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[BoSoxFink]

I agree for the most part, but they put the puck past the best goalie in hockey 3 times today. You can't ask for more. Defense and goaltending failed them today.

This is definitely true. However the Bruins should have probably had 5-6 goals today as well, they just cannot finish.

[NYCSox]

Coming up small again and again and again.

No matter what they do it's a goal off. Give up one and score none. Score two and give up three. Score three and give up four.

I don't think there is any realistic chance without Horton back. It's not like they have Ryder and Recchi to fall back on this time. Either that or Peverly has to go nuts when he returns.

[BoSoxFink]

I agree, I am at the point where I don't think they have a chance unless Horton and Peverly come back healthy. They may be able to win a round without them, but after that I don't think so

[Ed Hillel]

I'm a bit concerned about Horton never really coming back.

[Blacken]

The sriracha sauce on this shit sandwich is that Thomas doesn't really get a game off the rest of the way at this point. Hutch is Holey McGoaltender.



"Hey, Mr. Hašek...it's Peter Chiarelli, Boston Bruins, how are you doing?"

(hey shut up, in my dream world he's still 36)

Edited by Blacken, 04 March 2012 - 04:25 PM.

[cshea]

I think they are 1 top 6 forward short. I'll take 1 of Peverley/Horton back and take my chances with that.

[Jed Zeppelin]

I agree, one needs to come back and 3rd line needs to stepup like they did today.

[PedroSpecialK]

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a concrete slab falling from above in Montreal once again.

Edited by PedroSpecialK, 05 March 2012 - 11:52 AM.

[MiracleOfO2704]

What, Scott Gomez committed suicide at the Olympic Tower?

[PedroSpecialK]

Hahaha well-played

This will further endear TT to SJH

Thomas was

asked by the Boston Herald

if he is ready for the increased workload that awaits if backup Tuukka Rask is injured significantly.

“Yeah,” he told the Herald. “Especially if I go to an arena with lights.”

...

“Every [goal] was a screen or a weird, goofy bounce,” he told the Herald. “It wasn’t a normal game for a goaltender. Let’s put it that way.”

Thomas made just 13 saves on 17 shots. It was just the fifth time all year that he allowed four or more goals in a game, and the first time since Jan. 22, when he allowed five in Philadelphia.

[The Napkin]

The thing is, much like a closer or a DB that's the kind of thing I want from a goalie. I don't want him to ever think a goal was his fault. I want him to have no memory. I don't want him to be a headcase.
Maybe I'm overthinking this. Maybe I'm underthinking it.

[PedroSpecialK]

I agree with you, that's the mindset that makes Timmy successful. It's also the mindset that has ground SJH's molars into dust.

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

It's a willfully ignorant mindset where he never thinks he has to play better.

Christ, we're back to two years ago. It Dipped On Me. Is he really claiming the last goal was screened? He's just insulting our intelligence at this point. He didn't do any of this shit last year when he had the best goalie season in Bruins history and one of the best in NHL history; why is he going back to that now? He's not doing this because it makes him successful, he's doing it to avoid blame.

Heal quickly, Anton.

[The Napkin]

He didn't do any of this shit last year when he had the best goalie season in Bruins history and one of the best in NHL history

See, the thing is, yes he did.

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

I don't recall him making lame-ass excuses last year.

I will never warm to this habit of his. It's beyond insulting. His job is to stop the fucking puck. He can forget about a bad game as quickly as he likes, and that's what most goalies do, but whining about lights and screens won't fly with me.

And it's a bit different than was Papelbon did as a closer, which was to forget all about it. Thomas isn't doing that, he's making excuses. Paps would say, I sucked, and tomorrow I'll have forgotten all about it. He never claimed the sun was in his eyes.

[cshea]

Well he never needed excuses last year because he was never scored upon.

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

True.

[cshea]

True.

I mostly agree with your general point. It's one thing for him to have the mindset that he should never allow a goal, it's another for him to claim that every goal against was due to something out of his control.

I can't get on him too much because of last year, but it does piss me off when he says stuff like that.

[TheRealness]

The thing is, much like a closer or a DB that's the kind of thing I want from a goalie. I don't want him to ever think a goal was his fault. I want him to have no memory. I don't want him to be a headcase.
Maybe I'm overthinking this. Maybe I'm underthinking it.

More like you're making excuses for his making excuses. I feel like doing the same thing. It's better than the other thing we could be saying, which is that what made Thomas so great was his "me against the world attitude", and now that he was crowned best goalie in the universe last year, he's just not as motivated. So he lets up sloppy goals, has 4 goal games much more frequently, looks apathetic in net, and is talking about lighting and dipping pucks again.

I'm going to go with Nap's reasoning. It makes me less likely to cut myself.

[Blacken]

The lights at MSG do suck though. Along with everything else in that fucking cave.

[NickEsasky]

The lights at MSG do suck though. Along with everything else in that fucking cave.

Must be why TFP liked it there so much, it felt like home.

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

No place without MyT1's hairy back can really be considered home for TFP.