Canucks Filling Role as Bad Guys

The Vancouver Canucks have become the prat-falling stars of their own sitcom entitled “Hockey Players Behaving Badly” during the first five games of the Stanley Cup Finals this summer.

In doing so, Alain Vigneault’s squad has claimed the mantle as the most reviled team in the NHL.

That said, they also stand just 60 minutes away from the hunched-over Maxim Lapierre, the finger-chomping Alex Burrows, and the self-imagined godfather of modern goaltending technique, Roberto Luongo, celebrating a Stanley Cup win on the TD Garden ice Monday night.