The slap in the face that was last night’s Stanley Cup Final game 2 still stings. Alex “the Biter” Burrows not only scoring the winner, but also having a heavy hand in two more Vancouver scores in the game is the most unfortunate of all possible game 2 happenings for Bruins fans. Tim Thomas and Zdeno Chara were both caught out of position 11 seconds into OT. The Canucks were allowed to poke fun at Patrice Bergeron, the Bruins and the entire League after a scrum mid-game.

The outcome of game 2 hurts for sure: my team is down 0-2 in a best of 7 series, virtually strangled out of the possibility of coming within sniffing distance of the Cup. And if my inclination from before the game still holds true:

History will be made: Stanley Cup Finals Game 2

Then the Bruins, having not struck first or last in game 2, will lose the Stanley Cup Final. The Cup will be coming back to Canada.

That last sentence made me want to puke.

Last night I live-blogged the game via my twitter account @darylvelez. At the end of the game I said, “welp, at least we have other things to care about in America.

So about the Cup coming back to Canada: I really don’t want that to happen. I am going to be rooting hard for my B’s in game 3, back on Garden ice. I B-eleive (with a spoked “B”). However, being a rational person, I can’t help but feel that the Canucks will win this series.

Again I threw up in my mouth.

Knowing the stats and seeing the plays puts a pit in my stomach. It is concerning, to say the least, to play the part of the Black and Gold fan right now. Down 0-2, just like the Bruins were to Montreal earlier this postseason, Claude Julien’s boys have a hole to dig themselves out of. Unfortunately for them the Canucks are better. While one team from Canada skated fast into injury, the latter skated hard toward the Cup from what is (arguably) a better Conference. They have big defensemen. They have heavy-shooting forwards. They have twins.

Right now it seems as if Vancouver is capital of the hockey universe. It will be interesting to see if blind faith and traditional Bruins grit will overturn that notion. Cozying up to the first few minutes of game 3 will be indicative of whether or not there will be a change.

The B’s proved they can score on Roberto Luongo: now they must expose his weaknesses on the level that Thomas’ weaknesses have been put on display. Anything less will put them in a truly insurmountable 0-3 series deficit. Perhaps no matter who wins the Cup, the NHL Final will have a Canadian feel, for Boston will have to think and act like their northern brethren in order to pull even in this seven game set.