Lightning goalie Dwayne Roloson. Phil Carpenter, The Gazette
Tampa Bay scored three times in 85 seconds to take a first-period lead they wouldn’t relinquish.
And the one and only MAB blasted the third-period power-play goal that killed all hopes of a Boston comeback.
Tampa Bay is undefeated with Bergeron in the lineup during the playoffs.
Dwayne Roloson has won eight consecutive playoff games – first 41-year-old goaltender to do so since Jacques Plante in 1969.
And the Bruins end a 5-2 game two men short for trying to goon Victor Hedman.
As my man Dave Stubbs Tweeted: Horton & Lucic vs Hedman & Moore. Boychuk & Campbell vs Spacek & Pyatt. Crap now, crap then
Classy team.
And just like they were against the Canadiens, Bruins hopeless on the PP: 0-for-4.
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MAB,MAB,MAB World!!!
hahahahahhahaha. MAB!!!!
Hahaha, the dagger!
MAB!!!!
MAB
Boychuk is an eejit. And RDS guys think Vinny should get a penalty for… for what?
Man, if the lighting win the cup….the city of Montreal might just explode. We’ll be hearing about Boucher all summer.
That’s ok, at least he’ll have earned it. I mean if he wins the cup in his first pro year he deserves to be talked about.
We’ll be hearing about how we should have kept him instead of Martin.
Who cares? We’ve been hearing it all year, nothing new.
And we would have been wrong.
We already had Carbo on salary, and JM signed long term. You’re going to fire JM, have TWO ex coaches on the payroll, and hand the most high-pressure job in the NHL to a guy with no NHL experience– not even as an assistant?
Not to take anything away from Boucher, but he has been parachuted into a situation where he has killer firepower in Vinny, st louis, stamkos, hedman etc, in a place where there is ZERO hockey pressure. He gets props as a motivator and for getting his guys ready for the playoffs. But he knew enough to turn down the Columbus opportunity (a thankless job) to take this one. Smart guy indeed.
You can spin it all you want. Gainey has made some big blunders. I won’t blame him with the Boucher thing…but if he signs Lemaire…then Boucher is our head coach this season. The fact that Gauthier was named the GM without even talking to Yzerman (who would have taken the job) is a little disappointing but expected from management who makes mistake after mistake.
Absolutely right
Mike Boone
Hockey Inside/Out blogger
Gazette City columnist
mboone@montrealgazette.com
Well get ready for it.. especially from team 990 Melnick LOL. And you know something.. there should be a post-discussion cause there were numerous signs that HABS needed to make some bold and imgainative adjustments to keep Boucher.
We cant keep dismissing every bad or non-decision from the HABS as ‘luck of the draw’ or inevitable.
I don’t get this we-let-Boucher-go horseshite. The Habs organization handpicked this guy, groomed him, gave him his shot. They already had a coach signed to a long term contract with the big team, who had just brought the team to the third round. Boucher got an offer, the Habs did the classy thing and did not stand in his way. He had made the most of his opportunity. I fail to see how this detracts from the Habs. If anything, it proves that they groom excellent people within the organization.
You say the habs organization ‘hand picked and groomed this guy’.
If the entire hockey world was lauding this guy who was in your organization whom you handpicked, wouldnt it have been in the organizations long term interest to ensure that Boucher stayed in Montreal…. one way or another. There were many alternatives to letting him go.
“They already had a coach signed to a long term contract with the big team, who had just brought the team to the third round”.
Any true evaluation of that season and how we squeaked into the playoffs, while giving some credit to JM, would show that it was a once-in-a-lifetime goaltending performance which was mainly responsible for the playoff run.
It is the same false satisfaction I am hearing from so many fans who seem gaudy that we took Boston to 7 games this year as they deem it a successful year. Goody Goody! We made the pundits who predicted we would be dismantled by Bruins eat crow. Now we can sit back and watch the for another year.
When all is said and done, this team results wise, regressed. And everyone seems happy.
Realistically this season was marked by many long losing streaks which the coach could never bring to a halt. In fact the losses in game 3,4 and 5 were just another losing streak that matched the pattern of the entire season.
When you take into account the on-ice play during the past two years, the mediocre history of JM re big games and big success, and the consensus that developed around the league re Boucher’s coaching upside… Bocher’s loss should have been avoided.
Wow, where to begin? How many factual inaccuracies can one person correct on six glasses of wine and with a cranky 10 month old cutting teeth randomly hitting keys?
The ONLY alternative to letting him go was to block other teams from discussing things with him- which simply does not happen on ANY team at this level, because none of the teams want to be pegged as roadblocks. We have a head coach in JM, a great assistant in Muller.
As for regression, I’m calling balls to that. Our record was better this year than last year, despite losing almost all of our defensive corps and a key budding power forward. We positively coasted into the playoffs.
I think you meant “giddy”.
As for JMs record in big games, as far as I am concerned anyone who was paying attention will agree that JM outcoached Julien by a light year. It wasn’t even close. But too many injuries are too many injuries. PLEASE. Look at all the guys getting bits sewn back on in the off season, Eller being the most recent. Picture the whole Habs team, healthy, playing those Boston chumps. NO WAY that series goes FIVE games even. Pff.
Call me an apologist or a polyanna if you will. But I think that anyone who thinks Boucher would have done better under the same circumstances is on CRACK.
Bob Cole sounds kinda upset that Boston can’t get anything going.
Roloson is a better goaltender than Thomas.
Rolly has been phenomenal these playoffs.
The way to defend/attack against the flying T is to use the flying X.
In layman’s terms, the way to defend/attack against the 1-3-1 is to use the 2-1-2.
Think about it!
The way to defend/attack against an HI/O s-disturber is with a Ference Finger. Think about that
***Subbang Baby!!!***
I wish Andrei Kostitsyn was more like Marty St Louis.
5’8?
No. Chorske meant that he spoke French cause then RDS wouldnt dump on him as much.
More French.
Hahahahahahaahahahahaha
From Quebec?
***Subbang Baby!!!***
Now YOU’RE scooping me too!
You’re an easy mark.
***Subbang Baby!!!***
I dont think enough has been made of Vincent Lecavalier’s ‘transformation’ under Boucher/Yzerman. This reminds me of Yzerman’s transformation under Bowman.
One reason why I picked Tampa as cup winners.
Nothing’s been made of it because it’s imaginary. Lecavalier has turned it on for the playoffs but he was garbage from October to February.
quit scooping my posts, berkshire
Because Jacques Martin would’ve gotten so much more out of Lecavalier, like he got out of, let’s say, Gomez for example.
I’m going to just repost whatever you post for the next week out of spite.
See that’s my point. He started off the season as a marginal player and yet when Yzerman spoke of him it wa swith patience and Lecavalier is now filling the role Yzerman did under Scotty Bowman.
You basically agreed with me.. there has been a transformation.
Not really, considering Lecavalier has done all this before in his career.
Lecavalier, marginal? urgh
I basically am NOT agreeing with you. I am pointing out that there have been greater “transformations” worth discussing. FOr instance, Pleks “transformation” into one of the best two-way forwards in the league. Under JM.
I don’t get this mad rush to crawl up Boucher and Stevie Y’s asses. They are having a great run this year, end of story. We had a great run last year, with half the horsepower.
Uh, really? 50 ish points, -5 on the year? Pleks finished ahead of him in the scoring race. HAH. I don’t think enough has been made of Pleks transformation under Martin.
I really dont see what one has to do with the other. I didnt even have JM or Pleks in mind when I posted re Lecavalier.
Good things happen when a team wins the faceoffs, Habs definitely need to address this for next season.
The Boston crowd is only loud when they are winning. Right now, it sounds like Wednesday night in Atlanta in there.
Hah, just as I post this, they wake up.
Dont see Boucher doing the JM lockdown Boone. He tried that in last year’s AHL playoffs game 7 and blew the game. I followed the play by play of that game and even the announcer remarked on it.
More Twitter fun..This from Mitch Melnick…
HunterZThompson Mitch Melnick
Brad Marchand is a much bigger douche than PK Subban.
Geez, Mitch…You’re implying PK is a douche?
Milbury, rare as it is, made a valid point about not playing Datsyuk in the final minute
Datsyuk had played about 6 of the last 7 minutes before that. He was destroyed tired. It would have been useless to have him on the ice.
Look at Datsyuks ice time in the lat ten minutes. I’ll bet that poor guy is STILL sore from the triple shifting he got.
Rule 1 is that Milbury is full of it. There is no rule 2.
Am I seeing things or did Mike Milbury just try to tell Mike Babcock how to coach?
bahahahahaha. CBC at its best.
Mike Milbury is a jackass. I can’t believe my tax dollars keep these yahoos on the air.
Luckily I don’t even have to file a tax return, according to James anyway.
“According to James” ? I never said anything about your tax return?
Different James.
Didn’t even know your name was James! Haha sorry bud, I’m talking about JD_
Apparently Recchi has his own connections in the medical field, especially neurology!
I’m guessing Boston Globe’s Kevin Paul Dupont won’t be writing another indignant column about the Boston Bruins diving, the same way he wrote about PK Subban and the Habs.
3 biggest ” tools” in the Boston toolbox? Anyone?
When is the league going to make adjustments to the skate blades to prevent stick blades from inadvertently getting lodged in them?
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Elohim:”Let us make an Adam in our image and after our likeness.” – Genesis 1:26
“We don’t see things as they are, but as we are.” – Anais Nin
What do you mean by ‘league’?
Are you for real?
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Elohim:”Let us make an Adam in our image and after our likeness.” – Genesis 1:26
“We don’t see things as they are, but as we are.” – Anais Nin
Linesman and the Refs giving Bawston all the breaks. Sound familiar? Bush league NHL at work.
Guys, listen, the mighty Boston Bruins do NOT dive, ok? Only dirty, little despicable hockey teams like our Habs do things like that. The Bruins play the right way all the time and never break the rules or cross the line. They’re god’s team don’tcha know?
Because Don Cherry’s tie say’s so.
I read that in Stone Cold Steve Austin’s voice for some reason.
I’ve had a big crush on that Asian lady behind the Bruins bench for years…It makes looking at Claude Julien barely tolerable….
Wow. Now after seeing Marchand smash his stick like an idiot, I see why he hates PK. PK must taunt him with big words….that he can’t understand. I hope Marchand knows enough to pay his cable bill on time.
Lucic and Kaberle utterly useless so far in the post-season.
Geez, Recchi is going bald. I wonder if Dr. Mulder can recommend a good hair transplant surgeon for him?
The first thing Mulder would tell him is, “Mark, if you don’t stop it you’ll go bald.”
“My face is my mask,” Gump Worsley
Theodore can recommend him some propecia.
He’s Dr. Recchi — he don’t need no other stinkin’ doctor..
He’s not balding, he’s just exaggerating the extent of his hair loss.
If he wins the Cup, he can use his bonus for a hair weave, ala Brian Bellows in 1993…Bald in the Cup picture…in June…Full Head of Hair at training camp. It was enough to make Dave Van Horne shed a tear….
Lucic is such a tool. Love it!!!
Best MAB has looked in any game I have seen him. What’s up?
I’ll give him a 9.5 on that dive
DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Downie robbed!
Just joined in. Still in sourpuss habs fan frame of mind but the hockey is good.
you can see boston misses bergeron pretty bad, faceoffs have been weak for them. and now a penalty on one. maybe the habs should get a faceoff guy for next season, haven’t had one since yanic perreault.
I can’t get enough of the Cam Neely PO’ed shots. It’s the “little” things I guess…
I get a kick at how completely unprofessional he looks. Ill fitting suits, messed up hair… It’s like he’s trying to channel Brian Burke but has none of the gravitas. And I don’t even like Burke.
Lol, good on Malone for trying to bail out Brewer.
It was actually Malone who should have been penalized.
Mike Boone
Hockey Inside/Out blogger
Gazette City columnist
mboone@montrealgazette.com
@Boone…They’re facing an opponent that plays a similar style to Montreal’s. Tampa has more depth, three lines going and are healthy. The only question mark they have is the geezer in net.
The 1-3-1 is not the 1-4.
Must be a stiff breeze in the Gahden tonight….
Bruins falling left, right and centre at the slightest hint of contact.
GET UP!!
All this would be a lot more fun if the Habs were playing. sighh
Hear hear.
I wonder if Jack Edwards is saying anything about that massive dive by Boston?
Od Tim Thomas?
Downie can’t help being what he is.
Guess we will be hearing plenty of whining about diving from Boston tomorrow.
And the refs blow an icing call to favour the Bruins, how surprising.
Boston D is so disorganized. I can’t believe these chumps swept Philly. Or rather, I can’t believe those chumps in Philly got swept by these clods.
I can’t believe our depleted Habs lost to them.
Poor Bob.
A likely paltry Canadian audience tonight and a game almost over in the first.
Broonz finally score and he goes full-out Count Floyd desperately tryin’ to pump up another upcomin’ dud on Monster Chiller Horror Theater.
“Stay tuned, folks! Aaaaaaooooooooooooo!!!”
Hahaha. And every time Lucic goes after the puck, Bob shouts LEEEEERRRROOY JEEENKIIINS
Hey Exit716, I don’t think that’s a Pit Bull, it’s a Bull Terrier. I think there’s a difference.
Big difference. Totally different dogs.
Aren’t all pitbull type dogs banned?
No, Ontario banned American Staff Terriors (pit bulls). Which I don’t agree with. Ban the deed, not the breed.
Gotcha. Still though, having the dog lunge at the camera in the opening segment is highly irresponsible….it creates the wrong impression..I used to own a Rottweiler btw.
Huge difference
Mike Boone
Hockey Inside/Out blogger
Gazette City columnist
mboone@montrealgazette.com
I’m not even watching NESN, and I can hear Edwards screaming, “DIVER, Diver, the Boston Tea Party, Diver!” lol
If he only knew what a douche he really is eh
“If the Bruins played the Taliban, I’d root for the Taliban”
Edwards was playing with himself on the Bergeron call.
“My face is my mask,” Gump Worsley
Bury one here boys.
Reading a bunch of TB articles today, watching the game… A thought reoccurred to me (I chuckled at the thought around trade deadline) that it would be scary/entertaining/slightly awesome if Brad Richards goes back to Tampa Bay. With only 11 players under contract for next year and 22.8M in capspace… and Richards likely to make no more than his current contract on a yearly basis, he can fit for sure. Stamkos, Bergenheim, Brewer, and maybe Gagne are their biggest U/RFAs to fit into their payroll.
He wont be coming to MTL, so TB sounds like a nice place to me for Richards.
From what I’ve read, he might go to New York.
someone needs to break marchands nose already
Sir Alex Ferguson is the closest thing to me since me!!!
Is Manchester United great or what? One game against Barcelona for all the marbles in Europe. I can’t wait!
Is that Mad Dog Vachon on the Lightning bench?
This would be far more interesting if it were Habs vs Bolts. *sigh*
Tell me about it, Chorske!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Brian Kilrea used to wear a leather jacket behind the bench like Bep Guidolin.
oh my, just found out about the boogey man, rest in peace derek, and best wishes to your family
I shake my head in disbelief that we let Dominic Moore go. (as well as Guy Boucher)
The bottom line is that Harvard IS a better university than Princeton!
Cherry trying to pretend that he is somehow connected to the Mississauga St. Mikes.
When Ontario decided to ban Pitbulls where was Don Cherry?
On the sidelines, keeping his overpaid yap shut. Mind you, he shows a pitbull lunging at people during his opening segment…What a clown.
In all fairness, that dog is a bull terrier I believe.
Good period of hockey. This’ll be a great series. I can get behind this southern version of the Habs.
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Elohim:”Let us make an Adam in our image and after our likeness.” – Genesis 1:26
“We don’t see things as they are, but as we are.” – Anais Nin
@Boone: They should have asked Cherry to add 1+3+1. It was his downfall!
“Sensational”
That was a cruddy goal by Roloson.
It was a great goal by Seguin
If Price let that goal in he’d be crucified. Soft and along the ice through the legs. Pathetic.
I watch RDS even though I can’t understand French:)
Tough day so far for PK haters…
Mike Richards had his cable cut off for not paying the bills….
Tim “Floppy” Thomas gets scorched for three goals in the first period.
hey what did Thomas say about PK that everyones talking about? I must have missed it… Although i can sorta guess the type of crap that comes outta that pathetic excuse of a team they call the goons or the bruins or something
He called PK “a travesty to the game”.
http://bigbadblog.weei.com/sports/boston/hockey/bruins/2011/04/28/tim-thomas-on-mm-p-k-subbans-act-a-travesty-to-the-game/
Turning over to another channel can’t watch Cherry
Jeremy Roenick on Versus ain’t much better!
At least Roenick played this century and played more than one game 60 years ago.
Fair points!
Would a Bolts/Canucks final be the longest distance over which the Cup has been contested?
I think the longest, distance wise, was Montreal vs Kings in ’93
Mapquest.com states Vancouver to Tampa is 3240.46 miles
Montreal to Los Angeles is 2851.48 miles.
So yes, I believe it would be the farthest distance for a cup final if it were to become Tampa vs. Canucks.
T Bay has been pretty sketchy in their own end but they’re doing fine in the bruins end!
CBC definitely gooin fans.
Cherry, Stock, Milbury. What gave it away?
It’s just so laughable is all.
Fer sure. CBC has become a sad joke compared to what it was in its glory days. I feel blessed that I’m a quebecer and I understand french enough that I can watch RDS when CBC pisses me off.
I’m unilingual english from Freddy Beach New Brunswick and I watch RDS. What does that tell ya?
I hear ya, I’m an anglophone who’s family is from Nova Scotia. I just happened to be born and raised in Montreal because my father got a good job there and left the maritimes.
Don’t forget galley!
Great Effort Boys, PG get to work this Summer!
Reality check #1… oh yeah, Dwayne Roloson ain’t Carey Price.
“If the Bruins played the Taliban, I’d root for the Taliban”
MAB is such a liability on defence.
Bob Cole was sounding all depressed and then woke up with that Boston goal. Is it any clearer which team he cheers for.
Tyler Seguin. *sigh* Why can’t the Habs have one of those?
Leave Bob alone, I like him, and truth be told, he doesn’t know who the hell he’s rooting for cuz he doesn’t really know who the hell is out there…
“If the Bruins played the Taliban, I’d root for the Taliban”
Dammit, now we have a game. I’m going to go ahead and blame MAB, he wasn’t the D that got dangled, but he was on the ice lol.
Leaf fans can enjoy that goal!
Great Effort Boys, PG get to work this Summer!
Seguin denuded the Bolts d-man on that play. Good on him.
Yep, turned them inside out