GDT: 2/28/19 - 7:30PM EDT - Tampa Bay @ Boston

[berlin]

no injuries = win.
17 useless games left.

This exactly!

 

[T REX]

We're writing history this year.
We've never won the President Trophy, and add a trophy like this one is very important, imho.
And also every record the guys rewrite is important.

The...it's time to stop to say "If you don't win the Cup, you won't enter into the Legend". It's not true.
It's not true cause the difference between winning and losing is not so high. The details change everything.

So Sampras is not a Legend cause he's not won the Roland Garros?
Barkley and Stockton never won the NBA...
Mickelson the US Open of golf...
Ronaldo the Champions League and Cruijff the World Cup.
So also Cruijff is not a Legend...?

Its cup or bust. Sampras was the greatest ever before Fed. Your examples are awful.

We have the most talented team in the cap era. Win it or own the choker label. Sorry. I'm adamant about this. Yzerman created a monster and cooper hasn't done good enough in the playoffs. Regular season means nothing.

I hope you can shove these posts down my throat come June.

 

[Bolt 45]

Now's the time to remind everyone that we played this exact same sloppy game, against this exact same team, at the exact same point in the year last year, with the exact same result and everything turned out okay.

This is simply the point in the season where Boston puff out their chests and pretend to be scary. We'll be fine.

 

[Master P]

Why do people always act like we just got eliminated from the playoffs after every game we lose?

 

[Fabiobest]

Its cup or bust. Sampras was the greatest ever before Fed. Your examples are awful.

We have the most talented team in the cap era. Win it or own the choker label. Sorry. I'm adamant about this. Yzerman created a monster and cooper hasn't done good enough in the playoffs. Regular season means nothing.

I hope you can shove these posts down my throat come June.

Of course I hope to win, but I don't agree with your vision.

 

[RussianGuyovich]

Well playoffs are a different animal. They are hot right now and might cool down going into the playoffs. Just gotta focus on the next one.

Just gotta get pucks deep and work hard

 

[Fabiobest]

Why do people always act like we just got eliminated from the playoffs after every game we lose?

Why people can't be happy watching this roster, without thinking too much about what can be if ...?

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

17 games left. 12 of them are against teams that currently sit in a playoff spot.

 

[AlphaCatalyst]

Some fun opinions from other fans on the main board.

 

[BeingTheThunder]

Garbage game with the expected garbage outcome. Meh, whatever, no one is hurt and the season continues... I am still not the least bit worried about Boston or Toronto. The only team that really gives me pause is maayyybe the Jets...

 

[BoltsOfAnarchy]

And can anyone of these jag offs from NBC just say Acciari last name....does it always have to sound like “ Nolacharri”??? Fing Pierre

 

[DFC]

Its cup or bust. Sampras was the greatest ever before Fed. Your examples are awful.

We have the most talented team in the cap era. Win it or own the choker label. Sorry. I'm adamant about this. Yzerman created a monster and cooper hasn't done good enough in the playoffs. Regular season means nothing.

I hope you can shove these posts down my throat come June.

What's the point in watching the regular season if you only take the rare negative moments to use as proof we can't win a cup? I don't get this. We're on pace to win 60. "Yeah, but we lost tonight, so clearly all the other teams trying to win a cup are more likely to do it."

 

[Coopers Gum]

Neutral zone trap and aggressive forecheck is the boilerplate for every teams defense, against every team.

Every team tries to do this every game. We normally are able to pass out of it. It’s not working tonight, probably lethargy.

The switch is real. And it will be flipped.

Pretty much. No team says, ok, lets let them skate through the neutral zone, and have a passive forecheck.

I'm being chirped by every Bruin fan friend I have right now, which is annoying. "Know the scary part? This team didn't even have Pasta on it!!"

Dude. You just beat a team on the 2nd half of a back to back with their backup goalie in. Relax.

 

[T REX]

Garbage game with the expected garbage outcome. Meh, whatever, no one is hurt and the season continues... I am still not the least bit worried about Boston or Toronto. The only team that really gives me pause is maayyybe the Jets...

What's coopers record vs Trotz? It ain't pretty.

 

[BeingTheThunder]

What's the point in watching the regular season if you only take the rare negative moments to use as proof we can't win a cup? I don't get this. We're on pace to win 60. "Yeah, but we lost tonight, so clearly all the other teams trying to win a cup are more likely to do it."

Exactly... to all of you naysayers that think this means anything, Arizona has beaten us 7 to frigging 1 this season. Do you expect them to hoist the cup? Get real.

 

[RussianGuyovich]

Garbage game with the expected garbage outcome. Meh, whatever, no one is hurt and the season continues... I am still not the least bit worried about Boston or Toronto. The only team that really gives me pause is maayyybe the Jets...

Ummm. San Jose???

 

[Bolt 45]

Why do people always act like we just got eliminated from the playoffs after every game we lose?

Because we go so long between losses that we forget how to handle them. We forget that they're possible.

 

[Master P]

What's coopers record vs Trotz? It ain't pretty.

I'm sorry, did we just play the islanders?

 

[T REX]

Yeah...pile on me but that's not how I wanted to lose. That style of play cooper has had zero answer for...none. my proof...history.

 

[BeingTheThunder]

Ummm. San Jose???

Okay, I will admit SJ is a wee bit concerning.. but, my point is, no one in the East worries me.

 

[T REX]

I'm sorry, did we just play the islanders?

You know my point was the scheme not the opponent. We haven't answered that bell yet.

 

[rocketdan9]

Carlo looked real slow. Also chara. I didn’t bother to watch any others. Nice team. Too bad we won’t get an opportunity to knock the bruins out of the playoffs again. Toronto has this dance.

Chara yes

Carlo is an amazing skater for a 6'5

One of the best shutdown in the league

 

[Powerplay17]

3 games in 4 nights coupled with a few poor efforts recently, this outcome was easy to see coming. They’ve entered “save it for the playoffs “ mode which can be really ugly and frustrating to watch.

 

[Master P]

You know my point was the scheme not the opponent. We haven't answered that bell yet.

What? We've beaten the islanders already this year.

 

[DFC]

Yeah...pile on me but that's not how I wanted to lose. That style of play cooper has had zero answer for...none. my proof...history.

Even if that's true (which it's not; they don't really play like a Trotz team), then that would only mean we have a weakness. Like everybody else.

We missed out on being the first ever team to win 50 of its first 65 games. By a game. The sky is falling.

I just don't get the point in watching regular season hockey if wins don't mean anything but losses mean we suck.