Beginning with a wonderful palate cleanser: Nazem Kadri brings the Stanley Cup to the London Muslim Mosque. This is believed to be the first time in history that the Cup has entered a mosque. @HkyNightPunjabi @NHL @Sportsnet pic.twitter.com/wRIZAm8hvv — Amrit Gill (@AmritG) August 27, 2022 A short stop at today’s
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Cowichan Conversations: It Has Now Been 100 Years Since Vancouver Won a Stanley Cup
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I have been following the Canucks since about 1956 when they played in the Western Hockey League. Jim Cox was still doing play by play on CKNW and then later a young Jim Robinson stepped to broadcast Canuck games. Jim was behind the mike from 1958 until
Continue readingThe odds against the Canucks making it to the Stanley Cup finals
First of all, there are the facts:Of the 10 teams that played for a Stanley Cup from 2006 through 2010, only two had a better regular season the following year while the average decline in the standings was a staggering 12 points.Then there’s the reali…
Continue readingI don’t have much time for hockey hooligans and violent rioters
I was previously ignoring the news on the Vancouver riots, after the Canucks lost the Stanley cup, thinking the disturbances to be caused by nothing more than boozed up young adults running wild.
Little did I know that these individuals wer…
BigCityLib Strikes Back: One Good Thing About Toronto
You never have to worry about hockey fans rioting because the team loses in the Stanley Cup finals.
Continue readingGame 7
It has been called riveting, strange, even nasty. The Vancouver Boston series has been one of the most interesting series I have ever watched. I won’t do any analysis, I don’t think that at this point it would be worthwhile…
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Proposed ‘Harper Cup’
If the Canucks should win Lord Stanley’s cup, do yourself a favour and do not try to take the glory away from Vancouver and its hockey team. This is not your victory to steal. Vancouver is not a Harper-friendly town.
We don’t w…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Know Who To Blame, Canada
PM Stephen Harper and Heritage Minister James Moore pose with two new Senate appointees.
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