It's not a rant and I don't really have to do anything, your posts do the job themselves pretty good.
Here's what you're trying to show:
Thornton leaves-Bruins not doing much-Returns-Tells the guys ''Hey, we need to score!''-Bourque blows the coverage at the point (something we've been consistently doing since game 1 btw)- Boston scores.
Moral of the story? It's all thanks to Thornton.
Boston gets pumped up a bit more, 4min later (they had 2 shots over those 4 min), Bergeron shoots a knucklepuck, deflects off the ice, and possibly even on Bouillon, deviates its original trajectory, goes in.
Again, Thanks to freaking Thornton!
You are so completely right buddy, the momentum change happened due to Thornton's return. Julien has no reason to lie about this and I don't understand your insistence on not believing him. Why would he choose to lie about the fact his troop rallied upon the return of Thornton? Why would he not say that Thornton came back and as an important leader and player, the guys responded to it? Why? As you said, of all the teams to actually get rallied by an enforcer, the Bruins would be the first, so why would their coach say no?
Meanwhile you have the guy that gets paid sitting between benches to fill up air time with comments and you think his opinion is somehow more reliable??
As I said, the Bruins were going nowhere, we had them where we wanted. We blew coverage on their goal after pretty much shutting them out, 4min later they get a lucky bounce. Hey, go ahead man, think that Thornton coming back somehow made Bergeron realize he needed to step up his game and put one in. Sure.
