Here we are Bruins fans. It has been a long road, but for the second year in a row the B's are one win away from the Eastern Conference Finals. Just another step on the road to redemption.

Some of you out there are saying wah wah but last year they were up 3-0 and they lost wah wah. Get the fudge outta here. Now. That was last year. New year, new attitude.


The best possible thing that could've happened to the Bruins was that first round seven game series against Montreal. It mentally and physically prepared them for the grind of these playoffs. It taught them how to win, how to close. How to go for the throat.

Look at the Bruins. Look at how they came out and put their foot on the Flyers throat and kept it there. By the time the Flyers lucked out and beat Tim "God" Thomas for their only goal the game was well in hand. This is a different Bruins team. Maybe Philly wins Game 4 for pride. Maybe. But the Bruins are playing their best hockey of the season at the right time. Don't even come at us with the collapse word. Go watch baseball or something if that is your attitude.

We're not going to talk about last year here. That has been beat to death. The Bruins have a chance to clinch Friday. Your productiviy is going to be below zero the next couple of days. You're going to watch Marchand and Boychuk literally destroy Philly over and over until the puck drops for Game 4. You're going to watch each one of Thomas' 52 saves in Game 2.

Don't get cocky, but get excited. The Bruins appear to have finally learned their lesson from past failures. That doesn't guarantee a Cup or an Eastern Conference Finals win. But they are giving us more reason to be excited than they have in years. Going to be a long, long couple of days.

After the jump.... Thomas is a god, Marchand and Boychuk will destroy you and Bruins love faceoffs.....

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Props to Sean T. who came up with the YES WE CAN idea. Also, happy birthday, dude! Add a comment

We regret to inform you that we will not be hosting a chat this evening. Purrgeron is off covering a Philly-NBC wedding and the Days of Y'Orr staff will be attending tonight's game.

We f'ing love these chats but we couldn't turn down free playoff tickets, especially against the Flyers.

However, we encourage those of you who usually participate in our chats to use the comments section of this post to get together and do what you usually do in the chat! We'll be back in action for Game Four. Here's to hoping the Bruins are up 3-0 after tonight's game! Add a comment

Boston's back home with a 2-0 lead. Not gonna lie. We're a little surprised by that. We figure it'd be 1-1 heading back to Boston. And the way the seconed game went it could've easily been 1-1 series.

Bs have a chance to put their skates at the Flyers throats tonight with a win. If Boston thought the Flyers came out hard Monday night, they'll be coming out twice as hard tonight. A 3-0 hole would be devestating. Sure they came back from it last year but we're not sure lightning can strike twice for Filthadelphia. Not with Thomas in net.


New Bear ad outside the Garden. Last year it was Philly girl's facial hair. This year the Bear attacks Philadelphia's health. 


Oh that zany bear.

Rumor floating around that Richards was trash talking McQuaid while he was sprawled on the ice. Wouldn't surprise us. Richards is a douche.

We're hoping Darth Quaider comes out tonight to dim lights and the Vader theme song. Maybe some special effects, pyro. Whole shebang.

Rumor also floating around that Boucher is in net to start the game. Flyers coach hasn't made an announcement on who'll be starting the second period though. *rimshot*


After the jump... more preview stuff...
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New video popped up on BostonBruins.com recently about the famous (or infamous?) old school Bruins jacket that has been passed around the locker room more than Elisha Cuthbert in the NHL. It's been going to whoever shined the most that particular game.

King of the moment, if you will.

That jacket is a thing of beauty. Glad to see that Ference not only recycles soda cans, but also old hockey jackets.


Love how it looked uglier online. Visachi?  Of course.

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Listening to VERSUS verbally fellate JVR was painful to listen to last night, especially since Thomas was putting on a clinic and no one in the VERSUS booth seemed to notice (or care). Lame.

Anyways, it made us yearn (oddly enough) for Jack Edwards and his crazy rants. He might be an insane lunatic , but he's our insane lunatic.

Someone had the brilliant idea of taking his Canadien Royalty speech after Game 7 and turn it into a video.


Huge props to Houses of the Hockey for this. Be sure to check our their post to get their take. Add a comment

Patrice Purrgeron here with an eye in the sky and an ear to the ground looking to keep the readers of Days of Y'Orr informed with any and all information. Ah Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, the birthplace of freedom, cheese steaks and throwing batteries at athletes. Only in a city where a fake athlete is king will the citizens boo a magical person like Santa Clause but cheer for Charles Barkley and Mike Vick. After watching the television love affair between one James van Riemsdyk and Versus, I flew to Philadelphia to track down the couple to get an interview to find out what was going on. The readers of this website need to be informed and who am I to deny them of this information?

My trip first began at the Logan International Airport where I was greeted by the lovely people of TSA. At first, I had no issues with these lovely chaps until they asked me where I was going. Once I mentioned Philadelphia, their disgusted and horrified looks said it all. I stepped through the metal detector, which went off because of my highly stylish collar that I forgot to take off. Once the alarm went off, I was surrounded by five or six TSA members asking multiple questions. I felt violated, but not before the TSA member said it was time for a pat down.


Once the pat down was over and I felt violated, the TSA official looked at me and said "This is nothing compared to Philadelphia." Foreshadowing? Possibly.

After the jump, is it always sunny in Philadelphia? Purrgeron finds out...
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You can find some online live streams here.

Pre- Game Day Essentials: 

• Philly is trying to be like Boston. How sweet. 
• Our game day preview.
• Haggs: Lucic ready to break out.
• Flyers Goal Scored By game preview.
• Kalman: Bruins aren't battling for credit. *shrugs*

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Philadelphia has finally realized how crummy it is. It's most popular sub can be made by a six-year-old and it's greatest athlete isn't even real.

So it's really no surprise that Filthadelphia has decided to rework it's image and what better city to copy than Boston?

First, Philadelphia threw a tea party today, a la Boston 1773 style.

 
They even printed shirts to memorate the occasion!

 
Shit. Can you imagine the colonialists comemorating the original tea party with customized puffy shirts, snuff boxes or powder wigs? Awesome.

The Game 2 shirts also has Boston written all over it.



The anti-Flyers Thumbs Down t-shirt is like 100x cooler than this.

We approve of the Jayne hat the guy in the back left is wearing though.

Flyers fans, like our Bogluin brethren Flyers Goal Scored By, aren't stoked by the Boston-feel events and give aways the Flyers are doing.



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If someone was going to tell me that the Bruins would score seven goals in one game against the Flyers, I probably would have laughed at them. This is the same team that had a lot of trouble shooting the puck on Carey Price, let alone putting the puck behind him. If the same person finished that sentence with "...and the Bruins still wouldn't score on the power play." I would have just nodded and sighed because the power play is still an atrocity.

Well the Bruins looked really good on Saturday while the Flyers looked really bad. What's that mean? It means Boston probably played as good as it can while the Flyers weren't even close. I think we won't see another 7-3 victory anytime soon. I think we'll see more 4-3, 3-2 games, but Philly's goaltending is suspect. Finally, a team that has really avoided getting a goalie for the past 10 years has their ass bitten by the problem. Saturday showed that the most vulnerable position for the Flyers is between the pipes and for Boston to continue winning, they need to keep shooting the puck. Doing this extra pass bullshit isn't going to cut it because the Flyers goaltending isn't good. You don't need to get the goalie moving laterally because Boucher is liable to give up huge rebounds. Two of the five goals he let in were directly related to rebounds, something the Canadiens capitalized early on in round one against Tim Thomas.

I would expect much of the same from the Bruins tonight. The Bruins need to continually attack the net. If they are able to garner some traffic in front of either Boucher or Bobrovski then put shots on net and clean up rebounds, they have a fighting chance. Right now the Philadelphia defense is vulnerable, especially with Chris Pronger still healing from his right wrist/hand injury. Saturday Boston took a big lead and never lifted their foot from the gas pedal and didn't allow the Flyers to come back in the game. They brought their A game and stuck to a plan which worked out.

Wait, you mean if you go up big and still attack a team, you can win hockey games? I'm astonished!

The power play still looks dreadful but the Philadelphia power play doesn't look any better, which is a good thing. At least when Philly goes up a man, the Bruins will have an easier time killing it off than they did against the Canadiens. Every time Montreal went on the power play, you knew a goal was coming out of it. When Philly goes on the power play, its really a craps shoot, which is nice.

Boston is in control so far in this series. If they're able to win Game 2 and go back home it will put them in a good position, but we've seen this movie before. I know that last year is different but it still happened. This Bruins team is definitely different but that series should always linger in the back of the mind of the fans. It was crushing man and I don't think I could deal with that again.

If the Bruins go up 2-0, at least Philly still has their women.

 

After the jump, projected roster and game day links...

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