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Vancouver Riots And Stanley Cup: How Front Pages Covered It (PHOTOS)

First Posted: 06/16/11 10:41 AM ET   Updated: 08/16/11 06:12 AM ET

It started as a simple (but big) hockey game, the Boston Bruins winning the Stanley Cup after beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in Game 7. But minutes after the final buzzer sounded, even before the Cup was hoisted up in the air by Boston players, Vancouver's streets turned into a chaotic place. Fires, fans and police lit up the scene.

So as newspapers headed toward final deadlines, here's a look of some of the front pages (ours included) from both side of the borders.

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It started as a simple (but big) hockey game, the Boston Bruins winning the Stanley Cup after beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in Game 7. But minutes after the final buzzer sounded, even before the C...
It started as a simple (but big) hockey game, the Boston Bruins winning the Stanley Cup after beating the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 in Game 7. But minutes after the final buzzer sounded, even before the C...
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International TV will soon move onto far bigger riots picked from today's turbulent world, where young people are legitimately fighting for human rights, food, democracy or maybe an end to their local tyrant. Vancouver's riot won't be remembered with such gravitas.

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Stephanie White
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10:14 AM on 06/16/2011
You guys wrote an article, about how you and other people wrote articles? That's it? A simple google search could have brought back all of this information.
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11:02 AM on 06/16/2011
Post of the day!
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