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Let's not pretend Bruins didn't get a ton of bounces in the first 3 rounds though...
Hockey's going to have it's up and downs - it's what you do in between those "lucky" goals that determines the winner.
They'll bounce back, hopefully - but it's going to be hard after going out the way did tonight. Thankfully they have a couple days to rest before Game 2.
Wow I don't know what the hell you guys were watching but I thought the Hawks carried the play for the majority of two overtimes. That being said the Bruins definitely got the more dangerous chances in overtime. Great games by both goalies and hard simple work on the winner. Hawks out hit and out shot the Bruins if I'm not mistaken as well. Looks like their timing was off, they were only able to get the "Hawks Engine" rolling for moments during the game, but that's credit to the Bruins too for managing the game so very well and playing real solid on the road, despite losing. Hossa, Kane and Toews were all off on their timing and finish, but Hossa looks like he could explode at any moment. Krejci and Lucic are also amazing. These teams are very evening matched.
B's missed Horton back in 2011 and managed to win. Campbell is meh. Seguin woke up in the third and OT and played quite well.
Bruins dominated in the 1st and 3rd OT periods and could've ended the game a dozen times. Not only were they dominant they were getting the much better scoring chances.
Hawks controlled the 2nd OT period but were reeling in the 3rd.
I've watched the 2nd hawks goal, the critical goal in the game, 10 times and its clearly offside and the puck is clearly bounced out of the zone. That was not a legit tag up on the play and the Hawks got every benefit of doubt on that play where the whistle would be blown virtually everytime. Curious decision allowing Hawks to have an obvious scoring chance.
The game was over without that goal. Then the Ference own goal hooboy.
Well, I watched the entire game with my own two eyes, very closely, wide awake. I could argue and debate with you but it would be completely pointless because I simply don't agree. Not to mention you have a blatant hate on for the Hawks and refuse to give them almost any credit. And I could really care less, I just find it odd. I do not think the Bruins by any means "dominated" the 1st and 3rd OT's. they picked their spots and turned it on when they needed to and were very cautious in applying the gas. It was a topsy turvy, sometimes sloppy affair but I will admit the B's definitely got the more dangerous scoring chances. Chi d-men and forwards in many instances made desperation plays though, laying it all on the line. I don't think the Hawks played a great game to be honest, even though the game itself was quite entertaining. B's played almost a perfect road game and deserved better. Horrible play by Hjalmarsson on the first GA and he adjusted after that. I'm sure Kane will have that 2nd goal shown to him repeatedly on tape. This is going to be a very interesting series.
In OT, I found the Bruins held the transitional game advantage, which led to most of their chances. While the Hawks held the offensive-zone pressure advantage, which led to most of their chances. Backwardsy, but the game ebbed and flowed, often from line to line.
In my opinion, at a minimum, Bolland had a skate on the blue line when the puck crossed into the offensive zone. And though I remember the rule used to require you to cross over the blue line into the neutral zone to clear the zone and not be offside, the rules now only need a player to have a skate come into contact with the line to have cleared the zone..
And jagr hooked malkin. Who gives a flying ****.
Agree completely with this. Chicago probably had the puck for 60% of the OT, while 4 of the best 5 scoring chances belonged to Boston.
This series already has the makings of a classic, excellent first game I thought. A little sloppy in regulation, but they pretty much played a second game afterwards that was great hockey and wildly entertaining throughout.
In the end, Chicago was able to roll four lines more effectively. The role players stepped up again. Frolik and Kruger killed off two penalties in OT, Shaw and Bolland had great games, and Bollig got a regular shift in OT while his opposite Thornton was stapled to the bench (not that I agree with Claude Julien in that instance).
Hawks depth on defense paid off. McQuaid and Krug barely saw the ice in OT, and Ference was on the ice for the 2nd and 3rd Hawks goals. Conversely, Chicago's 6th d-man played 30 minutes and set up the winning goal.
Hope Horton is OK, but that seems doubtful. It would be a real shame if he missed another final, and his line has been the engine driving the Bruins. They won their matchup against Toews tonight. If he's toast for the series, that's a devastating blow.
The bruins outshot and outplayed the Hawks by a fair margin in the 1st OT. I don't know how anybody would even dispute that. In the 3rd OT the Hawks were in a lot of trouble and almost got scored against 5 times before they got a routine point shot and ended it. The NBC telecast(good) definitely concurred that the Hawks tooked to be in trouble and the Bruins were dominatiing. Crawford kept the Hawks in the game for a longtime and was suburb.
In this playoffs I've rarely seen a line call viewed this liberally. Its quite clear it wasn't even an intended tag up. The player at the line pushes the puck back in trying to feign that it didn't go out at all. The puck was out by a foot. I don't know the refs even caught that. That play gets blown down easily 9 times out of 10. But its the swift hawks so its allowed.
Hawks really got the home officiating tonight. They had 6 forwards on the ice for nearly a whole shift before getting called. The puck even hit an extra hawk coming on 20 secs earlier in the shift.
Hawks got all the breaks in this one.
Completey disagree. The Bruins flat out dominated those OT's, i'd say that they had at least 5-6 prime chances to score and hit 2 posts as well. I can think of maybe 2 prime chances that the Hawks had. They looked like the more fatigued team IMO.
The Hawks dominated the 2nd and 3rd periods for sure but the OT's were mostly Bruins. I guess the Hawks had more possession time but i consider getting more scoring chances to be the dominating factor.
