Game 7 NOTHING EASY - Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures

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I dunno. They had nothing to lose in the regular season, and everything to lose in the playoffs. They clearly seemed motivated to set records in the regular season, and they did that. Maybe when the postseason started they figured they’d just keep it rolling and didn’t prepare or work hard enough to make it happen? Maybe they just tightened up? Had a few unexpected injuries and just couldn’t get things straightened out? Felt the pressure as the top seed? Weird things can happen in playoff series and it’s easy to make sweeping conclusions and narratives that help explain what is often just unexplainable. It’s professional sports. Shit happens.

Doesn’t it make it any less agonizing or frustrating, but losing in the first round was always in the realm of fairly realistic possibilities. It always is.
 
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scottyno said:
He gave up 3 goals last year, I don't really remember the game at this point, but that isn't exactly terrible. This year he sat for 6 games, and then saved the team several times while the defense had been atrocious for large stretches of the entire series.
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He wasn’t good last year. Two of the goals were softer than puppy shit. He played the kind of game Rask haters thought Rask played.
 
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Smiling Joe Hesketh said:
Sometimes your goalie has to bail you out. Aside from 2011 it’s never happened for this team.

Bob made the stupid save with the stick shaft. Bruins goalies never make such saves.
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He literally stopped a breakaway from the hottest player on the Florida team several minutes into overtime
 
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Blaming Swayman for anything after the first two goals (2nd goal wasn't really soft either) is absurd.

In OT the Bruins had 3 near the net but let Verhagie have a clear, unblocked shot with Tkachuk slightly screening. That's never on the goalie.
 
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barclay said:
If Bruce and LV win the cup there's gonna be a whole lot of screaming in these parts.
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Nah, I think Butch ran out of time here. Most coaches get to the top 20% of tenured coaches if they’re there 4 years later. And there’s not much evidence of it, but there’s a ton of smoke around the idea that if Butch were back, at minimum Krejci and DeBrusk wouldn’t be.
 
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scottyno said:
He gave up 3 goals last year, I don't really remember the game at this point, but that isn't exactly terrible. This year he sat for 6 games, and then saved the team several times while the defense had been atrocious for large stretches of the entire series.
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Yeah, I don’t get why a goalie losing multiple game 7’s is something to worry about. What’s the significance? Is it worse for a goalie’s psyche to lose a g7 than a series clinching g6? Why?
 
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DeadlySplitter said:
Blaming Swayman for anything after the first two goals (2nd goal wasn't really soft either) is absurd.

In OT the Bruins had 3 near the net but let Verhagie have a clear, unblocked shot with Tkachuk slightly screening. That's never on the goalie.
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And Gryz had no business not getting the dump in.
 
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I can’t get over that chickenshit answer by Montgomery on the goaltending. My God, have some pride.
 
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scottyno said:
He literally stopped a breakaway from the hottest player on the Florida team several minutes into overtime
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Awesome. Yay. Great. He then gave up the winner.

You guys are missing my point. Like the rest of the team, he came up short. It’s obviously not all on him but he lost another Game 7. He has nothing he can point to mentally as evidence he can win the big one.

That goes for the whole team. They’re chokers now. And that stink never goes away. Ask the Leafs how that goes.
 
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I feel terrible for the guy, but Bergeron looked...not great? I wonder what the injury was. He also was one of the three looky-loos on the final goal.
 
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Yes, Tampa got swept in the opening round in 2019. But they had everyone returning the following season. The B's have their most important player retiring, and threw all their assets into this season to win it. It's not an easily recoverable situation, unfortunately. The NHL is very unforgiving.
 
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I may be ripped for admitting this but some of what I feel right now is relief. Like I’m 41 years old and the last five days have be complete hell. I need to care less. But at least it’s over now. Jesus.
 
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I just want to say in general the offense was pretty dang good this series, on & off power play aside. They did plenty to win this.
 
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Smiling Joe Hesketh said:
There’s no way the team ever competes again without wholesale changes. This was a team wide collapse. The d played like fucking trash, every one of them. The goaltending stunk, and Swayman now has two Game 7 losses on his resume. The offense didn’t score enough and the coach shriveled.

Blow it up. This bunch choked.
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This is silly.
 
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Smiling Joe Hesketh said:
Awesome. Yay. Great. He then gave up the winner.

You guys are missing my point. Like the rest of the team, he came up short. It’s obviously not all on him but he lost another Game 7. He has nothing he can point to mentally as evidence he can win the big one.

That goes for the whole team. They’re chokers now. And that stink never goes away. Ask the Leafs how that goes.
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Now that the Leafs have a motorized escort to the Finals they're going to shed whatever labels they have.
 
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jezza1918 said:
I may be ripped for admitting this but some of what I feel right now is relief. Like I’m 41 years old and the last five days have be complete hell. I need to care less. But at least it’s over now. Jesus.
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Two teams with long playoff runs this time of year is untenable for healthy living.
 
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Smiling Joe Hesketh said:
Awesome. Yay. Great. He then gave up the winner.

You guys are missing my point. Like the rest of the team, he came up short. It’s obviously not all on him but he lost another Game 7. He has nothing he can point to mentally as evidence he can win the big one.

That goes for the whole team. They’re chokers now. And that stink never goes away. Ask the Leafs how that goes.
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0 goalies have any evidence that they can win "the big one" until they win one. Also not sure I'd call any game in round 1 the big one, but you do you
 
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jezza1918 said:
I may be ripped for admitting this but some of what I feel right now is relief. Like I’m 41 years old and the last five days have be complete hell. I need to care less. But at least it’s over now. Jesus.
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Ha. Said a variation of this to the old lady. Gonna save me a lot of time, money and stress.
 
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Smiling Joe Hesketh said:
Awesome. Yay. Great. He then gave up the winner.

You guys are missing my point. Like the rest of the team, he came up short. It’s obviously not all on him but he lost another Game 7. He has nothing he can point to mentally as evidence he can win the big one.

That goes for the whole team. They’re chokers now. And that stink never goes away. Ask the Leafs how that goes.
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i think it was clear tonight that bruins win the series if swayman is used earlier

he wasn’t the issue tonight and I think you know that
 
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jezza1918 said:
I may be ripped for admitting this but some of what I feel right now is relief. Like I’m 41 years old and the last five days have be complete hell. I need to care less. But at least it’s over now. Jesus.
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There are some people here in their 50s who can’t handle losing. So immature they are. You still have hope.
 
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Myt1 said:
I can’t get over that chickenshit answer by Montgomery on the goaltending. My God, have some pride.
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But can’t you?

Clean house. Entire management structure. Enough of this zero accountability bullshit.
 
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I just don’t get how guys like McAvoy and Lindholm couldn’t even do like D to D passes without shitting themselves. Make it make sense.
 
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Haunted said:
But can’t you?

Clean house. Entire management structure. Enough of this zero accountability bullshit.
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I get the sentiment, but who’s going to want to come coach a team with an aging core and no draft picks, that just fired their record setting coach the year after firing their last coach?

And it’s quite clear that Cassidy had to go, so I’m not disputing that move. Just, they are what they are at this point.
 
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I think what we overlook is that resiliency is every bit as important as skating and shooting and passing and goaltending. And we just saw that while the Bruins have plenty of the latter four, they have zero of the first. There was no willingness to fight pushback at all.
 
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catomatic said:
Truly. I want him gone after that comment.
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Not defending the poor optics of saying that after a loss like that, but there was just an article in The Athletic last week by Fluto I believe talking about how Montgomery lets “Goalie Bob” make the call on whom should play — because he has complete faith in both goalies and Goalie Bob (who will now have coached a 3rd Vezina winner). Still a shitty answer, but that is why he said it.
 
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Smiling Joe Hesketh said:
I think what we overlook is that resiliency is every bit as important as skating and shooting and passing and goaltending. And we just saw that while the Bruins have plenty of the latter four, they have zero of the first. There was no willingness to fight pushback at all.
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Well, it’s not as important. I’m pretty resilient, but I’m not winning 65 games. :)
 
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