Post-Game Talk: GAME #36 - B's can't hold a 2 goal lead and lose in OT - Whalercanes 3 BRUINS 2 F/OT

[Fenway]

Bruins have won 18 games this year and Rask has won 17 of them.

In the 10 games not started by Rask they have 2 out of 20 points.

 

[talkinaway]

Rask didn't play because Khudobin had a relatively good outing against Carolina last time. He had 30 shots, 1 goal against, and the game went into the SO. Can't ask much more than that. You can't play Rask every game, and with the vacation followed by no practice on Tuesday when they come back against Columbus, the best team in the NHL....

That said, it wouldn't have been to much to ask of Rask to play today. I dunno...maybe Clode just felt something was "off" with Rask during practice this morning. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt to make those judgement calls.

And I'd disagree that all 3 goals were easily stoppable by the goalie. The first goal was, for all intents and purposes, a penalty shot. Defense totally broke down there giving Carolina a 1 on 0. And, yeah, you should be able to stop penalty shots....but obviously not with the same frequency as normal hockey.

 

[pierre gagnon*]

Blame the coach??? Hahaha .The GM is to blame.He refuses to find a top 4 d man.You cannot hand a man a 100 bucks and ask him to buy a sportscar .

We needed a deeman very badly and they went and got Backes who will be 33 this season, that was the dee signing right there. Like telling a kid to go to the store and get milk and bread and he comes back with day old donuts and cigarettes

 

[remer]

What goals were savable tonight?

All three. He looked shaky. Giving out rebounds, flopping around and a weak blocker side. Time for McIntyre.

 

[ashnathan]

We needed a deeman very badly and they went and got Backes who will be 33 this season, that was the dee signing right there. Like telling a kid to go to the store and get milk and bread and he comes back with day old donuts and cigarettes

Im not smoking MAHHHK

 

[ashnathan]

Bruins have won 18 games this year and Rask has won 17 of them.

In the 10 games not started by Rask they have 2 out of 20 points.

Judging by these stats, its definitely not Dobbi's fault....

 

[Fenway]

Hockey is a strange game - we play Columbus next who have lost only 5 games this season and two of them were to us.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

The biggest mistake the coach made tonight was having two inexperienced point men on at the same time on the power play (Czarnik & Miller). Not being conservative enough with a 2 goal lead. Canes penalty killers immediately pressed up high on the points and got the break that put them back in the lead when Czarnik gave up the breakaway.

 

[Estlin]

3 wins and 7 loses in our last 10, and somehow keeping hold of a playoff spot, the atlantic is weak this year.

The Bruins have been lucky in this regard. Having said that, I don't expect the Florida-based teams to continue to flounder much longer.

 

[22Brad Park]

We needed a deeman very badly and they went and got Backes who will be 33 this season, that was the dee signing right there. Like telling a kid to go to the store and get milk and bread and he comes back with day old donuts and cigarettes

Yes pretty much. I said it before and will say it again.He is waiting on the kids he picked in the draft to pan out on the back end.Alot of his moves so far have been busts yet we blame Claude I think he is cooked if McAvoy is not a stud .He will end up firing Claude to save his own butt long enough to see .Terrible GM.The day he give K Miller 4 years he proved it

 

[TheReal13Linseman]

Was I hallucinating, or did I see Jimmah actually move a puck, which was passed to him and on his stick ready to be shot on a partially empty goal, out of position via a deke, after which he fired wide, in the latter part of the third period?

 

[chizzler]

The biggest mistake the coach made tonight was having two inexperienced point men on at the same time on the power play (Czarnik & Miller). Not being conservative enough with a 2 goal lead. Canes penalty killers immediately pressed up high on the points and got the break that put them back in the lead when Czarnik gave up the breakaway.

I can't say I'm too mad at the fact those two were at the point. Czarnik can move and Miller has the shot. I'd put them there again. I'll take the shorty if it can help in the long run.

 

[4ORRBRUIN]

We needed a deeman very badly and they went and got Backes who will be 33 this season, that was the dee signing right there. Like telling a kid to go to the store and get milk and bread and he comes back with day old donuts and cigarettes

We need #37 #46 #63 to get their heads out of their *****. Backes should never be on the ice 3 on 3. GM and the coach will be long gone by the time this team is a legit cup contender ... Good night all Have a great Xmas

Family and friends god bless!

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

We need #37 #46 #63 to get their heads out of their *****. Backes should never be on the ice 3 on 3. GM and the coach will be long gone by the time this team is a legit cup contender

That was surprising.

But the way everyone else was giving the puck up in OT, perhaps the coaches lost faith in their offensive "stars".

 

[ashnathan]

That was surprising.

But the way everyone else was giving the puck up in OT, perhaps the coaches lost faith in their offensive "stars".

Bergeron wrap around/dump in was unacceptable. Yes he had pressure, but he could have backed off and held the puck. He literally gave them possession and we never regained it. I love him, but hes doing some strange things this season he normally wouldnt do.

 

[TMac21]

Was I hallucinating, or did I see Jimmah actually move a puck, which was passed to him and on his stick ready to be shot on a partially empty goal, out of position via a deke, after which he fired wide, in the latter part of the third period?

Yup he toedragged it.

 

[pierre gagnon*]

Yup he toedragged it.

We are talking big lumbering Jimmy here so not a lot of finesse I would call it a camel toe drag

 

[Gordoff]

We needed a deeman very badly and they went and got Backes who will be 33 this season, that was the dee signing right there. Like telling a kid to go to the store and get milk and bread and he comes back with day old donuts and cigarettes

Very well put! Maybe though we can make ciggy sandwiches when all is said and done!?!

Wanna Laugh?
This is what someone put up on the Habs board re: their loss tonight to Columbus.

"He's been bad. #1 dmen have to be a force on both ends of the ice. He's been BAD.

No one is questioning him. No one is asking him what's going on. No one is criticising him.

They don't wanna make BargainBin's lemon look any worse than he makes himself look, I guess.

He's utterly incompetant with the puck recently.

8m for how many more years? 6 more after this one? Absurd. What an albatross. What a trainwreck. What a disaster of a contract, of a trade, and increasingly, of a player.

He's going to be brutal to watch in the playoffs."

Life is sweet, Merry Christmas everyone!

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Bergeron wrap around/dump in was unacceptable. Yes he had pressure, but he could have backed off and held the puck. He literally gave them possession and we never regained it. I love him, but hes doing some strange things this season he normally wouldnt do.

And Krug trapped himself at the blue line and gave it away rather than just carry back into center ice with possession. Dumb hockey.

 

[Fenway]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/b...ns-overtime/jtic6Nsb8tHo31WpqfwKnI/story.html

CARY, N.C. — Teuvo Teravainen’s goal with 1:59 left in overtime Friday night capped a comeback from a 2-0 deficit and handed the Hurricanes a 3-2 win over the Bruins in front of a crowd of 12,924 at the PNC Center.

 

[Absurdity]

they shouldve been up at least 4-0 at one point.
bergie and pasta gotta start burying those chances. especially bergeron. put some muscle in those shots.

we just dont cash in and team stick around in these games.

There's definitely a lot of blame to go around. The forwards need to produce and finish their chances, Khudobin needs to be better, and whether it is the players and or the coach's decision to do so, they need to stop playing conservatively believing that they can just play defense to hold their lead. Krug and Backes talked about that in the tweets above and they are right. The Bruins can't sit back and play defensively hoping Khudobin bails them out for a whole period to hold their lead. I wish Khudobin was Rask, but he isn't.

 

[JAD]

3 out of 4 points on the road.

With this team take the points and run.

 

[Blowfish]

3 out of 4 points on the road.

With this team take the points and run.

Morrow

 

[Fenway]

Canes only drew 12,000 tonight and 40% of the crowd were Bruins fans.

I will never understand why they came here after bolting Hartford.

 

[Aeroforce]

Thanks for the Tweets, Hazi.

I agree with what Krug says on all fronts.

While it would have been nice if Khudobin could've stopped one of those shots, they were excellent shots from good percentage areas. Perhaps we Bruins fans think he should have stopped those because when our players get such chances, we hit the goalie in the chest?

While there are certainly better backups throughout the league, what the B's are getting from him is about on par with what other teams are getting from their backups. In regulation, he gave up a breakaway to a skilled player and a shot from an un-checked man off a set face-off play.

That should be enough, but the offense can't finish. They do a lot of good things, but their shot selection, quality, accuracy, etc. isn't fooling anyone.