NHL 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs

[Grimey]

f*** off Ottawa, you’re useless

 

[Number8]

Shit

 

[SPLBRUIN]

The Sens are just not ready for prime time, the Leafs haven't even played well these last 2 games but the Sens don't have that clutch gene, awful way to lose a game to a guy who scored 1 goal all year.

 

[SPLBRUIN]

Ottawa is suffering from the Bruins version of playoff Ullmark

He's not to blame for the last 2 losses.

 

[TP70BruinsCup]

32-19 in faceoffs for the Leafs

Hard to win when that happens

So it’s Go Florida Go to beat the Leafs in round 2

 

[Bruin4]

He's not to blame for the last 2 losses.

Not to blame ? He sure in the hell hasn’t been good. 6 straight playoff loses for him.

 

[SPLBRUIN]

32-19 in faceoffs for the Leafs

Hard to win when that happens

So it’s Go Florida Go to beat the Leafs in round 2

Florida will take care of TO, the Leafs are barely scraping by the Sens.

 

[The don godfather]

Go florida I want that 1st round pick.

 

[SPLBRUIN]

Not to blame ? He sure in the hell hasn’t been good. 6 straight playoff loses for him.

You think he should have saved any of those goals tonight ? I get it, he was terrible for the Bruins in the playoffs and in game 1 of this series but he is not to blame for the last 2 games in my opinion.

 

[Terrier]

Boldy makes it 3-1.

 

[Terrier]

Wild make it 4-1 with 1.3 to go in the second.

 

[Terrier]

Our old friend Reilly Smith makes it 4-2.

 

[Terrier]

Game, set, match in St. Paul.

 

[Terrier]

Blues running away.

 

[Olden McGroin]

Kyrou, Blues 5-1 mid 3rd

 

[Aussie Bruin]

Blues fight back today. A game they had to win, on home ice, but they've looked good. Playing with some of that edge we know from 2019. There's a definite plan to try and wear the Jets down, but can they take this deep enough to make it count? Think this one's still wide open.

 

[Terrier]

6-1. And a scrum.

 

[Olden McGroin]

Ok Jets goon it up

 

[Terrier]

7-2.

 

[McGarnagle]

Linus might be the worst playoff goalie in NHL history

 

[Helsinki city boy]

Linus might be the worst playoff goalie in NHL history

Ullmark and playoffs, match made in hell. One of the Sweeneys best moves was to get rid of this guy.

 

[Aussie Bruin]

Linus might be the worst playoff goalie in NHL history

Connor Hellebuyck is a solid contender too. Weird how two recent and very deserving Vezina winners are both prone to horrible playoff performance.

 

[GordonHowe]

NHL’s U.S. Playoff TV Ratings Down 27% in Early Games

Through Monday’s games, postseason broadcasts were averaging 718,000 viewers, which is down 27% from last year.

frontofficesports.com

 

[GordonHowe]

I think Bruce winning rubs it in less to Don/Cam and more to Debrusk/McAvoy and all the other players who mutinied to get him fired.

I doubt it.

Players play.

Managers manage.

Who knows if Butch could have facilitated another Cup run and, possibly, a championship .

My understanding (between the lines of comments by the Herald's Steve Conroy) is that Sweeney assured Cassidy all was status quo & that Bruce would be back the following season.

Neely got wind of exit interview whining and -- stop me if you've heard this before -- inserted himself into the situation, dictating Cassidy must go.

Hence Sunny Jim.

Hence, at least in part, the mess that ensued.

You know who must go?

Bam Bam Cam, that's who.

Recall that Neely issued a shot across the bow if not a veiled threat to Claude Julien's job security when averring that the Bruins "can't win if they don't score," or words to that effect. (This during the 2011 Cup year.)

It would not surprise if Neely was behind the Get Big & Nasty trend in general, which I enthusiastically supported, and, in particular, the signing of Nikita Zadorov.

(Interestingly, #91, loose cannon with potential leadership chops, recently threw a bit of shade, if not a gauntlet, management's way by publicly questioning whether the front office would allow #88's prime years to go to waste.

(Most un-Bruins like. A raised eyebrow in this corner. The times they are a- changing.)

Sweeney is problematic.

On balance, Neely is the greater problem.

Sooner or later (later, naturally) he must go.

 

[Fenway]

Connor Hellebuyck is a solid contender too. Weird how two recent and very deserving Vezina winners are both prone to horrible playoff performance.

Let's see how Hellebuyck does in Game 4