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Not Like The Good Old Days
by Paul on 04/23/08 at 09:25 AM ET
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from Pat Hickey of the Montreal Gazette,
The Canadiens, whose victory provided the backdrop for the disturbances, weighed in with regrets yesterday. Team president Pierre Boivin said: “We wish for celebrations to take place in the traditional spirit of happiness and respect of our sport that brings us together.”
But it was ironic that Boivin added: “We ask our fans to show the same public-spiritedness as they do in the Bell Centre.”
For the record, there was a distinct lack of civility at the Bell Centre Monday night as fans shouted and booed while Charles Prévost-Linton sang the U.S. national anthem.
It wasn’t like that in the good ol’ days.
from Greg Wyshynski at Yahoo,
...it was rather embarrassing to see those same fans litter the ice with rally rags, food, beer and the whatever containers had housed said beer after the Capitals’ 3-2 overtime loss in Game 7 last night to the Philadelphia Flyers. We’re talking pools of overpriced brew that splashed on the ice near where the Flyers were celebrated Joffrey Lupul’s game-winner, and showers of concessionary debris that kept falling during the postgame handshake—and post-series interviews, like this one with Jeff Carter:
more and watch the video…
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finally the national media is picking up the story that philly fans arent the only bad ones out there. it’s nice to see that other cities sports fans are getting caught in the act for once.
if a flyers fan did that it would be the lead story on espn and tsn.
im more distrubed that about the thing in montreal. it seems to be an real issue than and incident but the those french canadians are crazy.
Posted by FlyersFan on 04/23/08 at 08:33 AM ET