Post-Game Talk: GAME 17 - Slip Slidin' Away -Lightning 5 BRUINS 4 F/OT

[TobanWest]

The game was indeed entertaining.

Post game Coyle stated giving up points like that is unacceptable. Just like last time they did it. Talk is cheap.

Swayman almost stole two points. Hedman wouldn't let him.

Zacha, McAvoy and Lohrei only minus players. Zacha, despite his goal, was bad. Charlie's defensive play was not good. Lohrei didn't play as much after a couple of gaffes.

If Steen is only going to play 5 minutes, may as well play Brown.

Top line of Marchand-Zacha-Pasta had the most ice time, credited with zero hits. Goose eggs for JVR, Heinen and Poitras also.

Too soft, victims of bad officiating? Still had the lead with under 10 seconds to play. Can only blame themselves.

Tampa is still an elite team.

As usual, Pasta & Marchand are Bruins top scorers. But Zacha & Coyle are 3rd and 4th. Just like number 1 & 2 centers.

I have to say Dennis, we haven't seen eye to eye on the softness of this team but every post you've done in this PGT I agree 100% with. For what it's worth. Well said.

 

[Yeti34]

Lauko looks injured still. He’s playing very tentative. I would like to see him sit for a bit.

Zacha may have cost them that game he couldn’t win a faceoff for the life of him.

And Poitras repeatedly getting smoked is a big concern also.

He was benched. I attended the game last night and he looked a little frustrated on the bench.

 

[Bruinfanatic]

Nope. I noticed them have zero time with the puck and spending 99% of OT in their own end with an inability to track pucks down and clear their zone cleanly. They could have had 90 guys out there the way they looked in OT last night.

Very re

Lauko looks injured still. He’s playing very tentative. I would like to see him sit for a bit.

Zacha may have cost them that game he couldn’t win a faceoff for the life of him.


He was benched. I attended the game last night and he looked a little frustrated on the bench.

For his own protection maybe,every game he is getting rocked lately.

 

[weaponomega]

The game was indeed entertaining.

Post game Coyle stated giving up points like that is unacceptable. Just like last time they did it. Talk is cheap.

Swayman almost stole two points. Hedman wouldn't let him.

Zacha, McAvoy and Lohrei only minus players. Zacha, despite his goal, was bad. Charlie's defensive play was not good. Lohrei didn't play as much after a couple of gaffes.

If Steen is only going to play 5 minutes, may as well play Brown.

Top line of Marchand-Zacha-Pasta had the most ice time, credited with zero hits. Goose eggs for JVR, Heinen and Poitras also.

Too soft, victims of bad officiating? Still had the lead with under 10 seconds to play. Can only blame themselves.

Tampa is still an elite team.

As usual, Pasta & Marchand are Bruins top scorers. But Zacha & Coyle are 3rd and 4th. Just like number 1 & 2 centers.

Yeah there was more bad than good that game. The good was Swayman and the fact we almost won and still got a point out of it despite being thoroughly outplayed.

Lohrei was badly exposed as a rookie. He had no clue how to defend tampa players off the rush and they exploited him all night.

 

[The Hockey Tonk Man]

Pretty sure that's two overtimes in a row the Bruins have barely touched the puck or when they have possession they just dump it into the corner.

May as well shut it off at the end of regulation next time.

 

[bwunderlich]

This is NOT the week to shorten the bench

 

[TD Charlie]

Pretty sure that's two overtimes in a row the Bruins have barely touched the puck or when they have possession they just dump it into the corner.

May as well shut it off at the end of regulation next time.

Down the stretch in regulation it already had that feeling. If I had to guess without looking, they lost the last dozen faceoffs in the game aside from (I think) Marchand's win where he pushed it straight ahead into neutral ice. TB dominated possession in the final act.

 

[goldnblack]

Anyone else notice the Bruins gave up the OT goal with basically a PP?
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No, but I did notice that the line that started OT got trapped on the ice covering 3 on 3 levels of skating on a 1:19 shift. That's what killed them.

 

[Bread and Circuses]

No, but I did notice that the line that started OT got trapped on the ice covering 3 on 3 levels of skating on a 1:19 shift. That's what killed them.

Absolutely, you could see the loss coming when Pasta could barely stride to the bench, they even cheated on the change and still gave up the entry that led to the winning goal.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Nope. I noticed them have zero time with the puck and spending 99% of OT in their own end with an inability to track pucks down and clear their zone cleanly. They could have had 90 guys out there the way they looked in OT last night.

Most OTs.

The team is built for 5v5 not the arcade 3v3 the NHL has put together. Especially without Bergeron/Krejci.

Rolling possession forwards in Zacha and Coyle is not a recipe for OT success.

 

[DarrenBanks56]

Anyone else notice the Bruins gave up the OT goal with basically a PP?
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yes.
marchy jumped on early for pasta, but mcavoy was the one that really blew it there. he was last man back and for some reason looked like he was going for a change.lol

 

[22Brad Park]

Nope. I noticed them have zero time with the puck and spending 99% of OT in their own end with an inability to track pucks down and clear their zone cleanly. They could have had 90 guys out there the way they looked in OT last night.

Yea well killing penalties all night will do that.

 

[Sheppy]

Yea well killing penalties all night will do that.

Who's fault is that other than "dA rEfS!"

 

[22Brad Park]

Who's fault is that other than "dA rEfS!"

It was a little of both.I thought Tampa was getting more rope but hey Bruins got a point on road
So now they head to Florida in a rink thats even tougher to get 2 pts.

 

[Aussie Bruin]

Wow, who's the clown that wrote that piece of crap?

I actually got it via an HF text group member going off on it

Sportskeeda is a sports news media company based in India. Their writers have zero expertise in hockey and only cover it because the sport has a global profile so its management knows there's a few extra clicks to be had by doing so. Nothing published on the site about the NHL can be taken seriously nor, to be fair, is it intended to be.

Having said that, Zacha undoubtedly had a poor game. The defensive aspect is his weakness and where the shoes of Bergeron and even Krejci are understandably the hardest to fill. He's still learning the various bits and pieces that constitute a true all-round top 6 C in this league, and I don't think we quite know yet just where his ceiling will eventually sit. By the end of this season we'll have our answer.

 

[GoBs]

Bruins killed almost 1/3 of the game in penalty minutes there was som overlap and two 5 on 3’s

 

[nORRis8]

The team really needs to work on getting pucks out of their zone.

Just bad decisions every game. Even when they have a few seconds to think about it.

Work on angles and power, Monty. We are getting intercepted because we telegraph and put up lazy low energy tumbling muffins to our own blue line.
This is a consistent problem.

Yup.
It was like that the entire game.
When Chara would get it out he'd use his patented "mile-high flip shot".

Either get it out and don't be overly concerned about the icing call.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Yup.
It was like that the entire game.
When Chara would get it out he'd use his patented "mile-high flip shot".

Either get it out and don't be overly concerned about the icing call.

Even Shawn Thornton routinely cleared the puck without fail.

 

[DarrenBanks56]

Yup.
It was like that the entire game.
When Chara would get it out he'd use his patented "mile-high flip shot".

Either get it out and don't be overly concerned about the icing call.

thing is when marchand had it, he couldve iced it because we were still on the kill at the end there.

 

[UncleRico]

And Poitras repeatedly getting smoked is a big concern also.

No one in the lineup to protect him. Hell, the team has Carlo standing up for people.

 

[Bruinfanatic]

thing is when marchand had it, he couldve iced it because we were still on the kill at the end there.

He was trying to set someone up for the empty netter forget who it was .

 

[DKH]

Sportskeeda is a sports news media company based in India. Their writers have zero expertise in hockey and only cover it because the sport has a global profile so its management knows there's a few extra clicks to be had by doing so. Nothing published on the site about the NHL can be taken seriously nor, to be fair, is it intended to be.

Having said that, Zacha undoubtedly had a poor game. The defensive aspect is his weakness and where the shoes of Bergeron and even Krejci are understandably the hardest to fill. He's still learning the various bits and pieces that constitute a true all-round top 6 C in this league, and I don't think we quite know yet just where his ceiling will eventually sit. By the end of this season we'll have our answer.

Zacha is evolving and and getting better and better - he and Coyle have been very good

His issue the Ducks game was looking to make a pass to get an open net goal easily corrected - even then it took a weird deflection

 

[Kegs]

Terrible way to lose. Monty needs to make it a point with the players that ENG are not important to winning. Getting puck out off zone is. I was surprised two vets tried to score at that juncture of the game . They know better

Ok. But show my one team ever that hasn’t lost like this a few times in a season?

 

[lopey]

Ok. But show my one team ever that hasn’t lost like this a few times in a season?

I know it happens. Brainfarts lol

 

[wintersej]

I really like how Tampa builds their forward group. Stamkos, Kucherov and Point plus a lot of dudes with size and/or spunk.