Winners of 8 of their last 10...
With an All-Star goalie, and a group of young, hungry, players, 2007 is the year of the Boston Bruins!
The Bruins are going all the way to the Stanley Cup!
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Go Boston!!!!
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Contrary to popular belief among those that have known me and where my allegiances lie in the past, oh, 20 years - the preceding was NOT penned by me! At all!
They are, indeed, something taken ad verbatim from some auction on E-BAY...
As a matter of fact, though I am pleased to hear about the current winning streak during which the Boston Bruins have indeed looked unbeatable - I remain pretty much level-headed, realistic and even a tad indifferent about the current line-up's chances to "go all the way up - up - up to the Stanley Cup"!
That used to be my slogan - circa 1988 - when a certain Cam Neely played for the Bruins... It isn't the case anymore.
I view the "cup" as something closer to a damn ashtray than anything remotely close to the Holy Grail (you damnable hockey analyst-blasphemers!)
And I do not think that, in this day and age, ANYONE (save Nostradamus himself) can predict who will rise to take the title - not in this day of near-total parity in the damn league!
It's anybody's cup - or, as I said, it's anybody's ashtray!
And what do I care, anymore?!?
I agree with the assessment that the present-day team has an All-Star goalie (underrated though he is, by the so-called experts) and a quick, hungry team (newest additions Bochenski, Chistov, Kessel, Ward and Ference make the Bruins finally forget about the "losses" of Smolinski, Samsonov, Ruzicka, Iafrate and Wesley...!!!)
Add to that the other youngsters; Boyes, Bergeron, Sturm (whom experts wanted to see get traded - fat chance, "experts"!) and Toivonen too!
And add to that the quality veterans that anchor everyone else:
Marc Savard is better than Joe Thornton (sort of like the same improvement than the time when Adam Oates replaced Craig Janney - more backbone, more bite!)
Zdeno Chara is the true heir apparent to Ray Bourque (Kyle McLaren and Nick Boynton never were...)
Even Mark Mowers is an improvement over the pathetic Martin Lapointe!!!
And even Shean Donovan is an improvement over the vanishing act specialists: either Brian Rolston or Michael Nylander - at least, when Donovan doesn't do a thing, it is not disappointing since not much is expected from HIM! (Besides, Donovans are known for their tendency to pull off vanishing acts; ask Ione Skye! But that is another story...!)
P.J. Axelsson is the closest thing to a new Dave Poulin or Dave Reid
And Glen Murray remains the closest thing to a second coming of Cam Neely
Still - even if these underdogs were to defy the odds and win it all (in the eyes of the so-called expert, they are underdogs, yes - and besides, with parity pervading the NHL, all bets are off: there are way too many possible contenders and even more possible scenarios now to say with certainty that ANY team is a team "of destiny"...) - I would still not celebrate it.
I wanted it to happen years ago - now all of the deserving cast is gone.
I wanted to see Neely hoist the cup - instead, I saw that spineless geek, Mario Lemieux, hoist it twice. Talk about a qualifiable HEIST!
But I digress...
At best, hence, I am lukewarm about the current edition of the Boston Bruins - and I shall not jump on the bandwagon here.
Nor will I buy any hockey (hokey?) cards!!!
Hmm - still... If 300 lunatics can stand up to an army of a million - surely 100 Bruins can beat back 1000 Devils, Penguins, Oilers, Leafs, Canadiens, Senators, Sabres, Panthers, Canucks, Thrashers, Rangers, Islanders, Flames and Hurricanes!!!
Logically...?
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posted by Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™ at
4:38 PM
3 Comments:
Hmm...
Evidently, the Bruins staff focus on Kessel and Bochenski - since they just traded away Boyes!
AND they focus on defense - since they acquired a defenseman - Dennis Wideman - for Boyes...
They had acquired Boyes originally for a defenseman too - Jeff Jillson!
So all is well...
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Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™, at 2:01 AM
Oh - and Paul Mara is gone
Aaron Ward replaces him.
Instant upgrade, I would think - again
Rangers Trade Ward to Bruins
Feb 27, 5:47 PM (ET) Email this Story
By IRA PODELL
NEW YORK (AP) -The Rangers traded Aaron Ward to the Boston Bruins on Tuesday just days after a rift between the defenseman and captain Jaromir Jagr became public.
Ward, a member of the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes last season, was in the first year of a two-year deal with New York that pays him $2.75 million in each season.
The Rangers received defenseman Paul Mara from the Bruins. New York also sent newly acquired forward Pascal Dupuis to the Atlanta Thrashers for a third-round draft pick and prospect Alex Bourret shortly before the NHL trading deadline.
Dupuis, earning $790,000 this season, came to New York on Feb. 9 in a deal with the Minnesota Wild for forward Adam Hall.
The Bruins made one other trade before time ran out Tuesday, sending forward Brad Boyes to St. Louis for defenseman Dennis Wideman.
Ward was benched Saturday night in the Rangers' final game before Tuesday's NHL trading deadline, and coach Tom Renney said then it was not because the defenseman was about to be dealt. Renney said he wanted Ward on the team when the defenseman became a free agent last summer and still wanted to keep him.
But Ward left New York after posting three goals and 10 assists in 60 games this season. He became prone to mistakes over the course of the season, and Renney said the benching was to get him to take a step back and watch for a game.
Over the weekend reports surfaced that Ward and Jagr had a heated dispute on the bench during a 3-2 loss at Tampa Bay on Feb. 3.
"I've got no problem with anybody," Jagr told the Daily News. "He didn't play the last game and it's my fault? I don't think there's a problem in the locker room at all. I don't believe that he's going to the media for that.
"During the game there are a lot of situations. He wasn't happy, probably with the way I was talking to him. Should I write an e-mail? No."
Ward, a two-time Cup champion with Detroit, has 34 goals and 78 assists in 612 career games.
Mara had three goals and 15 assists in 59 games this season with Boston. He has played in 483 NHL games, also spending time with Phoenix and Tampa Bay.
He is earning $3 million this season and is signed at the same amount for the 2007-08 campaign.
The Rangers and Bruins entered play Tuesday tied for 11th place in the Eastern Conference, seven points and three spots below the playoff cutoff.
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Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™, at 2:02 AM
Hmm... In my 300 Spartans/Bruins analogy, I left out, among the many enemies, the DUCKS...!!!
That was not voluntary on my part, no!
Besides - Ducks or no quacks, the analogy bode a very evil omen for the B's - as history books will remind you what did happen to those 300... :(
The film gives you a more graphic description, I concur...
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Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™, at 8:58 PM
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