Lefty wishes he was Redmile
- LeftCoaster

I knew it !!

Rome and Hamhuis playing could have been a big difference
- VANTEL

They could have ...Horton as well

Flagged for inciting a riot.
- thundachunk

I wasn't playing for the Canucks in game 7 ....

Okay, now that everyone has their guesses out in the open, lets all not forget to behave on game day!

Rome and Hamhuis playing could have been a big difference
- VANTEL

Ya that and scoring, always always not enough secondary scoring

The 94 team was much deeper!

I thought we had a better team in 1994 (than the Rangers), not so much in 2011 heading into the finals.
- LeftCoaster

this is crazy.

the 94 team was an underachiever in the regular season and therefore their playoff seeding wasn't indicative of how good they were but it is nuts to think that they were better than the 2011 team. also, they were a huge underdog against the "best team money can buy."

that 2011 team was 1st (or top 3) in practically every statistical category (goals for, goals against, pp, pk). injuries hurt them but at that point in the playoffs all teams are banged up. they met a team that was their antithesis; a big strong team that ground them down. it also didn't hurt that the bruins had a goalie who had one of the best playoffs in history.

Ya that and scoring, always always not enough secondary scoring

The 94 team was much deeper!
- LeftCoaster

The rangers were much deeper as well though weren't they

this is crazy.

the 94 team was an underachiever in the regular season and therefore their playoff seeding wasn't indicative of how good they were but it is nuts to think that they were better than the 2011 team. also, they were a huge underdog against the "best team money can buy."

that 2011 team was 1st (or top 3) in practically every statistical category (goals for, goals against, pp, pk). injuries hurt them but at that point in the playoffs all teams are banged up. they met a team that was their antethisis, a big strong team that ground them down. it also didn't hurt that the bruins had a goalie who had one of the best playoffs in history.
- RealityChecker

This ^^

They could have ...Horton as well
- Redmile247

He was comatose

Game day!

Sounds like Grenier and LaBate will be in for the Canucks tonight, with Miller in goal. Penguins are on a back-to-back—will that help the home team?

http://www.hockeybuzz.com...-champ-Penguins/194/83678

See I am the opposite ...I felt the Canucks had little chance in 94 but we're going to roll the bruins in 4/5 games in 2011
- Redmile247

Should have been the case. I know we lost but truthfully the Bruins had no business being on the ice with that Canuck team from 2011. Nucks not only led in every category during the regular season I think we had something like 10 more regulation wins as well in the reg season. Plus the Bruins got some pretty favourable luck vs MTL and TBL that year in the PO's but that's how luck goes sometimes.

The Rome hit and losing Hamhuis changed the entire dynamic of that series. The Rome hit gave Bettman and Campbell the leverage they needed to make rule changes during the SCF which had never happened before. All suspensions in the PO's that year were one game but yet Rome got tossed for the rest of the series…no suspension for Boychuk for breaking Raymond's back and no suspension for Seidenberg cracking Bieksa's ankle with a vicious slash.

But again we had a good enough club where we should have been able to battle Gary's refs (Sutherland) and all of the bullpoop rule changes as well. PP dried up and Lou choked us out in Boston. AV refused to start Schneider in gm 6 and had the team play possum instead of fighting back hoping the PP would return for GM 7…not to be.

The kicker for me was where was Torres and Bieksa when the Bruins were firing pucks in our zone and at our players in warmup to get them rattled? AV I'm sure told them to back off but I just couldn't f**cking believe it. If I was coaching that club I would have had Salo line up at the centre dot and fed him one-timers into the bruins bench…un-fu**cking believable.

All the shoulda woulda coulda's don't matter now. Bottom line is we had the most dominant team in Hockey that year and we should have found a way to battle through it all…but we didn't. Regardless of injuries all teams have them at that point.

I have faith that Horvat, Boeser, Demko and few others will get us deep into the PO's again and we will have our next shot.

You're an idiot! And exactly what's wrong this some posters in here, Nuck4U included.
- Kaynine

Don't throw me under the bus over another's ALT trolling.

The rangers were much deeper as well though weren't they
- Redmile247

Rangers were brutally deep in 94 plus Leetch was playing lights out. Again we didn't get a fair shake from Gary's refs in Game 7 but still…if Lafayette's shot was an inch over

And I think Quinn was fined $25,000 for calling out gary's refs after game 7 in 94. And good on him for doing so. RIP Pat.