Vancouver – city of hope

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I went to downtown Vancouver yesterday.

It was nice to see all the people cheering for the home-team. At the same time it was very disappointing to see Roberto Luongo to collapse again. It kind of reminded me of Dan Cloutier time – you wait for a pizza guy to arrive, you just open a beer bottle, and all of the sudden Canucks are 2-3 goals down.

Yesterday I hoped for a cruel ending for the Boston Bruins fans, and now the stage is sat for the major showdown in game 7.  As many people understand game 7s are a flip of the coin in many cases, and even though I heard the statistics somewhere that home-team won 12 out of 15 times during the last 15 seasons, I still have some doubt that Canucks will come through. I mean I want them to, but now I am not sure.

I didn’t like the way Canucks played last game, I don’t understand the way the game called either. Canucks had to find a way to play better last night with the Stanley Cup in the building. They didn’t. At the same time, I don’t understand why penalties not called on Bruins. I heard a guy saying on the radio that Boston’s strategy is to play on the edge, make 100s of infractions during the game – who cares, the refs are not going to call all of them anyway. So, it kind of becomes a new normal to punch Sedin 4-5 times in the face, and only on the 6th punch you will be penalized, if at all.

Vancouver hopes for the best.