Our father, who art in the Bell Centre,
hockey be thy name.
Thy will be done, the Cup be won,
on ice, as well as in the stands.
Give us this day our hockey sticks,
and forgive us our penalties.
As we forgive those who cross-check against us.
Lead us not into elimination,
But deliver us to victory.
In the name of the fans,
Lord Stanley and the holy Habs.
Amen
or
Notre Halak qui est au cieux
Que ton numéro 41 soit sanctifier
Que les victoires viennent
Que tes bels arrêts soit faites
A Washington, comme au Centre Bell
Donne-nous aujourd’hui la chance de vaincre [del]Ovechkin[/del] Crosby
Pardonne les erreurs de tes défenseurs
Comme ils pardonneront tes mauvais buts
Ne nous soumets pas au golf
Mais délivre-nous des [del]Capitals[/del] Pingouins
There are a ton of these online and on Facebook. The pre-game show had video of people (teenagers) climbing the steps of the Oratoire St. Joseph on their knees! Apparently a bunch of churches were allowing things like this too!
When people says hockey’s a religion in Quebec, they’re not joking. The importance of hockey to Canadians is arguably greater than the importance of any given sport to any other country (arguably; I’m not staking my reputation to that claim, but the argument is there) and it runs really, really deeply in Montreal about the Habs.
I think British soccer (football) fans may have something to say about that. But yeah, when 20,000 fans watch the game together on screen, and when tear gas needs to be used to disperse hooligans you have a legitimate argument.
It’s arguable that the Quiet Revolution in Quebec started with the 1955 Richard Riot and not with the election of Jean Lesage to the Premiership of Quebec in 1960.
Every religion has its fundamentalists, extremists, perverts and other undesirables. The few do not describe the whole.
Last night’s rioting was a couple hundred people, several hours after the game, when the downtown area probably had 50 000 people or more celebrating, nevermind the people in other areas of the city and province. It’s shameful, and I wish it wouldn’t happen, but those people aren’t fans. They are opportunistic idiots who would probably be doing something illegal anyways.
Yes. A few people take advantage of the fact that so many people are in the streets (so they’re more anonymous) to steal or destroy stuff. They’re not celebrating fans, they’ve come there specifically to cause trouble.
Heck, it’s probably the best opportunity a professional thief/fence could ever have. When else could you lift some valuable stuff while in the midst of 50,000 other suspects? If I was a professional thief I’d be sure to be standing next to a Best Buy in any city where a big sporting victory was possible. Talk about your perfect crimes.
Congrats, Montreal. You guys deserved it (beating the Caps, and all!), and great game, guys. It was a bitter end, but good luck. (But it won’t be so easy next year!)
I will confess though to being teary-eyed, at least at the Mellon Arena send off. I still remember the first time I was there – when I was three and my parents and my aunt and uncle took me and my cousin to see Disney On Ice.
LET’S GO PENS!!!
There may have been a few pros, but there is enough news footage of drunken teenage/young adult idiots running into and out of the stores with their faces uncovered and even hamming it up for cameras. In 2008 the police published photos of some of these people and several (though of course not all) were arrested in the days/weeks that followed. I expect the same to happen this year.
You mean no one is breaking into stores to steal all those Komisarek jerseys? What a shocker!
It wasn’t even the Cup – yeesh!!! Pittsburgh went through something similiar when we won the Super Bowl – but it wasn’t THAT bad. (Fortunately, the cops were better prepared for the Stanley Cup celebration, so they were able to stop things before they got out of hand)
Stay classy, Montreal. (Sorry, I’m still a little bitter. No offense)
which team is really the team of destiny? The team that got out of 3-0 deficit or the team that beat two heavily favoured teams to get where they are at now?
