Game 1 - Bruins v. Canes

kenneycb

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Too bad the B’s drafted Senyshen with the Dougie pick and not Debrusk for poetic purposes. And general hockey purposes too but that’s a separate discussion.
 

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What someone said about the B's may be true.. their conditioning seems to be just better...they're pretty much consistently dominating the third period.
 

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Feel like Kampfer played a heck of a game even without considering the goal.

And I’m still laughing about Marchand pulling Clifton off of Staal to keep him from negating the power play. Of all the guys...
 

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Obviously Thomas was crazy in the Finals in 2011, but up through this point in the playoffs, Tuukka is playing better now than Thomas did then.
 

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They got some puck luck in the 3rd... the ref keeping the puck in the OZone for them was a big deal. This was a close game barring the last 3-4 minutes. Hope they come out firing on Sunday and don't give Carolina any momentum.
 

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Feel like Kampfer played a heck of a game even without considering the goal.

And I’m still laughing about Marchand pulling Clifton off of Staal to keep him from negating the power play. Of all the guys...
That got noticed at the bar, fucking awesome of all the guys as you said...
 

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Wife and I suited up for the game (Bergeron and Tuukka). FUCK YAH!

I did get pissy at the shade thrown at Dougie. He was shipped out and played well for the B’s.

Great kid. I know members of his family.
 

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apparently analytics now say you should empty the net with 3 minutes left. interesting.
Intuitively that feels early to me by like 30-45 seconds but that is probably two and a half decades of history talking.

What I would be interested to see besides the time component is the difference between pulling the goalie for a faceoff vs in the run of play when you have possession and/or are established in the offensive zone already. I think I like the latter better, even if the draw is in the o-zone.
 

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Pull bot says 4:32 was the time to do it.


Conventional wisdom was always do it with ~1 minute left but coaches are slowly listening to the analytics people and getting more liberal with the pulls. 2-2:30 is pretty typical now. Patrick Roy was the first to really push the envelope.
 

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This was a huge win. This was the game Carolina should have stole. Boston on short rest, down their only #1 defenseman. Now the Bs get 2 days off and McAvoy back. It's going to be a tough series, but it's only going to get easier from here. Also, leave Dougie Hamilton alone :-(
 

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This was a huge win. This was the game Carolina should have stole. Boston on short rest, down their only #1 defenseman. Now the Bs get 2 days off and McAvoy back. It's going to be a tough series, but it's only going to get easier from here. Also, leave Dougie Hamilton alone :-(
Eh with the long layoff it really feels like game 2 is the one set up for Carolina in that they got their feet wet and rest won’t really benefit either team at this point more than the other. I don’t think this goes past 5 games and I am optimistic it is even shorter.
 

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Eh with the long layoff it really feels like game 2 is the one set up for Carolina in that they got their feet wet and rest won’t really benefit either team at this point more than the other. I don’t think this goes past 5 games and I am optimistic it is even shorter.
I kinda disagree about the rest. I think it benefits the Bruins more than Carolina. Carolina just had 5 days off and should be relatively fresh. The Bruins have been playing just about every other day since 4/11, 14 games in less than a month through 2 grueling series.The extra day will help guys recover, particularly the older group that makes up the core and Rask who obviously hasn’t had a game off.
 

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Eh with the long layoff it really feels like game 2 is the one set up for Carolina in that they got their feet wet and rest won’t really benefit either team at this point more than the other.
I see the "feet wet" angle as them realizing "oh shit. These guys aren't the Islanders. More and deeper talent. And they keep playing even if they hit a patch where they are dominated." Whether that knowledge is enough is hard to say. But from my couch it looked like the last 3-4 minutes of the 2nd period, when the Bruins really tilted the ice, got into Carolina's collective, between-periods head and affected the way they played in the 3rd.
The stats may say different, but it seemed as though the bottom third of the Bruins roster dominated their counterparts.
 

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The Dougie chants slayed me. I knew they were coming eventually in series, but they still had me rolling.

If you don't want your name chanted derisively by thousands, don't be a grown ass man who calls himself Dougie. You're just making it too easy.
 

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I kinda disagree about the rest. I think it benefits the Bruins more than Carolina. Carolina just had 5 days off and should be relatively fresh. The Bruins have been playing just about every other day since 4/11, 14 games in less than a month through 2 grueling series.The extra day will help guys recover, particularly the older group that makes up the core and Rask who obviously hasn’t had a game off.
True, I guess between games 1 and 2 the B's do benefit a bit more.

I see the "feet wet" angle as them realizing "oh shit. These guys aren't the Islanders. More and deeper talent. And they keep playing even if they hit a patch where they are dominated." Whether that knowledge is enough is hard to say. But from my couch it looked like the last 3-4 minutes of the 2nd period, when the Bruins really tilted the ice, got into Carolina's collective, between-periods head and affected the way they played in the 3rd.
The stats may say different, but it seemed as though the bottom third of the Bruins roster dominated their counterparts.
I guess the extra rest is partially offset by the stale factor. Either way, I don't think the Canes are long for this series.
 

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I see the "feet wet" angle as them realizing "oh shit. These guys aren't the Islanders. More and deeper talent. And they keep playing even if they hit a patch where they are dominated." Whether that knowledge is enough is hard to say. But from my couch it looked like the last 3-4 minutes of the 2nd period, when the Bruins really tilted the ice, got into Carolina's collective, between-periods head and affected the way they played in the 3rd.
The stats may say different, but it seemed as though the bottom third of the Bruins roster dominated their counterparts.
Wouldn’t say dominated, but they were excellent. By line at 5x5:

63-37-88

9:49- 71% CF, 67% SF, 62% SCF, 80% HDCF, 0-0 goals, 76% xGF

100% offensive zone starts. Mostly played against the Aho line and Pesce/Faulk pairing.

74-46-42

6:55, 56% CF, 40% SF, 60% SCF, 67% HDCF, 0-1 on goals but 57% xGF.

89% OZone start. TOI a little light but I’d add that 74 and 46 had an extra shift with Coyle as RW. Bruce really manages Backes’ ice time. They mostly played against the Staal line and Slavin/Hamilton.

90-13-43

8:25, 50% across the board, 1-0 in goals, 63% xGF.

40% OZone start. Mostly against Wallmark’s line and Slavin/Hamilton.

20-52-14

11:51, 46% CF, 50% SF, 33% SCF, 38% HDCF%, 0-0 goals (Coyle was on the ice instead of Kuraly for Wagner’s goal), 35% cGF%

16% OZone start. They played pretty even minutes against the Aho and Staal lines.

Bruce went back to feeding the top 6 the OZone starts and trusting the bottom 6 to handle defensive zone assignments regardless of who Carolina put out there. They all did a pretty good job.
 

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Just guessing, but it seems more like the schedule broke almost perfectly for the Bruins in terms of rest and this series now.

The difference between playing too much and a team therefore being tired and playing regularly but at a level that conditions the team ideally for the next game is likely a few meals and an extra 24 hours. Although they have played a ton, going into game two they have played one game in the last five days. In that one game Carlo and Krug crested 20 minutes on the ice.

I don't know what they do with the rest of their time, but it seems like they should be in great shape to just pound away in game two.
 

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Just guessing, but it seems more like the schedule broke almost perfectly for the Bruins in terms of rest and this series now.

The difference between playing too much and a team therefore being tired and playing regularly but at a level that conditions the team ideally for the next game is likely a few meals and an extra 24 hours. Although they have played a ton, going into game two they have played one game in the last five days. In that one game Carlo and Krug crested 20 minutes on the ice.

I don't know what they do with the rest of their time, but it seems like they should be in great shape to just pound away in game two.
Plus their #1 defenseman got extra rest due to the suspension and the team did not suffer.