GDT: Game 2 - (4)Boston Bruins vs (5) Toronto Maple Leafs - 7PM - CBC, RDS, NESN

[Danton Heineken]

RE-BUILD THE BOATS!


GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS (Courtesy of dafoomie)



MEDIA SCRUM
http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs..._but_james_reimer_keeps_his_cool_dimanno.html

Andrew Ference suspended for tonight's game: http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=668941
Ference's response to the ruling:



POINTS LEADERS

1 GP, 1 G, 2 A, 3 pts., +2 (19:03 ATOI)

1 GP, 1 G, 0 A, 1 pts., Even (17:24 ATOI)


PLAYOFF WARRIORS

180 GP, 78 G, 111 A, 189 pts., +33

39 GP, 14 G, 9 A, 23 pts., +11


STARTING GOALIES

1-0, 1.00 GAA, .950% SV, 0 SO

0-1, 4.00 GAA, .900% SV, 0 SO


THE COACHES

41-34, Best Finish: Stanley Cup (2011)

36-27, Best Finish: Stanley Cup (2007)



PROJECTED BRUINS LINES (source: boston.com)

Milan Lucic-David Krejci-Nathan Horton
Brad Marchand-Patrice Bergeron-Tyler Seguin
Rich Peverley-Chris Kelly-Jaromir Jagr
Daniel Paille-Gregory Campbell-Shawn Thornton

Zdeno Chara-Adam McQuaid
Dennis Seidenberg-Johnny Boychuk
Wade Redden-Dougie Hamilton

Healthy Scratches: Jay Pandolfo, Carl Soderberg, Kaspars Daugavins, Aaron Johnson, Andrew Ference (Suspended)
Injuries: None



PROJECTED LEAFS LINES (source: mapleleafs.com)

Joffrey Lupul-Tyler Bozak-Phil Kessel
James vanRiemsdyk-Mikhail Grabovski-Nikolai Kulemin
Lee Komarov-Nazem Kadri-Ryan Hamilton
Clarke MacArthur-Jay McClement-Colton Orr

Dion Phaneuf-Cody Franson
John-Michael Liles-Jake Gardiner
Mark Fraser-Ryan O'Byrne

Healthy Scratches: Joe Colborne, Matt Frattin, Frazer McLaren, Carl Gunnarsson
Injuries: Mike Kostka​

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[Confound]

Damn their D is horrible, hopefully we can have our 6 pack.

 

[Gator Mike]

https://twitter.com/GerryCallahan/status/330509303813378048

No way Bruins come out as flat as Celts. Bombing hero #JeffBauman to make first public appearance Sat night. He'll wave flag from a box.

Bauman is the Boston Marathon bombing victim who lost both his legs in the blast, yet helped the FBI identify the terrorists when he awoke from surgery.

Extra goosebumps, please.

 

[mobileusa]

60 minutes

 

[Danton Heineken]

Bauman is the Boston Marathon bombing victim who lost both his legs in the blast, yet helped the FBI identify the terrorists when he awoke from surgery.

Extra goosebumps, please.

[/QUOTE]

Holy mackinaw!

 

[Minny Shinny]

"Rebuild the Boats"

Everything else after that is icing on the cake.

Bauman is the Boston Marathon bombing victim who lost both his legs in the blast, yet helped the FBI identify the terrorists when he awoke from surgery.

Extra goosebumps, please.

So ready to see this.

 

[Thrive]

I'll be at the game with 4 of my buddies. Can't wait! No idea where our seats are, we just grabbed the first available 5 in a row over the phone.

 

[qc]

 

[VanIsle]

Playoff Krejci is back look out TO

 

[bobbyorr04]

That's super nice of Thornton to spend time with Jeff Bauman at the hospital...."super nice"!

 

[EvilElf63]

Let's go Bs! 60 Minutes, physical play, etc.

Do it for Boston.

 

[Alicat]

I'll be bawling my eyes out seeing Jeff waiving the flag.

 

[TCL40]

That's super nice of Thornton to spend time with Jeff Bauman at the hospital...."super nice"!

I agree.

Thornton is a player who really gives back a lot to the city and its citizens.

 

[Whiskey Sam]

Class act

 

[Pay Carl]

Phaneuf is noticably horrible in Dafoomie's video. I can't even keep track of the number of times he gets caught out of position

Thank God we get to play a team that calls him their number one defenseman in the first round

 

[TCL40]

Phaneuf is noticably horrible in Dafoomie's video. I can't even keep track of the number of times he gets caught out of position

Thank God we get to play a team that calls him their number one defenseman in the first round

Yep.

And you know this has been pointed out to the Bruins. A hard forecheck is goint to skate circles around him. Leafs have a bunch of speedy forwards, but they also have a bunch of slow players.

I still think the Leafs will shift some of their tough guys out of the line up (our fourth line embarrassed them). Good news is Phaneuf will still be playing.

Bruins have to shut down the Leafs scorers and our new defensive pairings worry me some, but if the Bruins stick to Wednesday's game plan I think they will be fine.

 

[TD Charlie]

Already feeling my eyes starting to well up just thinking about Bauman waving the flag and the photos of him in the hospital.

 

[BobbyAwe]

So let me understand this - we bent over backwards to get Soderberg in time for the play-offs and now he's not going to play?

 

[Salem13]

So let me understand this - we bent over backwards to get Soderberg in time for the play-offs and now he's not going to play?

He's a piece in the puzzle that fits in ahead of/instead of Pandolfo, isn't that enough?

 

[Eddie Munson]

1st. Suga Shawn is the man. Truly a class act and the definition of what a professional athlete should be all about.

2nd. WTF is Claude doing in that picture? It's either him doing the robot or working on some new karate moves.

3rd. Toronto's defense is awful! Dion Franson..... these two may need a map to find the defensive zone. Bad pinches galore and one is playing on one foot. How is Cody going to be able to outskate Phaneuf's bad reads? Liles Gardiner. Talk about a soft pairing that's a black hole defensively. I want Claude to match the Looch-DK-Horty line on these two all night. Then the Pylon express pairing of Fraser & Purse Snatcher. My god.

I'll be honest though. Not sure how I feel about McQuaid Chara pairing.

Bruins just need to match their intensity level of last game right out of the gate. This team can easily be intimidated. Need to keep the pressure up and just keep putting rubber on Optimus Reimer.

Let's go Boston!!!!

 

[Regina]

Bruins

 

[Winnwell Cooperalls]

Go Bruins!!!

May the fourth be with you!!!

 

[ODAAT]

https://twitter.com/GerryCallahan/status/330509303813378048



Bauman is the Boston Marathon bombing victim who lost both his legs in the blast, yet helped the FBI identify the terrorists when he awoke from surgery.

Extra goosebumps, please.

Won`t be able to watch til I return from work tonight, but reading this, appears as though it would be wise if I picked some extra tissues up from the store this morning.

Bring that same commitment we saw in game 1, and it won`t matter what changes the Leafs make. If not....well....

 

[NinthSpoke06]

Do they really still have Colton Orr in the lineup?

 

[EverettMike]

Already feeling my eyes starting to well up just thinking about Bauman waving the flag and the photos of him in the hospital.

Was about to post this same thing.