Canuck Memories

[donlever]

Good post Corn...thanks.

The old days.

Howie Meeker....a hooooop around a barrel.

Babe Pratt.

McGooch.

Pascall.

That old barn was way more open access to players and management as you intimate.

Spoke to Quinn, Burke, Neale, Neilson et al & and tons of players down there.

As a kid I actually played with some of them once in a blue moon (Kearns, Monahan, Williams, Snepsts) up at Hollyburn, a story which I've told before.

Watched Burke try to run scalpers off the driveway access in the SW entry with his car lol.

[Cookie La Rue]

My first time in Van was in '96. Fallen in love with everything there and unfortunately the Canucks.
Somebody out of Cc, can't recall his name, send me in 2004 a DVD "10 years after". Taking part of the one and only CC M&G ever. Met the Booster Fanclub in a bar on Robson where i got presented a gameday poster with Linden, framed in my living room still.
So many shortcuts and memories, damn i'm old.
Could go on and on but won't.

[Kenji]

Cool story Kenji.

Care to expand on the Robson thing?

Is there a link you're aware of to access the article..

Thanks! I can’t remember why I was talking to him or find the article. I might have to dig through my box of floppies!

[Topper]

'82 - get together with a bunch of Uni friends to watch a playoff game. The regular riff raff for game time, all of us have an early morning final exam the next day we should be studying for. Beers and joints are flowing, Canucks win in double OT, by this time the exam is forgotten and the party is on. We all managed to drag our asses into the exam the next morning, passed the exam and our hangovers were soon being drowned in the Pit.

'94 - hadn't seen a game all season as I was living in Jamaica. Arrived in Santo Domingo Dominican Republic the day of game 7 vs the Rangers. We're having our company' annual Caribbean-Mexico-Central America Group meetings and piss up. I find a shop near the hotel and buy a couple of 2-fours of Presidente, Fill the bathtub in my hotel room with beer and ice and wait for the handful of Canadians and Vancouverites in our group to arrive.

A few regular checks on the Presidente to make sure it is chilling properly, I'm ready and fully hydrated when the rest of the group arrives for game time. Fuck me. We were so disappointed, mid second period we turned it off and went to join the rest of our co-workers poolside where they were celebrating our manager's birthday.

I plunk myself in seat across the table from my boss, he introduces me to his wife who comments "our daughter had such a great time in Jamaica meeting you, she can't stop talking about you."

Note, she was 12 or 13 at the time, I taught her how to jimmy the front door lock on the company field house with a pocket knife. I never did have a key for the place. Pop the no draught window lock on an F250 with two twisted pieces of wire that hung from the side mirror frame for whenever someone locked themselves out of the truck. Then her dad and I left her standing in the middle of a weed field while we went off to look at the latest work we'd been doing on the project.

Anyways, my blurted drunken response to my boss's wife was "one day she'll loose her virginity and stop talking about me." While the wife looked aghast, fortunately for me, my boss burst out laughing.

'11 - I'd been working in the interior, catching games of the final series in the local Legion. Drove home the day before game 7, hoping for a good father son game time with my toddler kid. First Bruin goal of game 7, kid puked all over me.

[donlever]

First Bruin goal of game 7, kid puked all over me.

Good one.

I remember the bosses daughter story from somewhere else.

Luongo is not spelled k - i - d....

[Meds]

Yeah he told that story before Donny. I LOL’d just as much the second time…..Topper is consistent.

[5thhorseman]

Heard it before as well, but not the leadup

[Aaronp18]

i think most of my Canucks memories come from about 89 onwards, we lived in Calgary as a kid for a couple years then moved back to Delta in 87 I believe.

So Trevor Linden was probably near the beginning of my true fandom, I still remember having a Vote Trevor Linden for Rookie of the Year pin. Of course just a few short years later Bure came to town, who became my all time fave.

Convinced my parents to let me play hockey right around then as well, was playing soccer until I caught the hockey bug and finally played when I was 12 I think.

Do recall the 94 finals very fondly of course! Loved that team. Didn't see a ton of games live living in Delta but for my birthday in 95 my dad took me to a playoff game, of course hoping for a run like the year previous. The game was where Linden put Norton through he glass, we were on the balcony and it happened right below us. Thought that was the greatest thing ever!

[Cornuck]

Don't forget the part where you were almost sued by Burke!

[rats19]

Don't forget the part where you were almost sued by Burke!

*robert Redford nodding *

[Carl Yagro]

AP became an instant hero to the unwashed masses.

Forever emBOLDen in Canucks HT history.

[donlever]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

...better?

[Aaronp18]

Almost!

But that's when ole Burkie was with the Leaves, or just after he got canned by them. So can't hold it in my Canucks memories, my CC memories for sure.

[Cousin Strawberry]

Don't forget the part where you were almost sued by Burke!

[Lancer]

AP became an instant hero to the unwashed masses.

Forever emBOLDen in Canucks HT history.

This board likely never saw that much web hits since. Minor internet sensation he was...