Less than an hour after his team lost Game 6 in decisive fashion, the Canucks' Daniel Sedin gave the Bruins a little bulletin board material.
"We're going to win Game 7," Sedin told the Vancouver Sun.
He explained the rationale behind his bold prediction:
"It's pretty easy because Tim Thomas has been outstanding. Still, we're 3-3 and we won all three games at home and we have the fourth game at home. So we have the seventh game at home and we'll take that. We are confident."
Sedin's most notable role in Monday night's Game 6 was as Brad Marchand's punching bag in the third period. Sedin stood there and kept taking punch after punch after punch from Marchand without retaliation. Did Sedin wonder how many punches it would take for Marchand to get a penalty?
"Maybe after the fifth. But I took six. What can I do?" said Sedin, clearly agitated.
An emotional Sedin said something afterward to referee Kelly Sutherland.
"I asked him why he didn't call the penalty. He said he was going to," Sedin said.
Marchand just shrugged off the moment.
"It was just heat of the moment, that stuff happens," the rookie said after Game 6.
Did Sedin say something to provoke Marchand?
"No, he didn't say anything before. He was just right there. ... He didn't say anything, he was just kind of taking it," the Bruins winger said.
Why did Marchand keep punching him then?
"Because I felt like it," Marchand said.
Sedin has nine goals in these Stanley Cup playoffs, but just one in the finals.
Information from ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun was used in this report.
"We're going to win Game 7," Sedin told the Vancouver Sun.
He explained the rationale behind his bold prediction:
"It's pretty easy because Tim Thomas has been outstanding. Still, we're 3-3 and we won all three games at home and we have the fourth game at home. So we have the seventh game at home and we'll take that. We are confident."
Sedin's most notable role in Monday night's Game 6 was as Brad Marchand's punching bag in the third period. Sedin stood there and kept taking punch after punch after punch from Marchand without retaliation. Did Sedin wonder how many punches it would take for Marchand to get a penalty?
"Maybe after the fifth. But I took six. What can I do?" said Sedin, clearly agitated.
An emotional Sedin said something afterward to referee Kelly Sutherland.
"I asked him why he didn't call the penalty. He said he was going to," Sedin said.
Marchand just shrugged off the moment.
"It was just heat of the moment, that stuff happens," the rookie said after Game 6.
Did Sedin say something to provoke Marchand?
"No, he didn't say anything before. He was just right there. ... He didn't say anything, he was just kind of taking it," the Bruins winger said.
Why did Marchand keep punching him then?
"Because I felt like it," Marchand said.
Sedin has nine goals in these Stanley Cup playoffs, but just one in the finals.
Information from ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun was used in this report.
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