Boston Bruins Playoff Game Thread

[TheKilo]

f***

 

As good as Thomas was

 

The typical TT softie

 

 

f***

[TheKilo]

cONTROL THE f***ING REBOUND YOU ****

[TheKilo]

FOUR MORE YEARS OF THAT

 

f***

[msubulldogs21]

 

I'd like the last 8 hours of my life back from the Sox, Celtics and Bruins...

[TheKilo]

This is how TT ends Kessel's last game in a B's uniform. Unfortunate.

[WhiskeyBreath]

It had to end like that?

[TheKilo]

Tim Thomas makes Scott Walker a hero.

 

Read that sentence again - and tell me if you feel good about paying Timmy $5 mil a year for four years.

[WhiskeyBreath]

Thomas played his ass off this entire year and series.

[YanksHater213]

Kick in the nuts.

 

Montador better not wear the B again.

[TheKilo]

Montador's probably gone, although he had his best few games a s a Bruin this season.

 

Kobasew needs to be gone. Sturm will probably be gone too - can't help to think what if he was healthy.

 

I think Chiarelli is going to have to make the Krejci/Kessel decision this offseason.. Won't be pleasant.

[TheKilo]

This team will not win their conference, much less a Stanley Cup, with Tim Thomas in net over the next four years.

[WhiskeyBreath]

This team will not win their conference' date=' much less a Stanley Cup, with Tim Thomas in net over the next four years.[/b']

 

Oh? And what is their alternative? Rask?

[redsoxrules]

This team will not win their conference' date=' much less a Stanley Cup, with Tim Thomas in net over the next four years.[/b']

 

Thomas is the leader in GAA in the playoffs

boston's offense was awfull in this series

 

17 goals scored in 7 games dosent cut it .

in the 4 losses the bruins score 5 f***ing goals

Tim Thomas was not the problem in this series

 

the Wings would win the cup with thomas in net for christ sakes

[SCM33]

Tuuka Rask.

[schillingouttheks]

This sucked, but they'll be back next year. TT is not the reason this team lost the series, as much as some of those softies suck ass. The Hurricanes looked like the less-fatigued team when it came down to the wire, and they won.

 

It would have helped if Cam Ward didn't absolutely stand on his head and steal some games from the Bruins, but the offense could have been much, much better. The 2nd period was sloppy play all around, and right away in the 1st and 3rd periods, the Bruins couldn't get anything going offensively and the puck was constantly in their defensive zone. Their power plays sucked too.

[YanksHater213]

Montador + Wideman is why we lost. Why Julien put those guys together baffles me. I don't care if Wideman can push the pace with the puck or not, these guys f***ing suck defensively, have terrible instincts, can't clear the zone, and just f***ing blow defensively. f***.

[TheKilo]

Thomas is the leader in GAA in the playoffs

boston's offense was awfull in this series

 

17 goals scored in 7 games dosent cut it .

in the 4 losses the bruins score 5 f***ing goals

Tim Thomas was not the problem in this series

 

the Wings would win the cup with thomas in net for christ sakes

 

Tim Thomas had a mediocre series. He didn't show up in Game 2, Game 3 OT, Game 4, or game 7 OT.

 

The Wings would win the cup with Thomas in net because they're pretty much an all-star team on the ice and have tons of veteran leadership. Their offense is dynamite and they have the best defenseman in the game, so they dont NEED a strong goalie.

 

Bruins don't have that. What they have is a guy who will make the spectacular save and then let in the crushing soft goal - he did it in Game 7 last year and he did it in Game 7 this year.

 

Paying Thomas that kind of coin - he doesn't have the resume to justify it.

[TheKilo]

This sucked' date=' but they'll be back next year.[/b'] TT is not the reason this team lost the series, as much as some of those softies suck ass. The Hurricanes looked like the less-fatigued team when it came down to the wire, and they won.

 

It would have helped if Cam Ward didn't absolutely stand on his head and steal some games from the Bruins, but the offense could have been much, much better. The 2nd period was sloppy play all around, and right away in the 1st and 3rd periods, the Bruins couldn't get anything going offensively and the puck was constantly in their defensive zone. Their power plays sucked too.

 

I just don't see it - Bruins had two things going for them this season - incredible young talent (Krejci, Kessel, Wheeler, Bitz even) and incredible depth (when a guy like Patrice Bergeron is your 3rd line C, that says something).

 

Both will be sacrificed due to the TT deal.

 

Can't make the Cam Ward excuse - if TT is the guy all his fanboys say he is, he needs to do that very thing.

[TheKilo]

Montador + Wideman is why we lost. Why Julien put those guys together baffles me. I don't care if Wideman can push the pace with the puck or not' date=' these guys f***ing suck defensively, have terrible instincts, can't clear the zone, and just f***ing blow defensively. f***.[/quote']

 

Montador is pretty mediocre but not the worst option for a 3rd line Dman.

 

Wideman had a great year and will continue to get better - young puck moving dmen are a rarity in this day and age.

[Mr Crunchy]

Seems to me that the team that had been there and done that won last night.

The Bruins were tentative and not aggressive enough, they have a ton of balance but nobody to take over the game when needed. Thomas was human, that f***in badmitton shot that beat him was the result of a cheesedick rebound..The Bruins had a great shot to do it this year, Detroit looked human and their goalie is garbage and i think they couldve gotten by Pitt.

This Carolina team is good, no excuses here, our guys got beat in their 1st meaningul playoff appearance.

i think they will be back next year and should be better but they pissed away a great chance.

[TheKilo]

Still sucks, in case anyone was wondering.

 

How could he let that goal in? HOW?

[Dojji]

How could he let that goal in? HOW?

 

I'm far more frustrated at the 5 minutes of unrelenting pressure we ha in Ward's end of the ice where we somehow managed to find a way to fail to score. If we can't beat Ward, than it doesn't matter of Marty Brodeur is our goaltender we're not winning that game.

 

Carolina beat us and Carolina deserved to beat us. They wanted it more and they worked harder for us. Carolina had performers that were at least as bad as our so-called scapegoats. The difference is that they were just that little bit better at finishing off chances.

 

Bearing in mind that our defensive corps was heavily battered and at least 4 of them were injured or rushed back from injury, and also bearing in mind that our worst miscues came from our replacement D-men, I think it might be fair to say that Boston just wasn't the team it was in the regular season and expecting them to play like that team is more than a little unrealistic. We were depending much too heavily on Wideman and as a result, exposed him.

 

Give a lot of credit to Carolina's coaching for that matter. It didn't take a rocket scientist to know that our D was our weak point but Maurice got his players to do what they needed to do to take advantage of it, and Julien had no response.

[YanksHater213]

Montador is pretty mediocre but not the worst option for a 3rd line Dman.

 

Wideman had a great year and will continue to get better - young puck moving dmen are a rarity in this day and age.

 

I don't care if he can move the puck, he handles it like a bumbling idiot inside his own zone, and turns it over way too much especially when he tries to clear the zone. I like Dennis a lot, but he really needs to shore that part of his game up, even if it does mean sacrificing some of his offensive skills.

 

Montador and Wideman together was a disaster waiting to happen, and I'm not sure why Claude leaned so heavily on them in game 7.

[Dojji]

Wideman got in trouble because he was the only guy we had left to make the outlet passes. If the puck is being distributed mostly by one guy, Maurice would have had to have been an idiot not to cotton on to that, and Wideman was exposed by the forecheck -- exactly what the forecheck was designed to do.

[TheKilo]

I don't buy the injury excuse - this team was deeper and better than the Hurricanes, and they lose to them on home ice in Game 7

 

Thomas had a good game, kept the team in it in the 2nd - but what a terrible, terrible way to end it. Such is the nature of TT, good enough to keep you competitive but never good enough to win the whole thing.

 

Incredibly frustrating. Chiarelli has some work to do.

[redsoxrules]

I don't buy the injury excuse - this team was deeper and better than the Hurricanes' date=' and they lose to them on [i']home ice in Game 7[/i]

 

Thomas had a good game, kept the team in it in the 2nd - but what a terrible, terrible way to end it. Such is the nature of TT, good enough to keep you competitive but never good enough to win the whole thing.

 

Incredibly frustrating. Chiarelli has some work to do.

 

I cant beleive you're not blaming the offense as well in witch I've pointed out score 5 goals in the 4 loss

[TheKilo]

I cant beleive you're not blaming the offense as well in witch I've pointed out score 5 goals in the 4 loss

 

Who am I going to blame on the offense? Michael Ryder? Lucic for waiting til Game 5 to show up? Stone Hands Kobasew?

 

Sometimes you need your goalie to bail the offense out. To let that kind of goal in with the season on the line...infuriating.

[rician blast]

Sometimes you need your goalie to bail the offense out. To let that kind of goal in with the season on the line...infuriating.

 

I'm a Tim Thomas detractor usually, but have to say he played very well in this series.

 

Looked like Whitney's shot handcuffed him, and I would cal it soft, but if Wideman does his job and nullifies Walker, that wouldn't have been the game winner.

[Dojji]

I don't buy the injury excuse - this team was deeper and better than the Hurricanes' date=' and they lose to them on [i']home ice in Game 7[/i]

 

Thomas had a good game, kept the team in it in the 2nd - but what a terrible, terrible way to end it. Such is the nature of TT, good enough to keep you competitive but never good enough to win the whole thing.

 

Incredibly frustrating. Chiarelli has some work to do.

 

This team was deeper than the Hurricanes at forward. Heck at forward we were pretty much deeper than anybody. At defense we were brittle, slow, banged up and shallow, and it showed. We really missed Hunwick and wound up counting on Ferrence, Ward, Montador and Hnidy far too much especially with 2 of them dealing with not insignificant injuries.

 

I wish Manny Fernandez hadn't sucked so bad in the second half. Heck, last year against the Habs even, we had Auld goalie a couple games. We couldn't count on Manny for that, and had to ride Timmy all the way. That's not how we used Thomas in the regular season so I really wasn't surprised that in overtime in game 7 Timmy got tired.

[TheKilo]

I'm a Tim Thomas detractor usually, but have to say he played very well in this series.

 

Looked like Whitney's shot handcuffed him, and I would cal it soft, but if Wideman does his job and nullifies Walker, that wouldn't have been the game winner.

 

And if Timmy corrals the shot that hits him in the HUGE B ON HIS CHEST there's no rebound