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[Victoria Watcher]

They have an entire segment on Brady Leavold. A guy that never played in the NHL and spent time on drugs, in jail, and homeless.

But they do not have Grant Fuhr on hand, the biggest NHL player to ever emerge from Victoria. AND he did lots of cocaine too!

This whole telecast is 1000% too woke.

And a feature on Brian Burke as the executive director of the women’s players union. What a slimy piece of **** he is.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 20 January 2024 - 11:17 AM.

[Nparker]

...This whole telecast is 1000% too woke...

You expected something else? In a telecast centred on Canada's wokest city?

[Victoria Watcher]

Luckily I’m not much of a Victoria hockey fan or I’d be upset.

[Victoria Watcher]

Hockey Day in Canada did a tremendously shitty job of spotlighting Canadian pro hockey today.

[Victoria Watcher]

It was terrible TV that probably most turned off afer the first 15 or 30 minutes.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 20 January 2024 - 01:44 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Victoria basks in the national spotlight on Hockey Day in Canada

 

Thousands of people converged on Ship Point on Saturday for the celebration as the full Hockey Night in Canada crew broadcast from above, atop Milestones Restaurant, beaming images of the Inner Harbour, B.C. legislature and Empress to viewers across the country.

 

https://www.timescol...-canada-8140444

 

 

Among the blizzard of Island sports stories broadcast across the country Saturday, Robin Bawa of Duncan related to MacLean what it was like to become the first South Asian to play in the NHL.

 

 

 

 

(the guy played less than 60 NHL games)

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 January 2024 - 03:49 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

But they do not have Grant Fuhr on hand, the biggest NHL player to ever emerge from Victoria. AND he did lots of cocaine too!

 

Following a feature on Barry Pederson, Grant Fuhr and the 1981 WHL champion Victoria Cougars, Hockey Day host Ron MacLean told the national audience: “[These Royals] are kind of symbolic of the Cougars team of 1981.”

 

https://www.timescol...victory-8140447

[Victoria Watcher]

Push is on to bring Stanley Cup to town to celebrate 100th anniversary of Victoria Cougars winning 1925 championship

 

The Victoria Hockey Legacy Society, which hosted Hockey Day in Canada in January in the Inner Harbour, hopes to mark the centennial by bringing the Cup back in March

 

 

Wilson said he expects the budget for the celebration events to be in the range of $300,000 to $400,000 and has met with Victoria and Oak Bay municipal officials.

 

https://www.timescol...ionship-9177855

 

The society announced Thursday it is looking at hosting activities in Oak Bay, site of the old Patrick Arena at Epworth and Cadboro Bay roads, where the Cougars defeated the Montreal Canadiens 3-1 in the best-of-five 1925 Stanley Cup final.

 

Other events are being planned across the region for March 28-30, 2025, including raising a 1925 Stanley Cup championship banner at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.

 

 

 

 

 

 

FFS, just bring it to rec centres and restaurants and pubs that bid for it, and it'll cost less.  How can it possibly cost $400,000?  The Epworth site is next to the OBRC.  

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 05 July 2024 - 07:47 AM.

[Nparker]

I was chatting with someone here on the cruise last night and it seems the residents of south Florida are pretty excited to have the Stanley Cup in their possession. One popular Italian restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, used it to serve spaghetti! 🤣

[Ismo07]

I was chatting with someone here on the cruise last night and it seems the residents of south Florida are pretty excited to have the Stanley Cup in their possession. One popular Italian restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, used it to serve spaghetti!

 

Yeah Luongo brought it in to eat...

[Matt R.]

Mem lord level move.