Out of all the things we could have legitimately rioted about over the past year, from metered Internet Caps to introduction of HST to G20 Police brutality, losing a hockey game is what got the riots going?
Living in Montreal, I thought I saw it all, and these people give hockey fans a bad name
SY
THEY ARENT HOCKEY FANS!!! The media really needs to represent this situation better. These people came prepared with bricks in their backpacks, bandanas to use as face masks and crowbars and the like. They were well prepared and organized, ready to cause chaos. It had NOTHING to do with hockey. Real hockey fans are disgusted by this before. Go see footage at Rogers Arena and you’ll see the fans cheering on the Bruins and Thomas when he got the Conn Smythe.
ThinkItThrough
How can you be so hateful about your fellow countrymen and so self-righteous at the same time?
The VAST majority of us took our loss with dignity and dealt with our disapointment without damaging anything or hurting anyone. I was very sad to lose the cup, I was shocked and embarrassed by the riots, and then I come on SC to feel better and some mean people are spouting hate about Vancouver, British Columbia, the Canucks, and their fans. Well, if it makes you feel better, I feel your hatred and disgust. I haven’t done anything to deserve it, but I feel it. Well done.
maliha44
Seriously? They’re trashing their own city!
jason
its not canadians even loosing the cup its a mix of all countries . I am a sharks fan and i still think they have the most canadians on it . I didnt care who won we won the Olympics now thats a true canadian team. Now its garbage hockey with overpaid players
Andrea
Phew…takes the heat off of Montreal for a little while!!
I have to say, it looks like a page right out of the “Idiots of Montreal” playbook! (I say in quotes, because clearly it was a minor few of the population who actually rioted…both here and Van, not to mention almost every other city in North America at some time or another).
Montreal police have finally learned to be pro-active during big sporting events in Montreal — they send out the Mounted Police, create mini concerts, all sorts of things to divert people’s attention from rioting. It seems to be working, but alas, we will most likely always have to deal with a certain amount of destruction because those that destroy plan in advance…it’s no real coincidence, just a lousy excuse to be stupid, with a capital S.
Stand tall all your Vancouverites who cheered on your team with good grace and enthousiasm!!! There are always the minority few who feel it’s their God giving right to ruin the fun for others.
monkeymommy
I have to say I am really truly disgusted! I was disgusted when the G20 happened and not just because of the riots but with the costs associated with that could have been put to much better use.….and now this. Really people WTF! Isn’t Canada supposed to be peaceful.…rioting over a hockey game, makes me sick!
M C
SNOWPLOWS SNOWPLOWS SNOWPLOWS that will sweep their arses
Diane456
I am disgusted & embarressed. Rioting over Hockey?! Are we as Canadian better than that? Sad.….
Vancouver pride
THEY WERE NOT RIOTING OVER HOCKEY.…this was planned and making us hockey lovers look bad. its sad to see what a minor number of ppl can do to our wonderful city. Canucks had an awesome run this year and it was great to watch. please stop talking down on our city when you don’t have all the information and go by only what they want you to know
Kathleen
Reading all these posts is almost as upsetting as watching the riots on TV. As a few people have said, this riot was planned in advance & the ‘organizers’ knew how to take advantage of an emotionally charged event, fueled by lots of booze and testosterone(yes, I know that some young women were involved, too). Many people attempted to step in to prevent the looting. etc., and were beaten for their efforts. This morning, lots of people took it upon themselves to go downtown to help with the clean-up. We are all disgusted with what has happened & know that we have a lot of work to do to repair Vancouver’s image (and B.C.‘s image,too)and it would be really nice if the rest of Canada wasn’t sneering at us.
Mischa
Although there does seem to be an understanding that these were not real hockey fans, there seems to still be a lot of people that don’t understand that the riot had nothing to do with the Canucks losing the hockey game, or even the hockey game at all.
Police have confirmed that a lot of the instigators of the riot were the same anarchists that tried to shame the city by crashing a peaceful Olympic protest (with their hoodies and bandanas) and breaking the same glass at the Bay that they did last night! These anarchists aren’t carrying laptops in those backpacks you see many of them wearing. I’ve heard stories of people seeing the protestors pull crowbars and bricks from their bags in order to destroy the city.
Again, the hockey game just served as the event for those people to hide in and use as cover for damaging our beautiful city.
The influx of volunteers that came downtown with their own brooms and dustpans to sweep and clean up the broken glass and trash left by these anarchist was a way for us to stay f/u to those that did the damage.
Please believe the hockey game loss had nothing to do with this event.
ecliptic
The clean-up efforts by hundreds of volunteers the next day is what everyone should also remember:
I find the comments that Vancouver is response for this event ignorant and hateful. Well the events of last night are horrible, to place blame on an entire population because of geographic location is horrible as well.
I was downtown when the riots began for another event and those people that rioted would have done so whether the game was won or lost. They brought bandanas and tools with them and the trouble had started before the third period even started. This was NOT about a hockey game. This was an opportunistic group of parasites looking for an excuse to riot and get themselves on film. Yes, some very impaired and soreful hockey fans joined in but what the news did not cover was the thousands of people who got out of the downtown core before the riot began, the groups that joined arms to block rioters from getting to some businesses, making protective circles around the injured and the young, the riot police who responded swiftly and the HUNDREDS of volunteers who rallied this morning to clean up what surely was NOT their mess.
I hope this never happens in your communities and if by some horrible chance it does, I hope the rest of the country rallies to your support not to your condemnation.
carlyincanada
I agree that it wasn’t about losing a hockey game…these idiots were looking for trouble & wanted their 15 minutes of fame on a Utube video! I hope with all the pics/videos they can round them up & they get the punishment they deserve! Thank goodness they didn’t bring guns with them or could be worse!
What a great season Vancouver had & a great series to watch! It was nice to see the citizens help cleaned up the mess so fast!
Lori
It’s the few miscreants at various games/events that make me not like sports so much. I personally think the only people who should care so much about winning/losing a game are the people paid to play it. Rioting and looting is not going to change what happened.
Robin
Canada did not riot, it was the actions of a handful of idiots! Did Canada riot during the G20! No, Canada did not, again, it was the actions of a few who just wanted to do damage. DO NOT group the rest of us in with these criminals.
Those of you that say they are so ashamed to be Canadian then please leave with my blessing because the thing about being Canadian is that you have freedom of choice to do just that.
That is why so many of our soldiers have died, so you can have it.
Riot damage can be cleaned up, anti Canadian attitudes and comments are permanent.
It saddens me to see so many people that are Canadians themselves be so quick to jump all over the people of Vancouver. If you really took the time to view and investigate what happened here 2 nights ago you would see that the majority of those involved in the riot showed up there to cause desctruction no matter the outcome of the game. For those that say Canuck Fans were involved of course that is a possibility but we can’t be sure that those with jersey’s on actually bought those jersey’s. There was a ton of looting going on that night…much of which was Canuck product. People need to open their eyes and see what this really was… a bunch of young punks who were out to cause trouble and used the crowds as cover for their misbehaviour. You don’t show up to an outdoor game showing with masks, flame throwers, explosives and things of that nature unless you have a dark motive. It was so scary down here that police had to lock families that had come to enjoy the game in a theatre to keep them safe. People were hurt and all for what, so some young punks could have what they consider a good time. Our country as a whole needs to stop barring parents from doing their job and we as parents need to start disciplining our kids and keep them out of this kind of trouble. Young people are being handed everything, with no consequences for actions and its not teaching them the value of working hard for something and the personal cost once it has been destroyed. Instead of wasting your energies on blaming all of Vancvouer put your energies into helping a country work towards raising a different kind of youth so we can avoid riots of stupidity like this in the future…these people don’t only live in Vancouver…they live in your city too.
pj
Those of us who live in this beautiful part of the country are VERY upset by what happened after the hockey game. My son was there, but saw what was happening and left during the 3rd period. He said things were already starting to be out of control BEFORE the game even started. This was not like the Olympics when everyone was having fun! Even then there were a few people who tried to start something but they were stopped by the rest of the crowds. This time there were too many people to start which made things escalate to the level they did. We are all hoping that the people who really instigated this whole thing are found and charged!
Has everyone forgotten what this town was like during the Olympics? That is what Vancouver is really about!!!
Todd
This was an organized riot, 25–50 who have nothing better to do but take advantage of the situation and give the city of Vancouver and its hockey fans a black eye.
Once the few got all the drunkards whipped into a frenzy, the riot was on…
Living in Montreal, I thought I saw it all, and these people give hockey fans a bad name
THEY ARENT HOCKEY FANS!!! The media really needs to represent this situation better. These people came prepared with bricks in their backpacks, bandanas to use as face masks and crowbars and the like. They were well prepared and organized, ready to cause chaos. It had NOTHING to do with hockey. Real hockey fans are disgusted by this before. Go see footage at Rogers Arena and you’ll see the fans cheering on the Bruins and Thomas when he got the Conn Smythe.
How can you be so hateful about your fellow countrymen and so self-righteous at the same time?
The VAST majority of us took our loss with dignity and dealt with our disapointment without damaging anything or hurting anyone. I was very sad to lose the cup, I was shocked and embarrassed by the riots, and then I come on SC to feel better and some mean people are spouting hate about Vancouver, British Columbia, the Canucks, and their fans. Well, if it makes you feel better, I feel your hatred and disgust. I haven’t done anything to deserve it, but I feel it. Well done.
Seriously? They’re trashing their own city!
its not canadians even loosing the cup its a mix of all countries . I am a sharks fan and i still think they have the most canadians on it . I didnt care who won we won the Olympics now thats a true canadian team. Now its garbage hockey with overpaid players
Phew…takes the heat off of Montreal for a little while!!
I have to say, it looks like a page right out of the “Idiots of Montreal” playbook! (I say in quotes, because clearly it was a minor few of the population who actually rioted…both here and Van, not to mention almost every other city in North America at some time or another).
Montreal police have finally learned to be pro-active during big sporting events in Montreal — they send out the Mounted Police, create mini concerts, all sorts of things to divert people’s attention from rioting. It seems to be working, but alas, we will most likely always have to deal with a certain amount of destruction because those that destroy plan in advance…it’s no real coincidence, just a lousy excuse to be stupid, with a capital S.
Stand tall all your Vancouverites who cheered on your team with good grace and enthousiasm!!! There are always the minority few who feel it’s their God giving right to ruin the fun for others.
I have to say I am really truly disgusted! I was disgusted when the G20 happened and not just because of the riots but with the costs associated with that could have been put to much better use.….and now this. Really people WTF! Isn’t Canada supposed to be peaceful.…rioting over a hockey game, makes me sick!
SNOWPLOWS SNOWPLOWS SNOWPLOWS that will sweep their arses
I am disgusted & embarressed. Rioting over Hockey?! Are we as Canadian better than that? Sad.….
THEY WERE NOT RIOTING OVER HOCKEY.…this was planned and making us hockey lovers look bad. its sad to see what a minor number of ppl can do to our wonderful city. Canucks had an awesome run this year and it was great to watch. please stop talking down on our city when you don’t have all the information and go by only what they want you to know
Reading all these posts is almost as upsetting as watching the riots on TV. As a few people have said, this riot was planned in advance & the ‘organizers’ knew how to take advantage of an emotionally charged event, fueled by lots of booze and testosterone(yes, I know that some young women were involved, too). Many people attempted to step in to prevent the looting. etc., and were beaten for their efforts. This morning, lots of people took it upon themselves to go downtown to help with the clean-up. We are all disgusted with what has happened & know that we have a lot of work to do to repair Vancouver’s image (and B.C.‘s image,too)and it would be really nice if the rest of Canada wasn’t sneering at us.
Although there does seem to be an understanding that these were not real hockey fans, there seems to still be a lot of people that don’t understand that the riot had nothing to do with the Canucks losing the hockey game, or even the hockey game at all.
Police have confirmed that a lot of the instigators of the riot were the same anarchists that tried to shame the city by crashing a peaceful Olympic protest (with their hoodies and bandanas) and breaking the same glass at the Bay that they did last night! These anarchists aren’t carrying laptops in those backpacks you see many of them wearing. I’ve heard stories of people seeing the protestors pull crowbars and bricks from their bags in order to destroy the city.
Again, the hockey game just served as the event for those people to hide in and use as cover for damaging our beautiful city.
The influx of volunteers that came downtown with their own brooms and dustpans to sweep and clean up the broken glass and trash left by these anarchist was a way for us to stay f/u to those that did the damage.
Please believe the hockey game loss had nothing to do with this event.
The clean-up efforts by hundreds of volunteers the next day is what everyone should also remember:
http://canucks.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=566199
I find the comments that Vancouver is response for this event ignorant and hateful. Well the events of last night are horrible, to place blame on an entire population because of geographic location is horrible as well.
I was downtown when the riots began for another event and those people that rioted would have done so whether the game was won or lost. They brought bandanas and tools with them and the trouble had started before the third period even started. This was NOT about a hockey game. This was an opportunistic group of parasites looking for an excuse to riot and get themselves on film. Yes, some very impaired and soreful hockey fans joined in but what the news did not cover was the thousands of people who got out of the downtown core before the riot began, the groups that joined arms to block rioters from getting to some businesses, making protective circles around the injured and the young, the riot police who responded swiftly and the HUNDREDS of volunteers who rallied this morning to clean up what surely was NOT their mess.
I hope this never happens in your communities and if by some horrible chance it does, I hope the rest of the country rallies to your support not to your condemnation.
I agree that it wasn’t about losing a hockey game…these idiots were looking for trouble & wanted their 15 minutes of fame on a Utube video! I hope with all the pics/videos they can round them up & they get the punishment they deserve! Thank goodness they didn’t bring guns with them or could be worse!
What a great season Vancouver had & a great series to watch! It was nice to see the citizens help cleaned up the mess so fast!
It’s the few miscreants at various games/events that make me not like sports so much. I personally think the only people who should care so much about winning/losing a game are the people paid to play it. Rioting and looting is not going to change what happened.
Canada did not riot, it was the actions of a handful of idiots! Did Canada riot during the G20! No, Canada did not, again, it was the actions of a few who just wanted to do damage. DO NOT group the rest of us in with these criminals.
Those of you that say they are so ashamed to be Canadian then please leave with my blessing because the thing about being Canadian is that you have freedom of choice to do just that.
That is why so many of our soldiers have died, so you can have it.
Riot damage can be cleaned up, anti Canadian attitudes and comments are permanent.
It saddens me to see so many people that are Canadians themselves be so quick to jump all over the people of Vancouver. If you really took the time to view and investigate what happened here 2 nights ago you would see that the majority of those involved in the riot showed up there to cause desctruction no matter the outcome of the game. For those that say Canuck Fans were involved of course that is a possibility but we can’t be sure that those with jersey’s on actually bought those jersey’s. There was a ton of looting going on that night…much of which was Canuck product. People need to open their eyes and see what this really was… a bunch of young punks who were out to cause trouble and used the crowds as cover for their misbehaviour. You don’t show up to an outdoor game showing with masks, flame throwers, explosives and things of that nature unless you have a dark motive. It was so scary down here that police had to lock families that had come to enjoy the game in a theatre to keep them safe. People were hurt and all for what, so some young punks could have what they consider a good time. Our country as a whole needs to stop barring parents from doing their job and we as parents need to start disciplining our kids and keep them out of this kind of trouble. Young people are being handed everything, with no consequences for actions and its not teaching them the value of working hard for something and the personal cost once it has been destroyed. Instead of wasting your energies on blaming all of Vancvouer put your energies into helping a country work towards raising a different kind of youth so we can avoid riots of stupidity like this in the future…these people don’t only live in Vancouver…they live in your city too.
Those of us who live in this beautiful part of the country are VERY upset by what happened after the hockey game. My son was there, but saw what was happening and left during the 3rd period. He said things were already starting to be out of control BEFORE the game even started. This was not like the Olympics when everyone was having fun! Even then there were a few people who tried to start something but they were stopped by the rest of the crowds. This time there were too many people to start which made things escalate to the level they did. We are all hoping that the people who really instigated this whole thing are found and charged!
Has everyone forgotten what this town was like during the Olympics? That is what Vancouver is really about!!!
This was an organized riot, 25–50 who have nothing better to do but take advantage of the situation and give the city of Vancouver and its hockey fans a black eye.
Once the few got all the drunkards whipped into a frenzy, the riot was on…
embarrassing yes, but hockey fans.. no
Hockey is in our Blood!