Boston NYR is the epitome of the nhl now.

[Crazy Cizikas]

I think a "Boomer" is something somebody says when they know they would lose the argument if they attempted to use logic and rational fact to make their point. Often used by low functioning people with limited vocabularies.

Hope this helps.

It’s short for “baby boomer”, a reference to a current older generation.

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

You mean the generation who grew up as hippies worshipping weed and John Lennon?

You are misinformed.

 

[GreatSaveEssensa]

Would have made the end game worth watching, for one.

Sports is an entertainment business.

Wrestling was most likely on another channel. They dont need to rely on fighting to drive entertainment or ratings in any other sport without much of a problem. So why does the NHL in your mind?

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

Thanks; I liked my answer better. Although yours, is, of course, correct.

I’m not quite there yet. But I’m waiting for the day that I can yell at kids for walking on my lawn. Soon... Soon...

 

[GreatSaveEssensa]

Covid/Shinny hockey. No fans. No one paying $$ to watch , so nobody complaining or talking of cancelling season tickets. Teams / players take nights off. The North division has been play shinny pretty well from the start. Forty seven year old Spezza gets a hat rick, going end to end untouched. Games postponed every night. No real practicing.
If it wasnt for the pandemic keeping me home most evenings and freezing temps I would not even be watching the PSL. Pro Shinny League.

At what point will you hate it so much that you will stop posting on a message board designed specifically to discuss the sport that apparently disgusts you?

 

[The New Russian Five]

You are quite misguided here. In fact, Marchand tried to fight Fox who somehow chose to turtle in the 1st. Cringeworthy.

LMAO. Do you know anything about Fox? He's not a fighter, very much like most any other star player of his size. Marchand tried to goad him into a fight and should have gotten a penalty for it. You can't just jump someone and start a fight with them. That's not how this has worked even in the old NHL. You knew which players were down to fight and you go to them give each other a nod and throw down the gloves.

Marchand was just being an idiot on that play. Fox turtling, give me a break. Lmao

 

[The New Russian Five]

The op has a good point. In this game, the NYR got their 5 goal lead in the second period. There was still another 20 mins of game left. It’s unlikely that the Bruins would have been able to climb back into the game. But it has happened before. However, both teams just gave into the expected result and went through the motions to get through the third. This is no fault of the NYR; they rightfully accepted complacency to coast to a win. But the Bruins gave up too early. They just stopped trying.

Actually it was 4-1 going into the third. Rangers got two more in the third, and each of those goals were gritty drive to the net goals. They weren't going through the motions. They were still taking it to the Bruins at that point. It was the Bruins who just gave in.

This whole thread is silly. From the rangers point of view this was their most physical game yet, and the Bruins were just as chippy through the first two periods. The fact that they gave in is a coaching/team problem, not an NHL problem.

 

[Rebels57]

I agree, gooning it up wouldn’t have done a thing and that era of hockey is over for good.

My issue as a Bruins fan is we’ve been embarrassed two nights in a row. Take away our rout of Philly in Lake Tahoe we are in a putrid 4 of 5 skid. Too short a season for that not to be a problem,

Add to that NY ran Pasta in the first (as would I, by the way). Lindgren alone tagged him hard twice.

Bruins should have “run around” a bit in the third, finishing checks hard. If that leads to fight, so be it. But they didn’t and were very tame. Just playing out the game. Not good.

Next game better be very high energy and high intensity.

Shed load of injuries to an already young D, yes. But going to need effort and intensity to change tide.

And the Flyers were missing

Giroux
Voracek
Konecny
Lindblom
Laughton
Braun

For that game too. Not to mention their top 6 forward call-ups from the AHL were all injured (Frost, Ratcliffe, Sandin, Laczynski, Foerster, Allison) at the time.

Not much of an accomplishment lol.

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

Actually it was 4-1 going into the third. Rangers got two more in the third, and each of those goals were gritty drive to the net goals. They weren't going through the motions. They were still taking it to the Bruins at that point. It was the Bruins who just gave in.

This whole thread is silly. From the rangers point of view this was their most physical game yet, and the Bruins were just as chippy through the first two periods. The fact that they gave in is a coaching/team problem, not an NHL problem.

I agree. I didn’t state the score correctly. But, yes, Boston gave up. That’s the OP’s gripe, I think. Teams accept defeat too soon.

 

[The New Russian Five]

I agree. I didn’t state the score correctly. But, yes, Boston gave up. That’s the OP’s gripe, I think. Teams accept defeat too soon.

Then that's a coaching/team issue. I don't recall the Sens rolling over when they were down 4 goals to the Leafs last week.

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

Then that's a coaching/team issue. I don't recall the Sens rolling over when they were down 4 goals to the Leafs last week.

Yes. It’s definitely a coaching issue. However, Boston is doing well, generally. But if teams push them hard, they retreat. They gotta fix that.

 

[Man Bear Pig]

You are misinformed.

Yes, the guy raised by boomers is misinformed.

 

[Crease]

“I’m mad the losing team didn’t give the winning team brain injuries.”

 

[Beerfish]

The op is totally correct.

Stoopid millenials and generation x,y and Z walking on my lawn

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

Yes, the guy raised by boomers is misinformed.

Yup. You have very limited perspective, so you generalize an entire generation.

 

[goooal]

First time here in awhile...its good to see hf is still getting young members. Those are the only people who could believe the 'product' is good today, nothing to compare it too.

Seriously though, I'll take any era over this one. Any meta over this one. If you enjoy it then more power to you, but its not the sport I grew up watching, and Im 29. The league has been mostly going downhill during Bettman's tenure though, its been a grind downhill. The shootout, 3 on 3 ot, cant take helmet off. I guess Im just a 29 year old boomer - maybe its because I ghosted the history of hockey forum so many years. I liked the game they used to play. Not sure what it is now. Soccer on ice? I guess. I like soccer, but I *liked* hockey. Shit sucks.

 

[Man Bear Pig]

Yup. You have very limited perspective, so you generalize an entire generation.

Well I'm glad I have you here who went into great detail about that generation.

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

Well I'm glad I have you here who went into great detail about that generation.

How can I beat your great declaration about weed and John Lennon? You’re clearly the American culture savant. Your parents were baby boomers.

 

[Man Bear Pig]

How can I beat your great declaration about weed and John Lennon? You’re clearly the American culture savant. Your parents were baby boomers.

Did the boomers not grow up in that era, oh wise one?

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I refuse to acknowledge that the Bruins have played a game since Tahoe

that wasn’t a game. That was a preseason scrimmage against a tram with 7 regulars out.

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

Did the boomers not grow up in that era, oh wise one?

Not everyone was a weed smoking hippie. But you generalize them to be. That’s your own prejudices, not mine.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Tried to fight someone in the first minute and was involved in the chippiness all night.

Deserved a penalty for that.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

You are quite misguided here. In fact, Marchand tried to fight Fox who somehow chose to turtle in the 1st. Cringeworthy.

Why would Fox fight there? Nothing happened. When you are the best player on your team, you shouldn’t partake in made up conflicts that have you sitting in the box for a long time.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Why would Fox fight there? Nothing happened. When you are the best player on your team, you shouldn’t partake in made up conflicts that have you sitting in the box for a long time.

Marchand isn't exactly a challenge in a fight and hurts the Bruins off the ice quite a bit. Why wouldn't he? A good chance to make a statement.

In the end it didn't matter as NYR bullied the Bruins for the rest of the game, but I will always remember Fox turtling to Marchand. Literally turtling to the ice.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

I miss the days of retired players dying in their 40s from after effects of CTE all because they couldn't handle losing a game 6-1.

Agreed.

Thank God bodychecks don't give players CTEs because people go to the quiet room and we're aware of them, but let's keep pointing out that fighting and only fighting gave those players those injuries and overstate how many have died prematurely because of that to further prove our point.