Posted in Playoffs May 8th, 2007
Bruins West calls it a season
“…the Detroit Red Wings had shed their title as the Western Conference’s biggest playoff underachievers of recent years. They might have even found a team in teal to take their place.”
Hey, I didn’t say that…Greg Beacham from AP did. Know what the funny thing is? Unlike previous performances in Beantown, it looks like Joe Thornton can’t take the blame for this one. He actually put up 11 points in 11 playoff games. Heck, even normally-low-scoring Kyle McLaren put up four points in the post-season as well.
The big shocker, though, comes from Bill Guerin. In nine games, Guerin contributed only two assists, a -3 plus/minus and 12 penalty minutes. That and he missed the last two games with a “facial laceration” after taking a puck to the face. Granted, I don’t know the severity of the injury, but what hockey player misses time due to a “facial laceration”?? As long as nothing’s broken, they usually get stitched up in the locker room and return the next period. And that’s just in the regular season…it’s the playoffs, dude!
Still, all this beats this year’s playoff output from Marc Savard, Zdeno Chara and Patrice Bergeron. Between the three of them, they’ve contributed zero goals and zero assists. On the positive side, they haven’t committed a penalty and their plus/minus is better than it has been all year. (Unfortunately, Mark Stuart’s plus/minus has tanked.)
So anyway, the Sharks are done. They can now migrate south for the spring, just like the Bruins did a little over a month ago. Or, they can just stay where they are…it’s not like anyone living in San Jose really needs to vacation anywhere.
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