Defeat:
Victory:
and … Oh my God…
Textual (and video) schadenfreude
- Sam Kasan, Pittsburgh Penguins
- Rob Rossi, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Kevin Gorman, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Josh Yohe, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Joe Starkey, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Robert Dvorchak, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Ron Cook, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Gene Collier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Shelly Anderson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Dave Molinari, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- SportsNOW (video), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Pensburgh
- The Pens Blog
- Kukla’s Korner
- Puck Huffers
and, for good measure, a two-weeks-later roundup from the Washington Post, including an interview with coach Bruce Boudreau.
I wonder if James Moore still thinks the Canucks are Canada’s team…
I take comfort in knowing that he will be asked that question many many times today.
Dumb as the comment was, what’s the big idea going on James Moore because, for a fleeting moment, he decided to over-root for his home team like countless thousands of Quebecois (and journalists from same province) have done for about the last month for theirs? Are we talking the same James Moore whom, back in February, criticized the VANOC for not putting enough French into the Opening Games ceremony at the Winter Olympics? I am sure there is not a body in the land – okay, perhaps the Greater Toronto Area excluded – that was not hoping for ANY Canadian team to reach the Stanley Cup final. And it’s not like Vancouver named their NHL team in homage to totem poles, beavers, or slack-jawed prairie dogs.
I’m far more amused that a French-language newspaper that has no problem constantly ridiculing Anglos in Quebec runs a headline picture of two Torontonians in Montreal uniforms embracing each other in celebration on the ice.
Because that’s not what he did. The issue wasn’t his rooting for the Canucks, it was suggesting that the Canadiens weren’t a Canadian team.
Oh please – in no less than the same tweet, he waxed on about the “Canadian Alliance-esque” look of the Canucks jerseys. Given that he represents a suburban Vancouver riding and was already on record with his criticism of Vanoc and it’s use of French (or lack thereof), he was displaying the kind of homerism that any local fan in any city in this country has displayed as long as there has been an NHL. It’s not offensive and, if incorrect, is so for the simple reason that “Canada’s team” is really the one that just won gold in Vancouver and the one trying to at the current World Hockey Championships.
You want offensive? Check out the front page of the Toronto Star sports section today. http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/nhl/article/809286–habs-star-mike-cammalleri-plays-hockey-the-toronto-way
What’s interesting in the Toronto press coverage is that the Toronto Star keeps running stories about how many T.O. players are in the Habs’ ranks. For example:
http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/nhl/article/808304–fab-habs-bounce-the-penguins
I like the Toronto sun’s caption. lol
Excellent travail de découpage de journaux.
Way to go, keep on the good work!!!
I’m in Toronto… I still refuse to believe that photo on the front of the Toronto Sun ;-)
I’m in Toronto as well, and the Habs have been grabbing headlines throughout the day.