The Bruins got their wish. There will be a Game 7, and unfortunately or otherwise, it will be in Vancouver. 

After Monday’s 5-2 win in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals, the Bruins can forget about TD Garden. The next time they play there competitively, it will be in a black-and-white scrimmage in September. They’ve done all they can there this season, including dominate Roberto Luongo three times in as many chances.

Now, they go back to Rogers Arena for the last game of the season Wednesday. They have lost three low-scoring, one-goal games there and have ended each night frustrated that they didn’t make Luongo’s time hard enough. 

That has to go out the window at this point. To the Bruins, it can’t be about why they don’t create traffic against the Canucks in Vancouver. They do it in Boston, so they’re obviously capable, and last change doesn’t suddenly turn a thinned-out defense into an impenetrable fortress. What they do in Boston they must do in Vancouver. Maybe they even need to do more. 

Here are four more things we learned Monday:

TIM THOMAS UNOFFICIALLY WINS ANOTHER TROPHY

The number of times “two-time Vezina winner” has been written (and subsequently deleted before its published) to describe Tim Thomas in this space would astonish you. It was set in stone a couple months into the season that Thomas would win the trophy awarded to the league’s best goaltender, so it’s easy to forget he won’t officially receive the award until later in the month at the league’s awards ceremony in Las Vegas.

Well, until Wednesday night’s game wraps up, it will be hard to write Thomas’ name without “Conn Smythe winner” prior to it. The 37-year-old has all but sewn up the award given out to the player most valuable to his team in the postseason. 

Thomas’ save percentage and goals against average lead all playoff goaltenders with at least four starts, and the fact that he’s allowed only eight goals the last six games speaks to just how puzzling it is that this series isn’t over.

If the Bruins win, it will be only fitting that Thomas receive the award given his play since his first start of the season on Oct. 10. If the Canucks win, Thomas will be the first player on a losing team to win the Conn Smythe since Jean-Sebastian Giguere in 2003. 

It would take something crazy for Thomas to not be the obvious choice. Luongo could shut out the B’s for the third time this series, and he’ll still have allowed 17 goals to Thomas’ eight (plus whatever he lets in Wednesday). There could also be a combination of things, such as Thomas allowing around seven goals, three of which come from Alexandre Burrows. But that doesn’t seem likely. Even if the B’s don’t win the Cup, they’ll see one trophy. 

LAPIERRE’S GOAL A REMINDER OF HOW FAR KABERLE’S COME

When Maxim Lapierre scored the Canucks’ second goal in garbage time and Tomas Kaberle barely offered an outreached stick to prevent it, Bruins fans probably felt something they haven’t felt in a long time. That’s a good thing.

Bruins fans have seen enough bad from Tomas Kaberle to have their mind permanently made up. Fair enough. He isn’t anywhere near the stud people were hoping for when the Bruins traded for him, and he usually isn’t worth mammoth minutes. 

Yet in this series – when it’s counted most – you’d have to really nitpick (or point to Lapierre’s goal over and over) to find an awful lot wrong with what Kaberle has turned in. His pair of assists Monday (one of which was a shot tipped in by Michael Ryder) moved him into first among Bruins defenseman in playoff points with 11. Lapierre’s goal marked the first time this round that Kaberle was even on the ice for a Vancouver tally.

There’s plenty of room to debate whether the B’s made the right move in Kaberle, or whether the team would have gotten this far without him. He had a ton of frustrating turnovers in the first three rounds, but he’s done a good job this round of keeping the past in the past.  

Of course, his last game with the Bruins (unless he re-signs) will be the most important of his career.

VIGNEAULT DOES THE RIGHT THING WHEN GOALIE IS WRONG

This postseason has been all about second-guessing the coaches of Bruins’ opponents when it comes to the handling of goaltenders. Peter Laviolette seemingly stuck with Brian Boucher too long, while Guy Boucher lost his mind switching between Dwayne Roloson and Mike Smith.

When it comes to Alain Vigneault and his goaltenders, his one flub was leaving Luongo in for all eight Bruins goals in Game 3. Of course, in hindsight that would mean that by now he’d have pulled Luongo three times in six games this series. 

Given how much material the teams have given the media to work with this series, one would think Vigneault and Luongo’s worst nightmare would be to have the day and a half leading up to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals center on the fact that the Vancouver was just yanked. For that reason, the (incorrect) expectation here was that Vigneault wouldn’t pull Luongo if things were to get rough Monday.  

The coach made the right decision by giving his team a chance to win. Cory Schneider played much better than Luongo, and given the way the Canucks got better as the night went on, there were points at which a Vancouver comeback didn’t seem out of the question. 

Now, when it comes to Game 7, there shouldn’t be the slightest of uncertainty over who starts for the Canucks. There have been two different Luongos in this series, and the one who shows up Rogers Arena dominates. As the Bruins try to treat Rogers like the Garden, they should do what they can to give Luongo the same feeling. 

BRUINS FANS CAN’T COMPLAIN ABOUT CANUCKS FANS ANYMORE

The crowd had every reason to be fired up as the puck was dropped Monday, but at least some Bruins fans showed it wasn’t all positive energy. 

When Mason Raymond went down as the result of an awkward collision with Johnny Boychuk, multiple sections of TD Garden – in the Canucks’ zone to Luongo’s left – began to chant something, the initials of which were “B.S.” In case that isn’t clear enough, no, they weren’t calling for the Garden PA to start playing “Boogie Shoes.” Then, the “flopper” chant began.

There Raymond remained, down on his stomach as trainers and teammates gathered around with concern for the injured third-line winger. And depending where you were, you heard either “B.S.” or “flopper.” The man was taken to the hospital. 

The reason for Bruins fans to jeer a Canuck as he tumbles to the ice is obvious, and in many cases this series has been justified. When Maxim Lapierre is poked by Zdeno Chara and acts like his appendix burst, any fan should boo. When Kevin Bieksa grabs his face after being hit by Mark Recchi’s, um, nothing, any fan should boo. But when a guy is down for an extended period of time? Come on. You want to boo a guy for flopping? Wait until you know he flopped when he returns the next shift.

From the Canucks players (those who dive and/or bite fingers) to their fans (how about the ones who threw popcorn and peanuts at Milan Lucic’s grandparents?) there have been plenty of classless actions from the folks in Vancouver. Those Boston fans didn’t need to join in.