LQR Game 58: Evening the odds :Bruins @ Flames

LQR Game 58: Evening the odds :Bruins @ Flames

That’s a dub okay you’ve had your fun can I have Hanahan now dude you have no picks and like three prospects who your fan base refuses to trade how are you going to get them what if I gave you something other than a prospector pick like what a

Hug no an eighth of a bottle of hot sauce no a cool stick I found that kind of looks like a sword no a really firm handshake no no my firstborn child gross and kind of sad one of my dogs Velma absolutely not but you can have Larry

All right well what does he do eats rocks sticks drywall he did try to drink paint that one time he will require an ER visit at least once a month for doing something unfathomably stupid no matter how well you’ve dog proofed your home and I’m pretty sure he has some sort of

Form of doggy autism is there any upside he’s just so damn cute no man you’re good at this you dodged a bullet he’s a nightmare lowquality fans of a high quality Brewing team that is not a dub it’s not got goaled sure something like that took a while to get

Her feet under us yeah that’s absolutely true this one was a brutal watch through 40 minutes this was a tough one the third period was a lot more fun the overtime which of course why is it every time we’re in a West Coast Swing we have to go to

Overtime over and over again uh geez I what the Flames aren’t good man they’re not a good team you watch the game and you can tell they’re not a good team I mean they struggle to keep the puck out of their net they struggle to score their penalty kill is great their power

Play is abysmal I we can do this right why can’t we do this why do I have to give a pep talk it’s the Calgary can’t keep a brother in town Flames like what are we doing how are we struggling so much with this team like earlier in the

Season I had so much of an easier time being like Detroit I don’t think they’re great but they have some good players they have some they can roll lines a little bit and hey sometimes it’s just a team that you struggle with right there’s just a team that you struggle

With that happens but you watch Calgary play and you go how the heck hell are we not beating the crap out of this team it doesn’t even make sense to me I don’t like the style they play I don’t I don’t like the way they do really anything

They don’t run layers well their passing isn’t great it’s not crisp they don’t move the puck well there’s just moments where the Bruins give them six feet of space per everyone and they just get to move the puck around there are times when you go hey that team creates a lot

Of space and hey we’re just not getting in their face at all just a tough start to this one and I just don’t I think that Calgary Flames are one of the most beatable teams in the league like they’re not a bottom five team sure but

It just feels like any night you should be able to go into their building and walk out with a win I don’t know why this team struggles with them so much in each of the games the only two games we’re playing against them this year we

Come out and we give them one of our worst efforts at least this time it wasn’t for the full 60 minutes but just we didn’t bring it we didn’t bring it for the first 40 and we’ve talked about this a few times this season I don’t

Want this to build into some sort of like attitude or whatever because the Bruins can bring it we know they can bring it we’ve talked about a few times this season how if you allow yourself to start really slow or go down by a goal or two or whatever it

Is you turn the game of hockey more into that well it’s a 50-50 right it just takes one bounce you give them that opportunity to just have that one bounce and obviously overtime is is whatever right it’s it’s any team can win an overtime except for the PRS we just won

An overtime I’m just being bitter uh but we’ve talked about that allowing teams to be in a position where just one bounce means they get to win and obviously if I was a Flames fan I could be saying the same thing in Reverse but it feels like this year the Bruins over

And over again have gotten into these battles of hey the next bounce wins it and it feels like they’ve allowed that more so than they like well that’s as good as they can get it it feels like they’ve allowed it way too often way too often uh stats wise Calgary is one of

The most mid teams in the league ranking 17th in goals four per game 16th in goals allowed per game and I already mentioned their penalty kills like top five and their power play is like bottom five so it does appear there should be some changes being made to that lineup

Soon as we know tanv hanen marstrom maybe they might all be shipped out at the deadline it looks like they’re finally going to embrace a bit of a rebuild winning doesn’t really help them right now cuz you’d hate to see them go wait what if we have something and then

Not trade these guys and then these guys leave anyway as we’ve seen happen to teams in the past for the Bruins the Lions remain mostly the same except for Loco who actually how many sh did he get late in this one CU now that I think about it I don’t remember saying his

Name much oh yeah him and James Van rdik and boquist got three shifts boist got four in the third period not good the bottom six was not good in this one at all Loo’s going to slot in for brazo and before all of you get very upset about this well I guess

You can still get upset about it brazo was a casualty of the cap because with Grizz also injured they called up Ian Mitchell they weren’t going to use him tonight they put shaton kiram forbo together Lori went up to work with Carlo wspoon went up to work with McAvoy that

Didn’t last it ended up being lorri makoy for most of this one uh but brazo unfortunately had to get sent back down to the AHL because they need make sure that they had a seventh defenseman during this road trip um where they they didn’t need the extra forward tough because I’m not saying

Brazo made that line go but the fourth looked way worse immediately without him really bad and I mean just the bottom bottom six in general it’s just after a couple of really good games for the fourth line I don’t really want to point out the third line having good games because I don’t

Really think they have but this was one where like okay your bottom six wasn’t good fine fine your top six should be able to carry a game or two just didn’t work out that way lindol obviously still week to week Grizz is considered dayto day according to Monty um lower body

Injury although we’re not getting any more specifics other than that but let’s get right into the like commenting and subscribing nailed it let’s get right into this game it’s not going to be a pleasant experience to start but the best part about the start is the P drops

Puck drops it’s that was probably a little loud it’s fine it’s fine and 706 in we’re seven minutes and 6 seconds in the shots are 7 to one the attempts are something like 14 to3 in shot attempts it’s excellent our one shot on net was actually wide by about a foot but

Markstrom smacked it down with the glove just for funsies just to feel some sweet sweet rubber you know but ppil is going to trip up makavo so we’re going to get the first real scoring chance here on the power play and the power play how do I put this is abysmal within

30 seconds of the power play starting we give up a 3on one with a poor choice from zaka to try to take a puck out of the air and everything gets behind him immediately hannin is going to keep on this and tries to go five hole on Omar

He gets to one-on-one so might as well take it I don’t hate that choice because of that we actually save made we actually get a three onone the other way andk tries to De through the one on a three-on-one and so we never even got a shot off and kind of immediately getting

Outshot 8 to one at this point on the power play and the power play looks terrible just awful it kind of set you up for going oh okay this is it’s 9:30 p.m. I’m going to be up till 1: in the morning with this stuff

And um it’s going to be this kind of game it really got the juices flowing made sure that you were in it to win it seven to five left in the period Calgary’s 11th shot of the period it’s a transition chance for them as kusco comes over the blue line on the right

Side has his linemates basically in a line and goes back diagonal to Shillington who is just going to hammer this it’s a great shot it’s screened bottom glove beats olark I don’t know how much he actually sees this Puck and it’s one Z the shots are 11

To3 that’s not that’s not great luckily with a minute 19 left of the period the hockey gods are smiling on us and giving us a little break as there’s a pass that gets chipped forward to Maran deflects off Marian’s stick and goes in on markstrom marstrom skates way out to get

To it and unfortunately for him doesn’t get a lot of wood on it and ends up just chipping it to the blue line where Coyle is there to knock it down and he’s got markstrom 12et out of his net so he just scoots to the right a little bit

Launches it bottom corner and it’s 1-1 what a blessing what a blessing we’ve talked about not wasting fourth line goals because fourth line goals don’t happen a lot this past week we’ve had a bunch of fourth line goals don’t waste those efforts win those games because

You can’t rely on that happening all the time those should be games you win don’t waste a goal like this that was a freebie you don’t get freebies all the time in this league but not only are we going to wait it we’re going to waste it

Less than a minute later as 36.2 seconds left in the period geek’s piss poor defense in the neutral zone if there is one player in this game who pissed me off more than anyone else it was Morgan geeki I was so high on this signing and

Do I think he’s just this awful hockey player that doesn’t belong on the team no not at all I just want him to be serviceable in a third line role and right now he can’t do do that for some reason and I have no idea why cuz I’ve

Watched him do it and I know he can do it but he’s not doing it he waves his stick at cadri through the neutral zone with a real chance to get some contact there so C goes right around him takes the Blue Line scoots his way across to

The left side notices that he has Zari streaking towards the right side on a net front drive Chucks the puck to him Zari gets a shot off and unfortunately olark mishandles this one terribly ends up glancing off of his body and then just sitting in the open go mouth Carlo

Didn’t react soon enough he actually should have backed off of cadri sooner and gotten to the net front but posil just gets to smack the puck in there are a few things that are as aggravating as a player smacking the puck into an open net with no contact like he’s right

There how do you not at least have a shoulder on that guy just a brutal sequence starts with geeky being terrible defensively starts with olark m starts then continues with olark mishandling that Puck and then Carlo not clearing at the front of the net just not great and it’s 2-1 in the final

Minute of the period shots are 16 to8 at the end of the period the attempts are like 26 to 12 or something stupid it’s awful it’s awful the wat spoon makoy pairing at this point only lasted a few shifts as they had been out chanced 8 to

Zero during their time together on the ice there wasn’t it’s not even like hey let the chemistry build up you just can’t afford that during during a game let them figure that out and practice and during breaks because you can’t afford that during a game 8 to

Zero we’re going to move on to the second period and the lines are going to start like this for the second they wouldn’t last like this they would actually revert back to basically what they started the game with but Marian coil poock we see that thrown out every now and again debrusk boquist

Heinen so wait where did zaka go well the third line stays mostly intact Rashard geeki Frederick zaka went down to the fourth line jvr zaka Lao oo if you’re trying to send a message that’s a way to send it that’s Monty saying hey I don’t trust any of you right now

Wake up this is not okay nine minutes left of the period de Brusque draws a hooking call by wear we’re going to the power play I got to give credit here the power play was excellent two or three shots that really should have gotten in the net and markstrom was just bullying

These guys out of the net it was aggravating because I think marrom is one of the most overrated goalies in the league but he was great tonight so I can’t even make that argument 5’11 left loo gets a breakway mark saves that as well 214 left pasta hooked by tanv we’re

Going to the power play and then less than a minute into that power play pasta is going to go for slashing it’s a terrible call it’s so bad it is one of those calls that’s so blatantly bad that you go I know you know that’s not a call

Like there’s no way you could possibly think that that was a real call they were trying to make up for what was kind of a trip earlier I don’t know it was pretty clear that they wanted to call something from earlier and they’re like let’s just get him for this so we can

Even it up and that’s what they did so we’re going to go on 4v4 for a minute 17 we’re going to start the third period with about 30 seconds on the PK and we kill it off 233 into the third period kko loses a puck in the slot as he tries

A wrap around attempt Rashard is the one to collect good on Rashard takes a second doesn’t hesitate just gets his head up sees that coil has fled the zone and lays a perfect chip pass off the right wall and into the neutral zone for coil to skate into it it’s a breakaway

Pump fake brings to the back hand dunks it dunks it it’s two two coil’s got two on the game I wanted that hadti form him so bad it wouldn’t end up happening that’s the period by the way the third period more fun it’s a goalie battle there’s nothing to really point out all

That much of few Miss calls things of that nature but really what are we breaking down to that point that’s just me bitching the wind we got the better we got the better side of the refereeing for the most part tonight I really believe that there was so many things in

Our favor tonight that either markstrom stopped or the universe stopped this should have been a win in my book not the first 40 minutes holy crap not the first 40 minutes but after that with the game being as it was as close as it was should have been a win either way we’re

Going to overtime overtime is frantic it’s super fun for portions of it the possession game starts going which you kind of hate but chances back and forth it’s all going to come to a peak when it’s a pasta McAvoy two on none basically and pasta opts to wrist at five hole rather

Than pass I’m not going to get mad at pasta for shooting it was a bounce that when the save was made allowed for a three-on-one the other way and Cadre is able to bury the puck low low glove on omark I see why people are upset with

Pasta’s decision here I kind of get it it feels like the pass is coming he even does a little bit of twist to the wrist to kind of like try to open the legs up make marrom think the pass is coming and then just tries for a slow like not a

Slow but a low accurate shot I kind of get it I’m not going to lose my mind about this one because we talk about overpassing and screw I kind of get it could it have been better yeah absolutely but I’m just not going to crush him for this one it’s a loss

Though it’s a 3-2 overtime loss to the Calgary Flames that just feels so disappointed you want to build some momentum here you want to get back to being a winning team where you’re winning four five and this is just winnable games and you’re letting them go like this it’s not good

And again I don’t care about losing an overtime I don’t give a crap about the three on three macki or the shootout or whatever those results aren’t going to bother me as much but the regulation time results here that wasn’t a good game for the Bruins it wasn’t and I kind

Of wish that they had come out and been like yeah I this is the first time I mentioned this video back to back I get it late nights they got into Calgary at like 2 in the morning totally get that I would have really loved for them

To come out and be like [ __ ] this team I can’t believe we allowed you to have the game you had against us just a few weeks ago that’s not Bruins hockey let’s show you Bruins hockey I just don’t feel like they ever really showed him that and it

Would have been a nice I don’t know gesture to see them kind of go after this team uh super physical though they were physical we’ll give them that game notes Little Game notes here nothing special uh first of all it feels like the guys already trust lorai really

Really well and that’s awesome a Lori Mac pairing until lindol or Grizz are back and even then there’s some conversation to be had there Lura and Ma should be working together they still need to work out some Kings don’t get me wrong lorai is not perfect but that’s a

Pairing that has a lot of potential and if you can get them hitting their stride by playoffs this defensive core looks a lot better looks a lot better the only other game note I have is the third line is so bad it’s kind of crazy and this has been

An ongoing problem for well over a month now they’ll have a game here or there because the Personnel changes so much but every time we talk about the bottom six doing well we’re talking about the fourth line we haven’t talked about the third line looking good in well over a

Month I’m pretty sure ki’s part of that and I don’t want to just crap all over geeki because again I just want geeki to succeed so bad I’m just getting frustrated with some of the he makes a ton of stupid decisions too just bad but

Jvr is five on five play has been really poor it it’s it’s been rough it’s been really rough and I know jvr just had a couple of goals the other night and there are certain games you can point out and be like yeah but and I get that

For the most part they get crushed by what whatever line plays against them consistently throughout the game is the line on the other team that looks awesome they look great the geeky line when he’s centering a line isn’t good it’s not good enough and it’s not good enough going against

Shelter competition as we Just sh saw on this home stand a seven game home stand stand that they did virtually nothing for the large majority of them they we’ve talked about this literally just last video the puzzle pieces they aren’t fitting and so I think regardless you’re going to have a

Line that you don’t love and I get that if you could find a way it’ll make it work though because that line just sucks right now they’re really bad either way this isn’t the end of the world not a huge loss or anything like that you got

To point out of it um get rested up go for Vancouver play up to Vancouver’s level like you did last time this playing down to teams is not enjoyable for anybody it’s not enjoyable and this team’s better than that I this team is better than the Calgary Flames

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