Travel Cup: Bruins Win The Stanley Cup
Patrice Bergeron scored just over 14 minutes into the match and added the short dramatic shift in the second, while Tim Thomas stopped all 37 shots as the Bruins blanked the Canucks 4-0 in Game 7 at Rogers Arena to capture their first Stanley Cup since the 1972nd By winning the sixth Stanley Cup in their history, they become the first team to win three Game 7s season in the playoffs. Brad Marchand also scored twice for the Bruins, including an empty net to seal the game with 2:44 left.
After the Canucks will as soon as possible that this is a point-blank save from Thomas, Henrik Sedin and Chris Higgins, Bruins began to turn the bike. Marchand, then went out into the top left of the disc and found Bergeron between the circles. Bergeron, waved again, and has just enough to shoot the spinner to the right of Roberto Luongo, and to lead Boston. It 'was only five shots Luongo faced the opening 20 minutes.
Captain Zdeno Chara, after eating a dead zone viscious hit Higgins at the end of the first period that kept the 1-0 as he stopped with his nemesis Alex Burrows left leg with 11 minutes in the second. Brad Marchand extended his rookie record 10 goals for the Bruins with a goal when Luongo enveloping collided with Daniel Sedin in the face trying to get to the puck. Chara in the box with a call for interference, Bergeron broke off at the end of the death penalty and was led by Christian Ehrhoff. But Bergeron was able to put the puck past Luongo as he was sliding on the ice from the net as the Bruins took a 3-0 lead in the third.
By ending their Cup drought of 39 years was the Boston Bruins and New England Championship his seventh since February 2002, at least one in each of the four major sports. The Canucks, meanwhile, were denied their third trip to the Stanley Cup Finals, including Game 7 second loss. They were swept in four games in the Islanders in 1982 and lost the game 7 for the Rangers at Madison Square Garden in 1994. In 1993, Canadians remain the last Canadian team to the Cup.
For complete coverage of Game 7 of the Bruins beat writer and DJ Joe Bean Zarbano on the stage of Rogers Arena in Vancouver, visit the team from the blog weei.com Bruins / Bruins and Big Bad.
