"All right, so Lord Stanley's oversized silver fruit bowl will be backstage at TD Garden tonight and the good people of Vancouver have been waiting 96 years to get it back. It isn't like Roberto Luongo hasn't felt a million-megawatt spotlight on him before. Last year, he was the masked man that the entire country was counting on to hold off the Yanks in overtime in the Olympic final in his home rink and win the only gold medal that Canadians really cared about.

And the Canucks goaltender already has been through a near-death experience this postseason, having been pulled twice and benched once in the opening series against Chicago that went down to overtime of the seventh game after Vancouver had been up, three games to none (sound familiar?). So the prospect of returning to the same building where he gave up a dozen goals in two outings doesn't daunt him."