Game 15 Preview: Bruins vs. Habs LET'S SCORE THIS TIME READY GO

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaarreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey or HAL GILL SUCKS HAL GILL SUCKS? Life is full of difficult decisions...
Game 15
7pm, 5th November 2009
NESN, 98.5 FM
vs. Habs (7-8-0)

So half the storyline/chant for tonight's game is out for a couple weeks with a hairline fracture in his foot. Probably just took root, though.

Krejci is out with Swine Flu, unfortunately. He'll be out until he has no fever or symptoms for 24 hours. Get well soon, kiddo.

In the meantime, bruins blog has posted tonight's lineup. Let's take a look at that center slot, eh?

Patrice Bergeron.

Status: Baller, shot-caller.

Vladimir Sobotka.

Status: The Littlest Big Checking Czech

Steve Begin.

Status: Wretched little shit* playing his old team for the first time in Black and Gold.

*That would be OUR wretched little shit.

Trent Whitfield.

Status: MURDER (please?)

blergh.

So those are our centers. Currently missing from the lineup: Savard, Krejci, Bitz, Lucic. On the other hand, 18% of the NHL has been on IR so far, and the Canucks are especially bad - even their callups are getting hurt.

Thomas was off the ice first and I'm hoping 09 playoffs thomas shows up instead of 08 playoffs Thomas, since this team can't score for shit.

Price is also in net, and well.....
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He's currently rocking a 3.64 GAA and .883 SV%. Note: this is actually better than he was in the playoffs last year. bwahahahaha

But we're missing a lot of guys from that playoff team right now, either to trades or free agency or players whining their way out of Boston for some first-round picks. Anyhow, there are some road-trippers from Montreal coming to the game, make sure to remind them of last year before the game in case the game doesn't remind anyone of last year.

Speaking of habs fans, if you've made it this far you should jump on over to Four Habs Fans and see how team despair is done! (seriously, one of these days I'm going to Montreal for a game and probably to arm-wrestle HF10 or something)

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One way or another,
GO BRUINS!

Time to Get Serious

"I don’t tell you what to do with your site, but If you are looking for suggestions, I would suggest actually writing something besides sentences fragments and NHL.com videos." - Stanley Cup of Chowder

This is a fair point. It's about time this blog got more serious, aside from that one post about the Stay Hungry hats (only bit of anything approaching real journalism I've done) and the piece that Travbot did about Upcoming Goalie Superstar Tuukka Rask. The schedule doesn't come out for another day so let's talk about how the Bruins look. It's a better thing to do than picking fights with your local SBNation affiliate, anyhow.

It would be easier to figure out how the Bruins are doing if there wasn't this damn 800 pound gorilla sitting here in the middle of this room. Let's see, what could he want? OH! It must be getting Phil Kessel signed. Both sides are saying Phil wants to stay in Boston, and I assume Peter Chiarelli and Kessel's agent are both talking daily, but until the ink hits the paper and I see it on @bishter's or @HacksWithHaggs's twitter it's completely up in the air. So without that piece of the puzzle, this will be slightly less useful than your average Season Preview. So it goes.

Of course, we're all mourning the loss of P.J. Axelsson. He's played well with the Bruins, but I don't think he's coming back. Personally, it would suck to see Axelsson in another NHL jersey, and there has been rumor that a Swedish team or two are giving him offers. Of course, I now can't find the link to where I saw that, it was probably on some message board somewhere. We'll miss you, P.K. Axelsson...we'll miss you.

Speaking of people leaving the team, Montador is gone but who cares, and Hnidy left but Begin will step in for the kisser-rearranging duties. This is all well and good, as the team more-or-less looks the same as it did last year, with Bitz moving up to the Big Club most of the time and hopefully Wheeler getting a bit more physical, or at least getting his scoring touch back.

The fact of the matter is we still have Krejci, Savard, Chara, Thomas, and Bergeron on the team, and though they may just be a pile of centers, a mountain, and a tornado, these guys really carry the team. Wideman, Ward, and Stuart do a great job on D as well, and Recchi will tip in shots all day in front of the net. Wheeler has great hands.

What I'm trying to say is that I'm pulling my hair out waiting for the offseason to end so we can get back to some hockey. It'll be a day or two more before I'm breaking down and watching the Bruins History DVD (saved it for just such and occasion). In the meantime, why not read a book?

Above all, we want bitz. Even those of us a couple sections over from 311.

GO BRUINS!
(p.s. Hal Gill Sucks)