I HATE THE CANUCKS

Forget about the legality of that hit.  I don't care if it was legal or not, it was DIRTY.  The fact that the NHL has it's head up its ass on the issue of hits like this is beside the point. Bottom line, Rome could have made a long distance call back to Vancouver in the time he had to decide whether or not to pull up, or say "fuck it, I'm going to take a cheap shot at this guy and potentially end his career".  Unfortunately for Bruins fans he chose the latter and sent Nathan Horton's conscience into orbit.  He's lucky we're not a bunch of derelict Montreal Canadien fans here in Boston or else the cops might be opening up a criminal investigation on him this afternoon.

And don't even try to compare the Chara hit on Max Pacioretty to this.  It's not even close.  Pacioretty had possession of the puck when Chara rode him into the stanchion, Horton was able to make three full strides WITHOUT THE PUCK before Rome lays him out. 

The thing that really chaffs my nips about the Horton hit though (aside from jeopardizing Horton's health)  is how Vancouver loses Aaron Rome for the rest of the series, and that's not even a big deal!  We lose our second leading scorer of the postseason and they lose some useless ass-clown with a faux hawk?  Ugh!


Needless to say, this series just got 5 trillion times more interesting and amped my hatred for all things Vancouver from an 8.5 to a 10.0 on the hate-scale.  Talk about a wake up call for the B's.  As shitty as that hit was maybe it was a blessing in disguise for the Boston Bruins.  Vancouver may have just awoken a sleeping giant.  Sometimes these type of events are all a team needs to rally around and turn the momentum of an entire series in the opposite direction.  I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the Bruins won the next three games in a row. 


The whole situation reminds me of the Bruins' 2002 playoff run.  Not unlike the 2011 Vancouver team, that Boston team was stacked; Thornton, Guerin, Rolston, Murray, Samsonov, McClaren, Knuble, Dafoe, just to name a few.  The Bruins (#1 seed) and Montreal (#8 seed) met in the Eastern Quarter Finals.  In a heated game 4 the Bruins had won 5-2 to even the series at 2-2, but in garbage time of that game Kyle McClaren decided to take Richard Zednik's head off with a flying Lex Luger forearm to the dome.  It was cheap, it was dirty, and everyone knew it, including the Bruins.  They never recovered, lost the next 2 games and were eliminated.  Now it's 2011 and the Bruins are on the other end of that situation.  Let's just hope it turns out the same way it did for the 2002 Canadiens...