Wideman’s revenge helps Panthers down Bruins
The Bruins’ unbeaten start to the preseason ended after just one win, as Florida downed Boston, 3-2, tonight in Rochester, N.Y.
Although it was just an exhibition game, former Bruins defenseman Dennis Wideman had to be feeling mighty proud of himself because he scored what proved to be the game-winning goal in the second period. Boston got goals from Jeff LoVecchio and Steve Kampfer. Nolan Schaefer played goal for Boston.
The Bruins will be back practicing Friday and then will play their first home preseason game against the Panthers Saturday night.
No, MCK, Fluto’s spot-on there. Wideman is a very good defenseman, despite a poor regular season in ’09-10. To help your memory, he reverted back to his Norris-worthy-mentioning play in ’08-09 during last year’s playoffs…remember?
From Fluto’s puff piece this today:
“When Wideman is at the top of his game, he is a tough, skilled, puck-moving defenseman who can work the blue line on the power play and be counted on in shutdown situations.”
Has Fluto lost all credibility or is it just me? Does Wideman have scandalous pictures of Fluto? Again, this puck-moving defenseman thing is made up fantasy. It reminds me of the curse of the bambino
Somehow yah just knew Wideman would score. Didn’t see the game but I’m sure every time Dennis wound up from the blueline the Bruins on the ice and on the bench probably yelled “Four”!
I can’t wait for each Bruins game versus Florida. Now we can watch as our forwards skate circles around the worst skating defenseman in the NHL and the most overrated passing defenseman in the NHL. It will be nice to know that all our forwards have to do when he is out there is chip it by him and then skate right by him on their way to the puck. He couldn’t beat a dead person in a foot race.
I’m sure Wideman will be “motivated” whenever he sees Boston this season, since that’s essentially why he’s playing on a team that will probably miss the playoffs for 10 or 11 straight seasons. Hell, he may even set the team on fire now that it won’t matter.
Wideman can feel “good” about scoring on a lifetime AHLer and half a team of future lifetime-AHLers all he wants. Unless late-1990s Pavel Bure shows up in a time machine, that team won’t be a legitimate threat anytime soon. Enjoy the sun.
Wow. So glad I clicked on this link because it’s nothing I didn’t know via twitter in this sub-100 work blog.
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