Colt.45Orr
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http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nh...-bruins-escalate-physical-play-040224059.html
This is just insane.
The Pens PHYSICALLY manhandled us in game one. They outhit us 34-19 and I think that is slightly generous to the Bruins. I don't remember seeing a single Bruins hit that stood out yet:
Letang flattened Marchand
Cooke wrecked McQuaid
Dupuis ran over Ference
Neal running and flattening Lucic
Morrow kept looking for late hits on Krug
Crosby trying to throw an elbow at Marchand's head behind the play
Murray threw Thornton around late in the game
Crosby going out of his way to bump the keeper (huge hockey no-no)
The fight? Malkin, shield up, was fully willing to go with a helmetless Bergeron.
Yet, somehow.... somehow..... he is trying to paint the picture of the Bruins being the physical beasts that the refs let run rampant. It is ridiculous.
No wonder we have this reputation as the "Big Bad Bruins". The Kings are bigger than us (6'2 -211pds on average) but you don't hear anything like that about them --between the Habs and Canucks media and now the Crosby channel... it will just keep going and going.
Amazing how one guy can have a shutout, another guy scores 2 goals and the GW --yet the only interview TSN shows after the game is Crosby. His words, somehow, carry weight around the league and he is calling for the refs to call more calls. I don't know what for, but he wants more of them.
This will be interesting to track throughout the series.
On a side note: He really should keep his nickname Sid the "Kid" because he really is like a little *****y kid that has not grown up. My son will be starting hockey during his prime and if he continues to be pushed as the face of the NHL I won't have anything to do with it --no way my son will be allowed to be such a petulant whiner.
This is just insane.
The Pens PHYSICALLY manhandled us in game one. They outhit us 34-19 and I think that is slightly generous to the Bruins. I don't remember seeing a single Bruins hit that stood out yet:
Letang flattened Marchand
Cooke wrecked McQuaid
Dupuis ran over Ference
Neal running and flattening Lucic
Morrow kept looking for late hits on Krug
Crosby trying to throw an elbow at Marchand's head behind the play
Murray threw Thornton around late in the game
Crosby going out of his way to bump the keeper (huge hockey no-no)
The fight? Malkin, shield up, was fully willing to go with a helmetless Bergeron.
Yet, somehow.... somehow..... he is trying to paint the picture of the Bruins being the physical beasts that the refs let run rampant. It is ridiculous.
No wonder we have this reputation as the "Big Bad Bruins". The Kings are bigger than us (6'2 -211pds on average) but you don't hear anything like that about them --between the Habs and Canucks media and now the Crosby channel... it will just keep going and going.
Amazing how one guy can have a shutout, another guy scores 2 goals and the GW --yet the only interview TSN shows after the game is Crosby. His words, somehow, carry weight around the league and he is calling for the refs to call more calls. I don't know what for, but he wants more of them.
This will be interesting to track throughout the series.
On a side note: He really should keep his nickname Sid the "Kid" because he really is like a little *****y kid that has not grown up. My son will be starting hockey during his prime and if he continues to be pushed as the face of the NHL I won't have anything to do with it --no way my son will be allowed to be such a petulant whiner.
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