It was a good series apart from Game 7
A lot of things went wrong for the Canucks in the playoffs the injuries and the players playing injured list was a major factor
-“Dan Hamhuis suffered a serious abdominal injury.”
-“Alex Edler has two broken fingers from a slash.”
-“Kevin Bieksa has a bruised MCL from a slash.”
-“Ryan Kesler has a hip problem that we don’t know the extent of yet.”
-"Mikael Samuelsson, as you know, had an operation on an abdominal muscle tear.”
-“Manny was a warrior out there, but he was operating at less than 100 per cent, he hadn’t skated in I think six to seven weeks after his injury because of the treatment he had to have.”
-“Chris Higgins had a foot injury that continued to get worse throughout the playoffs.”
-“Christian Ehrhoff had a shoulder injury that didn’t recover from the third round onward. We don’t think he’ll need a procedure, but he’ll need some fairly serious rest and rehab.”
-“Henrik had a back injury from getting cross-checked in the second round.”
I think that Vancouver used the wrong tactics and tried to match the Bruins in physicality, it wasn’t a fight they were going to win. The Sedin’s don’t play that game well and as soon as the Canucks take a penalty that’s their strongest offensive threat off the ice for two minutes as the Sedin’s don’t play on the penalty kill at all.
Some of the penalties called were odd as well, Daniel Sedin gets punched six times after the whistle makes no attempt to retaliate and gets 10 mins ?? he must of said something to the ref but still an odd call.
It also felt like Vancouver decided that they ‘d won at the end of game two they went into game 3 expecting win the cup.
