lionsfan said:
I don't live in Canada. All I see is a news story about a couple of over turned cars and a fire and it being called a riot. Thanks for some clarification on how it has escalated since, and yes you are being quite over defensive about it, because the post was first of all a joke. I don't really want to go up there and show Canada how to riot. That would be absurd.HorizonRadar said:
Downtown Vancouver has been sealed off. Police in full riot gear and mounted police officers have been deployed. Looting and fighting everywhere. People are throwing things at police and burning police cars. Even a couple hours ago the smoke from downtown could be seen quite far away. There is reports of stabbings and the hospitals are on maximum alert.manaman said:
I imagine international news organizations will have more accurate reports tomorrow, if they choose to report on the riot.
Funny, I have heard that they are the mellowest place in Canada do to all the weed.Antari said:
Ya but the Flames didn't even make the playoffs lolDeadman Walkin said:
But in all seriousness, as a Canucks fan I was heavily disappointed when we lost 4-0. Still, despite the loss, I was very happy for Tim Thomas for getting what he earned and I was crushed when our stadium booed the Bruins. Can't people just be happy for others? Seriously?
it is not the hockey there are actually groupsof people coming from surrey richmond and all those other surounding cities to riot it is not the hockey fans they just beat up bruins fans to make it look like hockey fans this was actualy plannedDeadman Walkin said:
Probably not, as though Montreal is known to be a city where Police Cars all but spontaneously combust every now and again, Habs fans seem to reserve their enthusiasm for when the team wins series and cups. Oh, I'm sure there have been isolated incidents here and there, but the major newsworthy ones were definitely wins.Tiger Sora said:
... except for the Richard Riots. Those ... those were just destined to happen.
Still, I'm not particularly surprised (though I wasn't previously aware of the '94 incident), as Vancouver is definitely a Hockey town. Basically take a large group of hardcore sports fans, add a liberal dose of alcohol, and a series like that and you really just need one guy to break a window or start something for the entire thing to spread like wildfire. The joys of mob-mentality, ain't it just grand?
Yeah the downtown looked like a warzone on tv. I left the area with 4 minutes left in the game and pretty much as soon as the buzzer rang ppl near the jumbotron/gigatron/megatron threw on masks and started tipping cars and lighting them on fire.arsenicCatnip said:
Really is sad to see, since while alot of ppl weren't directly involved in the incident, alot of ppl acted like douchebags and hung around, took video, took photos and thought it would be amusing to get chased by the riot squad a few times.
Overall I think that it really just gives the world more ammunition with which to hate canucks fans (I'm originally from alberta and have to put up with EVERYONE on fb just hating, and I never knew why they were hating...)
of course all canucks fans aren't like this but at the same time, as said above calgary flames lost to the lightning in 2004 in 7 games, pretty much the same scenario but they managed to keep their cars unflipped and un on fire and their stores unlooted so I guess I just don't know