2011 Stanley Cup Winners

I am the furthest thing from a hockey fan you can find, but when the Bruins are in the finals I will watch.  When they win the stanley cup, I will post.  So here you go.  Congrats to the Boston Bruins for completing a decade of dominance for Boston sports.  Since '01 Patriots have won three times, Red Sox twice, Celtics once, and now Bruins once. 

The most I can add to the conversation about the actual hockey being played in the finals is that this series reminded me so much of the first round match up in '08 between the Celtics and Hawks.  Celtics won the series in 7.  They won every home game and lost every away game.  What really struck me is how much Celtics and Bruins dominated their opponents at home but kept losing close games away.  The Celtics average margin of defeat in wins (all home games) was 25.25 points while the average margin of defeat in losses (all away games) was 5.66.  Besides game 7, in which Bruins just won 4-0, every game in Vancouver was decided by 1 point and two of the three ended 1-0.  On the other side of the border Bruins destroyed the Canucks and beat them 17-3 in the three games that were played in Boston with the closest game being decided by 3 goals.