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At Vancouver City Halll, Mayor Sam proclaims May 29 as Vancouver Giants day to celebrate the Memorial Cup victory vs Medicine Hat Tigers and Dave O chats with Owner Pat Quinn, Giants Captain Brent Festerling, Coach Don Hay and listens to Ron Toigo thank the people and talk about Gordie Howe's reactions to the win. 

Also snippets with Memorial Cup MVP Milan Lucic and Canadian Gold Medalist Kendal Mcardle along with the usual politcal grandstanding and pompitude.

Topics include Gordie Howe's happiness and sadness, next year's Giants captain, best way to develop young hockey players, future Mem Cups in Vancouver, Pat Quinn's next job, Don Hay's secrets and predictions on future success.

Download Vancouver Giants Day at City Hall - Canucks Outsider #54 (.mp3, 26:40, 24MB)

photo of the BC Floorball goalie,
"The Fossil" by SillyGwaillo

Edited by John Bollwit - AudiHertz blog, Radio Zoom, Crazy Canucks, Flickr

Music by Sebadoh (thanks Lou! who is on tour with his other band Dinosaur Jr.)

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PS Yes i know i said Game 7 rather than Championship game to Milan Lucic - ooops

PPS See also From the Sidelines blog from Dhiren Mahiban and his 2007 Master Card Memorial Cup set on Flickr - he was the other voice chiming in on the Brent Festerling interview

Brent Festerling by Dhiren Mahiban

The Crazy Canucks cohorts gathered around the Skypey yulelog for a dose of recaps and banter on the lads' fortunes versus the Flames (beauty win), win vs Wild, (whew) and bad loss to the same Wild (dammit) shortly thereafter.  The result is 35 minutes .mp3 Canuck-itude called "TCC#12 - Not too wild about the Wild."

Fill your egg nog and come along with Alanah, who is now CanucksandBeyond (insert echo effect here), Rebecca who's living a Canuck 604 life, Radio John Zooming along and JJG who is the Canucks Hockey blogger.

Miscellania includes Burrows gift-giving, Wild boredom, Luongo and media spotlight,  Rory all-star campaign, Giants and Silvertips at the Coliseum, yadda dabba do ... and me dropping off line, disappearing mysteriously ...