Claim: TD Garden has held Bruins games.

The 2011 Stanley Cup Final , commonly known as the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals , was the championship series of the National Hockey League -LRB- NHL -RRB- , and the culmination of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs . The Eastern Conference champion Boston Bruins defeated the Western Conference champion Vancouver Canucks four games to three . The Bruins ended a 39-year Stanley Cup drought with the win . Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the playoffs .   The Canucks had home ice advantage in the Finals by virtue of winning the Presidents ' Trophy as the team that finished with the best regular season record -LRB- 117 points -RRB- . They were also the first Canadian team to have home ice advantage in the Finals since the Montreal Canadiens had it for the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals . The Canadiens ' victory in 1993 was also the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup . As of the 2015 -- 16 season , this was the last Stanley Cup Finals to feature a Canadian team and that the Finals went the full seven games .   On June 1 , 2011 , NHL commissioner Gary Bettman made an announcement that Colin Campbell would be stepping down as the league 's head disciplinarian to be replaced by former player Brendan Shanahan , though Campbell would continue in his job as director of hockey operations . Mike Murphy , the NHL vice-president of hockey operations , had already been put in charge of disciplinary matters for the Finals , nonetheless there were concerns raised about Campbell 's impartiality in handing out discipline since his son Gregory was an active player on the Boston Bruins roster .   The first game of the series was held on June 1 , while the seventh game was played on June 15 . The games varied widely between those played in Vancouver and those in Boston . Prior to game seven , the Bruins had managed to score only two goals in three games played in Vancouver , against 17 scored in three games at Boston . On the other hand , while posting two shutouts in Vancouver , Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo was replaced with the backup Cory Schneider twice in three games in Boston . It was the fourth consecutive Stanley Cup Final in which the deciding game was won by the road team . The Bruins scored almost three times the number of total goals as the Canucks , -LRB- 23 to 8 in the series -RRB- , and yet the Canucks won three games . The eight goals scored by Vancouver is the lowest number of goals scored by any team in a seven-game Stanley Cup Final , and would 've also been the lowest in a six-game series . The Canucks averaged 1.25 goals per game at home in Vancouver and one goal per game on the road , while the Bruins averaged almost six goals per game at home in Boston and 1.5 goals per game on the road . In the seven games , the Bruins averaged roughly 3.3 goals per game , while the Canucks averaged 1.14 goals per game .