THE BOSTON BRUINS TAKE GAME 1 OF THE ECF!!! IT WAS A GREAT NIGHT TO WIN A HOCKEY GAME!!! pic.twitter.com/1kfkeFi7vp
— Marina Molnar (@mkmolnar) May 10, 2019
Oops, did I spoil it?
The Bruins won the game handily by score but it was a tough go through the back half of the first and the entirety of the second before taking command in the third period.
The ice conditions were bad with the puck rolling around and taking weird bounces and some players having difficulty staying upright.
That ice plant is getting replaced a year too late. Puck is like a tennis ball.
— dafoomie (@dafoomie) May 10, 2019
Marcus Johansson is getting hot at a great time. He was all over the ice and the scoresheet. This half of the Swedish House Mafia was first star of the game.
Early in the first shift, Torey Krug was slew footed by Warren Foegele, the coward who seems to take cheap shots from behind (see TJ Oshie injury) and never want to pay for them.
Ouch pic.twitter.com/Oikwtz0Jaa
— Tucker Boynton (@Tucker_TnL) May 10, 2019
Everyone had Steven Kampfer, playing in only his second ever NHL Playoff game, scoring his first playoff goal and the first of the series, right? It was a beauty of a shot with Marcus “Jojo” Johansson doing all the work to get the puck into the Canes zone after Charlie Coyle appeared to purposely lose the faceoff.
Marcus Johansson was a monster on this sequence.
And Steven Kampfer lights the lamp in just his second career playoff game. pic.twitter.com/cvzr9Qit9R
— Conor Ryan (@ConorRyan_93) May 10, 2019
According to our friend @JChaimo: Kampfer had one playoff goal in the AHL, with Houston in 2013 against Grand Rapids. Goalie was Petr Mrazek.
— Joe McDonald (@JoeyMacHockey) May 10, 2019
A welcome surprise for sure!
Forty-four seconds later, Sean Kuraly is hit up high by Warren Foegele and retaliates against him by punching him in the chin. Of course, only Kuraly’s hit is noticed. Three seconds into the resulting power play, Sebastian Aho deflects the puck into the net.
The @NHLCanes strike right back courtesy of Sebastian Aho. 🙌
(🎥: @NHLonNBCSports) pic.twitter.com/n5VekQtagk
— theScore (@theScore) May 10, 2019
Late in the first period, Zdeno Chara was felled by a shot taken off his leg. He would leave the bench and go down the tunnel, not to appear again until moments after the second period began.
Another look at Chara's injury. Chara takes a shot from Aho off the foot/ankle.
Not good. pic.twitter.com/vVY4hM12dw
— Conor Ryan (@ConorRyan_93) May 10, 2019
Despite his defense looking disorganized at times, Tuukka made some great saves.
TUUKKK pic.twitter.com/1m34EYEm6r
— Marina Molnar (@mkmolnar) May 10, 2019
Near the midway point of the game, Gregg McKegg gets the opportunity to charge the net, getting a goal just before he runs over Tuukka. The Bruins didn’t bother to challenge for goaltender interference.
McKegg scores on, runs over Rask pic.twitter.com/dNCuL3jkp4
— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) May 10, 2019
Steven Kampfer really stepping into Charlie McAvoy’s role of pushing an opposing player into Tuukka Rask. Next man up (into Tuukka Rask) mentality.
— ETD51 (@ETD51) May 10, 2019
Tuukka recovered by shaking this off and making saves. The rest of the team had scoring opportunities, including another power play, but couldn’t tie it up before the end of the second period.
Bonus content: What is awesome about this series is that My Boyest of Boys hates Dougie like I do.
Brandon Carlo just out here bopping Dougie Hamilton in the face over and over and over.
— Ty Anderson (@_TyAnderson) May 10, 2019
Early in the third, Chris Wagner is boarded by Jordan Staal. Connor Clifton goes in to cross-check and retaliate, with Brad Marchand being the veteran leader he is, pulled him back. Marcus Johansson scores late in the power play to tie it up.
Marcus Johansson PPG ties it up 2-2 #NHLBruins pic.twitter.com/0cmEBvY84u
— Marina Molnar (@mkmolnar) May 10, 2019
Moments later, Chris Wagner makes a hit on Svechnikov , who suspiciously falls to the ice. However, it was Dougie Hamilton in the corner elbowing Joakim Nordstrom and subsequently going to box for it. Patrice Bergeron made quick work of scoring on the power play.
HAHAHAHHAHA SIT IN THE BOX AND FEEL SHAME, DOUGIE. #NHLBruins
— phonymahoney (@phoneymahoney) May 10, 2019
DEBRUSK TO MARCHAND TO BERGERON!!!! ANOTHER PPG GIVES THE #NHLBRUINS THE 3-2 LEAD!!! pic.twitter.com/nr7IQ6XV76
— Marina Molnar (@mkmolnar) May 10, 2019
After that, the Canes were still playing but they were also falling apart. Late in the third with Petr Mrazek pulled, Brando Carlo cleared the zone where the puck bounced off of Charlie Coyle’s skate and rolled into the empty net.
With Mrazek back in net, Chris Wagner found a way to get the puck behind him for the Bruins fifth goal of the night.
#CELLYSZN 🗣 pic.twitter.com/p6yJwy5BEO
— Boston Bruins (@NHLBruins) May 10, 2019
Haha… I thought I posted this morn… Oooops!!
I wasn’t as nervous when the B’s were down 2-1 as I was when they trailed the BJ’s orLeafs.
I loved Krejci’s fake drop pass to gain entry on one of the late power plays!!
Finland are 2-1 up against a pretty decent Canada team. 15 to go.
Have been trying to better understand the McKegg goal. Unfortunately, the overhead shot that seemed to show the puck in the net before contact is difficult to find. At the time I was more concerned about the health of Tuukka than the possibility of a goal.
This one has an overhead shot:
Ah. Thanks – that’s exactly what I needed.
– Puck tumbles under Tuukka’s arm
– McKegg skate in contact with right pad while puck is still directly above the goal line & tumbling into the net
– Tuukka’s right leg pushed into the area of the puck
– Puck bounces off blade of Tuukka’s skate *after* completely crossing the line
So while Tuukka was definitely interfered with before the goal was legit, he’d already irreparably blown the save and it would have been scored anyway if McKegg had not made contact.
Good goal.
This was quite confusing in real-time.
Sportsnet announce team did a good job of breaking it down last night. And thank god I have the option to watch that and not NBCSN. So nice to have announcers that I can ignore when I want to and not make my ears bleed.
Yeah, that was a goal.
Hi all.
Well that’s a good start. Looks like this series is going to have some nasty to it. Well, the Bs won’t shy away from that!
I wasn’t sure who it was that got boarded – the highlights didn’t dwell on it – but it looked nasty. Glad Wags is ok.
Marc Savard tweeted that Tuukka’s play reminds him of Thomas’s in 2011 and he’s right. Pretty much the only he has allowed recently have been redirects that no-one could save.
What were his parents thinking?
The Worlds starts today – Slovakia v USA tonight – or this afternoon for you… Slo-ven-sko do-to-ho!
His full name is Greggory McKeggory according to someone on Twitter.
Good thing for him he can play hockey, otherwise he’d have to resort to beggary.
You know all the stuff going around about Dougie saying he wanted ti be a Bruin for life and all that? Well, last night he kind of demonstrated that.
Yeah – what’s all that about? The way I heard it he couldn’t wait to get out.
He didn’t want to be here. Pretty much when you won’t sign what’s offered as your RFA tender and then refuse to negotiate, that means you want out. He signed with Calgary for 250K more with maybe 2 years less term after not negotiating with Sweeney. All that means he didn’t want to be here.
Truthfully, we are better off.
I think the quote I saw from Boston front office was “we basically offered him a marriage proposal”.
I’m inclined to agree.
Hope you had a good birthday.
How is Vegas’s eye? As someone who is allergic to pretty much all animals I have often wondered if animals can have allergies too. Poor girl. Hope you can treat it.
My birthday was pretty chill and that was good. Thanks for asking.
It’s been a hectic week medically for Vegas. Yesterday, she went in for allergy testing and then we had to deal with a dog who was out of sorts all night, though she managed to sleep through most of the B’s game. Turns out her eye issues are likely due to allergies and her allergies are epic; she’s allergic to all grasses (just like mummy), pretty much all trees (mummy has sensitivities), and dust mites (again like mummy). Right now she has another infection we have to manage before starting her on immunotherapy. But, there is a light at the end of this long tunnel.
FUCK YOU CAROLINA
Morning all. All I could do was laugh when Kampfer scored the first goal.