bpower
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I thought Cor was banned from GDT's in the playoffs... something about a 1-8 record??
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Offered and lost
My favorite part is how the date is wrong. Can't tell if intentional or not 
It's a bit early, it's stickied and will be opened later.
Welsh Maple Leaf
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It’s game day.
IT IS TIME!!
We beat them last game but we were pretty far from our best. Let’s skate circles around them like we are capable of!
Take this back to beantown 2-2with Kadri returning.
IT IS TIME!!
We beat them last game but we were pretty far from our best. Let’s skate circles around them like we are capable of!
Take this back to beantown 2-2with Kadri returning.
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Loosie
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canadon
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Great original GDT Cor! Hope it will bring luck to the Leafs as well. Desparately need this series to be tied going back to Boston.
bluumax
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Best GDT OP ive ever seen. 5 gud pro's outta 5.
Brock Radunske
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I know, right? I have never seen so many cry-babies in one fan-base. I'd laugh if it wasn't so pathetic.
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SprDaVE
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Cor made a beautiful GDT.
But Cor made a GDT and now I'm even more nervous.
But Cor made a GDT and now I'm even more nervous.
Brock Radunske
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@Cor
You could probably make a career out of graphic design, bud! Love it!
but we're holding you solely responsible for a loss tonight, given your checkered record so far...lol
You could probably make a career out of graphic design, bud! Love it!
but we're holding you solely responsible for a loss tonight, given your checkered record so far...lol
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My favorite part is how the date is wrong. Can't tell if intentional or not
I have nothing to add.
Liferleafer
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Liferleafer
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Meh we were "having a rough season" (AKA tanking) during that stretch...Cor makes GDTs according to situations.
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Rob Brown
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Great work.
I propose we still don't post in the one in the main boards, though.
I propose we still don't post in the one in the main boards, though.
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The Apologist
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Yup, post it and walk away. GOAT GDT. Sadly, because of the @Cor effect it pretty much guarantees we go back to Beantown down 3-1
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The Leafs crest is glorious.
The date is great, too. Wrong, but that’s OK
The date is great, too. Wrong, but that’s OK
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Hockey Night in Canada: Bruins vs. Leafs - Game 4
Free live stream on CBC Sports app
WATCH | HNIC: Bruins vs. Leafs | CBC Sports
Thursday at 7 p.m. ET to watch the Toronto Maple Leafs host the Boston Bruins in Game 4 as the playoffs continue on Hockey Night in Canada.
The Leafs halved the Bruins' series lead thanks to a big performance from goalie Frederik Andersen in Game 3. The Bruins lead the matchup 2-1.
Thursday game preview: Boston Bruins at Toronto Maple Leafs
The Leafs and centre Auston Matthews will try to build off the momentum of their Game 3 win.
Thursday game preview: Boston Bruins at Toronto Maple Leafs | The Star
Leafs centre Auston Matthews scored his first goal of the 2018 playoffs in Game 3 against the Bruins. (Steve Russell / Toronto Star)
Wed., April 18, 2018
AIR CANADA CENTRE
FACEOFF: 7 p.m.
TV: CBC
RADIO: Sportsnet 590 The FAN
KEY PLAYERS
Matthews/Chara
Auston Matthews scored his first goal of the series in Game 3, a sigh-of-relief moment for him and the Leafs, after the star centre was blanked in the first two games. The Bruins can’t afford to let Matthews gain any more momentum as the series moves into the deciding games, and it’s likely Zdeno Chara will have a say in that. The six-foot-nine defenceman, who at 41 is more than twice Matthews’ age, brings 150 games of playoff experience to the Bruins lineup. Young defencemen like Charlie McAvoy, Torey Krug, and Matt Grzelcyk (who is expected back in the lineup for Game 4) should also see time against Matthews. But Matthews vs. Chara pits one of the game’s brightest young stars against one of its great veteran defencemen.
NEED TO KNOW
Boston spent the past two days making adjustments to their two-way play, specifically to guard against the Leaf’s stretch pass … The Bruins, while losing Game 3, still outshot the Leafs 16-11 in the second period and 18-7 in the third ... A big part of the Leafs’ success in Game 3 was a result of staying out of the penalty box. Boston’s power play, which went 5-for-10 in the first two games, went scoreless in its lone opportunity Monday … Ten of the Bruins’ 12 goals in the first two games came from high-danger areas in front of the Leafs net.
UP NEXT
Game 5: Saturday, at Boston, 8 p.m.
Bruins focused on slowing Maple Leafs transition game in Game 4
Wary of Toronto's speed, defensemen plan to remain aggressive
by Amalie Benjamin @AmalieBenjamin / NHL.com Staff Writer April 17th, 2018
Bruins focused on slowing Maple Leafs transition game in Game 4
TORONTO -- There was never going to be a complete shutdown of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Boston Bruins knew it. The Maple Leafs knew it. And so it was no surprise that Toronto got back into the Eastern Conference First Round with a 4-2 win in Game 3 on Monday, when the Bruins showed a few defensive vulnerabilities.
Now that it has happened, Boston, which leads the best-of-7 series 2-1, has turned its focus to those vulnerabilities entering Game 4 here on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, TVAS, NESN), to finding ways to balance what the Maple Leafs want to do with what the Bruins want to do.
[RELATED: Complete Bruins vs. Maple Leafs series coverage]
That starts with countering sequences in which the Maple Leafs take advantage of their speed and quickness, sequences like the one that yielded their second goal in Game 3.
After a Bruins shot, Toronto defenseman Morgan Rielly collected the puck, went behind his own net and sent it up the right boards and through Boston defenseman Kevan Miller, who was pinching. The puck found Maple Leafs forward Mitchell Marner, who had a clear path on the right side to the Bruins net.
Maple Leafs forward Patrick Marleau, who had gotten in front of the Bruins defense, was there to finish a pass from Marner for a goal that gave Toronto a 2-1 lead at 3:49 of the second period, 43 seconds after Boston had tied the game.
Marner sets up Marleau in the 2nd
"I go back to Game 2, Kevan Miller is active, we score a goal off it," Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said. "If that doesn't bounce in, they get possession, they recover, loose puck retrieval in their end, off their wingers go. So, we need a forward to cover for Kevan down there, or we have to replace [him] on time. That's the trade-off."
It has worked for the Bruins sometimes. They have caught the Maple Leafs, as Cassidy put it, "I don't want to use the word 'cheating,' but leaning the other way."
But it doesn't always work. Sometimes, as in the case of the Marleau goal, it costs them.
Not that the Maple Leafs, who have the speed to often use those stretch passes to their advantage, have seen many such opportunities in the series. They were contained, mostly, when Boston outscored them 12-4 in winning Games 1 and 2 at TD Garden.
"I think anytime you can transition from defense to offense fast, you can have a chance for success for sure," Toronto coach Mike Babcock said. "In saying that, the Bruins have done a pretty good job against us and we haven't had the amount of success we've normally had.
NHL Tonight: Bruins' struggles
Which means each team is vowing to do better.
"I think [it's] just making sure our neutral zone is tight, our forwards are guarding that red line pretty well and then our defense can have a tight gap," Bruins defenseman Torey Krug said. "It doesn't allow them to make many plays. It's more, chipping pucks in, and then go back and get some clean breakouts."
But that doesn't mean that Krug, or any of the Boston defensemen, are going to stop pinching. The Bruins believe in being aggressive, seeing how that can work out in their favor, as it did on that Miller goal. They just need to be smart about doing it.
"We have to balance O-zone play, risk-reward, vs. their stretch, blow-the-zone type of mentality," Cassidy said. "And that's what it comes down to."
Free live stream on CBC Sports app
WATCH | HNIC: Bruins vs. Leafs | CBC Sports
Thursday at 7 p.m. ET to watch the Toronto Maple Leafs host the Boston Bruins in Game 4 as the playoffs continue on Hockey Night in Canada.
The Leafs halved the Bruins' series lead thanks to a big performance from goalie Frederik Andersen in Game 3. The Bruins lead the matchup 2-1.
Thursday game preview: Boston Bruins at Toronto Maple Leafs
The Leafs and centre Auston Matthews will try to build off the momentum of their Game 3 win.
Thursday game preview: Boston Bruins at Toronto Maple Leafs | The Star
Leafs centre Auston Matthews scored his first goal of the 2018 playoffs in Game 3 against the Bruins. (Steve Russell / Toronto Star)
Wed., April 18, 2018
AIR CANADA CENTRE
FACEOFF: 7 p.m.
TV: CBC
RADIO: Sportsnet 590 The FAN
KEY PLAYERS
Matthews/Chara
Auston Matthews scored his first goal of the series in Game 3, a sigh-of-relief moment for him and the Leafs, after the star centre was blanked in the first two games. The Bruins can’t afford to let Matthews gain any more momentum as the series moves into the deciding games, and it’s likely Zdeno Chara will have a say in that. The six-foot-nine defenceman, who at 41 is more than twice Matthews’ age, brings 150 games of playoff experience to the Bruins lineup. Young defencemen like Charlie McAvoy, Torey Krug, and Matt Grzelcyk (who is expected back in the lineup for Game 4) should also see time against Matthews. But Matthews vs. Chara pits one of the game’s brightest young stars against one of its great veteran defencemen.
NEED TO KNOW
Boston spent the past two days making adjustments to their two-way play, specifically to guard against the Leaf’s stretch pass … The Bruins, while losing Game 3, still outshot the Leafs 16-11 in the second period and 18-7 in the third ... A big part of the Leafs’ success in Game 3 was a result of staying out of the penalty box. Boston’s power play, which went 5-for-10 in the first two games, went scoreless in its lone opportunity Monday … Ten of the Bruins’ 12 goals in the first two games came from high-danger areas in front of the Leafs net.
UP NEXT
Game 5: Saturday, at Boston, 8 p.m.
Bruins focused on slowing Maple Leafs transition game in Game 4
Wary of Toronto's speed, defensemen plan to remain aggressive
by Amalie Benjamin @AmalieBenjamin / NHL.com Staff Writer April 17th, 2018
Bruins focused on slowing Maple Leafs transition game in Game 4
TORONTO -- There was never going to be a complete shutdown of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Boston Bruins knew it. The Maple Leafs knew it. And so it was no surprise that Toronto got back into the Eastern Conference First Round with a 4-2 win in Game 3 on Monday, when the Bruins showed a few defensive vulnerabilities.
Now that it has happened, Boston, which leads the best-of-7 series 2-1, has turned its focus to those vulnerabilities entering Game 4 here on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, TVAS, NESN), to finding ways to balance what the Maple Leafs want to do with what the Bruins want to do.
[RELATED: Complete Bruins vs. Maple Leafs series coverage]
That starts with countering sequences in which the Maple Leafs take advantage of their speed and quickness, sequences like the one that yielded their second goal in Game 3.
After a Bruins shot, Toronto defenseman Morgan Rielly collected the puck, went behind his own net and sent it up the right boards and through Boston defenseman Kevan Miller, who was pinching. The puck found Maple Leafs forward Mitchell Marner, who had a clear path on the right side to the Bruins net.
Maple Leafs forward Patrick Marleau, who had gotten in front of the Bruins defense, was there to finish a pass from Marner for a goal that gave Toronto a 2-1 lead at 3:49 of the second period, 43 seconds after Boston had tied the game.
Marner sets up Marleau in the 2nd
- 01:11 • April 16th, 2018
"I go back to Game 2, Kevan Miller is active, we score a goal off it," Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said. "If that doesn't bounce in, they get possession, they recover, loose puck retrieval in their end, off their wingers go. So, we need a forward to cover for Kevan down there, or we have to replace [him] on time. That's the trade-off."
It has worked for the Bruins sometimes. They have caught the Maple Leafs, as Cassidy put it, "I don't want to use the word 'cheating,' but leaning the other way."
But it doesn't always work. Sometimes, as in the case of the Marleau goal, it costs them.
Not that the Maple Leafs, who have the speed to often use those stretch passes to their advantage, have seen many such opportunities in the series. They were contained, mostly, when Boston outscored them 12-4 in winning Games 1 and 2 at TD Garden.
"I think anytime you can transition from defense to offense fast, you can have a chance for success for sure," Toronto coach Mike Babcock said. "In saying that, the Bruins have done a pretty good job against us and we haven't had the amount of success we've normally had.
NHL Tonight: Bruins' struggles
- 02:26 • April 17th, 2018
Which means each team is vowing to do better.
"I think [it's] just making sure our neutral zone is tight, our forwards are guarding that red line pretty well and then our defense can have a tight gap," Bruins defenseman Torey Krug said. "It doesn't allow them to make many plays. It's more, chipping pucks in, and then go back and get some clean breakouts."
But that doesn't mean that Krug, or any of the Boston defensemen, are going to stop pinching. The Bruins believe in being aggressive, seeing how that can work out in their favor, as it did on that Miller goal. They just need to be smart about doing it.
"We have to balance O-zone play, risk-reward, vs. their stretch, blow-the-zone type of mentality," Cassidy said. "And that's what it comes down to."
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