Well contest may be a little misleading, because we're not actually going to give you a prize...but we will take our favorites and put them in a post!

Basically just make a caption for the picture below (which we already find hilarious by the way).  Doesn't matter if you use word bubbles, photoshop,  or just add some text below the image.  Hell, turn it into a motivational poster if you want, go nuts!  Send your submissions to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Credit goes to NESN's Mike Hurley for finding this picture and tweeting it! (@NESNmhurley)


Not sure if we'll do more of these, guess that all depends on how many unintentionally hilarious Bruins pictures we come across.

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When the Bruins began a 6 game road trip in Long Island on February 17, no one knew what to expect. Little did we know, the Bruins would win 7 straight games before losing in overtime to the Pittsburgh Penguins on March 5. Since that 3-2 OT loss, the Bruins have dropped four straight games (including an ugly one to the Islanders). Days of Y'Orr has decided to look deeper into both the winning and losing streak to give you, the reader, a more detailed explanation of what the hell is happening. Without further adieu: Winning Streak vs. Losing Streak.

Winning Streak (7 games; 6 road/1 home)

Goals For: 3.14 goals per game during win streak
Goals Against: 1.42 goals against per game during win streak

- Special teams -

Power Play: 2 for 18 (11% success)
Penalty Kill: 14 for 17 (82% success)

- Individual Stats -

Goals: Milan Lucic (5 [1 PPG]), Nathan Horton (4), Brad Marchand (3), Patrice Bergeron (1), Dennis Seidenberg (1-PPG), Mark Recchi (1), Greg Campbell (1), David Krejci (1), Tyler Seguin (1), Michael Ryder (1), Rich Peverley (1), Steve Kampfer (1), Blake Wheeler (1)

Assists: David Krejci (8), Andrew Ference (4), Milan Lucic (4), Patrice Bergeron (3), Adam McQuaid (3), Nathan Horton (3), Tyler Seguin (2), Dennis Seidenberg (2), Mark Recchi (2), Chris Kelly (2), Michael Ryder (1), Tomas Kaberle (1), Shawn Thornton (1), Zdeno Chara (1), Brad Marchand (1), Rich Peverley (1), Blake Wheeler (1)

Total Points during win streak: Milan Lucic (9), David Krejci (9), Nathan Horton (7), Brad Marchand (4), Patrice Bergeron (4), Adam McQuaid (3), Dennis Seidenberg (3), Mark Recchi (3), Tyler Seguin (3), Michael Ryder (2), Rich Peverly (2), Chris Kelly (2), Blake Wheeler (2), Greg Campbell (1), Steve Kampfer (1), Shawn Thornton (1), Zdeno Chara (1), Tomas Kaberle (1)

- Goaltending -

Tim Thomas: 3-0 record, 1.00 GAA and a save percentage of .964 in 3 games
Tuukka Rask: 4-0 record, 1.75 GAA and a save percentage of .966 in 4 games

- What We Can Take Away -

The top line of Milan Lucic, David Krejci and Nathan Horton were on fire during this 7 game stretch. They combined for 10 goals and 15 assists (25 points) with Lucic and Krejci tied at 9 points a piece. Outside of that, 18 Bruins (one who isn't even on the team anymore) recorded points in the streak. Let's call a spade a spade and just call the offense on fire. The offense wasn't the only thing clicking during this streak. The goaltending was phenomenal and probably the best collection of games we've witness this season. Thomas and Rask both posted a GAA less than 2 and save percentages of over .960. That's quite the accomplishment and really speaks to the level of which the team was playing.

After the jump we look at the losing streak and wrap this sucker up.
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Despite some of his hypocriticalness, we love Don Cherry. Guy's hilarious and has more hockey stories than a zamboni driver.

Over the weekend he laid some verbal smackdown in regards to the Chara hit, including a ontage of turnbuckle hits over the past two decades, and presented an idea on how to make that area of the ice safer, calls Molson's/Habs arena's turnbuckle "a joke" (comparing it to Philly's superthick turnbuckle padding).


The difference between Montreal and Philly's turnbuckle padding is insane. Philly basically strapped a crashpad onto it; Montreal has a pillow. Madenning. But Montreal is really all about "safety first." Bullshit.

Another look at Cherry's turnbuckle design.

Above from PuckDaddy
 
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It's no secret that the DOY staff tends to crap on Kevin Paul Dupont's writing at every turn. From last year's "Savard's going to start tonight because he's skating on the ice this morning" debacle to claiming, this year, that Matt Hunwick would be a great fit back in Boston, he's given us enough material.

But his recent story on the brutality of the NHL is fantastic. Maybe he's just better at these long feature stories and should stay away from the day-to-day, breaking news-like coverage. In the feature he talks about everything from some iffy hits from Habs players, the violence of hockey, Normand Leveille and more.

Here's a few of our favorite excerpts from "Brutality is on display -- but not from Chara":

On Chara being a heat-seeking missle
Perhaps the most remarkable and risible aspect of the whole thing was the reaction of Montreal fans, sycophants, and some media members who attributed such otherworldly powers to Chara that he was able to pick the exact time and place to inflict playercide on Pacioretty and then delivered his hit with GPS-like accuracy.

On Montreal's history
The Habs and their fans also must have erased from the memory bank the hit Guillaume Latendresse delivered to Rob DiMaio in a 2006-07 preseason game, leaving DiMaio addle-brained and never to play again. Where was all the outrage then about playing the game the right way? Hockey's violent
We will say it again, folks, in full voice: Hockey is the most dangerous sport in the world. Unlike in any others, virtually every facet of the game can inflict serious if not devastating injury — the puck, the stick, the skate blade, the boards, the ice, the goal posts, the shoulder pads, the players . . . the list is virtually endless.

On the old-style of NHL play
In the “old’’ game, the prevailing culture among the players was to take an opponent off the puck, separate him from it, mainly to take possession and make a play. Longtime Bruins fans remember when Don Marcotte was assigned to shadow Montreal’s Guy Lafleur. Or when Steve Kasper waited outside Wayne Gretzky’s house on game night in Edmonton, followed him to the rink, all around the ice, then all the way home. A delightful example of strategy, competition, and execution. 

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We obviously didn't do a normal recap last night. We were all out watching the game instead of doing our usual stream of conscience type stuff, ha. We weren't in the mood to photoshop or make funny funny jokes last night.
We like to think we're not the type of fans that overreact or whine about losing streaks. It happens. Teams don't win every game. No NHL team has ever won all 82 games and no team likely ever will.
We feel a bit bad criticizing a team that recently won seven games in a row.
But what we're sick of is the lifeless, heartless efforts. Losing is one thing. But when it looks like a team  just gave up, that we cannot accept as fans.
We didn't do a normal recap because we are fans. Fans don't always put the big picture into perspective. All we can think about is a team that looks mentally weak. The Bruins are skilled. They are. When they are at their best, we'd give them a great chance against any other team in the league. Any team.
What we've seen lately as the intensity ramps up and points become more important is a team that wilts under pressure. A team that does not have the mental fortitude to rise to the occasion. We hope the Bruins prove us wrong. But this is a theme. Not four games. Not a season. A couple seasons now. This type of mental weakness brings up memories of teams that blew two consecutive game 7's against Carolina and Philly. 
The regular season is over in a month. Bruins need to get their shit together. 
We need to get our game together too. Four game losing streaks certainly aren't the end of the world. As a fan it is just frustrating. And right now, we're totally acting like whiny fans. 
Time to move forward though. You didn't come here to lackluster efforts, just like we don't want that from the B's. We'll be back on our game tomorrow. Hopefully the  Bruins are back on their game Tuesday. Add a comment

Last night sucked. What a goddamn embarassment. Yet another two goal lead blown. Here's some highlights from last night's game:


Islanders were stoked Chara was in town. It gave them someone else to boo instead of their own team for once. Awesome. Bring the hate. The hate will only make Chara stronger.


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To this day we wonder who approved of those Islanders jerseys. Awful. But as hockey fans, in a weird way we kind of want to own one.

Bruins are riding a three game losing streak. They played some fairly uninspired hockey against Pittsburgh and Montreal, wilting in playoff atmosphere like games.

They got frustrated last night with all the penalties and lost in OT. Time for a bounce back game.

Islanders are playing strong. You can call me Al Montoya is on fire. They've got points in eight of their last ten games. Time for the Bruins to put the past week behind them and jump back on the winning track.

After the jump... a lazy preview, projected roster, game day links and game day video...
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This post has been on the back burner because of stupid Chara stuff.

But like we said the day after while we nursed our hangover, the game sucked but the viewing party was a blast. We had about 50ish people RSVP for the event; not sure if that many came out but there was very much a sweet crowd there -- some of which came all the way down from NH (dedication!). The entire DOY staff showed up with kid-sized WWF Wrestling Championship belts... our silly gift to ourselves for winning Best Bruins Blog.

We hosted the event alongside our buddy Joe Gill over at Boston Sports Then and Now. He did a great job booking the venue and getting us free apps. He did a recap story of the event, too.

We gave away around 10 t-shirts (from us, SupahFans who are having a sale this weekend, Bottom Line Appearal, and Colleen Keenan), an autograph print of Tyler Seguin's first goal, a Bobby Orr print, a Johnny Boychuk print and a $100 giftcard to the Place which was then promptly spent by the very generous winner. Not a bad night, despite the game.  All-in-all everyone seemed to have a good time and the beer flowed like water. A good atmosphere to watch hockey we think.

If you were at the Bruins-Habs event, let us know what you thought of it. We're thinking of doing another viewing party in the playoffs.

After the jump, lots of pictures of the event... lots of pictures... Greg (@PezDOY) photobombs at least 25% of them...
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A lot has been said about the Chara-Pacioretty incident. We've given our opinions of the hit, we've shown some disturbing images created by a Habs fan that was forwarded to us and talked about some of the antics of the side-show acts going up in Montreal. You'd think Boston nuked Montreal there's so much hate raging up north --  WWIII is upon us. And the classyness of some Montreal fans continued this morning with some folks making Bruins-Japan jokes.


Just wow. Bodies still floating on shore and this assclown's cracking jokes. Truly disturbing.

In short, Montreal Canadiens fans are pissed. We get that. There's a backlog of 911 calls to prove it. But it's one thing to be pissed off at Zdeno Chara and another thing to take that anger and direct it at innocent people. And sadly, it seems like a lot of Habs fans don't seem to know the difference.

We've gotten two emails over the past 48 hours -- a thoughtful note from a Canadiens fan and one from a Bruins fan, both living in the Montreal area. We're going to show both sides of the coin and hopefully some of these Montreal fires will be doused (pun only mildly meant).

We're hoping that after this post we don't have to do another Chara-Pacioretty post. It's getting tiring and it's like beating a dead horse. We've probably contributed to the horse beating, but we think these emails are important to put everything that's gone on this week into context and in hope that people will chill the fuck out.

After the jump... their stories...
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DOY buddy Philip and with his wife are Bruins fans up in Montreal. They sent us this photoshop beauty done by some Habs fan and found on Facebook.


Well, Emperor Palpatine has a message for all you Habs fan suckas:
 
It's a fucking zoo up north.  Add a comment