Bruins win stanley cup!!
The bruins have won the stanley cup! The bruins hadn’t won since the 1971-1972 season. But they finally beat the canucks and won. The series was very exciting. Luongo played very strangely. It started out looking like it was going to be a battle between the goalies, and overall, that is what happened. Luongo started out well, but Tim Thomas was playing well too. Then, Luongo let up 8 goals in game 3, and the Bruins had momentum. The Bruins carried that momentum into the next game, and won 4-0 in game 4. In Vancouver all of the games weren’t blowouts for the first three games, and the Canucks won by a score of 1-0. Maxim Lapierre scored the goal. Luongo commented on the goal afterwards, saying “It’s an easy save for me, but if you’re wandering out and agressive like he does, that’s going to happen.” This came back to haunt Luongo in game 6, where he got pulled after 3 goals, and only 8 shots. He was pulled right away, and the Canucks coach, Alain Vigneault, didn’t want to risk anything. The backup for Luongo, Cory Schneider, didn’t play horribly, actually he played pretty well, he let up 2 goals on 32 shots (better than Luongo) and looked like he fit in as the starter out there. So the final score of game 6 was 5-2. Game 7 was in Vancouver and the Canucks were 3-0 against the Bruins there in the finals. Everybody was expecting the canucks to win and for it to be a close game. But it wasn’t, Boston won 4-0 and Thomas played really well with 37 saves on 37 shots. Tim Thomas earned the MVP award, and the Bruins won the stanley cup.
The Bruins deserved the win because in the end they were the better team. Guys like Marchand and Rechhi were able to step up and make plays at important times. They actually scored goals, which I hear is a good thing. Don’t tell the Canucks that though. Tim Thomas played like a man and Luongo acted like a child (as always). One of the teams had to end their long Stanley Cup drought and in the end the more deserving team came out on top. It showed in the game 7 where Vancouver just couldn’t muster enough out of their team to even put up a true fight. A fight that would have been worthy of a game 7 and worthy of how good these playoffs have been. It was a very anti-climatic end to an outstanding playoff season. Also you think you could check out my blog cuz I’d love to hear what you have to say. http://chrisross91.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/one-and-done/