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Post by The OC on Apr 18, 2024 15:00:12 GMT
I found the playoff schedule. Game 1 at Boston: Saturday, April 20 at 8 p.m. ET Game 2 at Boston: TBA Game 3 at Toronto: TBA Game 4 at Toronto: TBA Game 5* at Boston: TBA Game 6* at Toronto: TBA Game 7* at Boston: TBA Oh, I guess I didn't find the schedule, just the time of game 1. WTF? how hard can it be? Schedulers waiting since the Bruins might win the series against these pussies in 1 game.
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Post by sandogbrewin on Apr 18, 2024 15:04:43 GMT
I haven't seen one update on Brazeau, looked like a wrist injury but it would be nice to see him back for the 1st round. Monty said to a reporter last week something to the effect of "he's week to week and don't ask me next week about him." so that's not good. Shooting the puck is a good sign.
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Post by dannycater on Apr 18, 2024 15:20:34 GMT
Great news!!
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Post by bookboy007 on Apr 18, 2024 16:18:46 GMT
Nosrils had TWELVE shots on goal, jm. Bertuzzi was pretty much bragging that they were feeding Nostrils all night. I don't know, I kinda like the number 69. Yeah, they can both suck it.
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Post by bookboy007 on Apr 18, 2024 16:28:39 GMT
I found the playoff schedule. Game 1 at Boston: Saturday, April 20 at 8 p.m. ET Game 2 at Boston: TBA Game 3 at Toronto: TBA Game 4 at Toronto: TBA Game 5* at Boston: TBA Game 6* at Toronto: TBA Game 7* at Boston: TBA Oh, I guess I didn't find the schedule, just the time of game 1. WTF? how hard can it be? Schedulers waiting since the Bruins might win the series against these pussies in 1 game. "Sheldon, tough night, tough way to open the series with your offense cold and your goalies struggling. What do you need to do for game 2?" "Uh, yeah, there won't be a game two. Basically, we quit. We're done. Players are putting their personal effects in garbage bags as we speak and we'll do exit interviews in the morning. I've got a tee time in Muskoka tomorrow at 4pm."
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Post by sandogbrewin on Apr 18, 2024 16:46:30 GMT
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Post by #4 Bobby Orr! GOAT! on Apr 18, 2024 17:02:08 GMT
Well Danny if you don't make changes to "please" the fans what's the point of being in the sports business? The NHL made the change to help increase the parity & seeing how you're waiting right up to game 82 to solidify positions & who gets in & who doesn't the extra point that the "weaker" teams get helps create that. Which I think is awesome for the league! NHL just had to change the way the game is played to make up these overtime rules. I just still feel that it sacrificed the rules. The other sports have not. Also the playoff format is awful as is the idea of divisions...make it one conference, make it 1 v. 8...hell 1 v. 16 and to hell with West/East. There really is no advantage to having high points. The only way to do that is go 1 v. 16, 2 v. 15, etc..then finishing high gives you a carrot to go after and you are rewarded for that high regular season point total. 1-8 Boston -4. Toronto 5. Still play. 1-16 Boston -6. Nashville -11. Toronto is 10. Almost still the same matchup
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Post by bookboy007 on Apr 18, 2024 17:16:02 GMT
Another side of that is we don't have that pretty cool Tuesday night. Where we had basically a pre-playoff round. But I wouldn't blink if the league took the loser point away. My biggest gripe is not having a 1-8 playoff seeding. Not one team cares about a division banner. The current seeding is dumb. That's what I mean...the idea of divisions ended a long time ago...When there were the Adams, Patrick, Norris, Smythe Divisions there were yes regulation ties, there was some sort of sense that you won your division so it meant something. Today, it's like who cares, no one cares..everyone looks at the Wild Card and who has the Pres Trophy or is 1st in the Conference...so it's just become a who cares situation and then as san says not even having a 1-8 is just silly. I actually liked when the Bruins played the Kings in the 70s playoffs...why not? It's great theater and please don't use travel as an excuse...every team has chartered planes and there's enough money for all the teams to afford travel and it's not a let's save money thing. It doesn't matter, you even have a day off between most every game and sometimes more. Why shouldn't 2 West teams or 2 East teams play in the finals...wasn't a problem before, why should it be now. Answer, NHL won't think outside the box except for gimmicks. The problem is making incremental decisions with the memory of a goldfish for why things are the way they are. It's just "I don't like this! Let's change it!" But the way things are was intended to achieve a specific goal, so if you just make changes to address a new goal, you may create just as many new problems as you solved. People forget, for example, that the playoffs used to be 1 v 3 and 2 v 4, not the conventional bracket. Somewhere along the way, someone must have said hey, you know, #2 gets a better deal than #1 in this format, so let's switch. That was 5 years after expansion. A year earlier, they starting crossing over the divisions after round one, so the Bruins had to beat the 108 point Laffs in round one, and then the 67 point Blues in Round 2 and then back to the 109 point Rangers for the Cup. So we started with a format that was designed to allow the expansion teams to make playoff revenues, giving them a chance to fight it out amongst themselves for who would get slaughtered. Then things got a little hinky with the addition of Buffalo and Vancouver in the East, so they moved Chicago over to the expansion division - sweetheart deal, how come you still couldn't win a Cup until 2010? - which broke the seal (not the Seals) on whether East and West playoffs would be like the NL and AL or cross over before the title match. They landed at this spot so that the top team had the best path to the Finals, and weaker teams in the O6 division weren't perpetually fighting up a steeper hill than the expansion clubs. They changed the format again to accommodate expansion, giving two more teams a shot by having 8 teams in round 1 and 4 first round byes for division winners. Teams were re-seeded after round one. Goal: expand playoff revenues; maintain advantage for winning regular season games. It only took a few years for them to run afoul of the bitching that some divisions are better than others and it's not fair to 'punish' a team for being in a strong division. So they made the 8 first round teams the 2nd place finisher in each division and then the next 4 teams in terms of points. So now it's "fairer" for the teams at the bottom and at the top. Great. What could go wrong. Expansion. Three years later they made the playoffs 16 teams with 4 div winners and then the next 12 best teams getting in regardless of division. Basically they took the middle out of the previous structure, and divisions now only mattered because it was an auto berth, but the series were seeded 1-16, and re-seeded after each round. This lasted 2 years before they went back to divisional brackets. It stayed that way through to the next round of expansion with the only changes being to have all rounds eventually be seven games. In 1993-94, they went to conference seeding, perhaps to mitigate the advantage teams might have from having a sacrificial lamb or shark or Senator to feast on? They stuck with conferences for 20 years, but only after they went from 2 divisions to three and, like the earlier format, the division winners finished 1, 2, 3 and everyone else was seeded by points. By 2013-14, we'd gone from distinct divisions meeting in the final to cross-overs to blended seeding to division seeding and back to blended conference level seeding before coming back to divisions. In almost every case, the change is tied to expansion and trying in some way to maintain a meaningful regular season without giving the home ice teams such an advantage that you don't get upsets. That's why it goes round and round; there's no one way to maintain the things the league values most when the number of teams competing changes without ... changing the playoff format. Same with OT. Who decided we don't like ties? Ok, fine, we'll play 5 more minutes but if it's still tied, that's it! We still hate ties. OK, so we'll play 5 more minutes and then have a Euro-garbage shootout. Happy? Winner and a loser? NO! You shouldn't lose a point because of a skill competition! OK, so if you lose in the SO, you get a point and they get two? OK. But what's the point of playing 5 v 5 OT then? Teams just play kitty bar the door until the SO and try to steal a second point! OK, fine, 3 v 3 OT. But you shouldn't lose a point if you played a team to a standstill in an NHL regulation game but then lose in a total unrealistic 3 v 3 Showcase Showdown! OK fine, you can keep a point if you lose in OT. Happy? No, of course not....
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Post by bookboy007 on Apr 18, 2024 17:17:27 GMT
NHL just had to change the way the game is played to make up these overtime rules. I just still feel that it sacrificed the rules. The other sports have not. Also the playoff format is awful as is the idea of divisions...make it one conference, make it 1 v. 8...hell 1 v. 16 and to hell with West/East. There really is no advantage to having high points. The only way to do that is go 1 v. 16, 2 v. 15, etc..then finishing high gives you a carrot to go after and you are rewarded for that high regular season point total. 1-8 Boston -4. Toronto 5. Still play. 1-16 Boston -6. Nashville -11. Toronto is 10. Almost still the same matchup I love this stuff. I think Big Head Bob used to regularly compare what would happen if you took away the loser points and it was similarly negligible.
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Post by kelvana33 on Apr 18, 2024 18:30:49 GMT
Then you agree with seeking their special quartet for attention. Reavo will be doing his thing. But Maroon js perfect. He will drive the leafs nuts. I’m gonna be in Boston in 8 days and hopefully a gm 5 is then. My boy is looking at some prep schools in New Hampshire so we will be catching a game. Maroon will goad Reaves into a dumb penalty.
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Post by kelvana33 on Apr 18, 2024 18:43:32 GMT
I'm mixed on this series.
On one hand, I love the fact B's played awful last 2 games, polar opposite of last year, and even though I'd prefer they open on the road, I think Montgomery has them focused. Plus, Toronto goaltending doesnt scare me at all. On the other hand, Toronto has been waiting for this, and I hate the fact B's beat them all 4 games this year and the fact they've knocked them out 4 times in the past 11 years.
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Post by islamorada on Apr 18, 2024 19:32:23 GMT
1-8 Boston -4. Toronto 5. Still play. 1-16 Boston -6. Nashville -11. Toronto is 10. Almost still the same matchup I love this stuff. I think Big Head Bob used to regularly compare what would happen if you took away the loser points and it was similarly negligible. Again, a team finding itself in December cannot climb in the standings due to the influence of the loser points. Numerically the same position but less upward and downward mobility. Nah, keep it the same, delusion is better for the heart.
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Post by bookboy007 on Apr 18, 2024 19:53:33 GMT
I love this stuff. I think Big Head Bob used to regularly compare what would happen if you took away the loser points and it was similarly negligible. Again, a team finding itself in December cannot climb in the standings due to the influence of the loser points. Numerically the same position but less upward and downward mobility. Nah, keep it the same, delusion is better for the heart. It can be done, but it takes an epic effort. Nashville and Edmonton both rescued themselves this year, and LA was super hot for a long stretch to build enough of a lead to survive some icy periods. I like the flip side of some of the complaints which is that there's now more motivation to win in regulation. Or there should be.
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Post by jmwalters on Apr 18, 2024 20:08:13 GMT
Reavo will be doing his thing. But Maroon js perfect. He will drive the leafs nuts. I’m gonna be in Boston in 8 days and hopefully a gm 5 is then. My boy is looking at some prep schools in New Hampshire so we will be catching a game. Maroon will goad Reaves into a dumb penalty. Reeves got hurt last night in TB. Maybe he won't play at all.
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Post by islamorada on Apr 18, 2024 20:17:53 GMT
Again, a team finding itself in December cannot climb in the standings due to the influence of the loser points. Numerically the same position but less upward and downward mobility. Nah, keep it the same, delusion is better for the heart. It can be done, but it takes an epic effort. Nashville and Edmonton both rescued themselves this year, and LA was super hot for a long stretch to build enough of a lead to survive some icy periods. I like the flip side of some of the complaints which is that there's now more motivation to win in regulation. Or there should be. My constant refrain during those games tied with 10 minutes to go, loser point mentality. You are correct to say motivation is more warranted when the two points are on the line. Wins in OT, the dreaded SO, along with regulation play should be 2 points only. Many of the pundits want three points, now that is more confining on mobility. Adding points actually just makes the fan feel good. The reality is the argument for the 3 point system is as the same at the 2 point system at the end of the year is actually a "reason" to go back to a 2 point system (2 points only). Delusions sell though.
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Post by RichHillOntario on Apr 18, 2024 20:29:00 GMT
Maroon will goad Reaves into a dumb penalty. Reeves got hurt last night in TB. Maybe he won't play at all. Really? He's been getting banged up lately. He hurt his knee against the boards a couple of weeks back. Kept him out a few games, I think.
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Post by thanx4memORRies on Apr 18, 2024 20:31:01 GMT
I'm mixed on this series. On one hand, I love the fact B's played awful last 2 games, polar opposite of last year, and even though I'd prefer they open on the road, I think Montgomery has them focused. Plus, Toronto goaltending doesnt scare me at all. On the other hand, Toronto has been waiting for this, and I hate the fact B's beat them all 4 games this year and the fact they've knocked them out 4 times in the past 11 years. And the last time the Laffs beat the B’S in the playoffs a certain guy named Orr was still in grade school…. That monkey’s grown into King Kong….
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Post by RichHillOntario on Apr 18, 2024 20:47:48 GMT
He was on a conditioning assignment with them after being cleared to play, San. Murray had a bunch of injuries: bilateral hip surgery in October preceded by ankle and head injuries. He helped the Marlies win one last Saturday, his first game in over a year. He'd likely be the fourth option behind Samsonov, Joseph Woll and Martin Jones. Seems doubtful he'd be activated for the playoffs. Pretty much the consensus on NHL radio, and Boucher on TNT, was that it would Samsonov starting. Fine by me. Heh man I don't envy you Bs fans that live in or around Ontario. With all the Loaves ball picking. Has to be nauseating. This is from three months ago, San. Only the Toronto area media could find a way to create a fantasy scenario where the Loads are tops in a category like this. Cherry picking at its finest! And some say the media bias is in non-Maple Laugh heads only? Come on, now.
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Post by shuper on Apr 18, 2024 21:45:38 GMT
Reavo will be doing his thing. But Maroon js perfect. He will drive the leafs nuts. I’m gonna be in Boston in 8 days and hopefully a gm 5 is then. My boy is looking at some prep schools in New Hampshire so we will be catching a game. Maroon will goad Reaves into a dumb penalty. What I wanna see is TF grab and pound Domi. Domi is the protector. Good. Freddy hopefully matches against that line. Maroon is just so smart and good at his role. T
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Post by sandogbrewin on Apr 18, 2024 22:05:29 GMT
Maroon will goad Reaves into a dumb penalty. Reeves got hurt last night in TB. Maybe he won't play at all. That sucks he's good for some really dumb penalties.
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Post by rob37 on Apr 18, 2024 22:07:26 GMT
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Post by rob37 on Apr 18, 2024 22:08:31 GMT
Bruins in 4 after Monty bag skates them again for their pathetic play the last two reg season games.
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Post by thanx4memORRies on Apr 18, 2024 22:14:56 GMT
Hope Martin Biron doesn’t get in trouble for predicting the B’S in 5 or 6….
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Post by fp8774 on Apr 18, 2024 22:28:30 GMT
Maroon will goad Reaves into a dumb penalty. What I wanna see is TF grab and pound Domi. Domi is the protector. Good. Freddy hopefully matches against that line. Maroon is just so smart and good at his role. T Doubt it. Frederic fancies himself as an offensive threat these days. The snarl and the hands have gone soft.
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