Will Vancouver Recover One More Time?

from Cam Cole of the Vancouver Sun, The Canucks looked like a team that had a loss to give, that could afford a defeat and still have a Game 7 at home to fix the damage. And maybe they can, but it?s going to be some trick, if they manage it.

Outscored 17-3 in the three games in Boston ? not even really competitive other than the first periods of Games 3 and 4, and in garbage time once the Bruins had their 4-0 lead Monday ? can any team survive three spankings as thorough as Boston laid on the Canucks at TD Garden?

Is any goaltender strong enough mentally to rebound from being booed, mocked, yanked and ventilated by the Bruins and their fans the way Luongo has been here?

His shutout in Game 5, after surrendering 12 goals on the road, argues that it?s possible. He could bounce back at home again, and if he does, it will be because the team in front of him did, too. It?s not as though there isn?t considerable room for improvement.

But if the Canucks are to win this thing now, it will have to be as a statistical oddity: the highest scoring team with the stingiest defence in the NHL?s regular season will have given up more goals ? considerably more ? than it scored in the playoffs.

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