Stanley Cup of Chowder - Bruins vs. Flyers Compete Coverage: Game 45David Pastrnak is legend.https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/11233/stanley-fave.jpg2013-04-24T13:00:06-04:00http://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/rss/stream/40215832013-04-24T13:00:06-04:002013-04-24T13:00:06-04:00#BostonHitsBack Recap - WINNERS INSIDE
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<p>After a crappy game, we have some winners to announce.</p> <p>We pledged over $1,000 to The One Fund and we may have seen our team lose, but it was still a good night last night. Check out Philly's stirring tribute if you haven't yet.</p>
<p>If you won something, please send an email to sarah37connors@gmail.com so we can get your prize to you. We need to hear from you by TUESDAY, APRIL 30 or we'll have to pick an alternate winner for your prize.</p>
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<p>You won the custom iPhone background designed by <a href="http://pucksandpixels.com/" target="_blank">Alexa Heinrich</a>! </p>
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<p>You won a custom piece of art done by Grey from <a href="http://www.couchtarts.com/" target="_blank">The Couch Tarts</a>! </p>
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<p>You've won a<a href="https://nhlshop.775j.net/c/482924/587269/9674?u=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.nhl.com%2Fsearch%2Findex.jsp%3FkwCatId%3D%26kw%3Dbleacher%2520creature%26origkw%3Dbleacher%2Bcreature%26sr%3D1&sharedid=sbnation.com" target="_blank" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener"> Bleacher Creature</a> of your choice! (Awkward: I forgot that the only Bruins one they had WAS tim thomas. Oh well.)</p>
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<p>You've won the Fenway Park sign!</p>
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<p>You've won a commission by Stephen S, hockey artist/Archer animator!</p>
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<p>You've won one of three prints donated by Andrew Ference!</p>
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<p>You've won one of three prints donated by Andrew Ference!</p>
<h4>MoreCzechB's!</h4>
<p>You've won one of three prints donated by Andrew Ference!</p>
https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2013/4/24/4260976/bostonhitsback-recap-thanks-again-everyonesarahconnors2013-04-23T23:22:55-04:002013-04-23T23:22:55-04:00Bruins vs. Flyers Recap: Flyers 5, Bruins 2
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<p>Seriously fuck this noise, let's just get this regular season done</p> <p>After a really emotional ceremony before the game -- seriously, thanks Philly, that was great -- the Bruins came out fairly decently for the first period. After that though...yikes. It's been the same old story for the last few weeks; but 20-minute efforts don't win hockey games. At least the Canadiens are struggling too, so the Bruins are still in second place.</p>
<p>Pluses:</p>
<p>+ Hey, Carl Soderberg's been looking better every game! </p>
<p>+ Soderberg and Jaromir Jagr together....excellent. They were by far the team's best line in the first period, along with Chris Kelly. Sadly, they couldn't keep it up for the full 60.</p>
<p>+ Hey, how about that goal by Wade Redden!</p>
<p>+ Nice goal by David Krejci as well. Krejci and Milan Lucic both looked decent out there tonight -- whether it's a case of his linemates making Lucic better or Lucic just moving his feet more, that definitely looked better.</p>
<p>+ We have a real third line, yay?</p>
<p>Minuses:</p>
<p>- EVERYTHING ELSE</p>
<p>- Seriously I know Khudobin's just the backup and he's not supposed to be as great as Tuukka Rask but what in the hell was with allowing that dribbler on the back pass by Zdeno Chara? That was not on Chara at all -- that was entirely a failure by Khudobin to track down the puck and keep it moving OUT of the net. I did like Claude's decision to pull him for about a period and put Rask in -- presumably to calm Khudobin down, and then put him back out there when the game got ridiculously away from the Bruins.</p>
<p>- What is a defense. the Bruins' inability to clear the zone tonight bit them in the butt hard and often. </p>
<p>- The Bruins' inability on the other end of the ice to get anything done is more frustrating with every game. Someone needs to get it into their heads: DUMP AND CHASE IS STUPID. Additionally, why are you like this, power play - the Bruins had four minutes of PP time to end a period and did nothing with it, as per usual.</p>
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<p>I don't know, yell about other problems in the comments. How frustrating. Let's just get through this week and get to the playoffs and just...fuck this season already.</p>
https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2013/4/23/4259556/bruins-vs-flyers-recap-flyers-5-bruins-2-is-it-playoffs-yetsarahconnors2013-04-23T21:22:59-04:002013-04-23T21:22:59-04:00Public Skate: Third Period, Flyers 3 Bruins 1
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<p>Amazing goal by Matt Read and an epic flub by Anton Khudobin and here we are.</p> <p>Re-watching it, WOW that was really bad on Khudobin.</p>
<p>20 minutes left - what's on tap?</p>
https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2013/4/23/4259288/public-skate-third-period-flyers-3-bruins-1sarahconnors2013-04-23T20:22:57-04:002013-04-23T20:22:57-04:00Public Skate: Period 2, Bruins 1 Flyers 1
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<p>JAGRBERGGGGGGG</p> <p>A continuation of #BostonHitsBack! For the list of prizes/to backread tonight's thread, go here: <a href="http://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2013/4/23/4258456/public-skate-bruins-vs-flyers-7-30-et-bostonhitsback-time" target="_blank">Game Thread, period 1.</a></p>
<p>Also: <a href="http://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2013/4/23/4259032/video-bruins-vs-flyers-philly-presents-great-tribute-to-boston" target="_blank">Here is the tribute video from before the game. </a></p>
https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2013/4/23/4259062/public-skate-period-2-bruins-1-flyers-1sarahconnors2013-04-23T20:16:12-04:002013-04-23T20:16:12-04:00Video: Philly tributes Boston before Flyers game
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<p>A great video set to "Carry On" by Fun. preceded Lauren Hart's God Bless America.</p> <p>Thanks, Philly. This means a lot.</p>
https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2013/4/23/4259032/video-bruins-vs-flyers-philly-presents-great-tribute-to-bostonsarahconnors2013-04-23T18:30:09-04:002013-04-23T18:30:09-04:00#BostonHitsBack. Bruins vs. Flyers, 7:30 ET.
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<p>Time to harness the powers of SBNation for good.</p> <h4><a href="http://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2013/4/23/4259062/public-skate-period-2-bruins-1-flyers-1">EDIT: HERE IS THE SECOND PERIOD THREAD.</a></h4>
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<p>Thanks for coming to our Public Skate for #BostonHitsBack.</p>
<p>We've got cool prizes for you to win, and cool people for you to hang out with while we watch the Bruins play the Flyers.</p>
<p>All of SBNation is invited to join in. We want to thank you for your amazing outpouring of support last Monday -- gamethreading with all of you was hilarious and great and overwhelming, and we appareciate you all so much.</p>
<p>All we ask is that people participating -- if you can -- donate an amount of money to the <a href="http://onefundboston.org/">One Fund</a> -- which helps victims affected by the Marathon bombing eight days ago. (Can you believe it's been eight whole days?) Donate $5, or donate $100, it doesn't matter. Give what you can.</p>
<p>Our staff is pledging dollars for hits. You can also make pledges in the comments and donate after the game.</p>
<p>To enter into our contest, all you have to do is post FIVE comments on this game thread. All entered users will be posted tomorrow -- if you want to opt out of the drawing, you can do so there if you want.</p>
<p><strong>NOTE: WE WILL BE DOING NEW THREADS FOR EACH PERIOD. Comments will be closed once a new thread is opened to avoid confusion.</strong></p>
<h4>Prizes:</h4>
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<li>Three (3) signed 17 x 22 prints from the Bruins' Stanley Cup win. <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Cr1WeaU.jpg">Here is one</a>. <a href="http://i.imgur.com/uT73sNT.jpg">Here is another</a>. There is a third surprise one. Friend of the Blog Andrew Ference himself is donating these. Because he's great.</li>
<li>One (1) hockey commission from Stephen S. He is a character illustrator for the TV show Archer, but he's probably best known on the hockey internet for his Penguins portraits, often seen on the Pensblog. Here are some samples. <a href="http://i.imgur.com/jRUhBP7.jpg">(1)</a> <a href="http://i.imgur.com/jkd1X5w.jpg">(2)</a> <a href="http://i.imgur.com/VXbyksM.jpg">(3)</a> <a href="http://i.imgur.com/qsl5p6B.jpg">(4)</a>. Neat, huh?</li>
<li>One (1) custom Boston iPhone background, done by <a href="http://pucksandpixels.com">Alexa H</a>. You can check out her work at her site in that link.</li>
<li>One (1) piece of hockey art done by Grey from the Couch Tarts. Here's <a href="http://www.dripbook.com/graydarka/illustration-portfolio/hockey-toons-2009-2011i/#700137">some of her prior work</a>!</li>
<li>One (1) Bleacher Creature, from the team of your choice.</li>
<li>J<strong>UST ADDED</strong>! <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyBoudrot">Jeremy Boudrot</a> is donating this neat <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIjE46kCcAAtaHm.jpg:large">hand-painted Fenway sign</a>.</li>
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<p>Hello. Today we talked to SBN Hockey Editor and <a href="http://www.broadstreethockey.com/" target="_blank">Broad Street Hockey's own Travis Hughes</a> about the hilarious state of the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.broadstreethockey.com/">Flyers</a>. Okay, maybe it's just hilarious to me. But still, let's get to it:</p>
<h4>1. The Flyers...well, they haven't done so well this year. Which is worse: Pronger's cap hit or Bobrovsky's dominance in Columbus?</h4>
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<p>Both suck, but Pronger's cap hit is easy to get around with the LTIR exemption. It doesn't hurt the Flyers on a day-to-day basis. It's more that Pronger will never play again and the situation in which that ultimately puts the organization that hurts more than his cap number.</p>
<p>We've also talked about how the Bob trade made sense at the time and that it's not really fair or productive to judge a trade in hindsight. So yeah ... it sucks that he's putting together a Vezina-caliber season for another team. But when the deal was made, the Flyers turned an undrafted goalie with a .909 career save percentage into two solid draft picks, and we still don't know what the future holds for the prospects taken with those picks.</p>
<p>All in all, the Bob situation hurts a lot more because of the irony and <span>Steve Mason</span> and Flyers goalies and blah blah blah hockey is the worst thing, but if I could answer "neither" I'd do that and point to the general problems on defense as the biggest problem they face.</p>
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<h4>2. The last time the Flyers did this poorly, they bounced back in a big way the next year. Think they can do worst-to-first again?</h4>
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<p>Ugh, who knows. Paul Holmgren was a damn magician that summer. He picked up Hartnell and Timonen and <span>Scottie Upshall</span> and <span>Braydon Coburn</span> and ... yeah, I can't see him pulling off the same magic again. Again, it comes back to the defense. They need to be better there. They need <span>Kimmo Timonen</span> to be healthy, they need <span>Luke Schenn</span> to keep getting better, they need another player who can play on the top-4. They also need to see continued growth from their young players up front -- guys like <span>Sean Couturier</span>, <span>Brayden Schenn</span>, <span>Matt Read</span>, <span>Wayne Simmonds</span>, etc. They're a young core up front and with that brings some natural instability, but the potential is obviously huge. There's a ton of talent there.</p>
<p>I can't see them winning the Atlantic next season, but I'd expect them to make the playoffs. A lot has to come together for them to be a contender but depending on what Holmgren does in the offseason, it's within the realm of possibility.</p>
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<h4>3. There are 5 teams (WSH WPG NYR NYI OTT) fighting for the 4 remaining spots in the east. Which team would you like to see drop out the most?</h4>
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<p>I live in DC and want to go to playoff games here, so I'm not exactly rooting for the Caps but I'd like to see them get in. I'd love to see the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.blueshirtbanter.com/">Rangers</a> get rolled by the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/">Bruins</a> in the first round, I'd like to see the Isles get in for nostalgia purposes and Ottawa might be awful re: the Karlsson/<span>Matt Cooke</span> thing but it's hard for me to find any true hatred for them.</p>
<p>While it'd be nice to see Columbus make it and <span>Rick Nash</span> not, I really would rather see Rangers fans get excited for the playoffs and then lose in round one. Winnipeg is just stupid as an Eastern Conference thing and they've been beating the Flyers since they were the Thrashers, so they can go to hell. Yeah, fuck off, <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.arcticicehockey.com/">Jets</a>.</p>
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<p>Couldn't agree more about that last part. Thanks again to Travis for doing this!</p>
https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/2013/4/23/4257470/3-questions-with-travis-hughes-of-broad-street-hockeyCornelius Hardenbergh2013-04-23T11:33:54-04:002013-04-23T11:33:54-04:00Bruins vs. Flyers Preview: Get ready to donate
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<h4>Just the Facts</h4>
<p><b>Game Time</b>: 7:00 PM, Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA. TV Broadcast: NESN, NBCSN, TSN. Radio Broadcast: 98.5 The Sports Hub.</p>
<p><b>Records</b>: <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.stanleycupofchowder.com/">Bruins</a> (27-11-5, 59 points, second in the East) vs. <a href="https://www.broadstreethockey.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Flyers</a> (20-22-3, 43 points, twelfth in the East)</p>
<p><b>The Other Side's SB Nation Site:</b> <a href="http://www.broadstreethockey.com/">Broad Street Hockey</a></p>
<p><b>Get Tickets here</b>: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tiqiq.com/nhl/boston-bruins-tickets">Boston Bruins Tickets</a></p>
<p><b>Flyers projected lines:</b></p>
<p>Gagne - Giroux - Voracek<br>Read - Schenn - Simmonds<br>Hartnell - Couturier - Briere<br>Rosehill - Hall - Fedotenko</p>
<p>Schenn - Lauridsen<br>Gustafsson - Timonen<br>Foster - Manning</p>
<p>Bryzgalov</p>
<p><b>Bruins projected lines:</b></p>
<p>Marchand - Bergeron - Seguin<br>Lucic - Krejci - Peverley<br>Soderberg - Kelly - Jagr<br>Paille - Campbell - Thornton</p>
<p>Chara - Hamilton<br>Seidenberg - Bartkowski<br>Ference - Boychuk</p>
<p>Khudobin</p>
<h4>Preview:</h4>
<p>BE IN THE GAME THREAD TONIGHT. We're raising money for the One Fund and giving cool stuff away. You do not want to miss this.</p>
<p>This is the third and final meeting this year between the Bruins and Flyers. The Flyers are a weird case this year -- excellent on special teams, terrible five on five. They've scored more goals than any other team but Washington while on the man advantage (34); they're in the top third of the league at 4-on-4, and their penalty kill is ranked sixth in the league. And yet, at even strength, they've only scored 75 goals in 45 games. Their goals for/against ratio at even strength is .86; in comparison, the Bruins are up at 1.33.</p>
<p>As it's the Flyers, part of the problem is also weird, terrible goaltending - not exactly news.</p>
<p>On the Bruins side, Boston is looking to retain second place in the conference, ahead of the <a href="https://www.habseyesontheprize.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Canadiens</a>, who are also in action tonight. Defensive pairings appear to be the same for Boston, and up front, <span>Nathan Horton's</span> injury has shuffled the lines slightly. Merlot has been reunited, as have <span>David Krejci</span> and <span>Milan Lucic</span>, who will skate with <span>Rich Peverley</span>. Hoping to see <span>Jaromir Jagr</span> and <span>Carl Soderberg</span> keep working on that chemistry, and the <span>Patrice Bergeron</span> line will probably be the same way forever.</p>
<p><span>Anton Khudobin</span> will likely get the start tonight.</p>
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