Comments on: Five Thoughts on a Stanley Cup clinching night for Boston

By: florida727

florida727 — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:24:00 +0000

Congratulations to the classless idiots of Vancouver that embarrassed their city and rendered it as the single biggest disgrace in all of Canada.

By: dongaudreau

dongaudreau — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:37:20 +0000

I don’t think Luongo was horrible but the extra criticism heaped on him is undoubtedly because of his arrogant comments about Thomas’ style, or how he would have had no trouble with the game 5 goal Thomas gave up and the nonsensical comment saying He “pumped Thomas’ tires up” and didn’t get back any compliments. Huh??? I must have missed those nice things he said about TT. All I heard was an arrogance especially after game 2 when he mistakenly thought the Canucks were gonna wrap up the series shortly. I love it when anyone including athletes (Lebron) have to choke on their own haughty words. I don’t dislike the team but it was really fun to watch the coach, the biter, the floppers, and the cheap shot (how ’bout that icing call when Marchand was almost taken out, a CLEAR indication from the ref, arm up signalling icing…. no honour in that type of play no matter if it was a Canuck or Bruin…. I fault the coach for that type of crap. No surprise he came from Montreal.

By: warpstonebc

warpstonebc — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:26:52 +0000

I can’t blame Luongo. The Canucks don’t get out of either the Chicago or Nashville series without him. They also wouldn’t have pushed this to 7 without his 3 great games.

I also don’t think the blame falls only on the Sedins. No one contributed offensively. It was a team-wide failure. They could not score on set plays and were bailed out on individual efforts for most of their 8 goals. Frankly, when that happens the only common denominator is coaching.

I’m not saying Vigneault coached badly. Obviously, he is an excellent coach. But he never adjusted his team to the Bruins style of play. I don’t know if it was just a sense that eventually his team would click, but he kept sticking with strategies that didn’t work. Everytime Vancouver spent 4-5 seconds setting up in the offensive zone, the Bruins collapsed on passing lanes and played to the strengths of Thomas’ positioning.

The Canucks only scored on rushes and on broken plays. I’m just stunned they kept on going to the “let’s be patient on the corners” well even when it had run dry for 6 games.

BTW, if anything, Hamhuis’ injury just proved what an underated player he is in the Canucks system. When they lost him, they lost the quick transition game they exploited to skin teams during the entire season

By: bigbear42

bigbear42 — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:45:19 +0000

You’re right, Luongo didn’t play well, but it certainly isn’t his fault the Canucks lost. Vancouver only scored 8 goals in 7 games, and I don’t care how out-of-this-world Tim Thomas is playing, that just isn’t good enough. Every game the Canucks won was by one goal and Luongo’s play in those games had a lot to do with why they won them. As for the games in Boston, not a single one of the Canucks showed up to play there.

By: govtminion

govtminion — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:03:39 +0000

If you really want a scapegoat, don’t look to Luongo. He didn’t have a great series, and probably will panic from now on whenever he has to fly to Boston for a game, but he’s not the reason the Canucks lost this. It’s time to have a serious sit-down and figure out just what the hell would motivate the Sedins to show up for something like this. Game 7, the Cup is in the hall waiting, and they get nothing? Between the two of them they picked up one goal and a handful of assists? If you’d told me two weeks ago that would happen, I’d have been happy to hear it as a B’s fan- and I’d have thought you were insane. But here we are.

Luongo shares the load on this, no doubt. But the Sedins are the ones deserving of any tar-and-feather treatment they get.

By: miketoasty

miketoasty — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:46:44 +0000

Congratulations Bruins and your fans for an awesome year! Thomas was stellar from the start of the season and just dominated all year long.

But now to the sad part of these 5 points. Number 5. When they play all the riots on the news tonight, all anyone who isn’t a hockey fan is going to see is the Canucks jerseys and just go “Oh those hockey fans can’t control their emotions, what a bunch of goons”.

So just wanted to post this and congratulate the Bruins for a great run and just make everyone realize how much of a step back these riots will be to non hockey fans alike who were starting to get pulled in after a great Olympics last year, and what ended up being a great playoffs this year (I mean come on how many game 7′s did we have?!).