Haula, Nosek, Coyle, Foligno, Smith...If Haula could dislodge his head from his ass ahead of Game 6, that would help.
Lot of passengers tonight. Unlike Games 1 and 2, they absolutely deserve to lose this one.Hall not looking particularly awesome this game.
1865. Long memories.So what’s with Carolina trolling Boston? Is there some beef I’m unaware of here?
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?44.6% xGF isn't going to get it done. Yet again all the lines outside of Bergeron's were underwater.
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.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.