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He's from Montreal, you guys can have him back. This series could turn our to be an epic one or a flop. My Vancouver people may end up shooting up each other by next Monday
I actually don't feel bad about losing anymore, because we played way better against Boston than Vancouver has. The Sedins are playing scared, everyone is choking.
eesh, I think the Flyers feel better too and they got swept
I still think it's going seven but if Van doesn't win tonight Boston can pretty much plan another parade for its fourth pro team since 2006. Amazing.
It's gonna be another physical one. Sedins have to do damage on the PP, they are invisible 5 on 5 and I don't think that's gonna change anytime soon.
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| Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay I actually don't feel bad about losing anymore, because we played way better against Boston than Vancouver has. The Sedins are playing scared, everyone is choking. |
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| Originally posted by malek That's what I'm talking about, that's why I support the bruins! |
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| Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay not to mention that winning a cup means that the Bruins will have to ditch players making them weaker. I love the new "no dynasty" salary cap era. |
Are they that close to the cap? Or is it that their UFAs suddenly become coveted in the open market?
The Vancouver team is pretty tired and banged up at this point. This is what happens in the West.
Let's see how this plays out on a proper ice.
Toronto will take on Savard's contract, maybe Horton and Bergeron's too and have an all concussion-prone line.
Every team's got injuries but a healthy Boston or Montreal, Philly or Detroit would look interesting
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| Originally posted by Spin Laden Are they that close to the cap? Or is it that their UFAs suddenly become coveted in the open market? |
10% ??!? 
plus the new law coming along that forbids resale at a profit, that waiting list will empty very quickly.
so close you can almost taste it yet so much more work to do.
Pressure is back on the Bruins but Van hasn't even remotely showed up in Boston yet (Capt Obvious opinions). Van will play a tighter game. First goal wins 
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| Originally posted by malek 10% ??!? plus the new law coming along that forbids resale at a profit, that waiting list will empty very quickly. |
too bad I can't see this vid at work.
Besides taking some consolation from losing to the Cup champs, more than a few Montreal fans must also be wanting Boston to win so they can keep the distinction of being the last Canadian team to win the Cup.
Van will have to play a conservative game tonight if they want any sort of success on Boston ice. They need to score first too. If this series goes seven games CBC's ratings will go through the roof.
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| Originally posted by Spin Laden too bad I can't see this vid at work. Besides taking some consolation from losing to the Cup champs, more than a few Montreal fans must also be wanting Boston to win so they can keep the distinction of being the last Canadian team to win the Cup. Van will have to play a conservative game tonight if they want any sort of success on Boston ice. They need to score first too. If this series goes seven games CBC's ratings will go through the roof. |
Aren't you a separatist like Malek anyways? 
Van will separate too, eventually, via earthquake. Hopefully just the fake trance-loving ppl from New West suburb only 
(personal dig)
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| Originally posted by Spin Laden Aren't you a separatist like Malek anyways? Van will separate too, eventually, via earthquake. Hopefully just the fake trance-loving ppl from New West suburb only (personal dig) |
I took off my jersey after the end of the first period...such a disappointment. oh well we will win the cup on home ice on Wednesday
Boston has been competitive every game, Vancouver in just half of them. Boston deserves to win but of course I'm cheering for Van.
The city needs it after the collective hangover and subsequent depression after experiencing those highs during the Olympics, especially after that gold medal hockey match.
Boston wins everything: the NFL, baseball and NBA teams have all won since 2006. That is mind-boggling.
Imagine if this game goes to overtime? 
First goal wins imo.
yeah, it's been the pattern so it's gonna be interesting to see how Luongo deals with the first period
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| Originally posted by Spin Laden Boston has been competitive every game, Vancouver in just half of them. Boston deserves to win but of course I'm cheering for Van. The city needs it after the collective hangover and subsequent depression after experiencing those highs during the Olympics, especially after that gold medal hockey match. Boston wins everything: the NFL, baseball and NBA teams have all won since 2006. That is mind-boggling. Imagine if this game goes to overtime? |
I'm going with the Canucks! Get the first goal and let Luongo take it from there. 3-1 Vancouver is my prediction.
I hope Raymond gets better too. Did anybody else think that was a dirty hit?
On a side note, if anyone here is in/near Toronto I found a cool contest this new site is having.
Check it out here
Winning $500 of gas for free doesn't sound too bad.
The Game Of Their Lives; It took 17 years for the Canucks to get back to this position -Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. Trevor Linden, captain of the 1994 team, looks for new heroes to step forward and upgrade the team's legacy
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How nervous are players for Game 7 of a Stanley Cup Final? Trevor Linden has a story.
"I took the ice for warm-up and there were pucks already sitting on the ice," he said of the Vancouver Canucks' final game in 1994 against the New York Rangers. "I went to collect a puck that was stationary -just pick it up with my stick as I was skating by. I completely fanned on it. And I was thinking to myself: 'Oh, my God, this is the biggest game of my life and I just missed a stationary puck.' I was just so nervous. Going into Game 7s, I was always a nervous wreck. But once the puck dropped, I was in my space. The anticipation was harder to deal with than the actual game."
But as nerve-jangling as is the anticipation for tonight's deciding game between the Canucks and Boston Bruins, the actual game will be harder to deal with if Vancouver loses.
Back on that sweltering day in Manhattan 17 years ago Tuesday, the Canucks needed a police escort to block traffic on Broadway and get the team to Madison Square Garden. If things go horribly wrong tonight at Rogers Arena, the Canucks will need a police escort to get home.
The heavy involvement of law enforcement and an original National Hockey League opponent are the only similarities between 1994 and 2011. Those Canucks, talented and dynamic as they were, made the final as the seventh seed in the Western Conference. These Canucks won the Presidents' Trophy and are trying as frontrunning favourites to return the Stanley Cup to Vancouver for the first time since the 1915 Millionaires.
The names of those long-dead players are inscribed inside the actual bowl atop Lord Stanley's trophy, so even holding the prize, one is unaware that Vancouver has won a Cup. And you'd have never known Monday by looking, that these Canucks were the best team in the NHL in the regular season, when they led the league in both scoring and goalsagainst.
In keeping with the franchise's 41-year-old tradition, the Canucks are doing things the hard way, having lost 5-2 in Game 6 when the Bruins embarrassed goalie Roberto Luongo and scored four times in four minutes early in the first period.
Canuck coach Alain Vigneault, who must be the most valuable player on his team because Vancouver is in Game 7 after scoring only eight times in six games against Bruin goalie Tim Thomas, immediately named Luongo his starter for tonight.
Some people were hoping for Cory Schneider. I was pulling for Kirk McLean.
The Canucks could use some inspiration as they try to upgrade their legacy of disappointment.
McLean was brilliant in the 1994 final, and Linden had the game of his life in Game 7.
This Vancouver team is more talented. But it will be hard for anyone to be heroic enough if Luongo, pulled by Vigneault on Monday after allowing three goals on eight shots in 8� minutes, is dreadful again.
We became accustomed in this market the last decade to Summer Crow and Winter Crow, the Jekyll and Hyde of volcanic former Canuck coach Marc Crawford. But we've seen a new psychiatric condition in this series: Home Lou and Road Lou.
In Vancouver, Luongo is 3-0 with a 0.67 goals-against average and .979 save rate. In Boston, he is 0-3 with an 8.03 GAA and .773 save percentage. Yes, his GAA starts with a snowman. How does anyone make sense of those numbers?
By the way, if you're on the seawall today and see a tall, dark non-stranger in a hoodie and headphones, please leave him alone. Luongo has a lot on his mind.
T h e B r u i n s , except for Thomas, who could win the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, win or lose as long as he holds the Canucks to fewer than five goals, have been nearly as erratic at opposite oceans. At home, they've channelled the 1974 Flyers, battering and intimidating the Canucks, scoring on their power play and ventilating Luongo. In Vancouver, they've been just as tight defensively, but have displayed neither the physical menace nor scoring depth they've had in Boston.
So, it's not only about Luongo tonight. But it's mostly about him. It would help if Vancouver scored on its power play, and Ryan Kesler and the second line did something, and Daniel Sedin did not employ his head as a boxing speed bag so little-ball-of-hate Brad Marchand can practise throwing lefts. The Canucks have been punching bags too long.
This is the best chance most of these players will have to win a Stanley Cup. They must be calm and brave enough to seize it.
"I was never a big sleeper on game days," Linden said, reflecting on 1994. "But I was staring at the ceiling in my hotel room for two hours in the afternoon, thinking about the anxiety and anticipation of everything. You have 60 minutes for the chance to carry the Stanley Cup around the ice. That's a large moment.
"I never really liked talking about '94 and reminiscing and rehashing it because for me it was difficult. At the end of the day, we lost. This province and this city and Canuck fans need something else to talk about. Hopefully, we'll have something better now."
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