-Vintage Canuck- Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 @markhmasters Lupul on Bruins: 'We got to combat their experience with some of our youth & energy' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gross-Misconduct Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 I gave TO a game Bruins in 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aca11 Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 I hope this goes to game 7 with each team knocking the sh$t out of each other. So who ever wins the series, will be swept in the second round with no gas left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFCanuck Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Toronto playing against franchise players that they traded. Tuuka Rask traded for Andrew Raycroft Tyler Seguin and Dougie Hamilton traded for Phil Kessel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFCanuck Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 @markhmasters Lupul on Bruins: 'We got to combat their experience with some of our youth & energy' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van_City123 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Leafs will grind it out in 7 hard fought games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucks#01fan Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Leafs in seven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashi Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Bruins win series 4-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Leafs need Kessel’s stick to do some talking: Phil Kessel got an early start on his disappearing act against the Boston Bruins on Monday. The usual large mob of media types stood in a semi-circle in the Toronto Maple Leafs dressing room after sending a request through the team’s media-relations staff for the reluctant star to discuss his least favourite NHL team. After a half-hour, word came down that once again, Kessel would not be talking. Now, it is easy to say the inarticulate winger lets his game do his talking – but this is hardly the case against the Bruins, who have owned the Leafs since they traded Kessel to Toronto in September of 2009. Kessel may be the Leafs’ leading scorer again this season (20 goals, 52 points), but he registered zeros in four games against the Bruins. In the 22 games Kessel, 25, played against his former team since the infamous trade, he has three goals and nine points and is a minus-22. The Bruins may have spent the last few weeks of the regular season stumbling as badly as the Leafs, but in their last 37 games against Toronto, the Bruins are 25-6-6. Those numbers offer no comfort to Leafs fans, with Toronto’s first playoff series in nine years starting in Boston on Wednesday. If the Leafs are to finally wrestle the Bruins demon to the ice, they need Kessel to finally wrestle his Bruins demon to the ice – in this case Zdeno Chara, the enormous defenceman who always shadows him. Kessel’s great reluctance to play in Boston is obvious all the way up to the press box in the TD Garden rafters. That is why that large group of reporters was standing around the Leafs dressing room for so long Monday. Kessel never has anything to say on the rare occasions he is pushed in front of the media. But just this once he needed to show up, even for a minute, and say something like: Yes, there is nothing I would like better than to step up and lead the way past the Bruins by getting the better of Chara for once. Instead, he once again left his teammates to do the talking. “I know he wants to have a statement series,” said Nazem Kadri, who may or may not be the centre on the Leafs’ No. 1 line between Kessel and James van Riemsdyk for Game 1 of the Bruins series. That will depend on the health of Tyler Bozak, who is thought to have a shoulder injury. While head coach Randy Carlyle described Bozak as “day-to-day,” general manager David Nonis said he expects Bozak to play. Nonis was also more equivocal on Kessel’s silence with the media. “We’ll deal with it internally,” he said. “The players will be available [in the future].” Both Nonis and Carlyle stressed the best-of-seven series should not be about Kessel, and it was obvious this was discussed with the players as well. “At the end of the day, he’s just one piece of our team,” said winger Joffrey Lupul, who noted Kessel was one of the team’s hottest players as the regular season ended. “He’s going to get a lot of the attention from fans and media and probably even their team, but it’s not a one-man team. “If they really concentrate on taking Phil out of the game, other guys have to step up, and it’s not fair to rely on one guy or put the pressure on him.” For Kessel to break free of Chara and the Bruins jinx, Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf, who has shadowed a star or two in his time, says he needs to use the one gift he has in abundance. “He’s just has to move his feet,” he said. “And especially with the speed he has, he has to use his speed to his advantage. Obviously, when you’re defending guys, when [they are] moving [their] feet, it’s tougher to defend.” Winning this series may not be solely about one player, but Kessel stands as a symbol of the Leafs’ futility against the Bruins in recent years. And Carlyle may have said he will leave the judgment of individual players to others, but “we are here to perform.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/leafs-beat/leafs-need-kessels-stick-to-do-some-talking/article11623971/?cmpid=rss1&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 @ChecktheTicker: #Leafs finish the season leading the NHL in hits (1,626), fights (44) and blocked shots (826). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messier's_elbow Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Boston in 6. Hate both teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John.Tallhouse Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Get ur dust pans out.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 9 years ago today: Sundin scored twice in a Toronto win over Philly in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Semi Finals. Leafs haven't won a playoff game since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 @reporterchris Tyler Bozak (upper body injury) looks much stronger handling/shooting the puck than he did yesterday. Leafs expect him back for Game 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dogbyte Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Bruins in 5. Kessel gets absolutely shut down by Chara, Kadri will dry up Reimer will get lit up Orr and McLaren will be ineffective Phaneuf will start pinching like the meathead he is Bruins experience will prevail. NEXT ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Mauviette75 Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Thank you Kessel, the horse: the commenting during the race is actually pretty hilarious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortorella's Rant Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 Bruins in 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coconuts Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 As much as I hate the Bruins, they've got this. Bruins in five or six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 @provincesports: Leafs, #BostonBruins face off for first time in playoffs since 1974 http://t.co/LcmLYMRshC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Mind Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Hoping for the leafs to win this series. Can't stand the bruins. Leafs aren't as screwed as some people think. They have the players to outhit boston and wear them down. Doubt leafs win, but they can at least do the rest of the league a great favour in wearing them down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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