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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2019 8:00:10 GMT -5
Game 4 (@cbj): Thursday, May 2, 7:30 p.m.
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on May 2, 2019 8:28:42 GMT -5
SUVFan , do you have any idea how the NHL handles on-ice fights these days? I had thought that after the 2004 lockout when a number of rules changes were made, that there was a crackdown on fighting. But I've seen several unpenalized altercations during this series.
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Post by SUVFan on May 2, 2019 18:40:16 GMT -5
I don't know anything about that, GTH, but I suspect it has a lot to do with who the players are. They'll cut various favorites a break, I'm sure, and tolerate attacks on no names much more than stars.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2019 7:07:39 GMT -5
Oh well . Bruins top Blue Jackets to even playoff series at 2-2
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on May 3, 2019 7:41:07 GMT -5
Last night, the Human Backstop let 4 goals get past him -- 2 in the first period and 2 in the third, one during a Bruins power play. Meanwhile, the Bruin's Tuukka Rask was stellar, permitting only one goal from Artemi Panarin in the first period. Meanwhile, the bruin's vaunted scorers were in top form.
The game was full of power plays, mostly by the Bruins. I'm not that familiar with hockey's finer points, but it seemed that the CBJs were sloppy in being penalized. We don't need to practice the power play kill, any more than we need to allow Sergei Bobrovsky to make lots of saves.
Final score 2-1 bruins -- in regulation, evening the series at 2-2. The series now moves back to Boston, in prime time and network TV, Saturday night.
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Post by SUVFan on May 3, 2019 14:48:12 GMT -5
Last night, the Human Backstop let 4 goals get past him -- 2 in the first period and 2 in the third, one during a Bruins power play. Meanwhile, the Bruin's Tuukka Rask was stellar, permitting only one goal from Artemi Panarin in the first period. Meanwhile, the bruin's vaunted scorers were in top form.
The game was full of power plays, mostly by the Bruins. I'm not that familiar with hockey's finer points, but it seemed that the CBJs were sloppy in being penalized. We don't need to practice the power play kill, any more than we need to allow Sergei Bobrovsky to make lots of saves.
Final score 2-1 bruins -- in regulation, evening the series at 2-2. The series now moves back to Boston, in prime time and network TV, Saturday night. Make no mistake -- last night's 4-1 loss was not on Bob. According to the Fox boxscore, the Bruins scored twice on power plays. The box also says the Blue Jackets incurred 22 minutes worth of penalty minutes on 6 penalties. I wonder if that should be 12 (2 minutes/penalty)? Whatever, it was too many and the Jackets were careless as GTH suggests. Likely pissed off about the sucker punch, but that was a game 3 thing. Win the game. Settle the score on the sucker punch with the Bruins next season if you must. The Jackets only goal of the evening actually shouldn't have been a goal, as NBCSN team said the puck hit the netting before falling onto the ice, being passed and then shot into the goal. Because of the pass, the commentator said after speaking with someone in Toronto, they couldn't go to replay to correct it. That's actually a bad rule, as if the refs are not sure what happen, blow their whistles and stop play before the pass, and it turns out there was no contact and the puck actually just popped straight up and came back down, then they would have taken away a golden goal scoring opportunity. It should work more like the continuation (that went against the Jackets Tuesday) and if a goal is scored, they can go back so many seconds (however long it would normally take a defense to recover) and see what actually happened and make a change if needed. The lack of scoring by the Jackets last night was not for want of opportunity. The Bruins goalie was outstanding, for starters. But the Jackets were also unlucky. They were the team that hit very solid iron and had the puck bounce out. From the way the puck bounced back, I'd say a half inch to the right would have scored. Boone also missed on a penalty shot and there were at least 5, maybe more, short handed situations where we easily could have scored. Of course you never score on all of them, but one or two of those would have been about right. At zero, the Bruins were very lucky. Plus, I remember once where a pass was made to the far side but somehow the recipient couldn't get find the puck with the blade of his stick on the backside of the goal. If a couple or three of those had gone in, it might have been a different night. Couldda, wouldda, shouldda. Two last comments -- First, I tuned in just as the puck was hitting the netting and falling to the ice, about 10 minutes into the first period. The last 10 minutes of that period were incredible! Nothing I saw in the 2nd or first 10 minutes of the 3rd (when the Bruins went up 3-1, though I thought the Jackets still might tie it up, I didn't think they could win in regulation, so I called it a night) were not nearly the same intensity. Then again, I don't know who could keep that level for 50 minutes! Second, when the Bruins found themselves up 2-1 in the 3rd, they didn't pack in the defense in the equivalent of a football prevent defense. Instead, they continued to push the puck up the ice at every opportunity, though not recklessly, undoubtedly mindful that how much harder it is for the other team to score if they're spending a lot of time in their own defensive end.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2019 7:03:24 GMT -5
Blue Jackets, all it takes is another 2 W's !!!
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Post by gth (Columbus OH) on May 7, 2019 21:27:07 GMT -5
Last night, the cannon in Nationwide Arena was silent. And in the end, so was the crowd, except to give the Jackets a season sendoff.
The Bruins led by goalie Tukka Rask shut out the Jackets 3-0 in Game 6 of the second round playoffs. The Jackets having lost Game 5 in Boston Saturday night, that eliminated them 4 games to 2.
Near the end of the second period with the Bruins up 1-0, Bruin Charlie McAvoy checked with his shoulder, the head of Josh Anderson, who ended up on the ice. The NBC announcers, who expected this to be a major 5 minute penalty, were surprised when it was a 2 minute minor penalty instead (McAvoy might still be disciplined by the NHL UPDATE: He was suspended for the first game in the next Bruins series). Regardless, and despite the Jackets playing better than in penalty-happy game 4, the Bruins played lights out and added 2 goals in the third period for the win.
It was a great run, an historic one for the Columbus Blue jackets. But now, it's over.
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