"Blue Mile/Copper Kilometer"
Following the Edmonton Oilers upset victory over the Red Wings in the first round of the 2006 playoffs, several thousand fans flocked to Whyte Avenue in Edmonton, Alberta. Local media labeled it the "Blue Mile" or the "Copper Kilometer", since it closely resembled the events which took place on the Red Mile. There were incidents of violence, including 2 stabbings in Edmonton. The Oilers success has similarly spawned a website similar to flamesgirls.com called The Blue Mile.
Unlike Calgary's Red Mile, Whyte Avenue in Edmonton gained national attention for its level of violence in May 2006; so much so that the mayor of Edmonton, Stephen Mandel threatened to close down the strip: "I hope this doesn't come down to having to shut down Whyte completely ... but this will not be tolerated going into the final series.". In the celebrations following the Oilers advancement into the Stanley Cup finals, 15 people were arrested after several windows were smashed and at least nine garbage fires were set.
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Famous quotes containing the words blue, mile and/or copper:
“True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of variety ... is but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety....”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile:
He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile (l. 1–4)
“He had put, within his reach,
A box of counters and a red-veined stone,
A piece of glass abraded by the beach,
And six or seven shells,
A bottle with bluebells,
And two French copper coins, ranged there with careful art,”
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