Blues fan coming here in peace. That power play that we got in the second was beyond horrible. It goes to show you how garbage this league is in it's officiating. John Kelly and Darren Pang on our TV crew questioned the call and our post game guys are still questioning the call. That isn't to say that it was the deciding factor in this game but it's annoying night in and night out seeing teams being screwed over by horrible calls. Anyway, I know you all are struggling but I think the Bruins will right the ship. Have a good rest of the season.
Post-Game Talk: Bruins singing the Blues as they head for Chicago
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PatriceBergeron
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Too be fair, they came out looking very good, out shooting the Blues like 10-0 and not allowing a shot on goal for ~12 minutes. Malcolm gave up 3 soft goals in 4 minutes and they lost their best offensive player. They also out shot them like 27-15.
That's not to say the game is on Malcolm though. He's just a kid. He should have started against Edmonton. That's on the leadership and not properly assessing a situation.
Thanks for your kind words but the penalties were HARDLY what screwed us over.
You just outplayed us plain and simple. Just like the past 5 teams have.
TheReal13Linseman
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What's odd is that it seemed like a reverse of the last game. The Blues, I think at least, outplayed the Bruins and limited Bruins chances in the first game.
I'm rooting for the Bruins on Sunday against the C*cks.
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trenton1
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good assessment. Malcolm had a bad game or he wasn't ready or whathaveyou. Seems strange they would start him at all against St. Louis but the defense did their job tonight for the most part.
4 bad goals on only 15 shots. I wouldn't say St. Louis did too much.
@NHLBruins: Rask on playing 25 of last 26:"feel good & we're at the stage now that every pt matters, if I need to play every game, I'll play every game"
You sure about that Tuukka?
You sure about that Tuukka?
Anyone notice the play of Ferlin? Thought he was fast, strong on puck with decent skills. Good showing on 4th line with possible 3rd line upside?
Perhaps a thread for Ferlin?
Perhaps a thread for Ferlin?
Rask is a heck of a competitor. He would if we wanted him to. He won't but we're lucky to have him. Seems like yesterday people were doubting if he could even start 50.
ytownhockey10
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Yes, we need to realize that IF they wanted to start him it prob. would've been best against Edmonton. Don't understand the reasoning there. He was a dear in the headlights and IMO he'll be okay. I was afraid that he was going to start tearing up but good thing he just kept his composure during the interview. Look at Hutchinson and his play of a few years ago vs. today and let's not get on his back for one tough outing.
Welcome and Thanks for the kind words but I can't blame this one on the refs (although I'd love to). The NHL refereeing has always been questionable, since I've watch it the last 47 years or so...
This game was tough to watch and really at this point there's little silver lining but this is what happens in sports sometimes. They'll be back, not this year, but they'll be back.
People calling us spoiled because we're condemning this dumpster fire of a team and gongshow of a season. **** off and light yourself on fire. Seriously, shut up.
Ehh... Look at guys like Quick and Lundqvist. They play high 60/low 70 games every season if they're healthy. They always do well in the playoffs.
Quick, Lundqvist, Rask, Rinne, Price are the consensus top-5 goalies in the league... No real order there, flips every week. All 5 of those players are the MVPs of their team... They know what they're going into every season. They're pro athletes. 70 games obviously isn't ideal but he could handle it. We're a little past the halfway mark and the rest of our team is running on less than fumes.
Agreed. This team is bad. This team is bad because management ****ed us. Ticket prices were raised. Team talent was decreased. It's ********. We're not spoiled, we're accepting that this team, as is, can't win. We need changes. I'll be a Bruins fan even if they lose all 82 games. Doesn't mean I'll be happy, but this management has created a team mentality that winning is top priority... and that's out the window.
I'm not ready to praise any of these guys. Doesn't make me spoiled. Fans should not have to put up with mediocrity, especially since this mediocrity could have been avoided.
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this quote right here really highlights how busted this team is right now. they don't even *know* that they suck
I came home after working 3-11, watched the 1st period and was feeling good. I then accidentally caught the final score while on my tablet ,read some comments here and stopped watching. I can't believe how low this team has sunk. Yet, we are still one point ahead of Florida( at least temporarily) Is there any way to fix this mess before it is too late and by that I mean missing the playoffs?
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Lol since I hear Krejci is going to Chicago im assuming it's not ACL so I've stopped the drinking
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didn't look like a knee at all to me. The way he twisted before he stood up made me think he was testing his hip or groin (which are the two possible things that were ailing him early in the year). Thinking that twist he took when he landed reaggravated whatever injury he's been dealing with.
KrejciMVP
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I thought the same. Knee didn't look like it twisted at all. Hopefully a stinger similar to the puck he took in front of the net last year.
I became a hockey fan in the depth of the dead puck era, after catching a glimpse of a game on TV by chance in the middle of the night. If you knew my immigrant family growing up, you'd know how unlikely a chain of events this was. We had absolutely zero tradition of playing or following sports, it just wasn't part of the vocabulary. We had no cable TV for much of my childhood. On top of that, I'd always found the concept of "rooting for the home team" an essentially alien one--moving around multiple times growing up will do that to you.
But the game... the game was beautiful. I started checking up scores in the newspaper everyday. I checked books out of the library, dug through old SI articles on shelves, tried to learn as much as I could without actually being able to watch the games myself. I picked the Rangers to follow, almost at a whim, because 1) this was in suburban NJ, and thus they were somewhat local: at least I'd have no trouble finding newspaper coverage (which turned out to be a moot point when my family moved across the country a short while later); 2) I'd read about Pat Lafontaine trying to come back from his concussions and wanted to root for the guy (ironically, he would wind up playing his final game barely a month into my discovery of the sport, after suffering his fifth concussion); and 3) they were an Original Six team, and they had Gretzky, (I thought) how bad could they really be??
Of course, the Rangers were comically inept in the period I picked to follow them, missing the playoffs year after year and being in general a bloated overpaid mess of aging star free agents. I didn't care. I would look up the scores in the newspapers the day after games and suffer heartburn at the results, and lurk on the NYTimes messageboards in mingled commiseration (for what the fans were going through) and rubbernecking horror (for what was some quite spectacularly bad online behavior--believe me, those mods made hf mods look competent). I also followed the Avs, the Bourque trade giving me my first close-up impressions of Bruins fans.
It took going off to college + the lockout for me to drift away from hockey, and when the games resumed I resolved not to become a diehard fan of any team again, having (I thought) neither the time nor the inclination to put myself through the emotional ringer for something one ultimately has zero control over. Moving to Boston (in the fall of 2001--fortuitous timing, that) didn't change that resolve, though I did surprise myself by falling in love with the region as much as I have. The Pats in 2002, the Sox in 2003, 2004 and beyond, the C's in 2008... each time, it wasn't the team--and no sport ever compared to hockey for me--it was the passion of the region that moved me. For someone who never really had a hometown growing up, the sense of fierce pride, history and communal identity New Englanders have is totally unique, and intoxicating, though it's something that I couldn't with clear conscience claim as my own, having never grown up here.
2011 was a blast--I followed the Stanley Cup run from afar, still having no TV, and in the same along-for-the-ride spirit that I did for all the other championships, and then went back to being a sensible outside supporter. It took the Marathon bombing to wake something up inside. On lockdown, I lived on this board those several days and followed the police scanners along with everyone else here. For the first time in my life I felt like I can call myself a Bostonian, in full. Sometimes, it takes an event that terrible to mark you, to bind you to a place indelibly.
And then Toronto game 7 happened. The Pittsburgh series happened (the Rangers one was bittersweet for me). Bergeron in game 6 of the finals happened.
I knew very well that by missing out on the first 12 years I could have been following this team, I could very well have decided to jump in with both feet just in time to see their decline. When we were in the middle of winning the Presidents Trophy last season this was always in the back of my mind. But what can you do? When love comes to you what can you do?
I don't know what will happen to this Bruins team. I don't know if I can love another iteration of the team as much as I do this one. But I'll be there till the bitter end too, because I'd already missed out on so much of their run. It doesn't matter if they're good memories or bad, as long as they're yours, and you have them. At least this time, unlike when I was sixteen, I can see them happening with my own eyes.
