Game 7 NOTHING EASY - Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
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But this is also a sport where you can squeak in as the last wild card and go on a run. They don’t need to be the 1 seed all the time and frankly it might be refreshing to go into a playoffs with no expectations and a hungry team.
Of course, that does require making the playoffs in the first place…
Oh and can we please bury the "protect the civic" line? In the playoffs, this team doesn't protect the civic very often in big games anymore.
They have blown it so many times in my life that I assumed they would blow it in 2011 too. That team had something special that no B's team has had since.
Cool. I, OTOH, will slam the head coach that scratched better options than him in every game. EVERY. GAME.
Lots of blame to go around.
Top of my list would be the alleged "deepest defense corps in the NHL" with three 1A defensemen that continued to turn the puck over and make bad decision after bad decision for 7 games.
Second would be Montgomery. Way to fuck with what was working by putting in players fresh off injury and obviously not at game speed. Even then Foligno and Forbort never should have sniffed the ice this series—Frederic and Grz/Clifton were both superior options. Krejci is debatable but at the very least he should have eased in rather than thrown into the deep end at the start of the series. Then of course the goalie saga. I could see sticking with Ullmark through Game 5, but he had a bad game and looked to be ailing. You had a legit 1A backup ready, but now he goes in cold in Game 7 and gives up a soft one to start. Further down the list was the fucked up lines he started when Bergeron came back. Too clever by half the entire series by Monty.
Thirdly, yea the Jennings Trophy winning goaltenders, particularly Ullmark. Just needed a couple more saves in Games 5 or 6.
Top of my list would be the alleged "deepest defense corps in the NHL" with three 1A defensemen that continued to turn the puck over and make bad decision after bad decision for 7 games.
Second would be Montgomery. Way to fuck with what was working by putting in players fresh off injury and obviously not at game speed. Even then Foligno and Forbort never should have sniffed the ice this series—Frederic and Grz/Clifton were both superior options. Krejci is debatable but at the very least he should have eased in rather than thrown into the deep end at the start of the series. Then of course the goalie saga. I could see sticking with Ullmark through Game 5, but he had a bad game and looked to be ailing. You had a legit 1A backup ready, but now he goes in cold in Game 7 and gives up a soft one to start. Further down the list was the fucked up lines he started when Bergeron came back. Too clever by half the entire series by Monty.
Thirdly, yea the Jennings Trophy winning goaltenders, particularly Ullmark. Just needed a couple more saves in Games 5 or 6.
They tried. Blew a 2-1 lead late in Game 7 against Montreal and a 3-2 series lead against Tampa.
I still can’t believe how so many guys just stood and watched on the last 2 Panthers goals.
Scared, sackless hockey.
Scared, sackless hockey.
Think there’s a difference between worst choke..and worst loss, which is where I believe that interchange started
The Bergeron Bruins having three of the worst chokes in Boston sports history is a really shitty footnote to a great player’s career.
The elusive combination of enough skill, wicked toughness, and stand-on-your head goaltending. That magic may never be replicated again.
They looked like they had tired legs to me, though that is also their fault because endurance matters.
That came to mind typing this. I think this is worse. The stakes were higher then without question but you have to do a lot of things right, especially in hockey, to get to a Game 7 in the Final at home. Same reason 2013 isn't here, although how they lost that one rots in my mind.
Life bookends. This all started as a 1v8 with an objectively thrilling Game 6. The building vibrated. Chara lifted higher than the Cup was ever lifted before or since three years later. But along the way, life curved, in the surface of this game: Chilling, ice. Frozen, solid. At one. Many an opportunity to crack through, the permanence remained. Now they were the 1, and against a young 8. The Panthers had their Game 6 moment.
But there was no 5-0. There was nothing. Just reflections of faces, memories, and times, blocked in, frozen in time, for however we remember all of this, seemingly forever. Gah...the Bruins like no other bring me to tears.
Nobody is getting fired.
We don’t know what Bergy and Krejci are doing.
The defense and coaching stunk all series.
Florida played their asses off (after winning the Prez Cup last year and lolly-gagging thru the season) and beat us.
Go Celts.
We don’t know what Bergy and Krejci are doing.
The defense and coaching stunk all series.
Florida played their asses off (after winning the Prez Cup last year and lolly-gagging thru the season) and beat us.
Go Celts.
Okay, this is why it always comes back to Montgomery. When was the last time either guy played more that 2-3 in a row? November, while Swayman was hurt? Suddenly, a hurt Ullmark starts 6 in a row, and Swayman’s iced outside of garbage time in Game 4. They won the Jennings Trophy by holding to a rotation. Who cares what the idiots at NHL Network have to say about rotations in the playoffs, you have six months of proof it works.
Uhhh no? I can’t think of a great athlete where their championship(s) is/are a footnote, with the possible exception of Pete Rose.
no one would ever coach here again and the players would be bullshit
I’m super pissed at Montgomery but the bruins will be even more if a laughingstock if they can him
I thought that too. But whatever, you gotta gut it out. The Panthers did.
and there was more than just tired legs. They looked scared to death at times. I almost never use the word “choke”, but this was a textbook definition of choking.
This team had all the hallmarks of it. Four really strong lines, lots of grit, amazing ability to win puck battles and hem teams in, strong defense, strong goaltending, good special teams, clutch goal scoring, veteran leadership.
Then they got to the playoffs and couldn’t string two passes together to save their lives. It was really raw talent (and facing a fucking 8 seed) that got them to G7 at all. Against a better team they probably would have been destroyed. It was bad signs starting right away in G1.
This is why I don’t want Bert back. To trick-or-treat. View: https://twitter.com/bruins_stats/status/1652857343476940803?s=12
Running into a hot goaltender is one thing. (I’ll never get over Dryden in 71). But Florida’s goaltenders were mediocre at best. Yup. The core of this team has underperformed over the years. Should have had a few more Cups. I can’t believe how bad the defenseman were in this series. And Montgomery was in over his head. Maurice out coached him badly. Ullmark turned into Ullmark.
I was thinking this too, Ullmark was the better goalie but not to the extent that he should have been the only option in the playoffs until Monty had literally no other choice.
I personally wouldn’t, and I think most bruins fans wouldn’t. But I think that will be a lot of the narrative around the teams he lead.
I didn’t think they’d lose unless they ran into a hot goalie, or at least a team in their vicinity talent wise, but here we are.
I'm really sorry this is over.
Maybe in the second game of the season I turned the Bruins on, as one does, and thought, "whatever, it is October but this will be fun to watch for a bit." Usually the early ebb and flow of the season and the slog (given how many teams make the playoffs anyway) makes it so I am often pretty casual until the middle of February. But not this year. I sort of started the season with the sense that I'd watch 'seriously' until they lost. And then by the time they did it was clear that they were on to something special. I absolutely didn't think it would end like this.
I'm pretty gutted.
Maybe in the second game of the season I turned the Bruins on, as one does, and thought, "whatever, it is October but this will be fun to watch for a bit." Usually the early ebb and flow of the season and the slog (given how many teams make the playoffs anyway) makes it so I am often pretty casual until the middle of February. But not this year. I sort of started the season with the sense that I'd watch 'seriously' until they lost. And then by the time they did it was clear that they were on to something special. I absolutely didn't think it would end like this.
I'm pretty gutted.
Did you miss him crying and do a skate around the ice with his stick raised saluting the fans?
View: https://twitter.com/michaelfhurley/status/1652857680275406848?s=46&t=Yv-0viabFQl7Lk7DrSRbBA
View: https://twitter.com/michaelfhurley/status/1652857106343645185?s=46&t=Yv-0viabFQl7Lk7DrSRbBA
View: https://twitter.com/_tyanderson/status/1652856116227854340?s=46&t=Yv-0viabFQl7Lk7DrSRbBA
Doesn’t really seem like a guy completely in charge of the room
View: https://twitter.com/michaelfhurley/status/1652857106343645185?s=46&t=Yv-0viabFQl7Lk7DrSRbBA
View: https://twitter.com/_tyanderson/status/1652856116227854340?s=46&t=Yv-0viabFQl7Lk7DrSRbBA
Doesn’t really seem like a guy completely in charge of the room
He got outcoached by Paul fucking Maurice, the losingest loser to ever stand behind the bench.
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He was also on the ice for at least 8 goals. Probably more, but he had 8 points in the series
People said the same thing when he did this last year.
View: https://twitter.com/conorryan_93/status/1525617611756666880?s=46&t=5h-gcnpgMdAoyCodjuGSxQ
We don’t know shit.