Hello all
Losing chances to score means being beaten by someone. Guess who. THE BRUINS!!!!!!!!!! :thumb:
There was no error by me in reading your spin. The Penguins hit the goal posts three times. So what. You posted like that was the whole story, which is a very cheap spin trying to imply that is what the game came down to. It's a spin I didn't make when the Bruins hit the Leafs post multiple times in one game because it's disingenuous. In game one the Bruins outplayed the most powerful team in all of the NHL. Hitting the post is nothing more than... A LOUDER MISS! It means the same thing as the goalie blocking, deflecting, or gloving the puck...NO GOAL.
In game two the Bruins absolutely murdered the Pens. You were silent. Why? No chance to say they were "lucky".
I've seen you write that 2 or 3 times, one very recently. No one can deny it took great skill to go 60 minutes toe to toe with the Penguins on their own ice and come out with a 3-1 victory. Distilling that down to "luck" is like not knowing about hockey. I gave your team far more respect than that AFTER it got whooped and I had every opportunity to blast the Canadiens, like others.
You say I'm not reading the posts in this thread? Wrong. I have noticed for a while most of the so-called hardcore hockey fans I supposedly know much less than aren't even posting. So it's not me who isn't paying attention. Pffffsssssst!
MEANWHILE:
Anyone who still thinks the Bruins can't really measure up to the Pens or are "lucky" didn't watch last night's game. Unlike the first two games Pittsburgh tried to give everything it had for all 3 periods, and then nearly 2 more. It had to be one of the greatest PRIDE and GUTS games by both sides of all time, no more exemplified than by Gregory Campbell who did all he could on a broken leg for nearly 50 seconds before he could find a safe moment to leave the ice. This fantastic win has to have badly hurt the morale of the Penguins.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/gene-collier/third-time-not-a-charm-for-penguins-690578/
BOSTON Anyone and everyone who was awaiting that big fat character-asserting victory that would pull the Penguins off the floor in this series awaits it still.
Maybe it's coming Friday, and maybe Friday will be too late, as will maybe Sunday, or maybe Tuesday will be your bad news day.
Should you be looking for small consolation where none exists, at least the Bruins didn't pound away at the Penguins for a third time Wednesday night, like a bouncer mopping a bar floor with a hapless drunk.
That was the metaphorical physicality of the first two games, but Wednesday, by the time the Penguins killed a penalty right at the top of the third period, Game 3 of this Eastern Conference final had turned into something no one had much right to expect, namely a damn fine hockey game.
Even if it was between two teams who cannot score a power-play goal.
Tomas Vokoun and Tuukka Rask were in a noble duel, each erecting a fortress against even the most tantalizing scoring chances, none better than when Nathan Horton broke in free from the blue line and was headed straight for Vokoun's grill in the first overtime.
The Penguins goalie sprawled to his left, following Horton's blade desperately, and in the last millisecond swept the puck away to extend the overtime and pump up the aggregate blood pressure of the Eastern seaboard to perhaps unsafe levels.
But soon after midnight and late in a fifth period of up-and-down pandemonium that had both teams beginning to wilt, Patrice Bergeron beat Brooks Orpik to a Brad Marchand centering pass in front of Vokoun, and Bergeron didn't miss.
"It's frustrating," Vokoun offered after 95 heroic minutes that led to the same place, a bitter Penguins loss. "Double overtime and you don't win; it's not a good feeling."
The general feeling in the Penguins locker room was that they had rebounded well from a bad situation only to find themselves in a worse situation.
"I think we probably deserved better tonight," said Sidney Crosby, kept off the score sheet for the entirety of this series along with Evgeni Malkin (the Penguins are 2-14 in the postseason when that happens). "I think if we play the way we did tonight [on Friday], we'll definitely get our chances."
Continued...
What about Tuuka??? He stood up to the NHL's most potent offense for 95 minutes and only gave up 1 goal against 54 shots. Anyone who doesn't appreciate him now after holding TOUGH against the NHL's best team in a situation that was desperate for them doesn't appreciate hockey.
As for which is really the better team: On WEEI today a recording was played with one of the persistent calling Bruins fans calling a Pittsburgh station to needle them about how the series was going. The question to the stations Penguins fans sports radio jocks was: Which is the best team? The jocks all talked about the Penguins immense talent and their great scoring production before the series. But after some pushing one of the jocks caved in to reality. He said, I refuse to look like an idiot after these results. The Bruins are better.
Awesome,
Merlot
Losing chances to score means being beaten by someone. Guess who. THE BRUINS!!!!!!!!!! :thumb:
There was no error by me in reading your spin. The Penguins hit the goal posts three times. So what. You posted like that was the whole story, which is a very cheap spin trying to imply that is what the game came down to. It's a spin I didn't make when the Bruins hit the Leafs post multiple times in one game because it's disingenuous. In game one the Bruins outplayed the most powerful team in all of the NHL. Hitting the post is nothing more than... A LOUDER MISS! It means the same thing as the goalie blocking, deflecting, or gloving the puck...NO GOAL.
In game two the Bruins absolutely murdered the Pens. You were silent. Why? No chance to say they were "lucky".
I've seen you write that 2 or 3 times, one very recently. No one can deny it took great skill to go 60 minutes toe to toe with the Penguins on their own ice and come out with a 3-1 victory. Distilling that down to "luck" is like not knowing about hockey. I gave your team far more respect than that AFTER it got whooped and I had every opportunity to blast the Canadiens, like others.
You say I'm not reading the posts in this thread? Wrong. I have noticed for a while most of the so-called hardcore hockey fans I supposedly know much less than aren't even posting. So it's not me who isn't paying attention. Pffffsssssst!
MEANWHILE:
Anyone who still thinks the Bruins can't really measure up to the Pens or are "lucky" didn't watch last night's game. Unlike the first two games Pittsburgh tried to give everything it had for all 3 periods, and then nearly 2 more. It had to be one of the greatest PRIDE and GUTS games by both sides of all time, no more exemplified than by Gregory Campbell who did all he could on a broken leg for nearly 50 seconds before he could find a safe moment to leave the ice. This fantastic win has to have badly hurt the morale of the Penguins.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sports/gene-collier/third-time-not-a-charm-for-penguins-690578/
BOSTON Anyone and everyone who was awaiting that big fat character-asserting victory that would pull the Penguins off the floor in this series awaits it still.
Maybe it's coming Friday, and maybe Friday will be too late, as will maybe Sunday, or maybe Tuesday will be your bad news day.
Should you be looking for small consolation where none exists, at least the Bruins didn't pound away at the Penguins for a third time Wednesday night, like a bouncer mopping a bar floor with a hapless drunk.
That was the metaphorical physicality of the first two games, but Wednesday, by the time the Penguins killed a penalty right at the top of the third period, Game 3 of this Eastern Conference final had turned into something no one had much right to expect, namely a damn fine hockey game.
Even if it was between two teams who cannot score a power-play goal.
Tomas Vokoun and Tuukka Rask were in a noble duel, each erecting a fortress against even the most tantalizing scoring chances, none better than when Nathan Horton broke in free from the blue line and was headed straight for Vokoun's grill in the first overtime.
The Penguins goalie sprawled to his left, following Horton's blade desperately, and in the last millisecond swept the puck away to extend the overtime and pump up the aggregate blood pressure of the Eastern seaboard to perhaps unsafe levels.
But soon after midnight and late in a fifth period of up-and-down pandemonium that had both teams beginning to wilt, Patrice Bergeron beat Brooks Orpik to a Brad Marchand centering pass in front of Vokoun, and Bergeron didn't miss.
"It's frustrating," Vokoun offered after 95 heroic minutes that led to the same place, a bitter Penguins loss. "Double overtime and you don't win; it's not a good feeling."
The general feeling in the Penguins locker room was that they had rebounded well from a bad situation only to find themselves in a worse situation.
"I think we probably deserved better tonight," said Sidney Crosby, kept off the score sheet for the entirety of this series along with Evgeni Malkin (the Penguins are 2-14 in the postseason when that happens). "I think if we play the way we did tonight [on Friday], we'll definitely get our chances."
Continued...
What about Tuuka??? He stood up to the NHL's most potent offense for 95 minutes and only gave up 1 goal against 54 shots. Anyone who doesn't appreciate him now after holding TOUGH against the NHL's best team in a situation that was desperate for them doesn't appreciate hockey.
As for which is really the better team: On WEEI today a recording was played with one of the persistent calling Bruins fans calling a Pittsburgh station to needle them about how the series was going. The question to the stations Penguins fans sports radio jocks was: Which is the best team? The jocks all talked about the Penguins immense talent and their great scoring production before the series. But after some pushing one of the jocks caved in to reality. He said, I refuse to look like an idiot after these results. The Bruins are better.
Awesome,
Merlot
