Running Stanley Cup Playoff Thread

As bad as Kaberle has been all playoffs, he wasn't that bad tonight.
But Boychuk on the last play ... ugh.
I just hope that goal doesn't become the Petr Klima goal for this year's Bs.

 

That's the natural comparison, but I think a triple OT goal is a lot more deflating than this one will be. I like to think the Bruins are going to react as if they were the underdogs who were within 18.5 seconds of overtime against the team many people were picking to win the Cup before the playoffs even started. Even though they were on their heels hanging on for dear life in the last six minutes and ultimately gave up an excruciatingly late goal, they were right there the whole way. Just get pissed and come back swinging.

 

It's game one, folks. Nothing has been decided

The problem here is special teams. The Bruins have a godawful PP but a damn fine PK.

If the Canucks figure out how to beat Boston's penalty kill, this may be a short series.

 

Extremely disappointing that NBC didn't have a better angle on the offsides/no offsides call. All they had was a high view from the other end of the ice.

 

Saw the CBC replay on YouTube. It was as close as you can come to offsides, without being so. No controversy. Good goal.

 

For all the talk about the power(less) play, the Bruins lost it with sloppy puckhandling in their own zone in the third period - Thomas stood on his head and belted out show tunes, but he had no chance on the game-winner. I had a bad feeling about this game the last 10 minutes or so.
Before I lay out the finger sandwiches for Game 2, I think somebody needed to make Raffi Torres pay for the punch of Chris Kelley after the whistle. That got my goat even more than the Burrows/Bergeron incident.
There's going to be a line brawl in this series the first time somebody gets a two-goal lead in the third period. Lot of animosity for two teams who met only once in the regular season and have never met in a playoff series - the only reason we didn't have any fights last night was the game being tied for 59:42.

 

And in other news, "Canadian National Anthem" is currently trending on Twitter.

 

Agree 100 percent on that punch. I was so much more pissed about that. Not to turn this into an NHL vs. NBA debate (I'm an NBA fan, too), but it's even more aggravating in light of the LeBron flop. One guy acts like he got shot by a sniper, on no contact; the other guy gets his head snapped back by a real punch in the face after the whistle.

 

Gilbert Brule picks up a rather famous hitchhiker...

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/sports/Oiler+Brule+gave+lift+hitchhiking+Bono/4877705/story.html?cid=dlvr.it-twitter-edmontonjournal

 

I think we can pick a few more punches, cross checks after the whistle from both teams. There were scrums and shots after almost every whistle.

 

He has been brutal for most of the postseason, but last night he played well for the first 59:30.

 

OK, CBC had 5.6 million viewers, the biggest audience for a single NHL game since game 7 of the '94 (NY vs Canucks). And this was game 1.

In the US, game had a 3.7 rating and a whopping 25.5 in the Boston area