Clearly Tampa tried to make this an old fashioned statement game and if we had a decent PP we could and should have buried them, but we held up and beat them anyway. Hathaway's value pretty obvious for this. I'm in the Lauko fan club now. I can see him being a full time 3rd liner next season (assuming Bergeron and Krejci retire).
Ullmark good, PK good, D good, solid team win.
The PP is a concern though. If we could fix it, this team would be unstoppable.
As an aside, I think maybe Tampa was less concerned with winning this game than getting in our heads. They wanted to rough us up and make us think physical come playoffs and then they'll hit us with speed and offense in that game and get the jump on us. Old style coaching tactic. Doubt the Bruins fall for it. Glad nobody fought Jeannot though. We don't have that guy any more and he's a beast that can hurt people. In the end, we came out just fine.
Hopefully Leafs and Tampa destroy each other and the winner of that limps into Boston for a quick exit.