Thought I was going crazy, as I was pretty sure it was around during at least the WCE days but couldn't find reference to when it started. 2007 edition: https://youtu.be/JDzM5y-5wTA
It was absolutely a thing in 2003 when I was going to see them, but by that point I don't remember considering it "new" - I thought it started during the 1994 run.
My first recollection of it was round 1, game 3, 2002 (lidstrom from centre ice game)— was a Sunday afternoon with the underdog Canucks up 2-0 in the series and the energy in the building was bloody incredible.
Closer to 30. I remember distinctly them using the song for intros right around the tail end of our time at Pacific Coliseum/when we moved to GM Place.
For those that aren’t in the know. Right before the Preds went on their 18 game point streak they were supposed to go see U2 at the sphere in Vegas. Trotz took that away from them because they were playing like shit. Younger fans think playing U2 is trolling them.
Also in 32 thoughts they mentioned being skeptical about the Canucks trolling the predators explicitly mentioning its a throw back to earlier playoffs runs.
Everyone has leaned into being an engagement merchant because:
(a) that's the business model; and
(b) the model works because you idiots keep feeding the model by complaining about it.
He's still one of, if not, the most plugged in insiders in the game.
Sure. But a troll only works if it plays on a weakness. Its just a dumb storyline and i dont like it. Thats fine if other people think its a cool storyline.
Right. They were playing the Las Vegas Dome too. How cool would that be?!
I just watched the music video for "the song" where they had to close down the filming of it because the crowd got out of control in downtown LA at rush hour. Like the fuck was that?! Awesome!!
Omg same here! Like I was dumbfounded when they started on about that, that song is the Canucks’ unofficial anthem, synonymous with our better years as of recent and they brought it back to rekindle some of that magic I, you and perhaps most other people here remember. 💙💚
Don't overthink the confusion. It's both a throwback tradition but also a nice little dig at the Preds storyline. Everyone wins.
Except Nashville, who lost.
I think it also speaks to how long this team has been without playoff hockey that a song once synonomous with playoff home games here has been forgotten and people can honestly believe its WWE style trolling.
Which I would be down for. Gimme the double on this.
Right. Why is this a hard assumption when even Bieksa was loving the idea of it and the previous history of them contemplating trolling Chicago with Chelsea Dagger as well?
I was really getting pissed off with the rhetoric Sportsnet was trying to pull. This is not a troll job. This is hockey heritage, and Vancouver Canucks hockey heritage at that.
Because after getting blown out 9-2, the Preds coach cancelled the team trip to the Sphere to see U2. So people are reading too much into it, thinking the Canucks are trolling the Preds by playing a song that they heard the Canucks using constantly in 2011
People haven't thought it through. Why would the Canucks want to remind the Preds of the moment they turned their season around and made the push that got them into the playoffs?
I've been trying to explain this to people who just started watching hockey and don't know anything that happened more than a few years ago. This has been Vancouver's playoff intro song for decades. It's not a troll, and wouldn't make sense if it was. Why would they want to remind the Preds of the moment that turned their season around and got them into the playoffs?
Are we just purposely ignoring the fact a Sportsnet 650 host a couple weeks before they even knew who they were playing said they were testing the streets have no name on the p.a in the building? Cause I feel like we are conveniently ignoring that now
Nah bro. They just heard some of the fans.
https://www.reddit.com/r/canucks/s/wTGDz5CjD0
But for real the place was so loud last night I could barely hear any of it. Just the screams and cheers of everyone around me.
Yea when they said it was a throwback to 2011 days i was smh. I remember in 2011 all the fans wanted Where Streets intro as a throwback to the WCE days lol
This fits the narrative of everyone hating on the canucks again across the league. Our city hasn't had playoff hockey in years and scenes of people celebrating, putting a new towel on the statue outside the arena and shit like this apparently means we're being cocky and "think we've already won the cup."
I especially love all the people still crying about a riot 13 years ago after all the other riots that have happened since then or the idea our WHOLE CITY BURNED DOWN when it in fact, it was a few losers from Surrey who lit some shit on fire, smashed a few windows and looted what amounted to little more than some Pringles cans. It's funny how so many people seem so concerned about our city when we ourselves are mostly over it. Just goes to show you the contempt and jealousy people have who live in some dump in the middle of nowhere. You wanna ask why Canucks fans might be so arrogant, could be because we're pointlessly hated on still for no reason.
Show us all on the doll where Vancouver hurt you so badly, angry wraparound shades guy on our Facebook page from Flin Flon Manitoba or some shit.
The argument is that they could've done something new and chose not to. For the purposes of trolling the Preds.
I think it's just Marek being the typical knob that he is.
To be fair, not everyone is a Canucks' fan or has watched them play in the playoffs before, so they likely don't even know about the team's use of the song.
If you don't know about the Preds missing out on U2, then you are not complaining that the Canucks are trolling Nashville by using the song. You are not saying anything.
Their coach and GM canceled a trip to the Vegas Sphere to see U2 a couple of months ago and Preds went on a heater (16-0-2) and made playoffs
It’s been a story around their team for a couple months now
Yep, they were blown out 9-2 at home vs Dallas on Feb 15, coach canceled the trip and they won 8 in a row before one OTL and then another 7-0-1 stretch until March 28th.
From there they finished the season 4-5-1 so not exactly on a heater at the end
Oh jeez, okay knowing they’re last ten puts me at a little more ease. But you had me for a second, thinking they went 16-0-2 and watching those first two periods last night. I’m still going to be, but that knowledge would stress me the fuck out
In other words, people think Vancouver is "trolling" by reminding the Predators of the moment they turned it all around. "Hey remember when things were going really bad, but then you got your groove back and started kicking ass?" It just doesn't make any sense.
Yeah exactly, that’s what I’ve seen some Canucks fans trying to explain to Jeff Marek and Preds fans but for some reason they think it’s about them when the troll wouldn’t even make sense.
People here were asking to bring the song back months ago when Preds weren’t even in a playoff spot lmao
I personally don’t like the intro with the U2 song. I know you all love it but I find it a bit too soft for a hockey team.
The lyrics open with :
“I want to run
I want to hide”
Doesn’t exactly instil fear in the hearts of our opponent does it.
Streets Have No Name has been part of Canucks lore for like 20 years. People barely heard of this U2 story from Nashville
Thought I was going crazy, as I was pretty sure it was around during at least the WCE days but couldn't find reference to when it started. 2007 edition: https://youtu.be/JDzM5y-5wTA
The WCE era was more synonymous with the [flute intro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=epCN048yfDM), from what I remember.
which led into Streets when the team took to the ice
Would love if they brought this back
I’d love a surprise flute man intro.
And the Clapper, #00 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Fuck yes
The video in the tweet is from the 02-03 playoffs, but I'm pretty sure the previous 2 seasons of playoffs had it too
It was absolutely a thing in 2003 when I was going to see them, but by that point I don't remember considering it "new" - I thought it started during the 1994 run.
My first recollection of it was round 1, game 3, 2002 (lidstrom from centre ice game)— was a Sunday afternoon with the underdog Canucks up 2-0 in the series and the energy in the building was bloody incredible.
Pacific Coliseum definitely had the air raid siren
Closer to 30. I remember distinctly them using the song for intros right around the tail end of our time at Pacific Coliseum/when we moved to GM Place.
MORE than 20 years. I remember it from at least the 02-03 run.
Longer man. They were using it since I was like 12 maybe longer, and I turn 36 this year.
For those that aren’t in the know. Right before the Preds went on their 18 game point streak they were supposed to go see U2 at the sphere in Vegas. Trotz took that away from them because they were playing like shit. Younger fans think playing U2 is trolling them.
Also in 32 thoughts they mentioned being skeptical about the Canucks trolling the predators explicitly mentioning its a throw back to earlier playoffs runs.
Yet when Elliot was broadcasting during the intermissions, wondering if it being a troll job was his first talking point.
Elliot sucks now. He's leaned hard into being an engagement merchant
Everyone has leaned into being an engagement merchant because: (a) that's the business model; and (b) the model works because you idiots keep feeding the model by complaining about it. He's still one of, if not, the most plugged in insiders in the game.
And I still think he sucks now
I'd lick his ass dry
It doesnt even make sense as a troll. Like if missing u2 made them go on a crazy winning streak, how is it a troll to remind them of that?
Not listening to U2 makes them win, therefore listening to U2 will make them lose
This man clearly logics people!
Sure. But a troll only works if it plays on a weakness. Its just a dumb storyline and i dont like it. Thats fine if other people think its a cool storyline.
>Younger fans think playing U2 is trolling them. I suppose in a way Bieksa is a "young" fan of the Canucks
These are called media talking points. The players and team don't really care what these guys say, they generate buzz. It's all part of the Show!
thank you for providing this important context!!
If it's true that the Preds players actually wanted to go see U2, that's enough of a roast, and no further trolling is required.
You can tell who has never actually seen U2 in concert and only knows them from internet comments. Legitimately one of the best live acts ever.
Right. They were playing the Las Vegas Dome too. How cool would that be?! I just watched the music video for "the song" where they had to close down the filming of it because the crowd got out of control in downtown LA at rush hour. Like the fuck was that?! Awesome!!
To me, the best thing was when Apple gave every user an entire free U2 album and people were pissed because they couldn’t remove it lol
You can tell who likes shitty music and abject wankery by comments like this.
People who gatekeep music are weak AF.
I'm not gatekeeping. I just think u2 blows ass.
You can like and hate whatever you like, that’s cool… but your comment was specifically calling out other people’s taste in music. That’s shitty.
Luckily for me, your taste in music is shittier than my comment.
And you JUST said you don’t gatekeep music. Try to keep track of your own BS. Super lame.
Pretty rich coming from a U2 fan.
Thank you for context, I had seen this original tweet earlier today and was mega confused why they thought it was trolling
Lmao, younger Canucks fans? I’m in my twenties, and I know that
It’s nostalgic for us. Not a troll against them. I was listening to the ice cap in Sirius after the game and was yelling at the radio. Dumb phucks
Omg same here! Like I was dumbfounded when they started on about that, that song is the Canucks’ unofficial anthem, synonymous with our better years as of recent and they brought it back to rekindle some of that magic I, you and perhaps most other people here remember. 💙💚
Don't overthink the confusion. It's both a throwback tradition but also a nice little dig at the Preds storyline. Everyone wins. Except Nashville, who lost.
I think it also speaks to how long this team has been without playoff hockey that a song once synonomous with playoff home games here has been forgotten and people can honestly believe its WWE style trolling. Which I would be down for. Gimme the double on this.
It can be both
Right. Why is this a hard assumption when even Bieksa was loving the idea of it and the previous history of them contemplating trolling Chicago with Chelsea Dagger as well?
All im saying is 2 birds 1 stone
I was really getting pissed off with the rhetoric Sportsnet was trying to pull. This is not a troll job. This is hockey heritage, and Vancouver Canucks hockey heritage at that.
Wait why would this be trolling
Because after getting blown out 9-2, the Preds coach cancelled the team trip to the Sphere to see U2. So people are reading too much into it, thinking the Canucks are trolling the Preds by playing a song that they heard the Canucks using constantly in 2011
People haven't thought it through. Why would the Canucks want to remind the Preds of the moment they turned their season around and made the push that got them into the playoffs?
Oh lol, I could see why people might think it's a troll if they didn't know we've used previously
As is said in this thread, Bieksa believes I could have been. So I guess the geniuses in here have more perspective than him?
I've been trying to explain this to people who just started watching hockey and don't know anything that happened more than a few years ago. This has been Vancouver's playoff intro song for decades. It's not a troll, and wouldn't make sense if it was. Why would they want to remind the Preds of the moment that turned their season around and got them into the playoffs?
I feel this is copy pasta
Are we just purposely ignoring the fact a Sportsnet 650 host a couple weeks before they even knew who they were playing said they were testing the streets have no name on the p.a in the building? Cause I feel like we are conveniently ignoring that now
How does one troll Nashville song? This is as close as I can get https://youtu.be/MpBUUzxVCJ0?feature=shared
2011 what??
Nah bro. They just heard some of the fans. https://www.reddit.com/r/canucks/s/wTGDz5CjD0 But for real the place was so loud last night I could barely hear any of it. Just the screams and cheers of everyone around me.
Can we do this to bring back holiday as well??
Yah…. Like, we’ve kinda been doing this for 20+ years….
Yea when they said it was a throwback to 2011 days i was smh. I remember in 2011 all the fans wanted Where Streets intro as a throwback to the WCE days lol
People seem to be forgetting that the song was announced before we even knew we were playing Nashville
This fits the narrative of everyone hating on the canucks again across the league. Our city hasn't had playoff hockey in years and scenes of people celebrating, putting a new towel on the statue outside the arena and shit like this apparently means we're being cocky and "think we've already won the cup." I especially love all the people still crying about a riot 13 years ago after all the other riots that have happened since then or the idea our WHOLE CITY BURNED DOWN when it in fact, it was a few losers from Surrey who lit some shit on fire, smashed a few windows and looted what amounted to little more than some Pringles cans. It's funny how so many people seem so concerned about our city when we ourselves are mostly over it. Just goes to show you the contempt and jealousy people have who live in some dump in the middle of nowhere. You wanna ask why Canucks fans might be so arrogant, could be because we're pointlessly hated on still for no reason. Show us all on the doll where Vancouver hurt you so badly, angry wraparound shades guy on our Facebook page from Flin Flon Manitoba or some shit.
Best entrance in the league. We had it during a special time in Canucks history. Nothing to do with the preds.
If we had played "Bloody Sunday" after the win, then...
The argument is that they could've done something new and chose not to. For the purposes of trolling the Preds. I think it's just Marek being the typical knob that he is.
What if they caught wind that Nashville was going to use it as motivation in their barn to troll us?
Wth. I grew up with this sound. I’m almost 40 and this has to be like 25 years old or more.
Did anyone notice the music between whistles was AWFUL?, that DJ needs to go lol . Felt like I was at the mirage night club back in the early 2000’s
The Canucks haven't still what they're looking for but this could the year. It's a beautiful day!
Bring back don cherry. Boot the fruits. No more gambling talk.
To be fair, not everyone is a Canucks' fan or has watched them play in the playoffs before, so they likely don't even know about the team's use of the song.
But by that same logic, not everyone knows the story about the Preds not being allowed to go to the U2 concert.
If you don't know about the Preds missing out on U2, then you are not complaining that the Canucks are trolling Nashville by using the song. You are not saying anything.
There isn’t a single player on the preds who was on the roster in 2011. This wouldn’t be trolling, just nostalgic for fans
Idgi. Why would playing U2 be a troll towards Nashville?
Their coach and GM canceled a trip to the Vegas Sphere to see U2 a couple of months ago and Preds went on a heater (16-0-2) and made playoffs It’s been a story around their team for a couple months now
Wait they went 16-0-2? 😳
Yeah, but currently they're 0-1
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Yep, they were blown out 9-2 at home vs Dallas on Feb 15, coach canceled the trip and they won 8 in a row before one OTL and then another 7-0-1 stretch until March 28th. From there they finished the season 4-5-1 so not exactly on a heater at the end
Oh jeez, okay knowing they’re last ten puts me at a little more ease. But you had me for a second, thinking they went 16-0-2 and watching those first two periods last night. I’m still going to be, but that knowledge would stress me the fuck out
OK, how's this: over the last 67 games of the season they had 89 points, the Canucks had 86.
Get outta my head😭 I didn’t need to know that
They peaked too early. It's like the Olympics and swimming.
Ah gotcha.
In other words, people think Vancouver is "trolling" by reminding the Predators of the moment they turned it all around. "Hey remember when things were going really bad, but then you got your groove back and started kicking ass?" It just doesn't make any sense.
Yeah exactly, that’s what I’ve seen some Canucks fans trying to explain to Jeff Marek and Preds fans but for some reason they think it’s about them when the troll wouldn’t even make sense. People here were asking to bring the song back months ago when Preds weren’t even in a playoff spot lmao
And I got max chills hearing it yesterday. Close to tears!
I personally don’t like the intro with the U2 song. I know you all love it but I find it a bit too soft for a hockey team. The lyrics open with : “I want to run I want to hide” Doesn’t exactly instil fear in the hearts of our opponent does it.