Since the Canucks only played the Bruins once this season, my normal approach of evaluating the season series between the two clubs is useless here. In the tiny sample size of one game, the season series isn’t much fun to analyze, but I’m going to do it anyway.

Since 1994, being a Canucks fan has required a commitment to two basic functions: complaining about the fact that Vancouver never wins anything, and reminiscing about that time Vancouver almost won everything. For 17 years, at least, this is who we’ve been. But this is no longer who we are. With Vancouver’s third Stanley Cup Final appearance beginning tonight, our entire identity is currently being rewritten. Whatever happens in the next two weeks, our functions are going to be different.