Boston Wins Stanley Cup While Vancouver Burns

ESPN:

Angry, drunken fans ran wild Wednesday night after the Vancouver Canucks' 4-0 loss to Boston in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, setting cars and garbage cans ablaze, smashing windows, showering giant TV screens with beer bottles and dancing atop overturned vehicles. Later, looters smashed windows and ran inside department stores.
"We have a small number of hooligans on the streets of Vancouver causing problems," Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said. "It's absolutely disgraceful and shameful and by no means represents the city of Vancouver. ... We have had an extraordinary run in the playoff, great celebration. What's happened tonight is despicable."
At a Bay store, looters were seen grabbing T-shirts and anything else they could get their hands on. Young women were seen escaping with MAC cosmetics, with one carrying out part of a mannequin. The landmark building was filling with smoke as people, their faces covered in bandannas, continued the violence.
"It's terrible," Canucks captain Henrik Sedin said, shaking his head. "This city and province has a lot to be proud of, the team we have and the guys we have in here. It's too bad."

Don't mess with those Canadians' hockey.  The generally staid, polite Canadians rioted after the Canucks fell in game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals.  A Canada-based team has not won the Stanley Cup since 1993.  Chants of USA! USA! broke out in Boston, which seems ironic since only 5 Bruins players hail from the United States, although star goalie Tim Thomas is one of them.  I guess it is clarifying to see that there is no real difference between a Canadian city like Vancouver and U.S. cities like Los Angeles.