Category: Hockey

The Bruins are the Symbol of the End of All Hope in This World

They were in third place in the division with three games left. In those three games they scored a grand total of four goals over those three games and went 0-3 with only one loser point. That loser point was earned after they were eliminated from the playoffs.

Had they won out they would have made the playoffs. Had they gone 1-1-1 they would have made the playoffs. They were pretty awful against Washington. They looked like a team that had already clinched the Stanley Cup and were just coasting along and they got their asses kicked. In Florida they came out on fire but when they hadn’t won after 10 minutes or so they looked as though they stopped caring. Prior to yesterday’s game they needed to beat Tampa Bay and they needed either Ottawa or Pittsburgh to lose. Ottawa beat Philly in the afternoon. That removed one opportunity to get into the post season. Pittsburgh’s game started 30 minutes before theirs so they got to scoreboard watch as the Penguins started scoring in the second period. They watched their season go down the toilet while still being unable to produce any offense at all.

When did the collapse really start though? It started over the first few days of free agency when they failed to sign Jarome Iginla. They let their top scorer from last year go and did nothing to replace him. Then they traded a top four defenseman and never replaced him. What did they expect? The team had no offense to speak of and the defense had no depth. Then injuries came along and no player will ever use that as an excuse, but they lost their top defenseman to an injury and he was never the same again. They lost one of their top centers and he was never the same again. When they finally found a bit of a spark with a line made up of two rookies and a Lucic the coach broke up the line with three games remaining in the season when wins were desperately needed.

The general manager needs to go. I just checked headlines on NHL.com and I was stunned that he hasn’t been fired yet. The coach needs to go. A select group of high profile players who grossly underperformed need to go. A select group of lower profile players who also grossly underperformed need to go, but no one on Earth will take them.

Blow it up. This is unacceptable. I am really glad I didn’t go to any games this year or buy any merchandise and give the team any of my money. This whole season was garbage from even before the start of the first game. Everyone responsible needs to be fired.

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The Bruins are in the final Eastern Conference Playoff spot… barely.

They had a chance last night to put a little breathing room between them and ninth place Ottawa.  They instead laid a goose egg.  Literally.  They have played Washington three times and never scored a single goal.  Choke.

Tonight they are in Florida.  We’re about half way through the second period and there is no score.  Goose egg again, so far.  Ottawa is in New York and last I heard they had a 2-0 lead over the Rangers.  A Bruins loss and an Ottawa win drops us out of the playoff spot with only one game left to go.  The Bruins can’t lose another game because the way things are going now, Ottawa sure has hell isn’t going to lose again.

This time of year should be exciting, but as a Bruins fan I have to say…

This sucks.

Been a While

I did something this weekend that I hadn’t done in quite a while.

I watched two Bruins games, more or less all the way through. Well, that’s not true. I listened to the first two periods of yesterday’s game on the radio and then watched the third on the tube. Today I watched the whole bleedin’ thing.

Lo and behold, the two games were both wins! The wonders ne’er cease! The Bruins currently hold the final Eastern Conference playoff spot and they have a four point lead over Florida, and a seven point lead over Ottawa and Philadelphia. I would like to say that I am confident they will make the playoffs, but my mother told me not to tell lies.

I’m a tiny bit optimistic that they have another hot streak in them and that it will propel them into the playoffs and out of the first round. Unfortunately though, I’m also a realist and… well… they just aren’t that good this year.

Here’s hoping for the best in the coming weeks.

Go Bruins!

Day Four – Identify Your Audience

Today’s blogging 101 prompt is to identify your target audience, and write a post directed at them.

I’ve been struggling with this idea (well… not really struggling) since I started using Blogger a little more than six years ago. Who was I writing to? Who did I want to read what I wrote? Do I want to pick a specific topic and stick to it?

No. I wanted it to be a source for any stray idea that popped into my pea brain. No topic. If I wanted to post about photography, I would post about photography.
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If I wanted to post about music, I would post about music.

(and hey, did anyone else know you could embed tracks from spotify into wordpress.com posts? I didn’t, but I do now. It’s possible an entire new world of goofiness may have just opened to me)

If I want to post about the Red Sox (I’m seeing a .500 team with an amazing offense and a mediocre pitching staff, and what do you mean Castillo is already injured?) or the Bruins (what do you mean Connolly is already injured?) I will. If I want to post millions of camera phone pictures of my cat acting like a lazy asshole, then I will.

What it comes down to is simple. I will write whatever I feel like, whenever I feel like it.

Does that mean I don’t have a target audience? Maybe, but no. It does not. There is a target audience. There is someone for whom each post is targeted.

Hi Jen. I love you with all my heart. I hope your having a good morning at work. Smoooooch.

You are Welcome, Boston Bruins

The Boston Bruins have won five games in a row after going on an epically bad losing streak. I think I know who is responsible for the turn around.

Me.

I’m the reason they are winning.

I was very critical of the B’s when they were losing, both on this page and on Twitter. I’m not sure how but I am convinced that word of my displeasure found its way back to the team and they responded by turning things around.

You’re welcome, Bruins fans.

It’s a Miracle

Oh happiness!  It’s a miracle!  The Boston Bruins have won two games in a row!  They have points in six straight, although three of those six are unbelievably horrible overtime losses (Carolina?  Are you kidding me?).

But they beat Pittsburgh in overtime last night, and they completely dominated New Jersey tonight.  Has the corner been turned?  Will I be asking that same question again in the near future?  Yeah, probably.

We’re back in one of the wild card spots now so I am going to enjoy this while it lasts.  Which is probably just until Saturday.

Go Bruins!