<p>So happy!!!</p>
<p>We are celebrating here in south Texas!!!</p>
<p>Thanks for beating those damn divers, Bruins.</p>
<p>Canucks gave it a good run. Close, but no cigar.</p>
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<p>I don’t understand the rioting/violence that went on after the Canucks lost. Crazy! Don’t get that kind of nonsense.</p>
<p>Says a lot of about the class of its fan base.</p>
<p>mom2, it doesn’t say anything about the class of its fan base any more than that type of hooliganism says about the fan base of any team. It’s unfortunate that a small number of the hundreds of thousands of fans who were on the streets of Vancouver would send that kind of message. It’s sad when it happens in any city after a sporting event but to equate that to the class of any team’s fan base is silly. Why not, instead, look at the class of the fan base by the response of the majority, including the thousands inside the Rogers Centre who cheered the opposing team who had just won the Stanley Cup?</p>
<p>^^^^^^^</p>
<p>Going to have to disagree. If it was just this time that is one thing. But this kind of rioting also happened in Vancouver the last time they lost game 7 in the Finals. Once can be explained away. Twice - not so easy. </p>
<p>The Canucks players also took several cheap shots during game 7 when it was apparent they would lose (hit on Chara at center ice for one, a spear to Peaverly that was not called, etc). That combined with the biting incident and the fans throwing cups and beer onto the ice during the ceremony (watch the replay) speaks volumes. </p>
<p>It’s no wonder the majority of fans and players outside Vancouver were rooting for the Bruins.</p>
<p>Not a good weekend to visit our friendly neighbors up North.</p>
<p>Iron Maiden, you’re taking the actions of a relative few fans and attributing a lack of class to the entire fan base, which is ridiculous. In addition to that, the idiots who were causing that mayhem last night were probably toddlers during that previous finals series. My guess is that most major cities have had similar ‘rioting’ by a small percentage of fans after this type of sporting event. It happened in Philly when the Phillies won the World Series, it’s happened in Montreal, Detroit, and if I’m not mistaken has happened in Boston on more than one occasion. During one of those Boston ‘riots’ after a Red Sox playoff win, a BU student was killed by a police rubber bullet. Let’s not automatically paint every fan as a thug. It isn’t the case in any city, including Vancouver.</p>
<p>Read the news reports, we are talking 100’s of fans rioting, stabbings, looting, burning, etc. Not the first time. Probably not the same people as you indicated, but same fan base and city. </p>
<p>If you can provide a link to news coverage of similar scale multiple incidents in Boston I would be very interested to read them. </p>
<p>I never said it was the entire fan base. But there is definitely a problem in that city and with that team. </p>
<p>But whatever, you are entitled to your opinion. As am I.</p>
<p>^ Thats just silly. It was a relatively small group of white drunk male punks, fueled by other white young drunks watching and encouraging it. </p>
<p>Lots major city have had riots. The last and only one in Vancouver was in 1994. There were none during the entire Olympics for example. None during any other sports play off. And the one now and in 1994 are not independent (rather 1994 incites this one because its on everyone’s mind and that provides the necessary ‘collective glue’ for it to repeat). </p>
<p>But hey, sure you make leaping generalizations from two incidents in 150 years, go right ahead, but you’re embarrassing yourself.</p>
<p>Who said anything about the last 150 years? I’m talking about 100’s of Canucks fans rioting again because their team lost. The last two times they lost game 7 in the finals there were good sized riots. Fact. </p>
<p>Please show data from oh the last 20 years where fans of a losing team had riots of this scale. Celtics lost game 7 of the finals last year. No riots. Patriots lost a recent Superbowl. No riots.</p>
<p>“100s of people” says nothing about the entire group of “Canuck fans” which probably comprises many thousands, and to say otherwise shows a real tenuous grasp of numbers.</p>
<p>I think this is about PR, not whether we have a statistically valid sample. Boston local news last night after the game showed a split screen with peaceful celebrations in Boston and burning cars in Vancouver. The boos of the Vancouver fans almost drowned out the presentation of the Stanley Cup. The net effect is an image of very poor sportsmanship.</p>
<p>Every article I read said that it was a few hundred people. A split screen can focus on whatever it wants to and make a story.</p>
<p>Look, I’m from Jersey and a Devils fan–I’ve got no dog in this hunt, but I can see unnecessary stereotyping going on here. For Americans to jump on Canadians for violence, well, pot–kettle?</p>
<p>Vancouver has a population of two million, and a very conservative estimate would say a million were rooting for the Canucks. One or two hundred hooligans are in no way representative of the city or the fan base.</p>
<p>3Trees, the fans at Rogers Arena were booing Bettman, not the Bruins. Fans in every arena in the NHL boo Bettman.</p>
<p>Wow, can’t believe some of these comments. That stuff happens everywhere. Looks like they took precautions in Boston because of past incidents there.
From the AP:</p>
<p>Boston police reported several arrests but few
serious incidents as Bruins fans reveled in the team’s first
Stanley Cup championship in nearly four decades. Precautions taken
Wednesday allowed the city to avoid the violence and destruction
that have plagued past sports celebrations.</p>
<pre><code> Cheers erupted from fans who packed bars and restaurants to
</code></pre>
<p>watch the Bruins defeat the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 Wednesday in the
seventh and deciding game of the series. Many had not been born
when Boston last won the Cup in 1972.</p>
<pre><code> "I’m a diehard Bruins fan and I wanted to be in Boston for
</code></pre>
<p>it," said Colleen Liffers, 22, of Newburyport, Mass. “This is so
unbelievable.”</p>
<pre><code> Liffers and her friends left the nightclub Howl at the Moon
</code></pre>
<p>after the game ended. Like many fans, they headed directly for the
TD Garden, the home of the Bruins. There they planned to continue
celebrating although the team was thousands of miles away in
Vancouver.</p>
<p>Liffers and her friends left the nightclub Howl at the Moon
after the game ended. Like many fans, they headed directly for the
TD Garden, the home of the Bruins. There they planned to continue
celebrating although the team was thousands of miles away in
Vancouver.</p>
<pre><code> But they were met by hundreds of police officers, some in riot
</code></pre>
<p>gear. Streets were closed to traffic and barricades were set up.
Video from a television station showed fans surrounding and
rocking a bus that was carrying some police units to the scene.
State police said some unruly fans pulled down street signs, and
some climbed on parked cars.</p>
<pre><code> Yet it appeared that police were able to act on lessons learned
</code></pre>
<p>from recent Boston sports titles. Raucous celebrations after big
wins by the New England Patriots, Boston Red Sox and Boston Celtics
in the past seven years have resulted in three deaths and
widespread vandalism.</p>
<pre><code> "It’s fair to say that the vast majority of fans celebrated
</code></pre>
<p>responsibly, and officers have done an excellent job of keeping
order," Elaine Driscoll, a spokeswoman for the Boston police, said
early Thursday.</p>
<p>Hey, I’ve lived in Canada, have a summer place in Georgian Bay, met Bobby Orr at a Parry Sound parade when I was 8 years old (great guy). I am not dissing Canadians or Canadian hockey fans or even generalizing about Canuck fans. Nor am I claiming that American fans have a spotless record. I get it that they were booing Bettman–but those boos drowned out what any true hockey fan should see as a sacred moment: the presentation of the Stanley Cup. There was rioting, looting, burning cars after the hometown team lost. It may not be representative (see my earlier post–this is actually the point I was trying to make) and of course it is not distinctively Canadian but can anyone really claim it isn’t unsportsmanlike? Just sayin’</p>