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Milan Lucic says Vancouver fans harassed his family at Game 1

06.07.11 at 2:37 pm ET
By DJ Bean

Milan Lucic and his family have an easier time in Boston. (AP)

Milan Lucic has been the man of the hour throughout the Stanley Cup playoffs, as he hails from Vancouver and plays for the Bruins. He had plenty of family in attendance for the first two games of the series at Rogers Arena, but when asked Tuesday to address the rowdiness of Boston fans, noted that his family had a tough time in Vancouver.

A Vancouver reporter asked Lucic about the way Boston fans treat out-of-towners, saying that Vancouver natives had phoned his station saying they were verbally abused, among other things, by Bostonians after Game 3.

“It’s funny they say that,” a suddenly fired-up Lucic began, “because I remember after Game 1, people in Vancouver throwing popcorn and peanuts at my grandparents. That’s almost as low as it gets as that goes. They’re my grandparents. They’re in their sixties. If there is anyone you should show respect to, it’s them.

“Also, my uncle and his uncle, [fans] were pouring beers on their seats in Vancouver. There’s no difference between the two cities. I said it before the series started: they’re two really passionate [fanbases], they’re really into their teams, and there’s nothing more that Boston fans want than for us to win and there’s nothing more than Vancouver wants than for their team to win.”

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  • http://Enteryourwebsite... lobstahman

    vancuver is full of shishbags starting at bertuzi … who the fush bites some one who does he think he is mike tyson then that shish bag tackling horton like he’s fushìn lawrence taylor i say put fresh meat around his bash an leave him in a lions den tie his grandparents up and make them watch go bruins

  • http://www.twitter.com/bodyofclist J.K.

    The question is: do their fans learn that behavior from the players or do the Canucks learn that behavior from their fans?

  • leelee

    It never ceases to amaze me how men posting here are commenting on “men behaving badly” when in fact their presentation, including the bad language just “shows to go ‘ya” that they are the worst of the fan base of both the Canucks and the Bruins. If you’re going to argue your point, say it and spell it correctly.

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  • Gramps

    Michael Buble reported on Vancouver radio that he saw a middle-aged Bruins fan elbow a 9-yr old kid with Canuck’s jersey in the head and called the kid an a-hole after game 3. Stay classy Beantown :)

  • Courtney

    My dad is in Boston for games 3 + 4 and last night had a BOSTON fan shove his fingers in his throat just because he was wearing a burrows jersey, this kid was 16 and with his father, otherwise a fight would’ve ensued. It goes both ways and to say it doesn’t just shows ignorance. Oh ya and the Canucks are going to win the cup @ HOME!!!!

  • http://LasVegas Christopher

    Your father needs to be smarter than that!!! You don’t bring gasoline to a brush fire!!! It looks and sounds to me that your dad got what he was looking for, a reaction!!! Did he teach you to bite when you were young?? Must be an idiot!!! That’s the last jersey he should have worn after that little girl took a bite out of a mans hand!! How can he respect a person that does that??? So please don’t bash fans that are on the same level!!! Your old man needs to grow up!!!

  • http://macmillan_scott@hotmail.com scotch679

    blah, blah blah vancouver, stick game three in your pipe and smoke it. What a real ass kickin’ you guys got and by the way, what an impressive power play you have. If you look up the word pathetic you’ll find that it is synonymous with the word Vancouver Canucks. I’m not sure but I think you made history by being the team with the biggest point spread loss in the stanley cup final round, how humiliating can that be? Welcome to Beantown !

  • Johny Canuck

    Looks like the home team is going to win every game.

  • Johny Canuck

    Yo, Scotch, are you trying to be clever? Don’t bother. People who live in Boston are unintelligent and unsophisticated. You’ll be badly outmatched.

    The lines you have used to be ‘funny with’ are old and unoriginal. If this effort is reflective of the Boston population’s wit and humour then all I can say is – ‘Welcome to Beantown’.

  • http://Enteryourwebsite... justahockeyfan

    please people, grow up and have respect for each other and both fan bases, if that crap is really going on then who cares, be bigger then that. They are all stupid fans who are individuals and don’t reflect a whole fan base.

  • Kevin

    If his family is as big an ass as Milan Lucic is, good. Dirtiest player in the league. If they suspended him for all his altercations he would be lucky to dress for a game this year.

  • Michelle

    Courtney,
    Don’t be too sure…the Bruins are a terrific road team, and lost both of the first games by only 1 goal, which means they could have gone either way. And, well, we know what happened in game 3!!! Know team is as resilient as the Bruins..And, most 16 year olds are punks. Don’t blame it on the Bruins. Parents are responsible for their childrens’ behavior. And, didn’t Burrows kind of bring the backlash on himself??? I mean…..3rd grade girls bite and pull hair, don’t they? Bruins win the cup at HOME!!! And, should I be wrong….the canucks can’t really feel too good about their win, can they?? But, I think i’m right…once the B’s figure out a goal-tender….that’s it!!It’s Chicago all over again, only the B’s won’t quit!!! Horton’s career may be over. They want his name on the CUP…

  • Bruce

    I’m in my 40s and have been born and raised in Vancouver my whole life. Living here it does not surprise me one bit that this disgusting incident happened to Milan Lucic’s family. Vancouver Canucks fans are the biggest douchebags there is. Classless. Loud. Obnoxious. I can’t wait till the Bruins destroy the Canucks and their douchebag fans. Go Bruins!

  • Gray

    This cups for Horton you classless nucks

  • paul

    Anyone who supports this sport or is a fan of these thugs is no better than the worst hockey player on ice.

  • http://weei steve

    i live in b.cx and was born in vancouver…i stopped cheering for the canucks 25 yrs ago and have grown to dispise them..me and alot of people where i live are rooting for boston..its the fans that make me hate em more and more…always a excuse in vancouver its the refs or the other team is dirty..grow up canuck fans and shut your mouths until the cup finals has ended…cause anythings possible and your arrogance will become another embarassment to the rest of us up here who think canuck fans are the worse and never shut up…..

  • http://weei steve

    funny how someone would make fun of boston fans and how they talk ..i live in b.c and half our province cant speak english..so why are you talking..i love canada but i also love the city of boston..trust me 90 percent of canuck fans have never played or can even skate…its disgusting up here listening to those idiots up here..please bruins beat the canucks so we wont have to listen to them brag and talk shit..

  • http://Weei.com Bruce

    hi everyone, well I just want to say that if the NHL had done the right and proper thing and suspended Burrows The Biter then the Horton incident wouldn’t have ever happened, and the last game wouldn’t have gotten out of control. Let’s hope the cheap shots and dirty play are done for the rest of the series. The Bruins should and will win the series in 6 games. The Canucks goalie was shown for the weak goalie he is. GoBruins!!!!!!!!!

  • wayne souza

    fans from both cities are passionate and love there teams the problem for me is the way the league handled the biting incident, the coward should have been suspended instead nothing was done and now you have all the finger pointing garbage your seeing now.the league caused this by not doing there job. im a bruins fan and been to many games and do not condone or involve in harrasing oppssing teams fans people just need to grow up and enjoy some graet hockey

  • Deano

    First of all Vancouver fans certainly have a short memory and should be the last people giving Lucic’s family crap. Lucic was a big time star in your province for his play previous to the NHL and should not be treated this way because he is a Bruin. If he was a Canuck all of you losers would be his biggest fans.

    Kevin, clearly you are an idiot fan boy from Vancouver. Lucic is not anywhere near the dirtiest player in the NHL. The dirtiest player is ex Vancouver Canuck Tod Bertuzzi who ended Steve Moore’s career. Bertuzzi’s hit remains the dirtiest, most scumbag incident to ever happen in the NHL. Tod Bertuzzi should have been given a life time ban from the NHL because Steve Moore can’t even skate or walk anymore. On top of that players like AARON ROME who just cheap shotted Horton, Matt Cooke, Sean Avery, Steve Ott, etc are all dirtier players than Lucic. Before you make retarded comments about players maybe you should watch the game.

    Does Lucic play with an edge yes, but at least he attacks people to their face and when challenged to a fight; he stands up for himself. I guarantee if that little puke Burrows actually had the balls to fight then Lucic would accept and knock him into next week. I would say Burrows is all bark and no bite, but in his case it should be, “All bite because he’s too scared to fight”.

    The fan with his son in Boston, you should understand that in a very emotional game, where one of our players goes down, that the fans are going to be a little wild. If all they did was taunt you with the finger thing then you probably got off lucky. I have seen far worse at the Garden and outside the Garden, if you don’t have thick enough skin to take some hassling then stay home and let some Bruins fans have your seats. What do you think happens when a player shows up wearing a Matt Cooke or Sean Avery jersey? Think all of our insane Bruins compadres are just giving them high fives and saying thanks for coming to Boston? Grow up, this is the finals, emotions and alcohol are flowing and you should have known this before bringing your son to a game.

  • http://Enteryourwebsite... Grant

    it’s funny that you say that, but I’ve yet to find a credible source report on this with a rather exhaustive Google search.

  • Trish

    i agree with Deano…not for nothing…if you go to the opponents city wearing their shirts…you will get harassed…thats a given, however, not everyone is bad. the way i feel is that you have to support your team. it’s like the red sox & yankees…i would never think twice about wearing my redsox shirt in yankees stadium…on the other hand, i would expect to hear comments, however, there are a$$holes at every game..it’s gonna happen no matter what sport or city you are in…there are classless people everywhere unfortunately

  • Trish

    Lucic’s grandparents never should have had anything thrown at them…let alone anyone’s grandparents…thats just ignorant…some people cant handle their liquor, and its unfortunate that anyone else has to deal with that at a game

  • Bleedsblue

    Canucks fans are the biggest douches in the NHL. It is hard to believe they have surpassed Detroilet fans, but they have. Green Men. Nuff said.

  • kevin hart

    thses aer not REAL canadians making these statements but camel jockeys and ragheads

  • WG73

    Bruins arent winning anything except the most classless fans award. Marchand is the dirtiest player in the league and I hope someone works him. Horton shouldnt be admiring his pass and he wouldnt have gotten rocked. Scott Stevens was hitting like that for years, catching people with their head down coming through the middle. Now guys can watch their pass, get hit and then cry ‘illegal head blow’. Bunch of pussies in Boston. Bruins suck and will lose.

  • Deano

    WG73,

    You are another Canucks moron. Please read my above comment as well as this one.

    Scott Stevens was a great player and he was awesome at lining people up LEGALLY, which is why Scott Stevens was a one of a kind hitter. Aaron Rome is no where close to the talent that Stevens was, Rome is just a punk.

    The hit on Horton was way too LATE, it would have been a penalty and a suspension five years ago or twenty years ago. The refs called INTERFERENCE and INTENT TO INJURE which have both been rules in the book since before I was born in 1985. The new head shot rule instituted last year was not used because Rome hit Horton from the side and was not back checking on the hit. You are just a moron and did not look into the actual ruling on the hit made by the NHL, your comment is unfounded and stupid. Horton should not have been looking for the hit, he was looking for the return pass from Lucic because it was so long after he passed the puck, that it made no sense for him to be looking for the hit.

    You are completely retarded to call the Bruins cheap, if you want to see a cheap team, watch the Canucks. They bite, take cheap shots at our goalie, cross check off the face-off because they suck at face-offs, and dive to draw penalties. Last time I checked the Vancouver Canucks were the team that has had TWO incidents in this one series that has involved the league disciplinary committee. So really who is the dirty team?

    Great prediction btw, “Bruins suck and will lose”. What are you five years old?

  • Tony

    lucic is no saint himself, that hit on spacek was classless as was the hit chara laid out to pacioretty. as for rome’s hit, i thought is was a bit late, suspendable, one game, not 4, the hit was almost identical to stevens hit on kariya 2003 (and stevens i do recall got no games). as for the hooligans in boston, the heckling, finger pointing and name calling i think are all acceptable, however what i don’t find acceptable is the racial slurs hurled at some vancouver fans in boston. the vancouver fans that showed disrepect to lucic’s family should have appologized and been thrown out, that’s no way to treat a local family who help raise milan, remember he played his heart out when playing for the vancouver giants. bottom line, fans on both sides should show more respect and class.

  • canucksss

    First of all everyone needs to CHILL OUT, lets not forget people no matter how much we love the game, it is in fact a GAME. Its meant to be fun and entertaining.
    It honestly bugs me how i keep hearing how the canucks and their fans are the most ‘classless’ people. Are you kidding!? Okay if the Lucic grandparents is true, as a vancouverite I find that really dissapointing, because I dont think anyone should ever do that.
    Besides this I find it so hard to believe people actually think the canucks are classless. Have you even heard the Sedins speak? You cant get any more classy and respectable than the sedins. Im thinking maybe the fact that they are such calm and cool guys this bugs people into taking cheap shots?
    Yea Aaron Romes hit was kinda bad, it was not anywhere near the worst. It was late, but there was no way he was intending to injure like he did. Not only that but he’s had a clean history with no suspensions, and having an concussion on himself with no suspension. Soo how exactly is he a dirty player? people seem pretty quick to go on and on about this hit, but about Charas terrible hit, boston fans seem pretty quick to forget all the brutal hits Boston has given out this playoff series. Not only that but lets face it boston and the media have played up the horton hit SO MUCH. I bet you he could have gotten up and walked out of there, but they all decided to play it up. Did no one see him trying to get up? took a few people to push him back down and strap him up. Not only that but he looked pretty good tonight when we saw him, so much for the ‘severe concussion’
    Raymond got leveled just as bad tonight, not only was there absolutely no call, but he didnt play it up with a stretcher even though he probably could have used one. There are so many cheap slashes and elbows to the head the bruins have thrown out i could go on all night!

  • Dave

    Lucic should take his family to Boston and never come back. If you don’t like Vancouver, then stay there.

  • sigh

    woooooow. and look how the cookie crumbled! Vancouver fans are gross

  • http://trac411@msn.com xemnor

    “vancuver is full of shishbags starting at bertuzi … who the fush bites some one who does he think he is mike tyson then that shish bag tackling horton like he’s fushìn lawrence taylor i say put fresh meat around his bash an leave him in a lions den tie his grandparents up and make them watch go bruins”

    Bertuzzi plays for Detroit. You are an illiterate donkey.
    Alex Burrows was the guy boing the biting and, as a Bruins fan, I would have bitten a guy giving me a face wash with a glove on too. Try sticking your hands through the face mask of a football player in a pile, they routinely do things like that. I know of a very few people who thought that bite was anything to give a lot of attention to.

  • http://trac411@msn.com xemnor

    “Lucic should take his family to Boston and never come back. If you don’t like Vancouver, then stay there.”

    You are as dumb as a box of rocks. A man comments on his family being mistreated in his own home town and he’s the one who’s out of line.

    You were probably looting stores and rolling old ladies for their purses during the riot.

    What a cowardly punk you are.

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  • jenley

    “Lucic should take his family to Boston and never come back. If you don’t like Vancouver, then stay there”

    Yeah he should take the cup there with him too. You “Vancouverites” should be stoked that you even got the chance to see the cup, even from a player on an (oh no!)american team. I mean it’s not like the Canucks are bringing it back any time soon. And really? You wanna talk about classless fans? How about fans who destroy their city after an amazing stanley cup run? Yep real classy. Lets face it the Canucks did amazing, the Bruins did even better.

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