... as the “passive” Canadians eat their own.
This series was a classic example of a team win. As GREAT as Thomas played, it would take me two hands to count the times that one of his players made huge game-changing saves to help the Bruins win Lord Stanly’s challis.
After watching the finals it is very easy to hate the Canucks style of euro-trash, cheap-shot hockey. I am really looking forward to next year when these two team meet again during the regular season. The Bruins have a LOT of scores to settle with those scumbags.
British Columbia should be embarrassed, but not surprised. The better TEAM won.
Apparently, they only met once during this year and GM Peter Chiarelli called it “one of the best games that we’ve played throughout the year.”
Here's a capsule look back at that game.
source.Saturday, Feb. 26
at Rogers Arena
Bruins 3, Vancouver 1The Bruins had won three in a row, including a hard-fought victory at Calgary a couple nights before, when they hit the ice against the Canucks. Vancouver was stuck in a win-one-lose-one rut for about a week. Late in the first period, Manny Maholtra scored the game’s first goal on a backhand shot while falling down.
But that’s when Lucic, the Vancouver native, took over. He set up Nathan Horton’s game-tying goal 9:56 into the second with a pass to the front from behind the net. Then he scored the go-ahead goal with 4:38 remaining in the third on a rebound of a Dennis Seidenberg shot from the high slot after David Krejci rushed end to end and circled the net to set up Seidenberg. Lucic flipped the shot just under the bar.
To complete the night, Lucic set up Patrice Bergeron’s empty-net goal.
Tim Thomas made 27 saves on 28 shots, while Roberto Luongo stopped 22 of 24 for the Canucks. The Bruins played most of the night without defenseman Andrew Ference, who was hurt on a hit by forward Victor Oreskovich.
Let's see how it plays out next season.