Post-Game Talk: Game 82: Get The Golf Carts Ready - Ottawa 6 RUINS 1 F - THINK BEFORE POSTING

[VanIsle]

Hammond let 1 in in 40.

In a mean nothing game.

Rask or Monster would have been the same, big game nothingness for the Bruins and are now the laughing stock of the league 2 years in a row.

Feels good.

 

[CDJ]

You're not winning many games with 1 goal, and you're not winning many games with the defensive group constructed the way it is currently.

The future at least seems bright. Maybe they can shake up the core a little bit. Definitely need a top flight defenseman.

The deadline looks very foolish in hindsight.

 

[njbruin*]

From the moment I saw Chara swat Gustavsson on the butt, I knew we were doomed. The players looked panicked during the pregame skate. Rask got sick, and it's not his fault. He's got a germ factory known as a toddler running around...and the gastro bug is attracted to the little ones. No surprise if it made the leap to papa Rask. (Or, heck, he could have caught it anywhere.)

But the team needed to pull it together. People here seem to love to hate our post-Rask backup goalies. But Gustavsson has been good. Even this game...yes, he let in four goals. And some of them were softies. But they were 4 goals on 34 shots! That's a heavy load.

The team was caught like a deer in headlights because Rask got sick. In a way, you can't blame the team - 99% of the time, you either know who your goalie is, or you know that it's unknown. They went to bed last night thinking it was Rask, and woke up to Jeremy Smith being escorted by police up I-95.

They needed to be better. All of them. It's one thing for the fans to see Gustavsson and say "Oh, crap. There go our chances." But the players are professionals, and need to learn how to ignore the noise...or even use it as motivation.

Then how do they explain Carolina or the Devils games , bottom line this team is lacking leadership , they're way too complacent. When the core starts making excuses for their coach and places full blame on themselves its time to split the two.

 

[bruins51]

Then how do they explain Carolina or the Devils games , bottom line this team is lacking leadership , they're way too complacent. When the core starts making excuses for their coach and places full blame on themselves its time to split the two.

If anything, I would be really disappointed in the captains if they didn't try and take the blame as players. Its not making excuses. Its reality. Players have to play and execute if they want to win.

 

[njbruin*]

If anything, I would be really disappointed in the captains if they didn't try and take the blame as players. Its not making excuses. Its reality. Players have to play and execute if they want to win.

Agree its a trait you want your leaders to take, but once the leadership starts openly admonishing the coach to try and save his job in my eyes that's crossing the line.

If Bergeron said we have no one to blame but ourselves I'd be fine with it , when he adds in the qualifer Claudes the best coach he ever played for and its not his fault - that raises major red flags in my eyes. If anything the roles should be reversed, it should be Claude saying I'm the coach and it falls on my shoulders - but I don't hear him say that ever. This core/coach combo is way too comfortable with each other and that leads to complacency.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Agree its a trait you want your leaders to take, but once the leadership starts openly admonishing the coach to try and save his job in my eyes that's crossing the line.

If Bergeron said we have no one to blame but ourselves I'd be fine with it , when he adds in the qualifer Claudes the best coach he ever played for and its not his fault - that raises major red flags in my eyes. If anything the roles should be reversed, it should be Claude saying I'm the coach and it falls on my shoulders - but I don't hear him say that ever. This core/coach combo is way too comfortable with each other and that leads to complacency.

Bergeron knows what the idiotic media is like here. He doesn't want the ignorant, brainwashed public opinion to drive out a very good coach -- Bergeron knows what it takes to win. It's not an excuse.

 

[Gordoff]

All they will have soon is the future as the present playoffs are not going to include the Bruins.
I am being honest that half the posters here could have run this franchise better in the last few years then the current geniuses that are doing it now.
I just don't get it.

I've had this thought at least 100 times since 2013. Not about Claude but about the front office in general. Things haven't gotten better, in fact each year they've gone down a little at a time. When they traded Jonny Boychuk they were already down by one top 6 d-man but losing him for 2 second rounders were a travesty and took the heart right out of the team. 99% of us here called it IMO.

"We had it coming for not showing up" - Bergeron

What did you say to the guys?

"Thats between me and them"

"Claudes the best coach I ever had. This is not on him. This is on us. The players"

Spoken like a true leader. This team needs a new voice and Chara needs to step down and let that new voice be Bergy. I believe that one condition for Chara to come here was for him to be named captain but don't know if he (contractually) gets to keep it for the duration of his tenure here?

Who here did not see this coming?
This has been the Bruins all year long. Hot and cold, hot and cold...No consistency to their game whatsoever! Go on a 5 game tear, follow that up with 3-4 game losing skid!
Win a game against the best team in the league, follow that up with a loss to one of the worst.
Face it, they were nothing more than pretenders this year.

It's actually been 2 years of this kind of head scratching nonsense. Makes little sense. Some games they played smooth, fast unfaltering hockey, others they played as though they were contemplating the book "War and Peace."

I honestly don't know what Sweeney & Neely are going to do, but Julien will likely take the fall for their failure to adequately address a train wreck D.

Give the guy chicken pooh and tell him to make chicken salad. Then blame him to distract from your own culpability.

Yeah, it looks as though he will be sacrificed but for those of us who think that he's the problem and getting rid of him is the # one answer I say: "Be careful what you wish for."

It isn't right to these eyes, anyway.

What happens next will be very, very interesting, and will go a long way toward understanding just what we have in these two.

I've held my fire somewhat because it's still relatively early in their stewardship of the team. They've made mistakes, but every club's management does.

What I want to see is how Sweeney and Neely deal with the coaching situation, first and foremost. That will tell me a great deal about their honesty, integrity, and competence.

After that, if it's at all possible to move on from Dennis, DK46, Z, and *maybe* even Rask (contract, attitude, big game performance), I would do so. Loui is gone. Hayes and Connolly should be gone. I have a soft spot for Connolly because I feel like he really tries, and his attitude is good. If Hayes is retained, that tells me mediocrity is acceptable.

An almost total retool of the defense is in order, and Sweeneely better move heaven and earth to get it done. The price will be steep. They better effing find a way.

So perfectly stated it ought to be framed!

 

[Fenway]

 

[bobbyorr04]

The funny thing about this total collapse is that I told my brother (a Flyers fan) a few weeks ago when the B’s were in first place and the Flyers were more than a few points out of a playoff spot, not to worry because the Bruins will probably take a nose dive the last few weeks of the season and the Flyers will make the playoffs.

I was half-assed kidding, but because my prediction became reality I have to share some of the blame for the Bruins missing the playoffs too.

 

[Lobster57]

The funny thing about this total collapse is that I told my brother (a Flyers fan) a few weeks ago when the B’s were in first place and the Flyers were more than a few points out of a playoff spot, not to worry because the Bruins will probably take a nose dive the last few weeks of the season and the Flyers will make the playoffs.

I was half-assed kidding, but because my prediction became reality I have to share some of the blame for the Bruins missing the playoffs too.

Some of the blame? Some??!?!?

You're dead to me.

 

[bolt thrower]

One night after this epic collapse the anger and frustration is still here.

The organization needs to clean the house, from the top to the bottom. So many losers around.

 

[DarrenBanks56]

they will be alot better next year with the right moves.

its better they missed out this year. i couldve seen them beating tampa. maybe even florida.
but the team got destroyed by the bigger stronger teams.

will be interesting to see if wsh pulls off the choke job again this season

 

[Fenway]

This picture sums it all up

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

If anything, I would be really disappointed in the captains if they didn't try and take the blame as players. Its not making excuses. Its reality. Players have to play and execute if they want to win.

Exactly!

What are they suppose to say, if Julien coached like he did Thursday we would have won?

 

[captain stone]

All losers gut this mess.

Bergeron, Marchand, Pasta.

That's it.

All front office, coach even loser scouts all gone.

Shameful

I approve of this message.

 

[JOKER 192]

The one thing I took from yesterday's game was that if Rask had played 100% healthy or 100% sick, it would not have made the difference. We would have lost that game either way.

 

[Hali33]

I think we have to be honest in saying that this team was not a very good one this year and be fair to that. Not as good as our best games, not as bad as our worst but all around flawed and mediocre.

But I also don't think it's right to say we were supposed to miss the playoffs anyways, nothing to see here.

I don't think many of us realize how putrid the Eastern Conference would be this season and how much of a role that would play in keeping the Bruins in it. And I think HOW the Bruins missed the playoffs is the big take away.

I think they overachieved to do it but the fact is they managed to put together some unlikely wins in the toughest part of their schedule and put themselves in a great position to make the playoffs.

And then they ****ing blew it and a number of those losses towards the end were fair fights for this team that they couldn't get it together. That's where you're left being mad even if you weren't expecting a playoff team this season.

 

[JOKER 192]

I think we have to be honest in saying that this team was not a very good one this year and be fair to that. Not as good as our best games, not as bad as our worst but all around flawed and mediocre.

But I also don't think it's right to say we were supposed to miss the playoffs anyways, nothing to see here.

I don't think many of us realize how putrid the Eastern Conference would be this season and how much of a role that would play in keeping the Bruins in it. And I think HOW the Bruins missed the playoffs is the big take away.

I think they overachieved to do it but the fact is they managed to put together some unlikely wins in the toughest part of their schedule and put themselves in a great position to make the playoffs.

And then they ****ing blew it and a number of those losses towards the end were fair fights for this team that they couldn't get it together. That's where you're left being mad even if you weren't expecting a playoff team this season.

This sounds right to me, we may very well have over achieved but winning only 3 of the last 12 , including some very winnable games does leave a very sour taste.

While many of us may not have expected to be in a PO position at the beginning of the season , I think most were certain we would be before game 71. We had no reason to believe otherwise.

It was easy to pick the winnable games to get us over the top.