Sorry to hear that Dave.
Speaking of bedtime, Peace Out young man!
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Sorry to hear that Dave.
When we came to the Lower Mainland to spend Christmas with our relatives, the previous game the Canucks had played before the Bruins game was the 4-4 tie between Vancouver and the Flyers where the Flyers went into the stands. In July 1973 we moved to Kamloops and lived in the same complex as Flyers defence man Joe Watson, who was spending his summers in the 'loops. Watson was one of the players who had been charged with going into the stands. I went to his hockey school later that summer. Joe is one the greatest guys you'll ever meet. Treated young fans with great respect, always said hello to you and used to be great with parents. When the Flyers let him go in 1978 he was picked up by Colorado Rockies and he lasted 16 games before he busted up his leg badly and ended his career. It's too bad the Canucks didn't see fit to bring him in and let a player with two SC rings finish his career in his home province.Strangelove wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:15 pmLol, yeah y'gotta admit the brutally honest Canucks crowd had a lot of personality in those days!mr perfect wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:43 pmNo, I've never booed my teams. Disappointed, yes but not even boos from the safety of my living room.Strangelove wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:16 pm... and the Canucks crowd was the Magic Mirror.mr perfect wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:54 am The rest of the team, Hargraves included were Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Yep, Vancouver fans were known as the "Boo Birds" in those days.
Oh they let athletes know exactly how they felt, and it wasn't pretty!
That year they booed the fuck outta the Lions, the Canucks
... and even Team Canada in the Summit Series!
Were you a Boo Bird Mr Perfect?
I wasn't living in the Lower Mainland in those early years. We would come down during Christmas and summer holidays to take in a CFL and NHL game once a season. I saw my first NHL game live on January 1, 1973 when the Boston Bruins smoked the Canucks 8-2. It wasn't all that bad because I got to see the great Bobby Orr play and dominate the game with 6 assists. He was booed by the crowd. The fans were also on Dale Tallon's case, yelling at him to "Hit 'em with your purse" every time he was near a Bruin. You could tell he hated being here. After the season and his contract was up he threatened to jump to the WHA if he wasn't traded.
The Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was started by weird Al Davidson when Bud Poile went nuts and drafted a bunch of small players (Bobby Lalonde, Richard Lemieux), players about as tall as Davidson himself that Poile thought he could turn into Henri Richard and Yvan Cournoyer. The problem was they didn't have anywhere near that kind of talent and by letting the physical player go, the Canucks were run over and beat up by everyone. That team was definitely the worst in Canucks history. In my humble.
The team, not so much.
I wasn't a Boo Bird either, just a young punk.
But I gotta say, the booing was, at times, deafening (especially at Empire Stadium).
I was trying to like the home team Canucks in those days, but it just wasn't working.
(loved the fans though!)
I've mentioned many times on these forums I was a staunch Broad Street Bullies fan back then.
They were like the polar opposite of the Canucks that season.
Just looked it up and Canucks won the season series vs the Leaves though.
All that really matters.
Frank, you and I must be pretty close in age. The WHL Canucks were never treated that rudely (well except for Cherry). You must remember the Canucks were dicked around by the NHL in the first expansion draft because Stafford Smythe and David Molson didn't want to share HNIC revenue with another team. St Louis didn't even apply for a franchise but Jim Norris, who owned the Blackhawks, Red Wings, MSG and the Gahden in Bawston also owned the arena in StL. So they got a team and Vancouver didn't. When the second round of expansion came, the NHL tripled the cost for a team. The owners of Northwest Sports couldn't pay $6 mil for a franchise so they sold the team to Dollar Bill Wirtz's buddy, Tom Scallen. Scallen fired GM and head coach Joe Crozier along with assistant GM Punch Imlach and replaced them with Bud Poile and Hal Laycoe. Jim Robson said the two men didn't get along and that there was a power struggle going on between the two of them. Meanwhile Imlach and Crozier went to Buffalo and had the Sabres in the playoffs by 1973 while Scallen went to jail for ripping off the company that he owned 90% of. Maybe that's why Coliseum fans were so ornery, because of what could have been. Instead the Canucks fans got lousy ownership, lousy and bickering management, and an absolutely horse shit team on the ice while Buffalo with former Canucks management were making the playoffs.Megaterio Llamas wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:37 pm There was the whipping boy phenomenon back then as well. Fans would center some lesser player on the roster out for special attention and just ride him mercilessly. Don Cherry was the first I recall getting this treatment and Dennis Kearns eventually came in for the treatment too when he his game started to fall off. They did this in Toronto as well. I guess it could have been imported from there, an Anglo Canadian thing. Vancouver fans were nasty back then, today they're forced to make do with getting the bile out of their system online and through media channels. Media itself has always been at the heart of this particular darkness.
Ah the salad days of our youth. Those were the days my friendmr perfect wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:53 pmFrank, you and I must be pretty close in age. The WHL Canucks were never treated that rudely (well except for Cherry). You must remember the Canucks were dicked around by the NHL in the first expansion draft because Stafford Smythe and David Molson didn't want to share HNIC revenue with another team. St Louis didn't even apply for a franchise but Jim Norris, who owned the Blackhawks, Red Wings, MSG and the Gahden in Bawston also owned the arena in StL. So they got a team and Vancouver didn't. When the second round of expansion came, the NHL tripled the cost for a team. The owners of Northwest Sports couldn't pay $6 mil for a franchise so they sold the team to Dollar Bill Wirtz's buddy, Tom Scallen. Scallen fired GM and head coach Joe Crozier along with assistant GM Punch Imlach and replaced them with Bud Poile and Hal Laycoe. Jim Robson said the two men didn't get along and that there was a power struggle going on between the two of them. Meanwhile Imlach and Crozier went to Buffalo and had the Sabres in the playoffs by 1973 while Scallen went to jail for ripping off the company that he owned 90% of. Maybe that's why Coliseum fans were so ornery, because of what could have been. Instead the Canucks fans got lousy ownership, lousy and bickering management, and an absolutely horse shit team on the ice while Buffalo with former Canucks management were making the playoffs.Megaterio Llamas wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 4:37 pm There was the whipping boy phenomenon back then as well. Fans would center some lesser player on the roster out for special attention and just ride him mercilessly. Don Cherry was the first I recall getting this treatment and Dennis Kearns eventually came in for the treatment too when he his game started to fall off. They did this in Toronto as well. I guess it could have been imported from there, an Anglo Canadian thing. Vancouver fans were nasty back then, today they're forced to make do with getting the bile out of their system online and through media channels. Media itself has always been at the heart of this particular darkness.
Pretty sure I have corona.
Speaking as someone who now has first hand experience with this critter.....yes, it's bloody terrible. Hopefully I'll be home from the hospital tomorrow.
Holy fuck! Glad yer on the mend buds.