NHL Playoffs (1 Viewer)

Now that we have made the finals I actually enjoy a few days to relax. I'm sure it is like this due to TV. You have got to plan that every series would go 7 games. I have no complaints.
 
After what seems like a month off, the SCF begin tonight, I'll be there when the puck finally drops, so LET'S GO!!!!!
 
That was a major beatdown the Bruins put on last night. You would think the Blues goalie might stop an occasional shot even if he just stood still and let the puck hit him. But he was like Swiss cheese.
 
That was a game they had to win after dropping game 2. It was a statement game. After what the Blues did in game 2 and all the positive vibes in having a home game, the Bruins sent a message.
 
Not a happy camper today, feel sorry for the folks who put out big money to go to last nights game. I hope I'm right about this but since Binnington took over in goal this year every game after the one like last night he came back strong as well as the team. The Blues are in a hole but it still takes 2 more Boston wins. St Louis did not get to the finals in a fluke.
 
gk5717 said:
Not a happy camper today, feel sorry for the folks who put out big money to go to last nights game. I hope I'm right about this but since Binnington took over in goal this year every game after the one like last night he came back strong as well as the team. The Blues are in a hole but it still takes 2 more Boston wins. St Louis did not get to the finals in a fluke.
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Most teams usually come back strong after a blowout loss. So anything is possible but that game did not inspire confidence. Have to wonder if the tank is empty for St. Louis. They are also now 1-10 against Boston in the playoffs and have to win three out of the next four.
 
Combat said:
That was a major beatdown the Bruins put on last night. You would think the Blues goalie might stop an occasional shot even if he just stood still and let the puck hit him. But he was like Swiss cheese.
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After the game the reporters asked Rask what Perron was saying to him after he was jawing with him after one of the 4,000 after the whistle scrums that have broken out this series, Rask said "He accused me of flopping"...……………...so the guy who has got run over three times in the series is flopping?

Honest to Christ, the mind reels over comments like that, that's some mentality to play the game with.

Keep it rolling tomorrow night, no boneheaded turnovers, keep the puck in front of you on defense and continue to put pucks on the net; when you put pucks on the net, good things usually happen...……………..
 
After I read Combat's post that the Blues were 1-10 against Boston in the playoffs I said what? Yes 0-4 1970 finals and 1-2 this year but where were the other 4 losses. I looked it up. 71-72 0-4 against Boston. Don't remember that at all. How did we come to play Boston if it was not in the finals? What was the set up back then, points? I don't know.
Back to this year. George does the Marchand sound familier? Just because this year he is playing like a choir boy his past would kinda put him in the bad boy class.
When your team is involved it is so funny how one game effects the way you think. Boston game 1, no way we (Blues) can win this. Blues game 2. Bostons not so good we will do this in 6. Game 3 they killed us, it just about toast. We win game 4, Bostons scared to death. Every game is completely different.
 
gk5717 said:
After I read Combat's post that the Blues were 1-10 against Boston in the playoffs I said what? Yes 0-4 1970 finals and 1-2 this year but where were the other 4 losses. I looked it up. 71-72 0-4 against Boston. Don't remember that at all. How did we come to play Boston if it was not in the finals? What was the set up back then, points? I don't know.
Back to this year. George does the Marchand sound familier? Just because this year he is playing like a choir boy his past would kinda put him in the bad boy class.
When your team is involved it is so funny how one game effects the way you think. Boston game 1, no way we (Blues) can win this. Blues game 2. Bostons not so good we will do this in 6. Game 3 they killed us, it just about toast. We win game 4, Bostons scared to death. Every game is completely different.
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When the NHL expanded from 6 to 12 teams, all the new teams went into the Western conference, the original six stayed in the East; after the 1970 season, St Louis moved to the East, Chicago moved to the West, the Bruins played the Blues in round one in 1971, they lost to Montreal in the conference finals, who then beat the Black Hawks.

Yes, emotion switches from game to game, as does momentum.

The Bruins need to continue to dominate on the power play and keep the puck in front of them defensively, no boneheaded turnovers like in game 1 or defensive breakdowns like in game 2.

The Blues play an aggressive style of hockey, so make that work against them; when you get power play chances, bury them.

As far as Marchand; he's matured quite a bit, he's no longer the ballbreaker that he used to be, at one of the press conferences, someone asked him "What do you think about you being so hated by Blues fans?"...….his reply "I don't care what the Blues fans think of me"...………….that's the way to be, head down and take care of business.
 
I am not taking sides as I consider Gary and George friends.

I will say this as a hockey fan, both of these teams deserve to be in the Finals. Neither one lucked their way in.

I have enjoyed watching each game and I am looking forward to tonight's game!
 
Nice bounce back win for the Blues. That was a must win game for them. Now they are 2-10 against the Bruins! Brutal puck to the face on Chara. I don't know how these guys do it. I once saw a player gently toss a puck over the glass to a kid and accidentally hit a lady on the head. She bleed so badly they had to escort her out. Those things are hard as a rock. I can't imagine what it is like to get hit in the face with a slapshot. And those old guys back in the day who played with no helmets or goalie masks must have been tough as nails.
 
There are so many egregious stories in the news it's hard to settle on just one but since this is a hockey thread I was just reading that the Blues had the color guard carry an Enterprise Rental Car flag during the national anthem. Who is the genius that comes up with that idea? It's laughable. Plastering hockey arenas and baseball stadiums with ads is already something straight out of "Idiocracy" (a wildly underappreciated movie). They even put up computer generated ads on the ice and boards in some games that I have watched. Second only to the tearful soldier and family reunions during NFL games. Turns out the NFL was charging the defense department a hefty sum for the privilege.
 
I find it amusing how fans around here were/are ready to jump off of a bridge after the game 2 and 4 losses.

They forget this team was down 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 to Toronto and down 2-1 to Columbus.

Sports is sometimes so predictable, people say what the love about sports is there no script, but sometimes there is.

Case in point, the St Louis coach whines to the media about all the penalties being called on the Blues after the Bruins and their lethal power play demolished them in game 3 7-2, so what happens; last night, at home, the referees put their whistles in their pockets, St Louis did not get called for a single penalty in the first period and they went up 2-1 on their way to a 4-2 win.

Gee, never saw that coming.

Game 5 is in Boston; does anyone who follows hockey think the refs will once again put their whistles in their pockets and let the Blues fly all over the ice looking to kill Bruins players?

No, they won't.

For the billionth time, GET PUCKS TO THE NET, skate, skate, skate, take the body, keep the puck in front of you on defense and go from there.

It's down to a best two out of three, we'll see who sacks up and wants it more.
 
Here is why hockey is my favorite sport (From ESPN):

"Zdeno Chara suffered a broken jaw in Monday night's game. He has not officially been ruled out of Thursday's game."

The word "tough" doesn't even begin to describe these guys.
 
Panzer ace said:
Here is why hockey is my favorite sport (From ESPN):

"Zdeno Chara suffered a broken jaw in Monday night's game. He has not officially been ruled out of Thursday's game."

The word "tough" doesn't even begin to describe these guys.
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Chara was on the ice for the morning skate, Grez was on the ice too NOT wearing a non contact jersey, assuming both are playing tonight.

Hockey players are a different breed, what else can you say.

I'll be in the house tonight; LET'S GO!!!!!
 
Boston win tonight. The Blues players will be busy watching Trailer Park Boys :wink2:
 
jazzeum said:
Boston win tonight. The Blues players will be busy watching Trailer Park Boys :wink2:
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It's now or never; if the other players don't feed off of this and they lose tonight, it simply wasn't meant to be, if they go down 3-2, I can't see a scenario where they win this.

Anytime the first and second lines want to get their heads and ***** wired together would be nice; zero points from those 6 players when the teams are 5 on 5, that has to change or forget it, you can't rely on power play goals to carry you.

Stop with trying to make fancy passes; get pucks to the net, jump on rebounds and put the biscuit in the basket.

It's not rocket science.
 
jazzeum said:
A Bruins fan, expressing his admiration for the Blues.

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No matter where it is, there is a classless ***@ in every town. They just don't demand respect nowadays from kids, they are brought up classless and there is zero encouragement or reinforcement, disgusts me.

TD
 
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