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Post by bookboy007 on Mar 18, 2024 23:16:53 GMT
I don't...2 embarrassing short side goals...he has been awful late in games...Ullmark much better last few games...sorry, 35 ahead now. I’m agreeing with Danny here. I like Sway a lot, but he gives up bad goals too often, usually in the third period. This is not a good trend. And yeah, I’ll admit I’m out on Monty. I like the guy personally and it’s so true that he’s gotten a bubble team at the top of the league as of today with 13 to play and deserves credit for that. But his team blows third period leads like a hooker in Vegas. It happens too often. It is not just bad individual plays by Gryz or Sway, there’s a system problem and a mental weakness by the defense in general that’s disconcerting. I try to enjoy their success given their weaknesses, but blowing leads game after game after game should get you fired as a Coach even quicker than having DeBrusk on your team. I am generally skeptical of attributing things like what the Bruins have been going through to "mental weakness" or lack of character or something. It's frustrating as hell, sure, but like the entire team forgetting how to score in 2015 and allowing the whole Hamburglar run (my version of how you felt when they lost to StL), I'm not sure that the ways they're giving up these goals is as much about a particular lack of mental toughness as it is a lot of bad luck, the fact that pulling the goalie and attacking with your six best players actually does increase the odds you'll score, and the garden variety version of feeling the heat when it feels like the hockey gods are against you. I don't think there's a team in the league that hasn't blown a lead this year. Or maybe I should say a team that gets a lot of two plus goal leads. I should look that up. But it is a truism about the league now that it is much easier to do than it used to be when the rules allowed a lot more muggings. That said. I'm not sure you're wrong about this being something that gets a coach fired. Coach is supposed to reduce the impact of that additional pressure. Keep guys even keel. Coach should identify something in the way they kill those last two minutes that they can change and give them something that feels like a slump buster. But mostly, to use Montgomery's words after Philly against him...if the coach sees what they're not doing in those situations that they usually do, but stop because of the game situation and squeezing the stick? And then he addresses it in a timeout or just on the bench? And it still happens? Then the coach may as well have lost the room because they aren't listening to him at the most stressful time of the game. No one cares if they listen when it's 5-1 to the good. If the coach can't get his team to correct a potentially tragic flaw, then you need to change the coach.
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Post by bookboy007 on Mar 18, 2024 23:36:31 GMT
I agree 100%, i don't think he'll be sacked either, 1st round exit or not, and if he does get the axe he will be hired immediately for sure. I think a lot of B's fans will be waiting to see what the B's do in the playoffs, i'm curious as well but am not thinking he has to win to keep his job. I think with the roster provided to him he has done an admirable job. I also think the B's could surprise in the playoffs but as we know they're a crapshoot. Montgomery is constantly playing with fire, shuffling forward lines and defense pairings even when they have worked in the previous game. I'm not sure he knows what he's doing. And putting Zacha and Pastrnak on the ice for a faceoff in the B's zone with the other team's goalie pulled - how much more evidence does he need that #18 and #88 are not his best defensive options?
This "I'm contend the B's are in first place" (even though they were lucky to get there because their goalies had to bail them out way too often) thinking is not my cup of tea. My gut feeling is that Montgomery will "surprise" us with another big time blunder, one of the "violently shaking my head" kind, in the playoffs.Zacha is their best faceoff guy. Love it or not, you put your best faceoff guy out there to win important draws. We've talked about the Pastrnak deployment there before and I understand the theory if not the reason they stick with it. A player like Pastrnak who is supposed to be icy with the puck on his stick should be able to make a play when he gets the puck. And he should have them on their toes just a little worrying that he'll see the play develop before they do and fly the zone for an easy ENG. It's not wrong in theory. I do think Bruins coaches don't win. People hated that Julien didn't juggle lines. Now they hate that Montgomery juggles his lines. They hated Julien for rolling four lines no matter what. They hate Montgomery for shortening the bench. My gut feeling is that what we've seen this year is all about prep for the playoffs. I'm hoping that the juggling stops and what we get is a consistent diet of Marchand-Coyle-DeBrusk, [JVR]-Zacha-Pastrnak, Heinen-Geekie-Freddy, and Boqvist-Beecher-Brazeau. I put square brackets around JVR because that's my only real concern. Whether that's the right call, I don't know, but based on all of the combinations I've seen, and I've seen them all thanks to Jim, I like this best.
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Post by 50belowzero on Mar 19, 2024 0:16:13 GMT
Julien rolled his lines ad nauseam, hated that, B's could be down a goal with a minute to go and out comes the merlot line, WTF!
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Post by zamboni24 on Mar 19, 2024 2:04:22 GMT
...courtesy of Timothy Thomas, Jr.... Not this again. Say whatever you want about how good Thomas was, and we can re-hash all you want the point that the Bruins won games when they scored a lot of goals against Vancouver - not 1-0 or 2-1. They lost those games. But no one will ever convince me that Claude and the way that team was built had nothing to do with their ability to let the previous game go no matter how high or low they could have been. Every time it looked like luck or momentum or stats or anything was starting to turn against them, that team went out and out-worked, outhit, and out played the opposition. They went to work and ground you down. They maintained elite focus in game 7 against Tampa - they were a machine with perfectly calibrated torque on their stick grips. Thomas's "I have a pretty good idea of how to play goal in this league and I'm not taking any advice at this time" is what a terminator would say if they sent one back in time just to play hockey. If all this other stuff people have started to criticize about Montgomery is coaching, then so is that. And it deserves respect. And yes — that water bottle filled with melted gaaaden ice poured on Roger’s Arena ice….Big assist by Horton.
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Post by MrHulot on Mar 19, 2024 5:19:21 GMT
Montgomery is constantly playing with fire, shuffling forward lines and defense pairings even when they have worked in the previous game. I'm not sure he knows what he's doing. And putting Zacha and Pastrnak on the ice for a faceoff in the B's zone with the other team's goalie pulled - how much more evidence does he need that #18 and #88 are not his best defensive options?
This "I'm contend the B's are in first place" (even though they were lucky to get there because their goalies had to bail them out way too often) thinking is not my cup of tea. My gut feeling is that Montgomery will "surprise" us with another big time blunder, one of the "violently shaking my head" kind, in the playoffs. Zacha is their best faceoff guy. Love it or not, you put your best faceoff guy out there to win important draws. We've talked about the Pastrnak deployment there before and I understand the theory if not the reason they stick with it. A player like Pastrnak who is supposed to be icy with the puck on his stick should be able to make a play when he gets the puck. And he should have them on their toes just a little worrying that he'll see the play develop before they do and fly the zone for an easy ENG. It's not wrong in theory. I do think Bruins coaches don't win. People hated that Julien didn't juggle lines. Now they hate that Montgomery juggles his lines. They hated Julien for rolling four lines no matter what. They hate Montgomery for shortening the bench. My gut feeling is that what we've seen this year is all about prep for the playoffs. I'm hoping that the juggling stops and what we get is a consistent diet of Marchand-Coyle-DeBrusk, [JVR]-Zacha-Pastrnak, Heinen-Geekie-Freddy, and Boqvist-Beecher-Brazeau. I put square brackets around JVR because that's my only real concern. Whether that's the right call, I don't know, but based on all of the combinations I've seen, and I've seen them all thanks to Jim, I like this best. Johnny Beecher is their best faceoff guy, if only by a hair. But he was partially gutted by Morontgomery, who likes to "discipline" younger players, or those who are easy to be disciplined. Weak sauce. And Zacha is particularly bad at getting the puck out of the d zone. Put him together with #88, who seems to be the most careless skater ever when it comes to playing d with a one- or two-goal lead and the opposing goalie pulled, and you're asking for trouble.
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Post by MrHulot on Mar 19, 2024 5:56:54 GMT
Another shocking display of defensive ineptness, etc., with the usual bad ending if not for "Heino's" brilliant strike.
Hate to say it, but this team does not belong in first place overall. Not with the bald-headed moron behind the bench. I know he's not Falco but every time I see this image, I think: "Don't turn around, oh oh," "Der Kommissar's in town, oh oh." Must be him holding the mic and his mouth in the shape it's in. Not a big fan of Falco, but "Der Kommissar" is a classic. R.I.P. (Hate the annoying "Amadeus, Amadeus, Amadeus, Amadeus..." though)
Heino on the other hand could never even hope to tie Falco's shoelaces.
Falco was a million times more talented, he wrote his own songs (at least the lyrics). And he was a progressive musician, "Der Kommissar" was a very early German rap song.
Heino never wrote a single note or line. He's a conservative (in a negative way) asshole who sees himself as a "protector of German values", whatever they may be. He pointedly recorded the West German national anthem in 1976, insisting on singing the first two verses which are technically not part of the anthem anymore - they haven't been since 1949 - and are also "frowned upon" because of the Nazi connotations. (The anthem situation is IMHO grotesque. They could have solved this very elegantly by simply choosing a new anthem in 1949. To me, this always reeks of the old "Hitler wasn't all bad, he built the Autobahn" crap.)
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Post by MrHulot on Mar 19, 2024 21:27:03 GMT
Another shocking display of defensive ineptness, etc., with the usual bad ending if not for "Heino's" brilliant strike.
Hate to say it, but this team does not belong in first place overall. Not with the bald-headed moron behind the bench. I know he's not Falco but every time I see this image, I think: "Don't turn around, oh oh," "Der Kommissar's in town, oh oh." Must be him holding the mic and his mouth in the shape it's in. Falco was cool.
For decades, Heino told everybody that he was proud to be uncool. Then his career really went down the drain, and he tried to be "ultra cool".
Unfortunately he had no idea what was cool and what wasn't. So he shot a McDonald's commercial. And then he recorded a super awful hip hop song based on the one supposedly funny line from the commercial - a "double entendre" about "thick" or "juicy" "things"...
(Caution! The "song" "performed" in this video clip is so shitty, it can lead to nausea attacks.)
(The "Harald Schmidt Show" was very popular in Germany, with a lot of praise for its "originality". The problem was, as you may have already guessed from this short clip, that literally everything had been pinched from Letterman...)
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