five to two

tonight, playing at home, the boston bruins scored as many goals (five) as it took the vancouver canucks THREE GAMES at home to score. meanwhile, tonight, playing away, the vancover canucks potted as many goals (two) as it took the boston bruins three games away to score in vancouver. the rest of the goals in these stanley cup playoff finals, all scored in two other games in boston, are 12 for the bruins against 1 for the canucks, but all that means nothing--it's three games to three, with one left to play, wednesday night in vancouver.

there's a president's trophy awarded each nhl season to the team possessing the best regular season record, and this year, along with the coincident privilege of home ice advantage throughout the stanley cup playoffs, it belongs to the vancouver canucks. the boston bruins know that if you can't beat the best team in their building, you haven't earned better than the disappointed side of the handshake line, and they know for sure wednesday night is for all the marbles. if vancouver wins, they'll have earned it. and if boston wins, they will be the undisputed stanley cup champions just the same.

you simply can't ask for better than this.

go broons