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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We're not doing a real recap for this game.

Not gonna lie, we really didn't catch most of it. Half the DOY staff was at the Flogging Molly concert and the other half only caught part of the game, so doing a full recap would be pointless. 

Bruins win 5 in a row. Mambo #5 came into our heads but we won't make you suffer with that video, but here's a quick image.



Rumor has it that NESN did a Bruins Movie Awards spoof last night. We got like 100 tweets and emails about it. Sadly, we didn't see it, but 100 people can't be lying. NESN is totally stealing our schtik. The DOY Staff might have to go to war. Anyone have still images of video of the actual bit? We'd love to actually see it for ourselves.

Also, thanks to everyone who said our photoshops are better... you know how to make us feel all warm and mushy inside.

Purrgeron is pissed.

Some items of note from last night's game:

• Peverly got his first goal as a Bruins. Kelly got an assist. All the new Bruins have points already.
• As our buddy Cornelius points out, Boston is 4-0-0 in the Kaberle Era
• Marchand got his first fight in the NHL. Not a fantastic fight, but the Cogliano is Brado's height when on his knees.

• Lots of noise being made about the Looch-Vandermeer fight. Not 100% sure why. Looch didn't look like his heart was in it. Vandermeer was all smiles. Still not a bad bout. Seen much better.
• McGratten and Zimmerman got shipped off in an AHL deal -- SomethingsBruin has the details.
• Rumor has it Brule never made it out of the parking lot for his cheap hit on Boychuk after the whistle and sans helmet.

Here are the highlights:

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages -- Days of Y'Orr proudly presents to you the match-up you've all been waiting for. Since June 2010, these two combatants have been compared up and down, left and right, sideways and rightways. For a long time coming we've thought of the days that these two would meet in the iced oval and tonight we are able to bring that to you.

Coming down the aisle, weighing in at 194 lbs, he hails from Calgary, Alberta, Canda. He is the number one overall pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. He is...TAYYYYYYYYYYYYYLORRRRRRRRRRR HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL



And his opponent, weighing in at 182 lbs, he checks in from Brampton, Ontario, Canada. He's known as "The Kid" and was the number two pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. Stepping into the iced oval, here is TYLERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGUINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN



So here we are, the top two picks in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft are facing each other and both are going down some very extreme paths. If we were to look at personal statistics, Hall blows Seguin out of the water.

Hall: 62 games played, 21 goals, 19 assists, 40 points, -8, 8 power play goals, 18:18 minutes per game
Seguin: 56 games played, 10 goals, 11 assists, 21 points, +1, 1 power play goal, 12:18 minutes per game

More on Tyler vs. Taylor after the jump...
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It's official. The Boston Bruins signed Sheriff Shane Hnidy to a one-year deal. And just in time since Ference went down with an "undisclosed lower body injury" last night -- a ULBI smells an awful like another groin injury to everyone in Boston. 

Still, Hnidy is at least a month away from being game-ready. We're partially stoked because, if ever sees playing time, we'll get do a ton of western/cowboy photoshops for DOY. Like this:


We turn it now to Brian Fantana who has been following Hnidy closely this week.

"Thanks guys! The signing gives the Bruins depth on D for a cheap rate which is always good when you're up against the cap. And if last night shows us anything, with Ference and Boychuk leaving the ice, more defense is better than no defense. The only difference between Boychuk and Ference is Boychuk is a beast and Ference has a glass made of groin... or is it the other way around?

Anyways.... Sure, Hnidy might end up being  the defensive version of Paille but the real problem is what am I to do now that Hnidy Watch 2011 is over? Think he'll take me on as his deputy?"

Prooooobably not. Back to the unemployment line for you... at least until the playoffs where we'll debut PLAYOFF BEARD WATCH! Dum-dum-duuuuuum!

To commemorate the (re)signing of Shane Hnidy, we've created a special Sheriff Hnidy t-shirt, in the same spirit as our Captain Ference one.


After the jump... video interview with the Sheriff.
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Stupid night games!  We need our beauty sleep!  Can't really complain much about staying up for this game though.  Obviously it's not fair to judge a team based on one game, but when that one game is a road win against the top team in the NHL, then that says something.  With this win, the Bruins take 4 wins straight  on this road trip.

Lucic had a fantastic showing, getting a goal and two assists in front of his hometown crowd.  Saying that Timmy Thomas was great is getting a little redundant, but we don't care.  Please, please keep him rested Bruins.

Before the game started, Brickley called the Bruins "Road Warriors".  Hell, we've been saying that for months.  Once the playoffs come along, is it possible to forfiet home ice advantage? Please?


Also, did you know that Daniel and Henrik Sedin are not only brothers, but twins as well??  We're just going to assume that nobody knew with the number of times that it was talked about.  


After the jump: we break down the periods.
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The Ginger.

The term alone should send a shudder down your spine so cold it will freeze your internal organs.

For those who are not familar with the term "ginger", I would say its time to leave your parents basement and get out into the sun. A ginger is someone with red hair and/or freckles. Often times, gingers also posess no soul though medical experiments are still being done as to why the soul does not enjoy bushy red hair, pale skin and freckles.

So you may be reading this asking yourself why we're harping on the ginger term. Well folks, Vancouver seems to be a nesting ground of sorts for gingers. In fact, we now have...

TWIN GINGERS!

I know. We're frightened too.

Now you may think that I'm overblowing this topic, but the ginger has magical powers that us "normies" don't  possess. Don't believe me? How do you think the Vancouver Canucks were able to draft the Sedin twins #2 and #3 overall IN THE SAME DRAFT?! It surely couldn't have been the work of someone like Brian Burke...that was just an NHL cover-up for ginger magic! How else do you think these souless wonders are playing well? It certainly isn't skill. It's...ginger magic!

This ginger magic is the sole reason that the Canucks are sitting atop the West with a record of 39-14-9 and 87. It should also be noted that the Sedin twins are first and third in the league in points. Daniel leads the NHL with 78 points while Henrik is third with 73. Coincidence? You'd like to think so.

In an effort to control the ginger magic flying out of Vancouver like it was fucking Hogwarts, Days of Y'Orr has dispatched black and gold anti-ginger jerseys to the Bruins in hopes that they will be able to combat any and all spells the Sedins try to put on the referees and/or team. It should also be known that Shane Hnidy has a Masters Degree in Anti-Gingite, which is the sole reason Peter Chiarelli is using him on a "try-out" basis.

After the jump... we just might talk hockey... oh and the usual game day links, video and projected roster...
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