Bruins win the Cup, Vancouver don't like it none.

It was 3-0 late in game 7 when my girlfriend Kate turned to me and said, "What's a Bruin anyway?" We were in a bar in Montreal full of patrons which were obviously cheering for Vancouver, but not enough to be upset with the pending Bruin Cup win. Laughter filled the air as those with Canuck t-shirts began shifting their attention to things other than hockey. I figured it was safe to answer Kate.

"It's a bear," I told her. Then I looked it up on dictionary.com. "A bear from a child's fable, a European Brown Bear to be exact." Funny, I thought, the Bruins are represented by something decidedly European, yet they have more Canadians on the team than the Canadian Vancouver team. In fact, every team the Canucks played this year had more Canadians on the roster than they did. Why are Canadians cheering for them?

Of course they were cheering for the city as much as the team, and that made the Canucks more Canadian than any American team no matter how many Canadians are on the roster. But then they ruined it all. Of course not all Vancouver residents are to blame for the disgusting riot that happened after the Canucks lost, not all Canuck fans either. But I don't buy for one minute that it was a bunch of criminals pretending to be Canuck fans. I'm sure there were a few, but the pictures and video's I saw were of people causing damage with no gain to themselves. Real criminals don't do that, drunk fans and ignorant children do.

Videos of people smashing cars with skateboards, burning jerseys, smashing windows, and robbing stores were all over YouTube and the Internet in general. I saw a city disgracing itself.

I know similar things happen in Montreal, although not to this degree, and there are people that argue that Toronto would do the same thing, although I don't believe that. I can't believe that every Canadian city is the same, I refuse to. I'm also going to choose to believe that Vancouver learned a lesson this time around, one they failed to learn in 1994. Losing isn't the end of the world.

Of course it may actually be the end of the world for Vancouver in some sense. Roberto Luongo was exposed in Boston in three separate games as a comme ci, comme ça goaltender, and they have the 32 year old signed until the 2021-22 season. That's not a typo, neither the age nor the contract length. FYI, the cap hit per year is north of 5 million.

The Sedin's and Ryan Kesler add up to 17.2 million per year, which isn't too bad, except for the lingering doubt that must remain in the minds of Canuck fans, where were they in Game 7?

They're also got Dan Hamhuis and Keith Ballard at 4.5 and 4.2 million respectively.

Their UFA/RFA list is longer than Santa's naughty list. Maxim Lapierre, Chris Higgins, Raffi Torres, Jeff Tambellini, and Kevin Bieksa top the list, but one good thing to note for Canuck fans is that they've got Cory Schneider under contract for next year at 900k. Too bad he won't play very much behind Luongo, who will be desperate to prove himself all over again.

The Bruins have a tough question to answer themselves. Should they resign Tomas Kaberle? He wasn't the force they wanted him to be after acquiring him from Toronto, but he was a +8 in the playoffs, and was no slouch in the finals. Will it be enough? If not, I wouldn't be surprised if he returned to Toronto. After a top line centre, a puck moving defencemen is tops on the Maple Leafs list of needs.