Bruins singing a different tune after routing Canucks, 4-0, in Game 4 of Stanley Cup finals

FROM BOSTON — The crowd at TD Garden on Wednesday loudly voiced the Boston Bruins’ innermost hopes, singing “We want the Cup” and chanting the name of Nathan Horton, the forward whose Stanley Cup finals ended Monday because of a concussion he suffered on an illegal hit by Vancouver defenseman Aaron Rome.

The chants were music to the ears of the Bruins, whose Cup hopes suddenly have new life.

“It gave me goose bumps,” rookie forward Tyler Seguin said after the Bruins overpowered the Canucks, 4-0, and tied the finals at two games each.

Horton, as if strengthened by the affection of his teammates and fans, made a surprise postgame appearance in the Bruins’ locker room to present the team’s lucky jacket to Rich Peverley, who scored two goals while spending most of the game in Horton’s spot on the top line.

“You can’t replace a guy like that. He’s been one of our best players all playoffs and the whole team stepped up tonight,” Peverley said. “Nobody has seen him since everything happened, so to be able to see him and look at him and have a smile on his face and know he’s healthy is important to us.”

The Bruins honored Horton by continuing their mastery of the suddenly fumble-fingered Canucks. In addition to two goals from Peverley and two assists from David Krejci, they got 38 saves from Tim Thomas, the Bruins’ first finals shutout since Gerry Cheevers stopped 16 Montreal shots on May 15, 1978.

In the last two games, the Bruins outscored the Canucks, 12-1, and dominated everywhere. They chased a shaky Roberto Luongo at

3 minutes 39 seconds of the third period, giving Canucks backup Cory Schneider of Marblehead, Mass., a moment of glory in front of his family.

It was the only good moment for the plodding Canucks.

Boston defensemen Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg again shut down twins Daniel and Henrik Sedin and winger Alex Burrows, and no other Canuck stepped up to help.

“We have one goal in two games, so I don’t know how you hang that on three guys. It’s the whole team,” defenseman Kevin Bieksa said. “You can say all three lines and all of our defensemen.

“Sure they’re great players, the twins and Burrows. And we rely on them a lot offensively. But at this time of year we need contributions from everybody.”

Several Bruins chipped in Wednesday. Peverley took a feed from Krejci and broke in alone on Luongo for their first goal, at 11:59 of the first period, and second-period goals by Michael Ryder, on a fluttering shot at 11:11, and by Brad Marchand on his backhand at 13:29, virtually sealed it.

Peverley scored from close range early in the third, the last shot Luongo faced. Soon afterward the scrums and jabs both teams had curbed after being scolded by the NHL broke out again, though it appeared no one bit anyone.

It was enough for the Bruins that they took a bite out of Vancouver’s series lead.

“You don’t get to where you are without going through adversity, whether it’s in the past years, whether it’s through the seasons. That’s how you grow,” Boston Coach Claude Julien said.

“When you’ve been through a lot of different

things you’re capable of learning from those things and growing through those things. … We’ve had our

ups and downs. You have to battle through those moments. When you do that, you certainly become a better team.”

They were by far the better team in Boston but must duplicate that in Vancouver. “They won two at home and we won two at home, and that’s what it comes down to,” Bieksa said. “We go back on our ice and we have two of the next three at Rogers Arena, and we like our chances.”

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