Kolmannessa erässähän ketjut olivat:
Recchi, Bergeron, Seguin
Lucic, Krejci, Wheeler
Ryder, Savard, Horton
Seguin näytti hyvältä Bergeronin vierellä, joskin niin on näyttänyt Wheelerkin jo muutaman pelin.
Olisiko aika koittaa Horton/Lucic kaksikkoa eri kentissä? Seguin voisi tuoda ykkösketjun laidalle jalkoja ja pelintekokykyä.
...Toivoisin näitä ketjumuutoksia pelien alusta lähtien mutta en usko että Julien lähtee "tuttua ja toimivaa" permanenttia muuttamaan. Onhan tässä voittoja tullut ja juuri samoilla miehillä.
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Toivon ja uskon että Savard nousee Bruinsin ykkössentteriksi joulun jälkeen ja pakottaa Julienin rukkaamaan ketjuja. Ennen kauden alkua uumoiltua yhteistyötä Hortonin kanssa kokeillaan toivottavasti ennen kevättä ja yli erän verran.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -The Bruins are 1-3-1 with nine goals in their last five games. They bottomed out in Monday night’s embarrassing 3-0 loss to the Anaheim Ducks before a disgruntled capacity crowd at the Garden. The B’s lack of intensity and passion and their inability to score on their 45 shots were the concerns Julien addressed in the exhausting practice.
“We tried to create more intensity and more compete level and show a little bit more emotion that hopefully we’ll get this thing turned around,” said Julien. “I think the (line changes) are necessary when you are not getting the results that you want. You have to make changes and that basically is what we did this morning.”
“At times I feel like for whatever reason we play much better when we’re down and we know we have to score some goals. I don’t understand at times why we can’t start out games like that and want to claim the lead right away. It’s frustrating when I see the pattern over the course of a number of years where we seem to play – and it’s not just our team – but you see our team play with a bit more urgency in the third period."
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -“Yeah…but everyone is accountable. We’re all accountable here,” said Neely when asked a direct question about his coach’s job security.
“I think our players should understand who we are. We’ve had some young guys that have been here for a few years, and now maybe it’s time for some of those young guys to step up and take ownership,”
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Following their setback to the Ducks, B's coach Claude Julien looked like a defeated man.
"Well I think that’s what we’re asking ourselves right now. We had all the reasons in the world to want to compete tonight—an opportunity to move up five spots," the head coach said when asked about the glaringly obvious lack of emotion.
"We didn’t have enough guys going tonight, there’s no doubt there. But, you know, we got to be a lot better than that. Right now we got to find that intensity and that emotion that is needed for us to compete the way we want to compete."
The Bruins aren’t in a good place right now, and that’s not limited to their tenuous grip on eighth place in the Eastern Conference. They’re just not good. They are stale, ineffective, predictable, and often lackadaisical, all of which was on display last night in their weak-cup-of-tea 3-0 loss to the Anaheim Ducks.
Now, there is no mystery to how the Bruins play, and that is part of the problem. Is it most of the problem? Hard to say. At this point, even out-of-town Zamboni drivers, pizza vendors, and Ice Girls know that coach Claude Julien rarely, if ever, deviates from rolling four lines and divvying up ice time in predictable portions (far too much time to third- and fourth-liners, in the opinion of your faithful puck chronicler). Everyone knows the boilerplate Boston method. There are no surprises.
Only some 10 weeks into the season, the Bruins have gone soft and stale; they are in freefall. They would have been here earlier if not for the stellar netminding of Tim Thomas, but last night their bacon-saving backstop had little chance of preventing any of the Ducks goals.
If they no longer want to put it out there for this coach, then a bad place is only going to get worse.
->Tuo Julienin ulos potkiminen on enemmän median ja fanien hössötystä kuin että se olisi minkäänlainen realistinen mahdollisuus. Julienilla on kuitenkin suhteellisen kovat näytöt Bruinsin peräsimessä ja paljon pitää tapahtua, ettei hän saisi valmentaa tätä kautta loppuun. Käytännössä jatkopelipaikan pitää olla uhattuna. Ei näytä todennäköiseltä.
Jos tällä kaudella kone yskähtelee taas ratkaisevalla hetkellä niin uskon että mies peräsimessa vaihtuu ensi kaudeksi.
Onko Julienin syy ettei Thomas seiso alkukauden malliin joka matsissa päällään ja pyöritä lautasia kepin nokassa toisella kädellä?
Asked how badly he wanted to complete the hat trick, Thornton -- who had both his parents and his wife on hand for the game -- said it was a no-brainer.
"Of course I wanted it,"he said. "How bad do you think I wanted it? That’s the first question you’re coming with? I wanted it very bad."
Ei voi väittää että Bostonin matsit olisi tylsiä! Tiukille menee nykyisin jatkuvasti, hienoa että välillä tulee kolmekin pinnaa.
Muista nyt kuitenkin, että änärissä saa voitosta kaksi pistettä, tuli se millä tavalla tahansa.