Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Trip Report: Prague Pictures!


So I didn't spring for a data plan in Prague so instead of twitpic-ing every photo I'm putting a little picasa gallery or two here of all of the pictures. Should be good if you want to see some and haven't seen a ton already:


Bruins In Prague Day 1Bruins in Prague Day 2


Suffice to say, it was a lot of fun watching with the Czech crowd. On the first day they pointed out a couple of famous (and not-so-famous) Czechs in the crowd that had played in the NHL, including Jiri Slegr. Additionally, the penalty graphics were pretty sweet, with a cartoon ref doing the motions and a sweet fire graphic exploding behind him. I took probably 5-6 pictures of that between days. You know, phoenix kept taking penalties.

Anyhow, game stories. There was a slovakian gentleman sitting in front of me in the first game who clued me in to the fact that "Chara" in slovakian is pronounced "Hara" like the beginning of "Chanukkah." Pretty interesting tidbit, I thought.

Other things of interest: Ilya Bryzgalov is a great goalie, but Horton owns. OWNS. Check this out, from after the second game:



And then of course the second game (on at 10am Eastern) was even better. First fan-favorite Milan Lucic potted a blast on Illllllyaaaaaaaa, assisted by the Goomba. Then of course the Goomba put in his own. And then, well, this:
Yeah, that ruled.

Congrats to Tyler on his first NHL goal. It was a doozie.


Thomas got an assist on that, as well as this little honor:

More stories as time allows.
GO BRUINS!

Friday, April 16, 2010

Game 1 Review: BRUINS 1 SLUGS 2 NUKE BUFFALO

More of this, please. (click for huge)

Well the Bruins were one of the only away teams to lose their first away game, on the strength of a CRAIG RIVET goal. Ridiculous. This is how most of the games will go, it's now just up to the Bruins to make sure they're on the right side of the one-goal game. If you watched you already know what happened and if you didn't you were probably busy whining about how boring goalie duels are. Whatever.

I've got a solution: Nuke Buffalo.

And I found some EXCLUSIVE footage of the Wideman "trip" on Derek Roy:
Three Bruins played over 20 minutes: Chara, Boychuk, Wideman. Boy, I'm sure glad Boychuk isn't signed next year so we get to pay him a lot of money or let him walk. Can't tell you how excited I am about that.

Looking at the refs last night one of them was reffing his first playoff game. So congrats to Brian Pochmara on making the jump, but seriously NHL he's got 126 regular season games and he's reffing in the playoffs? Damn.

1-0 bad guys. The odds aren't in our favor but then they never were.
GO BRUINS!

Friday, March 26, 2010

Game 73 Review: BRUINS 3 BOLTS 5 BOY THAT STAMKOS KID SURE IS GOOD

This picture is hilarious, click on it and take a close look at Recchi's face.

So the Lightning are a good young team, and even though they're probably not making the playoffs this year (then again that the Bruins are in the conversation is kind of ridiculous). That Stamkos kid sure does have a killer shot. Here's the goal-scoring race:Ovechkin, sure. Crosby, yup he's been scoring more. Stamkos? Hot damn. Kid can score. Especially last night, where the home-town fans were treated to a spectacular finnish goaltending performance. Of course it was in the wrong net, as Nittymaki stopped nearly all of the 50 shots on net. I guess it's better than no shots on net, but nobody ever said those shots were any good. The two goals were made out of getting someone next to the net and hoping for the best.

Really, though, Stamkos is way exciting and I like watching him play. At least, that's what I'm choosing out of this awful game.
Final: 3-5 bad guys.
GO BRUINS!

Friday, March 19, 2010

Game 70 Recap: BRUINS 0 PENS 3 A WELL-BALANCED PILE OF CRAP

Goddamn, that was awful. Good thing the 1970 team reception was cool.

the best part of the game was the thornton/cooke fight and even that was pretty mediocre at best.

I don't want to relive that, so no recap.

GO BRUINS!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Game 68 Revi-screw it. Game 69 (heh) Preview: Bruins vs. Carolina

Game 68 review:
Marty had more points than goals allowed in the 0th, Bruins battled back in the 1st and 2nd, but after two they couldn't win. Wait, that first period counted? Damn. 2-3 Bad Guys in regulation, not helping the playoff hopes much.

On to our next game. Carolina again. I do believe they're in the usual Carolina-goes-on-a-tear-and-might-squeek-into-the-playoffs mode right now, but that's mostly a hunch. It's also maybe too late, but the East is just downright terrible this year so who knows.

No morning skate for the Bruins before their 7th road game in a row. After this, they can go home. Here's hoping they don't return without a shield.

Hoo boy, 5 o'clock already?

Stats!
Memento Mori.
GO BRUINS!

Monday, January 25, 2010

Game 51 Review: BRUINS 1 LAST PLACE HURRICANES 5 READY SET PANIC

Luckily instead of watching this mess of a game I got to watch some football...like watching the colts make it to another superbowl (dammit) and the Saints win but fail to cover the spread (worst case scenario). Woof.

Most of the people who watched the game mentioned things like "heart" "energy" "character" on Twitter, so I'll just say sure, that's probably it.

The Bruins now have the longest losing streak of the year. To find the last 5-game losing streak, you've gotta go back to December of 2007. Incidentally, the Bruins also dropped the 5th game of that streak to Carolina. They then lost the sixth game in a row to Atlanta. Luckily, there is not another game for a couple days. They have the opportunity to try to right the ship now before Friday. Oh wait, that's Buffalo? (Could be Savard's first game back) And then LA? ruh-roh.

At least the Olympics are soon.
GO BRUINS!

Friday, January 22, 2010

Game 49 Review: Bluejackets 3 Bruins 2 Refs 1 WHY YES I DO THINK 'POOP' IS AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION

I think this just about sums it up:
I don't want to really talk about the game, so here's the recap in video form. Discussion post-video:
But let's not get crazy about it. Everyone loves watching bushkorn go crazy but nobody wants to be him. So let's get some rationale here. First of all, the Bruins are still on pace for a playoff spot with all their awful play recently. Granted, they'll have to start picking up, and the 07-08 team has caught up to them. However, the overall stats bear out that they're in sixth right now in points percentage and SRS. The sharks have passed them in PK supremacy but they're still best in the east in that (though buffalo is hot on their tails).

The Lucic fight wasn't exactly highlight-reel material but good for him for playing "pissed off hockey" like he said. I would have liked "goal-scoring hockey" or "game-winning hockey" but I guess it's something. Anyhow the big story here is that the refs called high-sticking on Lucic with 1:something to go in the third in a tie game when it was a different-colored stick.

The real story there is that at 4:02 of that video up there, you can see where if Krejci doesn't straight-up miss the net I'm high-fiving everyone around me and we don't have to be tied 2-2 with 1:something to go and getting shitty calls.

I was pissed about that last night, and it's an absolutely terrible way to lose a game, but I've calmed down now and I know that game 50 is coming up tomorrow morning (or close to...) and, well, time to work for those 2 points.
GO BRUINS!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Game 20 Recap: BRUINS 1 ISLANDERS 4 PAIIIIIILLE

Hum-hoom, nothing to see here.


1-1.

And that was a pretty sweet goal. This is the only good thing about this game. Except I saw some college friends there, and that was nice. Otherwise...
1-4.
Loss.
(8-8-4)

Here's to gelling on the road (and Lucic and Savard both traveling with the team! Hope is on the way!)
GO BRUINS!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Game 14 Recap: BRUINS 0 DETROIT 2 STREAK BROKEN THE WRONG WAY

The Bruins haven't scored in the last 132:58 of ice time, despite coming close a couple times last night in the first. Osgood and the post managed to save near-goals by the Bruins, and then Datsyuk set up a Holmstrom and Zetterberg goal.

0-2
The second and third periods had both teams playing pretty well and nobody scoring. Blergh.

Game.

Loss.

The Bruins have to get their shit together, and hit the net. They haven't scored on the Powerplay since Derek Morris bombed one in a long time ago, and they're not able to get inside the slot area at all. It's hard to score when every shot has to go through 3-7 guys before even getting to the goalie. Look at the great chances Sturm had, where he was right at the net and got the puck. There's something for putting a guy in front to tip in goals, but there's really no substitute for close-up, in-the-slot shots. The Bruins need to do that. Sobotka on the powerplay didn't result in a goal, but at this point - why the hell not?

If you need a quick pick-me-up, Hockey Legends features the 1939 Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins in the classic snapshot. FRANK BRIMSEK Y'ALL. Click the picture to get a larger version.

Phil Kessel played last night, got laid out, didn't score but had 10 shots. Down Goes Brown talks about that.

If there's anyone left on the bandwagon, hang tight. With a lighter load, it will go faster and be bumpier. Keep the noise level to a maximum. Same seats, everyone!
GO BRUINS!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Game 12 and 13 Recaps: BRUINS 2 OIL 0 BRUINS 0 RAGS 1 THE STREAK CONTINUES

Yeah ok so I didn't put anything up post-game on halloween or the morning after but I was not alone in that. Either way, The Bruins played twice over the weekend, both were afternoon games. The Bruins are playing a league-high 19 afternoon games this season, or about %23. This annoys me greatly, it always throws me off when I get out of a game and it's still light out. Thankfully winter and the end of daylight savings time will take care of that whole "daylight" thing.

I could recap the two excellent goals between Vladimir Sobotka and Blake Wheeler, where Sobotka fought behind the net for about a million years until popping it out for Wheeler to tap it in, or the one where Wheeler set Sobotka up nicely, or I could talk about how the Bruins-Rangers game would still be going on if this were the playoffs and Gaborik wasn't on the Rangers or I could look at some statistics, which is probably much* more interesting.

*slightly

So lets look at some thing then, shall we?

12.24
First up: Our powerplay. It stinks out loud. The year 1224 was a pretty boring year, history-wise. A Brother Leo happened to witness St. Francis of Assisi have a vision and get stigmata. Maybe that would help things, Lucic was out with a hand thing anyhow. And Savard with a foot thing. HMMMMMMMMMMMM

In case you were wondering, it's not the worst powerplay in the league. It's just the second-worst. The panthers are worse but they're the panthers, not last year's 4th-best PP. (Note: last year's worst PP was the Columbus Bluejackets and they made the playoffs anyways) Of course the fact that we're missing Savard and Kessel hurts in that respect, so there you go.

Yeesh, time flies when you're having fun. I will be using historical events to explain the Bruins PP% for a while I think. For example, the league-leading Flyers have a 28.07% PP, or FLYING CARS MOTHERFUCKERS in historical reference.

Here's to flying cars on the powerplay.
GO BRUINS!

Friday, October 30, 2009

Game 11 Recap: BRUINS 1 DEVILS 2 BLERGH

Yeah, so it was a pretty tight game for most of it. The devils scored when the puck was behind thomas and clarkson (fucking Clarkson of all people) scooped it in. It's easy to score when the goalie isn't between the net and the goal, y'all.
0-1

Then Patrice Bergeron tied it up in the second. It was the highlight of the night, except for one more thing later.
1-1

In the third, Clarkson skates past Thomas and Thomas makes to lunge at him. Tim Thomas rules because crazy goalies are awesome. They're better when they don't let in soft goals, but the Bruins not being able to score more than one garbage goal all game would be nice too.

The Devils scored with 1:26 to go when Thomas makes a 5-hole stop but the puck slips out behind him. Zubrus scoops it in.
1-2.
Woof. So the Bruins get a minute and a half to try to even it up. Then with less than 30 seconds to go and the goalie pulled the Bruins pass it off a Devil's knee and it goes into the zone, past the goal line and a devil touches it. We get a whistle on the touch-up. Powerplay?

Nope, some ref or linesman completely shit the bed on the call and thought it was icing even though from all the way up in the balcony I could see it hit the guy's knee and change direction.

Puck goes back to center ice and the Bruins manage maybe one shot on goal but don't let an empty netter completely ruin the night. Good effort on both sides, and on a night where all the goals were garbage, the Bruins couldn't scoop and shovel enough. For some reason I noticed Wheeler and liked his play.

Frustrating as hell.

Hey Bruins, let's win more than one in a row, eh?
GO BRUINS!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

hu-wah? What happened?

So hey everyone I've been out with sleeping-all-day-and-coughing-when-I'm-not-sleeping-itis for a good part of the weekend and haven't updated (as you can see) in any meaningful way recently. If you haven't heard by now the Bruins beat the Stars 3-0 (WOOOOO) and then lost to the coyotes 1-4 (called it). Then Lucic had surgery on his finger. He's out 4-6 weeks and on LTIR.

On top of all that, we traded Chuck Kobasew for Craig Weller, MIN's 2nd-round pick in 2011, and rights to some kid named Fallstrom. Well let's fire up the old youtube and see if we can't find some clips of the new guy.


Welp. Let's see if he's ever done anything besides crush everything in sight?

Nope.
Well, he'll enjoy playing in the AHL some more I hope.

We've got so many draft picks right now it's ridiculous. Like, seriously.

Oh and the Bruins are very stylish. Ladies, this link's for you.

Do you think if I get a purple tie I can be an NHL centerman like Patrice Bergeron?
GO BRUINS!

Friday, October 9, 2009

Game 3 Review: VOMIT

uuuuurrrrggggh

So every goddamn team that I was rooting for last night lost to California. Bruins lost 6-1, Sox lost 5-0 (or something), Wild fell apart at the very end to lose 6-3, and Columbus didn't quite have it against Heatley's hat trick. At least my fantasy team with him doesn't start scoring until next week.

The Bruins powerplay sucked so hard that I was hoping the Bruins would take a penalty just to even the numbers of players on the ice. The PK managed to let old man teemu to bury 2 goals. If Tim Thomas is going to be a sieve every other game maybe the Bruins should look at this promising Rask kid soon. I expect him to play sometime this weekend, but I'm no NHL coach.

Also, the team in front of thomas looked like shit pretty much. I don't know nearly enough about defensive play to really criticize that, but I do know that the Bitz-Begin-Thornton line seemed to be the only ones still working after that beautiful Marco Sturm goal.

I mean goddamn. That one was the way the Bruins are supposed to play. They get the puck out of the zone and before the Ducks can do everything, Savard is dishing the puck to Sturm, who drives it five-hole for a pretty goal.

MARCO THE GERMAN STURMINATOR STURM
1-0

Hell yeah this game rules! WOOOO

Then you watch the kids come out and whoever was 99 in red was either playing below his age or the Hobey Baker winner 2020. Scored two goals, looked great out there.

Then, uh...

shit.

everything sorta goes black for a while, and I remember yelling at the refs a lot. A whole ton, really. 2 quick calls against the Bruins led to two quick goals by the Selanne. Goddamn I hate the Ducks.

Blah blah corey perry is a bitch blah blah

Bobby Ryan, don't you hit Blake like that! I'M TELLING YOUR MOTHER YOUNG MAN!

Anyhow, California sucks.
GO BRUINS!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

GAME 1 RECAP: <3 Patrice <3

BONJOUR! Je m'appelle Patrice Bergeron! J'ai marqué un but!

Thanks, Alix!

Aside from Patrice Bergeron being the man, we now know that Derrick Morris doesn't like Ovechkin...probably because of this:

You can't see it, but the puck goes BETWEEN Morris's legs. He threw some good hits tonight, most against the Gr8 one. (excuse me, I need to vomit about that.)

Patrice Bergeron is also looking absolutely great. No really, fantastic. Oh look, here he is scoring the Bruins only goal, basically short-handed but .00001 seconds too late to be counted as such (lame):
(apologies to Evan for NHL video clip and sentence fragments :))

Oh game recap? Sure: Ovechkin, Ovechkin, Ovechkin, Ovechkin, Bergeron.

4-1.
Fin.

The Bruins looked like they were trying a bunch of passes that just barely missed. A lot. It's frustrating to watch.

They'll be better on Saturday, right? RIGHT?
GO BRUINS!

Monday, September 21, 2009

Couple of game recaps; Numbas

and Savard makes three...

Well, the Saturday game kinda sucked from a caring-about-the-bruins-winning perspective. However, Savard got a good goal and had a couple breakaways that he turned into drop-passes.

5-2, Arniel was the other Boston scorer. Whatever. The Bruins vets looked good, Thomas needs to shake off some rest, and Chara is an important part of our defense. Other than that, not much was going on.

The Bruins also beat the Habs in Quebec City in front of 40 of Patrice Bergeron's closest friends on Sunday (and they didn't even have to wear those puke-green shirts!).

And then Chemmy over on PensionPlanPuppets pointed out to me that Phil Kessel scored 13% of the Bruins' goals last year, and hahaha how did I feel about that, chump?

So here's my response:

Kessel was the highest-goal-scorer for the Bruins, yes. However, the second through twelfth player in goals scored are still there. Sorting the table by points, he’s the only one in the top ten missing.

We’ve lost 0 Short-handed goals, and 8 powerplay goals. Ryder, Savard, Wideman, and Chara all had more powerplay goals than Kessel.

Leaving him with 28 ESG last year. 6 other bruins had more than half that: Wheeler, Kobasew, Krejci, Lucic, Savard, Ryder. All of them are staying. Of course, none of them have over 10 percent of the Bruins even-strength scoring.

However, I think Ryder-Savard will be a good matchup, and if Sturm can stay healthy (every finger and toe on my body is crossed on this one) then we won’t be missing out too much.
Plus we’ll have Tuukka to push Thomas to be as good a goalie as possible, that will help on the other end of things. I think that puts the Bruins in contention for another Jennings trophy, which was a huge help last year.

Even without 36 goals, the Bruins would be 238-196, or up 42 goals over the season. The only teams with 42 more goals for than goals against last year were Detroit, San Jose, and Chicago. 42 is still good enough for best GF-GA in the whole Eastern Conference.

One more thing to look at: Assuming Kessel (whose production drops 40% when he's not with Savard) scores 36 goals again this year, that leaves Toronto with a -7 goal differential, still nearly 50 less than the Bruins'.

Eat it, Toronto.
GO BRUINS!

Thursday, July 16, 2009

TD Garden Golden Ticket Giveaway Fails to give away tickets

Shit.

That's about how I would describe my experience today during the much-heralded Golden Ticket Giveaway. I work near the boston common, so I went to the Boylston St. TD Bank location. I got there around 11:45, and waited patiently in line. I was pretty close to the front, down the block but not all the way down the block. I watched as the rest of the block got filled up by more people interested in getting chocolate and hopefully tickets.

Then the end of the block filled out at around 11:50, and more and more people were showing up. Nobody was around to tell the line where to go, so it turned back around, going back down the block (like a big "U"). The line continued to grow, going back up the street past the branch and beyond. I couldn't say how far, I was near the front. Finally, 12:00 rolled around and the line started moving. I probably moved up 10-20 feet and then it stopped and people came out and started talking to the crowd. I was still too far away to hear them at first, but people started walking by saying that the bank was out of candy bars.

2 minutes into the giveaway. That they had been heavily advertising for days. On Boylston st, one of the more heavily-trafficked streets in Boston. At first we heard conflicting information. The police started dispersing the crowd, saying there were no more candybars and everyone should go home. (They then realized that it was the middle of a workday and most people were on lunch, and said to go back to work.) I stuck around for a little, because they had said that they would start up again when enough police showed up to work the crowd, but the Police had other ideas.

The police officer who told me to leave about 15 times (sorry, dude, but I wanted one of those bars) told me that they had been warned 3 times to get their own security to control the crowd, but refused to do anything.

I called the branch location at about 1:20pm today, and they confirmed that they would not be giving out any more candy bars for the day. The woman who picked up the phone sounded pretty exasperated, I feel bad for her.

I'm sure that the event down at the garden was/is wonderful, and the other branch locations seen to have run out of bars. But the management at this branch screwed the pooch on what should otherwise have been a fun time.

So from now on I will definitely continue to just call it The Garden. That'll show 'em, right?

Shit.
GO BRUINS!

Monday, May 4, 2009

Round 2 Game 2 Recap: BRUINS 0 CANES 3 WELL THAT'S NOT HOW I SAW THAT ONE GOING

Aw crap. It's never good to lose in your own building. It's never good to lose in the playoffs. But let's not get too low. The series is tied up now. 1-1. And we're going into their building next.

The game? Here it is:
Joe Corvo
0-1 crap
Matt Cullen
0-2 shit
Eric Staal
0-3 (empty netter) son of a bitch.

game

I looked it up. This is called a "loss." Apparently it's allowed.

Joking aside, they outplayed us and now Eric Staal has scored so that works some sort of voodoo magic.
Whatever.
Series tied 1-1.
Insert Animal House speech here.
GO BRUINS!

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Game 81 Recap: BRUINS 1 SABRES 6 NOT GETTING THE PRESIDENT'S TROPHY THIS YEAR

Yup, even though LA did their part and beat San Jose the Bruins pulled EXACTLY what they did last year against Buffalo and sat down for this game. Here's your recap.

Third Period.
0-5. If you tuned in late, you tuned out pretty quick.

In the third, the Bruins Powerplay sets up and Recchi's in front of the net. Hunwick plays the part of blue-line slapper.

1-5. Hey, nice goal, guys. Way to not get shut out.

When the score is 1-6 and the save highlights page looks like this:
The defense sucked.

1-6. Final score.

Loss.

Is it Thursday yet?

vs. BUF: 2-3-1 (final)
Record: 52-19-10 (L 1)
Away: 23-13-4 (L 2)
L10: 7-2-1
April: 3-2-0
GO BRUINS!

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Game 79 Recap: BRUINS 2 SENS 3 ONE WEEK LEFT

Yup, the Bruins played last night. With the loss, they're probably not going to get the president's trophy. There's a banner in the garden for that one. It has one date on it. 1990.

Do you know what banner isn't there? Champions, 1990. So whatever.

Schubert.
0-1.

Dany Heatley gets a penalty.
Fisher.
0-2. Shorthanded.

While you're down in the dumps in the first intermission, I'm busy watching the habs get beat by the rangers. Both teams are in the bottom third of the league in record since new years'. Bruins will likely face one of them.

Phil Kessel gets riled up. He gets in way close to the net and scores one off his own rebound.

1-2. One goal game.

Ottawa gets a powerplay.
Dany Heatley.
1-3.

With 10 seconds left in the second period, the Bruins are set up on the PP. Chara slaps one in. Toronto takes a few minutes to see whether it went off Recchi. Nope.
2-3.

Third period: no scoring.

The bruins pulled Manny even though they were on the PK at the end of the game. Ottawa even got an icing call. The Bruins definitely showed up for that part of the game (and much of the rest, to be honest) but couldn't finish.

Game.
Loss.
I'm about as interested in this loss now as I was when I was half-watching it. I probably missed some crap. Prove it.

Florida bandwagon update: Montreal or New York will have to get zero more points (start rooting for Boston and Pennsylvania teams) and the Panthers will need to beat Atlanta and Washington.

Central division Bandwagon update: Anaheim needs to lose out to Dallas and phoenix and Nashville needs to beet Minnesota and Detroit. St. Louis should ideally beat columbus in OT and then we'll see what st. louis does against Joe Sakic on the last day of the season.

So few games left. Day by day, there are 2, 11, 4, 13, 4 over the next 5 days. That's 34 games total. most teams are playing 2 more at this point. 8 teams have 3 games left. Boston is one of them.

Is it Thursday yet?
Is it next Thursday yet?
I want my playoff ads.

vs. OTT: 5-1-0 (final)
Record: 51-18-10 (L 1)
Away: 23-12-4 (L 1)
L10: 7-2-1
April: 3-1-0
GO BRUINS!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Game 71 Recap: BRUINS 4 PENS 6 THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO OOG

Well, that sucked.  Both the game and the fact that I was sick all day Sunday.  Anyhow, let's look at the game, because that's what we round these parts.


50 Seconds into the game, Bill Guerin.
0-1.  Damn, well that was fa-

Recchi says hello to his old team.
1-1.  16 seconds after the first goal.  Nice job, old man.

9 minutes later.  Bruins move it around the offensive zone, Wheeler passes to kessel while falling over, Kessel puts it in.
2-1.  Yay Kessel!  31 goals on the season.  That ties the most by a Bruin since the lockout (Bergeron in 05-06)

About 5 minutes later, the Bruins give up a powerplay, Chris Kunitz.
2-2.  All tied up after 1.

Halfway through the second, the Bruins give up another powerplay.  Brought to you by SuperCuts!  Wheeler and Krejci move up.  Krejci steals it, gives it to Wheeler, who pounds it past the goalie.
3-2.  Things are looking up in the steel city.

Gonchar (almost Kunitz)
3-3.

Kunitz
3-4.  Hats come raining down.  Suckers.

Bruins go on the Powerplay in the third and, well...Michael Ryder has an unreal shot.  Just simply unreal.  Watch this goal video.  You will not be dissapointed.  He doesn't even touch the bar, it's just perfectly placed in the top corner.  Perfectly.
4-4.  All tied up in the third, the Bruins are still in it...

Sykora
4-5.

Thomas goes to the bench.  Nesn now has one of those little "goalie-to-bench" PIP things.  I dig it.

So does Jordan Staal.
4-6.

Game.

Loss.

Bruins still haven't won on the road in a month.

vs. PIT: 2-1-1 (Season Series over)
Record: 45-17-9 (L 1)
Away: 21-11-4 (L 5)
L10: 4-5-1
March: 3-5-0
GO BRUINS!