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Yawn. Who...Gives...A....#%^%..
Stop making stories out of nothing please, stop feeding the fire.
Boone: "What, the offer is better than Baghdad's?"
Comparing this in anyway to whats going on in Iraq is an insult to anyone in this world who deals with real problems rather then an isolated bunch of immature behavior. You guys need to a get grip, seriously.
Why didn't Briere's wife want him to live in Montreal. Does she live there? Those long distance marriages work well I hear, especially if your man is a prick.
Ba-zing!!!
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yeah, i'm sure hockey players love experiences like this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6n2cAJnCFJM
I hope that his "fans" feel cool after that. Did they really think that he would appreciate that crap? What makes people think that it would be all right to pound on the hood of someone's Porsche... especially someone that you show admiration for?
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He had to drive out of his way to get to Ste Catherine from where the players exit the Bell Centre. My guess is that he won't be using that route again after games. Anyone who lives in MTL knows that Ste Catherine is a zoo at the best of times, and a quagmire to be avoided at all costs after playoff victories. Rookie mistake.
BTW. Cameras on cell phones are the pits.
So now we're blaming Briere's WIFE too? Man, do we ever need to build a bridge and get over this guy. He had a million reasons to sign elsewhere: MTL had a bad history with FAs; high taxes; a poor short term outlook that most pundits felt didn't include a playoff run; big media pressure; etc etc. I can't imagine Briere or his wife were thinking back to the 93 riots, lol. As embarrassing as the riot was, that is stretching it.
Riots or no, the team is classy and is winning again, the city is beautiful and cosmopolitain and mad about hockey. That's gotta be worth something to prospective FAs.
Watching that vid, there's a few sh*theads who deserve a serious baton beating. Maybe I'm getting conservative in my old age, but I thought the cops were overly restrained.
I thought that the cops showed a lot of restraint, too.
Long before the trouble started, I was chatting with a few of them and they were amiable and happy to talk about the game, etc. I asked one of them about the riot gear, and she said, "it's a large group of rowdy people. You've got to be ready for anything, just in case."
While walking back to my car, I noticed that fire trucks were staged on the side streets not far from the action. That was when I realized that the authorities thought that they might really have their hands full.
Needless to say, I wasn't about to hang around to see what happened next.
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Oh..."she said"...was SHE cute in her riot gear Chuckie....so transparent. LOL!
Actually, she was quite cute! Then again, I have a thing for women in uniform, so what do I know? :)
We neen more women cops here in Ontario!
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Haha, i guess we're oh-so-different.
You couldn't have paid me to leave the area.
That made you part of the problem. That's nothing to laugh about.
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Did you leave with the cute riot cop's number Chuck at least? I'm just teasing you Chuck. Don't get upset. I agree with you. People need to calm down, show class and restraint. I agree with what you wrote. We want to show the world how to win. I just thought it was funny when you wrote SHE. Hahahaha.
Hahaha... no, sadly no phone number, I'm afraid. She was too busy getting her game face on, I guess.
She was with another 6 or 7 cops when we were chatting, and at least another three of them were women. I'm liking the hiring practices of the Montreal police!
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They're talking about bringing in some pretty strict rules about hanging around Ste Catherine street on game nights. I don't understand how a city that can party responsibly 99.9% of the time can't celebrate major hockey victories without torching buses or cop cars.
I don't know how, but we need to find ways to turn partying on ste catherine into something positive- like the Red Mile in Calgary (RIP).
Aside from the stupidity of destroying property to "celebrate" anything, I am so embarrassed these morons were rioting to "celebrate" a first round victory!
It used to take a cup to get a hab fan's attention. I know it's been a while since '93 but it's sad that even the hooligans have sunk to Maple Leaf fans' expectations.
You do have to remember, though, that most of the crowd were late-teens to early 20's. They would have barely entered elementary school the last time the Habs won the Cup. This was their first real time to celebrate anything.
Gather outside of the Bell Centre after the game to wave flags and cheer the team into the second round? I had no problem with that, as long as everything was kept civil.
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I teach high school. I love my students but they are angry about their world. It's an entitled generation. They love to have a reason to set a cop car on fire. I agree with Chuck. Cheer, wave a flag, be respectful but keep the teen angst under control. No one needs to see it. Save it for your parents' living-room. They have to love you. We don't want to see it. We don't have to love you and we don't need to put up with it.
Yup, an entitled generation is right.
"One face-off, one battle, one shift, one period, one game, one series at a time."
"Are the Habs ready to pay the Price?"
So true. At that age, it's time to learn to suck it up and deal with the fact that the world won't bring everything to you on a silver platter. And getting angry and trashing stuff certainly isn't going to help your cause or earn you any sympathy, either.
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I'm not sure what's more idiotic: torching police cars, or doing so while in full view of the TV cameras. I hope that the cops confiscate every inch of videotape and nail as many of those thugs as possible.
Jerks like that give my hometown and the Canadiens a bad name. I'm not impressed.
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Shame on those guys. Like really, what exactly is going through your head? "Yay we won! Let's go break stuff in celebration?" It's disgusting, For the first time in my life, I was ashamed to put on my jersey this morning (I still did). Even when we lost to T. last year I was more proud. We finally had something good for CBC to talk about and we go and pull something stupid like that.
You can be sure that tonight the Toronto CBC guys will milk this story all night during the games.
Black eye on my home town globally for sure, I hope they bring out the tasers for these drunken bastards.
Ian - It was part of the Global News 6pm broadcast - not their sports report but their news section. They stated that the story and video had been shown worldwide. Their angle was that it would hurt Montreal's reputation as a world class city and subsequently impact on summer tourism. Nice timing. Sad to say, but there was no mention of the outcome of the game (other than Montreal won) and certainly no mention of Carey Price's heroics. The next question is what consequences will these guys receive?
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Oh yes...Toronto will be showing Montreal in a poor light if they can. Don't let them.
Did the torch riots in Paris and London hurt their tourism?
CityTV in Toronto had it in their news as well...
http://www.bleacherreport.com/users/2098-Kevin_van_Steendelaar
i agree ian. Tsn,cbc,sportsnet,don cherry etc. will make this their top story as long as the habs are still in the playoffs. We all know that those idiots go out of their way to find something negative to say about the habs. I watched the video on tsn and it was disgusting and disturbing. It is very embarassing to us real hab fans that a bunch of holigans used this as an oppurtunity to riot and create chaos.
Absolutely.
I'm embarassed that this has happened. There are no excuses for this and I hope the police uses force next time, use tear gas and beat on some people and show some authority. I can't believe there were so many people "watching" people commiting crimes and not caring. That video really confirms that most of the people who did this were young hooligans, HAB "FANS" dressed in Hab colors and not random people who took advantage of the situation. THIS SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED.
I hope they make some kind of organization for identifying people off the footage gathered and have justice be served. This isn't funny at all, it's people like ME who have to pay for the 16 cop cars that need to be replace, people like me who can't even get tickets to Hab games because they get sold out to retards like this get them.
Bullshit.
Big difference between "watching" and not caring Jason.
It's mob mentality, i'm sorry, but us citizens are not responsible enough for the actions of a few bad seeds to warrant us getting rocks thrown at us. Clearly you weren't out there, and are just listening to what the news tells you, because everywhere you went there were people chastizing those who were vandalizing, booing them, but definitely not resorting to violence to solve violence, that's what full gear cops are for.
True Habs fans, everywhere, were telling these guys to get a life. I don't know what selective footage you saw, but take it from me, it was mostly NOT Habs fans who were doing the dirty work on the night.
Watching Global News deosnt make you an expert Jason, true habs fans all over the area were doing what they reasonably were expected to do, which was chastize the rioters and looters but ultimatly not physically responsible for stopping these nutcases...
We shoudl resort to their game? Maybe toss a Molotov cocktail at a pack of 16 year olds running around tossing bottles... that's what you want?