On Monday, June 6 2011, Boston Bruins defeated Vancouver Canucks 8-1 in Game 3 of Stanley Cup final. Even though tens of thousands of hockey fans remained optimistic on Monday at the new and improved Canucks viewing area in downtown Vancouver at least until second intermission, the score was disappointing. The Canucks saw their best of 7 final series lead cut to 2-1.

The Bruins settled other scores in the third period, once the score was settled. While Kesler and Dennis Seidenberg wrestled at centre ice, Milan Lucic motioned to the mouth of Alex Burrows with his fingers in an endboards scrum.

When Mason Raymond executed a toe-drag move on Seidenberg and ripped a forehand that Thomas made a pad save on before recovering to get a glove on the winger’s rebound backhander, the Canucks had the best chance to open scoring.

Early in the second period, the break the Bruins were looking for came though. With a broken stick Edler tried to move the puck and it started a sequence that ended with an Andrew Ference point shot finding its way through a crowd. When Kesler dove to stop a Recchi cross-ice, power-play feed the Bruins caught another break. The effort deflected off the stick of the Canucks centre and between Luongo’s pads.

After Henrik Sedin coughed up the puck on the power play, Kesler then simply couldn’t hold off Marchand. Before roofing the puck to make it 3-0, the Bruins winger went wide and waited for Luongo to go down. To turn it into a laugher, Krejci and Daniel Paille then scored.

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