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Post by SeaBass on Apr 28, 2023 21:25:52 GMT -5
Florida Panthers AT Boston BruinsTV Coverage: TNT, NESN
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 28, 2023 21:27:13 GMT -5
Win and move on. Lose and be the biggest let down in Bruins history.
Time for Monty to start Swayman but we all know he won't. Ullmark is just off.
Bergeron needs to get this group in line and lead this group.
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 29, 2023 6:46:30 GMT -5
I have settled down a little bit. They can still win this thing. They need to tighten shit up in their own end. Maybe Monty should reel the defense in should we get a lead. Maybe not so much run and gun. I think Mac needs to be back with Gryz. Maybe the Bruins should also stop turning the other cheek.
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Post by kjc2 on Apr 29, 2023 8:17:17 GMT -5
I have settled down a little bit. They can still win this thing. They need to tighten shit up in their own end. Maybe Monty should reel the defense in should we get a lead. Maybe not so much run and gun. I think Mac needs to be back with Gryz. Maybe the Bruins should also stop turning the other cheek. Totally agree, I think we have to start Swayman as well. Ullmark needs a break, he didn’t have much support but needed to give us a couple of saves.
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Post by crafar01 on Apr 29, 2023 8:49:43 GMT -5
If they choke, it will make all previous chokes pale in comparison. 2004 with MTL, 2010 with PHI, they'll feel pretty lightweight. And for numerous reasons - the regular season they had, Bergeron and Krejci's possible last hurrah, a very winnable series against an arguably inferior opponent. And, sadly for Ullmark, I have a feeling that if they do lose, he'll be the goat because of the gaff in game 5 that will be pointed to as what turned the series.
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Post by KSJ08 on Apr 29, 2023 10:21:50 GMT -5
If they choke, it will make all previous chokes pale in comparison. 2004 with MTL, 2010 with PHI, they'll feel pretty lightweight. And for numerous reasons - the regular season they had, Bergeron and Krejci's possible last hurrah, a very winnable series against an arguably inferior opponent. And, sadly for Ullmark, I have a feeling that if they do lose, he'll be the goat because of the gaff in game 5 that will be pointed to as what turned the series. Grez did NOT help him either!
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Post by nfld77 on Apr 29, 2023 12:52:10 GMT -5
I have settled down a little bit. They can still win this thing. They need to tighten shit up in their own end. Maybe Monty should reel the defense in should we get a lead. Maybe not so much run and gun. I think Mac needs to be back with Gryz. Maybe the Bruins should also stop turning the other cheek. Totally agree, I think we have to start Swayman as well. Ullmark needs a break, he didn’t have much support but needed to give us a couple of saves. They GOT to start Swayman!! No way can you go back with Ullmark after those last 2 losses and I';ll be shocked if they do..I cetainly dont put all the blame on him but he couldnt make a save last night when we really needed one plus that blunder in Game 5 OT..COULD be the beginning of a great run for Swayman..Imagine if he went in and stole game 7?? How much of a confidence boost would that be?? Gotta make changes and it starts between the pipes!!
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 29, 2023 13:31:50 GMT -5
I also think that they need to stop playing like the 2011 Canucks. Watching Coyle get rabbit punched by Bennett reminded me of Marchand doing that to the Sedin sisters. No more turning the cheek. Get dirty and mean.
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 29, 2023 13:33:26 GMT -5
They should have put Swayman in last night to get him some game action so he won't be cold if he starts tomorrow.
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Post by KSJ08 on Apr 29, 2023 14:43:24 GMT -5
They should have put Swayman in last night to get him some game action so he won't be cold if he starts tomorrow. Yep they went W/Bob after Lyons rabbit foot fell out of his ass. Time for Swayman to take over.
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Post by orym on Apr 29, 2023 17:11:58 GMT -5
Put me on the start Swayman train as well. Ullmark hasn't looked great and it's win or golf now. Very very nervous but that is nothing new for us Bruins fans! I do believe the boys ultimately get it done.
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Post by kjc2 on Apr 29, 2023 17:55:34 GMT -5
I think we need to go to school on the Panthers tendencies. The playoffs is not a time for just playing your game. When you lose you make adjustments and we just lost two in a row. It’s time we counterpunched them. We need to break them down, every part of their game and what they’re doing to beat us.
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Post by nfld77 on Apr 29, 2023 19:25:28 GMT -5
It's easy to say we've been through all this before BUT we havem't, not after the season Bruins just had..Expectations going into this postseason we never so high and IF any team can bounce back its this Bruins team..Win tomorrow and all is good..Still sticking to my previous prediction:: Beat the Panthers in 1st round and they'll go all the way, THAT'S how much I believe is on the line in this game seven!! And if our defence plays like they did all season and we get just decent goaltending, they'll do it..Obviously whoever scores 1st goal is critical considering thats who won all 6 games, whoever scored 1st!!
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Post by kovs on Apr 30, 2023 9:37:57 GMT -5
Big hit tonight right in the first minute. Set the tone. I think we can win it. Let sway play lights out.
I'll be honest. I'm fucking terrified they are going to try to injure one of the vets. If this is going to end, let it drop gently and with no one hurt
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 30, 2023 10:15:14 GMT -5
Could be wrong but I read Clifton and Foligno are out and Gryz and Freddy are in.
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 30, 2023 10:17:21 GMT -5
They better be.
Montgomery: “The Garden is going to be buzzing tonight and we’re going to be buzzing.”
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Post by madmarx on Apr 30, 2023 10:25:11 GMT -5
Tonight’s expected lineup:
Marchand-Bergeron-DeBrusk Zacha-Krejci-Pastrnak Hall-Coyle-Bertuzzi Frederic-Nosek-Hathaway
Grzelcyk-McAvoy Lindholm-Carlo Forbort-Orlov
Swayman
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Post by kovs on Apr 30, 2023 10:37:12 GMT -5
I'm telling you, Monty's "positivity" is unsettling.
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 30, 2023 10:52:44 GMT -5
I would only play Forbort on the PK. Roll the other 5.
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Post by fforr on Apr 30, 2023 11:55:20 GMT -5
Today’s a new day LETS GO boys and gals!!!
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Post by chesterbear on Apr 30, 2023 15:49:57 GMT -5
Gonna be a hard one to swallow if they dont get this done tonight,I like these lines better though
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 30, 2023 16:14:53 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 30, 2023 16:22:31 GMT -5
From the Boston Globe
When you close your hockey eyes and think of the Bruins across the last two decades, what do you see? Is it No. 37? It has to be, doesn’t it? The smooth black and gold jersey, crouching for a faceoff or flying in the wake of a sprint to the goal, always there, leading the way for all things Bruins, a perfect “C” shining through the stitches atop the left chest. Patrice Bergeron has been everything to the Bruins and the Bruins have been everything to Bergeron since he joined the varsity as a fresh-faced 18-year-old rookie. A second-round pick with a first-class heart, Bergeron would evolve not only as one of the best players of his generation, but one of the best leaders too. A conversation with any of his current teammates quickly reveals an impact on the franchise destined to last far longer than his playing days will, underscored most recently when linemate and close friend Brad Marchand talked of details yet to come about all the man they call Bergy has done to construct a Bruins culture.
But that was back in Florida before Game 4 of this first-round playoff series against the Panthers, back when the Bruins seemed so in control of their postseason lives, poised to sweep their first two road games of the series and return home with a chance to close it out on the same night they would welcome their ailing captain back into the fold. The record shows how wrong it has all gone from there, how Bergeron’s return, though strong, was not enough to push the Bruins to victory in Game 5 at TD Garden, how it all fell apart in the ugliest all-around effort so far in the Game 6 Florida nightmare, and now, how it’s a one-night verdict on who gets to play on and who has to go home.
And how, if it ends up being the Bruins on the wrong side of that sporting coin flip, that means accepting the reality that Bergeron isn’t likely to come back again. At 37 years old, with more than enough wear and tear on his body to justify any decision he makes about his future, whoever doesn’t expect to hear a retirement announcement when this playoff run ends is operating more in the theater of hope than reality.
Bergeron wouldn’t have been blamed had he made that decision a year ago, when he seriously contemplated retiring but chose instead to come back for one more shot at the Cup. Across a record-setting regular season and another potential Selke-worthy performance of his own, it was always about the playoffs, about writing a championship ending worthy of a future Hall of Fame career. Hard to believe that decision hung in the balance of the final game of a first-round series.
So yes, the Bruins knew they had oh-so-much to lose Sunday night at the Garden, knew they risked adding their names to the embarrassing list of Presidents’ Trophy winners turned postseason losers, knew they should never have allowed themselves to be pushed so far back against the hockey wall.
But mostly, they knew they could lose Bergeron, knew they could also bid farewell to fellow 37-year-old veteran David Krejci, knew they could send them on to a heartbreaking heap of what might have been.
“You can look everywhere for motivation, but that’s a big one,” agreed Taylor Hall. “I just think overall, it’s about not letting this be our last game as a group, not just Krech and Bergy. It’s a special group and this is obviously the biggest thing that we’ve faced.
“If we get through this, the sky’s the limit.”
“Getting through this” is not what the Bruins envisioned when Krejci came out of a one-year European hiatus to return to the Bs, not what they scripted when Bergeron hopped onto first-year coach Jim Montgomery’s positivity train and drove it toward a historic 65-win season, not where they wanted to be after cruising to the 3-1 series lead. But as much as there is pressure packed so tightly in the two-word phrase “Game 7,” so too is there freedom, freedom to hold absolutely nothing back today to win the right to another tomorrow.
Thoughts of Bergeron above all, of creating more tomorrows with him by their side, with him on their side.
“It’s been amazing,” Hall said. “Seeing him as a captain when you’re in the NHL and you know him from afar you obviously think, ‘oh wow he’s a great captain, really good leader,’ but when you get here and you see what he does on a day to day basis for our team, how he carries himself and the culture that he’s installed here, instilled here, it’s been impressive. I’m lucky to call him a friend.
“We know what tonight means and what’s at stake.”
Who doesn’t?
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Post by kjc2 on Apr 30, 2023 16:44:35 GMT -5
Tonight’s expected lineup: Marchand-Bergeron-DeBrusk Zacha-Krejci-Pastrnak Hall-Coyle-Bertuzzi Frederic-Nosek-Hathaway Grzelcyk-McAvoy Lindholm-Carlo Forbort-Orlov Swayman I think that is our ideal starting lineup. If Sway is relaxed and doesn’t get a case of the yips I think we’ll come out on top.
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Post by orym on Apr 30, 2023 17:32:31 GMT -5
Go get it done!!!
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Post by chesterbear on Apr 30, 2023 17:32:40 GMT -5
Cut the bullshit drop the puck
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 30, 2023 17:34:57 GMT -5
Lucky me. I get to listen to the Florida feed.
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Post by madmarx on Apr 30, 2023 17:37:29 GMT -5
Kick ass Boys 👊👊👊
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Post by KSJ08 on Apr 30, 2023 17:40:55 GMT -5
Bob stats suck in this series!!!
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Post by chesterbear on Apr 30, 2023 17:48:11 GMT -5
Gotta win some faceoffs boys
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