Thoughts on the Canucks Riot in June of 2011

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When I first moved to Canada, I have heard that Canadians enjoy playing hockey. Hockey, admittedly, is a very good sport where each team member learns to cooperate with his or her teammates.  However, the Canucks Riot in June of 2011 made this sport more violent.

On the night of June 15, 2011, the fact that Boston Bruins' won over the Vancouver Canucks in the seventh Game of the Stanley Cup Finals triggered the riot. When the match ended, a large number of radical fans became very angry, as their favorite team had just lost the game. At that moment, a few people in the crowded shouted, “Let's riot, let's riot". When riot started, a car was flipped and burned by the rioters at first, and then they continued their criminal behaviors by robbing some shopping malls and smashing store windows. The Police of Vancouver estimated that the total property damage is as much as $5 million CAD, and eventually more than 80 people were arrested.

Though I am not a big fan of Canucks, I can understand that fans would get upset if their favorite team lost one game. However, I still believe that the entire Riot is quite ridiculous. Firstly, for every match, there will be a winner and loser. The audience should respect the final outcome of the match. They shouldn’t have become so emotional, for no matter what they did, it would not change the result of the game. I believe what they had done will not be encouraged and accepted by the Canucks team either. What’s worse, showing off their dissatisfaction in a riot would impose a negative influence on the established good reputation of our city.

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