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Janney and Joyce ... and the Gahden power failure in the Finals.
Remember when they called Janney the next Bobby Orr?
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Seidenberg needs to return ASAP; Bartkowsi is Brutal.
When Seidenberg comes back, Hamilton is sitting down. At this point is is just too weak in his own end. Understandable. He is only 19.
I don't get how people don't like hockey. Especially the football crowd. It has all of the speed and physicality of Football without the endless stoppages and commercial breaks. For christsakes, playoff OT is commercial-less!!! Could you imagine the NFL going commercial-less?
I remember watching the Bruins vs Rangers in the playoffs the last time they met 40 years ago. IIRC, Brad Park was on that NY team and would eventually play for Boston years later.
Wasn't Bernie Parente the NY goalie?
Rask played incredible yesterday.
I see your ability to cherry pick the negative from a convincing playoff victory is not limited to football!
I remember watching the Bruins vs Rangers in the playoffs the last time they met 40 years ago. IIRC, Brad Park was on that NY team and would eventually play for Boston years later.
Wasnt Bernie Parente the NY goalie?
Rask played incredible yesterday.
That still doesn't preclude me from stating what is obvious to anyone who knows hockey:
Bartkowski does not deserve to play defense on a team with championship aspirations.
In case you haven't noticed, to a certain extent they already do: there actually is a limit to the number of commercial breaks they can have each half.
That isn't commercial-less. NHL has 3 commercial breaks per period. From Wiki: "during stoppages of play, at the discretion of the TV timeout coordinator and typically after passing the following marks of each period: less than 14:00, less than 10:00 and less than 6:00 minutes"
The OT period in the playoffs has ZERO commercial breaks for a 20 min period. There is no way the NFL, MLB or NBA can even come close to touching the level of consistent, uninterrupted action that the NHL provides.
Contrast that with your typical NFL broadcast with a TV timeout at almost every change of possession, after PATs, after the kickoff, 2 min warning...it never freaking ends.
Off the top of my head, the NYR goalie was likely Eddie Giacomin.
Edit: yes it was.
New York Rangers 1971-72 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com
1972, game 6 in NY, I can still see Orr's spin-o-rama from the right point, and Cashman's dance
on his tip-toes after just scoring the clincher.
Thanks, Giacomin rings a bell.
Bobby Orr was the best player ever bar none and Im not just saying that as a Bruins fan. He used to kill penalties by himself skating around in circles while the other team chased him. Ive never seen any other player do that.
I agree that the NHL probably made a mistake in not coaxing the game away from what allowed the NJ Devils.
Yet to be fair to the Devils, despite their "method", NJ had that important piece that makes or breaks a team, something the Bruins largely lacked up until recent years (unless, maybe, you go back decades to "Eddy Shore, old time hockey"), a stone wall for a goalie for the playoffs. That's one thing NJ didn't lack. It is unfortunate in the days of 4, O'Reilly/the Big Bad Bruins, that they always had to face Ken Dryden every playoffs (hearing his name still pisses me off )
No doubt, football is the sport of sports. I'm concerned for the future of it due to what the owners are doing/keep trying to do but it still remains the sport of sports. It is #1 on many sports fans lists and their #2 is often far behind (TV ratings-revenues back that up). But playoff hockey is an entertaining thing to watch/follow. A much better spectator playoff sport, imho, than MLB (though I do go to more baseball games than any other sport). Just my two cents but if your a general Boston sports fan, you're missing out on some very entertaining sports watching if you are skipping these Bruins games.
you can say the same thing about Tim Thomas 2 years ago. he was absolutely unbelievable.It's amazing what defects and weaknesses a "great" goalie can hide for a team. Which is why, and I know it's debatable, but the position of a hockey goalie is the single most influential position in all team sports for a team's success. Goalies like Brodeur, Dryden, and Roy were not of this world at times in the playoffs.
It's amazing what defects and weaknesses a "great" goalie can hide for a team. Which is why, and I know it's debatable, but the position of a hockey goalie is the single most influential position in all team sports for a team's success. Goalies like Brodeur, Dryden, and Roy were not of this world at times in the playoffs.