Boston Bruins would not have been able to enjoy the landscape from late Saturday night after the team bus crawled through a raucous street party, after being consumed by the Vancouver Canucks moved midway through the first NHL title.
Maybe move the Stanley Cup final on the East Coast will give the Bruins last something to celebrate.
With Game 3 coming Monday night at the TD Garden, after a quick trip across the continent on Sunday, the Bruins have the jam brought from Canada is not sweet.
Only four teams have recovered the deficit to 0-2 in the final 46 attempts. Boston has won four of their next five games to beat the best team of the Canucks of the NHL regular season and won seven of their last eight playoff games.
"We'll be disappointed, and we are allowed to be," said 43-year-old Mark Recchi, who ended the goal drought 11-score game with a powerplay in the second game "But we will take a long positive out of these games. When we descend from the plane, we'll forget it. We'll worry about Monday, and do our homework. "
Recchi is right: The Bruins probably should not waste time searching the historical depth of their destiny.
Boston rallied from a 0-2 deficit to win a series only once in 27 attempts - even if it happened in the first round of the series against Montreal.
"This is not the time to shake your stick and do not panic," Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron said after the team arrived in Boston on Sunday afternoon. "It is time to return to what made us successful. ... Squeezing our clubs will not help us at all. We must go there, play our game, make sure that we play in bulk and at the same time , play hard and desperate. "
The Bruins are still smarting their struggles late in race two, where they lost only the third time in 41 games this season when they were the result of two years. Vancouver dominated the final third of the season for the second straight game, Daniel Sedin plastic to the curve before the middle of Alex Burrows was surrounded with his thrilling goal 11 seconds of overtime.
"We have four lines going out there and play the same way," said Sedin, NHL champion. "We're getting deep into the wheel. We forecheck real hard. Wears teams down. It 'was this season. This is nothing new for us. I believe that when we do our best, we are generally very successful in the third period .
Coach Claude Julien recalls his Bruins has largely been much of a goal two defeats. Their defense was the Canucks top line 'scoreless for the first five episodes of a series of bullying Daniel and Henrik Sedin in ineffectiveness.
What's more, Boston has not lost a postseason game 3, also won a pressure packed game in Montreal in the first round after losing the first two home games.
"The positive is that we almost lost both games by one goal," Boston forward David Krejci said. "It hurts, but we know we're in the game and we know we can."
However, cracks have already appeared in the Boston area in the final.
Sedin twins line has gone through the tying goal in the third period of Game 2 with a superb screen pass after forcing a turnover by Bruins captain Zdeno Chara workhorse.
The same line was on the ice starts to overtime - thanks to some fine tactics of coach Alain Vigneault Vancouver, which has ordered his top line on the ice moments before the disc has fallen - when Burrows scooted past Chara, some goalie Tim Thomas and the back of the net winner electrifying.
"I thought we took (with) five minutes into the second period, Captain Henrik Sedin said. "You could see they were perhaps a little tired, and when we got it tough for them."
Chara and partner Dennis Seidenberg has played fantastic throughout the playoffs, and Chara was on the ice for more than 28 minutes during the second game against Vancouver, but the Sedin are not alone in thinking Chara seemed to tire as the match s' is rolled on.
Vancouver seeks to achieve the star 6-foot-9 by inserting a strategy of constant physical confrontations, although the Canucks to take the worst of these accidents. As compensation for their controls on the hulking defender, "said Canucks could support - and it showed in many misplays Chara and turnover.
"I think all of a sudden you lose the game, and now we're going to start wondering about certain players," Julien said Chara on defense. "I think it's really our entire team. E 'Zdeno.
But Julian has already made a move to relax Chara, to leave the castle and return it to where it will have a lesser sentence.
"I do not think we played very well, that our standards are about," added Julien. "I think the decision-making, management of the tablet, that's what cost us games. When you turn pucks over in the neutral zone is a team that thrives on it. We know that" They thrive on it, but we turning pucks in the neutral zone. "
If they want to return in the final, the Bruins need goals from players who did not grow up in the Vancouver area. British Columbia native Milan Lucic and Recchi scored in Game 3, but Boston has only three goals in his last three games dating back to the conference finals.
It is not enough support for the goalie Tim Thomas, who has his own problems: He was caught too far from its network in two late goals for the Canucks in Game 2. Vezina Trophy finalist will not change his aggressive style, but the Canucks have found ways to manipulate in his favor.
What's more, Roberto Luongo is solid, and the Canucks, stopping 64 and 66 shots faced. goalkeeper Olympic gold medal he won two games in his first Stanley Cup title, but the former Canucks captain 'has decided to focus on the work of Vancouver in front of Boston.
"This is the playoffs are all about," said Luongo. "I do not want to go too high when you win and too low when a loss.
"(Game 2) is a big win for us, but you almost immediately put it behind you and start focusing on the next. We go to Boston will not be easy. We want to ensure focus on the next, no in what we have done. "