Game 5 - 2022 Conn Smythe Winner Jeremy Swayman steals a game @ WindyWaterMammals
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Lot of passengers tonight. Unlike Games 1 and 2, they absolutely deserve to lose this one.
I know you need to make your own luck, but I can't believe the number of bounces that are a foot off this way or that, on top of the amount of pucks that don't get through.
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44.6% xGF isn't going to get it done. Yet again all the lines outside of Bergeron's were underwater.
The Bruins needed to actually finish some checks. Carolina was skating around like it was an all star game friendly.
That was such agony I spent the last 10 minutes taking out my frustrations on the must-mute announcers:
Steve Levy bets every horse in the Derby for guaranteed bragging rights, shops Amazon’s Top Choice, and closes the VIP lounge only after the last A-lister has disappeared into the darkened night. Steve wants everyone at Westminster to know he’s spotted the top dog already cause he’s a blue-ribbon, pedigree, himself, who never saw a best-in-show he didn’t want to run breathlessly alongside till the flashbulbs catch their embrace in the winner’s circle.
He’s a truly terrible narrator of any competition between worthy foes. Here’s hoping Bruins force G7 and draw just about anybody else than Steve Levy for the call…
Steve Levy bets every horse in the Derby for guaranteed bragging rights, shops Amazon’s Top Choice, and closes the VIP lounge only after the last A-lister has disappeared into the darkened night. Steve wants everyone at Westminster to know he’s spotted the top dog already cause he’s a blue-ribbon, pedigree, himself, who never saw a best-in-show he didn’t want to run breathlessly alongside till the flashbulbs catch their embrace in the winner’s circle.
He’s a truly terrible narrator of any competition between worthy foes. Here’s hoping Bruins force G7 and draw just about anybody else than Steve Levy for the call…
hockey strategy question: is there rationale behind keeping perfection line together at home - where Cassidy can deploy them against good matchups far easier. And then putting pasta on 2nd line on road, giving them two very good offensive lines making it tougher for Carolina to match up?
edit: and if memory serves correctly, Pasta was on 2nd line for game 1 - and the bruins "won" WRT most metrics like possession, shots, scoring changes, xGF, etc...
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He kept them together last night, he did mix things up a little bit at times by for the majority of the game Pastrnak was on the top line and as the game wore on he began being double shifted on the 2nd line at Nosek's expense.
They were split up this year to see if they got lengthen the lineup so to speak. Instead of teams loading up to defend the top line, they also had to worry about Hall and Pasta coming out behind Bergeron. In the playoffs you can't wait around for struggling lines to come around. So he went back to what he knows works, Pastrnak with Bergeron and hope they go Supernova, which they did.
The scoring woes are an age old Bruins problem. The stars have to score or they're fucked because nobody else can. Goals in this series:
Hall
Bergeron
Bergeron PPG
Coyle SHG
Marchand
Pastrnak PPG
Hall PPG
Bergeron
DeBrusk PPG
Pastrnak
Marchand ENG
Clifton
12 goals, 9 coming from the first line/first power play.
They were split up this year to see if they got lengthen the lineup so to speak. Instead of teams loading up to defend the top line, they also had to worry about Hall and Pasta coming out behind Bergeron. In the playoffs you can't wait around for struggling lines to come around. So he went back to what he knows works, Pastrnak with Bergeron and hope they go Supernova, which they did.
The scoring woes are an age old Bruins problem. The stars have to score or they're fucked because nobody else can. Goals in this series:
Hall
Bergeron
Bergeron PPG
Coyle SHG
Marchand
Pastrnak PPG
Hall PPG
Bergeron
DeBrusk PPG
Pastrnak
Marchand ENG
Clifton
12 goals, 9 coming from the first line/first power play.
That all tracks...I just think they become an infinitely easier team to defend with the perfection line intact when they are on the road with last change for the home team. Gut level analysis here but feels like there's a very fine line in playoffs between waiting around for struggling lines and outright panicking...from my couch feels like Cassidy does more of the latter. But yeah overall secondary scoring & Bruins is definitely a well sung chorus at this point.