Game 7. Again.
I honestly don’t know what to say, but I’m going to try.
Last year was devastating. This is embarrassing. To have a team on the ropes and then put out the effort the Bruins have shown is reprehensible. Two shots on goal in half an hour of play? They woke up partially, but to what avail? We can gripe about missed calls (especially Lohrei being ragolled by Pontus Holmberg that should have been a boarding 100%), but in the end, this is on the top 6. Pastrnak, Marchand, Zacha, etc., etc., they look just like last year. Going through the motions, no emotion, no effort. How about Zacha and Coyle looking terrible in the face-off dot?
The Bruins have lost 65 of the last 103 faceoffs.
— Ty Anderson (@_TyAnderson) May 3, 2024
The ghosts of Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci are haunting me right now and should be shaming their “top-6 centers”.
DeBrusk was semi-lively, but that’s about it for the forwards. Geekie needs new skates for now much he was slipping and sliding tonight. It’s wrong for Brandon Carlo to have the third most shots of any Bruin in this series. Charlie McAvoy and Mason Lohrei tried their darndest, but that’s about it for the skaters. None of this falls should fall on Jeremy Swayman’s shoulders, who’s genuinely playing lights out hockey. I’d be screaming at my teammates for not supporting that kind of play with such a lack of goalscoring.
I feel even worse for Jack Edwards. To send a New England icon out with that fart of a game—love him or hate him—is just wrong.
Game 7 Saturday night, 8pm, TD Garden. Something HAS to change. Monty’s job feels like it’s on the line. As Jack so fittingly made his last line, “Love Live the Boston Bruins.” That’s what it’s going to have to be, or else it’s a very, very long summer in Beantown. The goal highlights are below, if you want to be a masochist, but I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t.