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It's with great trepidation that I will be sitting down to watch the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs. One of these teams is going to win tomorrow, and it is not going to be pretty.
The series has been brutal on both teams. There have been hits aplenty, cheap shots, finger biting, and more. This is to be expected I suppose, especially as we get closer to the deciding game.
I have to be honest though; I have not enjoyed this series. It's been dirty hockey, from game 1. And as if it wasn't ugly enough on the ice, now there are reports of Boston fans actually harassing and assaulting Vancouver fans who were brave enough to make the trip to TD Arena.
Don't get me wrong, I like a good fight every now and then, but this has been a bit ridiculous, hasn't it? Both teams are guilty of playing dirty. The late hit on Horton, the lumberjack chop by Tim Thomas on Burrows. The worst yet is Mason Raymond, who is lying in bed with a broken back and likely won't be able to play hockey again until at least November. The fans were chanting "Luongo" as Raymond was attended to by the medical staff, and couldn't even get to his feet.
Is this what fans want? Late hits? Severe injuries? Is it just turning into UFC on Ice? I find it pretty disgusting that people would act in such a classless way. If this is what the future holds for hockey, I won't be watching it much longer.
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Word on the street is that rules against this sort of bullshit (especially shots to the head) are gonna be getting stricter. I've only watched this final series, is it super common all year long?
Either way, GO VANCOUVER.
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Not so much during the regular season, it's just been getting dirtier the closer we get to the final game. Which is to be expected to a certain extent. This is just not even good hockey to watch right now..
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You're doing an analysis out of the heat of the moment. Most fans don't want dirty hockey, but unless something super crazy happens (Pacciorety / Chara thing for example lolhabs fan here :S), you will be happy for your team if they do something dirty and get a win, sure it's cheap, but even as a fan you want to win just as much as every player on your team. So you will be "happy" to see someone from the other team lose a player, especially a big player in the playoffs, it's just how it rolls.
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During the finals, I expect to see the greatest hockey fight ever
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The fans chanting "Luongo" while Raymond lies on the ice are pathetic. Then he finally gets up and is helped off the ice and they don't even clap or anything? Just straight up classless.
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I want to see Marchand get creamed -___-
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On June 15 2011 13:20 GolemMadness wrote:
The fans chanting "Luongo" while Raymond lies on the ice are pathetic. Then he finally gets up and is helped off the ice and they don't even clap or anything? Just straight up classless.
They were chanting Liar and Luongo apparently. And they call us Canucks fans classless -__-
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On June 15 2011 13:11 Chairman Ray wrote:
During the finals, I expect to see the greatest hockey fight ever
Bench brawl plz.
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Go Canucks Go!
Iunno, I haven't been watching much (usually just the 1st and 2nd periods, then I go play Starcraft when I'm bored of hockey), but those hits were kinda friggin ridiculous. From both teams. I don't know hockey well enough to go "_______ hit __________ at the boards and gave him a ______ injury", all I know is "that guy hit that guy", and from seeing those, those were some pretty big hits.
@OP- I agree with what you said, I find it's getting way more physical then it could, but let's face it, it's the Stanley Cup Finals, Vancouver's never won a cup, so they REALLY want to work for it.
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Have you heard what us in Vancouver have been doing to Boston fans, though? This isn't completely one sided. As bad as what fans in Boston have been doing..
Have you heard that there were an elderly couple whose son or grand son(He played on Boston) or something was playing, so they went and watched the game to support him, and apparently Vancouver fans were throwing things at them, saying extremely rude things, insulting them.
I'm sorry, but fans in our city just as bad as anywhere else. It's embarrassing to be around, to be honest.
All seriousness aside though, I will be in Downtown Vancouver ALL DAY tomorrow, to party it up and support(reluctantly) our team~
If we win, I'll party. If we lose, I will run away from downtown and continue partying at my place \o/
Because if we lose, honestly, oh my god. >_>'' hide yo kids hide yo wife
Hope to see some fellow TLers downtown! ^____~ If you have no one to chill with, you can shoot me a message because I am the coolest *___* (jokes)
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Scared of going downtown tmw... don't wanna be in a middle of a riot LOL
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I agree with you OP, but I take it even a step further.
Not only has the on-ice play been complete shit, but the reffing has also been complete shit not only in this series, but through the whole playoffs. The two, one could argue, are interrelated.
Everything about the NHL right now seems just wrong. When I think about hockey, I am only filled with negative emotions. Everything stinks.
But that won't stop me from being in downtown tomorrow either, Canucks jersey on, pulling my hair out and biting my nails as tends to be the case...haha.
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On June 15 2011 14:13 Raeleigh wrote:
Have you heard what us in Vancouver have been doing to Boston fans, though? This isn't completely one sided. As bad as what fans in Boston have been doing..
Have you heard that there were an elderly couple whose son or grand son(He played on Boston) or something was playing, so they went and watched the game to support him, and apparently Vancouver fans were throwing things at them, saying extremely rude things, insulting them.
I'm sorry, but fans in our city just as bad as anywhere else. It's embarrassing to be around, to be honest.
All seriousness aside though, I will be in Downtown Vancouver ALL DAY tomorrow, to party it up and support(reluctantly) our team~
If we win, I'll party. If we lose, I will run away from downtown and continue partying at my place \o/
Because if we lose, honestly, oh my god. >_>'' hide yo kids hide yo wife
Hope to see some fellow TLers downtown! ^____~ If you have no one to chill with, you can shoot me a message because I am the coolest *___* (jokes)
It was Lucic's grandparents, apparently people threw some popcorn at em or something. Definitely a classless act.
But God, some of the videos and shit coming out of Boston are despicable. Even some of the stuff people haven't noticed, I remember in game 3 they panned the camera to the fans and there were only 2 Canucks out of a hundred or so in the crowd that they showed. Both of them had their heads down while about 10 boston players behind them were hitting them with their playoff flags and leaning over screaming at them. That was after goal 6 or 7 was scored, so you just knew they had been getting reamed on all night. It looked so pathetic.
And that was just a random shot they showed live during the game. Apparently the worst of it was on the streets after the game. It was so bad that for game 4 they had to do a huuuuge increase in police outside the arena.
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Yeah, I was into it at first, rooting for Vancouver (I'm a Ranger fan, I'm not supposed to root for Boston lol) but after each cheap shot I switched, and now I don't want anyone to win ):
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As a Boston fan, I am pretty damn ashamed of my town.
Doesn't mean I want Vancouver to win though.
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Word. Both teams have been doing ugly things. Ditto for the fans. I dont know how its been in Boston, but here in Vancity, people have been down right hostile. will be avoiding downtown for sure...
To bad too. I was in downtown when Canada won the gold metal in hockey. That was a magical Afternoon. This series isn't.
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On June 15 2011 14:43 hiro protagonist wrote:
Word. Both teams have been doing ugly things. Ditto for the fans. I dont know how its been in Boston, but here in Vancity, people have been down right hostile. will be avoiding downtown for sure...
To bad too. I was in downtown when Canada won the gold metal in hockey. That was a magical Afternoon. This series isn't.
Yeah, when you compare this Van-Bos series to Olympic hockey, or round 1 Chicago-Vancouver, or round 2 Detroit-San Jose, or a slew of other series and hockey events...this just seems so bad.
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Totally agree with you here, it's been painful to watch. Really not enjoying the inappropriate acts between the teams. As for Game 7, probably going to stay at home watching it, downtown Vancouver is going to be insane win or lose.
CANUCKS HWAITING
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I completely disagree with the reffing in Boston, it feels a lot like they are calling a lot more shit on Canucks and giving us a shorter leash than the Bruins. I agree that the hit on Raymond from ice-level at the speed the game is played looked fairly clean.
However, given that Rome got a FOUR game suspension for a non-blindside hit that caused a concussion, and the reason given was "The lateness of the hit and the severity of the injury". So if a concussion is worth four games, what's a broken back worth? The hit was fairly late as well, and caused arguably more severe injury. Yet Boychuk gets away scot-free? Where's the consistency?
This series is worth watching only because it's the cup on the line. Neither team has been playing clean hockey, although IMO Bruin's are playing more dirty.
CANUCKS HWAITING
To bad too. I was in downtown when Canada won the gold metal in hockey. That was a magical Afternoon. This series isn't.
So was I, it is a completely different atmosphere, there wasn't the hostility for the most part.
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