VANCOUVER — Simon Coutts remembers being"heckled" by passersby in 2011 as he boarded up his bike shop on Vancouver's Robson Street before the Canucks' Game 7 Stanley Cup loss to the Boston Bruins, that would spur hordes of drunken fans to riot.
That night is on his mind again, as the Canucks enter the next round of the playoffs against the Edmonton Oilers tonight. On Monday, Sim said the city was"exploring potential public viewing opportunities" for Canucks games. "Big events like FIFA and big concerts and stuff, we're able to do that really well," he said."I just worry that if we just kind of recklessly sort of go, throw some TV's up and invite, you know, 20,000 people on Georgia Street again, I just predict there's going to be trouble somewhere."
He remembers the fires, the broken windows at The Bay, London Drugs and a neighbouring pizza shop, and the"intense" moments when rioters tried to pry off the plywood he'd put up to protect his store. "Vancouver tried to do a good thing and found itself in an almost impossible situation," said the report, commissioned by the province and the City of Vancouver."There were too many people, not too few police. No plausible number of police could have prevented trouble igniting in the kind of congestion we saw on Vancouver streets that night."
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