That Time Vancouver Lost, Then Lost It, in 2011
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มี.ค. 2020
- Okay, I have seen an uptick in mentions of this, so I wanted to do a video discussing it from my point of view.
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Shannon, my Father is VPD and worked during the riot. I promise you that the entire Fraser Valley police force saw the riot coming. Hell, they had career criminals, under surveillance, making plans for it the moment the conference finals ended.
Do you know who DID forget? The mayor. He thought we could host the same street party we did during the Olympics.
The VPD were calling in off duty RCMP before game 7 started.
I do remember the mayor being dense.
The chief of police stated in a press conference that no, they were not prepared, no they did not actualy expect the riot because he thought the citizens were better than that
@@TheHockeyGuy As far as I know, any Fraser Valley Constable that wasn't expected to work the next morning, went to work that night.
Imagine reading the riot act to a hundred thousand people. I'd be terrified.....
Everything that could go wrong, went wrong. You can't expect a few thousand Officers to be able to control a crowd of that size.
@@dirk903 Every individual officer that had a brain, saw the riot coming. As for being unprepared, see my previous comment.
Im going by what the police chief literally said (and is still available on google)
Not saying then entire force was not prepared as i left downtown when it started so my info came from the news... the chief says they were not prepared, so thats what i listened to
a murder was committed around 5:08
r.i.p leafs. jesus christ
If there's any downvotes, we'll know where they came from
I keep going back to replay it because it was so unexpected lmao!
Lmao
I was dying laughing. So leftfield - love it
5:10 just roasted an entire city
J9 Brando hes from Vancouver
J9 Brando absolutely D E S T R O Y E D
I spat my coffee when he said that
"You can't compare the last time Toronto won a Stanley Cup to this because fire wasn't invented."
Hahaha Burn, no pun intended.
As a major Leafs fan, i still laughed out loud at this. So subtle. Well played Shannon. Never a dull moment.
#Fatality
I thought that was great.
Hahahahahah
The most memorable part for me is that in literally one short commercial break after the Bruins won the Cup, CBC flipped back after the break to a shot of a car on fire flipped over. It was the ultimate "well that escalated quickly" moment.
I remember seeing that and laughing my ass off. I'm from the US, and we have this stereotype that Canadians are the nicest, most apologetic, and most polite people in human history who are incapable of being mean or angry. So when that flashed back on the screen one of my buddies said, and I quote, "holy shit we finally found their kryptonite"
@@cmd31220 pretty much. nice, just don't fuck with our hockey! Look at how bitter Quebecers still are over the Nordiques being relocated
“My neighbour just bested me at golf.... better set my house on fire”
-The Hockey Guy: March 5, 2020
Dude those weren’t the average fans
I recall being on the SkyTrain coming into downtown the nights of the Riot in 2011. They were openly talking about rioting win or lose that night.
Only one good thing came out of that riot, some guy got a flash bang grenade to the nuts.
This! I brought this up to a bunch of my friends at our house on the weekend and had to play the video over and over. It STILL is my all time favourite part of that playoffs.
and the kissing couple was pretty noice too
@@lrba5524 like a Banksy art piece come to life
Just scrolling through the comments and I found this gem
@@allenmax8995 his name is nick moore he's a well known skateboarder in the community. search nick moore 2011 for a great video of it.
As someone who was 11, almost 12 when this happened. I was watching the game with my dad in a restaurant right near the stadium downtown. It was one of the scariest thing I experienced as a kid because I didn't fully understand what was going on except for the fact that my dad was almost dragging me away from the stadium so we could get home safely.
5:09 is the best part of the video.
Holy crap Shannon that city had a wife and family xD 5:10
3:30 - 3:32 = "And you're looking at this going 'where's the riot police'?" and your cat in the background is giving us (the viewers) the most criminal staredown you could ever get! xD xD
That's cats for you. They are evil things....
"That was before fire was invented" Bravo, 10/10, from a Leaf's fan.
5:08 excellent joke, I laughed
Shannon just ended Toronto let's gooo 💉💉
I was working at CBC in the coordination studio when this happened and I'll never forget seeing all the live feeds of the destruction being displayed on our monitor wall. It was quite surreal.
Last time I was this early, the Red Wings were still in a playoff spot.
Unfortunately they were just eliminated from the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoff hunt as well.
The most violent thing I've done lately during a Canucks game is throw my girlfriend's slippers across the room. STOP BLOWING LEADS
Need some anger management bro, what did that slipper do to you?
What did your girlfriend's slippers ever do to you?😂🤣
Was her slippers made of brick?
Hey we didn't completely blow it last night
There's no need to be making up people now.
Fellow Vancouverite, couple of things here:
The city probably let everyone gather downtown in such massive volume because everyone still had that residual good will left over from 2010, when we also let massive gatherings happen downtown. Difference back in 2010 I think we had something like 8 times the law enforcement presence, because the olympics brought in security and law enforcement to help from all over the country.
Weirdest thing I remember was being near where the riot began. We saw black smoke rising above the buildings and everyone was just stunned from the loss. We went from Canada place where a big tv was, and walked all the way up burrard to drown our sorrows in booze at the Earls near the Burrard theatre thinking the police wouldn't let the riot spread that far. Here's the thing: We walked outside later in the dark, and the riot had totally spread up the street that far into the downtown core. Walking back to the seabus terminal it was surreal because some streets would be completely empty with a row of riot cops just standing there, meanwhile the next street over was fires and looters. Tinfoil hat time: the city and the cops DELIBERATELY stalled and waited so they could use the spreading chaos as ammunition for never allowing gatherings again. If they CONTAINED the crowd from the start, it wouldn't have spread and gotten so bad.
Here's another thing I blame this on: At the beginning of the finals series the cops set up big rent-a-fence areas where thousands of people downtown could stand and watch the game. They began frisking and checking everyone bags for booze. So what happens: A group of drunk people roll up to the fenced in sections in hopes of watching a game, see the cops frisking people, then take their booze and belonging somewhere else. So rather containing the revelers and drunks, they scared everyone away and pretty soon the trouble makers were EVERYWHERE, starting shit, rather than being in a contained area. Blame Vancouver's archaic booze laws on this. They could've fenced in Georgia where the riot began, let everyone inside the area booze it up and the drunken trouble makers would've been contained, but nope.
The riot sucked. Riots happen everywhere though. The cops here were just idiots about it then, and probably caught off guard a little because of people's good will in those big crowds the year before in 2010.
"There will never be a gathering like this again"
Yeah, there won't be. Just not for the reason you thought...
I worked at a hotel back in 2011 (wasn't working that night) and we had one guest who was supposed to arrive that night but never showed up. The next day I worked and checked him in. He was an 18 year old kid from the Netherlands who was out of the country on his own for the first time ever. He arrived in Vancouver on the eve of Game 7 without any clue hockey even existed. He exited the skytrain station at Burrard and immediately saw burning cars and people fighting. He thought the world was ending. He couldn't get to the hotel because of the riot zone containment situation...luckily he had a relative in town and he managed to make it to her place that night...but wow. What a welcome for a young kid on his first time travelling alone to a new country.
Thanks for discussing this, as I really knew nothing about it other than it happened, let alone twice. I think I remember news reports here in Australia about it, but I'm not sure, as this was long before hockey was even in my peripheral. Totally nuts.
I am a die-hard Wings fan. Been a fan since the late 70s. I'm 48 and was born in Michigan so my fandom is natural. My wife is a Leafs fan and was born in California, grew up in NC before either state had a hockey team. I had to let her listen to the fire invention comment. She is still laughing :)
Lived in windsor Ontario , saw so many games in the Olympia , that barn was awesome . Saw the habs beat spartak saw them tie the Russian army playoffs , the leafs sucked all the time saw only a few games at maple leaf garden . Got to Vancouver in 1979 became a Canucks fan , boy it’s tuff . Seen probabl around 300 games best game ever was don cherry coaching the Colorado Rockies s the wings in the Olympia . Colorado was terrible the wings were terrible , it was equal terrible but the wing sxored like three times in the last minutes to win , it was awesome. However Vancouver is a beautiful city . Although they are so far left when they try to kick someone’s butt they kick they’re own .
I remember traveling to Vancouver a week after the game 7 loss and it was bad when I arrived. I stayed with family around the arena and it was still trashed all around. Shocking to see as an 11 year old visiting family but that was a huge hockey memory growing up for sure
“Because fire wasn’t invented yet”
I did a spit take on that one. How to milk off the nearby wall
Oh boy why did I have to go through this again? 😅 I had 150+ppl at my bar on Broadway showing the game, everyone was depressed but non violent ,(except for 1 drunk girl who threw her hot dog at my window :) Then we saw the cop cars on fire on tv and thought that must be Libya .. nope it was W Georgia St. but please stop saying ppl don't deserve a public party. We hosted THE OLYMPICS in 2010 and the whole city was partying hard for almost a full day after Crosby's overtime goal with no incidents. This was purely VPD & RCMP 's incompetence and I hope to god they learnt a lesson from it.
@TheHockeyGuy, that selfie pose 1:46 is givin me flashback of those films 'Quick-change', and 'Dragnet' proves your video have relevance for us reminiscent fans. Keep doing them you are talented would be wasted on TV, cable or radio.
90's kids Home Alone. Harry and Marv would be the nearest to selfie pose at 1:46.
16:55 - yep, that thought was felt by everyone I knew, if a city riots then everyone outside that city will villainize that city and won't want your team to ever be successful
Maaan, this was one of the toughest nights of my life, I really don't know if I can handle a 20 minute recap of it :(
I have to give it a watch some time when I'm feeling up for it, getting different perspectives could be cool.
At 1:41 when Shannon’s talking about committing crimes, it reminds me of the time Charles Barkley was talking about Jussie Smollett on Inside the NBA and said, “America, let me just tell you something. Do not commit crimes with checks.” It obvious to us that you shouldn’t implicate yourself, but I guess in the heat of the moment those rioters just want to show their friends, or whoever else follows them on social media, that they’re cool for vandalizing property and causing anarchy.
I remember having the opportunity of having to go downtown to watch the hockey game but had the feeling a riot would break out and didn't want to be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Damn dragging the leafs so casually that I almost missed it.
Sitting at home watching on TV, I was devastated for the better part of an hour as reality set in that the Canucks were going to lose Game 7. That was nothing compared to how I felt when I saw the broadcast return from the first commercial break after the Cup was awarded. I'll never forget the image of that car flipped upside down and burning with thousands of people around it rioting.
I was extremely proud of St. Louis last year. The police department released a statement thanking everyone and saying they did not have one single reported rioting or looting type event after the final. The traffic cops were celebrating with the fans outside of enterprise and Busch stadium when the watch parties let out. I remember one individual getting arrested at the parade for climbing on a light pole, that’s the only incident that I ever heard about.
Rioting for sports doesn't seem to be in our makeup here. Over the past 20 years, we've won two World Series and lost one, won a Super Bowl and lost one, and then the Stanley Cup win. None of those had major troubles. Maybe it's just harder to get downtown for rioting purposes.
@@defaultuser1447 I think it's more the mentality of the midwest. We consider those in our society more like family members rather than strangers on average. During the parade everyone was our brother and sister.
The Vancouver 2011 Cup Finals is the first hockey memory that I have. It was a Blurr but the first game I remember watching and remember how I felt etc. I was personally extremely upset about Vancouver losing that series. Then my parents were like OMG THEY'RE RIOTING! Then they had to explain to me what Rioting was. I was a little kid and this was the first sports game I remember. Game 7 where Vancouver lost ANDDD then the city Rioted.
This is one of my top 3 videos you have done....at least out of the many I have seen.
It is truly sad that a guy who has two favorite teams, can't enjoy the experience of knowing one of them will be crowned champions due to some childish, lawless jackasses.
Shannon, I agree with you 100%. There are good and bad fans for every team in every city. It is horrible that those smaller groups of bad fans can cause so much damage and chaos no matter if your team wins or looses a championship. I was born and raised in Philadelphia, just walking distance from the stadiums. In the time that our teams have won, the morons and drunks that are "Celebrating" and going crazy give us the Fans and the entire City a bad name. Those groups is what always make the news and I think in a very twisted way inspire them to act like idiots so they can see themselves on TV. Thank you for making a video like this one!!!
I remember being downtown when the riots started it was crazy like something straight out of a movie I had got in a fight with someone because they were calling my little brother who is special needs retard and all sorts of mean stuff and at that moment a vpd officer came up and told us if we dont leave we would be arrested meanwhile theres people lighting vpd cars on fire across the street but they see a 17 year old defending a 10 year old a priority, we quiky jumped in a cab home and watched on tv as my city burned (literally) and was looted really sad day
I love these classic Hockey Guy videos. It's the perfect antidote to my Canucks PTSD.
“You can’t compare the last time Toronto won a cup to this because fire was invented.” ...I just screamed
😄😄
Maple Leafs - 13 cups, 0 riots
Blue Jays - 2 World Series, 0 riots
Raptors - 1 championship, 0 riots
I know you only brought up the Leafs so Canucks fans wouldn't get depressed I get that.
But fact is Toronto is a mature. The crowd policed themselves for the most part, which wasn't the case in Vancouver.
Also, not a lot of people were from Vancouver
Moron.both riots were not started by fans. They were started and planned in advance by an anarchist group
Sounds like you got an inferiority complex with vancouver
This is probably my favourite video you’ve ever done. Saving this one for the laughs.
That subtle Toronto cup drought diss had me screaming 🤣🤣🤣
1:30 and 1:39 killed me😂💀
I love the cat hamming it up in the background :)
When you say future shop that’s where the best buy is now on Granville or a different location? Wow. It’s crazy. I’m from the Seattle area I’ve been to Vancouver a number of times I’m aware of where the arenas are. I went to a game once a while ago and great fans.
Imagine if he did this video in a "I'm here for the Riots" shirt lol
Awesome video man, being a Bruins fan in Winnipeg I was cheering as Vancouver burned, my bad. But I got mad respect for You and Vancouver. I know that I wouldn't be able to do your job, I'd have to have Burbank Studio Fuel to be able to have the chops, keep up the great work bro. Sorry for cheering in 2011.
I remember the 2011 playoffs in Vancouver well. As a Sharks fan, my thoughts on Vancouver's fan base were all vindicated lol. I remember walking down terminal near our jam space and every car had their windows busted.
From the Seattle Canuck fan. Love Vancouver! I always think about this all the time.
Yes, their were people there going to riot. I am so upset and worry about the next time. They will do this again. Personally, I root for the team.
Hope they don't make it to the cup.That it sad for me to feel like this. For a team, I support and follow from Seattle. Wishing my team not to win a championship.
What about the Kraken
What gets me, is that I experienced large crowd public viewing open celebrations THE PREVIOUS YEAR. Everyone was happy and joined together in a sea of red maple. Crosby scored the Golden Goal, which capped off a few weeks celebration of world class international sports.
For the life of me, I can't understand how they couldn't use the same logistics to corral 2011 Finals viewing in a similar way to how they did the 2010 LiveCity olympics viewing venues.
Fast forward to 2011, and I think it was just hubris to think that Vancouverites would conduct themselves the same way for SCFinals, than they would for the Winter Games. I thought also, "we got blown out in Game 7, but nah, there wouldn't be another riot". I left the open viewing party as soon as I saw the smoke from the first overturned car 20m away from me. By the time I reached SkyTrain, there were sirens and social media exploding on how there was fighting and looting.
I don't think I'll ever get over that, and it's a collective pain we share as Canucks fans.
The Aaron Rome hit on Horton changed that series and Vancouver's destiny. 2011 was their year, they got all the breaks, were the best team and they blew it.
They almost blew a Playoff Series lead to the Blackhawks, the following year, the Kings finished them off for good.
When are you going to use the Canucks room ?
Next level chirp at 5:08, good one Shannon
I remember 94, game 6 when we(Vancouver) won I was downtown and it was a celebration. Then game 7 happened.. boy howdy.
This is one of thise situations that you remember where you were and what you thought when this took place. I was 8 when this happened and I remember a lot. I was at home (I don't live in Vancouver). I was watching the game of the TV and I felt upset. I wanted Vancouver to win. I was like "Aweeeeee this really sucks. I REALLY wanted Vancouver and the Sedins to win the Cup. Oh well, maybe next year"
At first it was all fine, until me and my family realized that they were rioting and that is was a huge thing. I wasn't alive during the Riot in 94, or whatever year that was. But I was a kid during the 2011 Riot. I was like..... WHY? I know you're all upset, I am too! But why the frick would you riot??
Dreary old Vancouver plenty of rain .I went a Canucks home game looked up at rafters didn't see one cup banner 50 years of nothing kind of reminds of the buds
“Fire wasn’t invented” had me rolling around
I remember I was 10 at the time, I literally didnt think it was real I thought it was a game and I live pretty close to van
Orcajesus i was 8 i cried my eyes out when vancouver lost
Do you think the potential for these sort of incidents is in the back of players' minds who play for Canadian teams? Affect signing with Canadian teams? Just a stoned thought but hearing this point of view does make it seem like it could loom heavy on the minds of players.
FIRE WASN’T INVENTED YET THE LAST TIME LAST TIME LEAFS WON A CUP. Omg Shannon, I literally just spat my drink all over my phone while I was watching this. I’m in public right now too... thanks a lot.
@2:20 I've been a fan of the team since '83......cat in background Whaaaaaaa?
I was at The Rock. Wings v Devils. The previous night I was drinking heavily and was hung over for the game. I didn't want to deal with Jersey fans while hungover so I wore no Wings gear. My friend (a Devils fan) said it would be no worry but given my condition said just go neutral and take it easy just in case. It wouldn't have mattered. Tons of Wings fans plus...the kid with a home cut mohawk in the next section in a Rangers jersey. From start to finish this kid was heckled non-stop. After the second intermission he moved over a section but was spotted again. "There's the kid with the haircut!" and it started all over again. It was amazing. I've never seen some many people gang up on one guy. He took shit from start to finish.
I remember that day vividly. I was 15 years old, and obviously the heartbreak of seeing the Canucks lose was one thing; then the riot; it was also the night when my relationship with my mum hit an all-time low (thankfully it is very much improved now). After that night I moved in with my dad, who I lived with for several years... It was very much the day my childhood ended. I don't think most people can pin it down to a specific date but I know my life was very different before and after June 15, 2011.
However... While I had long been a Canucks fan, the 2011 run really cemented my marriage to this team. Living with my dad, who has long followed the Canucks, we would watch a lot of the games together and this made me a bigger and bigger fan over time. Living with him allowed me to rebuild my relationship with my mum; and in those future years since 2011, I have a renewed relationship with Vancouver as well, having been a taxi driver and seeing its surreal beauties and devastating flaws all at once. Much like the young team Vancouver has on the ice these days, it shows that disasterous days like this one can have positive impact years down the road. Had that day not been so bad, life for me now might not be this good.
Glad to hear you got through to the other side, brother. Take care and be well.
Beautiful title xD
I went downtown during the 2012 Stanley cup Final in Los Angeles, and the police were absolutely terrified that there was going to be a riot. Everyone there who was cheering and excited were all well behaved, and aware of what had happened in vancouver last year. There was general irritation among the crowd about how the PD thought we were going to start flipping cars over.
To be fair, Los Angeles had a reputation of riots for decades, so, it's not like they hadn't been conditioned to accept the worst.
@@matthewdaley746 Rodney King!!
@wilnerolivier7971 Exactly, I'm sure the police were just waiting for the other shoe to drop, and, were completely stunned when it didn't happen.
@@matthewdaley746 The police didn't do anything during the Rodney King riots!!
@wilnerolivier7971 Of course not, it was because of their videotaped actions that the riots had even started in the first place.
I remember sitting in TO with a guy from Vancouver before GM7 with Boston. He said they’re gonna riot regardless of the result.
A question to ponder is this. If the series had been a sweep would this have been much worse or not as bad?
That shot on Toronto was priceless. Fire wasn’t invited when the leafs last won the cup 😂😂
5:08
*Cue “Angel” by Sarah McLachlan*
To be fair on last years celebration in Toronto a few people did get shot....
Those were random isolated incidents. Not organized brawls.
@Carleton Rutherford 2 riots is worse. Chill out.
@@dylekubas228 You need to do a better job as GM of the Moronto Laple Teafs, Dyle.
I want to riot after recent Canucks game.
You're not a real fan
@@jamesgentry13 wrong
Real fans are not the trolling negative assholes
The guy makes a joke and immediately gets called out. Welcome to youtube comment section.
@@mr.orange8205 lol at it's finest
Hold on, don’t beat him yet **in selfie position** all right, go for it **smiling and giving thumbs up** Instagram that (Just beat this Bruins fan here LOL)
Seriously doubt it
Leafs fan here, We know how you feel. 4 straight first round eliminations, 3 at the hands of my most hated NHL team.
CORRECTION: The most BELOVED NHL team. Fixed it.
John Browne I'm a Bruins hater, sorry.
@@importednascar Then you won't be going to heaven, sorry.
It really is wild Bruins/Leafs play each other in the playoffs more than the season. I miss the old days were we played division teams 8 times a year.
@@Shatamx Been a Leafs fan since 2009
I lived in Toronto during their championship run with the raps, Police let people drink and be stupid but by 3am the Police and swat tore up crowds and made people go home.. it was actually cool to see, now if they lose that game? Idk it could have been a nightmare lol
5:08 daaaammmmnnn. Savage
Had nothing to do with on the ice. Weve had riots in Denver, after Bronco & Av Titles...I even got caught in the Bronco riot...as a bystander,not participant. But it never made me wish my team never made it to the Finals or SB again. It pissed me off,& I agree with your comments,how stupid it is...but it didn't lessen my enjoyment of my teams accomplishments 1 bit. I can hate what dumb,drunk idiots do...but has nothing to do with the team...or even the city as a whole.
"my neighbor just bested me at golf, i better set my house.on fire" made me laugh
I was 13 years old during that 2011 finals, and an Oilers fan from Edmonton (awesome time to be a young hockey fan in Edmonton I know), and I remember watching that game 7 with my Dad and the riot coverage afterwards and yeah, it was an absolute joke to other Canadians like me and particularly fans of bad hockey teams, who hated the Canucks like me, because Vancouver fans sure loved to rub it in that they were having a prolonged period of beating the crap out of the Oilers. I probably made jokes about the riot to Canucks fans for a good few years afterwards, it was an absolute disaster and so easy to make fun of because of how poorly it was handled and how bad it made Canucks fans look.
Really not fair to compare your team being in a bad streak of seasons but having won multiple Stanley cups to a city whose never won a Stanley cup in their existence . Not excusing them rioting obviously but to pretend you’ve had it equally as awful as an Edmonton fan who had Gretzky and won multiple cups is a bit dishonest lol
I felt bad for the good Canucks fans and all Canadiens as a Flyers fan having gone through the sweep from the Red Wings !!! I was rooting for the Canucks as my favorite Western Conference team. Very sad to see what happened as we have our lunatics here as everybody well knows !!!
I've lived in Vancouver since 2001. This riot was a super embarassing event for this city and for Canucks fans. When the Canucks started losing, people started intentionally coming downtown just to start a riot. I remember seeing smoke billowing from downtown area. Disgusting.
That roast of Toronto was honestly incredible and even better than any 67 joke
lmao ... Nice shot at the leafs!
2018 in DC was the most fun I have ever had in public.
Even living 1500 hundred miles away I could easily predict 2011. I happened to be in downtown Vancouver for game 7 in 94 (but luckily outside the riot zone) and the conditions in 11 were not any different. Way too many people in a small area with too much alcohol and an incompetent (to say the least) VPD response. There is even an argument to made that VPD actually triggered the 94 riot. Yes, there was stupid drunken behavior in the crowd, but how VPD responded was probably what kicked off the mass rioting. Some dummy decided that climbing on the electric bus wires on Robson was a good idea. Of course he fell and was seriously injured. Ambulance was called but couldn't get through the dense crowd to the scene. At that point VPD decided to billy club a path through the crowd for the ambulance. I had friends who were right there watching this happen and they said that there was NO rioting BEFORE VPD started in with the billy clubs. Maybe a riot would have started anyway but it was VPD's behavior that got it going in 94. It wasn't long after that the tear gas was indiscriminately launched into the crowd, most of which was just trying to GTFO. Chaos upon chaos. Even undercover VPD in the crowd were pepper sprayed by their own as they tried to deescalate the situation. The frustration and disappointment of the game 7 result was exacerbated by VPD and probably resulted in many people who weren't there to riot joining in out of anger towards VPD's violent actions.
Ya it hurts. Canucks has 3 games where if they won that game they would have won the cup and came up short. Who else has lost 2 game 7 finals and has never won a cup yet? Can Toronto and Vancouver make it to 60 years no cup ?
Remember barely Zdeno Chara hoisting the Stanley Cup and suddenly the coverage turned to the riots. Wasn't surprised it happened observing from Calgary. Then the people looting I had to make fun of the pictures and said who farted? See people covering their noses running out of the stores with their shirts or jerseys. Smart thing is walk away from the riots but they did cram too many in one spot for starters.
13:30 totally agree
I'm just going to point out that Southern Ontario produced Three Days Grace, who once wrote a song literally entitled "Riot", the chorus of which is nothing but "let's start a riot" repeated numerous times...
Looks like the NY Islanders banner is missing a tack and fall off your wall.
I went into Vancouver several times during the 2010 Olympics, including during the Golden game, and the atmosphere was incredible. You could feel the joy and celebration. There were many, many high fives with strangers! It felt like I imagine it would feel to win the Stanley Cup, because we knew it was a rare, maybe one-in-a-lifetime moment to win a hockey Gold Medal in hockey IN Vancouver. So when we made a big run come the Stanley Cup Playoffs I headed into Vancouver for a ton of the games, watching them on the outdoor screens (just as I had for the Olympics). The attitude from the fans were great. Huge celebrations with jovial fans, a fun party atmosphere, after each big win. All the way up to game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals, this was the case. But heading in on Game 7, there were different people. It felt different the whole game. Mid game, we saw people climbing up onto the awnings of the buildings instead of watching the game. Non-hockey fans in the crowd. You know when you're watching the game with non-hockey fans and they don't even watch the play. They don't get excited when the game is exciting... that's what was going on. So you're right... this isn't on real Canucks fans. People saw an opportunity, and they poached the event for their own ends. I can't say who to blame, or why exactly it happened then and not other times... but I do know that the people who rioted were not the people who were out for the previous games.
Watching the Canucks play the last few games has been a riot.
I was mad at the Canucks for like my first year as a Canucks fan and than I realized that this team is a bunch of chokers. Now I’m just welp here we go again lol. As much as I love this team they can definitely be tough to watch.
2:40 true words that describe me with this team as well.
13:50 - Shannon straight up sounded like Homer Simpson when He said "Oh if We had won in [1994]". WooHoo.
The issue I had with the riots... not so much jail time but to be charged with a criminal act under a violent act (rioting)... good luck getting a trip anywhere in the world due to your record... also have fun paying for your lawyer bill...
Next season will be the 10th anniversary of the run. I expect a ton of talk about the final and riot from the sportsmedia in vancouver next year. As if we havent heard enough about over the past decade already......
The people who rioted at the US Capitol clearly did not watch your video.
Look we blew the budget on 2010
So when 2011 came around
Which not many saw coming
Didn't have the money
Roberto Luongo was the Western Conference Champion not the Canucks, lol.