When asked to criticize league, Burrows Bruins’ Julien wasn’t biting
Burrows?
VANCOUVER — One night Vancouver forward Alexandre Burrows takes a bite out of Bruins center Patrice Bergeron’s finger, three nights later he takes the bite out of the Bruins with two goals and one assist in a 3-2 overtime win in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final.
In between, Burrows avoided suspension after a hearing with the league. The league deemed there was no conclusive evidence to prove Burrows purposely bit Bergeron’s finger.
If the league had YouTube and would’ve watched the video, maybe Burrows gets a ban and doesn’t burn the Bruins tonight.
Head coach Claude Julien, however, wasn’t buying that line of logic.
“That has nothing to do with that. I never thought about that that way,” he said after the loss at Rogers Arena that dropped his team to 0-2 down in the series. “They made a decision. We moved on. For us, if we start using that as an excuse, we’re a lame team.
“To me, it’s not even a consideration.”
tru … Canucks went thru Luongo being, white paint, overly aggressive, last year and made the adjustment. If ‘Swimmin’ Timmy’ is going to play out by the faceoff circle, what happened to Luongo is going to happen to him.
Also what happened to him in OT, is going to happen again … there’s no getting around it, as it were.
Snerd
Burrows playing in game 2 may be unjust, but the league let Horton play in game 7 vs. Tampa. The NHL usually suspends players for any actions directed at or towards fans. If the NHL called that play the way the should have you might not be in a situation to complain about Alex Burrows but rather if Horton should be using a Iron or a wood.
Wow! Sarge kind of sums up a “B” team approach – belligerent in assault (Chara on Pacioretty) and wienies in defeat … Ouch! My pinkie! Ow! Look at me pinkie ref …
Bruins win ugly, and loose uglier …
Snerd
Hey Tremblay-you sound like a Hab punk
Kenneth Olsen ~ “The league let punk behavior go unpunished. The Boston fans should present Burrows with lipstick as a tribute to his demonstrated ability to fight like a girl.”
WHAT do you call Peverly then? ANOTHER GIRL!? Save your lipsticks for your OWN players!
Come ON! Quit with the WHINING! IF a Boston Bruin HAD taken out Alex and the Canucks STILL won, WHAT would be YOUR excuse then?! Canucks WIN by TEAM effort! Sure Alex was in on ALL THREE goals but if he hadn’t, there would be another Canuck. ALL season long the Canucks have pulled through adversity and did NOT blame the refs(we as fans did!) and kept playing THEIR game!
What would YOU call the cowardly slash Peverly did? A CLASS act?! RIGHT!
lets see peverly on bieksa,a delay of game that wasnt,lotsa dirt on both sides. i would call it even. that being said the canucks with the possible exception of period 2 in the second game have been the deeper and better team.the best 5 on 5 play so far has been the canuck.speed is the achilles heal so far and we are faster theres no denying that.you have to catch them to hit them advantage canucks.i do believe that this will be a 7 game series with the home team winning every game.the bruins need to hold there positions and hit a lot better to slow them down.if vancouver wasnt in it id be cheering for my all time 2nd favorite team.i do love the bruins
All things considered its a great series. I expect at least one win for the Bruins in Beantown. Their Defense is stifling, backchecking in the neutral zone is the most effective Vancouver has encountered in the Playoffs.
As for the bite by Burrows or the slash on Bieksa..its in the rearview now. Bergeron has a great sense of humor, just ask LaPierre..Good Luck boston and thanks for a great series so far.
the Bruins are capable of dominating, but they are trying too hard to be just good enough. that won’t cut it. the Canucks must have learned that you have to hit Timmy either really fast or really slow. the Bruins had better debut new lines for their homecoming. let’s see that “next year” look. if they are still rolling the same lines Wednesday, they are in trouble. I’d even be okay with totally splitting the “first” line up, but I’d be most pleased with something like:
MAR/BER/SEG
LUC/KRE/HOR
PEV/KEL/RYD
PAI/CAM/REC(THOR)
CHA/KAM
FER/MCQ
SEI/BOY(KAB)
THOM(RAS)
PP1: MAR/BER/RYD/SEI/CHA
PP2: LUC/KRE/HOR/PEV/FER
PK1: PAI/CAM/CHA/MCQ
PK2: PEV/KEL/FER/SEI
continue to be that bounce back team, but please don’t take so Julieningly long to make adjustments. it’s now or, well, probably again in the next three years, but, shit, it’s now! and what happened to that umbrella powerplay? surely it is the answer if you insist on playing Kaberle….
Kenneth, you pretty well summed up the Bruins whole season with the first line of your comment,
“The league let punk behavior go unpunished”. That my friends is how the Bruins made it to the finals.
The reason the B’s are gassed out there is they don’t have the depth. You really want the less than confident Kaberle playing more minutes? Boychuck and Mcquaid? Sure thay can hit but can they keep the puck out of the back of the net?
The reason the B’s are in the SCF is that they rode their strongest horses really hard to get there. Now those horses are getting tired.
Farce! League failed big time! Thank god for NBA!
Burrows shouldn’t have been in the line-up….but by the same standards, neither should have Horton in Gm7 of the ECF. Think about it.
The B’s problem is that their execution and tenacity has gone down the toilet in each of the last two 3rd periods. Horton and Lucic have yet to show up in any shade of their full selves, which leaves Krejci up a creek; Recchi is gassed more often than not, and getting out-worked on the boards, leaving Bergeron and Marchy to deal with VAN’s energized third line; and Seguin is riding the bench, as is Kaberle a lot of the time, which handicaps the Bruins and gives the edge in conditioning to VAN. There’s too much wrong with this picture. Also, Z, Seids and Timmy are showing their signs of wear after the team rode the success of their top pairing and goaltender through 18 games of postseason hockey. If the Bruins don’t find a way to put gas back in the tank, get inspired, and get up off the floor, they’ll once again be the joke of the hockey world.
Before this series started, one of the guys on the PHT blog on NBC called the Bruins a “JV version of the Canucks”. Verbatum. I was insulted as a fan, and thought it was a ridiculous statement… but truth is, though there’s not that large a disparity in score, the B’s are being outclassed in every aspect of the game. Time to sh** or get off the pot, B’s.
i def agree with puttin thornton back in to, just still cant beleive the leage would allow that crap and also let them get away with the comments like the one hendrick sedin made when itroducing his line. just shows….. “classless” wtf, were the BIG BAD BRUINS…. time to start acting BIG and BAD!
i say we REMOVE all of vancouvers teeth if they wanna play like that and the leages just gonna allow it, and throw lipstick? just sounds gay! through some fake teeth out there or somthin
People seem to think that the Canucks are standing around waiting for the Big Bad Bruins to teach them a lesson. Why? The Canucks have outhit the Bruins in the playoffs, and certainly in this game. The Bruins cannot outskate the Canucks, they are less talented overall, and now this supposed advantage in size and hitting is shown to be false as well. They didn’t hit Burrows because he is faster than them. What do they have left
The start of Hockey Correctness was witnessed last night. Kind of like watching someone picking up the clean end of a turd.
Level Burrows, take Seguin out of the lineup and put Thornton in.
There’s a recipe for success against a strong power play…
btw, you are nailing these images MattK. didn’t think I’d find anything to laugh about this morning, well done.
perfect response by CJ
letting burrows skate around like that last night was shameful. put the merlot line back together and pay him back one game late.
and b’s didn’t need af impersonating boychuk last night.
They have yet to win a game in this series Claudes way.Bergy should have leveled that punk. The Bruins look like the kid who has his lunch money stolen from him at school. If Seguin is going to continue to play limited minutes, give me 6-minutes of Thorton. He could have been the difference in that game last night. Thorton is a player who will deliver a series of hard legal checks. And maybe one that is not. This keeps the oppositions mind busy wondering where the hell is that guy. Game Changer.
@mg – winning is the best revenge. Sending guys out to take a run at Burrows would’ve played right into their hands by putting them on the PP. Not worth it. Of course he shouldve gotten a game ban. But, Claudes handling it the only way.
The league let punk behavior go unpunished. The Boston fans should present Burrows with lipstick as a tribute to his demonstrated ability to fight like a girl.
Bruins knew they were supposed to take Burrows out in the first couple of shifts … but they couldn’t get anyone to bite on the assignment.
Burrows remains ‘gnaw-ty’ and nice. That was some pass on the goal he assisted on, and the OT goal he scored, had Swimmin’ Tim somewhere out in the mid Pacific.
Some people think Tim left in a hurry, ’cause he didn’t like the goal. Not so. He just over shot his recovery.
Snerd
Burrows should have been taken out by a Bruin within his first two shifts. The league failed with it’s no suspension. Was dissapointed the whole game that not one Bruin was going to check this dope into submission. I guess they are not so big and bad. Dumb-maybe. Starts with coaching.
How about Peverley slash on Bieksa? Worse than Burrows bite?