1-0!? Whoop-de-freaking-do! The game was 8 minutes old. 8 minutes. You're just a very bitter homer.
Im a homer for saying, as Long as Neely was on the ice healthy, the bruins were always winning? its historical fact buddy. The series changed from that hit onward.
Im hardly the only one who thinks so. That's why the poll is in favor of the bruins winning.
If Boston deserved to win, they would have done so, regardless of who was on the ice.
No chance, huge chance, I don't care, it doesn't matter.
But the fact the series was 2-0 is a dead point. The fact Neely was injured is merely a convenient excuse for the Bruins performance the rest of the way. If they were a true championship team, they would have banded together in the face of adversity (and all those other cliches that go along with it) like the Penguins had to. They didn't, and they lost. That is the fault of the Boston Bruins, not Ulf Samuelsson.
And if they needed one player to get them through, then thats not good either.
What a cop out. Notice however, that you are in the minority? Its hardly unheard of for a weaker toeam to dominate a better team through the work of a few clutch players. Neely was captain clutch. He had more goals at the time than Lemieux had points in this series, and the Pens had NO answer to him. They put 2 guys on him at all times, and he went through them and scored up a storm in the first games.
You can call me a homer, and I can call you a homer for denying the obvious. Your team had no answer to Cam, so it took the dirty, Bobby Clarke on Kharlamov route to win.
The thing that really pisses off most people is that after the first knee on knee in game 3 which made Neely highly ineffectual, he did a *Bryan Marchment* knee on knee to the boards on Cam in game 6 from behind, and smoked him in the knee again(Which was the hit that ended his career).
Ulf's job was to hurt people. Plain and simple. He was picked by ESPN to be the dirtiest hockey player of all time for a reason. His job was not to protect Lemieux. His job first and foremost was to hurt star players.
The thing that was most annoying about Samuelsson was that if challenged, he wasn't even man enough to drop the gloves. He would turtle up everytime.
He also Knee on Knee hit Brian Bellows in the finals(Which became infamous because of the video circulating of Stevens and co cussing him out), and yes, he intentionally took out another cheap shot artist name Dino in the finals of another series. Merely stating Ulf's track record.
Ulf was the king of the cheap shot. Always his job was to take out other teams star players to give his team a better chance.
and more people think Boston would have won than the pens and undecided combined.