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Post by Don Caballero on Jun 12, 2019 20:01:00 GMT -5
How can you dominate a period like that and go down 2-0. Damn this just got A LOT harder.
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Post by tizzle on Jun 12, 2019 20:12:29 GMT -5
How can you dominate a period like that and go down 2-0. Damn this just got A LOT harder. Major uphill battle. I can't believe Marchand let a guy go like that in the offensive zone to go to the bench. |
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Post by tizzle on Jun 12, 2019 20:14:24 GMT -5
Probably need a goal in like the first 5 of the 2nd period to have a shot.
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Post by tizzle on Jun 12, 2019 20:51:07 GMT -5
Welp. I really don't see us coming back from 2 down in one period.
Would love to be proven wrong.
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Post by redsoxfan2 on Jun 12, 2019 21:01:31 GMT -5
Rask completely crapped all over himself that first period. 2 goals on 4 shots. Blues should invite him to their parade.
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Post by tizzle on Jun 12, 2019 21:04:30 GMT -5
Rask completely crapped all over himself that first period. 2 goals on 4 shots. Blues should invite him to their parade. Nah. I can see putting the first one him, but even that was a tough deflection. But the second one was basically a penalty shot after Marchand turned his player loose. I'm not blaming Rask for that. |
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Post by redsoxfan2 on Jun 12, 2019 21:08:56 GMT -5
Rask completely crapped all over himself that first period. 2 goals on 4 shots. Blues should invite him to their parade. Nah. I can see putting the first one him, but even that was a tough deflection. But the second one was basically a penalty shot after Marchand turned his player loose. I'm not blaming Rask for that. Really? I've heard commentators claim the opposite. I just think that if you want to play championship level goal tending you get to both. I will agree, what was up with that line change with 15 seconds left? |
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Post by tizzle on Jun 12, 2019 21:16:12 GMT -5
Pretty clearly these guys aren't going to call a penalty unless they absolutely have to.
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Post by tizzle on Jun 12, 2019 21:23:24 GMT -5
Oh well, good year. I don't want to watch these cheap shot artists win it, so I'll change the channel.
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Post by redsoxfan2 on Jun 12, 2019 21:25:55 GMT -5
Blues goalie was unreal tonight. Disappointing we didn't get the same performance. Really wanted to get one more for Chara.
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Post by Don Caballero on Jun 12, 2019 21:27:00 GMT -5
Gone baby. Tough night after some incredible pressure in the 1st quarter. Nothing went our way. I wouldn't put any of the goals on Rask, maybe the first one a bit, but yeah, it's just one of those things. Really hard to get this close and watch it going away, but well at least we died standing up like true gangsters.
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Post by homerdante on Jun 12, 2019 21:29:32 GMT -5
Heartbreaking end to the season, but I'm more than ready to see 6-8 of these guys gone. I've watched them rollercoaster over and over and over. Krejci is done, Krug needs to go, Marchand nearly vanished in the playoffs or decided his favorite thing to do was give the puck to the opposing team. Too bad it's at the end of the run for this core of Bergeron. He deserved better, so much better than so much of this cast of idiots.
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Post by tizzle on Jun 12, 2019 21:40:30 GMT -5
Heartbreaking end to the season, but I'm more than ready to see 6-8 of these guys gone. I've watched them rollercoaster over and over and over. Krejci is done, Krug needs to go, Marchand nearly vanished in the playoffs or decided his favorite thing to do was give the puck to the opposing team. Too bad it's at the end of the run for this core of Bergeron. He deserved better, so much better than so much of this cast of idiots. Actually, I was really down on Krug last year, but I thought he was great this year. Stopped with the dumb turnover and actually is a positive on D in addition to being an offensive D-man. Marchand had a rough final, I think he might have been hurt. He was great before that. Krejci is a waste of money, but he's untradeable. It'd be outside the box but I'd still be open to moving Rask if I can get a decent deal for him. Even with as great as he was this postseason. I think Halak is nearly as good and the money saved would be huge. But there's no way that'll happen. |
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Post by homerdante on Jun 12, 2019 21:48:43 GMT -5
I saw krug routinely make passes into skates, into sticks, to other players. I thought he had a terrible playoffs. I also saw one or two laser passes through 5 people. I don't know that the one is worth the other. He's an undersized defense-man making too much money imho.
Krejci is spent. Again, his passing more often than not is directly to the other team. He had a few plays here and there, but he's lost a step, and doesn't crash the net as often as you'd like a top 2 center to do.
I think you're onto something about Halak.
I also can't believe Pasta just completely falling off a cliff in the playoffs. He literally could not stay on his skates the first few rounds. Completely underwhelming playoffs.
For me Heinen also routinely could not execute on plays. Flew around with a full head of steam, but whenever he got the puck, did nothing or worse than nothing with it.
Sad to see Bergeron not get another, but this core has to get blown up to rebuild around the kids...
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Post by tizzle on Jun 12, 2019 21:57:08 GMT -5
I thought Krug played better this year, and that's from guy who must've said "trade him" 100 times last year. But I guess we can just agreee to disagree.
Pasta's postseason was weird. He had some games where he looked really good. I liked his effort tonight, though not a great game. But yeah, he had games where he was a turnover machine who was mopping the ice with his jersey. I'm going to chalk it up to youth and expect better in the future.
Heinen, yes. He was a complete non-entity all postseason, if not an outright liability at times.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Jun 12, 2019 21:57:10 GMT -5
I don't watch a ton of hockey (The Orr/Esposito years are burned into my memory forever) - and realize the game has changed - but I thought that St Louis' passing was crisp and precise - like they had magnets on their sticks. They seemed to have multiple and complex ways to attack.
The Bruins to me looked a step slow, sloppier, far less precise, way too many giveaways. Not sure if it was just a relative talent thing, or St Louis' defense did a number on the Boston attack.
Pretty disappointing - esp the vanishing act of the first line through most of the series.
Close, but no cigar. Now we get to focus exclusively on the Sox as they struggle to put distance between themselves and the .500 mark
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Post by tizzle on Jun 12, 2019 22:09:31 GMT -5
I just attribute that to puck luck. The Bruins had some real chances where the puck would get on edge or skip and kind of ruin the chance. Whereas on some big plays for the Blues (particularly goals 1 and 3 if I recall correctly) the puck traveled exactly the way you'd hope it would.
I don't think that's any skill on their part or lack of on ours. It was just bad breaks.
I thought we dominated the 1st and played better than them in the 2nd, just the bounces, a couple of big saves by Binnington and a bonehead play by Marchand had us down by 2 goals.
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