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I'm glad you put fans in quotes. Those were not fans, but rather hoodlums looking for an excuse.
I was in Vancouver in 94. Watched game 7 downtown at a friend's place, and walked right up Robson St after the Cup had sadly been given to the Rangers. Initially there was no riot. There was actually a celebration. A guy on roller skates (not blades) went by me playing a trombone. People were sad, but it had been a magical run.
But as I boarded the bus to head home, I couldn't help noticing all the vehicles and people pouring into downtown. It felt like they were coming downtown to cause trouble, and that is exactly what happened.
At lunch that day there were two other signals of trouble. The liquor store close to my office downtown had a line-up to get in that went out the door and down the street. I've never seen that before. And while sitting in a window seat in a restaurant at lunch that day I say a guy walk by carrying a gas mask. There were signals that there would be trouble, and the hooligans delivered.
I am very sad that it happened again. I hope that laws are changed to make rioters/looter really pay for what they have done. Having lived through that in Toronto this year with the G20 riots something needs to be done.
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