What an incredible playoff ride. When they were down 0-2 in this series, people were saying no way Boston wins 4 out of 5. I (and others here) said, look, just focus on game 3. Win that, then move to game 4, and let's go from there.
Easy to say, harder to do. Really, though, when you look back on this series, this was as one-sided a 7-game series could possibly be. The Canucks "won" probably about 3-4 periods the entire series. The B's pounded them 4 games by an aggregate margin of +18. And in the 3 games they lost, one was in OT, one was in the last 18 seconds of regulation, and the other was lost with 15 minutes to go.
In every conceivable way, the Bruins outplayed the Canucks for the vast majority of this series. Make no mistake about it - they were, by a wide margin, the better team this series and deserved to win the Cup.