They did everything they could. Not enough to win but it was a nice series apart from a couple of Ference gestures and hits to the head. Can't respect that guy. I hope our guys heal well and sign younger versions of Hamrlik and Gill in the summer. Congrat Rollie.
Couple of trades/UFA's in the summer and we'll be fine.
Thanks buddy. I did come away impressed with a few of your youngsters, it'll be interesting to see how they develop.
What a phenomenal series, lads - an outstanding advert for playoff hockey.
Classic stuff.
Boston will do extremely well to make it a seven game series against Philly, IMO.
Flyers in six.
We'll see, brother. Most people seem to feel the way you do. I'm interested to see if we can actually put together some balanced games. As outstanding as the past series was, I really didn't feel like Boston played anywhere near their capability. Montreal obviously deserves some credit for that. But the team seemed hell bent on making things as difficult on themselves as possible. Really going to need to work on some discipline issues.
Our leading scorer and leading goal scorer gave us almost literally nothing last series, our PP gave us -1 goal... I still wonder how we made it past Montreal, all things considered. That Kaberle deal looks worse by the day... but Peverley and Kelly were excellent last series.
But you play the games for a reason, and there will be some lads on the Bruins who will be pretty anxious to atone for last years debacle. It should help that we'll have a healthy Thomas, Seidenberg (who finished the Mtl series fairly strong after a rocky start), and hopefully an improved Krejci will make it through the whole series against the Flyers this time around.
I'm expecting an intense series. Philly is obviously the favorite, but in the NHL anything can happen.
That was a terrible trade for Gomez. I screamed bloody murder on this forum when that trade was made.
There's no doubt about that. I remember that all of us were just stunned... shocked by it, really. I never thought that contract would get moved.
You guys do have some good young pieces buddy - and guys like Desharnais and Eller played better than I expected they would. It'll be interesting to see what Mtl does in the offseason. Starting with that D... the Markov question, and you definitely need to re-sign Wisniewski. That PP is pretty damn scary with those two bombing from the back end.