...

 

FOR THE FIRST THREE GAMES, 

THE OLD SEA DOG OF A SAILOR MAN 

WAS NO MATCH FOR THE BEAR - really... 

... just like we did against the CRAPITALS: 

we did win - 2 out of 3!  

But then, starting with game 4, that question 

"who's there" - aimed at the Bruins, of course - 

began to bear (no pun intended - really, NO) 

a somber connotation... As the club was clearly not 

the same that it had been during the first 8 games 

it played in these playoffs at that point... 

(Eight games and six of them were victories!) 

ALAS... Games 4 and 5 were clearly 

undermined by BAD REFEREEING. 

NHL so-called "officials" were crappy 

penalizing the Bruins for retaliating 

but not punishing the Islanders for instigating! 

This... was how the Islanders scored most of their goals. 

ALAS... there were others factors as well. 

The second line of Krejci, Hall and Smith 

were not producing as much as they had 

in the first round... 

AND... Tuukka Rask. 

He kept starting and playing 

in spite of an injury...?!? 

MY GOD... 

They had the perfect solution 

to prevail against both the 

damnable (not seafaring at all) Islanders 

AND the biased referees... 

And it was to... 

SWAYMAN had defeated the Islanders TWICE  

at the end of the regular campaign - 

giving the Bruins confidence that the early season 

difficulties encountered against them 

were only a damn FLUKE... 

And the Bruins could BEAT them INDEED. 

They certainly entered the series 

and started that series that way; 

with the decisive victory 

that should have set the tone for the whole thing... 

But that was without factoring in 

league interference, via their corrupt zebras... 

AND a torn ligament to their goaltender - 

the one they are keen on using the most 

because he is signed to the contract he is signed to...! 

Thus, in the end, Swayman didn't start a single game 

- he could have come in and saved the day for Boston - 

but he did not play anything more than a period 

in a game that was already practically out of reach... 

We needed two wins - he had had two, against them - 

but,in the end, we did not even give one shot... 

And Captain Highliner stole the series. 

WITH TWO EMPTY-NET GOALS!!! 

NIGHT (game 6...) 

and DAY (game 1... duh) 

Feeling sad... for Brad. 

It Is Providence!

 

It isn't just the Boston Bruins having a great year, 

Boston Red Sox resurging,  

New England Revolution consistently dominating, 

New England Patriots reloading 

and Boston Celtics showing signs 

of a burgeoning dynasty 

about to blossom there...! 

THE PROVIDENCE BRUINS 

ARE CHAMPIONS, TOO! 

...a pair of goaltenders 

are in great part responsible 

for all that success 

and one of them is 

JEREMY SWAYMAN 

THE FUTURE 

OF THE BOSTON 

CHAMPION 

BRUINS! 

700 Club

 

Whatever happens, number 63... 

Whether you put the last nails in the coffin 

of the Stanley Cup Final opponent 

-again- like you did in 2011... 

Or not... 

IT WAS A GREAT SEASON, MAN 

THANK YOU 

BRAT!

 

...really? It was Brad's birthday?

Well... That was a great way to celebrate, man! 

2021: Round One

 

so... it has begun! 

and one must say... it is going grrrrrreat! 

55, actually ~ and counting! 

(the only other notable difference between the two goals 

being that Orr's sealed a conquest of the Cup 

-against the slithery St-Louis Blues- 

while Marchand's goal merely tied the first round 

series with cantankerous Crapitals...)

BERGY would get the clinching GOALS:

...which would lead to this touching moment: 

The new captain - with our former captain. 

The passing of the torch is official, now. 

Bye Bye team of crapital jerks 

(Orlov, Wilson, Hathaway... OVIE!) 

The resemblance is uncanny - indeed! 

Comparing the two captains 

told you everything you needed to know 

about who deserved it more; 

verily, it was like comparing 

JESUS to BARABBAS... 

AQUAMAN to a SUB-MARINER... 

Ty Berius to ILL-Eagle!!! 

(nice collage(s) by one Scott MacMillan, by the way; 

he adorned a Facebook group with them 

- a group that is chock-full of characters, 

as it is... And here are just a few...!)

Bidie...

Mary...

Rusty...?

AND, IN A COUPLE OF SEASONS NOW 

PLAYED UNDER THIS SPECIAL PROTOCOL 

AMIDST ALL THAT IS GOING ON... 

Every little triumph is amplified; 

individual achievements could have been 

more than enough... 

BUT IT IS A TEAM SPORT: 

AND WE WANT THE CUP! 

THREE.

MORE.

ROUNDS.

#BostonChampion

Lake Tahoe

 

Ohh...

IT IS TOO LATE to collect a bunch of 

VIRTUAL CARDS... 

and MAYBE win that prize pack! 

...of course, those "Digital Card Packs" (DCPs...?) 

were not even pictures taken at Lake Tahoe at all... 

They couldn't be; having been taken, so obviously, 

even before the pandemic started...!!! 

And this thing now - the Digital Card - is never 

going to raise in value like the good old-fashioned 

collectible trading card of old...!!! 

What are you trying to pull, Upper Deck... huh?!? 

Virtual wool over the fanboys eyes...!!! 

But that's another story - extemporized 

on another blog, too...! 

The Boston Bruins dominated at Lake Tahoe; 

Trent Frederic got his first NHL goal 

while David Pastrnak got his 10th NHL hat trick 

In the end, the Bruins trounced the pesky Flyers 7-3 

- and there was nothing Gritty, Philly Phanatic or anybody else 

could possibly do about it!!! Wooooo! LOL 

NOTHING BUT GREAT MEMORIES 

FROM LAKE TAHOE! 

We don't need you, Upper Deck!