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By Canucks Communications @Canucks / Vancouver Canucks

May 11, 2023

Vancouver, B.C. – The Vancouver Canucks announced today that their 2023 Training Camp will be held in Victoria, BC over the course of five days from Thursday, September 21 through Monday, September 25. All five days of on-ice Training Camp sessions will be hosted at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, home of the Western Hockey League’s Victoria Royals.

“We are delighted to be heading to Victoria for Training Camp in September,” said Jim Rutherford, President, Hockey Operations. “The Vancouver Canucks have had a long history of holding Training Camp on Vancouver Island and throughout other parts of British Columbia. Taking our team outside of Vancouver to start the year allows us to connect with our loyal fans from across the province. We look forward to utilizing Victoria’s great facilities and beautiful surroundings to kick off the new season.”

“Victoria fans are passionate about their hockey,” explained Mike Strawn, VP of Sports, Media, and Entertainment at GSL Group, which owns Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. “We are thrilled to host the Canucks Training Camp at our facility and help bring this calibre of hockey to the community.”

The Canucks will hold open practices and have other free activations on site, allowing fans in Victoria to gather and celebrate the beginning of a new season.

More information about public access to Training Camp will be announced at a later date through Canucks social media channels.

This marks the third consecutive year that the club has held Training Camp outside of Vancouver and the first time it has been held in the provincial capital city since 2019. The Canucks first hosted Training Camp in Victoria in 1974, having returned several other times since.

After holding Training Camp in Alberta (Calgary and Medicine Hat) during the club’s first four years in the NHL, the Canucks have held main camp throughout various locations in British Columbia since 1974 including Victoria, Abbotsford, Whistler, Prince George, Penticton, Vernon, Kamloops, Courtenay, Powell River, Parksville, and Duncan. The team also held Training Camp overseas in Stockholm, Sweden in 2000.

Source: nhl.com

By Isabelle Lopez ESPN

March 24, 2023

ESPN Films today announced that production has completed on “I’m Just Here for the Riot,” a 30 for 30 documentary about the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot.

On June 15, 2011, the Canucks’ Game 7 Stanley Cup Finals loss to the Boston Bruins sparked a massive riot in downtown Vancouver. Police cars were overturned and burned, windows were shattered, stores were looted, and waves of young people were caught up in the mayhem.

From directors Asia Youngman (“This Ink Runs Deep,” “N’xaxaitkw”) and Kathleen Jayme (“The Grizzlie Truth,” “Finding Big Country”), “I’m Just Here For The Riot” chronicles the aftermath of the event captured on hundreds of cell phone cameras, with the rioters outed, shamed, and their lives altered forever.

From the mob mentality in the streets to similar vengeance in the online hunting of those responsible, it was a dark moment in the city’s history – one that raised deeper questions about fandom, violence, and the shocking power of an angry crowd.

“Taking a subject like Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals and the ensuing riot – and using that event to tell an even bigger story about society – is what makes 30 for 30 so special,” said Marsha Cooke, Vice President & Executive Producer, ESPN Films and 30 for 30.

“The filmmakers had a clear POV: they wanted to explain not just what happened, but WHY. Why do we get so caught up in the emotions of winning and losing? Why do normal people sometimes run amok and do things they regret? And in a world dominated by cell phones and social media, why do we feel compelled to capture everything, no matter how destructive it might be? It is a story about regret and shame, but profoundly, it’s also about how you rebuild, forgive, and try to find something meaningful in the aftermath.”

The documentary is executive produced by ESPN Films. Further details will be announced at a later date.