Jean_Jacket41
Neely = HOF
The Bruins have never lost a playoff series under Bruce Cassidy when losing Game 1
They got the Caps right where they wanted.
Bruins beat these losers in 6.
The Bruins have never lost a playoff series under Bruce Cassidy when losing Game 1
As mentioned yesterday I did not see the game yesterday.
How was Tuukka?
Did he keep us in this one?
Lauzon was tied for the team lead in hits with 8, and led the team in blocks with 4, but he also made some pretty bad defensive plays. I'd still keep him in the lineup, though. Griz is overmatched physically, but Bruce obviously is not taking him out of the lineup, as he led the Bs in mins in game 1. That leaves Reilly, who I really like, but I did not see him really bringing anything special to the ice last night other than putting himself out of position from time to time.So you sit who
Did they make any line changes at practice today?
I just got home from a walk and lunch and figured I’d ask here versus on the cesspool of Twitter.
Lauzon only sits if he’s injured . IMOLauzon was tied for the team lead in hits with 8, and led the team in blocks with 4, but he also made some pretty bad defensive plays. I'd still keep him in the lineup, though. Griz is overmatched physically, but Bruce obviously is not taking him out of the lineup, as he led the Bs in mins in game 1. That leaves Reilly, who I really like, but I did not see him really bringing anything special to the ice last night other than putting himself out of position from time to time.
Agreed. No point in my wanting Tinordi in for toughness if they take out Lauzon, who showed more toughness than any other B last night. I am interested to see if Lauzon continues to improve as the playoffs progress. This is great experience for him.Lauzon only sits if he’s injured . IMO
While I generally agree with this I have to say that the Bruins did little-nothing to test Anderson. I expect a much better showing in game 2, if not this can be a surprisingly short series.fully agree - it was tipped but it was tipped directly into chest. He then let it poop thru his legs and out his butt into the goal. Lots of problems tonight but tuukka, as usual, was not a difference maker. He was not better than Anderson who is a third string goalie. Same predicament as always … not his fault but did nothing to help out
Caps get last change and fully exploited the third pairing and third line as much as they could last night.Bad: The Miller/Lauzon pairing every time they are on the ice. Should be used as little as possible and only against the Caps fourth line.
Good: we just barely lost with our top line not even showing up for the game, if they just wake up we should be OK.
Blaming Tuukka, to me, just flat out says you didn’t actually watch the game.
To me that doesn’t necessarily mean there won’t be like changes though. Just no one taken out/put in.
Haven’t seen anything about lines on Twitter but I may have missed it
As I posted before I'm not worried about the team going forward, however I am worried about Pasta. He has been off all season. It's like he's finally hit a sophomore slump later in his career. Marchand did hit a similar thing in his career and then figured it out, so I hope Pasta does too. He needs to seriously work on his skating in the off season.
No matter who plays for the Caps tomorrow, the Bs have a more talented top 6 and a better goalie. The Caps won game 1 because they were the hungrier dogs. All hands need to be on deck to make a deep playoff run. That message hasn't reached a few Bruins.
Obviously hope we win the next game however if we lose and Tuukka save percentage flirts under .900....I would be fine with give Roadhouse Swayze a shot.I'd say he played like Halak did last post-season.
Not good but not exactly that bad either.
Good. You don’t hear the Bruins talking about Ovi’s charge and launch into Krejci. That set the tone for last night.
I think he’s probably trying to keep them, especially Grz, away from them so they can push more offense and worry less about shutting them down.wait, was he not already? I wasn't really paying attention to matchups, but noticed Miller out there a lot against Ovi and it seemed like a huge mismatch. Didn't think he was actively avoiding the Mac/Gryz vs Ovi matchup, though. If so....why?
I love Bruce but he tends to overthink these things sometimes, especially in the playoffs.
I probably have my homer goggles on but I really don’t think there’s anything there. Oshie rotated last minute and Lauzon followed through.
In fairness to Rask, the Bruins seem to play down to other teams too often. In this case though they were passive in the offensive zone and afraid to fight to the front of the Caps goal. The over passing, the poor shooting percentage, hitting the post etc can't go on.Such a fine line. I love Rask, but he's lost a lot of series to goalies that were IMO no where near as good as he was, so I can see why some might be all over him....but the Bruins scored one goal in 51 minutes vs Craig Anderson..