Flyers down Bruins 2-1 to force Game 7
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on May 12, 2010 11:27 PM EDT
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The Bruins fell to the Philadelphia Flyers to force Game 7 on Friday night in Boston. When the B's take the ice on Friday night they will try to avoid becoming a footnote in the NHL history books. The Bruins are now on the verge of becoming the third team in league history to lose a 7-game playoff series after leading 3-0.
Mike Richards gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead with 13:02 left in the first period. Richards pounced on a rebound in front after Tuukka Rask made a series of saves and the Bruins failed to clear the puck out of the slot area. The Flyers were able to skate freely throughout the offensive zone on this sequence without anyone in a Spoked-B sweater applying any real pressure. The B's gave the Flyers way too much time and space and they paid for it.
Daniel Briere made it 2-0 at 16:20 of the second period on a 4-on-3 power play. Briere' pass attempt to Mike Richads was batted down by Johnny Boychuk, but the puck ended up back on the stick of Briere in the slot. Briere wheeled through the center of attacking zone to the right circle, where he fired a wrister that beat Rask up high on the glove side.
The Bruins were able to finally get on the scoreboard with 1:00 left in the third period when Milan Lucic hammered home a rebound on the doorstep off a shot by Dennis Wideman.
...Unfortunately, the late push by the Bruins was too late.
Notes:
- The Bruins had plenty of opportunities to score and controlled the play for long stretches tonight, but they just could not finish. They hit posts, they missed shots, they had shots get blocked, and they put the puck right at Michael Leighton.
- This looked like the regular season Bruins team we all know and loathe.
- As you probably know, the Montreal Canadiens advanced by beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2. The Habs await the winner of this series.
- That penalty shot call was an absolute horse shit call. Puck don't lie!
- Before Milan Lucic's goal, the Bruins had given up 7 unanswered goals dating back to Mark Recchi's game-tying goal in Game 4.
- Blair Betts left the game with an apparent upper body injury for the Flyers, but is expect to play in Game 7.
- The Flyers blocked 30 shots and the Bruins missed the net with another 18 shots.
- Game 7 is 7:00 on Friday on NESN.
- I have nothing more to say about tonight's game. Let's move on to Game 7. I don't want Simon Gagne to go down in history as the NHL's Dave Roberts.
- Broad Street Hockey has your Philly perspective on tonight's game.
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its not panic time, its time to truly see what this team is made of. We have yet to see them in a win or go home game, be it the regular sason or the playoffs. the closest we have seen is towards the end of the regular season, when they needed to play well to get in the playoffs, they got it done, when it came the the buffalo series, they werent in a position of despair at all, now they have their back to the wall again, and their gonna come out flying. they will win game 7
by BlueNGoldBomber on May 12, 2010 11:30 PM EDT reply actions
I can’t. Represent me well.
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by bestbostonsports on May 12, 2010 11:56 PM EDT up reply actions
HEY!
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by joe579 on May 13, 2010 12:40 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
thanks for this
i’ve already called the suicide hotline
Thisis the best thing I maybe have ever seen
Whoever said it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, probably lost.
by David Harnden on May 13, 2010 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m less discouraged than some. I thought, after that first period flurry, the Bruins were the better team by a decent margin. They just didn’t get the breaks going their way. (It’s like a bizarro version of game 2, where Philly looked like the better team for most of the game, but the B’s pulled it out at the end.) There were a number of pucks that skittered right through the crease with Leighton beaten. That sequence that led to the Briere PP goal was absurd on multiple levels: an abysmally bad call on Paille which led to a 5 on 3 and then a 4 on 3, then a deflection off a stick that goes right back to Briere for a clean shot.
I do, however, renew my call for Wheeler to replace Paille on the Bergeron line.
Paille, though great at everything else, probably couldn’t score on an empty net. That’s why the sabres traded him.
Not even the Toronto Maple Leafs could kill my optimism
Tyler Ennis: Freed from Portland!
Who would have thought...
…that Trent Whitfield would be the one the Flyers would have to worry about containing.
Whitfield on his breakaway....
“Maybe I can put it THROUGH Leighton, I’ll aim right for the logo on his chest. Yeah that sounds like a plan”
Whoever said it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, probably lost.
by David Harnden on May 13, 2010 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Anybody else not want to play the Canadiens
Because it would hurt much more to lose to them. Freaking Habs
All this buttoning and unbuttoning
I wanted Pittsburgh to win that game last night…the Bruins could potentially have an easier go of it against the Habs rather than Wonderboy, but losing to the defending Cup winners in the ECF would have been a fair way to end this season. Less so than tanking to the Habs (or, hell, Flyers) once more.
I wouldn’t mind getting swept by the Habs in the EC Finals actually. I however, have a HUGE problem with blowing a 3-0 series lead to the Flyers!
You gotta be kidding me?
I wouldn’t sleep for a month if we were swept by the Habs!!!
All this buttoning and unbuttoning
It’s not looking rosy right now.
But if we manage it, I really am not that concerned about who the games are against, as we will simply be fortunate to be there.
There’s no momentum between games, per John Tortorella. Friday will be a brand new game.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on May 13, 2010 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions
Right there with ya on this.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on May 13, 2010 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions
….that being said. This is the Playoffs and anything can happen. I just didn’t see anything in the last two games that would make me think the B’s will turn in around.
Even worse, last night when the Bruins took their time out….CJ just sat there looking around. For Christ Sake……COACH!!!!
They were on a PP, no? Wasn’t he letting the PP coach…coach the PP?
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on May 13, 2010 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, I was going to say Craig Ramsey runs the PP. I like Craig too. He looks like a badass Captain Picard. I bet before the team skates off for the puck drop he says: “Make it so.” I’ve also seen him with lots of controlled passion and emotion behind the bench. So much that it leaves me wondering why he isn’t the head coach.
I don’t think so, this was at the end of the game. If they were setting up for a PP, and I am wrong…they I am sorry…I misunderstood.
Not to sound all negative....
I’m just frustrated. I was excited to see the Bruins even make it to the second round. Really I was just looking forward to the draft. It’s when they went up 3-0 in the series, that I got my hopes up. I shouldn’t have. Anyone has the opportunity to win in the playoffs, and I had let myself forget that.
Hopefully we can pull out a win tomorrow night and then I can start the rollercoaster all over again.
Go B’s!!
For those fortelling doom and gloom, right now Vegas has game 7 listed as a tossup. Both the B’s and Flyers are at -110.
interesting
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by bestbostonsports on May 13, 2010 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions
No Seidenberg
For game 7 I’m assuming?
Whoever said it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, probably lost.
sadly no.
I love your tagline
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by bestbostonsports on May 13, 2010 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions
It was our slogan
for my high school baseball team my senior year. We won the state championship that year for our division. Pretty awesome. The slogan just stuck with me.
Whoever said it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, probably lost.
by David Harnden on May 13, 2010 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions
This game sucked
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by bestbostonsports on May 13, 2010 2:16 PM EDT reply actions
You mean win or go home a loser?
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by bestbostonsports on May 13, 2010 9:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I can’t wait for Friday night. I need to stop looking at the clock because time seems to be slowing down. With the Pens out of the Picture, the Flyers have a legitimate chance to get to the cup finals.
More pressure is on the Bruins because they had this thing wrapped up in brown paper tied up with string. Now they are gripping their sticks too tight and trying to keep the nervous sweat out of their eyes. The crowd’s energy in the Garden will be assuaged by the prospect of being on the losing end of history in the making.
All the Flyers need to do is finish off your sorry asses in Beantown once more. They proved they can lay one hell of a smackdown in front of your crowd on Monday. I’m hoping it’s a repeat performance for the good guys in Orange and Black.
LET"S GO FLYERS!
the good guys in Orange and Black.
Whatever you’re smoking, I’d like some.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on May 13, 2010 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes. The Bruins are the good guys, valiant knights in black and gold!
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on May 14, 2010 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions
The orange tinted glasses
You seeing okay with those?
When you've said Jason Heyward, you've said it all.........
Really????
I love the smack talk….but do you really think your Flyers are that much better than the Caps and Pens, that you would be able to just roll over the Habs? Think about it for a minute……
Now….Really????
Either the Bruins or the Flyers will be an interesting matchup for the Habs because they all play similar systems. Not the all out attack that the Caps and to a lesser extent the Pens play. All the remaining teams know how to limit the other teams oppurtunities and score when the chance is there
New Zealand's 4th best Philadelphia Flyers fan
Hey Todd I was banned from BSH. I Just wanna say you were one of the nicest on there!
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by bestbostonsports on May 13, 2010 9:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Todd makes a very viable point with the systems. Also, look at the top defensemen on each of the teams remaining: Chara, Pronger, Gill. That’s three of the biggest and best shut down defensemen in the game. I think that is why Montreal has been able to beat Pitt and Wash, they matched Gill against the top players and that was that. It’s harder against Philly and no offense but to a lesser extent Boston because the offense is spread out, not all on one All Star player.
Anyways, good luck tonight guys. I want the Flyers to win, but honestly I just want to see the best team move on.
"Chris Pronger sneaked in the back door...banged it home."
Flyers Television Play-by-Play Man: Jim Jackson
way to be blissfully ignorant of the teams you’d have in front of you if you “finish off our sorry asses”. The Habs just beat the Caps and the Pens. How the hell can you say the Flyers have a legitimate shot?
You’d get banned for a series of comments, not just one. Everyone gets a chance to redeem themselves!
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Yeah I know…..
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by bestbostonsports on May 13, 2010 9:33 PM EDT up reply actions
"Sorry asses"
WOW.
Whoever said it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, probably lost.
by David Harnden on May 13, 2010 6:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I know. Wow
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by bestbostonsports on May 13, 2010 9:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Translation:
I live in Philadelphia, am writing this on a library computer because Comcast does not deliver dial-up to my tenement, and life sucks except for the fact that our local hockey team has a 1/100000th of a percent chance of advancing to the next round. Go Phantoms!
Our carefully crafted response
WE will see YOU! At the Gardens! In Boston! THIS FRIDAY NIGHT! At 7! And when we meet in that ring, my team, my band of brothers, these 20 men of steel, are going to POUND YOUR PUNY SKULLS INTO DOGMEAT! We’re going off the top rope! We’re going outside the ring! We’ll even fight in the dumpsters! It’s gonna be all out WAR!!! And at the end of the night, when you’re lying there on the ice defeated! Senseless! Knocked out cold! I’m gonna pin your scrawny shoulders to the mat. And the ref is gonna count ONE! He’s gonna count TWO! And he’s gonna count THREE! And your hopes of that silver gleaming trophy…that chalice…the end all and be all of what we do, are gonna be just as dead as YOU! And THAT’S the bottom line…cause the BEAR SAID SO!!!
Oh no, is that Chara’s music I hear???
by Stanley Cup of Chowder on May 14, 2010 6:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Just nothing good to say about the last couple games.
We need a W tomorrow night. The road to the Cup has never looked so smooth. (Yes, I know how well Halak and Montreal are playing right now. It’s still a better matchup than with Pittsburgh.)
Rask can get the job done but if he has to hold Philly to negative goals, it’s going to be tough. Somebody put the puck in the net!
When you've said Jason Heyward, you've said it all.........
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