I think by the time you are in the Finals, every game is a must win, but words can not describe the importance of a Game 5 with the series tied at 2-2. The team that wins tonight will be playing for the Stanley Cup on Monday with momentum on their side. Bruins win, then then Vancouver will have three losses in a row in the back of their minds. Vancouver wins, then the wind will be sucked right out of the Bruins, who without a doubt have turned this series in their favor after embarrassing the Canucks two games in a row.
Thankfully, if there was ever a time to beat Vancouver at home, it'd be now. Luongo isn't exactly a pillar of mental fortitude, and after chasing him out of the net by scoring 12 goals in 2 games, he's shaken. Not to mention that we're in at least half of the team's heads by now. They can't score on Thomas, and they can't get into his head.
Vancouver will keep doing what they do, take little slashes at Thomas, act like big tough guys while little Marchand and Seguin are around, but the second anyone close to their size comes over, they'll drop to the ice and suck their thumbs like the whiny babies they are. Which is fine, we want them to do that, hasn't worked for them the past few games, and the Bruins aren't taking any of their shit.
When it's all over, win or lose, the Canucks will find a reason to cry in the arms of the NHL and suckle on their teet like a hungry newborn.
After the jump, what's the DOY crew up to for the game?
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Somehow, in between all the crying about the Bruins being physical, the ice being slippery and the sky being blue, Vaginault finds time to bitch about Timmy coming out of his crease as well as being a physical force.
But Timmy dishing out hits like it's a give-a-way bag at a 10-year-old's birthday party isn't new.
Here in Boston we're used to Timmy laying some smackdown on bitches when called upon.
Here are Timmay's Greatest Hits.
Let's start with the most recent ones.
Thomas retaliates to Burrows; gives him Waffle Sandwhich After Burrows hatchet jobs the butt-end of Timmy's stick, Thomas exacts some revenge with a nice slash across Burrow's legs. Burrows doesn't like this. Sadly, he's not smart enough to realize what a horrible idea this is.
If this was the Lucic slashing LOLongo's stick out of his hands, we're sure Vaginault would've been crying over goalie interference or some bullshit. Thomas just takes matters into his own hands. Stud.
It's like America's Top 40 after the jump... the hits keep on coming.
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Before I get all in the recap like Val Venis, I would like to thank the cblog peeps for coming around. Your cheers are much appreciated. One of our readers, Garrett Breton, was last night 8 spoked salute. I met him at the Days of Y'Orr/Boston Sports Then & Now party and he's a great dude. Congrats on being on the salute and thanks for risking your life to keep guys like DOY safe. Semper Fi, Marine.
Someone should tell the Vancouver Canucks that they're in the Stanley Cup Finals. By the way they skated last night you'd think that this was game 65 and they already clinched their division. No heart, no passion, no emotion and it's not surprising. The Canucks are twats, their coach is a giant twat, their captain is a red-headed twat and their goalie is a greasy twat. Alex Burrows is an untalented twat, Tanner Glass is a goony twat and Ryan Kesler is a yapping twat. In short, the Bruins dominated the Canucks.
They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, so I'd like to start my recap off with this:
Really that's the only thing you need to know. That image of Thomas giving Burrows the "Popeye's Chicken 2 piece combo" was 20 seconds or so of what Boston did to Vancouver all night. It started with Patrice Bergeron getting a cross check to the face when the puck dropped and unlike the Canucks, Patrice didn't run his mouth. He continued playing at a high level, something that the likes of Ryan Kesler hasn't done since the San Jose Sharks series.
11:59 into the game, Rich Peverley found himself on a breakaway and squeaked the puck through Luongo's greasy five hole for a 1-0 lead. The play happened because of an extra effort from David Krejci, who was able to poke the puck away from one of the Sedins while Peverley used his speed to blow past a Canucks defender and finished. Boom. Period. 1-0 Bruins.
Even with a 1-0 lead, the teams headed into the first intermission still in a game. The Bruins dominated the period, yes, but the Canucks were hanging around. That's all they really need to do before their offense wakes up, right? Wrong.
Enter the second period. At 11:11, Michael Ryder pulled off an eyelash and made a wish to score a goal. Wish granted. After a Canuck misplay with the puck, Tyler Seguin sent a beautiful cross ice pass to Ryder, who was streaking up the left side and fired a shot at about the left face off dot high glove side over Luongo. Beautiful man. Just beautiful.
Not to be outdone, Moshmont scored less than two minutes later. Zdeno Chara does a great job of keeping the play alive and Bergeron is doing the dirty work in the corners. Puck ends up in a great position for Marchand, who burys it. 3-0 Bruins.
In the third period, Rich Peverley scored his second goal of the night. {Inner Don Cherry} LISTEN UP KIDS, GOOD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU SKATE TO THE NET {/Inner Don Cherry}
Alright, that's out of the way, now time for the good stuff. The Canucks are the biggest pussies I've ever had the displeasure of watching in my life. Worst than the actual team, the fans. A hockey website I frequent is full of Canucks fans who think they're coaching the team are HORRIBLE. Anyways, fuck them. The diving from the Sedins is incredible. When the series started, I thought Vancouver was a hard working team. Boy was I wrong. They're the fucking Montreal Canadiens of the West. Shitty fans and a bunch of cry babies. Chara said it best on the bench last night.
Maybe it's not that Vancouver is playing bad but Boston is playing out of their minds good. Tim Thomas is a fucking stud. Vancouver couldn't solve him if they bought the Tim Thomas strategy guide from Gamestop for $12.99. It's a testament to how good he truly is, which is funny because no one ever gives him the respect he deserves. I'm sure Timmy is cool with that when he's sleeping next to his multiple Vezina trophies and cheating on them with the Stanley Cup. Alain Vinaigrette can complain about Thomas all he wants, but the fact of the matter is that if he was given the choice between Timmy and Borat's retarded, greasy cousin I'm sure he'd pick Thomas.
The Bruins head back to Vancouver with the series tied at 2 games a piece, but are they really tied? The first two games was a crap shoot and Vancouver luckily came away with those wins. Games three and four were a fucking beating that made Ike Turner pitch a pants tent, roll over in bed and slap the shit out of the pillow next to him for old time's sake.
Going back to Vancouver 2-2 is a big difference than going back there down 3-1. Bruins have a chance to tie this series up and really grab hold of momentum.
We'd love to see the Bruins score a quick goal. Get into LOLongo's head early.
Timmy's already in Alain Vaginault's head. He's probably in Henrik's head, too, after that monster of a check in front of his net.
Lots of crying coming from Vancouver today. Lots of excuses. Good. Make excuses.
Some Canuck tool called the Bruins bullies. Grow a pair. This is the Stanely Cup Finals, not the playground sandbox. CKNW radio host this morning described Vancouver as ballet dancers on the ice. We personally want to watch hockey, not Disney on Ice. That's just us.
It's not going to be easy though. No Horton is huge but provides a focal point for the Bruins. A rallying point around a fallen comrade.
Tonight we'll get to see the Bruins bust some ass on the ice.
“We’ve asked the league, obviously,” Vigneault said. “Part of Thomas’ way of playing is playing out of the blue paint, initiating contact, roaming out there. He seems to think that once he’s out, he’s set and makes the save, that he can go directly back in his net without having anybody behind him. That’s wrong. He’s got the wrong rule on that.
“If we’re behind him, then that’s our ice. We’re allowed to stay there. We’ve talked to the NHL about that. We’ve talked to the NHL about him initiating contact, like he did on Hank, and they’re aware of it. Hopefully they’re going to handle it.”
Henceforth Vigneault shall be referred to as Vaginault.
Where's the Wahbulance? Maybe Vaginault can jump in with Lindy Ruff and Tampa Bay fans. Holy shit. Grow some balls, dude.
Vaginault is just pissed Timmy Thomas can throw better clean (and legal) hits than anyone on his team.
We're starting a "Tampons for Vaginault" pledge drive tonight at our DOY Game 4 Rally.
We had so much fun hanging out with the Bruins fans and heckling Canucks fans that we're doing it again today!
Be on the lookout for us by the Orr statue holding up signs, handing out flyers, and being awesome. We should be there between 5:30 and 7:30ish, at which time we're going to scatter to either head into the Garden for the game or try to get a seat at a bar. Maybe I'll even stay awake for pictures this time.
If you're having a hard time seeing us, just listen for the Sami Salo jokes, they always seem to get the Vancouver fans a little testie (get it? get it?)
Detective Rex and his sidekick Patrice Purrgeron get a call from Peter Chiarelli. Lord Stanley's Cup has gone missing and there's very few clues to go on. Where is it? Who stole it? And why?
Rex, Purrgeron and the rest of the Boston Bruins Private Eye gang go on the hunt to find the Stanley Cup and bring it back where it rightfully belongs...
So you know how sometimes you're sitting there and you're saying to yourself "there is no way Vancouver could possibly get any dumber?" Well, you'd be wrong. Just like we were wrong. Vancouver is making Montreal (the city, the fans, the organization, etc) look so much better. We're actually starting to hate Vancouver in the same way that we hate Montreal.
Yesterday we started discussing why Vancouver is so very dumb. Today, we present you with several more cases on why Vancouver just might be the dumbest city in the world and why their players just might be more cowardly and stupid than Montreal.
CASE #1
As you know, a few Vancouver newspapers have taken some interest in Days of Y'Orr during the Finals. Apparently some fans were really upset about our Sedins-Garden Gnomes Hockey Rules poster because apparently the citizens of Vancouver are largely made up of whiny little babies. Enough people were upset that the Vancouver Province even did a page three story on the poster.
So what is dumb about the Canucks fans response? So many, many things. Come along with us as we review, okay?
The most dumb thing a Canuck fan said while being interviewed about this was the quote in the sidebar. If you can't read it, it says:
"We have our green guys, they can have their gnomes. Ours are better. We have original stuff." ~ some idiot.
Read that quote a couple of times. Let it sink in. The green men are better than gnome jokes because they are "original." Really now?
Listen, we know Vancouver is behind the times. After all, they still think Roberto Luongo's Jheri Curl, greasy ass hair style is new and hip. But the green men are far from original. There's this little show called Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia that Vancouver's green men stole the idea from. And hundreds and hundreds of fans across the NHL dressed up in green spandex to imitate this before these two fools did it in Vancouver. They are far from original. Just because you get TV shows ten years after everyone else doesn't mean it is original.
After the jump.... we present several more cases to you fine readers.....
Nathan Horton was released from the hospital earlier today after receiving a severe concussion.
More good news. He remembered it was Lucic's birthday today.
"I talked to Horton today and he wished me a happy birthdy. So its good that he remembered"
No word on what Horton got Looch though. We're guessing Looch will take a live and relatively well Horton as enough of a gift. Their bromance is beautiful.
In other news, Rome is suspended the rest of the series. Finally the NHL gets it right.
Ballard will replace Rome in the line-up. Let's expose that beautiful Ballard-Alberts pairing, Boston.
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These guys were hilarious. Totally blew our signs out of the water. Made us look like amateur chumps.
Speaking of our signs, thanks to the DOY readers who stopped by and said hi, took pics. You all rock. Send us pics --
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