The advantage to being a Bruins' fan is for the last two years you haven't had to endure the stress of the playoffs.

I've been posting very little on this. mostly because I'm the only hockey fan left in here. 

However, I'm holding my breath. This team looks real. Very difficult to rattle. Chicago nipped us in Game 2 with a collection of calls (valid calls, but still unlucky) that all went against us in the last 10 minutes of the 3rd period.

If The Blues can win tomorrow, it's huge. I'm just praying like every other abused Blues fan. Until we've won 4, we are still in the first round, and our history is approaching awful there.

It's the Central Division. Aside from Minnesota having a rough time at the end of the year and sliding in (to draw the Dallas Stars no less), the Central teams are all very tough. Nashville is beating the shit out of the Western first place Anaheim team to highlight my point. 

If St. Louis can survive Chicago, they'll go up against Dallas, and based on head to head results, I like our chances there.. They had more Reg/OT wins and finished 2 points higher, but head to head, we beat their asses.

I understand what you're saying about not re-seeding, but I wouldn't count out the Kings yet. Quick is too good, and as frustrating as it is being a Blues fan in the playoffs, it's at least equally if not moreso being a Sharks fan.
On paper, the Bruins trading away Jumbo Joe looks like their worst deal ever, but one of the reasons was because he supposedly cared more about his stats than winning. Of course, the Bruins have bad-mouthed every good player they've ever had - even Ray Bourque and Bobby Orr - so the noise gets deafening, but they may have been right about Thornton.

It's still not over, there's another game we need to win. 

BUT GODDAMN WE TOOK 2 IN CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!

Okay let's all calm down, and get that last one.

It was neck-and-neck for whether Shaw or Toews is the bigger asshole, until Shaw pulled away with his childlike nonsense in the last two minutes last night. 

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

It was neck-and-neck for whether Shaw or Toews is the bigger asshole, until Shaw pulled away with his childlike nonsense in the last two minutes last night. 

Up until the last 2 minutes, Crawford had to be in the mix also.  I'm still waiting for a logical explanation for how St. Louis ended up shorthanded when Crawford attacked Fabbri.

My best guess on this, and no referee would ever admit this, but it's my feeling.

The Hawks got jobbed out of a clear goal because the initial shot sat on the goal line. Elliott made a move to cover it, but ended up feeding it right back to the shooter who was roofing it for a goal when the ref was blowing the play dead. 

I'm guessing that power play was some type of a "makeup" call. 

However, all that aside, Chicago is clearly losing their minds right now. The Blues have lost 2 goals to very close offsides calls, been on the receiving end of the referees for a lot of this series, and have still won 3 out of 4. In game 2, EVERY call in the last end of the 3rd period went Chicago's way, and they nailed a bankshot empty netter and still only won by 1. 

The Blues giving up that PP goal on the Crawford brawl, regrouping, coming back, and winning anyway was just a huge "We are not Blues teams from the past" statement. 

Shaw will likely get a suspension for the double birds, I can't see the league not slapping his hand for that.... 

alz wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

It was neck-and-neck for whether Shaw or Toews is the bigger asshole, until Shaw pulled away with his childlike nonsense in the last two minutes last night. 

Up until the last 2 minutes, Crawford had to be in the mix also.  I'm still waiting for a logical explanation for how St. Louis ended up shorthanded when Crawford attacked Fabbri.

My best guess on this, and no referee would ever admit this, but it's my feeling.

The Hawks got jobbed out of a clear goal because the initial shot sat on the goal line. Elliott made a move to cover it, but ended up feeding it right back to the shooter who was roofing it for a goal when the ref was blowing the play dead. 

I'm guessing that power play was some type of a "makeup" call. 

However, all that aside, Chicago is clearly losing their minds right now. The Blues have lost 2 goals to very close offsides calls, been on the receiving end of the referees for a lot of this series, and have still won 3 out of 4. In game 2, EVERY call in the last end of the 3rd period went Chicago's way, and they nailed a bankshot empty netter and still only won by 1. 

The Blues giving up that PP goal on the Crawford brawl, regrouping, coming back, and winning anyway was just a huge "We are not Blues teams from the past" statement. 

Shaw will likely get a suspension for the double birds, I can't see the league not slapping his hand for that.... 

IMO if Shaw gets suspended it will be for the slur, not the birds.  If the league goes that far, it will want to appease the social justice warriors who are calling for Shaw's head.

forsberg_us wrote:

What a colossal meltdown last night by the Hawks' Andrew Shaw.  He takes an idiotic penalty after the whistle with 2:04 left and his team down a goal.  Then he goes full-blown crazy, calls the referee a "fucking faggot"

https://twitter.com/HallErik/status/722646586749227009

Then he gives the officials a double middle finger on his way to the penalty box

https://twitter.com/PeteBlackburn/status/722643306908422144

Then he calls the referee a "fucking faggot" again.

https://twitter.com/myregularface/status/722647439828783104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Inexplicably, the officials didn't give him anything other than the initial 2 minute penalty and, predictably, when he returned to the ice he started a brawl at the final horn.

I have a feeling Mr. Shaw will be hearing from the NHL office today or tomorrow.

Did you think he started the brawl with .03 seconds left.  It looked to me like a blues player took the opportunity to give him one more shot.  Deservingly so but I didnt take it as shaw starting it.  Maybe I saw it wrong.
 

One-game suspension, $5,000 fine and sensitivity training.

I think it was Pietrangelo who took him down, but you wonder why Quenneville even had him out there for that faceoff.

artie_fufkin wrote:

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

One-game suspension, $5,000 fine and sensitivity training.

The 3rd piece of that is the worst part of the punishment.

 
Hopefully, his counselor will be a 7-foot tranny named Denise who will rip out his larynx when he tries to call him a "fucking faggot."

Sounds hot.