Shellack!

I think last night's game was a statement.

The league has changed quite a bit, not just since the turn of the CBA but with the added inclusion of some serious physical play.

Last night, we watched a Boston Bruins team that wanted to turn the series on its head. They did in fact, and with an 8-1 victory, they're going to make some people in Vancouver think that it's going to be a best of three. Then again, nothing more than a victory in the next game is going to do anything for the Bruins. They need to even the series, and everyone in their locker room knows that.

Luongo has had trouble bouncing back from major disappointments so far this post-season, and his series with Chicago was a big part of that. One bad game led to three bad games, and with 8 goals having slipped past him and the Bruins not changing their game plan, the Canucks are going to need to regroup and quickly.

Burrows is a dickhead. I think he's an above average player, and nothing more. He's a pest with some goalscoring prowess that happens to play between the best two players in the league, that's it. Everyone that plays with the brothers scores loads of points and he's nobody special. His finger-biting was pathetic and unfortunately, it'll go down as one of the biggest missed calls of these playoffs. He should have lost a game for that, and he's going to continue to be targeted by the Bruins.

The B's finally found a system that works. Dump the puck in, and play the body in a big way. It's creating turnovers, and it worked in Vancouver a little bit but with the crowd behind them, they were more fired up and the Canucks were tentative.

Today, we'll find out that Aaron Rome is going to lose at least one game for his late hit and leading-elbow on the incredible Nathan Horton. He's likely done for the playoffs, because that looked like an obvious concussion. Rome is their 7th or 8th defenseman, and he's not a big miss.

That's one thing that drives me crazy, when a nobody player takes out a star. Horton could very well have won the Conn Smythe if the Bruins won the Cup. He was their leading scorer and would have certainly taken three points in this game should he have played the whole thing. At least it galvanized the Bruins in their efforts last night, and there's a chance that it'll carry into the next game.

Tyler Seguin is likely to see game 4, which is great for his confidence. He's done well in these playoffs, and were it not for his age and inexperience, he would have been involved last night. Having Shawn Thornton in the lineup was meant to add some bruising physicality and it did, to some degree. Thornton was so fired up that he earned a misconduct near the end, along with 9 other players and his place in the lineup is far from assured.

Seguin is a centre and that's going to throw off the line combinations a little bit. Regardless, the Bruins don't have the depth that Vancouver does, so that's going to hurt a little bit.

Anyway, let's see what happens in the next couple of days and hope to hell that Vancouver continues to shit the bed. I can't stand the likes of Torres and Burrows and I'm pumped to see the Cup in Boston.