30 For 30's Stanley Cup riot episode doesn't score
the true crime that's worth your time
The crime
On June 15, 2011, the Boston Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks faced off in a Stanley Cup Game 7 in Vancouver, BC. It didn't go well for the Canucks, and the subsequent "unrest" in the crowd outside the venue came to live in infamy.
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The story
30 For 30 has one of the best track records – as it were – in documentary filmmaking. In the almost 15 years (!) since ESPN's sports-doc franchise debuted, it's made some of the great films in the doc genre, period; more to the point, it's put out only a handful I would even characterize as "meh" (and I can only think of one I actively disliked). Unfortunately, Asia Youngman and Kathleen Jayme's recent look back at the 2011 Stanley Cup riot, "I'm Just Here for the Riot," is one of 30 For 30's lesser lights.
