Deflated: Bruins Fall to Canucks, 4-3
by Cup of Chowder Staff on Jan 7, 2012 6:45 PM EST
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In a game that saw the two teams combine for 107 penalty minutes in addition to two game misconducts, the Vancouver Canucks upended the Boston Bruins, 4-3.
The rematch of 2011 Stanley Cup finalists lived up to the hype, with physical play and mental errors taking center stage in an emotional game that saw a line brawl just four minutes in, but ultimately it was special teams that told the story.
Vancouver, owners of the NHL's best power play, went four for their eleven power play opportunities on the night while Boston, which had the seventh-best power play in the league coming in, whiffed on seven chances, including one with Tim Thomas pulled in the last 30 seconds of the game after Dan Hamhuis was sent off for delay of game, covering the puck with his hand in front of the Vancouver net.
It's tough to tell just who this game meant more to, but it's a sure thing that both teams are happy to put this one in their rear-view mirrors.
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From the NHL:
The Game Misconduct penalty assessed to Boston Bruins forward Milan Lucic during NHL Game #598 this afternoon in Boston has been rescinded, National Hockey League Senior Vice President and Director of Officiating Terry Gregson announced today.
Lucic was assessed a Game Misconduct 3:54 into the first period for violating National Hockey League Rule 70.1 — Leaving the Bench. However, a video review of the incident revealed that Lucic did not leave the bench to join or start an altercation but rather had entered the ice legally over the boards and was about to step back onto the bench through the door when he changed course and joined a scrum.
So in other words: “Sorry… we fucked up!”
No suspension should be coming at least.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 7, 2012 6:56 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Yup
and they scored the goal on the 5 on 3…
by BearsandBuds29 on Jan 7, 2012 7:02 PM EST up reply actions
Unrelated
The game misconduct didn’t impact manpower.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 7, 2012 7:04 PM EST up reply actions
however
losing a player for an entire game on a bunk call is relevant
by TomServo42 on Jan 7, 2012 7:13 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
That situation was priceless. 6 guys jump Thornton, and Thornton and Lucic got the only roughing penalties. So not one Canuck in that scrum was roughing?
I’d also love for someone to explain how Ballard going low on Campbell isn’t 5 and a game, but Marchand’s was.
by Michael Taylor on Jan 7, 2012 7:06 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Well Lapierre was clearly celebrating the game of hockey by jumping on top of the pile. He was just pumping his fist in excitement, not actually punching Thornton… obviously.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 7, 2012 7:13 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
For one, Campbell wasn’t injured so the 5 and game wouldn’t be required by the rulebook.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 7, 2012 7:13 PM EST up reply actions
That’s fair, but if they’re both illegal actions, Ballard should have gotten 2. Officials today looked like your typical beer league refs, extra punishing the 2nd action in the name of “controlling the game”. They should have run Burrows for a stick to the throat if they wanted to control things.
by Michael Taylor on Jan 7, 2012 7:16 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
for posterirty
here’s how the PIMs went:
03:54 Vancouver Dale Weise: 5 minutes, fighting
03:54 Vancouver Alexandre Burrows: 2 minutes, slashing
03:54 Boston Milan Lucic: 2 minutes, roughing
03:54 Boston Shawn Thornton: 2 minutes, roughing
03:54 Boston Shawn Thornton: 2 minutes, slashing
03:54 Boston Milan Lucic: 10 minutes, leaving player’s/penalty bench
03:54 Vancouver Maxim Lapierre: 10 minutes, misconduct
03:54 Boston Nathan Horton: 5 minutes, fighting
03:54 Vancouver Alexandre Burrows: 10 minutes, misconduct
Burrows got dinged for slashing, so they did catch that, but you’re dead on about the farce of not one Nuck getting roughing, let alone the number of players involved on one Bruin
by TomServo42 on Jan 7, 2012 7:19 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Also...
Sedin was mix in the scrum when it began, he did not leave until Lucic came over, then he weasels his way to the bench…clearly, there was an extra Canuck skater in the scrum, what will the NHL do now? Oh wait, they already said what they will do…. that’s right nothing…
Don’t recall the play to say for certain.
It’s a play I have seen go uncalled many times despite the obvious danger of it. I recall three similarly nasty plays in the span of a week last season that got nada.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 7, 2012 7:20 PM EST up reply actions
Definitely all for the play being called. Especially if it starts being called consistently, and definitely if it’s consistent in the same game. I’m not necessarily the biggest fan of majors (but not misconducts) based on injury. In my mind, Salo’s injury was more because he went into Marchand awkwardly than the hit itself. (If Salo had injured his knee, I’d have felt differently).
by Michael Taylor on Jan 7, 2012 7:24 PM EST up reply actions
I just watched a replay of the scrum and counted 7 Canucks in the picture at one time to only 5 Bruins, so if the refs toss Lucic, they should have also tossed at least one and maybe two Cancuks. H. Sedin actually takes a swat and then steps onto the bench.
Johnny Boychuk - The infamous bottle of $100,000 champagne, I thought it was meh.
by PeterMacKellar on Jan 7, 2012 7:25 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
The NHL release said they all entered the ice legally prior to the scrum.
The issue is not having too many men on the ice but leaving the bench to join or start an altercation. It’s what the refs THOUGHT Lucic did…
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 7, 2012 7:35 PM EST up reply actions
You’re right, I found that part of the release after posting.
Johnny Boychuk - The infamous bottle of $100,000 champagne, I thought it was meh.
by PeterMacKellar on Jan 7, 2012 9:15 PM EST up reply actions
Well losing your team’s #1 left winger certinaly influences the progress of the game.
Makes me think this is the kind of penalty that should be reviewed at the time of the call. Lucic doesn’t get his game back and the Bruins may have played out the rest of that game differently with Lucic in the line-up.
Refs blew this game IMO.
hmmm.....
refs actually reffed the game. bruins aren’t used to being reffed. better reffed game than any of the sc po games
Refs kicked our #1 left winger out on a mistake.
And they apparently couldn’t count the 6 white shirts all attacking Thornton.
Refs blew it.
by TCL40 on Jan 7, 2012 10:02 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
That was a bullshit hit. He blindsided him, hit him late, and left his feet. If you think otherwise, you’re either blind or were enrolled in ‘special’ classes.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
whatever!
crossing the line with his head down was a mistake on thornton’s part, it was a little late, no later than most, and not a malicious hit in any way. get serious.
Yes, because everyone knows your head should be up if the puck is 20 feet away from you since you are clearly fair game!
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 8, 2012 1:46 PM EST up reply actions
Thanks, I know they will win again.
But we don’t need you on this site. Please go visit the Canucks, Canadiens or whatever other team you follow. Your comments here are for no other reason than to rub it in. Admit it.
chicago.
but i like watching the canucks, they’re not tough enough but they’re fun to watch.
No way you are a Chicago fan...
Try pulling the other one….
Totally agree. I can’t think of any Chicago fan that would ever follow the Canucks and like them.
Chicago to Vancouver is like Bruins to Habs-there isn’t any room to like both.
by TCL40 on Jan 7, 2012 10:20 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
yep
I’m a hawks fan with Canook season tix. I am always astonished that I can find more hate for the Canooks and their “fans”. There is no liking both unless you are below the age of 12(ie kids loving Ovie and Crosby). The hockey IQ is very low in BC even if it is Canada. The support of other levels of hockey beside the Canooks is deplorable.
Thanks for June btw. Spent a week at Fenway with what those game 7 tix got me
by Canuckslicknutsak on Jan 8, 2012 6:28 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
only one I will respond to
b/c whats the point, and you guys have a pretty good hate going.
You’re wrong. The Giants are a top draw in the CHL, and there are many BCJHL, AHL, and other league teams that.
Lastly, I will put my “hockey IQ” and the Canuck fans I know against any. We don’t really understand Canuck hate, but thats fine if folks want to be hissy about it.
Bothers no one. The only reason I responded is you are telling lies.
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dude
don’t be a retard. we don’t carry on like that around here.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Jan 8, 2012 2:12 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
whatever!
so lucic is the only person that could have won that game for you guys? he deserved it, and you lost. the BLOWN icing call was a gift of a goal to you so it was a closer game than it should have been…. and while we’re talking about Lucic, your retarded player Marchand took out Salo and we still won. See, the Bruins can dish it out but they’re pretty whiney when they lose…
Um, the league specifically stated he did NOT deserve it.
Somehow I think their view on the matter is a tad more valid.
And I recommend you learn the rules of hockey as they relate to icing.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 8, 2012 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
Lucic and Thornton don’t add up to two brain cells. Thornton instigated it all. If you watch the replay, Lucic steps off the ice, looks back, steps back onto the ice and gets involved. This made for 6 Bruins brawling against 5 Canucks. And you’re surprised it was Thornton and Lucic to get the penalties?!? Get serious!
Methinks someone needs to watch some Sesame Street and get some lessons from the Count.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 7, 2012 9:52 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
No thanks, I can count well enough the first time.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 7, 2012 9:55 PM EST up reply actions
Just wanted to know how Vancouver’s parade went today. I am assuming you attended.. since this was the biggest win in team history.
Keep Calm and Tim Tom
by Big Bad Me on Jan 8, 2012 9:56 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
well vancouver was still good to it’s visitor fans… Boston fans were disgusting to visitors last year… and the riot sucked but what big city hasn’t had one? hmm… chew on that one for a while. and at our riots, people get laid. see the photos?
Somehow I am not surprised that you would equate a kiss with being laid…
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 8, 2012 1:47 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
hah! how do you know what happened after the kiss? maybe he makes a valid point
by hockeyisthebestsportevah on Jan 10, 2012 1:02 AM EST up reply actions
yeah, ask Lucic’s grandparents how nice the lovely people of Vancouver were to them. Somehow I dont think they would describe their treatment as “good”.
Keep Calm and Tim Tom
by Big Bad Me on Jan 8, 2012 5:28 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
as a hawks fan in Vancouver...
It was terrible at game 7 rd 1 last year.
I am a Niners fan who has been to many games in Seattle and Canook fans win that contest at being dicks.
Pretty quiet last game tho…musta been the Toews jersey or your 5-1 loss
by Canuckslicknutsak on Jan 8, 2012 6:31 PM EST up reply actions
and....
before this gets silly, it was a pretty exciting game to watch.. had to know it would be an emotional one for Vancouver for sure, and I think the B’s were thinking it would be a blowout again possibly…. it was the best regular season game yet, close and honestly it was pretty well reffed, could make comments on the reffing from both vantage points for sure, a blown icing call led to a goal for the bruins so there you go. too bad they don’t meet up again… for a while at least
You are right..
Canucks will not make it to the Stanley cup finals for another decade…so I guess a troll like you must come on this site to get your jollies…
later...
was good to talk about the game but no thanks to the rest. losing happens, don’t blame the refs though, it was a fairly reffed game, the team that scored the most won it though. plain and simple. cheers.
it was a fairly reffed game
not really.
the B’s lost the game themselves, but the refs did award the Canucks a few goals there.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
right...
like the blown icing call. wait a second, that was a gift to the bruins.
if by blown you mean audibly waived off and by gift you mean giftwrapped giveaway, then yeah, dead on.
by TomServo42 on Jan 8, 2012 1:59 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
A blown icing call just means the team plays defense instead ofgetting a face off.
And you choose-a 2 minute 5 on 3 or a blown icing call in your favor. I know which I choose and it isn’t even an answer I have to think about.
by TCL40 on Jan 9, 2012 12:13 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
And there is the stupidity in his thought process
react in ways the Canucks do and its called an “emotional” game. Bruins do it and its “Goon hockey”. Take off the rose colored glasses
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by BattleFlyTimmy on Jan 8, 2012 11:01 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
ummm
have you read any of the papers? wait, probably not…. or listened to talk radio…. um… probably not… if you think I’m the only one that described the game as an emotionally charged game for both teams you need to step out of your hole once and a while and come up for air.
thornton did instigate it
get over it, they deserve the penalties… move on.
by hockeyisthebestsportevah on Jan 10, 2012 12:32 AM EST up reply actions
horrible call...
and what sucks even more is the “oh, my bad”…that is basically all the NHL has to say about it. Really? That is it? Ooops?
by pemci on Jan 7, 2012 10:05 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I don’t like to be one of those guys that bitches about the zebras, but clearly they had they wanted the spotlight tonight.
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If you can ignore the reffing for one moment…..I know, I know.
Should there not be any mention of undisciplined Bruin play. To let Van have 11 power plays means that somewhere along the way some Bruins needed to calm down and play. They had to realize after the first scrum that the refs were just waiting to call more to “control” the game.
Glad this game is over. Maybe we’ll see each other in the SCF if we are both lucky. And it’s going to take some luck to get back there.
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we’re too busy being pissed about opening with a ridiculous 5 on 3 then getting a major. Both ref-discretion calls to go above and beyond a standard penalty.
The rest were our bad and stand to your point.
by TomServo42 on Jan 7, 2012 9:17 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I keep telling you, the major was not a discretionary call. Salo was injured on the play… by rule that makes the major and game required.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 7, 2012 9:33 PM EST up reply actions
This game was fairly reffed by guys that used their good judgment… Massenhoven is a retired police officer and kept the game in check, guess the Bruins aren’t used to being limited to the ‘hockey’ part of the game!
Clipping?
I like Claude Julien’s comments after the game. He is the BEST coach in NHL. Respectable and honorable.
http://bruins.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=610503
The referees clearly made some mistakes. Lucic misconduct? We clearly see 5+ guys jump Thornton and Boston gets down 2 players? I think that the refs are clearly thinking that they have to do something but it was uncalled for. I didn’t like Weise fighting Horton. And was further disgusted when he goads Thornton. Marchand 5-minute for clipping? Again, it seems that the refs over-reacted.
Do you agree that a clipping call was merited? Even a minor.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 7, 2012 9:41 PM EST up reply actions
I have been following hockey since the early 80's...
actually right after Ray Bourque was drafted, I have NEVER, EVER heard of the penalty Clipping!
The clipping rule was introduced after 2002, in reaction to the hit on Peca by Tucker, which is a big part of the reason you haven’t heard of it very often. Ballard, one of our defensemen who hip checks as often as he can, got called for it twice in the playoffs. And if the ref calls clipping, with an obvious injury, it’s an automatic five and game. Glad Lucic didn’t get suspended, for what it’s worth.
The automatic bit is exactly what I have been stressing constantly. Once the call was made, it HAD to be a major. It was all or nothing.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 7, 2012 11:31 PM EST up reply actions
Ballard did it again today though and wasn’t called, and I have a problem with Gillis saying that Marchand is a dirty player who made a dirty play when in the same game, his own player (who has been called apparently at least twice for it) continues to do it. Just because Campbell didn’t land awkwardly and wasn’t injured doesn’t make it not a dirty play on his part. I don’t want anyone injured, and hope Salo is okay, but what Ballard did was no better than what Marchand did. The refs not calling it doesn’t give you reason to go on your soapbox.
Hate when Team execs cast stones like that.
by Michael Taylor on Jan 7, 2012 11:35 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
The clipping call is fukt. Canucks hip checked guys all last season (low or not) and all of a sudden the refs started calling it in the playoffs. We were thinking: “Clipping? What the fack is that??”
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by Sean Zandberg on Jan 8, 2012 1:14 AM EST up reply actions
I had never seen that hit, so I looked it up.
I can see the call in a situation like that, where the player actually goes at the other guys legs. I don’t understand the sense in calling the guy who HAS the puck for clipping when he ducked the hit.
totally!! that was as cheap a play as you’d see in junior b hockey. the fact that you’re asking this means you’re new to hockey?
reply fail much?
maybe he’s just never seen such a thing called. not all of us have repeat clipping offenders on our team.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
REFs
Finally a game between these two teams that is actually refereed! The Bruins did not have a free pass to break backs and pummel the opposing teams players. Marchand is a dick, cheap shot on Salo who’s probably the classiest player on the ice. And consider the linesman making the “NO ICING” call as a GIFTof a goal. What was that?!??? Should have been 4-2.
good response
when you have nothing intelligent to say… pull out the Boston class.
Enough Already
Puckhead, you’ve made your point already man. You’re bordering on trolling right now. There were some bad calls on both teams that I don’t agree with, but the refs had their hands full with a game that was always teetering on the edge of getting out of hand. Just like in the finals, execution on special teams determines the result of the game. The refs call the penalties, but they don’t kill them off. Also, Boston fans, looking at the numbers it says that Vancouver got 11 power plays, but you also have to factor in overlapping penalties inflating that figure. I’d still say Van’s the third best team in the league behind Boston and Chicago after this one.
by Alcibiades on Jan 7, 2012 11:25 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
This is totally fair. I actually didn’t have any problem with the calls that were made in the run of play. Whether Vancouver got 9 PP out of them or not. I thought the Bruins winding up down 5 on 3 when Burrows decided to shove his stick into someone’s throat was basically the impetus behind that game getting out of hand. Marchand definitely should have gotten penalized, and when you add in that Salo got injured, by the rule, he earned his 5 and whatever is coming to him. No problems there at all. But the 5 on 3 and Lucic getting a game misconduct was an epic failure by the officials.
by Michael Taylor on Jan 7, 2012 11:32 PM EST up reply actions
Thank you Alcibiades....
This was a very intense game, as we knew it would be. A re-match from the Stanley Cup finals, with an opportunity to right some wrongs, or at least perceived wrongs. The Bruins giving Vancouver 11 power plays in the game is totally inexcusable. However, I expect this team to re-group and become even better as the season goes along…
Congrats for your victory. :)
gotta disagree with you on this one man…. they beat us and the blackhawks.. i think they’re saving themselves
by hockeyisthebestsportevah on Jan 10, 2012 12:39 AM EST up reply actions
take it easy phoney, keep it to the hockey… seem to remember we’ve had a few riots in Boston, what do they say about glass houses and stones?! your comments sound sort of pms-ish.
by hockeyisthebestsportevah on Jan 9, 2012 2:19 AM EST up reply actions
uhhh, no.
When this is said to anyone by a Canucks fan,
pull out the Boston class.,
then something like this is the deserved response.
Shouldn’t you be out burning down a city or looting or something?
I think I’m here enough that people should know I generally do “keep it to the hockey”. I don’t know who you are, but PMS =/= ’keeping it to the hockey".
Kick his ass, Seabass!
Amusing to have a complete unknown chastising you…
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 9, 2012 8:51 AM EST up reply actions
That’s how I feel… not to mention, I generally don’t resort to name calling or anything like that… and this was a direct reponse to the classic, idiotic “Boston class” comment.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Jan 9, 2012 10:03 AM EST up reply actions
P.S.
How long is Theodore out? Do you want Khabibulin in exchange for a D?
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Jan 9, 2012 10:04 AM EST up reply actions
The TV feed I watched had on-ice mics. The commentators said it was clear the the linseman waived off icing verbally. It was more a bad defensive play for Vancouver.
by Cy-clones on Jan 7, 2012 11:33 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Boston class?
The refs blew it. The hack whacks were actually called both ways and you guys lost. Enjoy your cup with at least some class. You had your chances and so did we. For one game we shall enjoy the moral victory of just two points.
As for the rest of your team.
Chara is a ogre… glad he likes picking on guys like Burrows and Hodgson who are maybe 5’7. Horton Norton should roamed over once more. Marchand is a little weasel looks like one, plays like one. You guys lost suck it up. Burrows would not have poked the bear if he had not gotten slashed before. Wiesc should not have said lets go and not drop but he was trying to get a penalty but the refs blew that one too right?
Maybe see you smucks in 4 months.
Don't you have a car to burn or a store to loot...
When you stop rioting, then you can talk about class until then….
back to the riot comments… can’t you come up with anything more productive? didn’t our city riot a few times over sporting events?
by hockeyisthebestsportevah on Jan 10, 2012 12:34 AM EST up reply actions
lol @ burrows being 5’7
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I looked up the heights of the Canucks. Only 2 are listed as under 6’. Neither are Burrows or Hodgson.
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Haha, holy hell trolls everywhere today. Ah well. It was a hell of a ride. Enjoy the rest of the season, all.
And f*** your team! :)
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by Sean Zandberg on Jan 8, 2012 1:16 AM EST up reply actions
Has anyone brought up the fact that the catalyst that brought about the line scrum was Thornton getting speared in the neck? Speared. In the neck. Vancouver came out of that with a full two minute 5on3 and Boston’s #1 lw out the next 56 minutes of the game.
"I’m a big boy I can handle myself. I’m not worried about that. I was more upset with the spear to the throat. I thought, I mean I don’t lose my cool for no reason," said Thornton. "I’m a pretty… I see myself as a pretty honest player. But, I’m not going to let someone spear me in the throat. I’m also a man so I stand up for myself.
It’s not like there isn’t any video or photo evidence either.
I’ve heard calls for both Marchand and Lucic to get 10+ games from the usual suspects yet still haven’t heard a single mention of this. One would think this is slightly more egregious than a botched misconduct call and a deserved 5 minute major.
by Sinnach on Jan 8, 2012 1:47 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
try again
as 1 second before Thornton wants trouble and connects. Both were guilty so don’t go asking for a suspension for one when both are guilty.
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Slash to the ankle is pretty common.
The way you are SUPPOSED to answer it is in kind… not escalate to a spear to the throat. That is likely complaining that someone punched your arm so you go get your car and run them down.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 8, 2012 10:16 AM EST up reply actions
All of this was precipitated by Burrows. A slash to the ankle is no cause for a spear to the throat.
Burrows slashes Paille’s ankle on his way off the ice.
Thornton sees Burrows slash Paille, retaliates by slashing him back.
Burrows spears Thornton in the throat.
Thornton retaliates.
by androxin on Jan 8, 2012 10:56 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
If you keep rewinding
It’s an infinite recursion of slashes going back to he dawn of time.
And just because I said recursion and have been look for occasion to post this
by TomServo42 on Jan 8, 2012 11:07 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Not a fan of calling for the other team to get bs suspensions, or even majors. Thesetwo both got nailed with minors. Fair enough. We got hosed, doesn’t mean it should go both ways. What should have gone both ways were the roughing calls.
1-1 after 1st period
Boston 0-5 PP in 2nd and 3rd. And 3 PP by the Canucks in that same time period. That is what cost you the game once it settled down. Boston is the best 5 on 5 team in the league by far and should have played a less emotional game.
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There were other hackjob PPs
Like the phantom tripping call.
Mih, disagree. I wouldn’t single out any individual infraction as undeserved and I’m not going to complain about missed calls. This team doesn’t need the upper hand to win
The tripping was totally undeserved
No single call makes or breaks the game, but it was a badly called game.
We were missing a regular on our PP because of an officiating mistake and you got your first goal with an absurd full two minute two man advantage. As I say above, I’m not going to bitch about any other call – our bad – and I agree our PP should convert, but the fact remains thatbthere weren’t leastbtwo horrible calls that had significant impact on this game. I for one would not be terribly proud of the win under those circumstances
by TomServo42 on Jan 8, 2012 10:07 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
And don’t tell me you wouldn’t be hopping mad if burrows got tossed early in the first for no reason and the league admits it. And if you got on the wrong end of a two man advantage for, say, lappiere or weise getting jumped by 6 players for responding to a spear.
I’m being reasonable here an am not calling for a nuck’s head for anything that transpired, so at least take a look without your team tinted glasses.
tinted glass?
I thought they smashed all that…
Keep Calm and Tim Tom
by Big Bad Me on Jan 8, 2012 10:32 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I am not here to argue the first period
I just think Boston could have still won that game. You have a great team when they don’t focus on extra-curricular activities. I don’t get the Boston’s anger though. You won the cup…what have you got to prove against the Nucks? I could understand Horton’s anger if Rome was playing. But like I said before, Boston let Vancouver play their game by letting special teams dictate instead of playing 5 on 5, in which case Boston would have won easily.
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http://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2012/1/7/2690432/deflated-bruins-fall-to-canucks-4-3#
You just posted a pic from the first period scrum… So what does that argue about the 2nd and 3rd?
good point
responded to a pic to show equality of action.
I guess the reffing was the story of the game. No other points is open for discussion.
Good luck for the rest of the season
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If you think a slash to the ankle equals a spear to the throat then you must not watch much hockey.
I’ve seen over a hundred slashes to the ankle… this is the first I have seen of a spear to the throat in any game let alone as retaliation.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 8, 2012 10:58 AM EST up reply actions
Of course they COULD have won it. But their ability to do so was greatly hampered by the admitted bad calls of the first period.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 8, 2012 10:51 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Exactly. Our leading PP goal scorer was ejected for doing absolutely nothing. That’s a call as a ref you need to be 100% sure you saw the guy leave the bench illegally to make. Then, for that scrum to result in a 5 on 3 somehow is blatantly absurd. Burrows slashes Paille, Thornton slashes Burrows. Then Burrows spears Thornton in the throat. Right there, we’re talking +1 on Canuck penalties, then the initial scrum involves 6 Cancuks, 1 Bruin. NOT ONE CANUCK was called for roughing in that scrum. Were they just scolding Thornton with extreme prejudice?
I dismiss the whole “it was blah, blah in the 2nd and 3rd”, because if a team is tied when it should be behind, you can’t just level set from that point.
I also enjoyed Burrows calling Thornton’s actions “Bruin hockey”, if that means how we play is not “Canuck Hockey” I’ll take that as a compliment.
by Michael Taylor on Jan 8, 2012 11:22 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I would hate to be a ref
Only the bad calls are remembered and we never get to hear justification for calls. I have no clue the Nucks ended up 2 men up. Does that mean the ref was wrong? Could be. I don’t know. Did I like the outcome..of course. After the first period though the score was still even.
If you want to dismiss the next two periods…so be it. That’s where the game is lost. I doubt the Bruins are only Lucic on the PP. Michael Taylor, it seems I think your team is better than you do.
Lead writer of nothing, commenter on everything.
The score may have been even but the manpower was not. Boston was lacking its first line LW for no legitimate reason lest you forget.
Or would you be fine without one of the Sedins for the last two periods for unknown reason?
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST up reply actions
It doesn't matter if the score was even.
If bad calls allowed for a two man advantage that almost any team could have capitalized on, and also sent one of our best wingers off for the game in the first 4 minutes, it’s hard to make the argument that just because it was 1-1 at the end of the period, all’s fair.
by dudebro on Jan 8, 2012 12:03 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Actually, I very much doubt that you think the Bruins are better than I do. Since I think they’re by far the best team in the league this year. I’m not under the impression that had things been called differently the result would have changed at all.
But I think it’s worth commenting on the absurdity that is Burrows spearing someone in the throat, Thornton getting jumped by 6 guys, and the Bruins being shorthanded AND Lucic getting the only game misconduct.
by Michael Taylor on Jan 8, 2012 2:15 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
your team is dirtier, they’re talented but when they can’t keep up they get dirty and they’re used to getting away with it. last night they lost to a better team. plain and simple. The bruins play to hurt and injure, and that’s why the refs have to act like refs and call it sometimes. Suck it up.
Getting away with it like Burrows, eh?
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 8, 2012 2:30 PM EST up reply actions
The bruins play to hurt and injure,
The Canucks have never done such a thing… Cooke, Torres, Bertuzzi, Burrows… they were all signed just to go out there and look pretty.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Jan 8, 2012 4:40 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
okay, I lol'd
NOT ONE CANUCK was called for roughing in that scrum. Were they just scolding Thornton with extreme prejudice?
Also, a slash to the ankle is nowhere near as serious as a spear to the throat. That’s such a ridiculous comparison to make.
We are homers, but we’re not totally insane.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
My favorite part of it all is that after 11 PP, the Canyucks were still bitching about calls after the game. What was it that Jack and Brick said, Vancouver being “arrogant” and “one of the most despised teams in the NHL” ? Seriously, go enjoy your “revenge”. Maybe you can hang it up in your barren rafters.
Also, why are Canuck fans over here trying to persuade us B’s fans to see it their way. Just go back to NM already.
Keep Calm and Tim Tom
it’s a ‘forum’… but if you’d rather have a stanley cup of chowder little girls clique where you can only join in if you agree with the regulars, then state that on your website and i’m sure it’ll be respected. it was the best reffed game between these two, if the playoff games were reffed that well it would have been a different outcome, the bruins were given free reign in the playoffs to do whatever they wanted and they were not given the same latitude yesterday. they were accountable, and the canucks were accountable, and the Bruins even were handed a free goal by a botched icing call… funny how none of the regular people here have responded to that particular point. You have a team of goons, they’re talented, but they play goon hockey. And when they’re not allowed to act like goons, they lose to the better hockey teams because they’re not allowed to injure them.
Oh puckhead
Go hang your “Finally beat the Bruins on the road in a poorly-reffed regular season game” banner and enjoy you Western Conference championship.
by CelticPride on Jan 8, 2012 2:50 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I thought Marchand’s hit was garbage…until I went over to Days of Y’Orr and saw there write up and analysis on it…It clearly shows Marchand hits Salo in the thigh area no contact with the knee. Also look closely in the slo mo replay. Salo is about 3-4 inches in the air when contact is made. I’d rather see Marchand do what he did…then take the hit from a leaping Salo…and by the way if Salo doesn’t leap into his attempted hit…Marchand hits him in the ass. I was expecting Marchand to get 3 games, but now i’ll be pissed if he gets anything.
by Dangles-McDonnybrook on Jan 8, 2012 3:08 PM EST reply actions
Some of that has to be trolling. It has to be.
Salo was taken out, from behind, at the knees by Bruins forward (and Norwegian rat look-alike) Brad Marchand with a low-bridge hit in the second period.
That’s right – they’ve now managed to convinced themselves that Marchand laid out Salo from behind.
I’m just waiting for someone to go the full mile and claim it was a headshot since Salo now has a concussion. It’s just a matter of time with how fast the myth is growing.
hey all, I’m new to this blog… have to say, some of you guys are talking hockey and I like to read the debates but whats up with all the name calling??? I’m a Bruins fan but some of you guys are making the rest of us look like idiots! gotta expect some of the other fans to post once in a while too! some of the comebacks look pretty personal. Anyways, like the debates, try to keep the name calling out of it, just makes Bruins fans look like idiots!
by hockeyisthebestsportevah on Jan 9, 2012 2:13 AM EST reply actions
When did you start reading? There is some past history in some cases here that you couldn’t be aware of either.
by BobbyOrrsBastard on Jan 9, 2012 8:52 AM EST up reply actions
Telling everyone what to do is a great way to say hello when you are new to a forum. Welcome. Go B’s.
Keep Calm and Tim Tom
just an observation… am I allowed to do that?
by hockeyisthebestsportevah on Jan 10, 2012 12:46 AM EST up reply actions
5 games for the rat and one game of redemption
You still have the cup though. A new very bitter rivalry has evolved. You are thugs we are whiners. Back and forth all day. One thing that is good for hockey is the amount of talk and press this game has gotten. While you don’t want bad press, this can only raise the awareness of hockey in the states which can be good in the long run if harnessed correctly. I say bring it on big bawd bawston bruins. See you in the final. Wouldn’t that be great.
by Steamer12 on Jan 9, 2012 6:44 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
that would be cool… a rematch for the cup…
by hockeyisthebestsportevah on Jan 10, 2012 12:46 AM EST reply actions
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