And it comes down to another game 7

Dear Lou,

Please don't suck at home.  I know you've sucked in Boston, and maybe that's partly because the team hasn't been great.  Maybe you don't like the bumblebee colours, the annoying drunken bulbous-nosed louts who speak in that Good Will Hunting manner that I'll forever associate with Mayor Quimby on The Simpsons.

But you've got one game.  You'll have a chance to erase a lot of the enmity you've earned from those of us who think you're a tad overpaid and at times overrated.  You shut the door one last time this year and we'll forget about those three games where you didn't get it done.

If you and the lads fail, then I'll be on media hiatus for a while.  Seeing Tim Thomas and crew's faces smugly celebrating their "underdog" win will be too vomit-inducing to tolerate.  Watching the refs look away while the Sedins, Kesler and others are constantly slashed and yet causing a breeze by skating near Thomas earns a penalty has sorely tried my resolve not to shout expletives while my kids are in earshot.

Game 5s penalty on Burrows when he was slew-footed on that faceoff to even up the manpower, or the same thing happening early in game 6 when Henrik got a penalty for being weak enough not to stay on his feet when petite Chara tossed him to the ice and then knocked him down again simply shows this series has been, by the nature of the officiating, designed to favour a less-talented, dirty approach.

The Canucks didn't do themselves any favours early in the series with the bite and the Rome hit.  Admittedly, there were numbers of times when the media could've jumped over some Boston cheap shots (Hamhuis being cross-checked when he was down, Tim Thomas's bizarrely non-called shot on Daniel) but still, you gave the haters a little bit of ammo and they've run with it.  Milbury has shown his true classlessness, and I hope to never see him near a Canucks HNIC game again.

If you want a good read about the overall media hatefest, try this:

http://vansunsportsblogs.com/2011/06/12/on-stanley-cup-final-coverage-and-bias/