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NHL - Bruins rout the Canucks. Predictable rioting erupts in Vancouver.

Oakster
Oakster Posts: 6,812
edited June 2011 in Other Football and Sports
Bad luck Vancouver - was rooting for you last night, but it wasn't to be.

It still strikes me as a bit odd how in a sport, played, cared for & watched mostly by Canadians, (players in US NHL teams are predominantly Canadian) hasn't seen a Canadian team win the Stanley Cup since 1993.

My favourite part of tonight's final was the deafening, merciless booing of the NHL Commissioner (their Graham Kelly if you like) as he presented the trophy to Boston - poor bloke was a quivering wreck as he handed the trophy over.

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  • Bcaddick
    Bcaddick Posts: 445
    Totally gutted Vancouver lost.  Have totally got into the hockey in the last 6 years since I moved to BC.  Got to say Boston deserved their win though.  Thomas was like a brick wall!  Cannot understand why the majority of Canadians wanted Boston to win??? Baffles me.  As for the rioting...fu#king tw%ts.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,902

    Shame, was hoping the Canucks would do the yanks.

    Brilliant game. Is the best "live" sport I've ever seen.

    Oakster-had the pleasure of living in Edmonton between 1981-83 when the Oilers were in their prime, Gretzky, Messier, Coffey etc. Still look for their results now although gather they're in the process of rebuilding. 

  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,680
    I'm in Toronto at the moment and the majority I met last night wanted the cannucks to win.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,899
    How many tossers taking photos in each of those pictures. Unbelievable.
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,190
    Here's some pictures - ice hockey fans can't be the sharpest tools in the box, judging by some of them posing for photos...
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,234
    and the one having his trousers pulled down by the police!
  • Paddy Powell
    Paddy Powell Posts: 2,844
    edited June 2011
    Some top reporting from Rob Brown.

    "Look at that. Now, that's an idiot."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR8rpXsuy6E
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,438

    Shame, was hoping the Canucks would do the yanks.

    Brilliant game. Is the best "live" sport I've ever seen.

    Oakster-had the pleasure of living in Edmonton between 1981-83 when the Oilers were in their prime, Gretzky, Messier, Coffey etc. Still look for their results now although gather they're in the process of rebuilding. 

    LOL - that 'process' has taken a while - it began when Kurri, Gretzky, Coffey, Messier et. al left :)
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,438
    Pleased for the Bruins - even though they're a rival to the Pens. One of my earliest memories of hockey as a kid was watching some highlights programme or other where they were talking about great moments in sport and they showed Bobby orr sailing through the air after scoring the cup winner for the Bruins.
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    some people weren't too interested in the rioting

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  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,205
    All a bit bizzare. In Edmonton it seemed to be about a 50:50 split between people wanting to see ANY Canadian team get one over the Yanks and people who wanted to see Vancouver lose. I'd have though national solidarity vs the Yanks would have taken presidence, but on the other hand I always want Man Utd and Chelsea to lose in Europe - even vs the French so I guess it's no different.

    Have to say, the Stanley Cup is a really stoopid looking trophy.

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