Days of Y'Orr and the Two Patrice's want to wish everyone a happy (and maybe slightly intoxicated) Saint Patrick's Day!

To quote Boondock Saints: "Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day."

 

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I'm not in the greatest mood today, so I doubt this is going to be nice. However, if you got the Star Wars refence in the title; congrats. So the Bruins won last night in Columbus but let's be honest, it was a game they shouldn't have won. They stole that fucking game from the Blue Jackets and high tailed it out of Columbus before all five Blue Jackets fans began a protest. Even during that game, it took fucking miracles to prevent Columbus from scoring. Between Rask making Superman-type saves and Tomas Kaberle playing back-up goalie, the Bruins still had to go to a shootout to beat Columbus. Days of Y'Orr laid out the statistics out for everyone on the losing streak compared to the 7 game winning streak they were on prior to the game against Pittsburgh. Although Boston won last night, they only scored 2 goals (goal number 3 was because they won the shootout) which is their average per game while losing.

It's a sad state of affairs in Boston lately. Last night the Bruins killed six penalties and had one power play that last a whole five seconds. A lot of people are getting ready to jump on the officiating, but the discipline by Boston needs to be better. Case in point, Bergeron's interference call on the power play was a stupid mistake on his part. Sure, Calvert dove twice which allowed Columbus to get on the power play, but even if you take those two penalties out of the equation, Boston still have to kill four of them.

After the jump, I rant like a lunatic some more...
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Brad Marchand plays on the edge. He's a pest and loves to get into people's faces. He's a thorn in Bruins opponent's side and that's one of the reasons we love him -- that and his surprisingly offensive skill set. Alas, when you dance on the edge of a dagger you're bound to get cut.

And Marchand's going to feel the NHL's blade after this hit.


No penalty on the play which is pretty surprising. This is textbook Rule-48 headshot. Not much talk of the play during the game but after the game, Umberger said:

 "I haven't seen it, but I've heard he might have left his feet with an elbow," Umberger said. "That's what it felt like . . . You got to think that's one of the hits we are trying to eliminate whether it's inadvertent or not."

Not sure who said Marchand left his feet, but he did lead with an elbow. It wasn't like Marchand threw a flying elbow or anything.


Still, no way Brado gets off scottfree on this play, especially after the NHL let Chara off with a pat on the butt and a "Good hustle." Bruins are under a microscope now. All the penalties being thrown their way over the course of the last two games is evidence of that. This hit is worth probably two games at worst (no injury), a fine and a wag of the finger at best.

Only way Brado gets off completely free is if the NHL decide it was one of his four brothers who took his place on the ice during that shift. Obvious candidate:


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Well before we say anything about the game...Ryder was a scratch tonight, for the first time as a Bruins.  They were about 150 games too late on that, but hey, good to see Julien scratch a forward who isn't Paille or Seguin...especially when it's Ryder!  A lot of people have been waiting a long time to see Julien hold him accountable.


What makes it all the more sweeter is that Seguin had a direct impact in the outcome of the game.  Sure it was in a shootout, but that's still two points he helped you earn.

Anyone who watched the game will tell you that it sure as hell wasn't pretty, in face there were some points where it seemed that the Bruins weren't going to come away with any points.  There were some bad defensive breakdowns, and the offense didn't help much (although Mason played fantastic tonight, so it's hard to put too much blame on them).

After the jump: We look at the good, bad, and ugly.
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Montreal Canadiens fans are going to be protesting outside the Bell Centre tonight to protest hockey violence.

Obviously this is just a coincidence that one of their own was injured. This protest against hockey violence was planned way in advance because of the slew of other hockey hitting related injuries...

...oh wait, it wasn't? Ah shit.

According to The Canadian Press:

The league decided not to penalize Bruins defenceman Zdeno Chara, who got a game misconduct from a referee after hurling Pacioretty into a stanchion during an on-ice incident last week.

So we've gone from Chara trying to decapitate Pacioretty to Big Z picking Pac up and hurling him into the turnbuckle. Good to know; not sure which is worse.

We love to hate him but Bruce Boudreau had some nice quotes this afternoon on TSN.ca:

"You don't like it, don't come to the games. Listen, I don't want to get into any controversy, but if that was Hal Gill that hit David Krejci, I don't think there'd be a protest going on here tonight. I think the players realize that they could get hurt. They don't want to do it, but unless you've played and see what goes on and at the speed of the game, you're not going to be able to argue with it."

Anyways, we're sure it'll be a very peaceful gathering of Habs fans:



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As much as we love hockey here at Days Of Y'Orr, there are a few teams out there that in all honesty we just aren't too familiar with.  The Blue Jackets are one of them.

We do know a few things though, for one, Steve Mason used to be really good in the 08-09 season...and then he ruined some of our fantasy goal tending stats in the 09-10 season.

We also know that we can't say Rick Nash's name without saying "I'm Rick Nash bitch!".  Don't get it? YouTube "Rick James Bitch" and thank us later.


This is one of those games that the Bruins probably should win.  Columbus isn't an overly talented team (with a few exceptions) and we're hoping to see the Bruins start to come out of their funk.  Sadly the numbers are working against Boston as they've lost 5 of their 9 games against the Blue Jackets since they entered the NHL.

After the jump: Those Canadiens are getting into mischief again...
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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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