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Post-Game Talk: ECSF GAME 4 - The officials throw The Bear off the cliff - Sunrise 3 BRUINS 2 - Panthers lead series 3-1
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The Bruins have become the kings of a soft corner dump, where the only guy even attempting to get to the corner is the same guy lobbing it in. ZERO pressure put on Florida. They just turn, short pass D to D, and then they’ve got 50 feet of runway to work with
RiverbottomChuck
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I hope he’s announcing his retirement after this playoffs and going off on the league.
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Maybe…but the best thing he could have done for his team has nothing to do with skating.
i honestly didnt think you could challenge if your player was pushed into the goalie.
i thought a penalty had to have been called.
i thought a penalty had to have been called.
Zero doubt the NHL did not watch the new angle prior to the non suspension.
The don godfather
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Widdlez
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what a WEAK quote, what does it take to get this guy to stand up for his players?
getting stabbed repeatedly : "oh well its not my place to comment
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That is what Maroon should have done. He likely retires this offseason anyways.
Why won't he do it now instead of waiting until tomorrow. The league will just double down on screwing Boston, have zero faith in this Mickey Mouse League.
RiverbottomChuck
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You’d think they view it at every angle since they should have access to every cameras feed.
Does it matter what Sweeney has to say? The time to handle this was any moment in the last 3 games, on the ice, and the Bruins didn’t do shit about anything. Spineless. Top to bottom.
22Brad Park
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Never seen goaltending as bad as Oilers Canucks series. Bruins would beat those teams lol
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Which just may be why the NHL backs Florida, until the Finals when the rule book returns. See last season vs Vegas.
I’m sure it was “we already looked at this. Moving on.”
BruinDust
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You can probably say something negative about almost every Bruin in this series thus far. But reality is this is a team sport and as a group they have failed in this series for two reasons...
1) They cannot stay of the the penalty box. It plays right into the Florida Panthers hands the way they want to play. It's like a giant snowball effect. All that defending just wears you into the ground and by the 3rd period, they are getting run over both on the PP and 5 on 5. Even if you subtract the bad calls, they still have taken way more penalties than they should have against a team that plays like this. When your defenders (including Forwards) are heavily fatigued, you get the bad clears, bad break-outs, choppy exits, sloppy chips, turnovers, etc. The Panthers feed off that.
2) They simply do not have enough speed up front and finish from the entire group. They aren't fast enough as a group to push the Panthers D back consistently. They are holding their blueline very well since Game 2. Leafs D did the same thing in Game 5 and 6. When they dump the puck in but Panther's D get to it first nearly every time and have enough time to break the puck back out quickly. I don't care how big you are if the player and puck are already gone by the time you get there, it doesn't matter. See Maroon, Pat.
They've had chances but they don't have enough skill/shooting ability/finish. Most here knew it was a concern going into the season and into the playoffs, and it's rang true. They have only scored more than 2 goals in 4 of their 11 games thus far. Game 2 and 4 they had some great looks and could not capitalize. Wide open nets, pucks shanked wide or high. On the Bruins, Charlie Coyle stands out as one of the stronger shooters on the team. But watching others teams in this years playoffs his shooting wouldn't standout if he played elsewhere.
If you aren't built to get a lot of shots you better score on the ones you do get. Score one of those great looks in the 1st period of Game 2, and don't allow a goal with 0.3 seconds to go in the 2nd, and it's a different 3rd period and completely different game.
All that lack of speed and finish has given Bobrovsky a virtual vacation back there at times. Wearing down a 35-year old Bob was key to winning this series. Even if you go into Game 5 tied 2-2, if they had worked him over in the first 4 games with lots of zone time and more shots, it should pay off in the later games vs. our 25-year old goalie + Vezina winner back-up. Instead he's going into Game 5 fairly well rested having not had a heavy workload in the past 3 games.
The goal this summer ultimately has to be to improve this forward group so that it scores more goals. End of story. How they go about that is open for debate. Bottom line for me is they need a forward in his prime who slots in between Pasta and Marchand as this team's 2nd best forward. At minimum.
15 forwards have appeared in the playoffs thus far only 5 have more than 1 goal and between those 10 players with 1 or none, they have scored just 5 goals. Most say that in the playoffs, the top two lines/top 6 F cancel each other out and it's the bottom 6 F and the D contributing to the offense that ends up being the difference between winning and losing a series. If that is true, it's pretty clear where the problem lies. This isn't 1999 anymore. You aren't winning a cup by winning twelve 2-1 or 1-0 games with a couple high scoring games sprinkled in between. You need goal-scoring ability beyond just one player.
1) They cannot stay of the the penalty box. It plays right into the Florida Panthers hands the way they want to play. It's like a giant snowball effect. All that defending just wears you into the ground and by the 3rd period, they are getting run over both on the PP and 5 on 5. Even if you subtract the bad calls, they still have taken way more penalties than they should have against a team that plays like this. When your defenders (including Forwards) are heavily fatigued, you get the bad clears, bad break-outs, choppy exits, sloppy chips, turnovers, etc. The Panthers feed off that.
2) They simply do not have enough speed up front and finish from the entire group. They aren't fast enough as a group to push the Panthers D back consistently. They are holding their blueline very well since Game 2. Leafs D did the same thing in Game 5 and 6. When they dump the puck in but Panther's D get to it first nearly every time and have enough time to break the puck back out quickly. I don't care how big you are if the player and puck are already gone by the time you get there, it doesn't matter. See Maroon, Pat.
They've had chances but they don't have enough skill/shooting ability/finish. Most here knew it was a concern going into the season and into the playoffs, and it's rang true. They have only scored more than 2 goals in 4 of their 11 games thus far. Game 2 and 4 they had some great looks and could not capitalize. Wide open nets, pucks shanked wide or high. On the Bruins, Charlie Coyle stands out as one of the stronger shooters on the team. But watching others teams in this years playoffs his shooting wouldn't standout if he played elsewhere.
If you aren't built to get a lot of shots you better score on the ones you do get. Score one of those great looks in the 1st period of Game 2, and don't allow a goal with 0.3 seconds to go in the 2nd, and it's a different 3rd period and completely different game.
All that lack of speed and finish has given Bobrovsky a virtual vacation back there at times. Wearing down a 35-year old Bob was key to winning this series. Even if you go into Game 5 tied 2-2, if they had worked him over in the first 4 games with lots of zone time and more shots, it should pay off in the later games vs. our 25-year old goalie + Vezina winner back-up. Instead he's going into Game 5 fairly well rested having not had a heavy workload in the past 3 games.
The goal this summer ultimately has to be to improve this forward group so that it scores more goals. End of story. How they go about that is open for debate. Bottom line for me is they need a forward in his prime who slots in between Pasta and Marchand as this team's 2nd best forward. At minimum.
15 forwards have appeared in the playoffs thus far only 5 have more than 1 goal and between those 10 players with 1 or none, they have scored just 5 goals. Most say that in the playoffs, the top two lines/top 6 F cancel each other out and it's the bottom 6 F and the D contributing to the offense that ends up being the difference between winning and losing a series. If that is true, it's pretty clear where the problem lies. This isn't 1999 anymore. You aren't winning a cup by winning twelve 2-1 or 1-0 games with a couple high scoring games sprinkled in between. You need goal-scoring ability beyond just one player.
Why? I think he’s a good top 4D getting a fair 6.5M. I think our 9.5M man is comfortably ahead in the underperforming category
There’s always game 5.
Elimination game. I daresay Maroon wasted his chance. Most teams go down without a "fight" in the elimination games to avoid the reputation of sore loser. Unfortunately.
UncleRico
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So he can have a nice official press conference for his bosses to see because he’s trying to save his ass.
I don’t think his seat is hot but this is a little sign that it’s at least a warm. Very uncharacteristic for a GM to call a press conference mid series.
Coach Parker
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'88 was when I started as well MMB!
I enjoy watching Vancouver and Edmonton 100% more because every Bruins game is filled with controversy and Bruins disappearing acts. When it was 2-0 everyone knew this was going to be a tough one to swallow.
At the end, you come on here, vent and then shut down a little more each year. Interest wanes because you're being sold a bag of beans and false narrative.
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I think he probably has something non playoff related to announce
Lobster57
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they'll suspend him after the series is over
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