Video shows Calgary Flames fans fighting Canucks supporters at Rogers Arena
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The playoffs rarely bring out the best in fan behaviour in Vancouver.
We've been home to two full-fledged hockey riots.
That's in addition to past claims by Bruins forward Milan Lucic that his grandparents have been harassed at Rogers Arena.
The latest hooliganism to make the news was a brawl between Flames and Canucks fans at Rogers Arena after Game 2 of their series.
Yesterday, video of the confrontation was posted on YouTube by Zafer Sari. (Film technician Jeremy Gustafson has pointed out that this film has been looped so in reality, the fight was only half as bad as it looks below.)
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FR
Apr 21, 2015 at 11:45am
If the Canucks ever get as far as they did in 2011 - there will be another riot guaranteed.
ursa minor
Apr 21, 2015 at 12:22pm
It's one thing to go into a rival team's arena and root for your team, it's quite another to go there and start taunting fans of the home team like the Flames' fans in the video did and these Capitals fans did on Long Island on Sunday: http://deadspin.com/capitals-fans-islanders-fans-were-homophobic-pricks-...
Sorry, but if you're going to be that stupid, you get what you deserve. Poking the home team fans where they're the most vulnerable (the Canucks' loss in 2011, the Islanders relocation to Brooklyn) is not going to help your team win, it's just going to get your ass kicked. Wear your colours, cheer on your side, and don't say anything beyond "Go ******!"
I used to live in Calgary - I thought people would have learned from the fact that the Calgary Police Service has to triple their deployment at the Saddledome and McMahon Stadium whenever the Oilers and Eskimos are in town. It's why I don't watch the NHL or CFL anymore - Major League Soccer actually are the ones who get it right by putting limits on the number of visiting fans, making them sit together and escorting them in and out of the stadium with police or security guards, and even then - you can still go to BC Place and see Whitecaps supporters chatting and sharing a beer with Sounders or Timbers faithful.
Grow up, already.
Pathetic
Apr 21, 2015 at 12:31pm
Charlie you're really reaching with this one. It's a few Calgary fans who look like they're jostling each other more than anything. Who knows what happened to start it, but without any context you seem to be putting this in the same league as the riots. This is nothing and I'm guessing with Stephen Hui's usual low-quality story, you're gearing up to give the Canucks an elbow.
J.M.T.
Apr 21, 2015 at 12:32pm
Adults who wear hockey jerseys look like big grown up children looking for a street hockey game. Got get me a hockey jersey so I can be like every other knuckle dragging troglodyte.
ursa minor
Apr 21, 2015 at 1:29pm
Pathetic - other reports about this incident have the Flames' fans loudly and deliberately taunting Canucks' fans about never winning The Stanley Cup, which Calgary did once in 1989. That's right, the lack of instant replay to review Joel Otto kicking the puck in the net 26 years ago gives a couple of Alberta Man-Children moral supremacy over everyone around them. Vancouver fans could just as easily return the favor at the Saddledome and elicit a restroom curb-stomping by bellowing to everyone in earshot about how the 1915 Vancouver Millionaires won the Stanley Cup 74 years before a Calgary team did.
As per my previous post, going into another team's arena and taunting the home fans should be treated just like back country skiing: it's foolish, out-of-bounds behavior for which people cannot and should not be protected from the consequences.
Unfortunately, the NHL and their sponsors encourage this kind of stupidity and market it as "rivalry" and "intensity".