Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins reached the finals of the Stanley Cup. The final is a 7 match affair. Ice hockey games can be very rough, and people are allowed to crash into each other, (or even break each others' bones). Fights break out every now and then and it is not strictly prohibited. And this cup is supposed to be the equivalent to the EPL if not more in terms of importance to the Canadians. After the first 2 finals Canucks led 2-0. At the end of 6 games, Boston pulled it back to 3-3. Now everything rested on the 7th game. Of course, we didn't know all this when we went to East Side Mario's for dinner. Some of us were talking to each other about which are the teams playing, and the look that we got from other people around in the restaurant... as if there couldn't have been a more unpardonable crime than our ignorance.
It was only the next day, when I saw the newspapers, that I realized how important it was:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/16/vancouver-canucks-fans-riot-stanley-cup
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/jun/16/vancouver-riots-ice-hockey-defeat#/?picture=375828430&index=0
Firstly, I never thought something like this is possible in Canada. However losing and then ransacking your own country, is kind of self-destructive and inexplicable. In other words, "These Canadians are crazy".
It was only the next day, when I saw the newspapers, that I realized how important it was:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/16/vancouver-canucks-fans-riot-stanley-cup
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/jun/16/vancouver-riots-ice-hockey-defeat#/?picture=375828430&index=0
Firstly, I never thought something like this is possible in Canada. However losing and then ransacking your own country, is kind of self-destructive and inexplicable. In other words, "These Canadians are crazy".
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