What a difference a day makes...Game four, Roberto Luongo was yanked after giving up eight goals, and chatter was whether Alain Vigneault would start him or Cory Schneider in Game five. Fast forward 48 hours, change venue, and Luongo silences all that talk by outdueling Tim Thomas, as the Canucks won game five 1-0, and are just 60 minutes away from the city's first Stanley Cup, since the Vancouver Millionaires won the cup in 1915. Maybe Cyclone Taylor is smiling down on his city as they are so close, the fans can taste it.
Game five was very similiar to game one, in that Luongo and Thomas have been matching each other save-for-save in the games that were played in Vancouver. It looked like this one was going to come down to the final seconds, or go into OT like game two, but Maxim Lapierre banked one in off Thomas early in the third to put the 'Nucks ahead to stay, and Loungo held down the fort to preserve the 1-0 shutout victory.
One thing I DO want to bring up: If Vancouver does win the cup, does Tim Thomas join Jean-Sebastian Giguere, Ron Hextall, and The Late Roger Crozier as goalies for runner-up teams, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy anyway?
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