CANUCKERY: A Boston Fan To Jump Ship For Vancouver On A Few Good Conditions
July 5, 2011
Let me be the first to say welcome to Vancouver. Can we have your mascot, too?
Foreign Intelligence Brief #371: A Closer Look At The Boston Bruins Victory Bar Tab
June 21, 2011
A copy of the bill assessed to the Boston Bruins after a night spent celebrating their win of the Stanley Cup last week has made it’s way onto Reddit. It takes a lot of Champagne (and some 136 Bud Lights) to fill that bowl. Add on a $25,000 gratuity to have it poured, and you have a good night for everyone. Naturally, the first comment underneath the photo nailed it: “I’m betting the Vancouver bill was more.” Plus we got stiffed.
SOUNDTRACKING: On The Canucks Run Confusing Line Between Rockers And Jocks
June 10, 2011
by Daniel Colussi | Call me old fashioned, but I grew up with the clear understanding that you were one of two things: a rock ‘n roller of some stripe – a punk, a goth, a metalhead, a teddy boy, whatever – or you were a jock. Sure, there were other clans in high school, but we won’t worry about them now. What concerns me today is how this simple demarcation of identity has lately become obscured, perhaps even irrelevant. As the Stanley Cup finals progress and Vancouver falls deeper into a drug-like trance of Canucks worship, a new atmosphere has opened up in which Vancouver’s musicians and music lovers have all revealed themselves to be die-hard, jersey-wearing sports fans.
I can’t convey my confusion and sense of betrayal. I can’t give up the straightforward us vs. them mentality of rockers vs. jocks that once served me so well back. In those days, there were basic visual clues with which to identify everyone’s allegiance: rockers had long hair and over-sized rock t shirts (usually Nirvana), while jocks wore baggy jeans, jerseys and short cropped hair that coalesced into bleach-tipped crests.
But nowadays, all previous lines of understanding have been obscured. Walk into any jamspace in this city and you’re as likely to see a poster of Roberto Luongo or a Sedin tacked to the wall as you are of Bowie or The Stones. Last weekend outside The Cobalt, the talk wasn’t of the bands that had just played but of Malhotra’s miraculous return to the ice.
Sure, I could anticipate a few musicians succumbing to the paranoid grip that hockey holds over Vancouver – a city whose very pulse can be monitored by the Canucks’ scoring (car horns, vuvuzela’s and wild hollering in the streets indicates robustness while silent streets on game night are a flatline on the EKG), but I never thought I’d see the day when Vancouver’s rock scene wholeheartedly embraced The Game.
But maybe I’ve had it wrong all along. Vancouver has long maintained an uneasy alliance between punk rock and hockey. I’m thinking of D.O.A.’s blasphemous 1987 music video cover of BTO’s Takin’ Care Of Business in which hockey and punk rock were portrayed as two sides of the same rebellious coin. And then there’s Nomeansno’s dark twin, the Hanson Brothers, who traded their guitars for hockey sticks and celebrated the brutal sport with their treatment of The Hockey Song? More recently, local 90′s rockers The Odds have stepped onto the ice and upped their exposure to previously unheard of levels.
Perhaps I’ve had it wrong all along. Maybe it’s not so bad. Maybe it just goes hand in hand with our being a world class city. Maybe it gives Vancouver a more European quality. I mean, how many English rockers are also full blown footballers? Pretty much all of them, I think. Pink Floyd loved their football, and of course there was the legendary match between Oasis and Blur, the two biggest UK bands of the 90′s. If they’re OK with it, then why shouldn’t I be too?
It seems I may have succumbed to the same faulty, binary logic that still pits The Stones against The Beatles in my brain. It wouldn’t be the first time that I’ve had to reassess my old hypotheses about the world…
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Zulu Records veteran and tunage aficionado Daniel Colussi is the Music Editor of Scout Magazine.
CANUCKERY: “My Name Is Johnny Canuck, And This Is My Year.” Oh Yeah? Prove It…
June 9, 2011
Hat tip: Nucks Misconduct. Best of three with home ice advantage. We got this.
Seen In Vancouver #299: Canucks Bridal Gown At “Frocks Modern Bridesmaids”
June 8, 2011
Many thanks to watchful reader B.R. for sending this snap in of what appeared to us at first to be a Vancouver Canucks-themed wedding dress (with matching LW and RW bridesmaids) in the window at West Broadway’s Frocks Modern Bridesmaids. It’s actually a fitted t-shirt slipped over a dress and tied down with a sash, but so what? Twas seen, and we like.
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CANUCKERY: How Bandwagon Fans Should NOT React To Our 4-3 Loss To The Sharks…
May 21, 2011
Starts at 1:25 and continues throughout. Don’t do that (also, never refer to a friend as “bitch”). We got this.
Seen In Vancouver #293: How Indy Retailers Roll During Canucks’ Run At The Stanley Cup
May 19, 2011
Saw this “closed early for hockey” sign on Cordova last night during the 1st intermission. If you can afford to, then why not?
CANUCKERY: Adolf Hitler Stops Being An Anti-Canuck Troll And Joins The Bandwagon
May 16, 2011
“Don’t worry…Kesler is too quick for him.” Classic.
Seen In Vancouver #291: Sweet Sidewalk Stencils Of Sedin And Kesler At Main & 3rd
May 12, 2011
Ryan Kesler and Henrik Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks make kickass cameo appearances via power-washed stencils on the southwest corner of 3rd Ave and Main Street.
CANUCKERY: Ryan Kelser Snaps Scoring Drought, Canucks Take Game 3 In Overtime
May 4, 2011
Via Nucks Misconduct:
It wasn’t the prettiest, but the Canucks took game three in OT and stole the momentum back from the Preds and their yellow orange gold crowd. Vancouver dominated the puck possession early on, leading the shot totals 10-1 at one point. Even when the Preds jumped on the board first Vancouver seemed to comfortably dictate play, giving Nashville next to nothing in the second. Just as in games one and two, the stronger team won.
Keslord netted two goals (including the OT winner on a traffic tip) and an assist. Game 4 goes down in Nashville on Thursday at 5:30pm our time (watch online at CBCSports.ca).
