What a game. Lightning gave the Bruins everything they had. Boston showed Tampa Bay they ain't quite ready for the big time yet. Bruins now in sole posession of second place in the conference and more importantly finish the season series against the Lightning 3-1, winning a key tie breaker should they end up with the same amount of points at the end of the season. 

This game had a little bit of everything. Good action. Good goaltending. Tampa Bay cheapshots. Lucic making Eric Brewer pay for Tampa Bay's cheapshots. Lucic being a beast everywhere on the ice. Bergeron sending Stamkos flying. Boychuk being wanted for murder.


This game had let down written all over it before it started. Bruins aren't great at home this season. They were coming off a six game road trip and facing a good Lightning team. But the Bruins stepped up. They refused to leave the ice without a victory. They hit 30 posts. They didn't stop coming. They scratched and clawed their way to victory. Exactly the type of win you need to learn how to get once the playoffs roll around. 

Win streak hit seven.


We're going streaking.


After the jump.... Lucic is awesome, Thomas is awesome, Boychuk is awesome and Tampa Bay sucks.....

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We got this random email from Mike Mason, the Guardian Project's version of Charlie.

We're not even sure what the point of this email was. There's no links. No additional information. It's now March 3rd and still no further updating from Mason. 

Should we be worried that Deven Dark has caught him? Why is his mask a cross between a knight's helm and a goalie mask? Was this character even part of the NHL All-Star game minishow?

Why are we talking about this still?  Add a comment

First off, BGG has Part 2 of  "The NHL's Most Punchable Faces" post. Be sure to read Part I by us.

Bruins and Lightning are tied for second place in the East. Winner takes it tonight. Tampa's 5-3-2 in last 10; Boston's 7-3-0. Not bad.

Tampa's goal differential is pretty horrid for a second-placed team. Maybe it's because things like this happen:


Bruins also scored eight goals that game. That's the type of shenanigans you get when Mike Smith is in net. It's also when Savard made his comeback debut in Boston.

Marc Savard returned and the Bruins celebrated in grand style. They forgot they played hockey and scored a touchdown. Then gave Tampa Bay the finger and went for the two point conversion. They drove one Lightning goalie from the net and embarrassed the other. They held Stamkos pointless. They held St. Louis pointless.

Sadface. We miss Savvy.

Kalman's going to be hosting a live chat event during the game. We'll probably log in. We're going to try to not ruin this happy even for him. We fear the Kal-Man Clutch.



After the jump... projected roster, game day links and game day video...
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In case you missed it this afternoon, Patrice Bergeron was on Gresh & Zoe. Among a variety of hockey related question -- like the Bruins six road game sweep -- they asked him if he's been following the whole Charlie Sheen saga.

What resulted might be one of the funniest and best Bruins audio clips this season -- Bergeron impersonating Charlie Sheen.

For Download/Stream:
Long version -- Q/A
Short version -- just the impersonation

Fucking brilliant.

Feel free to download the files for your phones and such.

We had to record the clip on our iPhone, email it to ourselves, convert it to an MP3 and then edit it down, so sorry if the quality isn't crystal clear. It was a process. But we do it for you because we love you all. And 'cause we're nuts.  Add a comment

It's no secret that we're hated in Buffalo. We've gotten some angry comments. We've gotten hateful emails. Our lives have been threatened (no lie). We relish this shit like.... relish?

Anyways, there's one Sabres fan who doesn't hate our guts. His name is Phil and he rocks the Black & Blue & Gold Blog. He's going to guest post on DOY next week when Boston takes on Buffalo, but for now we've teamed up with for a two-parter blog post -- The NHL's Most Punchable Faces. We have Part 1. He'll have Part 2 tomorrow, so stay tuned.

How did we come up with this list? Simple. Draft. We each took 6 players in a back-and-forth draft. Our last pick was a Sabre; Phil's was a Bruin.

Our strategy? Draft the NHL Goon Squad... kinda. You'll see what we mean.

We're using the Scott Nichols Sucker Punch rating system.


The more Scott Nichols, the more we want to punch the guy in the face. Simple.

After the jump we go over who the DOY Staff wants to punch in the face... the most. Add a comment

Welcome back to another segment of Grindin' Gears. You will be sad to know there are NO Charlie Sheen references in here because I'm already sick of him. You know what pissing me off this week? Well, ah, actually nothing.

Seriously. SERIOUSLY.

I'll wait for the shock to subside. Look at the past week or so for the Bruins. A win in Calgary, a win in Vancouver and last night was the capper to a 6-0 road trip and Tuukka Rask shutout. On the whole, the Bruins played some excellent hockey on the road -- so what can I get mad at?

Flawless!

I could always sit here and blast the power play, but what's the point? I've done it already and if you've followed this team since Claude has been the head coach you already know that it is his Achilles's Heel.

I could talk about how bad the defense has been, but that'd be a lie because they've played particularly well over the past six games (The Edmonton game can be hit or miss depending your views), but unlike when they played Toronto, they weren't allowing guys like Iginla or the Ginger twins to split defenses and score goals.

The fact of the matter is that the Bruins have played good hockey when they need to play good hockey. Because of this 6-0 road trip the Bruins have tied Tampa Bay for second in the Eastern Conference (side note: this makes the match up on Thursday very important) and have a six point lead over Montreal for control in the Northeast Division (with a game on hand).

After the jump, we look at the upcoming schedule and a nice DKM rant...

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This recap is brought to you by the number 6:


Not the best game, nor the most exciting (more on that later), but a win is a win, and the Bruins have won six of the straight.  Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably already heard several comparisons to the last season that the Bruins won six straight on the road.  Not sure if we're ready to go that far yet, but it's still nice to think about...
No denying that the Bruins looked tired tonight. If it weren't for Tuukka and an inexperienced Senators team, the game could have easily looked very different.  The Bs aren't going to have a whole lot of time to rest either with games coming up on both Thursday and Saturday.  For now though, we're content with basking in the glow of a six game road sweep.


After the jump: A rather dull first two periods, and Chris Neil sucks. Add a comment

We're not much for celebrity gossip or news, but how can you not love Charlie Sheen right now?

The guy is pure genious. This is the best PR stunt since that guy that played in Gladiator and Johnny Cash. 


He's easily surppassed Jack Edwards as the most crazily quotable person in America.

"I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time — and this includes naps — I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground."

"There's a new sheriff in town. And he has an army of assassins."

"I'm not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy."

“The only thing I’m addicted to right now is winning.”

In fact, we can't wait until he lands a book deal.



What does this have to do with hockey and the NHL Trade Deadline? Simple.

Winning. And bi-winning.

No one is more an expert on the art of winning than Charlie Sheen is right now. He's a prophet. And so we're looking at the losers and the Charlie Sheen's of the East. 

The rating scale is simple. The more Charlie Sheens you see, the more winning that team did at the deadline. Five Sheens is max.. though there could be more since he's an assassin. Never know with Sheen.

After the jump... the Charlie Sheens and the Losers of the Eastern Conference...
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The trade deadline has come and gone, and the Bruins won't look any different from how they did the past few games, not surprising really given the trades made leading up to the deadline day.

Ottawa made one final trade yesterday, sending Campoli to the Blackhawks for AHL player Ryan Potulny and a 2nd round pick in the 2011 draft.  Campoli joins Fisher, Kelly, Ruutu, Elliott, and Kovalev in being the member of the Ottawa Senators that have been traded away in the past few weeks.


Ottawa certianly isn't any stronger this year after making the trades, but they'll be pretty busy in this year's draft.  Who knows? If they draft well, maybe they'll be decent in two to four years.  We just shudder to think of what the Senator's AHL team must look like with so many starters gone.


After the jump, Bruins are awesome, Charlie Sheen wins. Add a comment

Regrettably, much of the Days of Y'Orr crew missed last night's Bruins game against the Edmonton TaylorHalls. We hate missing Bruins games. But Flogging Molly only comes around once a year, so sacrifices had to be made.

We got home from the show and decided to wind down with a little internet time. Check hockey scores. Check email. Curse our fantasy hockey teams and threaten to trade everyone. Then we checked Twitter.

We had tons of messages about NESN using one of our photoshops. We had made a couple of mock movie posters using The Fighter as inspiration. We make mock movie posters a lot around here. They of course featured Shawn "Wayne" Thornton.

We were scrambling to see if anyone had any screen caps of this whole NESN business. But as we scrolled through our Twitter messages more, the truth came out. NESN had not used our photoshop, but rather a ripoff of what we had done. It was at this point we received a text message from DOY GM Patrice Purrgeron that simply said "It is on, bitches."

Purrgeron gathered the troops.


The war song was played.



After the jump.... we go to battle!!!!!!!
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