2019 Stanley Cup Final Pre-Game Talk GAME 1 - 5/27 8:21 PM - Blues return to SCF after 17,914 days to the same city

Which team wins Game 1?


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Fenway

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Down Goes Brown looks at the SCF

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Bs in 7. Blues are determined and playing really well. Their forecheck will probably give the Bs problems. Like the Bs, the Blues bottom 6 have been playing really well. I liked Robert Thomas as a possible pick for the Bruins. Kid does not look out of place centering his line responsible defensively, skates and plays hard. Makes some really good moves in tight.

The Blues are my western Conference team. Bruins are my #1 but this is an ideal Cup Final for me.

LFG! GO BRUINS!
 
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That ALLCAPS clown got spanked, so the level of civility has gone way up. Those St. Louisans really are the nicest fans in sports. Too freaking nice.
It is kind of scary how civil it is.

I expect that to change after Monday.
 
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Bruins in 5.
The ""experts"" had us losing vs the leafs, CBJ and the Canes were supoposed to walk on us after decimating the Isles.
Um, no.
We have just too much experience to lose vs the Blues and thats what it comes down to kids....experienced.
Theres leadership all over this room that dates back to 2011+.
Who has the best +\- on the Bruins? Zdeno Freakin' Chara!!! The dude has truly impressed me. The monster is hungry! Get in my belly!

 

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NBC Sports begins exclusive coverage of the 2019 Stanley Cup Final this Monday, May 27, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC, when Patrice Bergeron and the Boston Bruins host Vladimir Tarasenko and the St. Louis Blues in Game 1 of the best-of-seven series at TD Garden in Boston, Mass. Pre-game coverage begins at 6 p.m. ET on NBCSN with a special two-hour edition of NHL Live amongst the fans outside of TD Garden.

NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app – NBC Sports Group’s live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs – will provide streaming coverage of all 2019 Stanley Cup Final games.
Seven-time Emmy Award-winning play-by-play commentator Mike “Doc” Emrick, U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame member and analyst Eddie Olczyk, and Emmy Award-winning ‘Inside-the-Glass’ analyst Pierre McGuire will call the 2019 Stanley Cup Final on NBC and NBCSN.

This marks the 13th consecutive year that Emrick, Olczyk and McGuire will call the Stanley Cup Final for NBC Sports, one of the longest streaks by any broadcast team calling a major U.S. team sport championship. Coverage of all 2019 Stanley Cup Final games will begin at 8 p.m. ET, with pre-game coverage beginning at 6 p.m. ET on NBCSN.

Mike Tirico will host Game 1 coverage from TD Garden on Monday night. Liam McHugh will anchor pre-game, intermission and post-game coverage on-site throughout the series, alongside analysts and former players Mike Milbury and Keith Jones.

Kathryn Tappen
will host pre-game and post-game coverage from outside sets in Boston and St. Louis throughout the series, capturing the scene amongst the fans alongside analysts and former players Jeremy Roenick, Brian Boucher, Anson Carter and Patrick Sharp

COMPREHENSIVE BRUINS COVERAGE ON NBC SPORTS BOSTON

NBC Sports Boston will provide comprehensive local multi-platform coverage for the Boston Bruins throughout the 2019 Stanley Cup Final.

NBC Sports Boston will offer live post-game shows and analysis throughout the Stanley Cup Final for the Bruins. Michael Felger, along with former NHL player Tony Amonte and U.S. Women’s Ice Hockey Olympic gold medalist Meghan Duggan will headline postgame coverage.

NBCSB Bruins Insider Joe Haggerty will weigh in from on-site at the arena throughout the series. NBCSB’s daily programming, including Early Edition, Boston Sports Tonight, and simulcasts of The Sports Hub’s Zolak & Bertrand & Felger and Mazz shows will also provide in-depth coverage throughout the Final.
 

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That ALLCAPS clown got spanked, so the level of civility has gone way up. Those St. Louisans really are the nicest fans in sports. Too freaking nice.

In 2004 St Louis fans were very gracious to Red Sox fans and late in Game 4 the Cardinals opened the gates to the stadium to let Red Sox fans in to party. They were gracious again in 2013.

The only city they hate is Chicago and it has nothing to do with sports. The Chicago sewer system was designed not to put waste into Lake Michigan but use the Mississippi River instead.

How Chicago Reversed Its River: An Animated History | The Chicago Tour with Geoffrey Baer

When Sanitary District trustees and laborers broke open the last dam holding back the Chicago River, Sanitary District President William Boldenweck, who lost both of his parents to a cholera epidemic decades before, cried “Let ‘er go,” according to the Chicago Daily News, calling his remark “the nearest approach to formality of the entire occasion.”

A few days later, according to the Chicago Record, “Water that was actually blue in color and had blocks of ice of a transparent green hue floating in it…caused people who crossed bridges over the Chicago River…to stop and stare in amazement.”

St. Louis filed an injunction against the reversal on January 17. Their case eventually went to the Supreme Court, which decided in Chicago’s favor. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that the Mississippi was, indeed, foul – but the putrid waters couldn’t be blamed entirely on Chicago, since several other cities much closer to St. Louis were also discharging their waste into the river.

Meanwhile, wrote Holmes, municipalities closer to Chicago were actually benefiting from the infusion of the fresh lake water into their rivers.

Holmes might have been a great jurist, but he was apparently not much of a scientist. As Libby Hill wrote in her book, The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History, two biologists from the Illinois Natural History Survey documented conditions in the summer of 1911 along the Illinois River in Morris, Illinois, approximately 60 miles southwest of Chicago. There, they found, “The water…was grayish and sloppy, with foul, privy odors distinguishable in hot weather…Putrescent masses of soft, graying, or blackish, slimy matter, loosely held together by threads of fungi… were floating down the stream.”
 

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The Bruins are an entirely different animal


Not to mention the same thing can be said for Boston. They’ve improved over the course of each series, and also improved upon the previous series. Columbus hammered Boston for 6 games and the Bruins never wavered or strayed from their gameplan.

This physicality and intimidation factor has been way overblown. I can’t wait until Krejci gets wrecked atthe left faceoff dot, but not before throwing a no look backhand pass to Debrusk (who has two guys hanging off his back) for the put away.
 

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i would think in boston, butch will choose to match up kuraly or coyle's line with sundqvist's line.
the matchup to exploit would certainly be bergy line on bozak's line, but that'll probably only happen
on icings or very sporadically.
 

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In 2004 St Louis fans were very gracious to Red Sox fans and late in Game 4 the Cardinals opened the gates to the stadium to let Red Sox fans in to party. They were gracious again in 2013.

The only city they hate is Chicago and it has nothing to do with sports. The Chicago sewer system was designed not to put waste into Lake Michigan but use the Mississippi River instead.

How Chicago Reversed Its River: An Animated History | The Chicago Tour with Geoffrey Baer

When Sanitary District trustees and laborers broke open the last dam holding back the Chicago River, Sanitary District President William Boldenweck, who lost both of his parents to a cholera epidemic decades before, cried “Let ‘er go,” according to the Chicago Daily News, calling his remark “the nearest approach to formality of the entire occasion.”

A few days later, according to the Chicago Record, “Water that was actually blue in color and had blocks of ice of a transparent green hue floating in it…caused people who crossed bridges over the Chicago River…to stop and stare in amazement.”

St. Louis filed an injunction against the reversal on January 17. Their case eventually went to the Supreme Court, which decided in Chicago’s favor. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote that the Mississippi was, indeed, foul – but the putrid waters couldn’t be blamed entirely on Chicago, since several other cities much closer to St. Louis were also discharging their waste into the river.

Meanwhile, wrote Holmes, municipalities closer to Chicago were actually benefiting from the infusion of the fresh lake water into their rivers.

Holmes might have been a great jurist, but he was apparently not much of a scientist. As Libby Hill wrote in her book, The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History, two biologists from the Illinois Natural History Survey documented conditions in the summer of 1911 along the Illinois River in Morris, Illinois, approximately 60 miles southwest of Chicago. There, they found, “The water…was grayish and sloppy, with foul, privy odors distinguishable in hot weather…Putrescent masses of soft, graying, or blackish, slimy matter, loosely held together by threads of fungi… were floating down the stream.”
Fenway's like the old encycopedia brittanica lol
 
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