Post-Game Talk: GAME 39 - Biggest Win Of The Year - BRUINS 3 Buffalo 2 F/OT - We're on to South Bend!!!!

[Fenway]

And Montreal just lost 5-6. Good night for the Bs.

A very good night

 

[Fenway]

 

[Fenway]

 

[BadBruins]

Good to see Acciari score a goal. I feel like this has been 40 game tryout for the 4th line. Unfortunately there are 6-8 players auditioning every night..... Kuraly and Nordstrom are the only two I have cemented in that role.

Carlo was awesome. Lock him up before the point starts coming. Never going to be big producer, but I'll be surprised if he doesn't sit around 20-25 a season. He plays big minutes and is around the puck a lot.

DeBrusk battles. That's what separates him from some of the other young forwards IMO. Gets denied a couple of times, he just gets after it harder. Almost similar to what you see from Marchand. Would love to see him with Bergeron.

 

[Coach Parker]

Canadians crossing the border

Or fans doing the game in Buffalo on the way to South Bend.

 

[Fenway]

BUFFALO FEED

 

[22Brad Park]

Last time Sabres beat Bruins a poster (Matter 2003) was here gloating so good do not have to see him tonite.Went for a peek on their board and he is in hiding.

 

[AM Bruin]

DeBrusk is going to wear a letter one day. Kids a stud. All he needs to do is work with his old man next off season to teach him some other skills...

 

[22Brad Park]

Have a question.Bruins won i get that but their first 2 sets of forwards in overtime never had Pasta among them.Is that smart coaching in your honest opinions?

 

[bobbyorr04]

Have a question.Bruins won i get that but their first 2 sets of forwards in overtime never had Pasta among them.Is that smart coaching in your honest opinions?

I'm not surprised........something is just not right with Pasta's game right now...

...and a win is a win

 

[Mick Riddleton]

Or fans doing the game in Buffalo on the way to South Bend.

Could be on to something but the way they have played lately and that detour would not be ideal. My experience with over 30 plus years of going to games in Buffalo, (which is a half hour away) is without Canadian support the team would have been called Hamilton Sabres decades ago.

Buffalo in winter, you never know what will happen. On the shores of Lake Erie they face the lake effect winter storms that can dump a lot of snow in a very short time. I remember going to games and fights breaking out in the stands between Sabre and Bruin fans all the time. We would organize bus trips, lol drinking trips, back when games were not as expensive.

Leaf games in Buffalo are more than half Leaf fans, similar with any original six team. If I was going to the Winter Classic I would not bother with a Sabre game, unless you were coming from further west. The Arena is nice and the wings well that might do it. They are awesome.

 

[sarge88]

Have a question.Bruins won i get that but their first 2 sets of forwards in overtime never had Pasta among them.Is that smart coaching in your honest opinions?

During the game I was thinking that he might be holding him back in order to sneak him out there at the most opportune time, during the flow of play.

Obviously I’m not sure at all if there’s any validity to that theory.

 

[Olden McGroin]

Have a question.Bruins won i get that but their first 2 sets of forwards in overtime never had Pasta among them.Is that smart coaching in your honest opinions?

Especially since there was no Marchand. Did Pasta even get a shift in OT? Certainly was weird to see Kuraly and I believe 2 defensemen on that last shift

 

[Mpasta]

Scorless in 4 games now

Who didn't see that coming

 

[rocketdan9]

Who didn't see that coming

Cassidy

 

[bobbyorr04]

Went to the bar, Bruins come back and win. **** sakes.

You'll have to visit the bar more often during Bruins games

 

[TD Charlie]

Debrusk was a f***ing beast on the entire shift of his goal. Took, and gave a beating in front of the net before tipping one through.

I was stunned to see Kuraly out there with two D against Eichel. Even more surprised they didn’t try to hold possession and change out Kuraly and a D. Then he goes full speed and scores an unreal working mans goal on the net drive. I’m still in shock.

 

[bobbyorr04]

If the B's lose this game I bet we'd see over 10 pages in the PGT by now...

...but I'm OK with 2 points and 4 pages.

 

[TD Charlie]

If the B's lose this game I bet we'd see over 10 pages in the PGT by now...

...but I'm OK with 2 points and 4 pages.

True. It depends when they lost it though. If it’s 2-1, we all shit on the top guys who played like passengers. Honestly I’m tired of the Wagners and the Nordstrom’s of the team bringing the most to the table.

If they lose early in OT, meh. Nice job to get it tied up. They just didn’t have the healthy horses to outlast Eichel and Co.

If they lost during the 4-3 in OT I’m all over Krejci. He got hauled down a bit on the shoulder but in that situation just skate your lane instead of pinching a guy off.

Luckily this is all a game of what if

 

[Sheppy]

You'll have to visit the bar more often during Bruins games

Challenge accepted

 

[compan]

A win is a win, but it wasn’t pretty. They played very uninspired hockey for a lot of the game. Carlo and DeBrusk were the two that stood out to me that brought some compete to the ice. Acciari and Kuraly do as well, but unfortunately the skill isn’t entirely there to match the effort.

 

[Bread and Circuses]

Just watched the entire game in 15 minutes skipping over minutes at a time only to stop to check highlights when I saw the score change, got all the way to Debrusk's goal, was happy they tied it then I watched OT in real time........I could barely stomach the OT pk and then completely lost my mind when I saw Kuraly & Miller out there with Gryz.....right as I was going to have my nervous breakdown Kuraly scores that goal.

I don't even know what to feel anymore.

 

[Fenway]

 

[bruinmann77]

Nice win tonight love the way Jake played tonight. Miller was a stud and great game by Rask

 

[Fenway]

Could be on to something but the way they have played lately and that detour would not be ideal. My experience with over 30 plus years of going to games in Buffalo, (which is a half hour away) is without Canadian support the team would have been called Hamilton Sabres decades ago.

Buffalo in winter, you never know what will happen. On the shores of Lake Erie they face the lake effect winter storms that can dump a lot of snow in a very short time. I remember going to games and fights breaking out in the stands between Sabre and Bruin fans all the time. We would organize bus trips, lol drinking trips, back when games were not as expensive.

Leaf games in Buffalo are more than half Leaf fans, similar with any original six team. If I was going to the Winter Classic I would not bother with a Sabre game, unless you were coming from further west. The Arena is nice and the wings well that might do it. They are awesome.

Interstate 90 starts in Boston and goes thru Buffalo and then South Bend.

I have made the drive from Boston to Chicago many times and in the winter you always take the Ontario route on the north side of Lake Erie as heavy snowfall is less likely. It is actually the shortest distance in miles as well crossing from Niagara to Port Huron, Michigan.

@Alicat A few years ago I thought I was having hallucinations when I saw this on I-69 in Michigan.

I have been telling people for a year a drive to South Bend in late December is a crap shoot - it could be 50 degrees or 50 inches of snow. Buffalo gets the bad publicity but Cleveland and Toledo are not Miami Beach either. Then when you get to Indiana you deal with the backside of Lake Michigan. Northwest Indiana near South Bend is notorious for lake effect snow.