The Two-Line Pass

The Lead

So the Bruins lost to the Sabres tonight. Not really that surprising.

Not that big a deal either. The Bruins have a supercomfortable two-point lead on the Thrashers for the eighth spot in the East and so why not lay down against a team that’s got the Northeast Division pretty much wrapped up by now?

Lots of blame to go around in this loss, as you’d expect. The first two Sabres goals went in off stupid Dennis Wideman who’s been complete crap this year. The third one was also his fault because he turned the puck over and went back to the bench instead of playing the guy to whom he’d just given it, because his stick was broken (or so he’d have us believe!).

Then of course you can go ahead and blame Timmy Thomas for giving up three goals on 14 shots, not that he had the best of chances to stop them because of how much of a rockhead Wideman is. Still, in games that are even kinda-must-win a .786 save percentage is pretty much not what you’re lookin for regardless of circumstance.

But the real game-ruiner in all this is Claude Julien who made the real Einsteinian decision to start Thomas in the first place. “Oh hey,” Julien said looking at the stats before the game, “Tuukka Rask has a 1.72 career GAA against the Sabres all-time and we need to win this game so we better not start him.” And once Thomas’ demoralizing performance had effectively pushed the game well out of the Bruins’ reach (after all, who could expect this group of bums to score more than two goals in a game?), Julien put Rask in and WHADDAYA KNOW he didn’t give up any goals.

Hey Claude I have a good idea to help the Bruins win games: Stop playing Tim Thomas. Ever again. I know he’s getting paid a lot, but so are lots of awful athletes that don’t even play hockey. And those dudes would do just as well against Tyler Myers or whoever.

Elsewhere…

Carolina 4, Atlanta 1

Who cares about this game? Given the final score, probably not the Thrashers ha ha ha. Jokes.

Nashville 3, Florida 2

Patric Hornqvist has 30 goals this year. He was also the last pick in some draft or another, so that’s pretty interesting.

Minnesota 3, Los Angeles 2

Does Jon Quick have 40 wins yet? Oh you guys don’t answer that, I know the answer. It’s no. No, he does not have 40 wins yet. Because he’s not very good and neither is LA.

Anaheim 3, Dallas 1

Anaheim scored three goals in this game, as the above score probably already informed you. But I bet you didn’t know they scored those three goals in the space of 5:19. It’s true, they did.

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