NHL 2023 Season

[Diamond Joe]

This is incorrect on all accounts. Not sure what team you like, but sorry for taking over your arena on away games (that's usually where this inferiority complex stems from). Maybe instead of being all butthurt you should get more fans out to those ones.

Or maybe it's because every sports website is just Leafs Leafs Leafs all the time. Yeah, we hate that too - but again instead of whining like a 5 year old, just stop clicking on those articles.

Trust me buddy your idiot fans don't even come CLOSE to "taking over" our arena when you're in town.

and I have no idea what sports websites you're referring to but they must be Canadian ones... cuz in the US nobody gives two shits about the stupid Maple Leafs

[paulster2626]

Trust me buddy your idiot fans don't even come CLOSE to "taking over" our arena when you're in town.

and I have no idea what sports websites you're referring to but they must be Canadian ones... cuz in the US nobody gives two shits about the stupid Maple Leafs

lol love how upset you are about a sport and the people who watch it. "Stop whining like a 5 year old" - then continues to whine like a 5 year old. Awesome!

Well, what's your team, friend? Sorry assumed you must live in Canada since you were speaking like some expert on the Canadian hockey zeitgeist.

[From_the_NEK]

I know other people have said it but Pastrnak just isn't built for the playoffs. He needs space to score and that space just isn't there in the playoffs. He isn't big/strong enough to make his own space and he just gets pushed off the puck before doing anything useful.
With the Leafs keeping him in check, the rest of the Bruins just can't get set up to get quality shots on net. Their best chances last night seemed to be when McAvoy crashed the zone. But that is living dangerously.

[paulster2626]

I know other people have said it but Pastrnak just isn't built for the playoffs. He needs space to score and that space just isn't there in the playoffs. He isn't big/strong enough to make his own space and he just gets pushed off the puck before doing anything useful.
With the Leafs keeping him in check, the rest of the Bruins just can't get set up to get quality shots on net. Their best chances last night seemed to be when McAvoy crashed the zone. But that is living dangerously.

He looks injured. Usually he is the Leaf-killer and my sphincter tightens when he has the puck. Of course, coach just called him out last night so he might come out blazing tomorrow night.

I must say though that for once it's nice to not have the pressure on my team. Everyone knows the Leafs will blow it, and no matter what happens Keefe and Shanny are toast and the team will look very different next season. Should Boston lose, however, oh dear... the chatter will be historically delicious. Maybe we even get to see some rat tears.

[Sluff]

Go Bruins. Put the Leafs away.

[heckacali]

Opposite.

[stealurface831]

give us a game.

[Supermoon]

give us a game.

OT baby! Great game so far

[Supermoon]

I know other people have said it but Pastrnak just isn't built for the playoffs.

Welllllllll…….

[stealurface831]

what a game.

[The SnowShow]

B’s!!!!!! Faaaack what a game.

[ötzi]

ermagerd

[Supermoon]

Playoff OT games end so fast. Long dump in, funny bounce, series over. Wild!

[Diamond Joe]

Well, what's your team, friend? Sorry assumed you must live in Canada since you were speaking like some expert on the Canadian hockey zeitgeist.

My team is the BRUINS motherfucker!!!! YEAH BABY!! YEAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!

[east or bust]

Welllllllll…….

Ha, just came here to say that aged well…

Playoff OT games end so fast. Long dump in, funny bounce, series over. Wild!

For real, the finish didn’t live up to the lead up at all.

[heckacali]

Horrible outcome.
Boston sports fans are temporarily happy.

[Kenny Satch]

What else is new.

[Diamond Joe]

Dammit can't get the full size one to post

[Diamond Joe]

Playoff OT games end so fast. Long dump in, funny bounce, series over. Wild!

How was that a "funny bounce"?? You don't think a professional hockey player knows EXACTLY where to fire the puck at the end boards to get a ricochet back into the scoring zone?? That was a set play.

edit: this article said the exact same thing; "a perfectly executed set play ended the game" and "Bruins set play sinks the Leafs"
https://theathletic.com/5472170/2024...e-7-takeaways/

[From_the_NEK]

Welllllllll…….

The way that play unfolded gave pasta the most space I'd seen him have all game. He looped toward the bench, almost like he was going to change, and the leafs lost track of him. He curled, turned on the jets picked up the perfect bounce off Lindholms dump in and had the room to make his ridiculous move on samsonov.
Great play all around.

[Supermoon]

How was that a "funny bounce"?? You don't think a professional hockey player knows EXACTLY where to fire the puck at the end boards to get a ricochet back into the scoring zone?? That was a set play.

edit: this article said the exact same thing; "a perfectly executed set play ended the game" and "Bruins set play sinks the Leafs"
https://theathletic.com/5472170/2024...e-7-takeaways/

Oh I’m sure a Bruins player on home ice had an idea of how that was going to go. I was just speaking to it from my perspective as a viewer.

I remember during lockdown all the teams figured out the quirks of the boards in the stadiums and you got a lot of wild plays like that.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

I don't think it was as much a funny bounce as Samsonov going to sleep at the wrong time.

[heckacali]

It's all those things
- players often dump the corner/end boards hoping to get a good bounce back out front
- in the replay you see Pasta start down the boards looking left to the puck holder and he motions with his stick down toward to the corner
- the dump was as perfect as a bounce as you could hope for coming out to the front of the net
- pasta beat the D badly down to the end boards to get the puck
- goalie lagged and didnt make a play on the puck coming to the front of the crease as he could have
- goalie didn't poke once.Pasta had it in close
- Pasta made a great move to the backhand

Game over, season over

[old goat]

As soon as you saw Pasta streaking down the right wing it was obvious what was going on. At least from TV level, not necessarily ice level. He looked like a soccer forward making a run. (Soccer-- the only sport where running is considered a big deal.) I don't think Samsonov misplayed it. You watch his head, he's trying to keep track of the puck behind him and of who's coming straight at him. He would have had to come pretty far out to cut off the puck. He got beat by a goal scorer. No shame in that.

[ötzi]

It was a pretty nasty move no doubt.