Wiped Out: Bruins Fall to Jets, End 15-Game Point Streak
by Cup of Chowder Staff on Dec 6, 2011 11:04 PM EST
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It may have been a throw-away game before it even started, with the Bruins coming into Winnipeg after winning an emotional, physical battle against Pittsburgh the night before. But when it was announced that Tyler Seguin was a healthy scratch after missing a team meeting, you pretty much knew what was going on.
The Bruins, in spite of everything, mounted a fierce attack in the second and third periods after going down early on an Andrew Ladd goal at 18:22 of the first period, but it amounted to nothing, and the Black and Gold's 15-game point streak was laid to rest in Central Manitoba.
Shawn Thornton scored the lone goal for Boston, which lost in regulation for the first time since October 29th, a span of 38 days.
It was after David Krejci checked former teammate Mark Stuart a third of the way through the final period that both teams went a man down, and it took Bryan Little just five seconds to use the open ice to his advantage, taking the puck up the left wing and beating Tuukka Rask long to put the Jets up 2-1, and that lead would hold despite a fierce Bruins attack in the closing minutes of the third frame.
Boston had countless chances in the second period, but was unable to convert any of them as Ondrej Pavelec kept the Bruins at bay for most of the game in what became a much more physical matchup than anyone would have anticipated following the Bruins' tilt on Monday night.
While the loss is disheartening for the team and its fans, the streak had to come to an end at some point, and the Bruins' battling all game long has to be a positive sign for a team that should have been too tired to put forth a 60-minute effort
The Bruins will spend the night in Winnipeg instead of taking a red-eye back to Boston. They'll return home on Wednesday and prepare to face the Southeast Divsion-leading Florida Panthers on Thursday.
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Could have come against anyone else
except the .500 Atlanta Thrashers North.
Winnipeg sucks
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 6, 2011 11:25 PM EST reply actions
No, this has been a long-running opinion of mine.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 7, 2011 12:52 AM EST up reply actions
I’m just glad the streak was ended by a team whose fanbase I don’t come into any contact with. Having to listen to jawing from Pitt, Montreal, Toronto, Philly or Vancouver would have been miserable.
Keep Calm and Tim Tom
I'm not so lucky.
I was at the game in all my Bruin gear…but I posted 2 games ago that this would happen. Wasn’t surprised. But we had a lot of unlucky bounces. There were so many rebounds just out of our reach tonight. Lucic missed a couple. Krejci should have scored if he would’ve just roofed it. Seguin should have played. Even the refs tried to help with 3 straight icings in our favor at the end when we could have touched every one. You should have heard the crowd on those 3 icings. I had to agree with them. Anyway, we lost, we’re still the team to beat in the East, and we’ll win again. See you soon, Florida.
Even Jack Edwards was calling BS on them. You know its bad when he realizes its garbage.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Dec 7, 2011 8:41 AM EST up reply actions
I’m glad they beat Pittsburgh and then lost to a team everyone knows they’re better than… it’s nice to beat a team that may or may not be better than us.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
Agreed.
And really, who has any animosity towards Winnipeg? Far better it be them than Pittsburgh. Save us from even more Crosby adulation. If anyone had to end the streak, might as well be a team with Stuart.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Dec 7, 2011 8:51 AM EST up reply actions
And really, who has any animosity towards Winnipeg?
Me, I do.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 7, 2011 8:52 AM EST up reply actions
I’m not but my folks are. I won’t hate Winnipeg for Minnesota’s sake until next year when they’re divisional foes.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 7, 2011 9:00 AM EST up reply actions
It boils down to a couple things:
- Winnipeggers being total dicks to Phoenix fans, including sending death threats to Travis Hair over at five for howling. Seriously, they’ve been a bunch of whiners for the last 15 years. At least the Hartford Whalers Booster Club has a modicum of class.
- being angry at Shane Doan for not immediately wanting to uproot his family and move it back to Winnipeg
- stealing a team from a US market. I want more teams in the US so people in the US like hockey more, and hopefully that leads to better US players. Yeah, it’s the long view.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 7, 2011 8:59 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
All reasonable. Last is a tad weak but can’t complain much.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Dec 7, 2011 9:00 AM EST up reply actions
It’s not very immediate, yes, but in the long run it makes sense.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 7, 2011 9:02 AM EST up reply actions
Had to rec just for #1. Admittedly I had forgotten about that but good heavens were they aggressive in torturing Phoenix fans. Not the Coyotes fans’ fault your old owners sold out. And yes, even the HWBC has gone beyond hating Raleigh and are focused on getting folks back into hockey in the market.
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I wouldn't say the old owners sold out
the economy was crap and the building was crappier. Nobody invested in the team, and so the most logical business decision was to offload it.
As for number 1, that was ugly and disgraceful and ultimately embarrassing that a few morons would give the rest of the fan base a bad reputation by sinking to the level.
As for number 2, over at Arctic Ice Hockey we had a great deal of difficulty figuring out why our fans were booing Doan. his statement on wanting to stay in Phoenix were knowledgeable and to be expected. Both personally and professionally we completely understood why he said that. BUT some boozed up blowhards decided to give him a hard time. Luckily when they announced his presence on the PA and showed him on the jumbotron there was a good round of applause with a number of people giving standing ovations.
Is it unfortunate what happened in Atlanta, and still likely will in Phoenix? Yes. As fans that have been there we know the pain. But the passion with which we wanted the NHL to return overshadowed our compassion for fellow hockey fans
In Canada our balls are bigger
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by canadian texan on Dec 7, 2011 4:18 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
But the passion with which we wanted the NHL to return overshadowed our compassion for fellow hockey fans
Which is why you guys were jerks, and as a result I don’t like your team.
Now if it was an expansion team I’d probably be more okay with it, but as you said a couple bad apples spoiled it for me. Individually I don’t really have any problems with most individual Winnipeg fans but I still want the team to lose.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 7, 2011 4:42 PM EST up reply actions
fair enough
The thought of getting an NHL team back, and our original franchise at that, was a pill too sweet for many to pass up. Comments were made on both sides that made things get bitter very fast.
In Canada our balls are bigger
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by canadian texan on Dec 7, 2011 5:00 PM EST up reply actions
3.stealing a team from a US market. I want more teams in the US so people in the US like hockey more, and hopefully that leads to better US players. Yeah, it’s the long view.
I dunno. They couldn’t make it work in Atlanta… twice.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Dec 7, 2011 10:22 AM EST up reply actions
however, I do agree – I want the Canadian teams I grew up with to be around (Nords, Jets, etc), but I also want hockey to grow in the US.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Dec 7, 2011 10:23 AM EST up reply actions
They had a team that sucked shit every year. One playoff appearance, no wins. Yeah, I’m in atlanta…what am I gonna do? See the sad-sack thrashers or go to a concert or a club or any of a bunch of other options?
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 7, 2011 11:05 AM EST up reply actions
Right, but with the way the league works, they aren’t patient enough to give it like 20 years to market the team, to draft and develop a franchise worth watching…
Kick his ass, Seabass!
Bad GMs and Bad Coaches.
Don Waddell had been a terrible GM for years and he continued to do so, to the point that people videotaped themselves burning their season tickets because he wasn’t fired.
It’s not like they didn’t get top-end talent. Their top line was Kovalchuk-Savard-Hossa for a while. They just never kept it around.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 7, 2011 1:38 PM EST up reply actions
Again
I’m not saying you’re wrong; I’m saying that I don’t think the league has the patience to wait around while a team is developed.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
Columbus
I’m still convinced the league would’ve loved to keep Atlanta in Atlanta but the people who bought the Hawks and Phillips arena didn’t want the Thrashers.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 7, 2011 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
All right
I admit it’s better to lose to Winnipeg than Pittsburgh in theory, except that Winnipeg is the only arena I’ll see the B’s play, so it sucks it had to come on that night. But I want to see a victory in February. :)
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 7, 2011 9:04 AM EST reply actions
Corvo is a problem
I place the majority of blame for the game winning goal on Corvo. I’ve posted on this site previously that I think he is a weak spot for the Bs. Everyone makes mistakes, so I can forgive a single mistake. The main problem for me is that his hands are terrible. How many times has he mishandled a pass at the blue line on the PP, or made a poor pass D2D on the PP? The guy has terrible hands. He is merely OK in the defensive zone. And he supposedly has a great shot, but 0 goals so far. I’d rather have Kaberle with the bigger contract and the fear of shooting the puck.
last year: THAT BUM KABERLE NEVER SHOOTS
this year: THAT BUM CORVO’S SHOTS DON’T SCORE GOALS
theory: maybe Kaberle wasn’t shooting because he knew the goals weren’t there?
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 7, 2011 12:07 PM EST up reply actions
who the hell would want to watch a Carolina game?
I agree that Kabele is having a terrible year. I think it takes awhile to fit into a new system. Kaberle was just beginning to fit into the Bs system when the playoffs ended. He had to get used to dump-n-chase, plus the importance of shots from the point (still a work-in-progress). But at least the guy could keep a rolling/bouncing puck inside the blue line on the power play. And he was a good passer, I think better than any of our current starting D-men. Those things I miss.
I partly disagree
I’m not saying you’re wrong about Corvo in general, but on the winning goal last night, it was 4 on 4 so only Corvo was on the backend on the face-off. Peverly I believe tried winning the face-off forward and jumped through without tying up his guy when in fact he lost the face-off. It was an odd man rush immediately. Tough situation for Corvo to be in. But I agree, there was some bad passing going on.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 7, 2011 11:05 AM EST up reply actions
Sorry Cornelius
I thought I had. I was confused why I didn’t see my comment first when I came back to check cause I know I was the first one to reply.
i don't blame him 100%
peverley was being aggressive, and that factored in. Obviously rask could have stopped the shot, etc. I think Corvo was the most at fault though—given the way Peverley played it, he should have drifted back. Instead he went forward and got burned. In any event, 1 mistake is fine even if it loses a game. My main point is just that he has hands of stone and I’m frequently yelling at my TV because of him.
I agree with you all the way about Corvo. Used to have him on my fantasy team a few years back but he’s clearly not the same player he once was. I’m still wondering why Rask didn’t use the butterfly on that shot. Originally he was staying up for the pass, I understand, but the Jets player made the switch to the forehand quite early giving Rask time to close up, but he stayed standing. Thought it was an awkward play. But yeah. Centerman’s mistake. Wingers mistake. (they jumped forward as well) D’s mistake. Goalie’s mistake. All on the same play = bad goal. I really thought we had them after we tied it up, and the Jets fans were silent, for about 1 minute…
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