Yes, it was cheesy. Yes, it was forced, contrived, awkward and maybe even a little embarrassing (except for the chant of Ronning! Ronning! which was very cool and very well-deserved).
I may have rolled my eyes and cringed a little in my seat at the whole slightly patronizing ceremony... "Retiring" jersey number 7 for the fans when the last thing they needed was a Pavlovian cue to applaud the team they have given five straight years of a sold out arena.
But I'll be damned if I'm going to let a bunch of Americans laugh at us! You can see what the New Jersey Devils fans think of the ceremony HERE.
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Bastards
WAR Devils BITCH
Screw the devils. devils are bitches. gay expansion team. cant win anything without your goalie you guys suck and your lousy fans anyway never sell out the arena even when you wincups
awesome guys, you canucks are such a great team too! Oh man I remember when you guys won that cup in...o right you guys have done nothing since you got into the NHL. huh and your amazing goalie still can't carry you to a cup? My goodness explains why you're the rejects of canada! ha that sucks
Jersey numero 7 for how many times Lou Lamoriello stuck it in Mike Gillis at the GM meeting.
Mike Gillis liked it so much he decided to commemorate the occasion by retiring the jersey.
canucks chew my shaved nuts - Devils Nation!
F*CK THE DEVILS THEY BLOW AND THEY FEED FROM BRIAN BURKES MAN BOOBS
hey sell your arena out once you crappy new jersey fans and then you can talk. as for goalies carrying a team, brodeur is only gonna be able to do it for a couple more years...then what?? a lousy team with no real fans..and no goalie...franchise re-location? hopefully to winnipeg where they deserve a NHL hockey team.
we don't need to sell out our arena, if we sell three tickets that's the same revenue as you selling out your vancouver arena in monopoly dollars. go eat some poutine and maple syrup in your igloo.
Unfortunately, I've been to plenty of sold out Devils games, so that argument doesn't stand very tall. It's a shame we're such a successful team, really, it is. Have fun scratching away for that 8th seed. And if you do make it , make sure you sell out those 2 home games in the first round for your fans...It's all they're gonna get.
:)
I am going to personally bitch slap the next person I see in a Devils jersey. Just for being that stupid.
wtf is a canuck anyway? have fun with your overpaid, underachieving, wannabe of a goaltender!
Okay, I always like to stick up for Devils fans... because I am one... but for the dude who asked what a Canuck is, it's another word for Canadian. Look it up before you post and make us look bad. Look up "Canuck" or "Johnny Canuck"...
I've always liked Van City. No argument here guys!
Bond, I am going to cut your throat.
Hey "its devils bitch," about your revenue argument, you obviously are a typical ignorant american living on welfare in the shithole of america (otherwise known as jersey). what you don't know is until recently the so-called "monopoly money" has been worth more than the american one, thanks to your shitty economy. And vancouver is ranked higher in team revenue (107mil) by forbes than new jersey (97mil). so go back to your overpopulated, polluted city of newark and enjoy getting cancer and living on welfare for the rest of your life.
canuck:
Anyone that carpetbags the US from a northerly direction.
Those Canucks are a little more slippery than the Mexicans, because at least the Mexicans can admit that they want to be American.
Bond, your throat will be sliced while you sleep. Sliced from side to side.
Anyone From New Jersey would have already been sliced from ear to ear if they were caught in Van City with a fuckin Jew Jersey Rebels jersey or w/e its called, And who cares who has and hasnt won the cup, teams change, so Vancouver has the hardest schedule in the NHL and beat the devils a majority of the times we play them, which should happen more so we can laugh at rolston again like when he played for Minnesota, dont even get me started on them. Canuck Pride Mother Fucker
Oh i think i forgot......
CANUCK PRIDE MOTHER FUCKER
i guess your still mourning the loss of your franchise player, Nazzy, who realized where the winners come to play - America
It's not just Americans; your fellow Canadians are having a big laugh at your expense as well!
Most Canadians respect the Americans, but do not say that Canadians won't admit to wanting to be American. Mexico and Canada are two completely different things. You have Mexicans running across the border to the US, because a lot of their country is poor, and they are trying to survive. Canadians are grateful for our country, and there are many people who would die to live here. A majority of Americans have never even been to Canada, let alone outside the USA. How can you have any take on another country if you haven't left your own country. You tell some Americans "Vancouver is 2 hours north of Seattle", and many think that as soon as you cross the border, it will change from whatever the weather is in Bellingham - say 80 degrees F, to 40 degrees or less, and snow. Ignorant = many Americans (not all, but Many).
i wouldnt ever mourn the loss of Naslund... it was celebrated in these parts, he was the cancer of our team and yeah he had some good years, but honestly he is a european slug that didnt appreciate being the captain of the best hockey city in North America, theres been more wellwood chants this yr than nazzy chants in the last 4 yrs.
3 Stanley Cups in less than 2 decades. I rest my case.
DEVILS NATION.
thats whats funy about Van City is that we havent won a cup, and we still have THE most loyal fans in the NHL sold out games for seasons haha and no one is giving up on the canucks, the time will come, and it will make it oh so much sweeter, because we didnt get no head start
man devils fans are gay, saying we miss naslund, saying they have so many cups, then buy tickets and support your team instead of tipping cows and buying guns and going to nascar
listen you lumberjack...you dont know what your talking about.
Bond you are the perfect example of a stupid uneducated American that gives your country a bad stereotype everywhere else in the world. Don't you have a Civil War reenactment to go to or something?
shut up Canada we can nuke you at will
Want to be American? You Americans are even stupider than I thought. You do realize that every country in the world hates you?
The only reason you are devils fans is because you can't afford the gas money to drive across the bridge to go watch a real team (the rangers for you dummies that can't figure it out). Go get mugged you friggin inbreeds!!
I bet most of the Americans that post "Vancouver Sucks" comments are the same ones that are going to vote McCain.
the 7th man is sooper lame. but I would rather have 7th man tattood on my dick using shards of broken glass dipped in ink and iodine than ever in my life have to say that I live in the bloated sh*#hole of New Jersey. For Christ sakes, people from Ohio make fun of Jersey, it's like New York got drunk, fell over, smashed its head, puked, shit its pants and passed out and the next morning it had all manifested into newark. You might have a couple of cups, but at least when we win ours it wont get stolen and pawned off for fake tan bronzing cream.
My response to Devil's fans.
At our team can put 18,000 butts in the seats. :o
Go Canuck Yourself:
That comment is GOLD. And TRUE.
Devils are douchballz Brouder is all u have and hes gonna be gone so good luck in the east mother fuckazz
go canuck yourself, too funny man!
they're too fucking cheap to pay for the real domain name (njdevils.com) and had to resort to njdevs.com! wtf is a dev anyway?? fucktards! their comments prove that they're the least respectful nation in the world and think they can do whatever they want. i seem to recall a whole shitload of you twats moving up here when bush was elected. the ones that did move up here are the smart ones. now go ruin your country even more by electing mccain, have him die and put a cunt like palin into office. then all americans except for ones with an iq less than 50, rednecks, the kkk, and you jersey fucks will move up here. oops, that was redundant.
Go win a cup assholes.
hahahaha... You Jersey fans makin fun of Canada should take a good look at what team Stevens and Broduer played for in the World Championships/Olympics. Theres your cups right there bithces, like evry year, it spends most of its time in Canada, where it belongs!!!
Americans = Ignorant
I would rather be homeless in Vancouver then have to ever set foot in Jersey. Vancouver has loyalty, Jersey has a bunch of Mcain supporters. Plus every country hates America.
go canuck yoursef, that is the best comment i have read in a loooong time lmao. fuckin hilarious. ya, so just to reiterate what most have already said: newark is an overpopulated, polluted shithole of America, and your fanbase (or lack thereof) is pathetic. i'd rather wait another 100 years to win a cup here in vancouver than ever set foot in that god forsaken place you call home. enjoy living on welfare and dying a premature death in that lovely city of yours.
Hey I'm Canadian and a huge Canucks fan (from BC baby) but there's no need to bash the devils, they were a good club to watch back in the stevens days. 7th man is retarded and people should make fun of it, it's almost as bad as when they unveiled our "awesome" new jerseys in Vancouver... :(
Maybe someday we will have a good jersey? Circle Skates, Flying V's, Mauve and Navy blue with an orca breaking out of a "C"? You'd think we'd have learned by now. I like the new color scheme but the logo and the name "VANCOUVER" on it? looks really bad :( I dare say the worst looking jersey in the league... can you think of worse? I can't...
None the less, GO CANUCKS GO and i love the grit and toughness we are showing this year, most entertaining canucks hockey since 1994 I dare say!!!
new jersey go to hell the whole gay state from one end to the other, all of you and your hockey is boring as fck
I actually like both teams. Can't we all just get along?
i dont care who's won more cups than who or who's got a better goalie. all that matters is everytime brodeur makes a save you can thank canada or even any time new jersey scores a goal you can thank canada because at some point in any players career they have been taught, influenced or inspired by a canadian.
we dont always win the cup but we own it
Good luck Devils...BRoduer out until Feburary/
To whoever posted the racist comments about the election tonight (and anyone else thinking along those lines) you can expect that kind of comment to be promptly deleted, as it was in this case.
wow this thread is weak. Like Martins elbow. who leads the shut out race... Not Martin. and the win race... Not Martin. Congrates on the 44th prez. I've got twenty he won't see christmas... Enjoy watching Nazzy at MSG, especially when he gets bored and decides he doesn't want to play any more.
Sundin doesn't even want to play for the Crapnucks. And they offered him all the money in Canada! ha! GO DEVILS!
the whole teams salary cap in british pounds wouldnt be enough to make him play in urine drenched new jersey bitches
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