Posted in Screw the Habs January 22nd, 2008
One of the benefits of NOT having the ability to regularly watch Bruins games is the fact that I got to miss tonight’s stinker against the Canadiens. As I’m typing this, the B’s are down 7-1 with 8:55 left in the game (UPDATE: 7-2…thank Heaven for small favors) and I have no idea how much worse this is going to get with five minutes left.
I could write this off as just a bad game, but we’re talking about the Habs here. Not only is Bruins history filled with painful losses to the Canadiens, but they can’t seem to stop doing it. A loss tonight will make them 0-6 against the Canadiens this year (that would be 0-8 if you want to count the two pre-season losses to the Habs as well). If you want to get technically accurate that’s 0-6-0 in the regular season, meaning that they couldn’t at least lose one of those games in OT and salvage a measly point.
Let’s put that in even more perspective. With a loss tonight, the Bruins will have a record of 24-19-5. Take out those six regular season Canadiens games and the Bruins have an impressive record of 24-13-5. So the mission is clear: find a way to beat the Habs.
Here are some recommendations. Feel free to chime in with your own.
- Play better. That makes too much sense. Besides, it’s not even remotely humorous. Next.
- Infect the Canadiens locker room with whatever virus has been plaguing the Bruins for the last month. Sabotage! I like it!
- Hijack the Habs’ team bus and replace the players with those from a local Pee Wee league. At least we’d be able to garner an OT loss out of it.
- Move the next home game’s location and don’t tell the Canadiens. A win by forfeit is still a win.
- Bomb Montreal’s Bell Centre when the Canadiens are playing at home. Aim for a Habs-Devils game too…preferably one where Claude Lemieux happens to be in attendance for some reason. Sure this is a drastic measure, but hey, I’m sure Montreal’s done something to us to piss us off. Where’s Celine Dion from? Besides, here in the USA, we’re on a roll. We could just tell Canada we were targeting a terrorist hideout in Fallujah and missed. Oops. Must have been those French-made bombs we were using.
God, I hate the Habs.
(Note: this should go without saying, but I’m kidding here. The only violence I condone is that doled out via fist by someone in a Bruins jersey)
Posted in Recaps January 20th, 2008
That’s right, you heard me…a game recap. Now that the Bruins are playing a team local to me, I get to actually WATCH a game. I’m sitting here, at 4 AM Sunday morning watching the game on my TiVo because I was out during the day with the family. So just a few notes from the game:
- Holy smokes, are Willie O’Ree and Scatman Crothers long lost brothers?
- What a disappointing 1st period. Disorganized, shoddy play. If ex-Bruin Paul Mara hadn’t scored that goal for them, they’d have easily been scoreless at the end of the period. Even more entertaining is that Mara did that twice more this game, he’d have equaled his career goal total while playing FOR the Bruins…
- How many times is Wideman going to be made a fool of this game?
- Apparently, this is some sort of “Father’s Day” for the Rangers and we get to hear interviews with the father of nearly every player on the Rangers roster. Why? Is it June already? With Willie O’Ree’s anniversary Friday and Martin Luther King’s birthday on Monday, I’m detecting some…sort…of THEME that the Rangers should be capitalizing on here…
- Nice Kobasew goal from his knees near the end of the 2nd. Well deserved considering that the Bruins started the 2nd period on fire but were unable to capitalize.
- What a drive by Sturm towards the net with the follow through by Kobasew to tie the game at three. It almost makes me forget the turnover by Chara earlier that led to the Rangers’ 2nd goal. Almost.
- I had to ask that Wideman question earlier didn’t I? That’s TWICE he’s fanned on critical shot attempts on the power play! This time in front of the net with 1:20 left in OT!
- Wow! What an ending to OT! It’s a shame that they couldn’t take advantage of the full 2 minute power play that resulted from a Jagr penalty at the 3:00 mark.
- And a Chara slapshot to win the shootout. Okay, NOW I’ve forgotten about his earlier turnover.
Posted in Bruins History January 18th, 2008
Hi.
Remember me? It’s been a while. Apparently it’s been long enough for some of my linkers to un-link me, either thinking I had abandoned this blog or died or maybe because they were tired of looking at that last post of Barney Rubble with the new Sabres logo on his head. I could bore you with tales of work and family, but no one wants to hear it and frankly, I don’t want to tell them. Besides, if you’re a friend on my Facebook account, you know them all already.
Unfortunately, I just haven’t had that much to write about. For the last month or so, the team’s been playing “meh” hockey and is just barely clinging to the 8th potential playoff spot. Hailing from central NJ without the Center Ice package leaves me with limited things to talk about but, hey, they’re playing the Rangers this weekend so I should be able to catch at least ONE game!
But there is one thing to celebrate today: the 50th anniversary of Willie O’Ree breaking the NHL’s color barrier.
