Fans from different countries are rare
The Vancouver City Police had a hard time dealing with the rioting fans. hockey club The Vancouver Canucks rioted over the team's loss in the Stanley Cup Finals.
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1. After losing their favorite team to Boston in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, Vancouver Canucks fans rioted on the streets of Vancouver.
2. The night before (Moscow time - at night) final match Stanley Cup 2011. Owner main award The NHL became the Boston Bruins after a 4-0 win over the Vancouver Canucks.
3. Boston won the trophy for the sixth time in its history. The last time the team won the Cup was in 1972.
4. Vancouver has never won the Stanley Cup in 31 years of membership in the NHL.
5. The decider was played at the Canucks' home arena in Vancouver. After it ended, frustrated and angry fans took to the streets and began to burn home-made copies of the Stanley Cup, shouting obscene slogans against Boston.
6. Then a crowd of people in Canucks T-shirts began to beat shop windows in the downtown area, overturned several cars, including a policeman.
7. Angry Canucks fans rioted outside the Rogers Arena where the match was being played. In the photo: A sports fan in front of a burning pickup truck, surrounded by a crowd.
8. A large crowd of hockey fans took to the streets, exploding firecrackers and setting fire to cars.
9. Fans burned cars, smashed shop windows, blew up firecrackers, shouted insults at Boston teams Bruins - the winner of the Stanley Cup.
10. A fan of the Vancouver Canucks poses in front of a burned-out car.
11. According to journalists who watched what was happening on the streets of Vancouver from a helicopter, the fire is visible not only on the streets, but also in some houses.
12. A crowd of people in Canucks T-shirts began to beat shop windows in the downtown area, overturned several cars, including a policeman.
14. Sports fans cheer as they jump around an overturned car in downtown Vancouver.
15. Many of the hockey fans were armed with hockey sticks and pieces of metal pipes.
16. Street riots quickly escalated into clashes between fans and the police.
17. Fans, they entered into a confrontation with law enforcement officers, throwing trash and bottles at the police.
18. Several fans were arrested.
19. Burning car near the post office in downtown Vancouver.
20. In the central quarters of Vancouver, traffic was closed on several bridges, the city was patrolled by military helicopters.
21. To disperse the crowd, the police had to use tear gas and flash and sound grenades. In the photo: A firefighter near an extinguished car.
22. Vancouver Canucks fans watch as one of the fans throws smoke bombs.
23. The police tried with all their might to restore order, but to no avail.
24. The police used tear gas and batons against the fans.
25. Fights broke out in the crowd every now and then. In one of the fights, several Boston fans were injured.
26. It's not the first time Vancouver fans have rioted over their favorite team's loss. In 1994, a crowd of thousands of drunk fans, leaving the stadium after the club's defeat - again in the Cup final, in a match with the New York Rangers - staged large-scale riots.
27. In 1994, about 200 people during the riots in Vancouver received various injuries and wounds. To disperse the raging fans, the police had to use tear gas.
28. Canucks fans smash a car in downtown Vancouver.
29. Despite calls by the authorities to the crowd to go home, the riots continued.
30. In total, after the match in the city center, about a hundred thousand people gathered in the city center.
31. As a result of the riots some time after the end of the match, the capital 34. During the riots, some of the fans set fire to homemade models of the Stanley Cup, many ran through the streets holding huge posters with the inscription Riot-2011 ("Riot-2011").
35. The Vancouver Canucks lost in decisive match final series with a score of 0:4. What angered the fans most of all was that the meeting was held at the Canucks' home arena in Vancouver, but even at home the club failed to win.
36. “What happened is very bad for the city. We don’t need such a reputation. After the Olympics, we did so much to make the city the way it is today. And look what is happening now. I am confused,” said one of the eyewitnesses pogrom. In the photo: Sports fans attack and rob stores in the city center.
37. "I was very disappointed with what final game Stanley Cup in Vancouver. This is a world famous city, I am very ashamed and offended to see manifestations of cruelty and riots on its streets," Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson commented on the incident.
38. An overturned car near a fast food restaurant with broken windows.
39. In total, during the riots, Vancouver fans overturned, set fire to and seriously damaged at least a dozen cars.
40. According to local media reports, as a result of the riots, more than a hundred victims turned to city hospitals for help.
November 22, 1917 four hockey teams from Canada created the NHL, today the most powerful hockey league in the world. In honor of the birthday of the NHL, one of the most important dates in the history of hockey, prepared a review of original gifts for hockey fans.
Hockey game at lunchtime
You can play hockey all year round- in the office, during lunch break. Finger Hockey Game- a finger game set consisting of a portable "skating rink", a pair of clubs, goals, pucks and goalkeeper gloves.
Cleaning is like a game
Jawon Yan (Jaewon Yang) - a designer from the company Nike, who developed the concept of practical and fun home hockey equipment. "Chip" is to combine the game with the cleaning of the premises. The stick also acts as a brush, and a vacuum unit is stylized under the gate. Jan sure that his invention will become great gift for hockey fans. And ideal remedy to teach children to be clean.
Sports Barbecue
American artist Michael Bellino (Michael Bellino) makes barbecue cutlery from old hockey sticks. Wherein Michael maintains a sporty aesthetic.
Energy saving washer
onE Puck- charger for smartphones, made in the form hockey puck. The device is good not only from an aesthetic point of view, but also from practical side. onE Puck uses solar and thermal energy. To make the device work on a cloudy day, it is enough to put a glass of hot tea or cold, for example, lemonade, on the "washer". To avoid confusion, the developer painted the working from high temperatures side to red, from low to blue.
"Puck" onE Puck is an energy-saving charger that uses solar and thermal energy
Sticks in the ears
Astro Star- from company Astro Gaming designed for fans of music and hockey.
The Astro-Star Stick Headphones are a creative gift for hockey fans
Snow blower for office worker
Zamboni Desk Vacuum- a many times reduced copy of a snowplow preparing hockey rinks for the game. Miniature equipment will not cope with real snow. But she can "vacuum" the desktop. For example, before playing the mini-hockey described above.
"Snowblower" Zamboni Desk Vacuum - vacuum cleaner for the desktop
sports letter
Hockey Stick Pencils is a set of simple "stick" pencils for hockey fans, sports-inspired artists and handwriting enthusiasts.
Hockey stick pencils - a set of sticks for hockey fans
In a safe hand
Game On Glove– original cup holder in the form of a goalkeeper's glove. In foreign online stores, this handy little thing is presented in color scheme most NHL teams.
"Goalkeeper's glove" Game on glove - creative glass holder
Hockey for intellectuals
Another unusual option table hockey – Hockey chess set. Attached to it short instruction from the creator: pucks - as pawns, gates - instead of rooks, knights are replaced by judges, bishops - by players, queens - by cheerleaders, and goalkeepers took the royal throne.First, the scale is smaller. It is traditionally assumed that football has more fans than hockey. This is true, because hockey is popular only in North America and Europe, while football is played all over the world. Let's take, for example, last championship European football in France. Championship arenas could accommodate from 33 to 80 thousand people, and this is the usual capacity for stadiums in any top championship. The largest hockey arena in the world - the Montreal Bell Center - can accommodate 21 thousand fans, while in Europe there are only 2-3 ice palaces, where more than 15 thousand guests can come.
In Russia, in each round of the Premier League, there are several matches with an attendance of about 20 thousand, the Moscow-St. Petersburg derbies collect 40 thousand each. And the maximum for Russian hockey- 12500 spectators in two ice palaces. The last final of the Gagarin Cup was generally played in the tiny LDS CSKA.
Since fewer spectators come to the matches, there is less tension in the crowd, fewer aggressive fans, less likely that this aggression will spill out somewhere.
Fans from different countries rare
In football, there is the Champions League, which gives a fan from conditional Manchester a reason to visit a dozen European cities, and at the same time chat, try local alcohol and test himself in a fight against the backdrop of foreigners. Hockey League champions still weigh too little in the coordinate system, and the only chance to intersect is the world championship, whose value is approximately at the level football cup confederations.
The Olympics is a celebration where people hug, not fight. The youth and junior championships are attended mainly by home fans, rare guests are fans of hockey, not fights. Well, who will go from Toronto to Ufa just to punch the locals in the face?
There are fights and so - on the ice.
hockey is hard view a sport where you get sent off for embellishing a foul on yourself (even if there was a foul). Fighting was and still is a part of hockey, even if the NHL has reduced their number to a minimum. different ways(you can’t argue against concussions and lawsuits). Perhaps it is enough for the audience to discharge themselves during a fight between hockey players, and there is no longer any emotion and desire left for fights between themselves. After all, we rarely hear about fights among boxing fans either.
Traditions
The most important and uniting the previous paragraph. Football fans have been fighting since the turn of the century, hockey fans just aren't used to it. No wonder we always try to translate "fans" as "fans" when it comes to hockey. North America simply doesn't have this fan culture, there's a culture of cheering. In Russia, there are small fights and riots. But the participants in such actions are basically the same football fans who came to support the club of the same name in the offseason, for example, CSKA.
Hockey is attended by more affluent people, usually families, while football matches mostly young people gather. It is not customary to use pyrotechnics (fireworks, smoke) and hang banners at hockey. Perhaps the main reason for this is closed type hockey arenas. Or the more prosperous contingent of hockey fans is playing a role. In one way or another, hockey fans are more calm, unlike their football counterparts, who arrange fights before, after, or even during matches.
In general, there is more violence in hockey on the ice than in the stands. Let's hope that every year the level of culture and decency among hockey fans will grow. And no one is stopping true sports fans from watching the game.
Using material.
By the way, a couple of weeks ago I managed to visit hockey game SKA - Lokomotiv. I confess honestly that last time I was on hockey in 1989, still a schoolboy. Below are some photos from that match.
fans Petersburg SKA who pushed the team forward.
The situation on the ice was tense.
They caught me on camera during a break.
And here is the moment of one of the fights on the ice.
The fans are on edge.
Lots of kids playing hockey.
This is Anton pantv who kept me company. See his post about this match. There are many photos there.
A true fan of St. Petersburg SKA.
Excellent boy anneals.
Thanks to MasterCard, PR agency Ketchum Maslov and, in particular, Anastasia Androsova for the invitation to the hockey match.
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