Boston wins 4-0; Vancouver erupts in riots: WTH? (videos)

The Boston Bruins won Game 7, the final game of the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals and went home with the cup after 39 years. The team last won the cup in 1972 when the team was led by Bobby Orr. Pundits will be dissecting the video footage over the coming days analysing how the Canucks lost their momentum and failed to rally against the visiting team. It’s a shame but for every winner, there has to be a loser.

The real post-game news came in a disturbing display of lawlessness when drunken thugs and anarchists took over the streets of Vancouver in frenzy of destruction and looting. This is Canada? This is an embarrassment to our country.

Reports have rioters breaking into several downtown stores like the Bay, Futureshop, Sears, and Chapters. Unknown people, faces covered by bandannas, smashed windows and looted various commercial establishments. Various news outlets have video slips of the rioting which includes setting fires and overturning cars. Even though police officers flooded the downtown core, problems persisted late into the night.

But is this a surprise? In 1994, the Canucks lost the Cup to the New York Rangers and the city showed itself to not be a good sport about it. Similar riots broke out demonstrating sadly just how some people can be sore losers.

How does this appear elsewhere? How about this quote from the Boston Herald: And well before the diehard Canucks fans had filed out of the arena and started burning cars, there was little doubt as to which team was the best in the National Hockey League. What? This makes it sound like it’s perfectly natural to come out of the arena and set a car on fire. Plus it makes us all look like a bunch of whiney assed unsportsman-like losers. Shame!

Someone has now set up on Tumblr the Vancouver 2011 Riot Criminal List where people are posting pictures in the hopes of identifying those responsable for this anarchy.

(The Chronicle Herald, The Hamilton Spectator)

The Toronto Star: pictorial of the Vancouver mayhem

Uploaded by telegraphtv on Jun 16, 2011

Ice Hockey fans riot in Vancouver as their local team lose

Riot police are called in to control the violent mob after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup final to the Boston Bruins 4-0.

Uploaded by RussiaToday on Jun 16, 2011

Video of mad Canada riots: Vancouver fans run amok, set cars on fire

Angry, drunken revellers ran wild on Wednesday night after the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-0 loss to Boston in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, setting cars and garbage cans ablaze, smashing windows, showering giant TV screens with beer bottles and dancing atop overturned vehicles. Later, looters smashed windows and ran inside department stores. There were no immediate indications of injuries, although images were shown on television of at least one woman mopping blood from her forehead. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson praised the police and firefighters and asked people to stay away from the central downtown area. Tear gas mingled with the stench of acrid smoke and stale beer as riot police, truncheons drawn, moved in to quell the violence, pushing crowds away from the burning cars. Later, police cars also were set on fire.

Uploaded by globalnational on Jun 15, 2011

Riots ensue in downtown Vancouver following Stanley Cup Final

Watch raw video from Global BC as riots break out in downtown Vancouver after the Vancouver Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup final. The score was 4-0.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1HPn1qGIps

Uploaded by CastanetNews on Jun 16, 2011

Vancouver Riots 2011 (clean audio)

Vancouver Riots following the Canucks’ game seven Stanley Cup final loss on June 15. (Footage contributed by Monica Martinez, Nick Kober and Ed Wouda)

[Rioters overturn a car. This is crazy.]

References

Wikipedia: 2011 Stanley Cup Finals: Game 7

Tim Thomas made 37 saves as Boston shut out Vancouver, 4–0, in the decisive Game 7 on the road to win the Stanley Cup. Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand each scored two of Boston’s goals. Bergeron scored first at 14:37 in the first period, then had a shorthanded goal at 17:35 in the second. Marchand’s first goal came at 12:13 of the second period, then scored on an empty net late in the third. Roberto Luongo stopped 17 out of 20 shots in the loss.

National Hockey League: Game Recap (video)

Tim Thomas foiled the Vancouver Canucks one last time to win the Conn Smythe Trophy and second-liners Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron provided the offense that brought the Stanley Cup back to Boston for the first time in 39 years. In the process of celebrating their 4-0 win at Rogers Arena in Game 7 on Wednesday night, the Bruins also erased the bitter memory of last year’s historic collapse against Philadelphia in the second round

Wikipedia: 2011 Stanley Cup Riot

The 2011 Stanley Cup riot is a public disturbance that broke out in downtown Vancouver, Canada on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, in the aftermath of the Vancouver Canucks’ loss to the Boston Bruins in game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals. Rioters overturned and set fire to two vehicles in front of the main post office, and there were reports of similar car fires in a nearby car park. Windows were smashed in a department store, a bank and several other businesses. A man was taken to hospital with a head injury after he fell from the nearby Georgia Viaduct. Police say several fans wearing Canucks attire poured seven jerry cans filled with gasoline over a black Honda Civic parked in front of the stadium. In a nearby parking lot, two Vancouver Police squad cars were also set on fire.

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