mar2kbos
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This series is all about who chokes the least. Any other team I am 100% with you. Leafs is a different story. They are right there with the Bruins with the ability to choke.
Post-Game Talk: ECQF GAME 6 - TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT - THANK YOU JACK EDWARDS - Series tied 3-3
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Gonzothe7thDman
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He left it all back in game 4 where he must have thought the series was over.
Something tells me there may be a visitor in the Bruins locker room. It won’t be Razor but perhaps his good buddy and former roommate.
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That show was neutered by NESN taking over. I was pissed when they did the move to the network.
frankiess
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McAvoy made bad decisions on every Toronto game winning goal. He made mistakes on all two of the Toronto goals tonight just to cover for Geekie's goal.
The don godfather
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Not really .When Lohrei was caved in instead of going on pp in tie game a few secs later trailing
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If it isn’t Neely ripping them, Bergeron isn’t going to scare them. Hugs?Something tells me there may be a visitor in the Bruins locker room. It won’t be Razor but perhaps his good buddy and former roommate.
McGarnagle
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I just think it's typical that the decisive goal happened right after the most blatantly obvious major boarding penalty went uncalled, but it's not the refs' fault that this team can't get a single goal past Joseph friggin' Woll in 59:59.9
This team is mentally soft, all the refs do is smooth it along
mar2kbos
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They'll never do it, but yes, and then sign Reinhart this off season and you immediately add some tenacity this team lacks.
Yup. But at the same time 2-1 games are built for 3rd-line grinders (I’m looking at you Coyle and Zacha), of which we have myriad, yet here we are getting out-grinded (?) by the fricken’ Toronto Maple leafs. Infuriating. Out-f***ing-grind them why dontcha?!
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Less than a week ago the Bruins played the Leafs in Toronto in G4 and delivered one of their best playoff performances in quite some time. A comprehensive effort – solid defense, timely goals both even strength and on the PP, a 3rd period clinic that thoroughly controlled the play, gave the Leafs basically no hope of getting back into the game and just about broke their spirits. Toronto looked a rabble, reduced to squabbling on their own bench.
Fast forward a very short distance to now and we’ve seen two of the worst playoff efforts in, well, who knows how long. Zero jump, no intensity, outplayed, outworked, playing scared, stupid, disjointed hockey. How can a team turn to jello so quickly?
There are no excuses. Oh the refs were against us, the league wants a G7, the coach makes silly selections, blah, blah, blah. No, just no. Don’t give these guys an out. Against a serious team like the Panthers, or to go back in time to the SCFs against the Blues, maybe such arguments hold more weight. But this is against the milquetoast Maple Leafs, a team with its own scars and playing without their best player and with their young backup goal in net. That the Bruins can’t beat this lot is bad enough, that they lose in such miserable fashionable in 1-2 goal games where their goalie gives them every chance, while delivering new lows like 1-shot periods along the way, is pathetic.
People want to hang too much of this on Monty but I don’t really buy it. He’s made a couple of errors, sure, has some other arguable flaws, but he’s the same guy who coached this team to 3 solid victories in the first 4 games. Cleary the tactics are in place that allow this team to win games of hockey, clearly the talent is there to do so, regardless of whether this or that particular depth player is dressed. But while he can preach mental toughness and resilience in his charges, he can’t force it. So to me that’s a distraction or looking for something or someone easy to hang the blame on.
Same for Sweeney at this point. Whatever you think of his long-term record, and whatever myself and plenty of others have said about the compromised state of this transitional roster, what’s happening now isn’t about ability or the intricacies of effective roster construction. It’s between the ears of the players on the ice. And that’s straight up not good enough.
Game 7 to come. Perhaps they win, perhaps not. Even if they do, unless they suddenly deliver some kind of heroics against Florida, what’s happened in the last few days can’t be forgotten. Management need to have a good hard look at this roster, at just about every player, and determine who really has the stones for serious hockey and big-boy plays, and who doesn’t. The culture, whatever that is exactly, in that locker room is deficient. It needs serious work.
Fast forward a very short distance to now and we’ve seen two of the worst playoff efforts in, well, who knows how long. Zero jump, no intensity, outplayed, outworked, playing scared, stupid, disjointed hockey. How can a team turn to jello so quickly?
There are no excuses. Oh the refs were against us, the league wants a G7, the coach makes silly selections, blah, blah, blah. No, just no. Don’t give these guys an out. Against a serious team like the Panthers, or to go back in time to the SCFs against the Blues, maybe such arguments hold more weight. But this is against the milquetoast Maple Leafs, a team with its own scars and playing without their best player and with their young backup goal in net. That the Bruins can’t beat this lot is bad enough, that they lose in such miserable fashionable in 1-2 goal games where their goalie gives them every chance, while delivering new lows like 1-shot periods along the way, is pathetic.
People want to hang too much of this on Monty but I don’t really buy it. He’s made a couple of errors, sure, has some other arguable flaws, but he’s the same guy who coached this team to 3 solid victories in the first 4 games. Cleary the tactics are in place that allow this team to win games of hockey, clearly the talent is there to do so, regardless of whether this or that particular depth player is dressed. But while he can preach mental toughness and resilience in his charges, he can’t force it. So to me that’s a distraction or looking for something or someone easy to hang the blame on.
Same for Sweeney at this point. Whatever you think of his long-term record, and whatever myself and plenty of others have said about the compromised state of this transitional roster, what’s happening now isn’t about ability or the intricacies of effective roster construction. It’s between the ears of the players on the ice. And that’s straight up not good enough.
Game 7 to come. Perhaps they win, perhaps not. Even if they do, unless they suddenly deliver some kind of heroics against Florida, what’s happened in the last few days can’t be forgotten. Management need to have a good hard look at this roster, at just about every player, and determine who really has the stones for serious hockey and big-boy plays, and who doesn’t. The culture, whatever that is exactly, in that locker room is deficient. It needs serious work.
Gonzothe7thDman
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Pastrnak having to play with Maroon should have been a fireable offense.
I read on here that Maroon is on his line to “protect him” and I almost spit out my coffee?
Protect him from scoring or what?
Carl Hungus
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They've got the same team that started the series off with a bang and whooped a**. They just hit game 5 and lost all emotion and effort. Absolutely brutal games. At this point the only way I can really explain it is that they choke.
KWbruin
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Absurdity
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He has been disappointing. He isn't mailing it, and he's a top 10D in this league. He needs to play better. Guys like DeBrusk and Carlo have shown up. McAvoy, not so much.
Right now, I am questioning the next crop of core players on this team. Those questions may be gone or answered after game 7.
TP70BruinsCup
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I think that’s what makes this different for me. I oringally picked it as Leafs in 6 as I thought their offense was too much for us. I cannot believe how bad their PP is. But being up 3-1 after the meltdown the Leafs had in game 4……just makes this all hard to swallow. Let’s see what Saturday brings but man when we struggle to get shots and have no real finish, it is not looking too good gang……
Sheppy
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3-1 Leafs. Swayman has an average game and the Bruins don’t pick him up.
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RiverbottomChuck
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This team needs Torts or Clode to turn the boys into men.
Trashpass
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People like to laugh at the Leafs but there isn't a franchise in history that is as mentally fragile or bigger choke artist than the Bruins, and that's a fact
i honestly think the whole team should get a buzz going on for game 7. not too drunk to play, but enough to get rid of the nerves.
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