That game was a kick in the nuts.
The entire first game we felt overmatched but hung on for dear life and blew it with 30 seconds left (Kesler was offside and it never should've happened though...). Game 2 was similar in that I felt like we were in trouble until Recchi's goal, which is when I started to feel confident that we could stand toe to toe with them. And then ends on a fluke garbage goal where Chara and Thomas have massive miscommunication at the worst time. I just remember feeling all settled in and mentally preparing myself for overtime, and it's over in a blink. It sucked.
The other thing is that by the end of game 1, the hate was there. And after not getting suspended for biting Bergeron like a coward, it was that turd Burrows who wins game 2. I think my mental state had at that point gone from "I don't want the Bruins to lose" to "I don't want the Bruins to lose to them".
I can't say for sure whether I remember feeling like we were going to get swept between games 2 and 3, but it did feel like we did just about everything to hang with the heavily favored Canucks in those two games and despite it came out with two gut-wrenching losses. I guess I held out hope that home ice would turn us around, but we certainly were not in a good place.
