Fraser, another guy in the mold of Bruins legend Cam Neely (so was Glen Murray and so is Milan Lucic!) immediately made an impact as he made his presence felt BIG TIME, in overtime, winning game four for the Bruins! Then, in game five, the line he made up with veteran Loui Eriksson and wunderkind Carl Soderberg rocked and socked the damn Habs, leading Boston to a convincing, dominating 4-2 victory. (Mind you, the Boston Bruins have the hab-it (no pun intended) of being dominating even when they come up on the short end of the hockey stick, in the end, on the quite damnable -then- scoreboard! But that's another story, too...)
Here is the real Chantel of all of sports to tell us about the exploits of present Providence Bruins star and future Boston Bruins star winger Matt Fraser along with a full game 4 recap...
Oops... Video not running? Not embeddable here, after all?
NHL is not compatible with BLOGGER - boo-hoo!
Click on the link below (the pic below!) in that case...!
WOW!
For years the morons over at RDS have made the claim
that their chick, very-blonde Chantal Maccabée,
was THE foremost female in the wild, wild world
of sports - of hockey, most particularly!
(Pushing rival TVA Sports to find clones of the 50-plus broad!)
Whaddayaknow: she was but an imitator
(or a precursor, at best)
of the real deal: Chantel McCabe!
Her only flaw: Hurricane Hockey.
However, she's younger, smarter and sounds so much better
than poor old hag Maccabée...! Any day!
(Do you know what a maccabé is, anyway?)
(One thing is for sure: she's not one of those!)
Flash-forward a couple of days into the future: because Blogger is good to do that, at least! Matt Fraser is playing in his second NHL playoffs game ever: and dominating! His line leads the Bruins to victory (as, alas, the funk that stalwarts such as Brad Marchand, Milan Lucic and David Krejci are mired in continues - two out of three of them had to be secretly playing while injured; as per wartime custom (and by ''wartime'' we mean the playoffs!) injuries will not be disclosed and anyone willing to continue to play throughout relatively painful but, also relatively, ''minor'' injuries, will be allowed to do so - if their role is primordial in the team's well-being, that is!) This is just like Cam The Man Neely used to do himself, back in the day: anything for the team...!) The depth of the Boston Bruins comes through, though - and the Bruins win, big time, to finally take the lead in this series, 3-2.
The adversary's P.K. (not penalty kill) and his diving or taunting antics were finally addressed, too, in the most innocuous way they could have been - with a water-bottle squirt! And this simple gesture of appropriate retaliation had to cost Boston's enforcer, Shawn Thornton, close to three thousand bucks...?!? What the hell...?!?
In excess of $2800.00 for this ''crime against the CH''...?!?
Presposterous!
he was on the ice for practically the entire
last 5 minutes of his team's well-deserved loss;
Shawn was doing him a favor!!!
Out of the kindness of a Bruin's heart...
(Exactly like every time Tuukka allows
a CH goal to slip in - it is a GIFT.
An undeserved gift, of course.
But that is, also, another story...)
Trying desperately to keep up that appearance of consistency, the NHL also fined goalie Henrik Lundqvist for doing the exact same thing: squirting Sid The Kid during a scrum around his net. Lundqvist was leaving the action though: Thornton was sitting on his bench and P.K. unwisely passed by too close... P.K. was, in fact, extremely lucky to be on the receiving end of life-sustaining H2O AND NOT A SOLID RIGHT HOOK! (Again: as he so deserved...) Lunqvist was fined even more for that: as he is a ''star goalie'' (that the Bruins had no problem beating in last year's playoffs and all throughout this season which saw the Boston Bruins crowned BEST TEAM IN THE LEAGUE with 117 points; one more than Anaheim!) and Thornton is just a tough, rugged fourth-liner... Henrik's royal fine was a whopping 5,000$...! In both cases the accusation is the same: ''unsportsmanlike conduct'' - WHAT A CROCK! As if P.K. and Sid The Kid's attitudes are anything remotely close to sportmanship and fair play, eh?
So-called reporters such as Mike Cole had fun writing that ''Shawn Thornton had a hearty laugh Saturday night; but it is probably safe to assume that he was less enthused on Sunday morning.'' HA. Never ''ass-ummmmme'' Mike! A veteran like Thornton saw this coming a mile away, surely - just like any futile attempt at hitting him that George Sparros might have made, were he in any condition to even play the game, the poor sourpuss...! The opposite point of view says that the gesture reeks of the lack of respect that the members of the Boston Bruins organization have, in general, towards the members of the Canadiens. Well, would you be inclined towards respecting an arch-rival that, just ten years ago, was considered a ''contender'' while you were still mired in a ''development stage'' that obviously bore fruit as you won the Stanley Cup in 2011 and could have won it, in fact, as early as 2009, the year that you started these playoffs by ousting those very same Canadiens in four straight games. Shawn Thornton has nothing but visceral contempt and hatred for the enemy: and this is the way it should be (B) of course! Maybe Mike Cole hasn't got a clue about that, hmm? After close to a decade of putting up with the Habs ''tradition'' isn't it legitimate to think that the positions have shifted completely and, now, the only real power resides in the Hub of Hockey, while the stronghold (in total and complete illegal monopoly, as it used to be in the '50s) that the wretched town of ''Mont-réal'' (and it isn't even a mountain, that ''mont'' there, much less ''royal'' either: it's just a glorified hill!) used to have on this sport is gone: thus, these Scabs now should truly be worthless indeed. Yet, these Scabs, fueled by their envy, jealousy and blind hatred of a superior eastern seaboard city -beautiful Boston- dare... they dare challenge it, steal victory from it, steal what is rightfully Boston's and not theirs! (They're so dumb they don't even get it when ''Boston Strong'' signs are given! Pathetic Habitants mentality - or lack thereof!) Hence, once Shawn The Enforcer Thornton succumbed to temptation and did what he did to the most outspoken of the enemy's weapons, he knew what was coming his way. The amount ($2,820 dollars and 52 cents, exactly - preferably paid via debit, surely, so that the NHL can get those extra two cents, on Canadian soil anyways...) was the absolute maximum fine Thornton could have gotten under the most recent collective bargaining agreement, still in effect today, quite obviously. Shawn Thornton wouldn't waste his breath discussing the largest fine he got in a long, long time; but Mike Cole is available for questions (HA!) - and so I will keep this link up here, just so that you can go annoy him a bit...
Sometimes I wonder on whose side NESN really is on...!
At least they don't mix up sports
and the sacred -
like those morons up north
will do aaaaaaaaall the time:
take a look...
And yet - all of us know
-those of us in the know, that is-
that whenever Montréal wins
there is some dark evil force behind it
not anything divine one iota...!
But -again- that's another story...
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