Horton/By S. Bradley
BOSTON — The Bruins accumulated 72 penalty penalty minutes last night en route to a 4-1 loss to Carolina at TD Garden.
Here’s my game story from NHL.com.
Among the Bruins’ penalties was a double-minor against Nathan Horton for roughing that put the Bruins down two men after they had just cut the lead to 2-1 on a Rich Peverley goal.
Horton also earned a 10-minute misconduct. Before the night was out, head coach Claude Julien, and forwards Brad Marchand and Milan Lucic also earned 10-minute penalties that ended their nigh early. In the second period, Zdeno Chara earned 17 penalty minutes for getting involved in a potential altercation between Horton and Jay Harrison.
I addressed the Bruins’ discipline problems in my column for CBS Boston. The bottom line is, this team needs to do a much better job of channeling its frustrations. The Bruins talked all offseason about how opponents were going to bring their ‘A’ game. Well part of that is trying to gain a psychological or physical edge by any means necessary. If the Bruins are going to be goaded into every little skirmish, regardless of the willingness of the opponent or the situation in the game, this is going to be a long season.
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I agree with the fact that they lost their cool. But to be honest, I feel like its the first time this season I have seen ANY emotion out of them. They havent been finishing checks, they havent really been that big of a physical presence, and with the exception of Pevs and Marchy it feels like no one else has consistantly shown up. Maybe this will wake them up.
Almost impossible to win a game when giving up 9 power plays. Boston threw their chances at winning the game and Julien should call them on it.
McTeagle – The Seidenberg call, in my opinion, was terrible because the fault was entirely Skinner’s. He turned at the last second after Seidenberg had already committed to the check.
As for Rask, I don’t think this falls into the category of the team letting him down, as he was not too sharp himself, as all 4 goals (apart from maybe the final one) he probably could have saved. Also, he had issues with his rebound control.
I didn’t feel like the Seidenberg call was that horrible… borderline yeah, but the timing was the worst part of it. But Horton has to let up in that situation; if that guy refuses to fight then going nuts on him certainly won’t help the matter. Leave it at 2 minutes or whatever and let the team have a chance!
Meanwhile: why do they always do this to Tuukka?
Horton was really the only player I saw lose his mind. But even still, as John said, that didn’t end the game, it was 2-1 then with 8+ mins left. The penalties on Chara and Seidenberg we jokes that took Boston’s two best defensemen off the ice for a very extended 5-3. After that it seemed simply being in a Bruins jersey was worthy of a penatly (I didn’t even see what Marchand did to get a misconduct and Lucic shoving a guy out of his face is not even a pentalty much less grounds for a misconduct).
All the non-sense aside, the bruins need to start finishing, all the chances in the world don’t matter if they score. Even with the penatly discrepancy between team the bruins outplayed carolina for a majority of the game, they need to be able to win those games.
Yes, the Bruins lost their cool, but that did not necessarily cost them the game. They had to kill off the double minor by Horton, but if they had done that successfully, there would have been ~4 minutes left to get the game tying goal. The back to back penalties on Chara and Seidenberg on what could only be called ridiculous calls, ultimately led to the Bruins being so shorthanded. The refs were trying to keep the game in check, yet by doing so they decided the Bruins players were the only ones even partially responsible, and let the instigators (Skinner, Gleason) get off scot free.
It is early but we got to find to put the biscutt in the basket. Great first period could of had half dozen goals. I think with a little more time we will get on track we have a very talented group of players through every facet of the game and I will take a lull know vs. later.
This is a team that is missing Recchi’s leadership. All of the postgame interviews I saw didn’t address the fact that they melted down and lost their discipline. Recchi would have been honest and called the team out on it.
What Rick said. You can play physical without turning the game into a s#itshow. It’s early and hopefully this wakes them up, but last night was embarrassing all around.
The Bruins discipline suffered last night.
Presumably Chara charged Harrison to protect Horton who is still fresh off of a concussion. Then Horton instigates a fight afterwards, nullifying this presumption.
The B’s manage to make a game of it with a goal on solid play by Brad Marchand and Rich Peverley, only to have a complete breakdown in discipline afterward lead by Marchand’s hopeless penalty in his own end of the ice. Julien gets tossed.
Emotional hockey is usually trumped by a more disciplined approach, I’d rather see clean hard hitting. They need to keep their heads through adversity. Its only October….