Bruins have to stop being satisfied with just being here and play to win
In the regular season, no one would’ve stood for that. While you can’t take a dumb penalty there or at any point of these crucial games, a message still could’ve been sent. Dennis Seidenberg came close in Game 2, but I still have yet to see anyone plant Lapierre on his rear. And Burrows is playing as though he’s wearing a no-contact jersey practice jersey but everyone else is fair game for him.
Hopefully for those of us that would like to be part of a lengthy series, Krejci & Co., had their “fun flight” back to Boston. It won’t be much fun at the TD Garden if those light times don’t translate into harder tougher play starting with Game 3. Several Bruins, young and old, have talked about this series being a potential once-in-a-lifetime affair. It’s time for their play to reflect that notion.
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Phil — your prediction wasn’t so far off, but none of us could have imagined the game to get that out of hand!
Bojangles- Exactly . Rather timid at times.
After the Bruins go up 5-2 tonight, that will be perfect time for some payback for those punk bitches Burrows and Laperiere!
And what are the odds that the green morons even make it into the Garden tonight? More likely they will be hanging upside down by their ankles on a Causeway st. telephone pole screaming “mommy, help me”
Mr. Kalmer, I agree with Ryan, probably because he has a great name. But, mostly because his critique of your posting is correct. Luongo was not just lucky to stop 36 shots, and the Bruins miscues are not unexpected from Boychuck, Ference, and even Chara. Timmy’s action was unexpected, and I’m sure he is as mad at himself as he can be. 4 wins is a big reach, but let’s see what this team you think of as “lousy” can do for the rest of us.
Seems to me these Bs have read all the clippings. They seem a different team – playing not to make mistakes instead of playing with purpose and pressure on the opponent. They look extremely tentative to me – no way to win.
And what’s with suddenly putting so much weight on the comments of Krejci? Any Bruins fan who follows the media scrum knows this guy is as mild mannered around the press as it gets, and it’s just ridiculous to think that he’s gonna come out and make some definitive glorious statement about their attitude or their intentions. He’s always like this, and it has no bearing on his in-game personality.
They havent been as bad as this post would have a non-observer believe. Thomas actually let in two weak goals last game (but also made some great saves that a goalie is expected to make). We see the same talk from KPD of the Globe — they are totally outmatched, etc.
Vancouver was definitely the better team in the first game, but I actually felt the Bruins should have won last game. I think they tried to sit on the lead and it killed them. They made too many turnovers, but the overall play was even for the most part. They have a great chance to win this game and get back in the series and I think they’re gonna do it.
As a Montreal-based Bruins fan, I completely agree with Ryan. CBC, TSN and especially french-language RDS have been so biased towards Vancouver (and in fact anti-Bruins) that I switched over to NBC after the first period of Game 2. It wasn’t great but a little easier on the ears and blood pressure.
RD: As a Canadian Bruins fan, let me assure you that CBC and TSN (And Sportsnet, and The Score for that matter) are both heavily biased towards Vancouver and have been since Montreal teed off.
Matt, you’re starting to sound very defeatist.
I’ve been watching the playoff run on this blog with interest but this week you’ve been dropping so many of those “they were better than us anyway” lines.
Believe in your team. Accept defeat when the Canucks hoist the cup, not before.
It’s as though you want to rob the Canucks of the satisfaction that they are winning these games as opposed to the Bruins laying over and dying.
Also, Bruins fans, if your team stinks it up on home ice, don’t just walk out on them like you did in round one. The hockey night in Canada cameras will turn to the stands and show us how you guys abandon your team.
BTW, with commentary from Don Cherry, PJ Stock and Mike Milbury, who says HNIC has a Vancouver bias?
MCK, I totally agree. As great as Thomas has been, it wasn’t TT making fantastic saves that got the Bs 36 shots on goal in game one. And TT wasn’t the (only) reason they were up 2-1 in the 3rd period of game 2. Yes, our “pedestrian” team was winning the game because they were getting offensive pressure.
What I will agree with is that the Bs have not made Vancouver pay enough for some of the bush-leaguery we have seen out of them. More importantly, in both games the difference to me was the 3rd, where the Bs either let off the gas or simply ran out of it. If it’s the former, that can be corrected. If the latter, well, then CJ will have to trust all his players with a little more ice time, in order to lighten the load on the top guys.
As far as lineup goes, I’ve been begging for some ice time for Seguin, and still feel like he should be skating with the 2nd or 3rd. However, if Julien insists on only playing him 5-6 mins a night and constantly shuffles lines to minimize his ice, it might be more productive to have Thornton back in the lineup, only so that we can go back to rolling 4 lines regularly.
Kalman, you’ve spent too much time with the Canadian media who have been crowning the Canucks since March or April.
I’m getting awfully sick and tired of hearing how overmatched we are and how outplayed we’ve been. Absolute BS. If you’d watched the games without CBC chirping in your ear you might realize we’re only a couple mental lapses and a bad goal away from being tied, or up 2-0 coming home. Everyone needs to take a page out of Julien’s book and not panic. We beat Tampa and Montreal by wearing them down with 4 lines over 7 games, nothing is different now except the stakes. Montreal was faster, Tampa was faster. Carey Price was going to steal the series, Roloson was going to steal the series. We weren’t supposed to be able to handle Tampa’s depth or Montreal’s PP. You see a pattern? Stop listening to sensationalist media and form your own opinions.
Win #13 coming up tonight, have a feeling the headlines will be much brighter tomorrow.
GO BRUINS
Too early, two too close games to start packing up already. Let’s win at home being smart and carry on.
I dispute that their game has been pedestrian at best. That simply isn’t the case.
Hey Matt K.weren’t you the one that said win or loose game 7 against tampa that the season was a sucsess?Keep seguin of the ice in the third because we had a one goal lead.So many coaching blunders no adjustments same old bruin bs fill the stadium and there happy…make the playoffs there happy.. stanley cup finals was a bonus.
Well I think they aren’t responding because they don’t want the penalty which would surely come.
I do think the team looks overwhelmed and usually this is a team that thrives on being the underdog-but they mostly seem to have shown up for a period or two then quit skating.
I can see though where the media would be annoying and the team would be testy with them. The media in general has pretty much writtent he Bruins off and the first few days all the questions to the Bruins players were mostly about how overmatched they were. I would get sick of those questions too.
The punk burrows will get his teeth handed to him in a jar. It might be next year, but somone will payback this sick piece of garbage.
Has Burrows coined a new Hat Trick … 2 goals, an assist and a bite
Snerd
Finally someone in beantown gets it. Instead of whining about bitegate, someone from the bruins should have responded with force on Burrows. It’s to late now as the series is likely out of reach against a vastly superior team, but if the bruins had shown some courage in one of the first two games, maybe the could have gotten a split in Vancouver. At least this would have allowed them to push the series to five or even six games. Nicks in four. Sorry Guys.
Two more games and the Bruins can go golfing.