speaking of teddy bears
Posted on 06/16/2011 7:46:13 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Angry Canucks fans are on a rampage, smashing windows, looting and torching cars and dumpsters on the streets of downtown Vancouver.
More than three hours after the Stanley Cup final loss, police are moving up Howe St. toward the crowd massed at the Chapters book store on Howe and Robson.
They are very gradually pushing the crowd North up Howe.
Police spokeswoman Jana McGuiness warned earlier that police are about to escalate their response.
She said they will be igniting flash-bangs, which make loud noises and spray.
"What we're doing right now is bringing in hundreds of police officers."
The message is, you need to leave."
Officers armed with canisters massed on the corner of Granville and Robson. It is not clear whether it is tear gas or pepper spray
They are protected by shields, batons and masks.
McGuiness said the epicentre of the trouble is Granville and Georgia, she said. And even if transit isn't operating, people need to walk away from the area, she said.
When asked if police had lost control of the crowd, McGuiness would only say police have a plan to deal with the unruly crowds.
Vancouver police are closing lanes on Granville and Burrard and Cambie Street bridges to prevent more people from coming Downtown. Bus service has been halted in the downtown core
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Not to mention the non stop hitting the Bruins did. I think it scared the Canucks from really digging in the corners for the puck. You could see how tentative/reluctant they were to do so.
Also, where were the Sedin sisters in this series?
It looks like they need to add Officer Fife to their police department.
“Nip it in the BUD!”
Read the Riot Act.
Order the crown to disperse.
Begin 60 second count down.
Unleash water cannon shooting fluorescent green slime mixed with skunk oil, chilled to about 33 degrees F.
It would save a lot of property damage and maybe some lives.
(Of course, the lawyers & “advocacy” groups would have a field day.)
Nobody likes crow. But sometimes, the other team wins, and just sometimes, the other team is the better team.
I learned that when my Patriots lost to the NY Giants back in 2008. As tough as that was, I eventually had to acknowledge that the Giants just wanted it more and played harder to get it.
That made the Giants a better team on that day. This was a seven game series, so there is even less wiggle room.
Canadians Gone Wild! But just wait `til they find out we’ve been shooting their geese ....
I wonder if the Black Block, or other radical Left anarchist groups, are using this as an opportunity to practice tactics?
Reminds me of the molotov scene in “A Bronx Tale”.
I believe I saw the Sedins this morning...on the side of a milk carton.
Classic!
no goal on that play. not even close.
Good possibility. In some of the pics you see young punks wearing the bandannas over their faces typical of the anarchist tactics. I'd be willing to bet that the leftist punks infiltrated a half drunk crowd coming out of bars and such, started the looting and burning knowing that mob psychology would get a lot of other idiots to join in.
If a small percentage of fans are that upset, maybe they should pillage the player’s homes instead of downtown. /s of course
To be honest, I thought the Bruins were a flawed team in some respects, especially getting the puck out of their own zone. As a Boston fan, I admit I came down on Chara many times, because as a heralded defenseman, I thought he gave up the puck in his own end too often with bad passes, and the team as a whole seemed to have one move deep in their own zone: bank it behind the net, no matter who was on the other side.
But as someone who played goal for fifteen years, I could see the strength in Thomas’s play. Even if he is unorthodox in some respects, he had superlative balance, always seemed to stay right over his skates, had good anticipation, and was aggressive, aggressive, aggressive.
For me, it was the play a few games back where a Vancouver player was standing right in front of him and knocked an incoming puck out of the air with his hand. The puck dropped right as his feet...before he could whack it in, Thomas decked him.
As a goalie, I have had that happen more times than I can count, and it is a move that always made me feel completely helpless. The player often knows right where the puck will fall, and it is a bang-bang play...that was emblematic to me that he did exactly the right thing at the right time there.
That's classic Hal Gill!
He either ices the puck or gives it away. He skates like he's wearing cinder blocks for skates....there's never any urgency with him, he lumbers after the puck. At least Chara can skate.
Hey, how about me make a trade????
ML/NJ
We lived in Vancouver for 18 months in late 90’s...”liberal”....they GIVE addicts needles....they let panhandlers roam the streets...once at the entry to a theatre there was a LINE OF PANHANDLERS going after those in the line for the theatre...we lived not far from where all this happened...Robson used to be the MOST expensive place to rent/lease for business in North America...(there were Starbucks on the 3 of 4 corners of one intersection of Robson)oh, and we were there when the doctors were going on strike on Friday’s;..cause they weren’t getting paid by the gov’t. LIBERAL? MUCHO...MUCHO...MUCHO...It was an “experience.” Then we moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.....NOT quite as liberal.
Thomas is a very good goalie. The refs made him look even better.
LOL...I liked Hal Gill when he was with the Bruins...he is big and lumbering, not very agile, but I always thought of him as fairly dependable. IIRC, he was a fine compliment to Ray Bourque those last few years, because if he failed, he did it predictably and Bourque could see it and compensate.
I had a big jump in my estimation of Chara, because as the playoffs went on, he did seem to pick his game up even more. The clincher for me was in game 6 against Vancouver, he was on the ice killing a penalty, and he just took off at maximum speed to chase down a puck in the Vancouver zone.
For guys that big, they really can’t skate like that because it takes a toll, IMO. But he did it, and it really surprised me.
The refs didn't help him stop a puck.
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