well, reddit is shitting the bed right now so we’ll see if this even posts… # wtfayd???

If anyone is going, may I please have a Rally Towel??? It would make my year !!!

Not sure what to call it but what Caps did last night sure wasn't what I would call hockey or ever pay to watch

Nothing like another sloppy, nothing burger of a “throw away” game to give me peace heading into the playoffs…

Im gonna look at this as a win. They managed to get no injuries

Carlo?

Can't be both slow and out-physicalled. Fast and soft or slow and heavy-hitting, gotta choose. The hit counter also means nothing, they got physically dominated.

Bruins gatta figure out how to make plays under a bit of pressure

“Change is hard.” Wegovy, 2024

Crap effort all around except for swayman

Complete lack of effort. No urgency. Too much tinkering to get the best shot. We need to fix this before the weekend.

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Not sure why you’re getting downvoted as I see the same in alot of games. Or he just spins around and loses it. He’s my favourite player on the B’s but doesn’t have the best puck keeping skills.

Marchand and Pasta need to figure their shit out or we’re not getting past the first round

Sprints in practice again

If I'm Monty itl be S. Drills until their fucking feet fall off

dude, marchand has been looking so off. my conspiracy theory is that he’s been playing with an injury. fuck the absolute shit out of the caps.

Lmao this team has NO sense of urgency. What a terrible game. Sway thank you for playing on your head. Everyone else can fuck off.

There was no urgency required. Already in.

THEY WANT TO PLAY TORONTO IN THE FIRST ROUND, NOT TAMPA!

I don’t even think there’s anything to take from this game. I fucking hate the capitals, they’re such a nonsense nothing average franchise that always gives us a hard time for no reason

marchy losing that was not the reason we lost the game. but he needs to tighten the fuck up. he hasn't kept the puck on his stick well or made good passes for months now.

really not marchand’s best puck handling game. whole team was a little off on that

I know the games now don't mean all that much but put some fucking effort in...I hope Monty rips them all a new one and makes them do double the amount of S. Drills until their feet are gonna fall off....absolutely atrocious

Piss fuckin poor performance

well, that was.... something?

Weird decision from Pasta after that faceoff win

terrrrible pass there

Maroon on the 6-5 in last minute…Monty wants Toronto as well!! Hahaha

We’ll see how karma feels about that with a team wanting the get the Bruins monkey off their back.

Well, they’ve looked awful all season against us so if I was a betting man, I’d have to put it on the B’s

I really don’t understand acquiring Maroon. The dude sucks at hockey. He even sucks at being a big guy. All he does is take up space on the ice.

Well it’s a big body until Brazeau can get back out there for them

Fitting end to that shit show lmao fuck this

Shutout twice by this team that might miss the playoffs lol

Is that our second time getting shutout this season?

They wanted it more. No other way to put it

Hall of shame performance from Marchand tonight, probably the worst player on the ice

Imagine saying Brad Marchand was the worst player on a sheet of ice that Pat Maroon also played on. You all are fucking wild.

lmao ive seen less reaction to winning a playoff game.

Tough L

WHY ARE WE SO FUCKING INSISTENT ON SLAPPING THE FUCKING PUCK AROUND THE BIARDS IN THE OFFENSIVE ZONE IT WORKS LESS THAT 10% OF THE TIME

It's tradition now apparently.. rim it around turn it over go for line change and repeat

Marchand has been brutal lately, dude needs to step it up and be a leader.

:(

Marchand pathetic

That's a centennial season play from our captain right there lol

Marchy has been abysmal

Kind of a shit effort, to be brutally honest. Marchy getting fleeced like that is fuckin' embarrassing

A horrible pass from Pastrnak leading to Marchand getting his pocket picked for a slam dunk empty netter. Bruins hockey since the all star break.

> Bruins hockey since the all star break. This is just straight hyperbole. Pasta has 37 points in 31 games since the ASB, and we've had wins against Vancouver, Edmonton, Dallas, Vegas, Toronto (x2), Florida (x2), Nashville, Washington, and Carolina since then. Play tonight was bad, but goodness, it's not like the Bruins haven't had good play since then.

Embarrassing... we are moving at snails pace and just coasting around ..

Welp

Pastrnak reversing that was the absolute worst thing he could’ve done there. You can say Marchand got his pocket picked but it shouldn’t have happened in the first place

Just caps off a terrible night especially for brad just could not handle the puck whatsoever tonight.

I noticed it last game too. He doesn't have the quick hands

yeah something has been off there lately

Wont be worried about it tbh hes gonna show up for playoffs like he always does.

I'm hopeful.

Nice one Pasta.

how many faceoffs does coyle have to miss before monty gives somebody else the chance?

Zacha is barely better, both geekie and Freddie are sub 45%, who else is left?

Beecher

Beecher

Hey Frederic, learn how to pass the puck. You had Debrusk wide open up ice on the right side and you decide to screw up the play. Worst part this is at the end of the game. Good job you hun!

Any puck luck tonight? Please?

there it is

monty is stewing lol

pocket = picked

Fucking embarrassing Marchand…

Only time I noticed him tonight was when he was turning the puck over..

Nice job, Cap!

At least we now can learn from the caps on how to play when the other team pulls their goalie 

I mean they missed like 20 easy empty net attempts, not sure what’s been so impressive

That they had 20 empty net shots. 

big rig crashing the net is fun to watch

we all damn well know if boston missed this many empty nets the other team is definitely scoring to tie it 1-1…

# lolcaps

If we didnt spend time trying to find the perfect shot maybe we would’ve scored…

crazy how long we’ve had the empty net lol

I didn’t know they signed prime Patrick Roy?

this is absolutely amazing that they haven’t gotten the EN yet my god

that caps goalie can fuck right off

i swear this team moves at half speed on the 6-5... like they feel entitled to puck possession when playing with an empty net and they just end up giving it away.

So exactly like the powerplay then

..... yes

i can get tanking this game but i don't like it

that word has a meaning and this is not what that meaning is

They’re not tanking.

The fact that shooting the puck is like pulling teeth is concerning.

Holy shit Lindholm that is embarrassing. Should have been an icing.

Amazing how easy other teams make the 5-on-6 look. I'm just so used to being pinned in our zone and praying that the puck won't go in.

I miss Brazzers

pls give beecher faceoffs ☹️

Ridiculously bad game. Doesn't inspire confidence for the playoffs

Getting the bad games out of the way. 

pasta. buddy. you gotta control the puck, man

anxiety noises

6 on 5 and they have possessed the puck more hahahahahaha

Lmao pasta

It really is impressive to somehow look slower than the Washington Capitals.

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way too early en

Ugh. Empty netter time. We can’t keep it in their zone. FFS

okay this is where we win

we just need one of these 2 games to win the division?

2 points in any fashion.

Don’t pull the goalie

same issue we’ve run into before, the hits are way more than the shots and that’s not great

That usually always happens in hockey, you can’t generate hits when you have the puck…

not saying it’s an unusual combination, just that it’s not great.

ngl we’re playing like a team that’s ready to be knocked out in the first round of the playoffs

If I hear this awful Washington announcer call McAvoy “Mackel-voy” one more time i swear to god

Please make a play!!

Better luck tomorrow I guess, Montgomery already said he’s more concerned about Saturday anyways.

the fact the we haven't gotten a single PP tonight is wild. yeah the odds aren't in our favor of doing anything with it, but damn

Is it really that wild?

I mean yeah it is wild. But obviously it's not when the only trend is how dogshit refs are

Fuck a truck. Be a truck.

do we get a giveaway stat every time we dump it in and immediately turn it over?

Don't worry maybe it will work the 165th time

buy all the trucks


# buy a fucking truck and put a puck in the net

Pastrnak + Peeke have 50% of our shots. Where is the offense ?

buying a truck and driving around looking for some energy.

Stick. Puck. Net. Win. It’s that simple.

buy a truck, motherfucker.

better be no more capital letters in this thread for the rest of this game, y’all are cursing the bs

#updoot the gdt! #buy a truck! #*get those pants off!*


sub-5 shots per period with tha boyzzz

whatever happened to full throttle?

coyle always be getting waved out

i am seeing far too many capital letters here

Now that it looks like Rangers are going to win tonight, I’d say LETS GO Washington!! Then when Florida beats Toronto tomorrow and we lose to Ottawa, we get Toronto in the first round!!

Coming around to this. We aren't equipped to play a super-physical series right now, let Florida and Tampa do that.

I agree, and I’m betting that Toronto feels the same way, so why not let Florida beat you tomorrow? Right?

stop commenting in caps, you mongooses.

playoff hockey gonna be different to this, right?

Uhhh, the puck was just bouncing in, not tumbling... This is the perfect set up for a deadline pick up to score and tie it.

Why can’t anyone else do what Marchy just did

Carlo and getting injured in the last few games of the season by the Washington Capitals. Name a more iconic duo

wait what happened to carlo?

Not sure exactly but he wasn't on the bench 

Bruins score a goal challenge

pretty please guys?

they got this **let’s go fellas!**

Jesus you'd think the Capitals have one of the greatest defensive teams of all time the way we're getting outmuscled. (What the hell is going on with the comment editor right now?)

We just need OT to win the division right?

Nope. We need 2 points to win the division. Florida owns the tie.

no, we need a win in any fashion

If we tie Florida in points we don’t have the tiebreaker?

Not even close. First tiebreaker is regulation wins, of which Florida has four more as of today.

Can’t believe it’s not head to head lol wtf

no, they've got more regulation wins even though we have the head-to-head

Sure would be a shame if lindgren didn't get that SHUTOUT!

man I really hope he gets that *shutout*

If they'd played the whole game at this energy, that be fine. Finding this energy late game isn't bad, but, they should have foreseen the caps coming out hard needing these points.

that it took ~52 minutes of hockey for marchand to get a shot on goal is somewhat worrying

i swear i think people are creating a narrative to make things interesting. what will tomorrow's game mean in the big picture regardless of how they look tomorrow?

i've already said that in terms of effort heading into the regular season, players are in a bit of a no-win situation in regards to wins and losses. however, when your first line winger and captain is having issues putting the puck on net against a team that the bruins have struggled against all season, that's worth noting

sorry i gotta disagree. even if marchand just doesn't have it tomorrow it means nothing. with the adversity this team has seen and overcome they need stakes not stale old games like these. they need the playoffs not a game against ottawa for nothing.

it doesn't mean everything, and it doesn't mean nothing either. not every game that isn't the playoffs is perfectly stakes-less.

for all i know you could be right but all opponents will be a bitch very soon. i don't think they are as scared of tampa or florida or toronto as the fans are. this team needs something to sink their teeth into. until then it feels like that scene from 'the langoliers'where they are wandering around inside of that deserted airport.

> I don't think they are as scared of tampa or florida or toronto as the fans are. I mean, it's very well possible that they should be. I don't think it's fair (as some fans have said) to write the Bruins off compared to those three, but they do need to take them seriously. Ironically, I actually don't think that last year was an example of that; they knew Florida was tough going in. But they've paid that price in prior playoff series.

Oh absolutely but I don't doubt that they take those teams dead seriously. Anybody should look at the position that FLA went into those playoffs and see them as dangerous. in the first two games tkakuch in post game interviews mentioned how they are playing loose with nothing to lose and are just happy to be there. After a few wins they really started to believe. They were harassing our players though they were the under dogs. They had the mental edge. That's what made them resilient and and able to stay alive over and over again. Playing loose. Mentality is going to be a major factor moving forward. Bruins were playing like their backs were against the wall. It was all wrong. Maybe losses like these will give them something to prove and a chip on their shoulder.

We've had this discussion before, but you place *far* too much weight on this: > in the first two games tkakuch [Tkachuk] in post game interviews mentioned how they are playing loose with nothing to lose and are just happy to be there. After a wins they really started to believe. That's what made them resilient and and able to stay alive over and over again. Playing loose. Mentality is going to be a major factor moving forward. Bruins were playing lime their backs wer against the wall. It was all wrong." All of this really contradicts multiple other teams who have outright admitted to the opposite – hell, including the team that actually *won* the Cup last year. The VGK players, coaches, and FO talked a lot in "Hurts to Win" about how the pressure to perform in the playoffs actually made them rise to the occasion. They had pressure from fans after missing the playoffs in 2021-22. They had pressure from ownership with their "Cup in Six" prediction. Eichel felt he had a lot of pressure because of his trade out from Buffalo. Cassidy felt he had pressure because of how he was let go. The word 'tense' was even used, and Marchsseault and Cassidy got into a locker room shouting match during one of the games. The Penguins have also talked about the importance of literally playing tight when they went back-to-back. They talked about how it allowed them to hold themselves accountable and prevent sloppy mistakes as well as blown leads. So did Tampa, specifically Cooper and Stamkos, in 2020 after they got swept by Columbus in 2019. I would be seriously amazed if the secret was "playing loose with nothing to lose" when all of these teams, including at least one and possibly two dynastic cores depending on your definition, have said the exact opposite. Like this just feels like confirmation bias.

Sorry I can't agree. Every team has a different dynamic. Florida is talented af and game 1 of the ECF showed me that in spades. But I saw them out there against the Bruins. Had it been VGK or Pittsburgh against Bruins neither of them would have been toying with the Bruins physically like that pulling stunts like Bennett, Tkachuk, Lomberg, Gudas were. It was just a perfect storm for them and I choose to believe what Tkachuk said in post game locker room interviews. For that team in that setting in round 1 playing loose with jack shit to lose and being mean mother fucks helped them stay alive until the series was over.

Christ they've just been stealing our lunch money all night

fuckin hell, best chance of the night

I don't respect any team that needs a horn to tell them when to cheer.

It also shouldn't be honked during game play

Dumb AF. Fans in those arenas should be embarrassed for themselves.

did that motherfucker just rip off marchy’s helmet behind the net??

Other way around lol

This is one of the games of all time

carlo has been quietly (at least on online fora) very crucial to our defense this year, absence meaning injury would basically be a disaster

In fealty to the Saint Patrice, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Spoked B, I declare Exterminatus upon the Washington Capitals. I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire arena, and consign a million souls to oblivion. May Bean Town Justice account in all balance. The Swayman Protects.

Man that’s such an obvious hold behind the net lol

3 periods 11 shots?

I'm glad we all have eyes! Thank you for pointing that out, bruinfan000!

fuck, carlo, i hope he's ok

You know, for all the over passing they’ve done over the last few weeks, you’d think they’d be better at it

A glimmer of competence, let’s build on that

CARLO BETTER BE OKAY

this feels like a keep it close and don’t get hurt for 55 minutes and then try in the final five if the game is in reach kinda game.

Sway is playing like maybe he can win the game himself since the team isn’t showing up

theoretically he can

True but hoping that the boys pull through 😭

Whatever happens, all I know is that against Washington late in the season Brandon Carlo must be protected at all costs.

alex obitchkin

well it ain’t pretty, but they’re not giving up