Bruins welcome Matt Cooke & Pittsburgh Penguins to TD Garden

I would wager, or I believe, team pride is more important then 2 pts in a non-cup contention year.

Colin Campbell can be where ever he wants and say whatever he wants and snowballs fights can get started in hell. Equally effective.

Thornton and Cooke should be on the ice at the opening face off. drop the puck, drop the gloves lets see how you do when the other guy has his head up Mr. Cooke.

Following that, re-establish the tone you want your team to play with now, and in future years. Re-establish the physical edge you had last year and in past years, defend your teammates (even if it is 1.5 weeks late) defend your pride as hockey players.

Whatever suspensions come for the B’s, deal with them. Its not like they are cup contenders this year and perhaps Mr. Thornton being a healthy scratch was just to get him used to the view up there. If there are fines, then the team should have already established any fine gets divided among all veteran players.

You don’t have to win the cup every year, but you do need to defend your pride and your code.

Great, 9am I already need a beer and my couch.

I do need to reiterate that Sidney Crosby is a whiny little bitch.

Anyone else going to be on the conference call today?

Here’s hoping that the game, the retributuon and the outcome of the score do NOT dissappoint. I also hope the Cooke mans up and answers the bell for hisself. Afterall, its thew right thing to do

Cooke will have a quick, shitty fight against somebody like Steve Begin and then the rest of the game will be a complete disapointment. Cooke isn’t going to man up against anybody who can actually beat him up. Also, thanks to the lame instigator rule there really isn’t much Thornton can do if Cooke isn’t willing to fight him.

I’m off for Boston to go watch the game in person. Jealous much?

Just got off the conference call with Chiarelli, he did pretty well.

This is the one game all year I’m really, truly disappointed I won’t be at. Not for Matt Cooke or revenge or anything like that, but just simply that I won’t get the chance to voice my opinion of Colin Campbell while he’s in the building. If there aren’t at least 3 “Fi-re Camp-bell (clap clap clapclapclap)” chants during the game, it will be a missed opportunity. I want signs. I want giant photos of him with “prohibited” symbols over it. He’s the real enemy here – Matt Cooke just did what Matt Cooke does, Campbell is the enabler that allows him to do it.

BTW, any “fight” with Cooke is going to consist of him whining, backing off, and then turtling. It’s pointless to try to engage him, and it’s playoff suicide to try taking a run. So, the Bruins should be physical and just try for the 2 points. A win sends a much bigger message.

Also:

Asked what he might do when Colin Campbell speaks w/Bruins before game, David Krejci said “I might go outside and play w/ the soccer ball.”

I don’t usually mention this but I put up a quick recap of what Chiarelli said in the conference call today, as well as a bunch of pictures from 1970, up on my blog today. Feel free to check it out in my signature.

That is the lousiest, most annoying freaking thing I ever ever heard. I have lost braincells by listening to 30 seconds of that crap. God that was unbearable.