I expect them to repeat.
I'll be disappointed with anything less than 7 games in the ECF.
I think they'll be mostly healthy and breeze through the 1st two rounds.
I think most of teams they've played this year have had the Bruins circled on their calendars for a long time and played some of their best games of the season against the Bruins while the B's have been kind of coasting, banged-up, sub-elite goaltending for a bit, and snakebitten. In the playoffs, over a 7 game series, I'll take the Bruins over any of them and I think the only ones that would be a bit more a coin toss is NYR and possibly maybe kinda Pittsburg.
This team is starting to amp it up now and will be firing on all cylinders by the end of the season. I'll be surprised if it takes more than 11 games to go through the 1st two rounds.
If Pittsburgh gets Letang and Crosby back healthy before the playoffs they are a much tougher matchup than the Rangers imo.
That is the point, you did go right after Corvo first thing, while Seids is the better d-man overall, he has been struggling this year. He is not the same guy as last year for whatever reason. But here you are tossing blame at Corvo for Seids now. Did Corvo make Seids pinch on that Rags third goal or blow the coverage on the second one? Sorry, but Corvo has been better so far but toss blame at Corvo because it's convenient for you to have a scapegoat.
What is it with Bruin fans or us Bostonians in general? Pick a player and attack attack attack? Wideman, Corvo, Ference, this guy that guy....and most of the time it is completely unreasonable.
Because there is a certain type of player that will never, ever be popular here. Us fans are fed the images of Neely bleeding from the mouth on every intro.
The Corvos, Gills, Widemans, Wheelers, Pouliots, Kaberle, Schaefer, type players will always get ****. I don't see why its so hard for people to understand.
Not going to lie, the team I fear the Bruins being upset by is Florida,
They play that type of boring, slow, passive game that the S.E. Division seems to thrive on. There will be no animosity to feed off of and the B's will struggle.
I think Seidenburg has been pretty solid this year. Steady and dependable...sure, he makes mistakes, but no defenseman is mistake free and he's not a number 1 guy. He's a top 4 dman who feeds off of a number 1 very well because of his physical defensive game and smarts. I think he's misplaced on the point on the PP because of a lack of options for the Bruins. Before Rolston, Chara and Seids were the only two left handers who could play the point with hard shots. The Bruins lean on Seidenburg a lot: he's our second best defensive dman on a defense-first team and the minutes played reflect that. His conditioning is right up there with Chara, too.
Thomas would have to return to what he was before his ego busted out and he set himself apart from the team.
Rolston would have to morph into Recchi.
That's just for starters.
When did Thomas do that?
It's so funny that media and fans go nuts over things that make players shrug and laugh. As Ference said, these guys have no secrets.
Anyway, as for the postseason, I never expect anything beyond my team's best effort. If there was such a thing as a sure thing, bookies would have gone out of business long ago.
Not going to lie, the team I fear the Bruins being upset by is Florida,
They play that type of boring, slow, passive game that the S.E. Division seems to thrive on. There will be no animosity to feed off of and the B's will struggle.
I don't know about you but from the beginning I was hoping for a matchup with the Canucks because I knew there would be some animosity.
IMO, had the Bruins played the Wings or even the Sharks, I am not too sure last year would have ended so well. The Canucks were the perfect opponent for the B's/
I don't know about you but from the beginning I was hoping for a matchup with the Canucks because I knew there would be some animosity.
IMO, had the Bruins played the Wings or even the Sharks, I am not too sure last year would have ended so well. The Canucks were the perfect opponent for the B's/
I wanted the Nucks over the sharks, too. Watching the nucks celebrate their WCF, they could hardly skate around afterwards. Due to the ridiculous amount of confetti, talk a/b over planning, I was sure they were overconfident, and would underestimate the B's. They did. They expected someone to just hand them the cup.
Sharks, well the one thing I thought could make JT play otherworldly, would be to face the team that traded him for never was, never was gonna be, and not even close, and in the finals. I think we've won one game since the trade. And, JT always plays out of his mind against the B's. Hell, he even hits! Wanted nothing to do w/ that scenario, and still don't. Can you imagine the humiliation? They're a talented team w/o JT. It's shocking to me that team can't get there, what don't they have? They're stacked. Total enigma.
I wanted the Nucks over the sharks, too. Watching the nucks celebrate their WCF, they could hardly skate around afterwards. Due to the ridiculous amount of confetti, talk a/b over planning, I was sure they were overconfident, and would underestimate the B's. They did. They expected someone to just hand them the cup.
Sharks, well the one thing I thought could make JT play otherworldly, would be to face the team that traded him for never was, never was gonna be, and not even close, and in the finals. I think we've won one game since the trade. And, JT always plays out of his mind against the B's. Hell, he even hits! Wanted nothing to do w/ that scenario, and still don't. Can you imagine the humiliation? They're a talented team w/o JT. It's shocking to me that team can't get there, what don't they have? They're stacked. Total enigma.
Yea I was much happier with the biting story line than the Joe Thornton Bruins story lines. Not thanks at all.
