VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Boston is quickly becoming a bad — and banned — word in British Columbia.

Not only did the Boston Pizza restaurant chain quickly change its name to Vancouver Pizza when the hometown Canucks drew the Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals last week, but an entire town has removed Beantown from its handle.

Boston Bar, a community of about 800 people located 130 miles northeast of Vancouver, has renamed itself Vancouver Bar, ordering replacement signs for June.

Even in such a tiny town, there’s a Tim Hortons restaurant down the road — but you won’t be able to buy any Boston Creme doughnuts.

• EX-BRUIN BACK: Canucks defenseman Andrew Alberts played for Boston from 2005 to 2008, but doesn’t think the familiarity will help him overcome a one-month gap between games if he replaces Dan Hamhuis in Game 2 on Saturday.

•NOTES: Teams that have taken a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup finals have won 42 of the 46 ensuing series. Detroit blew a 2-0 lead over Pittsburgh in 2009. ... Boston C Milan Lucic says he isn’t reading the papers or watching sports coverage on television, yet he still has opinions about it. “It’s clear that you guys aren’t giving us much of a chance.”