Didn't realize referee Dave Jackson was from Montreal, kind of explains the Montreal bias in games 2 & 7. I will never understand why this league puts a ref who is from one of the competing teams to officiate their playoff game. We all know sports is 100% corruption free.
Post-Game Talk: Gm7: Canadiens win Part II
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Sea Bass Neely
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The worst part is how we outshot them (not even counting all the missed nets) and dominated puck possession, especially the Yeti line, held them to a measly 18 shots... and still lose.
I hate using the "blame the ref" card, but when Pierre McGuire is openly mocking the inconsistency and total one-sided officiating, you just know it's terrible. Marchand with a show shower that wasn't even as bad or deliberately aimed as Eller's (when went uncalled in game 3 or 4 after the B's reacted because no penalty was called).
I really believe Bettman is corrupt, just like David Stern from the NBA. They want certain outcomes and unfortunately pro hockey and pro basketball are probably the two easiest sports for referees to subtly (or not so subtly) help steer the outcome and manufacture advantages for one team over the other.
There is no explanation for the fact that the Habs get a majority of their PP's when the game is hanging in the balance. Like Game 7, the Habs draw penalties earlier on... and then the refs start compensating with make-up calls -- or just calling actual penalties that they weren't calling when the game was tied -- to make the overall PP/PK #'s appear more evenly called ON PAPER.
But many of the B's PP calls came once they were already playing catch-up hockey. And while this team was resilient this year... the resiliency was overrated a bit because they were not resilient at all once trailing by 2. The Bruins went a majority of the season never winning a single game in which they were down by 2 goals AT ANY POINT IN THE GAME.
Still, the few PP opportunities they had were largely squandered by overpassing and the Habs blocking shots left and right. Timely shot-blocking was a key factor in this series.
I hate using the "blame the ref" card, but when Pierre McGuire is openly mocking the inconsistency and total one-sided officiating, you just know it's terrible. Marchand with a show shower that wasn't even as bad or deliberately aimed as Eller's (when went uncalled in game 3 or 4 after the B's reacted because no penalty was called).
I really believe Bettman is corrupt, just like David Stern from the NBA. They want certain outcomes and unfortunately pro hockey and pro basketball are probably the two easiest sports for referees to subtly (or not so subtly) help steer the outcome and manufacture advantages for one team over the other.
There is no explanation for the fact that the Habs get a majority of their PP's when the game is hanging in the balance. Like Game 7, the Habs draw penalties earlier on... and then the refs start compensating with make-up calls -- or just calling actual penalties that they weren't calling when the game was tied -- to make the overall PP/PK #'s appear more evenly called ON PAPER.
But many of the B's PP calls came once they were already playing catch-up hockey. And while this team was resilient this year... the resiliency was overrated a bit because they were not resilient at all once trailing by 2. The Bruins went a majority of the season never winning a single game in which they were down by 2 goals AT ANY POINT IN THE GAME.
Still, the few PP opportunities they had were largely squandered by overpassing and the Habs blocking shots left and right. Timely shot-blocking was a key factor in this series.
InfernoOrangeSS
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What makes people think anyone gives a damn what they think of our team? All these "coming in peace" threads are Pejorative Slured. No one cares what you think of our team. Your a scabs fan. Why would I care about your phony magnanamous thoughts on the game? Had the outcome been different you would all be frothing at the mouth calling the Bruins thugs and goons. Save it for your board. Go tell your fellow scab fans how much you are impressed with the Bruins. No one here wants to hear it.
Well, for what it's worth, this was a 7th game against a hated opponent, but you'd never know it from the way the Bruins played the first half of the game. Blaming the refs for a team's shortcomings is just a smoke screen. I saw something over the course of the first half of the game and stopped watching the game when the Habs made it 2-0. I have NEVER given up on this team in all the years I've been watching them until last night. I hope something changes over the off-season so that the fierce drive to win playoff games returns.
KuralySnipes
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HockeyMomx2
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This. Times 1000. GTFO and STAY OUT. Let us lament our sorrows without your sanctimonious bull crap being thrown in our faces.
774EVER
& Now 374EVER
Brace yourself people, Montreal is going to make it to the final and has a good shot at winning it all with Price playing the way he is, their block everything mentality and favourable officiating.
KrejciMVP
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anybody think this video of Catherine Zetta Jones is similar to Dale Weiss`s reactions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOBZLyJeas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOBZLyJeas
Ace0813
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HockeyMomx2
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Hoping the Rangers take care of them. At least they have a couple players I can root for and be happy for. They block shots a lot too and I think Hank has found his zone and isn't coming out of it any time soon.
canoebears
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I agree Montreal will beat NY and while they should be no match for whoever comes out of the west, if the west winner comes out of it battered and beaten and the Habs keep getting favourable calls, anything is possible. Personally I am done watching hockey this year, the stink of corruption from the officiating in this series has left me feeling very down on NHL hockey. Montreal has benefitted from so much questionable officiating in both series it really makes you wonder.
KuralySnipes
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Pretty terrible day,
Last period, history class, my history teachers decides it would be funny to write on the board "5/14/77-5/14/14" and ask the class what happened on that day, that repeated itself, while laughing. Of course no one in the class got it right, but I knew it all along. I said "I know what it is", after he was looking at me laughing. Someone in the class then goes "It involves the Bruins". Of course he was talking about the Bruins losing to the Canadiens in the Cup Finals in 77, and of course what happened yesterday. He then goes on a rampage on how excited he is to not hear about hockey anymore on the radio, and how much of a joke the Bruins and the sport of hockey is. I, of course, did not take this kindly. We engaged in an angry argument for 25 minutes, in which he proclaimed the Bruins have only won 3 Stanley Cups, the Bruins are full of a bunch of washed up old men, and how they deserved to lose because of the water bottle thing and Lucic flexing his muscles after scoring an empty net goal (which of course did not happen), AND calls the Bruins loss over Montreal in this series one of the worst chokejobs in NHL history. He also began to say how hockey players are "fake tough guys". I corrected him on all of this stuff, he then goes on an idiotic ignorant rant about how hockey sucks because they only score 4 goals in a game, and how he likes football, basketball, baseball because the games are high scoring, and then goes on to talk about how soccer is an exception. I lost it, starting mocking his beloved basketball and the NBA, he got butt hurt, and almost assigned me detention for the whole year. He usually does this troll job in class about either basketball or politics, but today was not the day to mock Bruins fans and the sport hockey when you don't anything about what you are talking about. He told me to stay after class, and we had a nice talk how he was kidding around, and didn't realize how big of a Bruins fan I was. He gave a handshake and that was that. He's a nice guy, but that pissed me off beyond belief. I could not deal with the ignorance and idiocy that he was spewing, and the rubbing it in my face, when his beloved Celtics finished in the basement of the NBA. This whole day I had to hear from classmates about how Tuukka sucks, Chara is a bum. That display of ignorance by my history teacher really pissed me the **** off.
Last period, history class, my history teachers decides it would be funny to write on the board "5/14/77-5/14/14" and ask the class what happened on that day, that repeated itself, while laughing. Of course no one in the class got it right, but I knew it all along. I said "I know what it is", after he was looking at me laughing. Someone in the class then goes "It involves the Bruins". Of course he was talking about the Bruins losing to the Canadiens in the Cup Finals in 77, and of course what happened yesterday. He then goes on a rampage on how excited he is to not hear about hockey anymore on the radio, and how much of a joke the Bruins and the sport of hockey is. I, of course, did not take this kindly. We engaged in an angry argument for 25 minutes, in which he proclaimed the Bruins have only won 3 Stanley Cups, the Bruins are full of a bunch of washed up old men, and how they deserved to lose because of the water bottle thing and Lucic flexing his muscles after scoring an empty net goal (which of course did not happen), AND calls the Bruins loss over Montreal in this series one of the worst chokejobs in NHL history. He also began to say how hockey players are "fake tough guys". I corrected him on all of this stuff, he then goes on an idiotic ignorant rant about how hockey sucks because they only score 4 goals in a game, and how he likes football, basketball, baseball because the games are high scoring, and then goes on to talk about how soccer is an exception. I lost it, starting mocking his beloved basketball and the NBA, he got butt hurt, and almost assigned me detention for the whole year. He usually does this troll job in class about either basketball or politics, but today was not the day to mock Bruins fans and the sport hockey when you don't anything about what you are talking about. He told me to stay after class, and we had a nice talk how he was kidding around, and didn't realize how big of a Bruins fan I was. He gave a handshake and that was that. He's a nice guy, but that pissed me off beyond belief. I could not deal with the ignorance and idiocy that he was spewing, and the rubbing it in my face, when his beloved Celtics finished in the basement of the NBA. This whole day I had to hear from classmates about how Tuukka sucks, Chara is a bum. That display of ignorance by my history teacher really pissed me the **** off.
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I'm actually shocked at how not-upset I am.
The Bruins made it very easy for me to walk away.
pep strebek
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Agreed. I don't know what it is. Maybe if they played their hearts out and lost it might be tougher to take but it looked like they didn't care that much for most of this series which makes it easier for me to not care that much now.
KuralySnipes
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This is ridiculous, claiming that there is some kind of fix. We lost fair and square.
I don't know. I think coming back really pumped up NY. And in terms of blocking shots, Montreal is going to get a taste of their own medicine with the Rangers and an even hotter goalie. Price was obviously excellent, but he was not as great as the score makes it seem. The Bruins shut themselves out in game 6 and cost themselves at least 2 or 3 goals on posts and empty nets. Although we are a better team than NY, they actually have finishers.
It shall be interesting. Actually, no the New York-Montreal series will be horrendously boring. I just take faith in the fact both teams will be destroyed by either Chicago/LA/Anaheim.
canoebears
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Maybe my anger is at them. Last year when they lost to Chi I was upset, not angry cause they left everything on the ice and fought till the end, losing to a better team. Was not the case this year
I am so disappointed today....hate feeling sad, like most of us here my love for the Bruins is no secret & visible to others.
KuralySnipes
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mikelvl
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Yeah. Pierre was going off on them. Not the blaming the refs either, but man what a terribly officiated game last night.
Agree with all 3 points. This sums up this mess of a series very nicely. Extremely frustrating, and in retrospect very similar to the Habs-Penguins and Habs-Capitals series' of 2010. Thankfully that shot-blocking, opportunistic Habs team got bounced in the ECF that year, and faded into obscurity rather quickly. I only pray that the Rangers do the same to the 2014 version.
