And now that they finally meet in the Big Finale - this is how it ends?!?
Did you even see what kind of a garbage-rebound-goal it was that that Bolland guy tucked in past Tuukka in order to steal victory here...? I don't know what was more embarrassing about it, really: the jumping Blackschmucks afterwards or the little Chicagoan Grrl who couldn't stop shrieking for a while and had to be bear-hugged by one of them typical Chicago beer-guzzlers in attendance, somehow...
(And, NO; we don't mean Jim Belushi!)
This might be even more revolting than last year's grand larceny on ice, when the crummy Capitals stole victory from the then-defending champions Bruins.
It is all about perceptions, one has to guess: one could focus here that the team was only two more wins away from winning it all again - and that those last two games could have easily been it.
If the bitchy Lady Luck had played the puck for our side, that is!
Speaking of perceptions (no - I don't even wanna know what's the Days of Y'Orr take on this sordid turn of events - and I don't want Bobby Orr's take on it either!) - what about those inane posters on the wretched NHL.com comments section right after their so-called ''reports/articles/call'em-what-you-will'' thingies that they whip up after each and every game...
One moron simply commented: ''now you know how Toronto felt'' and spiced that up with some heartfelt hatred towards the real champions - the Boston Bruins!
Ha! Hardly - moron! This is nothing like what the Boston Bruins did to the lowly Maple Leafs n the first round! And not just because it was between the two top teams in the NHL, at the top of their game and in the Grand Finale of the all, either! You see, Boston did not capitalize on all of their chances to score in Game 6 against Chicago - otherwise the score could have been Boston 5, Chicago 1 in the last minute of play and that would have been it for the game: see you in Game 7! In the Game 7 of that first round series, the most absurd thing had occurred: not only did it oppose an inferior team to a vastly superior one, but the inferior one had been able to capitalize on each and every one of its chances to score, making it Toronto 4, Boston 1 in the third period. What the Bruins did was far more impressive than what the wretched Blackhawks could do here: scoring two lucky goals late to steal the game, giving the Bruins no time at all to retaliate. Previously, the Bruins had not been as fortunate as Toronto had been in that game 7 either: they had had several golden opportunities to put the game away and put it totally out of reach of the Blackschmucks; it really could have been Boston 5, Chicago 1 - and, it it had been, you can bet your sorry a$$ that nothing even close to what happened when it was Toronto 4, Boston 1 would have ever ever occurred there...! Boston scoring three unanswered goals to tie it late in the game and scoring the winner early in overtime against a team such as Toronto is normal; Chicago scoring only one to tie it (much less two to steal it) late in the game against a team such as Boston is totally abnormal. Was that finally made clear to you, MORON out there, wherever you are? I hope you are among those who discover this blog by sheer... manipulated happenstance!
;-)
Another moron perceived the boos coming from the Boston faithful as being aimed at Chicago's Shaw, when he got hit by a puck in the face and was bleeding profusely on the ice, prompting the referee to blow his damnable whistle and call the play dead just when Boston's Thornton (there is no longer a need to add ''Shawn, not that poor pathetic Joe The Shark Schmoe'' - is there!) inherited the puck and most probably had a play with the rest of the Merlot line 2.0 there...
Speaking of which, what the Bruins sorely missed in the Finals was having a gritty warrior the likes of Gregory Campbell indeed... But that is sour grapes now - right, Grapes?
Back to the BOOS AFFAIR: that moron went as far as commenting about this and adding ''stay classy, Boston'' - which could have been, if the commenter had any brain cells worth calling them that, ''stay smart, Beantowners without-much-of-a-clue - duh!'' for the only way anyone is going to boo a guy who is down and bleeding on the ice is if you are a clueless, witless, useless invertebrate that doesn't know jack squat about anything! How could that moron even be let on the NHL.com forums in order to spread such drivel - and how is he allowed to comment on those boards, via Facebook, no less! It boggles the mind: the NHL and FB, both, must be hiring vegetative webmasters and the most obtuse message board moderators that okay the most idiotic comments to pass through and stay online too while they dutifully erase and deny access to anyone whose way with words greatly surpasses theirs and goes waaaaaaaay over their tiny petty little pinheads! It is either that or they deny you based upon your witty e-mail addy or username - but I'd say it is that!
What happened then, you wonder? Two or three Boston fans bothered to correct the moron and let him know that the Boston fans inside the TD Garden were indeed booing the ref for whistling the play to stop when Boston could have scored - which would not have been the first time that they'd allow a goal to go in despite someone being down, y'know! They just could not do it for Boston I suppose...
What's that - you doubt the Bruins could have scored on that play?
You silly fools!
You really think that Crawford is that good? Crawford is no better than Reimer, Lundqvist and Vokoun who all went down before Boston! He could have and should have been decimated in the first period alone - the Bruins so dominated that period that, with any help at all from that bitch (Lady Luck, again) they could have come out of it with a three or five-goal lead instead of just one score!
Corey Crawford was cleanly and clearly beaten on two David Krejci plays that would normally have resulted in goals for the star forward in this crucial game 6.
It is oh-so-very uncharacteristic of Krejci to miss such golden opportunities for easy goals: one hit the crossbar and skipped ahead of the net but it is the second one that is the most disappointing one of all. Brad Marchand fed him a perfect pass and David Krejci was behind both the lone defenseman there and Crawford too: meaning that Krejci had a wide open net into which he normally redirects the puck and makes it 2-0 for Boston. Somehow, though, it didn't go in, this time. Rather, the puck went vertical, way over the net and into the stands even. The Ghost of Glen Wesley was in the house...
Despite the astonishing and undeserved loss, the Boston Bruins laid claim to two out of three stars when the game was all done - and they had been officially robbed of victory on that night. Truly small consolation indeed - but it is at least that and it is an undeniable bit of evidence that they should have won that game and forced a seventh and decisive Game 7 just like they did in 2011...
And with such evenly-matched teams playing with the same exact desire for victory, anything could have happened in Game 7 - and Boston could have done it again...
They'll do it again - in 2014. :-)
The THREE STARS OF THE GAME for Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals were...
1. Milan LUCIC ( 1 goal, 2 shots, 1 hit, -1, Time On Ice: 19:20)
2. Duncan KEITH (0 goals, 1 assist, 2 shots, 1 hit, -1, Time On Ice: 28:51)
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