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Injuries and no-shows by their star players did the Canucks in.
All the Bruins – including the fourth line – played like they wanted the Stanley Cup.
And they got it.
We thought Tim Thomas might be better than Roberto Luongo.
But did anyone expect Brad Marchand to outplay Henrik and Daniel Sedin … by a lot?
In the most important hockey game of their lives, the twins were matching minus-4s. Mike Milbuiry must be pissing himself laughing.
My series turning point?
Dan Hamhuis goes low to check Milan Lucic in the second period of Game 1.
It was the last play of the Stanley Cup final for Vancouver’s steadiest Dman.
Then Kevin Bieksa’s new partner, Aaron Rome, got suspended … and that was the ballgame.
The Bruins had their way in the Vancouver end throughout the series.
Another key: the Vancouver power-play was just putrid.
And history was made: Vancouver became the first Canadian team to lose the Cup on home ice in Game 7.
And Boston became the first team to win three Game 7s – coming back from 0-2 twice.
What the heck, we didn’t really want Chris Higgins and Maxim Lapierre to get their names on the Cup, right?
Let history record that Boston toughest challenge, en route to the Cup, was beating your Montreal Canadiens.
Three OT losses, including Game 7.
Habs against the Cup finalists this season: 9-6.
We’ll cry all summer long.
And props to the Vancouver fans, who took time out from heartbreak to boo the stuffing out of Gary Bettman.
And showed class by cheering Tim Thomas.
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Last 5 games were 21-4 Bruins. Good job Vancouver. Good job Luongo.
So you know what Vancouver was missing A VETERAN to calm them down. Who did they have ? NOBODY. That’s why you get a veteran for whom the team can rally for.
I would actually chalk it up to all Stanley Cup winners needing an elite defenseman. The closest the Nucks had was Edler. Love him, but not good enough.
Glad we’ve got one
They needed more kesler’s and less sedin’s.
Well we now have a benchmark of what’s expected of us in our division next season. And I think we can beat them with a healthy team any day of the week!
…goona be a lot of ‘splainin’ to do to his Canuck friends and neighbors in BC …but what a year for 43 year old Mark Recchi …what a WAY to finish a hockey career
Habitant means PASSIONATE HOCKEY
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=423049
I love Boon going on about Van sucking – they went to game 7 for christ sakes.
Dr Recchi doesn’t deserve the glory of going out on a Stanley Cup win >:(
Has the rioting started yet?
***Subbang Baby!!!***
they have in cole harbour, but it just seems to be in my living room.
What will Mike Gillis do this summer? Surely he needs to re-tool. Can he trade Luongo? Who will he keep among his defencemen?
Should he try to trade the Sedins? Say to Pittsburgh for Malkin? To the Devils for their first pick?
Devils can’t afford the Sedins, and Gillis won’t trade them. Luongo may start the season in Saint John though.
They did it, the Bruins finally put a dent in it.
Only 18 more to catch up lol.
I guess it’s time I turn the TV off.
Who woulda thought…
Was that Ratchand bagging on the glass taunting Vancouver fans after the goal. Classy.
Think I’ll watch a movie, something medieval and nasty – that should do the trick.
Well I didn’t think Boston would win a cup this year. I thought they were too disorganized and their PP sucked too much to win. But they survived 4 rounds. Gotta give them credit. Floppy with his unorthodox style and having a stellar D around him, still wanted it more than his opponents.
I wish they had won without the goonery, then they would have had respect to go along with the glory.
What a terrible game
They should have pulled Lubrongo four games ago!
This is like barfing with duct tape over your mouth – only in a bad way.
Well at least this means Dr. Recchi is retiring.
poor officiating isn’t enough of an excuse.
i hate to say it, but it’s the bruins that have played with all the heart in the series. vancouver has a whole city behind them, and for what? no heart, no courage. if you have a problem with the calls, for god’s sake, take a stand.
the bruins play dirty, yes, but they also know what it takes to win. the better team won.
Hey, the Habs beat the ‘nucks twice this year. Why did anyone think the Bruins would lose to them?
does anyone on here still want ROBERTO LOUCHOKO ON OUR HABS? I DIDN’T THINK SO! I’D TAKE CARY PRICE OVER LOUCHOKO ANYDAY!
C’mon clock…get this over with! Worst quality final series in memory.
Safe to say our habs were the best team the bruins faced in the last 2 months?
Safe to say …
ALWAYS Habs -
D Mex
Probably tied with TB. If TB had a better goalie they win
So BOTH teams are thugging it OK.
BOTH teams have ahole players, that will do what it takes.
Burrows or Marchand, Bieksa or Lucic. Don’t let your bias blind you. Every team has a couple except the Canadiens.
I wonder what the suicide rate will be in Vancouver tonight/tomorrow?
This league lost a TON of credibility over how this series has been called. An embarrassment.
true
agreed!
They had credibility? I thought they lost it when Colin Campbell got caught fighting for little Gregory…
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“How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?” -Jacques Plante
read the below (from bruins site), and try to convince yourself that it could have happened any other way…
“Jeremy M. Jacobs is theowner of the Boston Bruins”
“He has served as Chairman of the NHL Board of Governors since 2007 and serves on its Executive Committee. “
yup hopefully Molson will try to get on a committee or 2…..
He can’t be that bright, apparently he’s supported George W Bush financially through one of Bush’s presidential campaigns
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“How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?” -Jacques Plante
The Canucks just bite!
The Canucks looked no better than the Islanders, Senators, Oilers or any of the other cellar dwellers in the last five games of this final. Truly a pathetic performance.
So, uhhhh, hey. I just started watching the NHL and I’m not sure whats a penalty, can anyone here tell me? LMFAO.
A penalty is a theoretical construct which posits that ignoring random acts of violence within a confined space substantiates the existence of a uncaring deity. Page 24, NHL Rulebook, 2009 (the Braille version).
Or something like that.
That’s nuts. Clear interference plus 2 head shots on one shift and nothing called.
***Subbang Baby!!!***
Just a thought; JM’s favorite mantra after almost every game is special teams and goaltending. Well the Bruins goaltending was solid throughout the playoffs but their Power Play? This is just an observation not a condemnation of JM.
This is easily the best Canucks team I’ve seen in +30yrs and they still lost. When your goalie is calling out the other teams goalie for not given you enough “respect” during the series, you have to wonder if Bobby Lu has the maturity or the mental toughness to get it done. “Hey Roberto, while you’re pumping Timmy Thomas’ tires don’t forget to polish his Conn Smythe.” Long Live the Habs!
Wow putting Higgins on the PP ? Ouch…..
This is why the penalty numbers seem not out of balance, late calls gives to the Bruins when it doesn’t matter to the course of the game.
I’ve seen FAR… FARRRR worse tonight before that Lucic call.
Solid observation
ALWAYS Habs -
D Mex
The National Thug League has their champs. I hope they’re happy.
What absolute crap. Worst league championship final ever.
lol…..unreal!
Here is the NHL last chance penalty.
…above and beyond the outlandish coddling the Booins have received from the NHL and on-ice officials (but, especially, NHL headquarter) …the Bruins have played outstanding hockey
…it started to emerge following being down 2-0 to Our Habs …and snowballed from there
…they were that LITTLE BIT better than Us …but with last year’s humiliation and melt-down against the Phlyers, You had an emotional edge Vancouver can not match
…if You are unbiased, You must admit the Bruins have played great hockey …something I hope Gauthier is taking notes on WHAT We must do to make Us that Little Bit better than them
…a Booins team with Thomas, Bergeron, Kresji (?), Marchand, Chara, Seguin, and some other top-10 draft-picks are not only a team of thugs
…they sure aren’t, nor in future, I am certain, …be chopped-liver
…Canucks just got beat by a better team
Habitant means PASSIONATE HOCKEY
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=423049
Tomas Kaberle will bring the Cup to Toronto telling gullible fans:”See..I told you I was good”.
Boston is lucky more than good.
They got past Montreal by one goal. Montreal missed 20 open nets.
They got past Philly cause they had a sieve in net.
They got past Tampa cause Horton should have been suspended.
They will win the Cup cause it is to remain in the US …
no such thing as luck – luck is how losers justify defeat.
So when a goalie is down & out as Floppy has been so many times in so many games and the puck is shot over or wide of the net it’s not luck it stayed out?
i like adam’s comment. wish i could still give it a thumbs up.
I don’t know,it was lucky for us habs fans that the right goalie was traded last summer. It was also lucky for the bruins that nobody wanted thomas when they tried to give him away last year.
“Luongo is a UFA in 2023.”
LMAO! The guy has been overated his whole career. He’s laughing all the way to the bank though.
Is it a coicidence that Stephen Walkom (Colin Campbells email buddy) was assigned to this game?
Uhhhh no. It’s not a coincidence.
Just like the no call or suspension on the Ryder hit on David Jones in the ECF
or the longest suspension in Stanley Cup final history
or the no calls on obvious penalties
or the no call on the Raymond interference play
or the no suspension for Lucic hitting Spacek from behind
the list goes on and on…
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“How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?” -Jacques Plante
Boston has played a far more dominant series. They have always been in every game, including the ones they lost in Vancouver. As much as this hurts to say truth is they deserve to win this series.
Vancouver? Perhaps that (near) collapse in the first round says it all i.e. not really that dominant.
I hate the Bruins too much to congratulate them. I do respect the win though and that’s very difficult for me to write.
– HABS INSIDE/OUT R.I.P. –
And to think,last year any team could have had tim thomas as a salary dump.
20 minutes of the trap…..yawn….
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“How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?” -Jacques Plante
The way these playoffs have gone it’s got me to wondering, what did I do in a previous life to deserve this.
I can never remember how this reincarnation stuff works: Does this now mean my next life will be better?
If you think you’ll like standing in a field, eating grass and being milked every day, well ya, sure.
***Subbang Baby!!!***
I can think of worse things. Being a Bruins fan, for one.
If Milbury hadn’t traded Luongo to Florida the Bruins may not have had the opportunity to hoist the Cup tonight.
In retrospect, that was the best thing Milbury ever did.
When the playoffs started I said: “Somehow, someway,Roberto Luongo will find a way to blow it”.
To bad for Canucks fans, but Luongo is NOT a money goalie.
Team Canada won the Gold Medal in spite of Luongo,not because of him.
With all those superstars in their roster Team Canada would have won gold with pretty much any average NHL goaltender in nets.
Does Lapierre have the most goals for the Nucks in this series?
Tied with Burrows with 2 I think. Could be wrong. Man thats sad.
Maybe if the Canucks didn’t all try to look like the Most Interesting Man in the World, they would have won?
Ironically, the acronym for boat is Break Out Another Thousand
Tim Thomas is a wall. Dude deserves the Cup.
All the other Bruins can go rot in hell. Marchand and Chara in the lowest circle. And Ference. And Recchi. And…
Bieksa has made more saves in this game than Luongo has.
Fail
I wonder if after the Cup is awarded Don Cherry will break out in tears and say: “Next year it’s the Leafs’ turn!”
Maybe
I was hoping I wouldn’t have to do this but here goes Plan B: I’ve emailed some incriminating photos of the Bruins’ owner and the commissioner to the Rogers Arena with instructions to put them up on the scoreboard if Mr. Jacobs doesn’t cooperate. Don’t be surprised if Boston experiences a sudden swoon in the next few minutes.
They have my permission to give Thomas the Conn Smythe
I said that as long as Buttman is in control of the NBHL no Canadian team will ever win a Cup!
Bettman had nothing to do with the gutless performance put on by the Canucks in this series.
True that.
This just happens to be Bettman’s preference.
- Honestly yours
The Nucks tanked the 3 games in Boston, it was so obvious!
They’re tanking pretty good tonight too!
Chara high stick no call. Yup. Well done
Annnnnnnnnnnddddddd Lurch get’s away with another one. Go figure. If a cup win ever deserved an asterisk beside it, it’s this one.
They’ve received more help then Barry Bonds did…
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“How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?” -Jacques Plante
Nucks are pathetic. Thanks for nothing Lu and co.
- Honestly yours
Terrible referring all series, should have been a call on Chara.
Gift wrapped to the Bruins.
Any interest:
Jason Arnott, Tomas Kopecky, Brooks Laich, Simon Gagne, Marco Sturm, Erik Cole, Jamie Langenbrunner, Joel Ward
D
Markov, Wiz, Bieksa, Brewer
I like Joel Ward and Andrie Markov as my 2 fave UFA.
Kopecky and Cole. Pass on the rest.
I don’t think any of those players would want to play in Montreal.
Bieksa is overrated IMO and will be overpaid. He is good, just not as good as many think he is. I think we’re good on D as long as Marky and Gorges are re-signed.
- Honestly yours
I keep hoping the injury issue will resemble Koivu’s situation.. remember when he had three consecutive knee injuries to never have a problem with them again.. the eye and cancer incidents were rough though.. what a guy!
Saku is/was The Man. No doubt about that. If ever there was a player who hasn’t won the cup and deserves to, it’s him.
- Honestly yours
Markov…no thanks on the rest.
Laich if the price is right..maybe sturm.
HELL NO to gagne.
F’n Millbury says Canuck tried to draw a penalty from Thomas stick in his face. God
Michael Ryder is gonna get his name on the Cup. Man, the Habs could have used him against the Bruins, huh?
I can count the number of decent games he’s played in the playoffs on one hand. And he’s played in 24 not counting tonight.
Somebody is bound to bite on that one
***Subbang Baby!!!***
Right into the bug zapper!
That was too easy. You’re out of practice.
***Subbang Baby!!!***
LOL. What the f*ck has Ryder done the whole playoffs? No, I’m glad his lazy ass is gone from Montreal.
I’m sure he is pretty happy the way things worked out too.
I’m sure. I wish someone would trade me to Daddy Cambells team.
17 points in 24 games.
Which is miles better than his 41 points in the regular season.
I’ll still take Cammy.
He scored 25, 30 & 30 goal seasons in Montreal. His last yr in Montreal he scored 14 I think & that was cause he was asked to play more defensive. So he was a good player in Montreal till Carbo screwed him up ….
He was inconsistent and a defensive nightmare in Montreal. Glad he’s gone. I’m sure all you newfie’s love the guy.
yup just ask AK….and he resigned !!!!!!
Carbo took him off the PP and in the previous two seasons he had over 12-17 PP goals…..
The good news: the more Luongo’s stock drops, the less obligated Hockey Canada will feel to give him the net in Sochi, and so the greater the chance Price can win the honour by then. Small victories? Silver lining? Whatever.
He never had a chance in Sochi anyway. Price, Ward and Fleury or Mason and there isn’t a chance in hell that the tenders are any different than that, barring injury of course.
That’s reason talking. Seniority often trumps it.
Not when seniority trash talks the opposing goalie in the Stanley Cup Finals and craps the bed. Oh, and on seniority, talk to Patrick Roy about Olympic seniority.
You’ve got an unfortunate habit of adding unnecessary heat to ordinary discussion. As if I’m in Luongo’s corner. I’ll look the other way this time considering what’s happening in the world.
Anyways, I hope you’re right.
I wasn’t adding heat. Sorry if you took it that way. Didn’t mean to project any animosity at all.
I would put Cam Ward ahead of Price right now. IMO. But Price is very very close.
Hence the winning-the-honour process between now and then
yup.
I think he’ll also be 35. Price and Mason would be nice at t hat time.
I never thought Lou was special.. I was just told Over and over and over and over, year after year after year he was among the best in the world. I have NEVER seen an example of him being elite.. Canada won gold despite having Lou in the net.
Sad, sad, sad nuck performance. How can you not bring your best game, again?
It would be cool if Vancouver came back to win this. But, somehow I doubt it.
Boston is a much better team in this series
Yes, they were. Not even close.
Absolutely. Call the spade. Don’t like them but there a good hockey team that’s built for the playoffs. We had them on the hook and couldn’t finish them off. I think we have a better team than Vancouver.
Honestly, this game is a lose-lose for me :
- Boston wins, well, I hate the Broons, plus, guys I used to coach with will be shovin’ it up my @$$ for months
- on the other hand, too may of my friends are Canucks fans, and they will become insufferable pr!¢&s if their team wins
Truth be told, I am good with being a Habs fan.
ALWAYS have been.
ALWAYS Habs -
D Mex
To be honest, I couldn’t care less who wins the cup. There’s nothing else I wanna watch on tv.
If you think its bad now. Just wait till tomorrow when this site is filled with bruin trolls and endless retromikey posts. Might be a good idea to take the day off from HIO tomorrow people.
If it weren’t for Thomas, Vancouver wouldn’t even need to play well.
And if it weren’t for Thomas, we might be looking at Marchand for the Smythe.
Small but significant consolation.
One lousy deflected overtime goal away from sending these pukes golfing.
One goal.
****ing aggrivating isn’t it?
in three different games.. one measly bounce
I guess the belief that the Western Conference is superior is just a myth.
Not evenly remotely a myth.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=545275
Although long gone are the three D’s in the West (dallas denver, detroit) spending stupid money that the East was hard to match.
Funny thing is, I bet if the Habs start doing the gooning thing, the game changes again, and makes it irrelevant once more.
PJ Stock is giddy with anticipation.
On another note, there’s no way Horton could squeeze a water bottle like that unless he was faking it!
Bill Buckner.
I like how MaxPac was chastised for going to the movies shortly after his hit and Horton is a ‘hero’
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“How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?” -Jacques Plante
Please leave Billy out of this, it wasn’t his fault, more like the manager. Poor Billy, feel really bad for him. Had 2 bad ankles and McNamara (I think) left him in.
Not his fault.