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June 13, 2011
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
Bill Lee neither forgives nor forgets.
posted by yerfatma at 03:30 PM on June 13, 2011
Roberto Luongo is stealing the Stanley Cup Finals.
Also, #%@ the Canadian Media and the rest of the haters. Fact is, Vancouver is the most skilled team in the league and can only be beaten by being dragged into the gutter. Fine, that works, "that's hockey". Whatever. Burrows and Kesler would be GODS if they played for the Bruins and Lapierre vs Marchand is just a saw-off. Chara hit on Pacioretty vs Alberts on Horton. Saw-off. The sanctimony of the Bruins fans and Bruins apologists is pretty nauseating and I really hope they puke watching Henrik lift the cup tonight in the Gardens - so much better in this case than winning it at home.
That said, tonight's game is 50:50 and the Bruins do have a good shot at the cup still, better than most teams down 2:3
posted by rumple at 03:40 PM on June 13, 2011
But you don't have a dog in the fight, right?
posted by yerfatma at 04:41 PM on June 13, 2011
Riled up Boston fans on day of game: 'I've been to jail. I'll fuck you up'
posted by tommybiden at 04:48 PM on June 13, 2011
But you don't have a dog in the fight, right?
I never said that. Obviously I want the Canucks to win. Consider it pushback against the love-fest for the dirtiest team in a decade.
posted by rumple at 05:01 PM on June 13, 2011
Oh Good Lord, get a handle on yourself. "love-fest" for the Bruins? And they're the dirtiest team you've seen in 10 years? Stop watching whatever the Canadian equivalent of Fox News is. I'm assuming it's "Harold and the Purple Crayon".
posted by yerfatma at 07:50 PM on June 13, 2011
Ok, now *THAT'S* kind of dirty/ unlovable :)
posted by yerfatma at 08:22 PM on June 13, 2011
Boychuk just dirty played Mason Raymond out of the game. And of course the Bruins fans are totally classless about it. When Steven Stamkos got hit in the face with a puck in the last series Bruins fans cheered. No class at all.
posted by insomnyuk at 08:23 PM on June 13, 2011
Wow, this is getting out of hand quick.
Still plenty early, though.
posted by Bonkers at 08:34 PM on June 13, 2011
Well, Edler just showed the Canucks can match Boston dirty hit for dirty hit...
posted by MeatSaber at 08:41 PM on June 13, 2011
Can anyone remember a series where one team was so dominant at home yet fairy even away?
posted by Bonkers at 08:48 PM on June 13, 2011
Yeah, it's like a tale of two teams. You can say what you want about Luongo, but the offence is so flat on the road, they'd lose with Tim Thomas in net.
posted by dfleming at 08:50 PM on June 13, 2011
Roberto Luongo is stealing the Stanley Cup Finals.
The only thing he's stealing at the moments is splinters off the bench.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:08 PM on June 13, 2011
And of course the Bruins fans are totally classless about it.
You do know this is hockey, right? Also: Nathan Horton. As I recall, Stamkos missed about 12 seconds, and that cheering came after Stamkos endorsed Al Qaeda and suggested Obama should be tarred and feathered.
posted by yerfatma at 09:09 PM on June 13, 2011
Canucks problems are 100% mental. Hard to believe, but it's a recurring theme with them. They should fire their psychologist! It's a team meltdown, Luongo could have been better but he got hung out to dry by the whole team.
posted by rumple at 09:13 PM on June 13, 2011
Canucks problems are 100% mental.
Other than the pucks in the net. Seems like Bruins have some issues too, given they've potted 18 goals at home and 1 on the road.
posted by yerfatma at 09:20 PM on June 13, 2011
It's a team meltdown, Luongo could have been better but he got hung out to dry by the whole team.
Except weren't those goals perfectly stoppable? Having your goalie be a leaky sieve, again, is hard mentally. After that first short-side goal that should have been stopped, it's "Aw shit, really, AGAIN?!?"
posted by jmd82 at 09:22 PM on June 13, 2011
Seems like Bruins have some issues too, given they've potted 18 goals at home and 1 on the road.
I hate to split hairs, but it's 16/2, actually. And they've been in every road game...can the Canucks say the same?
posted by MeatSaber at 09:26 PM on June 13, 2011
The only thing stopping the B's on the road is an awful PP and bounces going the other way. What's Vancouver's excuse?
That Boychuk hit looked like a bad tangle but not the kind of intentional boarding we've seen from Vancouver.
posted by kokaku at 09:46 PM on June 13, 2011
I'd give Boychuk a marginal pass on that, he had Raymond in a tangle but drive him into the boards anyway. But then, such a weird hit and an apparently weird injury - bruised tailbone or something I bet.
Canucks PP has been just as awful or the Bruins would have to be reining in their cheap little hacks and whacks a lot more.
Also the Edler hit on Peverley on the icing play was unacceptable. Ugh.
posted by rumple at 09:59 PM on June 13, 2011
As far as the Canucks PP, credit where credit is due to the B's PK.
As far as cheap little hacks and whacks, the teams are probably even strength there.
posted by kokaku at 10:03 PM on June 13, 2011
Obviously someone said something to the teams after game four because the bulk of the whackjobs are over with. It's been much cleaner in game five and so far in this one.
posted by rumple at 10:17 PM on June 13, 2011
Still time for one of the greatest comebacks in Stanley Cup history?
Maybe if Tim Thomas packs it up twenty minutes early.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 10:26 PM on June 13, 2011
Obviously someone said something to the teams after game four because the bulk of the whackjobs are over with
Tell it to Burroughs and Bergeron.
posted by yerfatma at 10:37 PM on June 13, 2011
Fancy a flutter on Ascot today? There's a 33/1 shot running in the wide-open 17:35 that might be worth an each way punt. Ascot is only a mile or two down the road from Wentworth; how could one resist betting on a horse called Ballesteros?
posted by JJ at 04:53 AM on June 14, 2011
What's an each-way punt? Does that mean Jeff Feagles is bisexual?
posted by wfrazerjr at 12:32 PM on June 14, 2011
Canadian media can't decide on a good guy in this year's Cup finals.