Last night was First Responder Night at the TD Garden with many groups of firefighters and police officers from all sorts of cities and towns in New England all at the arena to watch the Bruins play the Flames. It made me wonder why they didn’t respond to the flaming dumpster fire the Bruins became as the game went along.
I kid. But, the Bruins didn’t seem to have it last night nor any way to find it.
Watching from the balcony (thanks, Satan81) I can tell you that it was obvious that the Flames were great at blocking shots in their own zone and clogging up the shooting lanes so that if for some reason a Bruins player shot from the point, it wouldn’t result in a goal. The two times the B’s managed to score were a short-handed breakaway and a dirty goal with lots of poking in the crease.
Brad Marchand ties things up with a shorthanded tally.
1-1 game. pic.twitter.com/KDZ02A4GaN
— Conor Ryan (@ConorRyan_93) February 26, 2020
Chris Wagner buries his second goal in as many games.
3-2 game. pic.twitter.com/3CDXRm0TiR
— Conor Ryan (@ConorRyan_93) February 26, 2020
After the Wagner goal, a tie and a win were within reach…until the Flames scored 2 more goals on top of the 3 they already had.
It was also a night of celebration for Jaroslav Halak for his 500th NHL game. His wife and kids celebrated with him as he received the standard Breitling watch, an engraved bottle of wine, a crystal for Tiffany, and finally, the silver stick. Ben and I were shouting for the silver stick. We also wondered if they got a discount for the three sticks given out this year. Buy in bulk and save more!
Halak honored for 500 NHL games https://t.co/sS5sQCzncq pic.twitter.com/YytpwqaAZI
— US Sports News (@RMNews2019) February 26, 2020
Stanley Cup champion. 4x Selke winner. Sommelier.
Patrice Bergeron can do it all. pic.twitter.com/LYz2pllVph
— Conor Ryan (@ConorRyan_93) February 26, 2020
Of course, with the spotlight on Halak and having to be right behind him, players couldn’t help but photobomb. By players I mean Torey Krug, Brad Marchand, and Matt Grzelcyk.
Torey Krug and Brad Marchand just had to pose in the back of Jaroslav Halak’s picture pic.twitter.com/iAcgWaWq3Z
— Evan Marinofsky (@emarinofsky) February 26, 2020
The Bruins play again on Thursday, when the Dallas Stars come to town.
So if Kase gets checked hard I think bramborová kašemashed …… mashed potatoes is in order!!
Ben asked me when the cheese was arriving. I said on Thursday. Despite Kaše’s name not meaning cheese, and Ben and I being familiar with German in which Käse means cheese, and The Big Porridge not being much of a name, I think we’re just going to call him The Big Cheese, Der große Käse or El Queso Grande because all of that makes perfect sense in our demented minds.
No, it doesn’t mean cheese. There are a number of possible translations, all similarly hilarious…
https://slovnik.seznam.cz/preklad/cesky_anglicky/kaše
Oh, I know. But we’re calling him that, just not to his face. I mean Pastrnak doesn’t mean Pasta, right?
Good point!
Pasta and Cheese!!!!
This made me chuckle.
LOL!
Morning all. The Little Halaks are adorable. That’s all I have to say about last night.
The little Halaks adore their dad.
It’s all about getting hot at the right time. Mid March!!! The Bruins need to be clicking on all cylinders by then.
Hey All!
Got home in time to see the third…. JoAnn was already beside herself..
The Bruins didn’t lokk terrible.. for a couple minutes. Give a little time for things to gell…. they’ll be fine.
I only saw the first ten minutes of play and they looked good then – physically sharp and making lots of quick, dangerous plays.
Caught up the rest of it his morning and it was a different story. If not for some heroics from Rask it could’ve been another blow out.
I dunno. Is it time to panic??!!
Or I want to be distressed at the discotheque
I caught the first period, then started flipping back & forth between the game and the Democratic debate.
“Well, this is a shit-show”
*click*
“Well, this is a shit-show”
*click*
“Well, this is a shit-show”
*click*
“No, this is a shit-show”