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dbr wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:11 pm Leaves country spent a few years in Quebec then decided it would be better to live in a province that more or less has its shit together.. six months before these fucking yahoos went and elected Doug Ford

Strangelove wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:15 pm

mr perfect wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:43 pm

Strangelove wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:16 pm

mr perfect wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:54 am The rest of the team, Hargraves included were Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

... and the Canucks crowd was the Magic Mirror.

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?

No, I've never booed my teams. Disappointed, yes but not even boos from the safety of my living room.

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.

Lol, yeah y'gotta admit the brutally honest Canucks crowd had a lot of personality in those days!

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.

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.

mr perfect wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:53 pm

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.

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.

dbr wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:37 pm Hey guys, what’s new? Everyone doing alright? Just checking in on the well-being of my elders in these troubled times

Per wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:33 pm Norwegians calling a spade a spade:

mr perfect wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:57 pm OK, back on topic. COVID is bad.

Mëds wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:51 pm

mr perfect wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:57 pm OK, back on topic. COVID is bad.

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.