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A car is set on fire after the Canucks lose to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup final. (Wilson Wong/CBC)
The burnt husk of a car lays on Georgia Street after the Canucks lose the Stanley Cup. (AR Forest/CBC)
Fans pose to have their pictures taken as a car burns in the background after the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Bruins Wednesday night. PETTI FONG/TORONTO STAR
updated: Canucks fans erupt in anger after loss
Riot police try to control crowds in downtown Vancouver
CBC News Posted: Jun 15, 2011 7:54 PM PT Last Updated: Jun 15, 2011 9:27 PM PT
Riot police fired a dozen flash bombs in downtown Vancouver Wednesday night to try to disperse angry hockey fans who set cars on fire and started fistfights after the Canucks’ 4-0 loss to the Boston Bruins in the final game of the Stanley Cup.
Police have declared the downtown fan zone area near the CBC building and the central post office a riot zone, Ian Hanomansing of CBC News reported. Anyone not leaving the West Georgia Street area immediately would be arrested, they warned.
Unlike the Canucks’ previous losses in the series, which all occurred while the teams were playing in Boston, the crowds were not leaving the fan zones quickly, adding to concerns that more trouble would break out as darkness started to fall.
Problems started in the closing seconds of the game when a thick plume of smoke, believed to be from fireworks, wafted above the crowd on West Georgia Street in front of the central post office building. Moments later, a car burst into flames and fights broke out.
B.C. Ambulance confirmed that a man had fallen or jumped off a bridge called the Dunsmuir Viaduct and had been taken to hospital.
There were no other injuries reported, but there have been numerous arrests.
Glass windows were broken at the Bank of Montreal on West Georgia.
In addition, a fire was reported at a parkade on Seymour Street. Few details were available, but reports indicated several cars were on fire. There were also reports of garbage cans and portable toilets on fire throughout the downtown core.
Reports also indicated localized looting underway in several downtown locations.
Earlier, before and during the game, fans were packed tight but good-natured as they cheered on their team, which had won at home in every previous game against Boston in this Stanley Cup final series.
Pandemonium as angry Canucks fans set cars ablaze
The Canadian Press /VANCOUVER—Furious hockey fans set fire to cars and garbage cans, tossed beer bottles at giant TV screens and ran rampant through downtown Vancouver streets Wednesday after the Canucks lost 4-0 to the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing at least two parked cars burning in the streets, which were strewn with trash and filled with acrid smoke in the moments immediately following the game at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena.
Witnesses reported seeing flames shoot nearly 10 metres into the air as bystanders tossed firecrackers, setting off intermittent barrages of staccato explosions.
Patrick Fleming, 15, from Richmond, B.C., said a small group of fans took out their anger on nearby cars in the game’s dying moments, flipping over two vehicles and setting one on fire.
Two other upturned vehicles were visible nearby as orange flames erupted from an exploding car, prompting several bystanders to duck down in alarm. Fans who were trying simply to get out of the danger zone found their visibility reduced to zero by the thick black smoke.
Som Gosh, 16, said police blocked off the area and detained a number of people, but it did little to quell the violence.
“I think it was a few people … Everybody else is watching, some are cheering,” Gosh said.
As he spoke, another fire erupted nearby.
Some members of the crowd could be seen trying to hold others back as the rampage continued. Many tried to flee, panicked. Others posed for pictures as rioting broke out around them. Most wanted no part of the violence and headed in the opposite direction.
A long line of police, truncheons at the ready, tried to hold the surging crowd back from the blazing cars.
Though the outcome of the game was no longer in doubt midway through the third period, a hail of beer bottles rained down on giant outdoor television screens as soon as the final buzzer sounded, touching off a fearsome riot.
The scene was vividly similar to one in 1994, when a Game 7 loss to the New York Rangers prompted another stampede of liquor-fuelled mayhem in the downtown core.
This time, police tried to nip the violence in the bud by closing liquor and beer stores early, but it appeared to have no effect.
Pandemonium reigned in the streets as some fans chanted obscenities about the winning team, leaping over bonfires that raged in the street as riot police moved in to try to restore order.
Fire trucks quickly flooded into the downtown area to try and squelch the flames.
