Vancouver Stanley Cup hockey riot

While I am not a hockey fan, I of course don't live in a vacuum. As such, I have watched and listened with interest to some of the many comments which have followed the recent uproar in the aftermath of game 7.
Among these comments was a small portion I heard in a late afternoon radio interview on CBC AM in central Vancouver Island a few days ago. The closest online comment I can find which approaches the content of this interview portion is at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/06/16/f-vancouver-riot-effect.html.
It seems to me that many of the participants in the riot were not "thugs and anarchists" but, as the Vancouver City Police investigation has begun to discover, young men in the 20-30 age bracket. (See http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/06/20/bc-vancouver-police-riot.html.) I am convinced that these are precisely the kinds of fans the team owners want to encourage. They are the kinds of fans who appreciate the fighting and other forms of violence which are increasingly a part of professional hockey. These are the fans who cheer when the player - a young man like one of them - whom the owners have hired as an "enforcer" attacks a colleague on an opposing team and causes a concussion. Team owners profit financially from this violence. There will be hypocritical expressions of surprise, alarm, and even disgust from many sports franchise owners at the risk faced by citizens and local businesses and the alleged failure of the police response to the rioting. Both the book and the film "The Corporation" have convincingly portrayed the behaviour of large-scale business enterprises (such as commercial sports) as, in many ways, sociopathic. This sorry episode is yet another instance which bears out that belief. The rioters are as much the victims as are the small business staffers who were put at risk, and whose safety the police admirably ensured. Young men have again been coopted into exporting the on ice violence and carrying it into our streets. The team owners will privately rejoice as they pocket their huge profits and set out to hire more enforcers for next year's fight (oops - I am supposed to call it hockey) season.