The NFL is starting their playoffs today so you knew the NHL would bend over backwards not to get in their way. But it is kind of surprising that the Canucks-Bruins, last years cup finalists and arguably the two best teams in hockey, get shifted to an ungodly hour, when the Patriots aren't playing.mathonwy wrote:Boston really fucked everyone by asking for such an early game.
Considering the magnitude of the game, it really is surprising how nobody from NHL management didn't push for Saturday night game.
(puts on the tin foil hat)
It might say something that Detroit and Toronto are playing at the same time as the Lions. That's the pull the Maple leaves and CBC have, I suppose... Edmonton-Dallas is a 2pm EST time start ahead of the 430 Bengals-Texans game.
He tried to take the emotion out of the game. The Canucks tried to play that way to start, and the Bruins have succeeded in dragging them into the trenches. IF the Canucks play this game like they're supposed to, like a well-oiled PP machine, they will be fine. If they try to out-muscle the Bruins...GoalieDad wrote:I don't know how the decision to start Schneider says nothing good about the Coach's trust in Luongo. And if the de-facto Number 1 guy is already mentally "fragile", surely this only aggravates that problem.
Starting Schneider takes a lot of the emotion out of the game. Luongo has NOTHING to gain by playing this game. If he wins, the media will simply say he's a regular season goalie that falters in the playoffs. If he loses, the Bruins are in his head and he's fragile. It says nothing about the room or the teams' confidence in Luongo, just like all the idiots claiming he was "done" earlier in the season...