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Love in the Time of Hockey Riots (Valentine’s Day ENCORE)

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

12 years ago, the Vancouver Canucks lost Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals to the Boston Bruins, in Vancouver. Canucks fans didn’t exactly hide their frustrations, as a riot engulfed the city. Now, more than a decade later, arguably the most enduring image of that night was a photo of a couple, kissing on the ground, surrounded by police in riot gear. In an encore fit for Valentine’s Day…and of one of our favorite episodes…Greg Wyshynski caught up with the couple, and the photographer, and joins the show to share how that iconic image endures to this day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it is Pablo.

0:04.0

Hello.

0:05.9

We have a relationship on this show, you and me.

0:08.5

And so it is Valentine's Day, and I wanted to bring you something appropriate, something

0:15.8

that represents a day shaped into fine by love and romance and genuine human connection.

0:23.2

AKA, the stuff that you would not expect to find in the middle of a hockey riots.

0:30.1

But that is exactly what happened just a little over a decade ago.

0:34.8

And we ran this story for the first time in June 2021.

0:41.1

And it holds up, man.

0:43.6

It's about a couple in Vancouver that shared a kiss in the middle of outright hockey-related

0:50.7

hand-domonium.

0:52.4

And it became truly one of the first photographs to ever go viral.

0:56.8

And so yes, it is Tuesday, February 14th.

1:01.7

And this is ESPN Daily.

1:05.4

Greg Muszynski, you're here today to tell us a story that is kind of challenging for

1:16.2

the medium we work in in a very specific way because this is a story about a single photograph,

1:22.8

which our listeners cannot see.

1:25.2

So I just wanted you to start by describing this particular picture for us.

1:30.6

Just what is in the frame here?

1:33.2

Ten years ago in Vancouver, there was a riot.

1:37.4

Greg Muszynski covers hockey for ESPN.

1:41.0

It was a riot that followed game seven of the Stanley Cup final between the conucks

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