Well first of a all I guess a congratulations is in order for Boston. You guys won, and despite all the controversy this series you're going home with the cup.
Now, on to the riot.
I was next to the first car that got tipped, while there was still over a minute left in the game, shit just got FUCKED from there. No police presence was felt so people just did what they wanted. The 30 foot tall BMO windows took literally 20 minutes of people chucking shit at them to break, that's how little cops were in the area. They were always 1 step behind. I don't even wanna start the list of what I saw but the highlights (well really lowlights cause our city is now fucked), multiple cars getting tipped and burned, The Bay windows getting smashed and then the place getting looted, some tuxedo store's windows getting smashed, then people taking out a mannequin, putting a boston jersey on it and absolutely going to town, and riot police rushing a beating people with batons and shields. Note, i only saw the riot police ONCE in about an hour and a half span, their presence was not felt so people just went nuts. Also saw a lot of people with some gnarly bottle/glass wounds on their heads, bleeding a lot. Shit was fucked.
The thing I couldn't wrap my head around though, people were running around chanting "fuck boston" and then destroying Vancouver. Does that make sense to any of you? If you really wanted to show hatred for another city would you take it out on your own?