Secord
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I also had the knee-jerk reaction in the third that series management was being implemented when Zajac extended the knee on McAvoy and then not long after cross-checked him in the back of the head with refs looking straight at both. Seemed like no PP opening was going to be given for a comeback. This opened the floodgates and anything went except for the automatic calls ie too many men or playing the puck with a broken stick, even though I thought the call on Reilly was ticky tacky. These games are gold and the more there are the better, hence the reaction.
BUT, it should not have come to that, and the Bruins overcame them, so calls should not be to blame for the loss. Cassidy should still have blown a gasket following the double Zajac-McAvoy incidents which could have taken out our best D-man easily.
Tuukka is certainly not to blame as he kept them in it and enabled the third period comeback, which almost seems like the thrill that is most sought after by this team (I often joked it used to be a Claude Julien fetish, the only way he could get satisfaction was if the B's won by improbable comeback). I thought Cassidy pointing out, I assume in the zoom, that it seemed like Tuukka was not tracking the puck as well as usual, while not untrue, was a bit over transparent. Don't think he was even referring to goals per se, but to the few occasions where he seemed to have lost sight of the puck and almost conceding that he had been beaten or caught out of position usually following a turnover leading to sustained pressure, only to find that the shot had missed. Need to see the zoom to get the full context. And please refrain from thinking this is the dreaded "anti-Tukka" rhetoric that some want cancelled on here. Just commenting on what the coach said of his own goaltender, and what I saw with my own two eyes.
I don't even blame the D play. Had more difficulty getting out of the zone compared to the great play after great play they made to so in game 1, because NY made the adjustments and outhustled the Bruins on several occasions.
Time to make our own adjustments and to match the Isles hustle for the whole game. And for the love of God, please, try some more of the pinball wizardry all of our opponents are always trying, and often with success, against us. Not all of our goals need to be masterpieces. How about trying to put a bit more point shots on net or in its general vicinity with several skates and sticks and shin pads and jock straps and whatever in order to get, for once, a greasy lucky bounce our way. Where's the analytics chart showing flukey (vs. Rembrandt) goals? Don't get me wrong, beauties are beauties, but goals are goals and we should try a bit more to manufacture a lucky one one of these games, and the sooner the better.
BUT, it should not have come to that, and the Bruins overcame them, so calls should not be to blame for the loss. Cassidy should still have blown a gasket following the double Zajac-McAvoy incidents which could have taken out our best D-man easily.
Tuukka is certainly not to blame as he kept them in it and enabled the third period comeback, which almost seems like the thrill that is most sought after by this team (I often joked it used to be a Claude Julien fetish, the only way he could get satisfaction was if the B's won by improbable comeback). I thought Cassidy pointing out, I assume in the zoom, that it seemed like Tuukka was not tracking the puck as well as usual, while not untrue, was a bit over transparent. Don't think he was even referring to goals per se, but to the few occasions where he seemed to have lost sight of the puck and almost conceding that he had been beaten or caught out of position usually following a turnover leading to sustained pressure, only to find that the shot had missed. Need to see the zoom to get the full context. And please refrain from thinking this is the dreaded "anti-Tukka" rhetoric that some want cancelled on here. Just commenting on what the coach said of his own goaltender, and what I saw with my own two eyes.
I don't even blame the D play. Had more difficulty getting out of the zone compared to the great play after great play they made to so in game 1, because NY made the adjustments and outhustled the Bruins on several occasions.
Time to make our own adjustments and to match the Isles hustle for the whole game. And for the love of God, please, try some more of the pinball wizardry all of our opponents are always trying, and often with success, against us. Not all of our goals need to be masterpieces. How about trying to put a bit more point shots on net or in its general vicinity with several skates and sticks and shin pads and jock straps and whatever in order to get, for once, a greasy lucky bounce our way. Where's the analytics chart showing flukey (vs. Rembrandt) goals? Don't get me wrong, beauties are beauties, but goals are goals and we should try a bit more to manufacture a lucky one one of these games, and the sooner the better.
