Morning Thoughts

IT HAS BEGUN!

Fill in your own third winger. Results are at http://fanballoting.nhl.com/leaders. Right now, Thomas is in SECOND. I'm proud of you guys.

Vote Early, Vote Often.

Next order of business:
They like me, they really like me!
Sick.

If you didn't see the Red Wings-Penguins game last night, you fail. Or VS. does. Either way, find yourself some highlights or the full game. Or read the recap over at thePensBlog. Just a great game.

GameDay post will be up at 4pm as usual.
I'm worried about this week. Hawks, Habs, Rags are all off to a great start. But none are unbeatable.
Here's Kynch's Korner with a look ahead at the Bruins Original Six Week.
We've gotta take it one step at a time. So tonight we're in Boston (well, the team is). They got there in style:
(bruins.nhl.com - really)

STOP THE PRESSES

(but not the server, we need that.)

I just found the NESN.com blogs. Jack "SAVE BY THOMAS" Edwards has one.

Here he is talking about Brave Steve.

So does someone named Eric Ortiz. He may be the most whole-heartedly pro-bruins person ever. First he says that Obama winning the election means the Bruins could win the cup.

Then he gives us a Belichick-Julien comparison.
Eric Ortiz defines Homer.

And lastly, condolences to the whole Thornton family. Losing a family member isn't easy. But I'm sure they don't want it all over, so I'll leave it at that. I know Shawn is a pro, so he won't play if he can't and he will play well when he's back.

Game 12 Recap: Bruins 5 Stars 1 OTT SUCKS

5-1, bitches.

This game was ridiculous.  If you missed it Steve Ott overshadowed the pure douchebaggery of Sean Avery in a big way, and refused to fight both Thornton and Lucic.  So Ference had to crush him and then Savard (!) starts wailing on Avery.  Let's look at the penalty sheet, thanks to hockey-reference.com:

1st Period
08:51	BOS	Aaron Ward (2 minutes for holding)
10:52	DAL	Brenden Morrow (4 minutes for hooking, unsportsmanlike )
16:26	DAL	Sean Avery (2 minutes for hooking)
2nd Period
00:57	BOS	Shawn Thornton (4 minutes for roughing)
01:29	DAL	Steve Ott (2 minutes for hooking)
05:22	BOS	Milan Lucic (2 minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct)
05:22	DAL	Steve Ott (2 minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct)
05:22	BOS	Shane Hnidy (2 minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct)
05:22	DAL	Sean Avery (2 minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct)
06:51	BOS	Blake Wheeler (2 minutes for hooking)
06:51	DAL	James Neal (2 minutes for goaltender interference)
08:30	BOS	Michael Ryder (2 minutes for roughing)
15:50	BOS	Andrew Ference (2 minutes for delay of game)
17:06	BOS	Dennis Wideman (2 minutes for slashing)
3rd Period
04:54	DAL	Sean Avery (5 minutes for fighting)
04:54	DAL	Steve Ott (2 minutes for holding)
04:54	BOS	Andrew Ference (5 minutes for fighting)
07:02	BOS	Milan Lucic (2 minutes for roughing)
07:02	DAL	Steve Ott (2 minutes for roughing)
07:02	DAL	Marty Turco (2 minutes for served by Neal (interfere)
09:31	BOS	Shawn Thornton (5 minutes for fighting)
09:31	DAL	Krys Barch (5 minutes for fighting)
11:37	BOS	Mark Stuart (10 minutes for misconduct)
11:37	DAL	Steve Ott (10 minutes for misconduct)
11:44	DAL	Sean Avery (12 minutes for boarding, misconduct)
11:44	DAL	Matt Niskanen (15 minutes for fighting, misconduct)
11:44	BOS	Marc Savard (12 minutes for roughing, misconduct)
11:44	BOS	Shane Hnidy (15 minutes for fighting, misconduct)
11:44	BOS	Milan Lucic (10 minutes for misconduct)
12:50	DAL	Brenden Morrow (2 minutes for hooking)

Sturm bookends the game with 2 goals, keep him on the line with krecji and wheeler.  When their third line has to defend THE GERMAN, there's really no stopping him. 

Mar-Ty...  Mar-Ty...  Mar-Ty...

Hubhockey has the youtube video done by dafoomie about the game.

I still hate the stars, and I really liked this game.  Mike Modano didn't.

Thomas was solid, except that one goal in the first period that Avery shot from the blueline.  You could see even he didn't like that goal.

Record: 6-3-3

Home Record: 2-1-1

L10: 5-2-3

GO BRUINS!