I don't normally care about hockey at all, but when it's a Canadian team, from my province, a quick ferry ride from my home, in the Stanley Cup Playoffs...yeah.
Looks like a game 7.
And they'll have home ice for the finals, so that's a huge plus. On the downside, if they lose, the city is going to explode.
...Mind you, it'll explode if they win, too. But it'll be a nicer explosion.
Really? Really? Four goals within ten minutes of the start of the first period? Dammit. You're better than this, Luongo.
I don't normally care about hockey at all, but when it's a Canadian team, from my province, a quick ferry ride from my home, in the Stanley Cup Playoffs...yeah.
There are 20 Canadian players on the Bruins vs. 16 on the Canucks. Which one is the Canadian team again?
There are 20 Canadian players on the Bruins vs. 16 on the Canucks. Which one is the Canadian team again?
I know, but who you're playing for does make a difference.
There are 20 Canadian players on the Bruins vs. 16 on the Canucks. Which one is the Canadian team again?
I know, but who you're playing for does make a difference.
The people they are playing for are the owners of the team.
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Really? Really? Four goals within ten minutes of the start of the first period? Dammit. You're better than this, Luongo.
I don't normally care about hockey at all, but when it's a Canadian team, from my province, a quick ferry ride from my home, in the Stanley Cup Playoffs...yeah.
There are 20 Canadian players on the Bruins vs. 16 on the Canucks. Which one is the Canadian team again?
Why are your friends still downtown three hours later?
Some people are trapped by the rioters, and I believe that transit is shut down, or at least parts of it are. I don't really know, as I am in Okinawa. But my friends have posted some Facebook updates. Some of them live downtown.
Your friends should have known better, VJ. The chance of a riot was highly probable regardless of whom won.
Thanks. And what do you say of the friends who live downtown?
There were riots in 1994, it's true. Not like this, not even close. What about the people who were watching the musical and got trapped in the theatre? Or the people who were there for their graduation ceremony from highschool, and got trapped in that nearby venue? Should they have all known better?
Sorry Your statement is ridiculous. Nobody was expecting the scale of this. Thankfully the police seem to be handling things admirably, but it's going to be one hell of a cleanup job.
I would have forseen it in Montréal. Things get crazy during the playoffs. We get riots and cars burning just after the first round of the playoff. Amazing! But some people just like to see the world burn.
Well, last time the Canucks were in the playoffs, there were riots too. But not like this. Not even close.
Since when does a Floridian follow hockey? I thought you prefered wrestling?
We have a team...
... kind of...Your friends should have known better, VJ. The chance of a riot was highly probable regardless of whom won.
Thanks. And what do you say of the friends who live downtown?
There were riots in 1994, it's true. Not like this, not even close. What about the people who were watching the musical and got trapped in the theatre? Or the people who were there for their graduation ceremony from highschool, and got trapped in that nearby venue? Should they have all known better?
Sorry Your statement is ridiculous. Nobody was expecting the scale of this. Thankfully the police seem to be handling things admirably, but it's going to be one hell of a cleanup job.
Human, my sarcasm communicator is set to turn text into italics.
Fleshlings are brutish sheep. Horde them together and chaos is bound to happen at the metaphorical drop of a hat. Had the Canucks won, the possible resulting riot would have been a bunch of drunken/mischievous rabble rousers instead of an angry mob.
They were also terrible. So it's nicebad.The riots, however, are just plain bad. People are whining about the police using tear gas, too. Sayin' it was excessive cuz it didn't account for the people that were there but not doing harm. Well, I think we should line the people up that thought it was excessive and pit them against a crowd throwing bottles at them and threatening them with pipes and hockey sticks and see how excessive they'd find it then. It's a damned shame that a small number of a-holes got innocents slightly irritated but that's what happens. Get over it. From what I've read, the cops did a wonderful job.
EDIT: At least the rioting didn't kill romance:
Wait, stopping vandals, thieves and all-around unkind-brutes is a bad thing?
Only when done in an official, gov't sanctioned capacity.
A perfect example of cops being violent oppressors.
A perfect example of you talking rubbish.
Since when does a Floridian follow hockey? I thought you prefered wrestling?
We have a team...
You have two teams in Florida...
You sure about that? I thought we only had the Florida Kittens...
Since when does a Floridian follow hockey? I thought you prefered wrestling?
We have a team...
You have two teams in Florida...
You sure about that? I thought we only had the Florida Kittens...
You also have the Tampa Bay Flashlights.
I stand corrected.
Vancouver just quit on these series. Boston isn't that great of a team. Vancouver just wasted their opportunity.
As a Cleveland teams fan, I share your pain. LeBron in Game 5, Mesa in Game 7 ... man, it sucks to watch people just not give a **** when you actually kinda do. And that's why I just don't anymore.
Thanks to this idiocy, it is now my sincere wish that the Canucks never make it to the finals again.
There's more fun to be had still. Boston's mayor has been interviewed talking about how good the Boston fans are and how nice they were being and how prepared the city and police were and how they just don't do that sort of nonsense ... while completely failing to recall that Boston police accidentally killed a woman - a bystander no less - with a poorly aimed rubber bullet ... during the riots they were havin' ... after the Red Sox won their first World Series. So yeah, some idiot is seeking to profit off of this. Awesome.
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