Vancouver riots over losing Stanley Cup

[OneHandNow]

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oh look

scumbags of society


and they're all holding skateboards and have nothing better to do on a weekday than riot over a hockey team's loss

so productive

[fido123]

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Its a working class thing, you'll never understand because you're intelligent but as smart as a cucumber... their being looked down on by higher society probably gives them justification in their minds to smash that car up i would do it too just for the fact that it pisses you privelaged queers off.

You're a ****ing clueless snob. I can guarantee you tons of white collar workers were in there too and it's only retards like you who look down upon blue collar jobs. My dad is self-employed and works a blue collar job and you have to be fairly intelligent and knowledgeable to do what he does. The fact you even call non-working class people "higher society" tells it all. Using slurs makes you look like an ignorant **** on top of that. I'm in school to get a white collar job but I am currently and have in the past worked at factories, and they're not "below you".

These people riot cause they're a bunch of over-privileged idiots. It's a game people spectate. Whether their team wins or loses changes nothing. I hope each and every rioter repays the city/property owners every penny of damage they caused and go to jail to smarten their asses up. Ridiculous how spoiled and stupid people are these days. I know this isn't solely over the team loosing, but people just find it a good enough excuse to be retarded I guess.

[Crashfan3]

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Prob gonna get flamed for this but: lol, hockey. srs fkn bsns.

[bmah]

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But that's true; in Canada, hockey really is serious business.

The only reason why this event stood out more than other riots at sporting events is because Vancouver is generally known to have world-class reputation in regards to the quality of life, the city, and I assume then the behavior/mannerism of people. Riots here showed a sharp contrast.

[OneHandNow]

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Prob gonna get flamed for this but: lol, hockey. srs fkn bsns.

see this is funny because

that asian dude probably doesn't even play hockey

looks like a spoiled brat with his whiterimmed glasses, dogtag, and "fashionable" hair

[Artic_counter]

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Scumbags of society indeed.

If you think this is serious, you should look up Montreal when they lose xD

that asian dude probably doesn't even play hockey

Well I don't know. That hockey stick is quite expensive. Even though it's horribly taped lol.

[TD_Project]

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But that's true; in Canada, hockey really is serious business.

The only reason why this event stood out more than other riots at sporting events is because Vancouver is generally known to have world-class reputation in regards to the quality of life, the city, and I assume then the behavior/mannerism of people. Riots here showed a sharp contrast.

Almost certain the homeless rate would disagree with you. Doesn't that city have the largest panhandler rate per capita in all of Canada?

[bmah]

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That's not how the world has previously viewed Vancouver, and is besides the point. Vancouver's overall light was greatly a positive one, and is constantly advertised as such. This is why the riots were such a shock internationally. Everyone expected better.

And really, just about everyone did. The perpetrators were probably around 30 or so people - scumbags. They really stained the reputation of Vancouver as a whole.

[TD_Project]

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Yeah true. I must admit, when it first erupted lots of people jumped on the bandwagon to thinking that Vancouver was really full of people like that, but it didn't take long for me to realize it's just the idiots who did that, and they shouldn't represent all of Vancouver.

After all, when the announcement of the Winnipeg Jets return happened, there were lots of idiots out here too going nuts. Not that nuts mind you.

[OneHandNow]

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gg canada

30 people ruining rep for millions

[bmah]

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gg canada

30 people ruining rep for millions

EXACTLY

this is the travesty

[foilman8805]

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That's not how the world has previously viewed Vancouver, and is besides the point. Vancouver's overall light was greatly a positive one, and is constantly advertised as such. This is why the riots were such a shock internationally. Everyone expected better.

And really, just about everyone did. The perpetrators were probably around 30 or so people - scumbags. They really stained the reputation of Vancouver as a whole.

Weren't there some pretty serious riots and incidents during the 2010 Winter Olympics? I have the feeling that Vancouver is going to be disregarded as a choice for global sporting events in the future.

Don't get me wrong though - I know that these individuals hardly represent the Canadian population. I would be taking the same stance as you guys if this were occurring in Boston or wherever else in the United States. I've been to Vancouver and it really was a lovely place by my observations.

[T-Force]

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Alright, Canucks fan here to shed opinionated light here.

To put in perspective last time when the Flyers lost in Philly, my land renowned for aggressive sports fans, we just chanted "lets go Flyers" as the team skated off.

If you had been watching the game, Vancouver fans at Rogers Arena were doing the same for the last minute as well as before the handshakes.

After Vancouver shitting the bed so hard and us loving the game so much I wasn't really that surprised when I heard it on the news this morning but apparently there's a huge Facebook group working to fix the damage and clean up a bit.

Our country is the shit, and hockey is very very serious stuff people.

Towards this, I have:

http://canucks.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=566199

Read if you all want. But one day of destruction also leads to one day of healing.
Also, I think every sport has their extremely passionate fans. England (and probably most of Europe) with their soccer, Canadians and hockey, Americans and football and baseball, to name a few stereotypical ones.

Bah, Vancouver takes their hockey way too seriously. :/

And Montreal, and Toronto, and Calgary, and Edmonton. I'd say Ottawa too, but...

gg canada

30 people ruining rep for millions

30 people ruining the reps of a sports team, their supporters, their city, their province, their country.

As for the Olympics, I know there were a lot of protests on, but I'm not aware of the extent of damage, if any.
Guaranteed though, if the States had scored, and not Crosby, this would be the second such riot in 2 years. Only it'd be cross-country. Not just in Vancouver.

I see the Olympics has a huge boost to Vancouver's rep. Everyone saw Vancouver as a warm place with friendly folk, as well as patriotic, but accepting.
This riot, in my opinion, cancels all of the positive out. It's like taking the opinions from '09 and before.

Also, this was to be expected. '94 showed us that much as well.



But there is one thing. Zag had it right when he said the "fans" were rioting. The true fans were the ones waving their flags, towels, and honking their horns chating Go, Canucks, Go with minutes left in the game. We know it's just a game, and there's always next season.

[OneHandNow]

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golf is serious business

and we don't see people turning over cars when mickelson and kaymer have a bad run

lol "serious sports"

[bmah]

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golf is serious business

and we don't see people turning over cars when mickelson and kaymer have a bad run

lol "serious sports"

but golf isn't the sport that defines a country like Canada
like T-Force said, there's a sport in each country that the people are much more highly passionate about

In addition, golf is the sort of sport that the more (docile) elderly would enjoy, not younger people who tend to watch hockey, football, and other team sports. The atmosphere is different and incomparable.

@T-Force: I don't know if this event cancelled out all the good publicity from the Olympics, but it sure took a beating. Btw, the protests during the Olympics were smaller and easier to control; extent of damage was minimal.