@@Toews1247 That team was good, but as a spectator of every team, 2011 Vancouver was dominating the entire league in every single category. #1 PP, PK, + they had two goalies that held .928 and .929 SV%. In my opinion, this Vancouver team will continue to be the greatest team in NHL history to not win the cup. Before the season even started they were favorites to win the Stanley Cup, and prior to the start of the playoffs, heavy favorites to win the cup. You could argue that maybe this year's Boston can also take this spot, but they lost in the first round while Vancouver made it to 7 games in the Stanley Cup Finals. We saw the entire potential of that Vancouver team throughout the regular season and the playoffs. They were destined to win but didn't.
4:36 It's crazy just how close they were to a catastrophic choke job against Chicago. It wasn't just a huge goal because it exorcised the team's demons against Chicago, but imagine if they lost that. They were up 3-0 in the series, lost the next three, and they gave up a *short-handed* game-tying goal with two minutes left in Game 7. that is one of the biggest goals in hockey history. the stakes could not have been higher.
if they had lost game 7 a lot of people would've lost their jobs and players would've demanded trades and the team would get ripped down to the studs (with the sedins, burrows and edler being the only ones safe) and no second consecutive president's trophy the next year
Ima leafs fan and this was probably my favourite cup run to watch in all my life (prob cuz they won more series in one season than Leafs have my entire life) 💀
Go leafs but we need some canadian teams in the finals again. The 2024 canucks are pretty solid good luck to you especially after that disastrous last previous season
Damn, some of the best moments being a Canucks fan, too bad the team didnt show up for game 7. I almost thought it was destined for the Canucks to win it all after every game was won by the home team.
It must suck to be a Canucks fan and see the "every goal" video finish before game 7 even starts. 😥 Exciting run, though! Winning a playoff series with an OT goal is like crack for fans, and they did it *twice* in 2011! I remember that Burrows one well. That whole game was nuts..
Thank you so much Danny9. This is one of my favorite teams. I remember watching this run of Vancouver to the Stanley Cup final. I really picked them to win the Stanley Cup in seven games and win Canada‘s 1st cup since 1993 however it somehow fell short. Can’t wait to watch these goals. Thank you so very much for oblong is this so y’all can see it especially as a Canucks fan Daniel and Henrik Sedin were my favorite players. You rock
That team was so good. It’s hard to imagine now because almost if not all of that team is now retired, but Burrows, Kessler, Bieska, the Sedins, Luongo, Raymond, Lapierre, Salo, and even Raffi Torres, who was actually pretty decent in those 2011 playoffs. Hopefully Vancouver can have some like 2011 and 1994, and 1982, and actually win the cup.
One thing i don't feel that this compilation of goals illustrates is Vancouver playing arguably the hardest road season of their history, still breaks every franchise record, but not being able to beat the worst officiated playoffs ever. Some say the better team won the cup, but if you look into everything the Canucks did that season... it really shoulda been theirs.
Outscored 23-8 in a 7 game series and you want to blame the refs😂😂😂, check the stats of the Sedins that series. Boston wanted it way more then Vancouver.
The fact that I was just 5 months old is just sad because this team is so good and it's my hometown team and I wish I got to watch them they know where each of there teammates are and just keep passing and shooting and just keeps going man this team deserves that cup they did I don't know how good they did man like they did absolutely crazy like they just knew each other we're like that's just crazy man
ah what could have been....I remember the "stanchion" goal like it was yesterday. I was Downtown going to a concert when Juice scored the ot goal....listening to it on the radio I was estactic.
Felt like a team of destiny with the way the puck was bouncing. Everything, and I mean everything went Vancouver’s way in those playoffs… then Aaron Rome laid out Nathan Horton and everything flipped.
Canucks’ Bruce Boudreau learns that pain remains from 2011 Stanley Cup Final ---------------------- ‘I didn’t think who they (Bruins) beat at the time. I was reminded very quickly after the media session that they beat Vancouver in seven games. Yeah, it didn’t sit well’ Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau learned the 2011 Stanley Cup Final series remains a painful memory for Canucks fans. Bruce Boudreau made a bit of a boo-boo, and it was a big deal in Vancouver. In his post-game address Saturday night, the Canucks coach referenced how well the Boston Bruins’ fourth line played in the 2011 Stanley Cup Final series. It was a point of comparison to what the Bruins had then and what he’s currently getting out of the effective fourth-line alignment of Juho Lammikko between Tyler Motte and Matthew Highmore. “That’s who I want to make - if I get the opportunity - to make teams like,” Boudreau said post game. “You use your fourth line a lot, they can play in both ends of the ice and when they’re contributing offensively, it’s a big plus for us.” It obviously didn’t play well here. It would have been akin to asking the Rogers Arena deejay to play ‘Chelsea Dagger,’ the Chicago Blackhawks goal song that is a no-no in these parts even though the once-heated rivalry has since simmered. But that song still stings. “I know where I was going with it (Bruins comparison) because they had (Shawn) Thornton and (Gregory) Campbell and played 12 or 13 minutes every night,” Boudreau explained on Monday after practice. “Even their best players never played more than 18 minutes. “They just kept throwing guys over the boards and it worked. So far that (Canucks fourth) line has been pretty successful for us and when we are successful, they’re playing a lot of minutes. I like it.” The Canucks blew 2-0 and 3-2 series leads in quest of the franchise’s first Stanley Cup triumph that spring of 2011, and those wounds haven’t totally healed. Why pick at a scab? Why not reference another team? “I didn’t think who they (Bruins) beat at the time,” added Boudreau. “I was reminded very quickly after the media session that they beat Vancouver in seven games. Yeah, it didn’t sit well.” For the record, that Bruins’ fourth line also included Daniel Paille and it wore down the injury-plagued Canucks, with the trio holding the Canucks’ fourth line to zero series points.
After that Burrows wrap around OT goal in GM 2, I thought Vancouver would for sure win the cup. Crazy to see Boston win 4 of the next 5, especially that game 7. Bruins fan or not they pulled off something amazing .
I forgot how few goals they scored in the finals, only scored more than 2 goals in a game one time and won two games 1-0, it's a testament to how good their d and luongo was that they got to 7 games even
I was in Edmonton during the SJ OT goal and my friend said. Canucks will blow the series and lose to SJ at the boston pizza and he's a huge oilers fans. Right when he said it. saying they was going to lose in OT . Bieksa scored it off the stanchion and the whole boston pizza dinning room went quiet like pin drop with me cheering hard as hell . XD
I always found the 1994 run far more impressive than the 2011 run. In 2011 (and 2012), they were expected to win and they absolutely choked. In '94, despite on paper being fairly evenly matched with the Rangers (a bunch of older guys past their prime), it was pretty shocking, considering the regular season results. But they added the right guys at the deadline and between that and everyone being at their best at that time, it all came together. I think during the 2011, I saw a Jim Robson interview where he compared the 2011 and 1994 teams and both he and I concurred that the '94 team was better, because it was deeper, particularly on defence. They had guys who could pay at both ends of the ice, which for the early to mid 90s, was still pretty impressive.
Ryan Kesler was a true warrior all those pain killers and steroids he took just to keep playing has now ruined his colon and health for the rest of his life.
This was the last time I religiously watched Canucks games. Even got to see a game live against San Jose during this run. When they traded away some key players from this run I lost interest.
Presidents trophy means nothing just ask 2018/19 Tampa Bay Lightning , the key stat people forget is Bruins outscored Canucks in 7 games 23 to 8 ! Amazing when you score only 8 goals you took it to 7 . Yeah Kesler , 7 games zero goals one assist , yes really dominated series , mind you he wasn't alone .