Bruins Weirdos

[flyingelvii]

Talk about a situation that his hit a brick wall.

Steve Chiasson ones are good as well if Carolina is involved.

[Dick Rosenthal]

Well played. I am also partial to Konstantinov jokes and jokes about Ken Daneyko's substance abuse.

[flyingelvii]

Well played. I am also partial to Konstantinov jokes and jokes about Ken Daneyko's substance abuse.

Hell you can apply the substance abuse rule to pretty much any player. There are some pretty good stories about Roenick and Chelios out there.

Wings just won their 20th straight home game. Absolutely absurd.

[Dick Rosenthal]

True enough, but living in NYC the hockey beat writers were forever jamming the story of what a sterling character Kenny Daneyko had and I thoroughly enjoyed his fall from grace.

My new project is Brendan Shannahan. One would think the league might find a better disciplinarian then the guy who stole his best friend's wife--after said best friend let him move into his house. My favorite part of the story is that Shanny tried to tell people that the whore came to him because Janney was hitting her. Really? Craig Janney is the most docile person to ever play in the NHL and knowing his whore ex-wife it would be far more likely that she beat him than vice versa.

Jeff Carter is rightfully despised for fucking a teammate's wife, but Shanny is lauded as a character guy. Then again Janney ended up with a Penthouse Pet and Shanny has a typical BC chick with an ever-widening ass so Janney might feel pretty good about things right about now.

[Endless Mike]

77!

[flyingelvii]

True enough, but living in NYC the hockey beat writers were forever jamming the story of what a sterling character Kenny Daneyko had and I thoroughly enjoyed his fall from grace.

My new project is Brendan Shannahan. One would think the league might find a better disciplinarian then the guy who stole his best friend's wife--after said best friend let him move into his house. My favorite part of the story is that Shanny tried to tell people that the whore came to him because Janney was hitting her. Really? Craig Janney is the most docile person to ever play in the NHL and knowing his whore ex-wife it would be far more likely that she beat him than vice versa.

Jeff Carter is rightfully despised for fucking a teammate's wife, but Shanny is lauded as a character guy. Then again Janney ended up with a Penthouse Pet and Shanny has a typical BC chick with an ever-widening ass so Janney might feel pretty good about things right about now.

I was unaware of the Shanabanner's transgressions. Would love to see him make a video about that one. "As you can see, the principal point of my stay with Craig was to bed his wife."

The Hartnell-Carter story is still my favorite with the Brodeur one coming in second, though I'm sure I'm missing plenty.

And if only Teddy was here to see the fruits of his original goal. As has been often chanted, another round of "Thank you Kessel" is in store.

[bignick33]

Marshmont!

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[bignick33]

Marshmont!

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[Dick Rosenthal]

Anyone watching this game want to dispute the fact that Lucic is a fucking koont? Hot and bothered to fight McDonough--who I am pretty sure I could beat up--but runs like a koont when Prust steps up and asks him if he wants to go. I think they gave him an unsportsmanlike conduct just because he was so feuggety during that exchange. And then it bites the Bruins in the ass as the 4 on 4 leads to a Ranger goal. Even Jack Edwards appears to be disgusted with Lucic.

With that said, I'd love to have the Brat on the Rangers. His speed is filthy.

Also, if Lundqvist isn't the Hart/Vezina Trophy winner and Girardi isn't the Norris Trophy winner, there ought to be a shit storm.

[flyingelvii]

Anyone watching this game want to dispute the fact that Lucic is a fucking koont? Hot and bothered to fight McDonough--who I am pretty sure I could beat up--but runs like a koont when Prust steps up and asks him if he wants to go. I think they gave him an unsportsmanlike conduct just because he was so feuggety during that exchange. And then it bites the Bruins in the ass as the 4 on 4 leads to a Ranger goal. Even Jack Edwards appears to be disgusted with Lucic.

With that said, I'd love to have the Brat on the Rangers. His speed is filthy.

Also, if Lundqvist isn't the Hart/Vezina Trophy winner and Girardi isn't the Norris Trophy winner, there ought to be a shit storm.

Was that at the start of the third? Missed the first five minutes so can't really comment on that one. The Staal incident earlier was well deserved ire IMO.

Lundqvist, like Cam Ward, owns the B's. I think they said he has five SOs against them in his career coming into this game.

And the Rangers are pretty much the only Eastern Conference team that scares me from the B's perspective since they essentially play the same style. Going to be interesting to see what the B's do at the deadline. There's been murmurs about Knuble but it looks like they need something a little more. They've been off ever since Horton was hurt and Peverly was forced to the first line. Completely destroyed the flow of the third line, which was just getting into a groove chemistry-wise, since Caron is probably a year away, at least.

Edit: Joe Corvo deserves to die a long and slow death. I hate him.

Edit 2: Lundqvist is 18-5-2 against the B's with 6 SOs and a .950 sv %. Ridiculous.

[Dick Rosenthal]

Yeah. Start of the third. About three minutes in. There was a tangle down along the bench. Lucic went after McDonough (who had previously scored and was playing a strong game to that point--coming off a strong game as well). I get why he would do that, makes perfect sense. But then Prust steps between Lucic and McDonough and, if my lip reading is any good, said something to the effect of "wanna go bitch?" Lucic stepped behind two of his teammates and skated towards the bench while barking at Prust. You could literally see the reaction of the other B's on the bench. Julien was clearly pissed and one of the B's was in Lucic's ear as he was skated off to the penalty box. About 30 seconds later the Rangers ran a perfect tic-tac-toe 4 pass advance that left Thomas naked and forced to pick his poison on what was a 2 on 0 in front of crease. You or I could have buried it.

Joe Corvo is an awful human being, but I suppose he and Lucic can trade stories about women they have punched in the face. Is Corvo a filthy Serb as well?

[flyingelvii]

I don't think so but he is this:

[claver2010]

Excellent playoff type game for the Rangers.

Starts with Lundqvist between the pipes, he gives you more than a shot every night. Add in amazing team defense, that jackass Edwards was commenting on it the entire night that everyone has bought into the idea on D and blocking shots. It made it tough for the Bs to get many good looks. Add in opportunistic offense (gorgeous powerplay goal, lucky bounce, and ill timed jump by the Bs on 4 on 4) bam 3-0.

As you said earlier, the sooner Lucic suffers a severe spinal cord injury the better.

Yeah Marchand just keeps coming every shift, him and Callahan got into it a little in the first. I can't stand him but he just never stops, kudos for him.

[Dick Rosenthal]

And that is why the Rick Nash thing is stupid. This team is built right now for the playoffs. Last night was basically a perfect road game and the exact type of game Stanley Cup winners play. I would have thought the Rangers would have learned during the Jaromir Jagr/Czechmate era of five years ago that being a high scoring team doesn't matter much when the whistles get swallowed during the playoffs. It is far more preferrable to be a team that is comfortable in a 1-0 game then being a team that needs to score 4 to assure a win.

[claver2010]

Oh Marchand

[flyingelvii]

It looked like he hit him in the ass from the video I watched on my phone but who knows. Of course there was no injury or bounty called on him by the Habs coach (doubly ironic that a Canucks coach made such a comment...must not remember Marc Crawford and his impending trial) so who knows. Taking injury into effect is completely stupid in about 95 percent of the cases but that's a rant for another day. It's not a players fault that, say, Andrei Markova is made from tissue paper.

[claver2010]

It looked like he hit him in the ass from the video I watched on my phone but who knows. Of course there was no injury or bounty called on him by the Habs coach (doubly ironic that a Canucks coach made such a comment...must not remember Marc Crawford and his impending trial) so who knows. Taking injury into effect is completely stupid in about 95 percent of the cases but that's a rant for another day. It's not a players fault that, say, Andrei Markova is made from tissue paper.

No suspension, not surprising.

Stupid play by a stupid player but I have a feeling you're right -much of these penalties are derived from severity of injury not consistency.

[flyingelvii]

It looked like he hit him in the ass from the video I watched on my phone but who knows. Of course there was no injury or bounty called on him by the Habs coach (doubly ironic that a Canucks coach made such a comment...must not remember Marc Crawford and his impending trial) so who knows. Taking injury into effect is completely stupid in about 95 percent of the cases but that's a rant for another day. It's not a players fault that, say, Andrei Markova is made from tissue paper.

No suspension, not surprising.

Stupid play by a stupid player but I have a feeling you're right -much of these penalties are derived from severity of injury not consistency.

I get using that criteria when it's a blatant hit with blatant intent to injure (Bertuzzi, McSorely, Hunter, to name a few) but most of the times it's a reactionary play that just happens and has a pretty bad consequence with minimal intent. It may be a stupid play but most with illegal hits, the guys aren't likely going into the hit thinking about injuring the guy. Hockey's played at an extremely fast pace and shit happens sometimes.

[flyingelvii]

FWIW Lucic was voted the toughest player in the CBC poll of a little over 300 players. He got 20%, Z got 17% and Thornton got 11%, with McGratten, Carkner and Parros rounding out the rest of top six.

[claver2010]

Bs @ Sabres tonight, could be some fireworks.

[flyingelvii]

Or more of Ryan Miller acting like a whiny little bitch. But that's come to be expected every game.

[bignick33]

The Sabres don't have any tough guys, so I don't expect much.

[flyingelvii]

Dustin Brown is on the market. Apparently the price is a young defenseman and a secondary scorer but I'm sure there's some wiggle room there. I will have a massive erection if the B's get him.

[claver2010]

Dustin Brown is on the market. Apparently the price is a young defenseman and a secondary scorer but I'm sure there's some wiggle room there. I will have a massive erection if the B's get him.

That's ghey

[bignick33]

Dustin Brown is on the market. Apparently the price is a young defenseman and a secondary scorer but I'm sure there's some wiggle room there. I will have a massive erection if the B's get him.

From ESPN Insider:

Forward Dustin Brown of the Los Angeles Kings is apparently on the market.

TSN's Bob McKenzie suggests the Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Edmonton Oilers, New Jersey Devils, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks are "amongst teams with high levels of interest in Brown."

In McKenzie's personal opinion, the Kings are willing to trade Brown because he's more valued as a player than as the team's captain. And it's only a matter of time before Mike Richards is anointed with the "C".

There's talk the Kings would want a solid, young defenseman and top-six forward in return.

ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun proposes the Kings could offer Brown to the Maple Leafs for defenseman Luke Schenn and forward Matt Frattin, but that price might be "too rich" for GM Brian Burke.

This makes sense following the Carter trade to LA last night.

[flyingelvii]

Fuck the Rangers but damn if that move Cally put on that baby maker of a goalie Miller wasn't nice.

[claver2010]

McDonagh made a lot of that play as well. Bringing attention towards the wing allowing Callahan 1 on 1.

Who needs Nash

[bignick33]

Bruins acquire Brian Rolston and Mike Mottau.

[claver2010]

Also Boychuck has a concussion

[bignick33]

Also Boychuck has a concussion

Bruins pick up Gren Zanon from Minnesota as a short-term replacement for Boychuk.