Stanley Cup Finals Game 2 Goes to Vancouver in Overtime

Game Two of the Stanley Cup Finals goes the same way as Game One, in favour of the Vancouver Canucks. Unlike Game One this game had Boston's offense finally wake up and even went into Overtime. Vancouver got on the board first in the opening period at the 12:12 mark with a powerplay goal from Alexander Burrows. Moving on to the middle frame, Boston's Offense wakes up finally as they scored twice in the middle period. First at the 9 minute mark Milan Lucic got the game tied at 1. Then Boston took the lead for the first time in the series at the 11:35 mark on a powerplay goal from Mark Recchi.

The lead for Boston held up through most of the third period. Then at the 9:37 mark of the final period, Daniel Sedin connected for his 9th of the playoffs to tie the game at 2, sending Game two into overtime. This overtime took a total of 11 seconds before this he Alex Burrows Struck again to win Game Two. The goal looked a little something like this:



The goal took on eleven seconds one of the fastest ones in the playoffs this season. Tim Thomas stopped 30 of 33 shots while Roberto Luongo stopped 28 of 30 shots. The big story of this hockey game was Alex Burrows who scored two of the three goals in this hockey game. Many people feel he should have been suspended from this game because of the incident in game one with the hand eating incident. But if you look at the tape from game one the incident was too close to call, which is why he was able to play in game two.