BOSTON -- All afternoon at the TD Garden, the mocking chants rained down on the ice: "Lu-onnnnggg-oooo!!! Lu-oooonnnnnngggg-ooooo!!!" But as Roberto Luongo sat comfortably at the end of the Canucks' bench, Cory Schneider was putting on quite the show in the Canucks' crease. The 25-year-old Massachusetts native made 36 saves in the 4-3 win for Vancouver, and he was able to do it in front of about 15 friends and family members. "It's a great feeling," Schneider said in the Canucks' dressing room. "As a college player [at Boston College], I didn't know if I would ever get the chance...
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