However, part of the reason they didn’t have enough left was they way they got manhandled by Boston. The refs pretty much put away their whistles and this was to the advantage of the much larger Bruins. It certainly seemed like the NHL wanted Boston to win, the owner is a buddy of Bettman’s after all and part of the reason that weasel still has a job. He deserved everything that was thrown at him. The NHL couldn’t make Boston win, but they sure did what they could to skew the outcome in the Bruins favour. Chara mauls Henrik who eventually falls down and they both get a penalty. Yeah right. Whatever. Rome gets a four game suspension because he was half a second late on what other wise would have been a great open-ice hockey play. Okay, fine, set a new precedent, but then shouldn’t it apply to both teams. Boychuk breaks Raymond’s back and gets zilch. It was interference, it was taking advantage of a vulnerable player and, it was a head shot and technically it was even hitting from behind. And it resulted in a significant injury. All those criteria were applied in the Rome suspension but not to Boychuk. I could go on and on too. Total BS. I would like to see the outcome of a Canucks vs. Bruins series if they called penalties like they did in the regular season, even with a gimpy Kesler. If he was healthy, no contests.

And if having to watch that game 7 wasn’t bad enough, we then had to witness a riot in our downtown. This has caused feelings of anger and disgust and embarrassment and revenge. The people who participated in the riot were serious idiots. The people who instigated the riot are serious a-holes. The participants need to pay, but the instigators need to be put away.

It seemed like most of the participants were living out some sort of grand theft auto dream. Life momentarily turned into a video game which is why it looked like they enjoyed it so much. Pathetic that people lose that much touch with reality.

However, the city is going to have to take a major part of the blame for this fiasco. If you are going to invite a hundred thousand people to watch game 7 of the Stanley Cup on giant screens then you better have more than 12 police and a couple horses to manage the crowd. There should have been a thousand riot police patrolling the area the entire time. Duh. Of course the criminals were going to take advantage of this situation and of course the alcohol-fueled youth who just lost the Cup were going to go crazy and whoop it up once the criminals got the fires started. Mob mentality has been well documented.

It would have been a lot cheaper to pay for all those riot police then it is going to be to pay for the judicial system to deal with this mess. I just hope the other municipalities like Surrey are going to help pay for the fixing of this mess. It seems that 80% of the idiots who participated were from the suburbs. They even came prepared for the riot, they all seemed to have bandanas and things. They knew it was going to happen, they even talked about it on Facebook. Why did the city officials not know?

Staff wait for the Canada Line train during a trial run on Friday.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out for the opening of the $2-billion Canada Line in Vancouver and Richmond on Monday afternoon.

Riders will be able to take a free ride between 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. PT on the new rapid transit line. The route will provide alternating service between Vancouver and Richmond or the Vancouver International Airport in about 25 minutes — making it Canada’s only rapid transit link from a city core to an airport.

Spokesman Drew Snider is warning people to expect long waits for the free rides, but said TransLink will provide entertainment at some of the stations.

“We’ve got buskers at various stations. I know Bridgeport’s got various entertainers like Rod Stewart and Elvis. There’s going to be line-dancing at the Richmond-Brighouse station,” said Snider, referring to musical impersonators and other talent hired to entertain the crowds.

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V.c » It is totally awesome that we now have a train linking downtown Vancouver to the YVR airport in Richmond. The first city in Canada to have this infrastructure. It is almost worth the cost of the Olympics just to have this. But why-o-why does it have to have such a lame name such as the Canada Line? Of course it goes with the other poorly named Expo Line and Millenium Line skytrains. You tell me where those damn things go, can we not use geographical based names so people know which skytrain goes where?