Canucks vs. Bruins redux

Saturday's hockey game in Boston brought together for the first time since last year's Stanley Cup finals the Boston Bruins and Vancouver Canucks. It aso produced some extraordinary moments, including a hit on Sami Salo by Brad Marchand that caused Global TV sportscaster Jay Janower to call Marchand "that little four-letter something you seldom hear on television."

But our favorite post-game comment came from Bruins coach Claude Julien, who said, "If guys start protecting themselves the way Marchand did maybe guys will stop taking runs at other guys because that's the consequences you end up paying for taking runs at guys." Got that, guys?

Neither CBC nor TSN carried the game; it was left to Sportsnet to come through.  Canucks coach Alain Vigneault, tongue firmly in cheek, said it could not have been an important game, as no major network bothered to pick it up. 

One would have thought that network programmers might have anticipated a hot contest between last year's Stanley Cup rivals--especially when a look at the schedule revealed it would be the only regular season match-up of Canucks and Bruins. 

But there's always post-season and playoffs. Anyone for another round of Bruins vs. Canucks?