Vancouver Canucks

"Fraud!" cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered fraud." The Boston Bruins are Stanley Cup Champions for the first time in 39 years. The Vancouver Canucks remain cupless for a 41st straight year, after the Bruins won Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final 4-0. The Canucks blew a 2-0 series lead. They blew a 3-2 series lead. At the end of the day, however, you really got the sense that the best team won the cup. When Boston won games, they were resounding victories. When the Canucks won games, they were squeakers often decided in the third period or later. Perhaps it was the hit on Nathan Horton in Game 3 that inspired the Bruins. Perhaps it was the fact that Roberto Luongo couldn'...

Hear that loud creaking sound? That's the sound of everyone jumping back on the bandwagon. The Vancouver Canucks proved that they indeed do deserve to be in the final with a 1-0 victory over the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Final. With the win, the Canucks took a 3-2 series lead, something never before done in franchise history, with the pivotal Game six getting going on Monday night. It wasn't hard to find an MVP for this game. Coming off two poor performances in Boston, goaltender Roberto Luongo found his game in a big, big way and got his fifth career playoff shutout with a miraculous 31 save night. Luongo was huge, the reason the Canucks won this game. He outplayed Tim Thom...

The Vancouver Canucks went into game three against the Boston Bruins Monday night with a huge amount of optimism after winning the first two games of the series on home ice. Canuck fans all across Canada had their hopes set on their team stepping up in Beantown and finishing off this series fairly quickly. But, when the final buzzer had sounded, that optimism was nowhere in sight, the Bruins had cracked this series wide open with a 8-1 destruction of the Vancouver Canucks. The win, for many Bruins fans was overshadowed by the injury to our own Nathan Horton. Horton single handily helped push us through many games in the playoffs, scoring clutch goals, and coming up big when he was calle...

Alex Burrows may just have willed himself into Conn Smythe consideration. The pesky winger, who has come under scrutiny in the hockey world for his nibble on the finger of Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron, had two goals, including the overtime winner as the Canucks beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 to take a 2-0 series lead. It won't go down as the Canucks prettiest game, but it had all the elements of a classic. Lead changes, pretty goals, outstanding goaltending, and bone crunching hits highlighted a spirited affair that saw the two teams combine for 63 shots. It started with Alex Burrows whipping a shot on the powerplay from the left faceoff dot, which found a hole under Bruins goaltender T...