Post-Game Talk: GAME 72 - 2022-2023 ATLANTIC DIVISION CHAMPS - DON'T POKE THE BEAR
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bruinmann77
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Yes I was one who wanted Nosek gone but wow I was wrong. Solid game and didn’t take any BS from TB. But please get the Pp corrected
Olden McGroin
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HOPE they can somehow keep Orlov, Hathaway and Bertuzzi
Here we go again.
In a good way.
As with Z before him, Patrice is a Zen master.
LIsten to what he says.
It's all about the present, which is, effectively, the best (and only) place to begin, and to live.
No past, save for corrections. No future, save for proper planning.
Be. Here. Now.
Bergeron, like most elite athletes and leaders of whatever kind, understands the essence of a relatively peaceful and productive life.
Begin where you are. Follow through, as they say in golf.
I am not disciplined enough at all times to "Stay in the present," though I have my moments.
Even so, we can all follow Bergeron's example.
Yet as fab as Patrice is, as great as, say, Nicholas Lidstrom ("the perfect human") was -- and my eldest brother Greg used to bitch incessantly that Lidstrom was robbed of an *eighth Norris* because he wasn't a good Canadian boy -- no one is great 24/7,
I suspect we can all cop to that.
In the event, enjoy, and stay in the day,
Sheppy
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As a guy who probably lives further north than Santa Clause, I just want to say how much I appreciate this gang of degenerates.
I said this would be a special season, whether they win or not, we’re witnessing some of the greatest Bruins ever playing together for one last dance.
I get called out from time to time from my friends posting on here. They’re always like “yo, who are you talking to?” And my reply every time is “oh, just my buddy” - which is what I consider every one of you. Whether we agree or not, we share a passion, and it’s the Bruins.
I absolutely cannot wait to come visit Boston and say hello.
I may be in my feels because I spent 3 hours talking to my family back east, which is fine, I feel I should share this with my other family.
I said this would be a special season, whether they win or not, we’re witnessing some of the greatest Bruins ever playing together for one last dance.
I get called out from time to time from my friends posting on here. They’re always like “yo, who are you talking to?” And my reply every time is “oh, just my buddy” - which is what I consider every one of you. Whether we agree or not, we share a passion, and it’s the Bruins.
I absolutely cannot wait to come visit Boston and say hello.
I may be in my feels because I spent 3 hours talking to my family back east, which is fine, I feel I should share this with my other family.
quietbruinfan
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I have a lot of thoughts about the game but will try and condense them into two or three paragraphs. (I am watching full games again; so, I have a lot going through my mind.)
They are experimenting on the pp, and unfortunately it isn't working. I still endorse the experimentation though. Someone other than Pasta has to develop into a major scoring option. They want it to be Debrusk instead of Marchand for some reason. I do not think this will work. Instead, try a two d man set up with Gryz Mac and Lindholm Orlov slide Gryz and Orlov to the dot on their one-timer side. They did this with Orlov initially, and it was beautiful.
As for the game, they came out and got punched in the mouth, both literally and in terms of execution. The Bruins were kind of dead-legged in the first, except for Marchand. However, Ullmark and a cautious defense corps saved them. They got their legs and Tampa let down a bit in the second. Tampa re-assumed control as Boston went into a shell in the third. Ullmark kept them from tying it or winning it. Only thing I will say is this continues the trend of slow starts in the afternoon. They have to compensate, because you know they will get a weekend afternoon game in the first round.
Other notes, Nosek was very good. Krejci may be hurt because Nosek took his last two shifts. One shift I could see wanting the lefty out there, not two or three.
Lauko hustled but did not produce much. It was not one of his better games. I am moderately high on the kid and think there is some real skill there as well as the grit. Someone just has to unlock it...Maybe I am a too high on him. Dom thinks Greer is better and he may be right.
They are experimenting on the pp, and unfortunately it isn't working. I still endorse the experimentation though. Someone other than Pasta has to develop into a major scoring option. They want it to be Debrusk instead of Marchand for some reason. I do not think this will work. Instead, try a two d man set up with Gryz Mac and Lindholm Orlov slide Gryz and Orlov to the dot on their one-timer side. They did this with Orlov initially, and it was beautiful.
As for the game, they came out and got punched in the mouth, both literally and in terms of execution. The Bruins were kind of dead-legged in the first, except for Marchand. However, Ullmark and a cautious defense corps saved them. They got their legs and Tampa let down a bit in the second. Tampa re-assumed control as Boston went into a shell in the third. Ullmark kept them from tying it or winning it. Only thing I will say is this continues the trend of slow starts in the afternoon. They have to compensate, because you know they will get a weekend afternoon game in the first round.
Other notes, Nosek was very good. Krejci may be hurt because Nosek took his last two shifts. One shift I could see wanting the lefty out there, not two or three.
Lauko hustled but did not produce much. It was not one of his better games. I am moderately high on the kid and think there is some real skill there as well as the grit. Someone just has to unlock it...Maybe I am a too high on him. Dom thinks Greer is better and he may be right.
I will be disappointed if when you come to a game you don't say hello.
No vacuum cleaners allowed in the Garden though.
After the game yesterday they announced the three stars and Linus was one. He skated out and tossed the signed stick over the glass for a kid. Some big guy grabbed it and started walking away. Linus got his attention and pointed (with a very stern face) to the little kid. The guy looked like a dope and gave it to the kid.
I loved it!
I loved it!
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Remember when we tougher than the Habs? Yeah, they always beat us. Gimme talent that works at it 24x7
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I like the fact that Hathaway seems to be playing in control. My biggest worry about him was that he might take some dumb and unnecessary penalties, but I’ll take this version of him any day.
The injuries to Svechnikov and Pacioretty are really significant. Switching out DeAngelo for Burns has been an upgrade on their D.
I wouldn't worry about that. Six of their top nine Forwards, including their top 3C and 4 of their top 6 D men came within a game of winning the Cup. I would be more worried about how Ullmark and Swayman hold up then anything else. They haven't won a Playoff series in net.
LouJersey
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You’re a board ring of honor member. An OG
8thRoundPick
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True, we would need to move out some money to fit him. Easiest one to resign with be Hathaway. I just can't see us fitting Bertuzzi's next contract, he's going to price himself outta here IMO.
LouJersey
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Or maybe you can actually have a team that has both like this Bruins team.
Love this post dude! I've been on these forums since I was 15 years old....15 years later it feels like I've grown up with a lot of the people here, wouldn't want to spend my free time in any other way than cheering on the Bruins and butting heads with everyone on here
Garnet Hathaway shows his mettle in taking on Pat Maroon and then scores game-winner for Bruins - The Boston Globe
Acquired in a pre-trade deadline deal with Washington, Hathaway’s ongoing integration into a deep and talented lineup is another reason to believe this record-setting year could end with a title.
www.bostonglobe.com
As three different fights erupted only seconds after the puck was dropped, the Bruins-Lightning game provided a hockey wake-up call Saturday afternoon, a rollicking start that quickly pushed the TD Garden temperature past boiling. For two teams with history, two teams with animosity, and most of all, two teams with simmering Stanley Cup dreams, the on-ice mayhem came as no surprise, a tasty appetizer of the intensity of playoff hockey yet to come.
It was Bruins forward Garnet Hathaway who took the worst of it, as the team’s newest fourth-liner was on the receiving end of a flurry of Pat Maroon blows. The 6-foot-3-inch, nearly 240-pound Maroon landed punches as the two tussled into the boards, but none proved a knockout blow against a similarly formidable Hathaway, who stands 6-3 himself.
Hathaway stood up to the test, and it was a theme one of the newest Bruins carried throughout the afternoon. With a late-second-period goal that proved to be the game-winner in the 2-1 victory, Hathaway earned the last laugh. More importantly, as the Bruins inch ever closer to the postseason of this transcendent regular-season campaign, Hathaway is earning his place on the ice.
“It’s been a whirlwind,” he told reporters. “I’m really happy to be here, really glad to be here. I felt like part of the team from the very beginning. I feel like I’ve been part of the team to get the team to where they are already, being a part of it, and then instantly taking a role and trying to help this team continue to where we want to go. That’s just how this group is, so inclusive.”
His goal was the best answer he could have given to the early Lightning antics, when it was obvious coach Jon Cooper’s squad was ready to push any buttons possible, attempting to use their notorious physicality to upend the streaking Bruins while also rousing themselves out of their recent slumber. But as Hathaway made sure, it’s the Bruins who continued winning (make it six in a row) and the Lightning who kept on losing (four straight).
“I mean, I think it’s why we were so excited when we acquired him,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said. “He’s a guy who builds your team game in all three zones and then he understands momentum, he understands when the other team is trying to impose their will and he does a great job imposing our will.”
Saturday’s game was certainly a test of wills, and for the Bruins, this weekend’s back-to-back challenge of Tampa followed by a flight to another nemesis in Carolina is actually a welcome pre-playoff, late-season litmus test. With the Atlantic Division clinched by Saturday’s win, Montgomery couldn’t help but laugh as he opened his postgame remarks by saying, “That’ll get you excited for the playoffs, huh?”
The tone was set early — “We had an inkling that Tampa Bay was going to want to play an energetic, emotional game, though I didn’t know it was going to happen that quick,” the coach added — and it was the Bruins who ultimately rendered a verdict on who would maintain it for the duration. With a heaping dose of help from Hathaway, they got it done.
“I think even as a team we’ve been looking forward to this, to a team that’s going to be in the playoffs, one that we potentially could see, a team that’s battling right now and you’re going to play that same way,” Hathaway said. “It’s encouraging for us as a [fourth] line and for us as a team to play that way, play to our identity. That’s how we’re going to have to play in a couple weeks.”
Once upon a time, when Hathaway was on the other side of the ice, he was known to do anything he could to get under the Bruins’ skin. But however much he might have annoyed them then is as much as they love him now. As Marchand laughingly admitted in a recent episode of the team’s “Behind the B” series, there is really only one downside to the addition of Hathaway and fellow former nemesis Tyler Bertuzzi, another trade deadline acquisition.
“I don’t have anyone I dislike now! I love everyone in the league. All the guys I hate are now on our team.”
LouJersey
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Love the team toughness the past few games. It’s not always about fighting or hitting, sometimes it’s about taking one for the team. The league for some reason seems to think if you challenge the Bruins physically it will somehow mess with their game but it hasn’t happenedGarnet Hathaway shows his mettle in taking on Pat Maroon and then scores game-winner for Bruins - The Boston Globe
Acquired in a pre-trade deadline deal with Washington, Hathaway’s ongoing integration into a deep and talented lineup is another reason to believe this record-setting year could end with a title.
As three different fights erupted only seconds after the puck was dropped, the Bruins-Lightning game provided a hockey wake-up call Saturday afternoon, a rollicking start that quickly pushed the TD Garden temperature past boiling. For two teams with history, two teams with animosity, and most of all, two teams with simmering Stanley Cup dreams, the on-ice mayhem came as no surprise, a tasty appetizer of the intensity of playoff hockey yet to come.
It was Bruins forward Garnet Hathaway who took the worst of it, as the team’s newest fourth-liner was on the receiving end of a flurry of Pat Maroon blows. The 6-foot-3-inch, nearly 240-pound Maroon landed punches as the two tussled into the boards, but none proved a knockout blow against a similarly formidable Hathaway, who stands 6-3 himself.
Hathaway stood up to the test, and it was a theme one of the newest Bruins carried throughout the afternoon. With a late-second-period goal that proved to be the game-winner in the 2-1 victory, Hathaway earned the last laugh. More importantly, as the Bruins inch ever closer to the postseason of this transcendent regular-season campaign, Hathaway is earning his place on the ice.
“It’s been a whirlwind,” he told reporters. “I’m really happy to be here, really glad to be here. I felt like part of the team from the very beginning. I feel like I’ve been part of the team to get the team to where they are already, being a part of it, and then instantly taking a role and trying to help this team continue to where we want to go. That’s just how this group is, so inclusive.”
His goal was the best answer he could have given to the early Lightning antics, when it was obvious coach Jon Cooper’s squad was ready to push any buttons possible, attempting to use their notorious physicality to upend the streaking Bruins while also rousing themselves out of their recent slumber. But as Hathaway made sure, it’s the Bruins who continued winning (make it six in a row) and the Lightning who kept on losing (four straight).
“I mean, I think it’s why we were so excited when we acquired him,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said. “He’s a guy who builds your team game in all three zones and then he understands momentum, he understands when the other team is trying to impose their will and he does a great job imposing our will.”
Saturday’s game was certainly a test of wills, and for the Bruins, this weekend’s back-to-back challenge of Tampa followed by a flight to another nemesis in Carolina is actually a welcome pre-playoff, late-season litmus test. With the Atlantic Division clinched by Saturday’s win, Montgomery couldn’t help but laugh as he opened his postgame remarks by saying, “That’ll get you excited for the playoffs, huh?”
The tone was set early — “We had an inkling that Tampa Bay was going to want to play an energetic, emotional game, though I didn’t know it was going to happen that quick,” the coach added — and it was the Bruins who ultimately rendered a verdict on who would maintain it for the duration. With a heaping dose of help from Hathaway, they got it done.
“I think even as a team we’ve been looking forward to this, to a team that’s going to be in the playoffs, one that we potentially could see, a team that’s battling right now and you’re going to play that same way,” Hathaway said. “It’s encouraging for us as a [fourth] line and for us as a team to play that way, play to our identity. That’s how we’re going to have to play in a couple weeks.”
Once upon a time, when Hathaway was on the other side of the ice, he was known to do anything he could to get under the Bruins’ skin. But however much he might have annoyed them then is as much as they love him now. As Marchand laughingly admitted in a recent episode of the team’s “Behind the B” series, there is really only one downside to the addition of Hathaway and fellow former nemesis Tyler Bertuzzi, another trade deadline acquisition.
“I don’t have anyone I dislike now! I love everyone in the league. All the guys I hate are now on our team.”
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Well said. Taking one for the team reminds me of greg campbell, who very rarely won a fight but was always willing. That must have further endeared him to the team. Hathaway gained some points for going with a bigger guy yesterday and handled himself pretty well. And speaking of that bigger guy, I know everyone here hates him but he dropped the gloves with chara multiple times, which must have given his teammates a boost.
Oates2Neely
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I ask again, is it okay if they’re both talented & tougher? Like…say… in 2011?
Oates2Neely
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Maroon has fought Reaves too, Lucic etc.. but if you go back and watch his fights you see a trend.. he doesn’t like to stand toe to toe and trade punches. His strategy is to grab the jersey, turn his head away from his opponent & throw left handed jersey jabs. And the Chara fight you referenced wasn’t exactly a fight. Chara landed a couple of heavy punches and Maroon turned away/ tapped out causing Chara give him mercy. I do give him credit for actually dropping gloves with some heavyweights to begin with. He’s not a complete weasel like a Steve Ott.
