ok, we've reached some common-ground... you do agree there is a need for retribution but where we disagree is when the right time is...

i say this:

if the Bruins miss the playoffs by 1 point and this one point could have been attained in the game against pittsburgh but instead they decided to retaliate because their best player's season was ended by a cheap-shot, do they really belong in he playoffs?

using this logic, shouldn't they instead look back to mailing it in against the Canadiens on the 1st game back from the Olympic break and say that is the game that cost them the playoffs? of what about getting blown-out at home by the Senators or a number of Saturday afternoon losses at home? What about 10 straight winless games at home? (what kind of playoff-worthy team has a season where they go 10 straight games at home without a win?)

the overall point is showing themselves and the rest of the league that what happened to savard will not be tolerated is always more important that the potential for a point. there are way too many games this season where the players appeared to not care about the points to suddenly care about it at a time when your best player is unconscious.

(furthermore, to see Bergeron casually chattin with Crosby while Lucic was more interested in gathering Savrad's gloves/stick is just not the image of  team upset with what just happened. they then had 6 minutes of time before the next drop-of-puck to have someone review the replay- so the excuse 'i didn't see it' simply does not apply)

i realy like Julien but maybe there is a reason he was canned so ubruptly twice... maybe he is really really good at some aspects of coaching but completely ignores other parts...

i look at it like this:

i think if they make the playoffs, it will be a quick exit... that being aid, i would rather have the team i support stand-up for themselves and their teammates and be a quick exit from the playoffs rather than be a team that is a quick exit from the playoffs along with being a bunch of p-words...

surely something will happen thursday night but by then it is all so fake and contived. the B's are almost baited into it by the media and the fans- it should've been more orgaic and immediate, like they really were upset by it.

I heard something by Shawn Thornton yesterday that said if he'd been on the ice with Cooke, this wouldn't have been an issue because he would've laid him out. So we're clear, it does upset me that they didn't do anything to him, but considering the situation, I understood where they were coming from.

Interesting note: Have you noticed Brad Marchand getting more minutes lately? He's a pest of the highest order, and he's always playing with an edge. Look for Paille to sit on Thursday in favor of a Marchand-Begin-Thornton line. Actually, the lines, pending Patrice Bergeron's knee, could look like this:

Sturm 16 - Bergeron 37 - Recchi 28

Wheeler 26 - Krecji 46 - Ryder 73

Lucic 17 - Sobotka 60 - Satan 81

Marchand 63 - Begin 27 - Thornton 22


Chara 33 - Seidenberg 44

Stuart 45 - Wideman 6

Hunwick 48 - Boychuck 55


Rask 40 - Thomas 30 (I have no idea who might start)

You're a Thomas hater, too?

Insane. Just goddamn insane.

Cee, yell at dtrain for me. I can't do this alone anymore.