Not To Be Trusted With Knives

The Stanley Cup Finals

June 3, 2011 by Beth

Things are crazy awesome in this city right now. Cars are covered in Vancouver Canucks flags. Every second person you pass on the street is wearing a Canucks jersey. On game days, the energy across the city is palpable! It’s like the Olympics all over again!

This is my lunch room at work:

After every win, the number of playoff games we’ve won – and the number of wins left until we hoist the Cup – are s updated on the whiteboard ((Similarly, afterevery win, my friend JB updates his Facebook status to indicate how many wins we have left. And I obsessively “like” those FB statuses!)). Also, that photo doesn’t really do it justice. The Canucks posters go across the entire wall of the lunchroom.

Professionals are wearing Canuck jerseys to work:

Since we are facing the Boston Bruins in this Stanley Cup Final, “Boston Pizza” has been renamed “Vancouver Pizza” ((The Shark Club did the same thing during the Western Conference finals against the San Jose Sharks – they changed their name to the “Vancouver Club”)):

And the town of “Boston Bar” is now being called “Vancouver Bar”.

And this:

… is no longer a “Boston Cream” donut. It’s a:

I watched Game 1 on Wednesday with some friends at Coppertank on Broadway. And made some new friends, as the place we so crowded we had people from the group at the next table squished in at our table. And when I went to the bathroom at second period intermission, I came back to find some random in my chair! There were more people in there then you would believe could fit, all of whom sang the national anthem at top volume along with Mark Donnelly and there wasn’t a moment in the three hours that followed that wasn’t filled with cheers, screams, gasps, hugs and many, many high fives! When the goal was finally scored in with 19 second left in the game, the place erupted, with every person jumping to their feet screaming (including my non-hockey watching friends who had come to hang out ((My friend Larry said it was the first time in his entire life he’d ever cheered for a goal!))! I jumped up so enthusiastically that my chair actually went flying backward, much to the delight of my new friend Annamay ((One of the people who ended up squished at our table with us))!

Bring on game 2!

Image Credits: “Vancouver Cream” sign and donut both posted by Stephen Dyrgas on Flickr.

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