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Post by KSJ08 on Apr 19, 2019 8:04:26 GMT -5
unreal sean avery has anything to say about anyone. he is a POS if there ever was one. +%100 I still wish Jake's dad would pay Avery an in person visit!!
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Post by DonnyBrook on Apr 19, 2019 8:28:23 GMT -5
unreal sean avery has anything to say about anyone. he is a POS if there ever was one. +%100 I still wish Jake's dad would pay Avery an in person visit!! and kadri. that would be great.
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Post by KSJ08 on Apr 19, 2019 11:33:56 GMT -5
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Post by crafar01 on Apr 19, 2019 12:05:11 GMT -5
The inability of some to separate the artist from the person never ceases to amaze me...that, and the fact that society seems to be addicted to being offended by, well, pretty much anything. A quick google search tells me she was a racist, OK, fair enough, but how many people even knew that before the Flyers and now the Yankees, sent up the virtue signals? Not I and probably not 95% of the country.
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 22, 2019 6:15:21 GMT -5
The Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs will settle their series Tuesday night at TD Garden in Game 7, but some Bruins players aren't as thrilled about heading home as one might expect.
"They've played really well in our building so far this series and the ice has been terrible there so we might as well play with a tennis ball, skate around and see who can bounce one in the net," Brad Marchand told NHL.com's Dave McCarthy after Boston's Game 6 win in Toronto on Sunday.
Home ice hasn't been an advantage in this series, as each team has won two of its three games on the road.
Marchand's rant about ice quality didn't end there. After Sunday's game, he said the ice was much better in Toronto.
"Can we do that in Boston?" he asked, according to the Toronto Star's Bruce Arthur.
Marchand wasn't the only Bruin voicing his displeasure with TD Garden's ice.
"Sometimes the ice is good or bad," Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy told the Boston Herald's Marisa Ingemi. "It's not like you can get an unfortunate bounce and they blow it dead and say it wasn't fair."
Opposing players are noticing the poor ice quality in Boston, too. Maple Leafs forwards John Tavares and Kasperi Kapanen have both noted the issue throughout the series, and head coach Mike Babcock said "the ice was tough," after Game 5, according to TSN's Mark Masters.
TD Garden, which houses both the Bruins and the NBA's Boston Celtics, is the league's ninth-oldest building after opening in 1995.
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 22, 2019 6:56:29 GMT -5
LeBrun: Q&A with Cam Neely on his love for the Bruins, hockey’s evolution and Zdeno Chara’s longevity By Pierre LeBrun Apr 19, 2019 17 BOSTON — Cam Neely has the playoff beard going just like his playing days. Only difference is that it’s sparkling grey, a reminder of the passage of time especially for those of us who remember watching him as the game’s dominant power forward.
There was only one Cam Neely, a 50-goal scorer with the brute force to skate through you.
In fact, it is crazy to think he’s already been in the Boston Bruins front office for 12 years, first rejoining the organization as a vice-president in 2007 before becoming team president in 2010.
His competitive juices remain as strong as ever. The Hockey Hall of Famer lives and dies with every Bruins game, so strong is his desire to see the B’s win another Stanley Cup championship as they did in 2011.
I sat down with Neely shortly before Game 5 against the Toronto Maple Leafs at TD Garden on Friday evening.
One thing I want to clear up as we begin because it’s always confused me. I know you were born in Comox, British Columbia, but did you grow up there the whole time?
No, actually. My dad was in the (Royal Canadian) Air Force. So six months after I was born he got transferred to a base, Bushell Park, which is just outside of Moose Jaw (Saskatchewan). So I lived there basically for my first nine and half years. When I turned 10 or 11, my dad retired from the Air Force and moved back to British Columbia. Both my parents are from B.C.
And of course you played your youth hockey in Maple Ridge, B.C. Which was a big deal when the Vancouver Canucks drafted you. But of course here in Boston has been home for you for a very long time. It was interesting Friday seeing Steve Yzerman return to Detroit as GM, you talk about icons going back home so to speak, similar to you coming back to the Bruins in 2007. I’m sure you can appreciate the parallels there between both situations as far as what Friday would have meant to Yzerman just as when you came back to the Bruins?
You certainly do. When you play for an organization you understand how the fan base thinks and feels and how passionate they are, and then get an opportunity to work for that same franchise in a different capacity but along the same lines of what the goal is, which is to win. Yeah seeing that with Stevie, I know his family stayed in Detroit and it was challenging for him toggling back and forth. I commend him for being able to do it.
He leaves behind a team in Tampa that seems to be in good hands. Although I wonder how shocked you were, I mean, we talk about the parity in this league all the time, but to see a 62-win team get swept, a team that you know well from within your division, is it almost frightening in a way? The game today seems like a toss-up.
Well, it really is, there’s probably more parity than you’ve ever seen. You look at the races, the East was a little more difficult to get in than the West this year but changes year to year, but it’s certainly what the league wanted, that parity. That’s what the cap does for it.
The reason I say frightening though, is that the Lightning seemingly did everything right with that roster, you guys have done a lot of good things here, other top teams as well, but there seems to be way fewer guarantees than in years past.
And now with 31 teams soon to be 32, 16 get in, it makes it more challenging. More and more teams have the wherewithal to spend to the cap. When I broke into the NHL, there were 21 teams and 16 got in (smiles). So it was a little easier to get to the dance.
It’s uncanny when I speak with other organizations how often they talk about their rebuild or retooling and how they hope to ‘Boston it,’ which is to say quickly transitioning back into contention. When you promoted Don Sweeney to GM (in 2015), things really moved quickly that way, the team got younger but still around veterans like Zdeno Chara and Patrice Bergeron. So the game plan was to do that without bottoming out, right?
Yes it was. We looked at where the guys that won in ’11 and got to the finals in ’13 and had a really good year in ’14, but we sensed a transition in the game a little bit. We had to make some tough decisions. But when you do have some successes as you know, you end up at deadlines trading draft picks and prospects to try and get better, to try and improve your club to win. We were a little thin. Don recognized that because of being in the organization and seeing what was going on with our prospects and seeing the development of where they were at. And how thin our pool was. So we made tough decisions. Moving Milan (Lucic) was a difficult decision at that time. He was loved here in Boston. But we knew where we were going and (Brad) Marchand’s contract coming up and had an idea of what that would entail. We felt we could get a pretty good return in Milan which we did and then with the Dougie Hamilton move. So, within that one offseason we were able to stockpile it and still, even though we missed the playoffs a couple of times, we still were right there, we missed by one or two points in those two years. So being able to do that in an offseason and get those draft picks and have most of them pan out is obviously a testament to Don and the scouting staff.
What’s crazy is that 2011 when you guys won the Cup isn’t that long ago and yet the game has evolved so much in those eight years, light years in my opinion.
It really has. You know, you look at the teams that won, Chicago was obviously a bit of a different model, but L.A. and ourselves, it was a bigger, heavier game back then. You thought you had to get through battles and wars to get to the finals if you stayed healthy and got some luck. The game has changed a lot in the last three to four years, for sure.
You mentioned how it used to be 16 of 21 teams make it and soon it will be 16 of 32 once Seattle comes in. I’ve interviewed Carolina owner Tom Dundon a few times about this but he’d like to see the playoff field of teams expanded. As a guy who is at the helm of an Original Six franchise, history is important to you, but you’re also a businessman. Where do you stand on this issue?
Well I know there’s kind of two different camps, one camp would like to add more teams, another camp would like to change the format. Right now I’m probably in the format camp. I understand why the league went to this format, to try to create more rivalries during the regular season after a playoff season; that’s what happened in the old days (when the league had divisional playoffs in the 1980s). First of all, you’d play them eight times a year then maybe get a four, five, six, seven-game series, the following season there would be fireworks going off.
Montreal-Boston comes to mind.
Yeah, exactly (smiled). But the game has changed where it’s not going to produce that. I think there’s enough that happens in the playoffs, whether you see a team from your division or not, that’s going to create something for the following year; just not the same as it was in the ‘80s or ‘90s. Obviously from a business perspective, where you say OK it gives me two more home dates for sure at a minimum if we get in, I can understand why a number of owners want to see that happen.
What about being in this market. I think many people view Boston as probably the greatest sports town in North America. There’s been a bit of winning in this market over the past decade or more. What’s it like to run a team in a market like that where the standard is pretty high?
It’s very high. Quite frankly, I welcome that. What happens is one team will push another team to try and improve. Because you can’t be left behind. You’ve got four pro sports teams and you’ve got college teams here, there’s a lot of opportunities for sports fans to do other things besides only coming to your games. There’s a fight for sponsorship dollars in the city as well. With what the Pats have done, and the Sox, it pushes everybody, the Celts, us, the Sox, the Pats, we all strive to be the best and when you see someone do really well in your city, you want to be the next team that does that well.
I see TV clips of you during playoff games these days and I can see the fire in your eyes from your playing days. How would you say your focus is split between the business side of your job and the hockey guy that’s still in your heart. How do you divide those two things in your head? I guess during the actual game it’s all hockey.
Yeah, hockey takes over then. I try to control the emotions as best as possible. I thought I might have to go check into the ER after Game 4 (laughs). You know, the way I look at it, as a player in the locker room and understanding what it takes for a team to be successful, I try to take that same philosophy on the business side. You want good teammates, I want our associates on the business side to work hard, to be collaborative, care about the person next to them; I want them to feel like they want everybody to do well, not just live in a silo and have all these great deals. You want everyone to have success. I think being in the locker room for so many years has helped me understand how to get the associates who aren’t on the ice to really understand what it’s like to be a team.
I’m looking at your grey beard, which I also have, it’s a sign of our age but also perhaps of the stress associated with your job?
Yeah I look back at some photos and think, ‘Man, did I get grey in a hurry!’ Yeah, there’s no doubt there’s some stress involved. You want to do well. Obviously I want to do well for our ownership and I want to do well for our fan base. I want our fans to be really excited about coming into the building. This year our home record was really strong. That was exciting to me because this fan base, they deserve a good team to come and watch and a team to watch and enjoy. Whether it’s a win or a loss. Obviously leaving after a win is a much better feeling, but if they felt like the team played really well and put out the effort — I want our players to compete — I wouldn’t want our fans to say, ‘Well they were lazy tonight.’ That’s not something I ever want to hear. For me, it’s really have everybody in our organization saying ‘What can we do that’s going to get the best results both on and off the ice?’
And finally, before I let you go, I was looking back at when you rejoined the organization in 2007, it was after Zdeno Chara’s first season here. You ever look down at the ice sometimes and wonder how he’s still doing it at 42?
It’s impressive. First and foremost, knock on wood, you have to stay healthy. The way he’s taken care of himself all these years, he’s just got such a passion for the game, he doesn’t want to hang up the skates and nor should he right now. But yeah, you look at him, and I’ve been blessed to see how he prepares and what he does to play on a nightly basis year after year. Especially the way the game has changed and how he’s been able to evolve for such a big man. He’s evolved with how the game was gotten quicker. He’s so smart defensively. He’s got such a great reach, he reads the play so well. He studies the game, too. That’s certainly a plus for him. But anyone that I see play into his late 30s or early 40s, they’re doing something right.
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 22, 2019 7:08:27 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 22, 2019 7:37:55 GMT -5
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Post by crafar01 on Apr 22, 2019 7:45:29 GMT -5
I liked this from Cooper: How did you like the officiating in that Stanley Cup playoff game, coach?
"I'm not sure if that should have been a no-hitter on us tonight, but it was," said Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper, whose team -- which had the best power play in the NHL since 1988-89 -- didn't receive a single man advantage in the Lightning's Game 3 loss, and only six of them in total during the stunning four-game sweep by the Columbus Blue Jackets (who had 10 power plays).Yeah, it really sucks when you can't get any calls doesn't it Jon? We know all about that from our series with you and your clowns last year.
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Post by KSJ08 on Apr 22, 2019 8:46:03 GMT -5
I liked this from Cooper: How did you like the officiating in that Stanley Cup playoff game, coach?
"I'm not sure if that should have been a no-hitter on us tonight, but it was," said Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper, whose team -- which had the best power play in the NHL since 1988-89 -- didn't receive a single man advantage in the Lightning's Game 3 loss, and only six of them in total during the stunning four-game sweep by the Columbus Blue Jackets (who had 10 power plays).Yeah, it really sucks when you can't get any calls doesn't it Jon? We know all about that from our series with you and your clowns last year. Not to mention HOW blatantly obvious there were in FAVOR of the Bolts!! Suck Cooper you got Knocked the fuck out!! :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJIQafo9ixM
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 23, 2019 8:41:49 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 23, 2019 8:43:56 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 24, 2019 10:15:57 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 24, 2019 10:19:53 GMT -5
John Tavares met with 5 teams last summer as a free agent. 4 of those teams (NYI, BOS, SJ, DAL) are still playing hockey. The one he chose is not.
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Post by crafar01 on Apr 24, 2019 10:29:53 GMT -5
John Tavares met with 5 teams last summer as a free agent. 4 of those teams (NYI, BOS, SJ, DAL) are still playing hockey. The one he chose is not. Funny...when the final buzzer sounded last night, I said out loud, 'Guess you chose the wrong horse, Johnny!'
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 24, 2019 13:34:21 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 24, 2019 13:35:33 GMT -5
Bruce Cassidy did not enjoy telling David Backes and Chris Wagner to take a seat for the two most important games of the year.
After being a healthy scratch in Game 1, Backes, an alternate captain, served as the emotional and physical catalyst for the Bruins’ muscle-flexing 4-1 counterpunch in Game 2. Wagner, the right wing on the American Beauty line next to Sean Kuraly and Noel Acciari, played so far above his expected threshold during the regular season that he was the deserving recipient of NESN’s Seventh Player Award.
But Cassidy knew that speed would be critical if the Bruins were to rally from a 3-2 series deficit and extend their season.
Backes’ legs are not his strength. Speed used to be an asset for Wagner, but he has lost several gears since suffering a lower-body injury at the end of the regular season.
So before Game 6, Cassidy initiated the conversation that every coach loathes.
Backes and Wagner were out. Joakim Nordstrom and Karson Kuhlman, healthy scratches in the 2-1 Game 5 loss, were in. The Bruins responded with their best performance of the series in their 4-2 win in Game 6. They played even better in the Bruins’ 5-1 Game 7 victory.
“Very difficult to tell a couple of the guys who didn’t play that they weren’t going to,” Cassidy said of Backes and Wagner. “They played a part in the series. We talked about it at the start of the series that we felt we needed a certain type of lineup to beat Toronto. We finally found it late in the series.”
It was probably not a coincidence that Nordstrom and Kuhlman, given the confidence-lifting nod again in Game 7, played critical roles in extending the Bruins’ season. Nordstrom found a minute opening between Frederik Andersen’s glove and lead pad to give the Bruins a 1-0 lead at 14:29 of the first. Just over three minutes later, Kuhlman’s furious forecheck prompted Jake Gardiner to cough up the puck that Marcus Johansson snapped home for the deciding goal.
Coaching matters.
Cassidy’s wallet and trophy case cannot rival those of Mike Babcock. The Toronto coach is now halfway through an eight-year, $50 million contract. Babcock won the Stanley Cup with the Red Wings in 2008. Team Canada keeps Babcock on speed dial for important international competitions. He has struck Olympic gold twice and coached the Canadians to the title in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
Three years ago, Cassidy was in the AHL. His previous visit to the NHL as a head coach ended in his dismissal after less than two seasons at the helm in Washington.
But Cassidy outcoached Babcock for a second straight postseason — tactically and emotionally. Cassidy made hard calls like parking Backes and Wagner in favor of faster and quicker alternatives. He also read when to hand over the dressing room and bench to his veterans.
“I think the players in the room will have a much bigger voice in terms of what your demeanor needs to be,” Cassidy said before Game 7. “As coaches, we’ve tried to prepare them for a situation only, things that are going to happen on the ice. What (Toronto) did well in Game 6, we’ll try to correct. What we did well, we want to keep building on. Once they get on the ice, I believe our leadership group will have our guys in a good place. So I don’t want to over-message, other than, ‘Listen, you’ve got to enjoy the moment. You’ve got to play. You’re going to make a mistake, and you’ve got to put it behind you. You’ve got to keep playing. You have to have more will than the guy across from you.’ That’s pretty much the message we give them.”
Other tactics:
Cassidy was frightened of the way Morgan Rielly controlled segments of Game 6 with his puck play in the Bruins’ zone. Rielly had a game-high 13 attempts, scoring on one of them. During Tuesday’s morning meeting, Cassidy reminded his players to have better sticks, funnel Rielly to the perimeter and reduce his options. Rielly had just five attempts in Game 7. Only one got through to Tuukka Rask. Throughout the series, Cassidy’s No. 1 matchup priority was rolling Zdeno Chara and Charlie McAvoy against Zach Hyman, John Tavares and Mitch Marner. It didn’t go so well in Game 1. Marner popped off for two goals. Instead of adjusting the matchup, Cassidy continued it throughout the round. Chara, in particular, wore down Marner with his stick and when-needed physicality. Marner did not score a single goal in Games 2-7. Last year, the Leafs connected on their stretch passes with more precision. This year, while they accumulated exits via the stretch pass, the maneuver did not create consistent offense. Cassidy regularly reminded his forwards to be quick on the forecheck, but also to keep a third man high to seal off the escape routes. One reason the Bruins fell in a 3-2 hole was their 0-for-3 no-show on the power play in Game 5. The No. 1 unit passed up looks and acted stubbornly in leaning toward preferred sets. They converted both of their Game 6 power plays because Cassidy insisted they put pucks on net. They also looked for other options besides Patrice Bergeron in the bumper and David Pastrnak on the left elbow because of Toronto’s insistence on eliminating those looks. It resulted in Torey Krug’s rebound goal. Babcock could not keep up. He had his hands tied behind his back once Nazem Kadri took himself out of the series in Game 2. But Babcock did not make any lineup adjustments other than moving William Nylander to center, promoting Connor Brown to the third line and dressing Tyler Ennis.
In Game 7, Tavares (21:19) and Marner (20:53) were the only forwards to log 20-plus minutes. Auston Matthews, who caught fire after a quiet first two games, played only 18:48. He did not use Matthews and Nylander together at even strength.
On the power play, Babcock moved Marner and Matthews out of their usual strong-side positions. In Game 4, the two prodigies connected for a one-up goal when Marner, from the right circle, found Matthews at the far post. In Game 7, Marner went to the left elbow. Matthews shifted to the right. One-timers are not their strengths. The Leafs went 0-for-2.
“I thought on the power play, we did a good job of keeping them quiet,” Cassidy said. “We had a breakdown with Marner and Matthews’ goal in Game 4. They made a good play. For the most part, that’s another way to keep them quiet. If they’re not getting excited on the power play, it sort of carries over, and I think it can help us. So I think we had a good game plan there.”
The series was tighter than a snare drum. Coaching helped swing it toward the Bruins.
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 25, 2019 7:49:31 GMT -5
So all 4 division winners are out. All 4 Wild Card spots are still in.
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Post by fforr on Apr 25, 2019 8:35:14 GMT -5
Plain to see Wags hasn’t been the same player since coming back from late season lower body issue. And yet still has more wheels than Backes. Think it would take an injury or unlikely poor play from Khulman or Acciari to crack the lineup now.
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 25, 2019 9:43:22 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 25, 2019 10:11:54 GMT -5
There is no time to take a breath. At 7 p.m. Thursday, less than 48 hours after completing a seven-game staredown with Toronto, the Bruins will reignite the fire for the second round against the Blue Jackets.
Columbus, the No. 2 wild-card team, is not the eighth-best team in the Eastern Conference. They won seven of their last eight regular-season games to march into the playoffs. They used brooms to cross-check the high-flying Lightning in the teeth and sweep them out of the first round.
Columbus has all the elements: an offensive firestarter in Artemi Panarin, modern-day defensemen in Seth Jones and Zach Werenski and a goal-denying puckstopper in Sergei Bobrovsky.
Before the trade deadline, general manager Jarmo Kekalainen supplemented his core by adding major pieces: Matt Duchene, Ryan Dzingel, Keith Kinkaid and ex-Bruin Adam McQuaid. The Blue Jackets are built to chase the Stanley Cup.
“Jarmo deserves a lot of credit for recognizing where he thought his group was at, and they took a run,” said Bruins GM Don Sweeney. “Kudos to them and their whole group for earning the right to get in. Same to us for having the opportunity to play against them.”
The Bruins are feeling good after a hard-fought tangle with Toronto, and expect they will advance to the third round. Here are seven reasons they’ll do so in seven games.
1. The Blue Jackets will not have their legs early Nine days will have passed between Game 1 and Columbus’ 7-3 series-ending obliteration of the Lightning. It is a long time to be without the testosterone, anger and energy that pulsed through the bench during their sweep of the Lightning.
The Bruins, meanwhile, will still be filled with the emotional carryover of dispatching the Leafs to the golf course. By the time Columbus ramps back up to playoff intensity, the Bruins may have a win or two in their pocket.
“My honest answer would be of course,” Sweeney said of whether he’d like to take a deeper breath between rounds. “I’d like a little more turnaround time. But maybe they’d say, ‘End your series early and you get turnaround time.’ It’s not something we control or worry about.”
2. David Pastrnak has room to grow The Leafs (Jake Muzzin in particular) were very good at limiting Pastrnak’s time with the puck in the neutral zone. The right wing did not have many chances to attack with speed. Pastrnak did not make much noise around the net in the offensive zone. Consequently, Pastrnak scored only one 5-on-5 goal.
Werenski, one of the possible left-side defensemen Columbus will use on Pastrnak, is not as physical as Muzzin. It may give Pastrnak the real estate he’d like to get back on his game.
3. Spreading out the attack Bruce Cassidy, perpetually wary of breaking up 63-37-88, has first-round data signaling Danton Heinen’s ability to be a top-line wing. According to Natural Stat Trick, Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron and Heinen were on for two goals for and one against in 35:43 of 5-on-5 play. During this time, they posted a 57.33 Corsi For rating.
In comparison, when Pastrnak rode on the No. 1 line, the trio was at a 1-1 goals for/against stalemate against the Leafs while posting a 53.85 Corse For percentage in 45:01. While the sample size is limited, the numbers show that using Heinen as the No. 1 right wing helped more than it hurt.
4. Cassidy has lineup flexibility The Bruins coach optimized his lower two lines in Games 6 and 7 by rolling Karson Kuhlman and Joakim Nordstrom in place of David Backes and Chris Wagner. Kuhlman can kill penalties. Backes does not. By using Nordstrom as his No. 4 left wing, Cassidy was able to shift Sean Kuraly to center.
If things do not start in the Bruins’ favor, Cassidy has multiple cards to play. Pastrnak, likely to start on the No. 2 line, could move back to the first unit. If Cassidy wants to stack his top two lines, he could move Charlie Coyle to No. 2 right wing. Depending on faceoffs, forechecking formations or defensive-zone coverage, Kuraly could move to right wing and Noel Acciari could shift to the middle.
“In-game wise, injuries are going to happen,” Sweeney said. “You have to have that ability and comfort level to go put players in situations that they might not be readily used in. I think Bruce recognizes those. We’ve tried to look at that wider view of where we’re developing players in that context.”
5. The Bruins are not as affected by shot blocking as other teams Under coach John Tortorella, the Blue Jackets have no choice but to step in front of pucks. David Savard blocked 15 shots in the first round. Jones had nine blocks. Werenski had eight.
It would be one thing if the Bruins were built to blast from the point like the Leafs. They are not. Cassidy prefers his forwards to walk pucks off the walls and out of the corners and continue the down-low attack, not look for low-to-high relief.
6. Brandon Carlo excelled in his first playoff series Carlo and Torey Krug were instructed to shadow Auston Matthews. Toronto’s No. 2 center was too talented to keep quiet, but Carlo performed well enough to prevent Matthews from taking over any of the games.
Carlo was especially thorough in Game 6. He skated well, flexed his muscles when necessary and used his stick to contain the Leafs’ speed and skill.
“Brandon played arguably one of the best games I’ve seen him play in Game 6,” Sweeney said.
If Cassidy uses Zdeno Chara and Charlie McAvoy on Panarin, Carlo will most likely be deployed against Dzingel, Duchene and Cam Atkinson. It is a very good second line. But Carlo knows what he can do after a successful first round. He can be an overwhelming defensive presence when he believes in himself.
7. Tuukka Rask enters the second round consistent and fresh Last season, Rask played 3,173:05 during the regular season. In the playoffs against Toronto and Tampa Bay, Rask recorded a .914 save percentage during 5-on-5 play.
This year, because of Jaroslav Halak’s support role, Rask played 2,635:09 in the regular season. In the first round, Rask’s 5-on-5 save percentage was .937. It is impossible to correlate Rask’s playoff performance to his regular-season workload. But the Bruins believe the ace has benefited from a lighter schedule.
“We limited his workload this year and you wonder how it’s going to affect the playoffs,” Cassidy said after Game 7. “I think hopefully (in Game 7), he got some residual effect from that where he was fresh the last couple of games playing every second night. It pays off, and hopefully even more going forward.”
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Post by crafar01 on Apr 25, 2019 11:11:11 GMT -5
I'd put those clowns on the same mental level as Scab and Canuck fans. If any of those 3 cities win the Cup, or even worse, lose in the finals, I will eagerly wait for the property damage numbers to start rolling in. Along with the police logs.
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Post by DonnyBrook on Apr 25, 2019 11:41:17 GMT -5
I'd put those clowns on the same mental level as Scab and Canuck fans. If any of those 3 cities win the Cup, or even worse, lose in the finals, I will eagerly wait for the property damage numbers to start rolling in. Along with the police logs. i used to think people in canada were a lot nicer than americans...i guess hate has spread thru out this world like a plague. fucking low life pieces of trash..
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 29, 2019 12:45:15 GMT -5
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Post by nfld77 on Apr 29, 2019 16:56:49 GMT -5
Again Seabass, thanks alot for all the great articles you post and everything you do here for us. You're awesome brother!!!
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Post by orym on Apr 29, 2019 17:15:11 GMT -5
I had to click on the link myself to prove that TSN wrote an article on Heinen...I couldn't believe it at first glance! Great article.
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 29, 2019 19:01:12 GMT -5
Again Seabass, thanks alot for all the great articles you post and everything you do here for us. You're awesome brother!!! 👏👍
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Post by SeaBass on Apr 30, 2019 10:44:44 GMT -5
Cassidy said he doesn’t know why DeBrusk “hasn’t lit it up” this playoffs. But mentioned Game 2 pass to Pastrnak when he was in all alone as a sign he’s off his game.
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Post by DonnyBrook on May 2, 2019 6:13:45 GMT -5
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Post by kjc2 on May 2, 2019 10:36:01 GMT -5
It's a 2 minute penalty at worst, punches happen.
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