Public Skate: Bruins @ Pittsburgh Penguins
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 7:00 PM EST
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Boston Bruins @ Pittsburgh Penguins
Mellon Arena
Pittsburgh, PA
7:30
NESN
Watch the game and discuss it with other B's fans. Remember to always skate in a counter-clockwise direction and no rough-housing. Have at it, Chowdah Heads, Puckheads, and Hockey Krishnas!
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Brent Johnson will get the start in goal for the Pens. Thomas for the B’s.
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 7:26 PM EST reply actions
Lines for tonight (according to KPD)
Marco Sturm — Patrice Bergeron — Mark Recchi
Blake Wheeler — David Krecji — Michael Ryder
Daniel Paille — Vladimir Sobotka — Brad Marchand
Shawn Thornton — Steve Begin — Byron Bitz
Zdeno Chara — Derek Morris
Mark Stuart — Dennis Wideman
Matt Hunwick – Andrew Ference
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 7:28 PM EST reply actions
Hey, welcome back!
Haven’t seen you around here much lately.
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 7:31 PM EST up reply actions
vet school has officially taken the life out of me this semester. i’ve been trying to keep up with, and at least watch a period or two of every game, but commenting and being obsessive just isn’t in the cards right now. it isnt going to get much better when i go into clinics in march.
but if you’d like to do the 350ish pages of reading per exam per week for me, i’d be more than happy to comment all the time, hahaha :)
No, I’m all set with that. I went to 4 yrs of undergrad and 2 yrs of grad school. I am done learning.
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 7:37 PM EST up reply actions
You were public skate all-star last year.
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 7:38 PM EST up reply actions
Malkin will play tonight for the Pens
Pittsburgh’s lines should look like this:
Fedotenko-Crosby-Malkin
Bourque-Staal-Guerin
Cooke-Letestu-Dupuis
Rupp-Adams-Godard
Skoula-Lovejoy
McKee-Goligoski
Eaton-Engelland
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 7:30 PM EST reply actions
that fan flipping out is rocking a nice Canadian tuxedo
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 7:40 PM EST reply actions
what the heck is wrong
with sturm and ryder this year? sturm i was willing to give a free pass for a while because of injury….but really?
Not much landing there but maybe it’ll give them a spark
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 7:50 PM EST reply actions
its kind of the decision of who i like less……whitfield is just boring, but marchand is dynamic but spends too much time in the box. can we just send them both back and clone sobotka?
I like what Sobotka has shown this season. Much more physical than we have seen in the past.
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 8:03 PM EST up reply actions
He does have some good tools though, I think when he gets used to level of NHL play he’ll be a good third line checker…..possibly second line guy in years to come. When Lucic and Savard come back he needs to go back to Providence and fine tune his game
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 8:04 PM EST up reply actions
Thomas was in position for the save before Stuart pushed, I think it was Cooke, into him. Very unfortunate
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 8:08 PM EST reply actions
They were lucky to kill that one off
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 8:32 PM EST reply actions
B’s look awful in their own zone tonight
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 8:36 PM EST reply actions
its times like these that they miss their “disposable” defensive specialists from last year – axelsson and yelle. you can say what you’d like about their offense, and most of it is true, but they could shut down like nobody’s business. the loss of ward for the more offensively minded morris is also showing up right now
I disagree. Scoring has been the problem this yr not defense. Morris has looked good moving the puck (in my opinion the B’s biggest problem last yr).
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 8:42 PM EST up reply actions
in general, scoring has been the problem. i totally agree. but when we are confronted with a huge line from a team – aka the pens malkin/crosby combination, we don’t have enough of an answer for them. morris i am totally not sold on. he moves the puck well, but he still gives me the “wideman scares” from time to time
and that goal just solidified my point
I’m just not sure that Axelsson and Yelle would be the answer.
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 8:48 PM EST up reply actions
but i think that getting rid of 3 out of our top 4 penalty killers is going to kill us, in the end. i don’t think we should have kept them all….but i felt like Chiarelli was missing a defensive shutdown presence at the beginning of this year. only 2 of our 6 defensemen (chara and stuart) are truly “defensive” defensemen. at some point (may be now) that’s going to hurt us.
We are fourth in the league in goals against this season (not including tonite) Tim Thomas and the defense has been the only that has kept the B’s in most of the games this year. Our offense is struggling and giving roster spots to players like Axe and Yelle would not help the Offense at all. And also keep in mind Begin and Morris who took spots from Axe and Ward are tied for 2nd on the team in points. Morris has good transition out of the defensive zone and generates offensive (see third goal of this game for reference) Oh and Ward is minus 12 this year so maybe his defensive play was boosted by the B’s team D last year. Begin is good defensively and is part of the biggest surprise line of the B’s this year, and is a big offensive upgrade over Axe and Yelle
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 9:01 PM EST reply actions
and I believe Yelle is currently unemployed
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 9:02 PM EST up reply actions
By the way what happened to Carolina this year they dropped like a rock, didn’t see that comming
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 9:02 PM EST up reply actions
that’s what happens when your off-season strategy is rumaging through the Bruins scrap heap
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 9:05 PM EST up reply actions
Does Brian Boitono know that Milan Lucic stole his shirt?
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 9:13 PM EST reply actions
I think Lucic’s watch is as big as my head thing was ridiculous
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 9:15 PM EST up reply actions
That thing is like Flava Flav’s clock on a watch strap
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 9:17 PM EST up reply actions
the stick was in his skate. I don’t think that was a dive
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 9:30 PM EST up reply actions
I’m not really worried about it cause the call went in the B’s favor, but it kinda looked like the ref had his back to the play and just saw Chara go down and called the penalty. It was a trip but how could the ref see it with his back turned?
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 9:29 PM EST reply actions
That doesn’t look good for Wides hopefully it’s a stinger
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 9:32 PM EST reply actions
He took a seat on the bench and didn’t go directly down the tunnel (if there is a tunnel at the bench) or go right to the trainer. So, that’s a good sign. We’ll see.
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 9:34 PM EST up reply actions
“Milan Lucic was supposed to be here for 5 mins but refuses to leave the studio”
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 9:35 PM EST reply actions
No need for Chara to be skating that close to Morris. You learn in Squirts to cover the middle and look for the wide skater on plays like that. Morris was in position it was Chara’s job to shut down the passing options. If Chara was playing for my peewee team he woulda been benched for a shift lol
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 9:44 PM EST reply actions
Time to capitalize 4 minutes we need something here
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 9:45 PM EST reply actions
dumbest rule in hockey…but i will take it
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 9:46 PM EST up reply actions
I think Delay of game over the glass and trapezoid infractions are worse, but that’s a close third
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 9:47 PM EST up reply actions
That was clutch right there very nice
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 9:50 PM EST reply actions
i don’t think being a desk toy is a positive thing in Edwards vocab…but who knows???
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 9:54 PM EST up reply actions
No Way Bruins come back to take the lead outf*ckinstanding
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 9:59 PM EST reply actions
NHL.com called Chara’s slapper a wrist shor
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 10:00 PM EST reply actions
If I were bergeron I would ask for a much larger endorsement fee from the manufacturer of his POS stick
here comes a rant about composite sticks…
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on Nov 14, 2009 10:09 PM EST reply actions
You have got to be fucking shitting me….that was horrific
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 10:11 PM EST reply actions
There it is Jack blamed the loss on Composite Sticks
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Nov 14, 2009 10:16 PM EST reply actions
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