Bruins-Canucks Game 7: Seven keys, stats and players to watch

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Bruins-Canucks Game 7: Seven keys, stats and players to watch

The Bruins and Canucks are a matter of hours away from determining who wins the Stanley Cup. Either way, the season will be over after Wednesday’s Game 7, but the Bruins just want to end it on the ultimate high note.

Here are seven keys, stats and players to watch.

SEVEN THINGS THE BRUINS NEED TO DO

- Get traffic: Bruins vs Canucks Game 7 live stream. It was after Game 5 that a frustrated Patrice Bergeron stood in the visitors dressing room and said the Bruins didn’t do enough to get traffic in front of the net. Bruins vs Canucks Game 7 live. Given that they could do it at home, it’s clear they’re capable. No better time to finally start doing it in Vancouver than Wednesday. Watch Bruins vs Canucks Game 7 online.

- Score early, shake Robert Luongo: Canucks vs Bruins Game 7 live stream. Given the way the first three games here have gone, that could have simply read “score.” Maybe nobody cares what goes through Luongo’s head, but as long as pucks go through his crease and into his net, the mental stuff will follow. Canucks vs Bruins Game 7 live. The Bruins learned in Game 5 that the floodgates open easily if you can get to him in the first period. Watch Canucks vs Bruins Game 7 online. Yes, there’s something to be said for getting the first goal of the game, but it’s generally an overrated statistic. Yet when it comes to Luongo, scoring the first, second and maybe even third goal is gigantic.

- Win the special teams battle one last time: Boston Bruins vs Vancouver Canucks Game 7 live stream. The Canucks’ power play was supposed to be a reason Vancouver would win the series, yet through six games it is 2-for-31. Boston Bruins vs Vancouver Canucks Game 7 live. The Bruins, meanwhile, have five tallies on the power play this series. The Canucks can still make a difference they’re on the man advantage, but if the B’s can weather it one last time, they’ll be in good shape. Watch Boston Bruins vs Vancouver Canucks Game 7 online. As for their own power play, nothing could be worse than how they looked in going 0-for-4 on the man advantage in Game 5.

- Have the first line show up: Vancouver Canucks vs Boston Bruins Game 7 live stream. David Krejci and Milan Lucic may be coming off a strong Game 6 in which they each scored, but the trio of Lucic, Krejci and Rich Peverley is no sure thing, as they were as silent as silent gets in Game 5. Vancouver Canucks vs Boston Bruins Game 7 live.They need to prove that Game 6 was a statement they feel they can put an exclamation point on Wednesday.

- Get a lead and hold it: Each loss this series has provided at least one lesson. Watch Vancouver Canucks vs Boston Bruins Game 7 online. Game 2’s lesson was to hold a lead, something the Bruins didn’t do particularly well in two of their losses to Tampa Bay in the conference finals. If the B’s can secure a lead at any point, they shouldn’t sit back and wait for Vancouver to claw their way back in it. The Canucks can easily come back from a one-goal lead, and the Bruins learned that in Game 2.

- Keep getting the good stuff from Thomas: Not many Bruins have been excellent in every game this series, but Thomas has. The game-winner in Game 2 was ugly, but Thomas has allowed just eight goals this round. It would be a shame if he turned in another tremendous performance only to see it squandered as they were in Games 1 and 5.

- Keep it in perspective: The Bruins haven’t won the Stanley Cup since 1972, so after coming this far, how daunting can the fact that they’ve dropped a few in this building really be? Considering how close they are to what they want and how close the games in Vancouver have been, they shouldn’t have any reason to be intimidated.


SEVEN STATS

- While Nathan Horton had the game-winners in both of the Bruins’ Game 7’s this postseason, it is Andrew Ference who leads the Bruins in Game 7 points this year with three. Ference had a pair of assists in Game 7 vs. the Canadiens and picked up a secondary helper on Horton’s third-period goal against the Lightning.

- Adam McQuaid, Gregory Campbell and Shawn Thornton are the only Bruins whose pointless streaks match or surpass’ Ryan Kesler’s five-game slide.

- Tim Thomas seems to have wrapped up the Conn Smythe trophy barring a Canucks blowout Wednesday. His stats this postseason (2.06 goals against average, .937 save percentage) fall between those of the last two goalies to win playoff MVP in Jean-Sebastian Giguere (1.62 GAA .945 save percentage) in 2003 and Cam Ward (2.14 GAA, .920 save percentage) in 2006.

- All Thomas needs is one save to have registered the most in a single postseason in league history. He enters Game 7 at 761, tied with Canucks goalie Kirk McLean, who stopped that many in the 1994 postseason. McLean played 24 games, while Wednesday will mark Thomas’ 25th game.

- Tomas Kaberle leads all Bruins defensemen with 11 points this postseason. All 11 of his points are assists, as Kaberle and McQuaid are the only regular Boston defensemen without a goal this postseason.

- Since 1971, only two teams have won Game 7 of the finals on the road: the ’71 Canadiens in Chicago and the 2009 Red Wings in Pittsburgh.

- Either Dennis Seidenberg or Christian Ehrhoff will become the second German player to win the Stanley Cup. Uwe Krupp won the Cup in 1996 with the Avalanche and played eight regular-season (two postseason) games for the Red Wings when they won it in 2002.
 

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