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It's Friday October the 6 around 7:59AM and

Vancouver Papers: The Canucks are going to the Stanley Cup

The Sun puts the idea that Vancouver and Seattle will join forces in some sort of cross-country mega band to try to grab any post 2010 big event from 2018 World Cup of soccer, a world's fair, or 2028 Olympics. Maybe we should try getting the 2010 ready without deep sixing the economy first. Then there is this ridiculous feature about finding apartments. And maybe, just maybe, Iain MacIntyre's Canucks column which starts like this,

"Who are these guys, and what have they done with the Vancouver Canucks?
Sublime goaltending. Clinical special-teams execution. A calm and competent defence of a third-period lead. Winning 3-1 in Detroit against the Red Wings in the teams' National Hockey League opener. These aren't the Canucks we've come to know."

Just imagine how much your necks will hurt when we at some point all jump off the bandwagon and snap them. I'm just saying.

Just like the Sun, 24 Hours circles the bandwagons after game one of the Canucks season. Sure Linden scored #300, and they won 3-1 but the cover headline of "Plan the parade" is a little over the top, non? They then go into the recent study which says 4.5 percent of drivers smoke pot before driving. Dude I've seen Harold Kumar, this is so true.

The Province uses the back to deal with the Canucks obviously, but chose, "Party-poopers" as the headline before pronoucing "Luongo even better than advertised". This solidify's the trifecta of Canucks media bandwagoning after game one with this, "Roberto Luongo knew it. His teammates knew it. And most importantly, the Detroit Red Wings knew it. When Luongo stuck out his glove midway through the first period to rob Henrik Zetterberg of what appeared to be a sure power-play goal -- the laser-like wrister from the slot was headed for the top corner on a spinarama effort -- the message was clear." On the front cover, they lede with a family needing answers to a mysterious death of a 92-year-old man who was struck by a taxi near UBC.

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Posted by: Katherine

October 8, 2006 01:49 PM

Okay, I've got to say something about this finally...while the noun lede can refer to the opening line/paragraph of a newspaper article, it is not used as a verb. The verb is spelled "lead."