Series Talk: ECF - Bruins vs. Hurricanes

[mar2kbos]

Bruins in 5. They started waking up the last couple of games. When they play with confidence not many hang with them. Usually I’m a pessimistic, but feel good with this match up.

 

[13Hockey]

Let’s win the first 2 at home I’m sick of this 1-1 heading into game 3 haha

I need atleast one game this postseason where I won’t be devastated by a Bs loss

 

[BruinsFanMike82]

Season Series

Bruins: 2-1-0
Bruins goals per game: 3.33
Hurricanes goals per game: 3.33
Bruins PP%: 27.3%
Hurricanes PP%: 16.7%


Brad Marchand: 2-3-5; even
Patrice Bergeron: 1-3-4; +1
Jake DeBrusk: 1-1-2; +3
David Krejci: 1-1-2; -2
David Pastrnak: 1-0-1; even
Chris Wagner: 1-0-1; even

Torey Krug: 0-2-2; +2; 21:56
Brandon Carlo: 0-1-1; +1; 23:35
Steven Kampfer: 1-0-1; +1; 13:11
John Moore: 0-0-0; +1; 17:07
Zdeno Chara: 0-0-0; -1; 25:17


Sebastian Aho: 4-3-7; +4
Teuvo Teravainen: 2-2-4; +1
Justin Williams: 1-1-2; +1
Micheal Ferland: 1-1-2; even
Nino Niederreiter: 0-1-1; +1
Jordan Martinook: 0-1-1; even

Justin Faulk: 1-1-2; +3; 21:34
Calvin de Haan: 0-1-1; +4; 18:47
Brett Pesce: 0-1-1; +1; 19:34
Jaccob Slavin: 0-1-1; -1; 23:06
Dougie Hamilton: 1-0-1; -2; 19:04


Tuukka Rask: 0-1-0; 5.23 GAA; .865 Sv%
Jaroslav Halak: 2-0-0; 2.47 GAA; .938 Sv%

Petr Mrazek: 1-0-0; 3.01 GAA; .900 Sv%
Curtis McElhinney: 0-0-1; 3.89 GAA; .895 Sv

 

[Alicat]

Aho gives me anxiety

 

[Bruinswillwin77]

Aho gives me anxiety

He seems to kill the Bruins, but hopefully they shut him down..

 

[Alicat]

He seems to kill the Bruins, but hopefully they shut him down..

I have confidence they will but every time he touches the puck I get nervous.

Tuukka is in the zone and I trust the extra rest and prep is really going to benefit the Bruins.

Not going to be an easy series by any stretch. We can not overlook these guys.

I got the Bruins in 6

 

[Chief Nine]

Brind ‘Amour reminds me of Iggy Pop.

Lol with about 65 lbs more muscle

 

[kthx]

Line 1- advantage Bruins
Line 2- advantage Bruins
Line 3- advantage Bruins
Line 4- advantage Bruins

Top 4 D- advantage Carolina
Bottom pair D- advantage Bruins

PP- advantage Bruins 29% to 10%
PK- advantage Bruins 84% to 75%

Faceoff- advantage Bruins 53% to 50%

Goalie- advantage Bruins

Home Ice- Advantage Bruins

Experience- Advantage Bruins

Rest- Advantage Carolina

Also they're dealing with injuries. Compare McElhinney and Bobrovsky. Quite sure this series will be 4-0 or 4-1 Bruins.

 

[smithformeragent]

I went to bed at 7:55 last night.

I figure if I do the same tonight, I’ll be rested enough for Thursday.

That’s how it works, right?

 

[BruinFanSam]

Also they're dealing with injuries. Compare McElhinney and Bobrovsky. Quite sure this series will be 4-0 or 4-1 Bruins.

I dont know... Caps were/are a pretty solid team and the Islanders were no slouches either. I know for a fact that fans of both those teams said the exact same thing. Canes just seem to have a knack for scoring goals at the right time and it doesn't show up in stats.

 

[BruinFanSam]

He seems to kill the Bruins, but hopefully they shut him down..

All we need to do is stick Danton Heinen on him.... he is the best advanced stats guy in the history of hockey apparently..

 

[Dizzay]

I predict Bruins in 5.

 

[Oates2Neely]

Who are their offensive weapons?

Seems J. Staal is producing. Aho is their top guy. Teroveinen* can score at will. Who else am I missing?

 

[Dellstrom]

Aho gives me anxiety

Me too but Panarin was the same. He burned us quite a bit last series but we adapted well to him. We'll have to do the same with Aho

 

[BruinDust]

Who are their offensive weapons?

Seems J. Staal is producing. Aho is their top guy. Teroveinen* can score at will. Who else am I missing?

After that it's really a bunch of secondary scorers like Williams, Niederreiter, Ferland (if healthy), Foegele, Svechnikov, etc.

 

[Boston Bandit]

Who are their offensive weapons?

Seems J. Staal is producing. Aho is their top guy. Teroveinen* can score at will. Who else am I missing?

Mr. Game 7 Williams is a pain in the ass

 

[TCB]

Slavin is making a MVP case for him, just elite defensively with added offense to his game in these playoffs.
He's not a physical guy but he's frustrated the hell out of his opponents. Just has seemed to break up every 1on1 or 2on1 play.

Then you have Pesce to worry about who's better than Savard.[/QUOTE

If you go back and read the original post from when the the conversation started, you'll see, we were comparing their right-side defense to that of Columbus. Saying it will be like a fresh of breath Air for Marchand and Debrusk not having to see Jones or Savard.

Although I do agree that Slavin is an elite defenseman and has been the Canes MVP as of now.

 

[alg363636]

I feel better about this series. The last couple games v Columbus looked way better and they seemed to have energy and chemistry. Even though we beat Toronto I did not think we looked good at all. Plus Rask is en fuego.

Still gotta learn to keep up the energy when we're down. This team has blown some stupid leads this post season. Aho can and will create goals from just about anywhere. I think Bergy can shut him down but Carolina can get him away from Bergy in Raleigh. Gotta hit him every chance you can.

Also like I said before f*** Dougie and his baby soft play. Gross.

 

[TCB]

Who are their offensive weapons?

Seems J. Staal is producing. Aho is their top guy. Teroveinen* can score at will. Who else am I missing?

Mr. Game 7 Williams is a pain in the ass

They have quite a bit of talent up front there's still Neiderreiter and Svechnikov who can beat you and then there's Andrei Frogle who has seemed to make these playoffs his coming out party. He's been a real threat it seems every time he steps on the ice and of course their defense loves to rush the puck and jump in offensively.

Dougie Hamilton I think at times plays more of a rover roll than anything.

 

[sleepyh]

Any updates on when game 2 will be?

 

[Caper Bruins fan]

So has it been confirmed Game 2 is Sunday afternoon?

 

[smithformeragent]

I’ll be shocked if this doesn’t go 6 or 7.

 

[TCB]

So has it been confirmed Game 2 is Sunday afternoon?

Any updates on when game 2 will be?

 

[DKH]

Always comes back to Cher

Never forgave her for dumping Sonny and ruining the Allman Brothers

 

[Caper Bruins fan]

That gives me hope . Don’t want a Sunday afternoon game : A . It would be impossible for me to watch live and B . Pretty well impossible for me to avoid knowing the score before watching the game later so it’s essentially a game I would miss .