It should be tomorrow morning first thing.When does Neely go in front of the media and say something??
I want him to go full Seabass. The diner scene, not the bathroom scene that hasn’t aged so well.When does Neely go in front of the media and say something??
Yeah Bruce literally said he was not medically cleared to play. Rupp has taken too many hits to the head.How does Mike Rupp have a fucking job. He is a complete embarrassment. He really just said he thinks Gryz could have played tonight but Cassidy chose Chara instead.
Gryz isn't out of the concussion protocol you neanderthalic fuck.
I would like to see him kill Gary Bettman Mortal Kombat style personally.I want him to go full Seabass. The diner scene, not the bathroom scene that hasn’t aged so well.
This is the same league that ensued that the best players were property of Montreal, Toronto, or Detroit for decades.Love hockey but the league sucks...seems like it’s been that way forever
'he was down' and 'yeah we'll take it' are two things that someone who got away with something and knows it would say.Hilarious considering he was pleading his case with the referee as he thought he was going to the box.
It would be mildly amusing if Sutherland had the Blues but on the puckline.I love statements that merely restate what happened without making a value judgment. ‘The official didn’t call it a penalty because he didnt see evidence of a penalty.’
I guess it’s better than ‘he had money on the game’ or ‘he didn’t feel like calling any penalties’
Yes. There was no malice or intent on this play though, just a run of the mill hockey play.Can there be league discipline for a slew foot? Not that that will happen, but curious. Especially if he’s concussed.
Yes. A minor penalty.Can there be league discipline for a slew foot? Not that that will happen, but curious. Especially if he’s concussed.
Thing is, you ask any non-Bruins fan, and the B's are one of the dirtiest teams in the league. I don't get it.The thing I don’t get is where the fire is, the retribution. Has the team always been this put your head down and beat them with skill? I just can’t imagine seeing teammates taking concussions and various other headshots and not eventually doing some enforcing. I respect the discipline, but it’s not working out so well, and I think it’s hard to play straddling the line of playing aggressive enough to win but not so aggressive as to fight back.
To me, the tentativeness on shooting ties in to this as well.
Yeah, this. I know RMPS has a bias towards speed and away from violence, but at some point, a team needs to live its identity.The thing I don’t get is where the fire is, the retribution. Has the team always been this put your head down and beat them with skill? I just can’t imagine seeing teammates taking concussions and various other headshots and not eventually doing some enforcing. I respect the discipline, but it’s not working out so well, and I think it’s hard to play straddling the line of playing aggressive enough to win but not so aggressive as to fight back.
To me, the tentativeness on shooting ties in to this as well.
The thing I don’t get is where the fire is, the retribution. Has the team always been this put your head down and beat them with skill? I just can’t imagine seeing teammates taking concussions and various other headshots and not eventually doing some enforcing. I respect the discipline, but it’s not working out so well, and I think it’s hard to play straddling the line of playing aggressive enough to win but not so aggressive as to fight back.
To me, the tentativeness on shooting ties in to this as well.
The 2011 team was probably the beginning of the end of teams with that style of play. With only a handful of changes, they went to the Final in 2013, won the Presidents Trophy in 2013-14, then broke down. The few Bruins left from those heavy metal teams (Chara, Bergeron, Marchand, Krejci, Rask fro 2011, and tack on Krug from 2013) just aren’t the guys to continue that legacy, and honestly, that’s good generally. The NHL, it theory, is litigating that style of play out of existence. Hall of Fame defenceman Scott Stevens would have the career arc of Trevor Gillies if he were drafted today, assuming he’d be drafted at all. That they can’t enforce their own rules consistently with the current crop of officials doesn’t mean that they aren’t at all.Yeah, this. I know RMPS has a bias towards speed and away from violence, but at some point, a team needs to live its identity.
I know that in the finals against the Canucks, I was really happy that the team I rooted for responded, hard, when the Canucks played dirty - and played hard, period, throughout the series. For most of these finals, though, it seems like the Bs have been very loathe to meet force with force.
We aren't talking about the Canucks or the Habs - these are the Bruins. They haven't (at least, as long as I've been a fan) been a team that's skittish. Here's hoping they revert to a shoot/hit/try to impose their will style...
This I disagree with strongly, it is called playoff hockey and why playoff hockey is unlike any other sport on the planet. The intensity gets cranked up to 11 in the playoffs. Those hits aren't interference 99% of them are completely legal.All the talk about headshots but the biggest impact is the late hits (finishing the check) that is being allowed. It is pure interference and takes the skilled guys off the play. When combined with the multiple strides to get there (which is usually why the hit is late) it disrupts by slowing the game and also imperiled player safety when the follow through is up high.
Watch how long after a guy gets rid of the puck they are then hit.
The NHL loves the glass rattling checks in the playoffs to sell the "intensity" angle. But it dramatically changes the game, because in the regular season players don't follow through as late and with the same vigor.
It is the old NFL of allowing qb hits when the defender could pull up, and the also allowing pile driving.
You could tell the game was not going to be great when the refs allowed the Blues to hit Chara late, to test him. Once the Blues know the delay will be allowed, it's their game because you've taken the player out of the next play, so any breakout is eliminated, and no odd man rushes.
This is true. As frustrating as the last two games have been, the Bruins are not losing three straight games to the St. Louis Fucking Blues.Bruins are too good to lose 3 games in a row to these stiffs.
Momentum shift takes place on Sunday.
Nobody is beating us in game 7 at the Garden.
WIN.
Yes, Marchand got 2 games for a slew foot. Of course, he had a history and had previously been fined for slew footing. I think if the league was run in any form of consistent manner that actually considered player safety there would be a hearing for that play. It's not a hockey play and it's a very dangerous play with the normal result of a player banging his head off the ice. The NHL is not run in a consistent manner and is obviously not concerned about player safety or game integrity so I guess we should consider ourselves lucky that 1 of the 3 hearing worthy plays actually is getting hearing. If they played this straight and applied appropriate discipline I think Barbeshev gets the rest of the series off, Sanford would get a game and Bozak gets a fine. That will never happen obviously.Can there be league discipline for a slew foot? Not that that will happen, but curious. Especially if he’s concussed.