Montreal Canadiens Fans Had Themselves a Celebratory Riot After Making the Stanley Cup Finals
The Montreal Canadiens beat the Las Vegas Golden Knights in overtime of Game 6 on Thursday night, 3-2, to advance to their first Stanley Cup Finals since 1993. Fans were pretty excited about it so they celebrated with a little riot and even flipped over at least one police car. Police in riot gear responded.
Riots have already started in Montreal after the Habs game. Smh this the part about winning I don't like. Not a good look for the citt pic.twitter.com/FzEszFaS2q
— Blackcoinpurse (@blackcoinpurse) June 25, 2021
Someone just sent me this video of Montreal fans *flipping a cop car over* to celebrate the win tonight. ??♀️ pic.twitter.com/yeCd41uF8e
— Christine "Allez Montreal" Rousselle ❤️? (@crousselle) June 25, 2021
HORRIBLE HOPEFULLY #NHL #HABS FANS FOCUS ON OUR WIN NOT ON 01 OVERTURNED COP CAR BYFOOLS NO RIOT THANK GOD #GOHABSGO pic.twitter.com/LesaxrL4AJ
— Montreal Canadiens (@_CanadiensMTL) June 25, 2021
Riot Police in Montreal following the @CanadiensMTL win. pic.twitter.com/1AruVgk4dh
— ?? Noah (@NoahWebb_) June 25, 2021
This is quite a departure from inside the Bell Centre where the team wouldn't even touch the Prince of Wales trophy because it's considred bad luck. It also brought back memories of the 2011 Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver, though this one was considerably more subdued and thus far has resulted in far fewer iconic photographs.
Who knows what will happen if the Habs actually win The Cup.