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  1. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    This would be a good discussion for the postseason, but I think there is an issue around the team with how they approach these situations, it's been persistent for a few years now. Someone in the game thread mentioned it which got me to thinking: is having good people/leaders by example like...
  2. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    5 games including Carolina. 1 this year, 3 last year, 1 against Carolina. If we're being completely accurate. Also have to disagree that they were overmatched by Carolina, they took it to 7 games and it was an odd series where each team won blowouts on their home ice until Game 7 where the...
  3. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    Just saw this stat on Reddit: Since Bergeron's winner in Game 7 against TOR, the Bruins are 4-11 in playoff OT games at home. 2 of those wins were later in that same postseason. The other two were against Washington a couple of years ago (the Craig Smith wraparound), and against CLB in 2019...
  4. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    That's not really true. With this same coach and largely the same core group of players, they lost 3 straight such games just last year. And the game 7 the year before that. It's the same core guys. This isn't reaching back to 2014 or whatever. This is a recent run of bad results in closing...
  5. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Red Sox hire outside consulting firm to audit organization

    To quote a baseball executive from the 1980's: "The Cubs traded a horse and wound up with two ponies."
  6. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    And Samsonov was garbage in games 1 through 4. Absolutely terrible. The Bruins had a huge edge in goaltending as long as Keefe was playing him.
  7. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    Win or lose this series, there's probably a good discussion to be had after it about the kind of leadership on the team and in the org and if having a certain type of player as a leader leads to certain kinds of performance issues. The Chara/Bergeron/Marchand line of leaders has been active...
  8. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Red Sox hire outside consulting firm to audit organization

    View: https://twitter.com/PeteAbe/status/1785688114595279045 Honestly hiring an outside firm is a good thing, but Pete's tweet captured my initial reaction perfectly.
  9. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    I won't speak for him, he's more than capable of handling himself, but to me the bolded is exactly what happens. They've lost 5 straight close out games and to my untrained eyes it certainly seems clear that they definitely play a lot differently in close out games than they do at other times...
  10. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    Well TBF Ullmark was hurt last year and Monty kept him in there when it was clear he couldn't play effectively. They SHOULD get a better performance than that in Toronto, but then again they should have shown up last night too.
  11. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    Mac is gone and can't hurt me any more. All I wanted was for him to be off the team.
  12. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    ECQF Game 5: 4/30/24 vs. Tarranna

    1994 against Montreal, Game 5. Roy made 60 fucking saves that night. On my way home there was a nun by the T stop seeking contributions for something and I gave her 5 bucks and said "Pray for the Bruins, Sister." It must have worked as they came back to win that series. 1994, next round...
  13. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    Ice was terrible last night. That's another long standing problem. The Bruins are built for speed and skill and in the playoffs when it's warmer the ice at the Garden gets really bad and actively works against them.
  14. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    ECQF Game 5: 4/30/24 vs. Tarranna

    IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT. IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT. Mine too. I've been to three Bruins playoff games and they lost all of them in OT.
  15. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    If they lose the series, that will be a different conversation and will involve coaching and player changes. We are just talking about once again coming out flat last night at home with a chance to put the series to bed. That is the result being discussed. I can't see how it's somehow unfair to...
  16. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    Also, for the record, I'd start Swayman in Game 6. He was excellent last night in the face of little help in front of him. I see no reason to go away from him right now, rotation talk be damned.
  17. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    It's a knock against him that the team came out flat and uninspired at home with the chance to knock out an opponent. And if it was just one time, no biggie. But as you note, last year was awful, and now it's the 4th straight game a Monty-coached team has lost when they have a chance to end a...
  18. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    I suspect this is why so many coaches don't try a rotation or otherwise intentionally limit their options during the playoffs, so as to minimize the opportunity for them to screw things up by tinkering.
  19. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    And none of those games were close until Game 7. What a strange series that was.
  20. Smiling Joe Hesketh

    Round 1 Bruins-Leafs

    Putting Bergeron back in last year was a mistake as he was clearly not in game shape after his injury. As for adjusting this year, they kicked the hell out of Toronto in Game 4 and his adjustment was to bench his best faceoff guy for Game 5. Well, that and shuffling out Shattenkirk, which was fine.
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