Let's take a look at the Boston Bruins
by FrankD on Nov 10, 2009 11:15 AM EST
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The Bruins and Penguins have a lot more in common than just the black and gold (more like yellow for Boston, but whatevs) as they square off tonight at TD Bank North Garden.
Injuries. Illness. You know, the fun stuff.
We know about Pittsburgh's injuries, so really there's no sense in bringing them up again here (for now at least). But Boston isn't entirely immune to the injury bug either. Milan Lucic, broken finger. Marc Savard, broken foot. Michael Ryder, flu(?). David Krejci, swine flu (although he recently returned to practice). Much like the Penguins' injury report, this doesn't take into account the guys out there playing through the typical bumps/strains/bruises that come with the territory.
The wins aren't coming easy for Boston, when they do come at all. On Thursday the B's were less than a minute away from getting shutout 1-0 to Montreal before Patrice Bergeron tied it up and sent it to OT and a shootout. In the end Montreal edged out the win but Boston picked up a hard-fought point in the process. That's the sort of team Pittsburgh's going up against tonight. Both teams will be scratching and clawing for a point or more.
Bergeron leads all Bruins with 10 points (5g, 5a), while Zdeno Chara and Derek Morris follow closely behind with nine points a piece. Let's also see if the Pens consider keeping an eye on former Penguin (x3) Mark Recchi, who's still showing that time is not a factor here in his 22nd NHL season. The Recchin' Ball has five points on the year (3g, 2a).
There's a good chance we'll see Tim Thomas get the start between the pipes for Boston tonight, although his 1-3-1 record over the last five starts is anything but flattering. But just in case, back-up netminder Tuukka Rask is the other option. Rask has seen a little bit of work over the past few seasons, starting only one game last season (a win) and three the year before (2-1). So far this season he's 3-1-1 with a win in two-staight.
The Bruins are 1-2-1 for the month of November and 7-7-2 overall, good enough for 10th in the East.
Puck and thread drop at 7pm. Join us. After all, it has to be better than a 5-0 loss to San Jose.
...right?
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I’m debating doing some smack talk towards my professor later in the day, who’s a Bruins fan. Problem is, it could be an awkward class next Monday if we drop the two games to Boston this week.
Side Note. Daniel Lavender hates Marc Savard, who clearly broke his foot to avoid Sidney Crosby wanting to drop the gloves with him like last year.
PensBurgh penalty - Lavender - 2 Minutes for Excessive Stanley Cup Raising.
Easy, if the Pens lose — chalk it up to a meaningless early regular season game on the road. If the Pens win, brag like no tomorrow.
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by Hooks Orpik on Nov 10, 2009 12:07 PM EST up reply actions
How can I brag like no tomorrow if we were to win tonight and lose Saturday?
Dan: Oh get so totally served!
Jay: But we won in Pittsbu-
Dan: OH you and you’re excuses for losing last week!
PensBurgh penalty - Lavender - 2 Minutes for Excessive Stanley Cup Raising.
Lines at practice yesterday:
Cooke-Crosby-Fedotenko
Kunitz-Staal-Guerin
Dupuis-Adams-Conner
Bourque-Rupp-Godard
Will they stick with these longer than a period?
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Outside of the top 2 I really don’t know how I feel. Cooke and Crosby worked for one game last season. Let’s see how it hold up tonight. Hopefully all Cooke has to do is keep his stick down.
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let’s not forget the RW on that line was Geno. However I don’t have a problem with Cooke there, he’s gonna be the puck retriever and hopefully him taking the body on a lot of guys will open us some space for Crosby. It would be nice if they could get Fedotenko going tonight, Feds needs to start put the puck in the net, other than Columbus game hes been invisible.
by genomachine-O on Nov 10, 2009 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
actually as far as I can remember Cooke stuck on the first line in those desperate times last year more than one game… but that made him look even worse than “Brickhands” Dupuis, although he did bag a few goals…
You have to see it for yourself...
He was a main reason that the Pens won this game last year, scoring 2 goals against Anaheim with Evgeni Malkin.
But yeah, using Cooke on the top line is like putting a band-aid on a gunshot wound. It might work every now and then but for the most part it’s just not enough.
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*not just because we only work for 12 minutes a night
Yeah but I said it worked for one, and if I’m not mistaken the first one. After that it was just a beginner’s luck sort of thing that got dragged out for too long. Eventually he got demoted.
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its not as bad as the Therrien era, but the line combos hardly ever last a whole game. I’d rather see Rupp centering that third line tho at least with Rupp there is a little bit of a scoring threat. It would make it a very good forechecking line with all that speed on the wings and Rupps a pretty good forechecker as well. Other than on the PK Adams is useless, along with Bourque and most nights Goddard out them all on the bench. All the people that have been calling to reunite the offensive force that is Kunitz and Staal should be happy.
by genomachine-O on Nov 10, 2009 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
I agree. Rupp’s got 4 goals, the rest of the bottom six forwards have, what, 2 goals (both b Dupuis). Grantd Rupp isn’t Kevin Stevens, and they want to keep the lines balanced, but I think he deserves a little more than what he’s been getting.
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*not just because we only work for 12 minutes a night
After all, it has to be better than a 5-0 loss to San Jose.
…right?
It better be. That… wasn’t fun at all. I mean, I love my Sharks, but that was brutal. I wouldn’t have minded a win at all, and would’ve loved it, but man, was I pissed at that game.
by AppleSweetRose on Nov 10, 2009 12:09 PM EST reply actions
Hey guys. Anyone know who’s starting in net for the Pens tonight? Are they gonna just start Fleury and hope he has a better go at it than against the Sharks or are they gonna start Johnson?
Oh first post here, I’m from NZ, been a Pens fan for a few years but this is my first season following the whole thing rather than just watching the Stanley Cup on TV (which is all we get here). I will probably have many irritating questions due to my lack of knowledge but I’m sure I will be informed :)
No problem, andrew, thanks for signing in and talking to us…No one minds the questions, feel free to ask away.
I believe the plan is to play Fleury. He’s been really solid up to this point and he’s the number one goalie, he deserves a chance to “bounce back” with the next start. Pretty much in today’s NHL the only time a backup plays (when a team has a #1 franchise goalie like Fleury) is when you have games in back-to-back nights or if there’s injury or serious performance problems.
Tonight meets none of those criterias, so Fleury it is.
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*not just because we only work for 12 minutes a night
Hooks – cheers for that. I’ll start Fleury in my fantasy team and leave out Thomas and hope the Pens do it :)
Bla – yeah New Zealand. I forgot I should probably not put NZ because it might not be obvious. The game is at 1pm on the 11th for me, so I’ll be following it at work
That’s cool. Can’t say I ever really thought of that almost 24 hr differential.
Andrew21nz, checking in on his Penguins live – from the future
And welcome, btw. Always happy to see new names and faces.
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