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Hello everyone and welcome to today’s “The Stack” with me, Nathan Stacken. What a hockey game last night. We’ll have plenty on that and more so let’s get right to “The Stack”: 1. Bruins cruise, for a game 7. Even before the two teams set foot on the ice for game six, most people believed [...]

Boston — When Maxime Lapierre, of the Vancouver Canucks, scored a bad angle goal, to give his team a 1-0 win in game five and a 3-2 lead in the Stanley Cup Finals,
Vancouver rejoiced, and Boston dug in! How many goals does it take to win a game? One more than the opposition! The high flying Canucks had been putting on an offensive show[...]

Vancouver — Despite choppy ice and racing pulses, the first period began with speed and skating only seen in the National Hockey League.
Canuck goalie Roberto Luongo has been playing with a spectre in the last two games as his counterpart Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas has been praised. Luongo gave away [...]

Rich Peverly began the scoring in the first period for the Boston Bruins and Tim Thomas
had plenty of help shutting down “The Big Three” of Vaqncouver, the Sedin brothers and
Ryan Kessler. A game with sloppy ice after a hot day in Boston. The Bruins carried the
play all night! Thomas had some other teammates involved in keeping the shutout further [...]

Imagine you’re a Boston Bruins season ticket holder attending the first Stanley Cup Final game in the city since 1990. You assume some of your usual game-night buddies have sold their tickets for a hefty profit; and that there’s a chance a Vancouver Canucks fan or two could invade your section.

But you probably don’t assume…

It’s no secret that in playoffs, the Boston Bruins power play has been as effective as trying to boil a pot of water over a lighter. Yet every time the refs arm goes up, Claude Julien trots out the same cheap Bic to try to get the water rolling.

Recently they’ve gone so far as to move the league’s biggest flamethrower [...]

No. 1 Star: Tim Thomas(notes), Boston Bruins Thomas played spectacularly making 33 saves, keeping the Bruins in the game and allowed the only goal of the game as the Canucks took the opening game of the Stanley Cup 1-0. One of Thomas’ 33 saves came on a Jannik Hansen(notes) breakaway chance early in the third [...]

A quick economics lesson about Vancouver Canucks Stanley Cup Final tickets, courtesy of Joellen Ferrer of StubHub.com:

“The demand well surpasses supply. You have a lot of these fans who aren’t going to give up their tickets. You have starving fans that have been waiting for years and years,” [...]

No. 1 Star: Henrik Sedin, Vancouver Canucks

Sedin took over the scoring lead with a franchise-playoff record four-assist night in their 4-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks to take a 3-1 series lead. It was on the Canucks’ final goal early in the third period by Alexandre Burrows that Sedin put his pass through Antti Niemi’s legs…

Before Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals, the last time San Jose Sharks forward Patrick Marleau fought in a National Hockey League game was on Dec. 20, 2007.

It was against the Phoenix Coyotes, during a post-whistle scrum between the teams. Marleau paired off with defenseman Nick Boynton. Fighting next to them in this…