Bolt 45
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You are wrong. You misspelled Boston. I suspect you're on the wrong board, too.ECF will Bonston V Pitt. Mark the tape.
Hope I’m wrong
You are wrong. You misspelled Boston. I suspect you're on the wrong board, too.ECF will Bonston V Pitt. Mark the tape.
Hope I’m wrong
No kidding.Man there's a lot of people here who seem to watch the games just to predict bad things and hope they can say told ya so after.
Have we lost a Playoffs series...? Really?ECF will Bonston V Pitt. Mark the tape.
Hope I’m wrong
Let them have their fun. If anything, having teams underestimate us would be a huge benefit.Ah. Love seeing all the teams wanting TB in round one now, because they see what's been going on.
I'm really interested in the Stamkos comment about negativity.
Cooper just said “you can’t really say one team outplayed the other”. Was I at the wrong game tonight?
I don't know. We had 3-4 days to sit around and think about the game. I doubt that helped us. On top of that, we really looked like a team that hadn't played in a few days. We were shooting ourselves in the foot quite a bit. We were pressing a little too hard, overskating loose pucks, rushing passes and shots. I think we kind of psyched ourselves out.Well I know people built this game up to be a BIG game but I just don't think that the players felt the same way. It was clear that Boston did though. I don't think that Tampa cares about the presidents trophy or anything like that. I think that all they care about is getting back into the playoffs and playing meaningful hockey again. I know people will say that this game wasn't meaningful but at the end of the day it was just a regular season game against a team we will face two more times before the season ends. Was it a bad effort? Of course, but like I said above, I think that the team is just trying to conserve energy and stay healthy for the playoffs.
Cooper just said “you can’t really say one team outplayed the other”. Was I at the wrong game tonight?
I think the idea of playing Paquette is that we are going to play a physical game. But that only works if the entire team plays that way. Only two lines were actually finishing their checks, and the thing is......it worked. Whenever our guys finished their hits all boston could do was chip the puck out or move it along the boards. When we didn't hit, they were free to come up the middle. I hate to sound like a broken record but this just screams "trying to save energy" to me. If this was game 1 of the playoffs there is no way in hell that we get the effort we saw tonight.I don't know. We had 3-4 days to sit around and think about the game. I doubt that helped us. On top of that, we really looked like a team that hadn't played in a few days. We were shooting ourselves in the foot quite a bit. We were pressing a little too hard, overskating loose pucks, rushing passes and shots. I think we kind of psyched ourselves out.
Playing Paquette was a bad idea too. He, Cally, and Kunitz are too slow to all be in the lineup at the same time; and matching them up against Pastrnak and Marchand like we did early was just plain foolish. I thought Paquette played well, too. He's just too slow to be in the lineup with other slow guys. We've made that mistake before, and it's simply not one we should have ever made twice.
I think they also know that its better to save some energy for the playoffs to. God I feel like I could copy and past everything i'm saying lol.Tired of the “this team is still learning” cliche. This isn’t our first year of contention. We’ve been a contender for almost half a decade. The time for lessons is done. This organization knows what it takes to win by now.
Edit: And I’m not disagreeing with you entirely, Sunny. I don’t view this as a “OMG BOSTON IS GONNA BEAT US” uh oh. This is a “We’ve spent weeks scoreboard watching this team, and they just came into our barn down 3 starters and took us to the woodshed” uh oh.
I think they also know that its better to save some energy for the playoffs to. God I feel like I could copy and past everything i'm saying lol.
Well i'm not saying the playing poorly is intentional, just that its a byproduct of it.I really don’t believe that we are intentionally playing poorly to save energy. Copying and pasting it won’t make it right.
Tired of the “this team is still learning” cliche. This isn’t our first year of contention. We’ve been a contender for almost half a decade. The time for lessons is done. This organization knows what it takes to win by now.
Big bunch of crap. They're no more tired than any other team and were just coming off 4 days off. No, they don't care about the President's Trophy but they do care about playing well heading into the playoffs yet they've squandered all of the home games they had banked and they can't kill a penalty to save their lives. I'm not saying one and done because there is a lot of talent and a strong desire to win, but stumbling to the finish line gasping for air is not the way you want to prepare for the playoff wars.I think that the team is feeling tired. They played like crazy for the first half of the season to get where they are now and I think its starting to catch up to them. Which is also why I think we are getting games like this. I think the plan was to rack up as many points of possible before the end of the seasons to avoid a last second dash to a playoff spot. I know the Presidents trophy sounds nice but I think that they are tired and trying to save as much energy as possible for the playoffs.