Paquette punches Chara, Chara proceeds to one punch him.
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What are you trying to prove? The Bruins missed 4 (or was it 5) times the playoffs since summer 1967. Almost 48 years (!!!). That is plenty evidence that that Bruins hater guy was just running his mouth about the Bruins missing the playoffs "50% of the time". This 8 years period doesn't void or change the substance of that.
Not sure how this thread devolved into so much bickering, but anyway.
I really don't like the Bruins, and even I can admit Chara was completely in the right here. He literally didn't touch Pacquette during the play, so Pacquette decides to display his toughness by poking the bear. We all know you don't poke the bear.
I really don't like the Bruins, and even I can admit Chara was completely in the right here. He literally didn't touch Pacquette during the play, so Pacquette decides to display his toughness by poking the bear. We all know you don't poke the bear.
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I don't care about this thread........ would prefer that Chara play better defense and with a snarl. Both of which he appears to be finally doing. I'm happy. If people think he's a bully, I'll somehow fight my way through the day.
However, I CANNOT believe you did the above!
That was 50 years ago!
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If there's any crying, it's from Tampa's side: we out skated them, out worked them, won the vast majority of 1-1 battles, we were always in their face as soon as they touched the puck, out shot them 34-19. Simply put, we out played them.
And when a couple of geniuses decided that they wanted to play rough against Boston, we just showed them that it wouldn't be in their interest to play tough guy (hope someone gave Paquette a doggy bag for his chicklets...).
It was an outstanding game from our whole team. The final score doesn't really reflect what happened in the game, Tampa's fans should thank Stamkos if this wasn't a 4-0 or worse...
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Pacquette asked for it when he went up high on Chara with his shove before Chara punched him. You don't accidentally throw your hands an extra foot in the air to hit Chara in the face...
I was a fan of Pacquette in the playoffs last year but he seems to be making a few too many dumb decisions this year. I would like him to be smarter.
But I don't really see a sucker punch by chara. Glove still on, not a blindside punch just a sharp right that Pacquette wasn't really prepared for, which was kind of his own fault
I was a fan of Pacquette in the playoffs last year but he seems to be making a few too many dumb decisions this year. I would like him to be smarter.
But I don't really see a sucker punch by chara. Glove still on, not a blindside punch just a sharp right that Pacquette wasn't really prepared for, which was kind of his own fault
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First off, it's Paquette. Paquette. Paquette. No C.
Secondly, the playoff drought argument about them missing 50 years ago for my original comment is irrelevant. But the comment was about missing 5 out of 10 years recently, before becoming the elite team they were the last few years. I would consider that relevant.
Finally, it's hilarious seeing Bruins fans saying oh he shouldn't have picked a fight. Considering Chara started both altercations himself. Especially the second one at the end of the game when he spent almost the entire last minute chasing Paquette around and cross checking and slashing him. But hey, you guys also seem to think it was a dive, I guess his teeth took a dive from his mouth too.
No more posts from me in this thread. I'll just get in more trouble. So carry on.
Secondly, the playoff drought argument about them missing 50 years ago for my original comment is irrelevant. But the comment was about missing 5 out of 10 years recently, before becoming the elite team they were the last few years. I would consider that relevant.
Finally, it's hilarious seeing Bruins fans saying oh he shouldn't have picked a fight. Considering Chara started both altercations himself. Especially the second one at the end of the game when he spent almost the entire last minute chasing Paquette around and cross checking and slashing him. But hey, you guys also seem to think it was a dive, I guess his teeth took a dive from his mouth too.
No more posts from me in this thread. I'll just get in more trouble. So carry on.
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If he didn't include parts of it, people would be going "Why are you counting from 1967? To avoid including the drought and make the numbers look better?", you can't win bringing up statistics. Would've probably been better to use the 40 years the poster he was responding to was referencing (as in "Tampa has won as many cups as Boston in the last 40 years").
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He boarded Carle prior to Paquette skating over to Chara. Paquette has some serious stones to even approach Chara. It worked too. Got him off the ice for 4minutes. Problem was with the PowerPlay afterwards. 0/5 on the night plus two gift goals for the B's = L for the Bolts.
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First off, it's Paquette. Paquette. Paquette. No C.
Secondly, the playoff drought argument about them missing 50 years ago for my original comment is irrelevant. But the comment was about missing 5 out of 10 years recently, before becoming the elite team they were the last few years. I would consider that relevant.
Finally, it's hilarious seeing Bruins fans saying oh he shouldn't have picked a fight. Considering Chara started both altercations himself. Especially the second one at the end of the game when he spent almost the entire last minute chasing Paquette around and cross checking and slashing him. But hey, you guys also seem to think it was a dive, I guess his teeth took a dive from his mouth too.
No more posts from me in this thread. I'll just get in more trouble. So carry on.
I understand being a fan of a team, but come on: Paquette (no C) initiated both. In the first one he goes out of his way to mess with Chara (you clearly see he turns and gets in Chara's face). Then escalates things by cross checking him in the CHIN (if he returned Chara's cross check to the chest the same way, he would still have all his teeth now). Not smart.
In the second one he starts it by punching Chara (pointless thing, with 2 seconds to go in the game), then instead of manning up to it, he tries to escape...
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I'm not a big fan of gloved punches to the face, but in this case Paquette was clearly asking for it. If you're going to intentionally go high on a guy with a shove/weak punch (which you have to to get anywhere remotely close to Chara's face) you should expect to get punched in return.
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Anyone who'd have said that is a lunkhead, though I've seen people say stuff like on occasion so you aren't wrong. It just makes no sense to include part of a string of playoff misses as the start of a period up to today where you're illustrating how seldom playoff misses have been over that period. It makes more sense to start after that stretch, as if to say "since that stretch, they've only missed the playoffs X times". If you had a guy who scored 50 goals for five straight years to start his career and then only 3 times in the next 6 years, you wouldn't say "he's only scored 50 goals 5 times in the last 8 years", you'd say "he's only scored 50 goals 3 times in the last 6 years", unless of course you were directly comparing the past 8 years of two players.
Not that any of this really matters but the guy pointed it out as being a strange choice and it was.
However, I CANNOT believe you did the above!
That was 50 years ago!
No it wasn't, it couldn't be. At MOST it was 25-30 years ago, I'm sure of it....
(born in '66...)
Anyway I could almost see starting the period in '67 as that was when the league went through the big expansion. Otherwise it was just an odd period to try to make his point with. The only people on the team even alive back then are the head coach, maybe one of the assistants & the locker room guy (that every team has) who has been doing his thing for around 100 years or so.
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As to the original topic though, it really all boils down to the simple & true statement of "don't poke the bear" (even more so in this case as the bear was a Bruin).
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For what? Krejci bloodied his mouth with 2-3 crosschecks after they got tangled up. Then, when Brown took issue with that, Lucic 3rd man's him. If you're going to cross check people in the head and rough someone up as the puck goes up ice, you should fully expect what Brown did. If you're unwilling to answer the bell for it(Brown's not a big guy), you're a *****.
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ummm, ya.
how about no.
Pacquette started both altercations, and Chara finished them.
that's all that happened.
zeykshade
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No, Chara boarded Carle. Expressing displeasure with a teammate being boarded happens all the time. Chara cross checked Paquette, Paquette pushes Chara in the shoulder/chest, Chara punches Paquette in the mouth. Later in the game, Chara spends almost the entire final minute chasing Paquette around slashing/cross checking/punching him. As play was whistled for a puck out of play, Paquette had enough and swung. What's he supposed to do? If he'd done nothing, you'd be calling him a *****. Not a person here on this forum would have the stones to do what Paquette did.
You can't cheer on Chara punching Paquette when he wasn't ready (honestly, not that it would matter Chara would destroy most people in the league) and then defend Lucic when Proust punched him when Lucic wasn't "ready" (not that I didn't giggle because Lucic loves to suckerpunch people too).
I don't like the Bruins but Paquette had it coming. He shoved Chara first and Chara responded. Nothing wrong with what Chara did. I also don't think Paquette took a dive. Chara is a big man and when he lands a good punch on you he will probably knock you out.
Also, in the second clip, it looked like Chara let up on him because it seemed like he could have kept on throwing punches.
Also, in the second clip, it looked like Chara let up on him because it seemed like he could have kept on throwing punches.
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The boarding was about as minor as it gets, it was a push from behind were Carle needs to learn how to skate or get some balance. Chara was skating away to go to the box when Paquette gave him the shove, turning Chara to face him, and Chara returned the shove, paquette cross checks him, chara throws a jab in his face (a job folks, not a punch) and he go's down like he was hit with a bat.
as for the second incident, unless you totally discount the fact that both chara and paquette went into the boards after the puck, and then both players went to the front of the net were both players were fighting for position, then ya, sure thing about the whole claim that chara was 'chasing him around the ice'
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