EC Playoffs Round 2: Boston Bruins vs Montreal Canadiens (Habs win series 4-3)

[taco.vidal]

Guys shake hands and hug after pounding each other bloody senseless in MMA. It is respect. You play the game hard. Then its over.

It happens in other sports too. NFL- prayer circles after the game.

Why didn't Lucic do something on the ice during the game or earlier in the series? What is he going to do next season to "f-in kill" these guys? Spear them in testicles?

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

The handshake is the most phoney bunch of crap on all professional sports. We want the athletes to play with emotion, so I'm not gonna stand on a pedestal afterwards and say lucic should've held his toungue the only one who said something stupid was Weise for telling the media like a cry baby

[Major Major]

Originally Posted by Bluzman

I guess the lesson for Boston is that truculence is overrated.

That would be a terribly uninformed lesson based on reactionary and simplistic thinking, so I somewhat doubt it...

[Phanuthier]

yeah somehow Bluzman confused up physical play with undisciplined play

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

The handshake is the most phoney bunch of crap on all professional sports. We want the athletes to play with emotion, so I'm not gonna stand on a pedestal afterwards and say lucic should've held his toungue the only one who said something stupid was Weise for telling the media like a cry baby

It seems some former Bruins skipped the tradition. Lucic should have done the same.

Rare are the occasions that players skip the tradition, but it happens. Ex-Boston goalie Gerry Cheevers was a conscientious objector in his days in Black-and-Gold playoff battles.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/20...TcJ/story.html

[Itse]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

The handshake is the most phoney bunch of crap on all professional sports. We want the athletes to play with emotion, so I'm not gonna stand on a pedestal afterwards and say lucic should've held his toungue the only one who said something stupid was Weise for telling the media like a cry baby

Eh, this is just such wtf stuff to me.

MAN SPEAKS TO REPORTERS ABOUT WHAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT THE THING THAT THE REPORTER ASKED ABOUT! THE BLASPHEMY! HE IS NOT A MAN!

MAN MAKES EMPTY HYPERBOLIC THREATS AFTER LOSING A GAME WHERE HE TOTALLY SUCKED! THIS IS WHAT I WANT FROM ATHLETES!

[Dion]

Lucic 'not sorry' about handshake-line comments

"I'm not sorry that I did it," he said Friday when the issue was raised again as the Bruins packed their belongings and prepared to disperse for the summer.

"It's unfortunate, especially because a lot of what's said on the ice, stays on the ice," said Lucic. "Unfortunately, that code is broken, and it's unfortunate it blows up to what it is now."

"I'm not the first guy to [make such comments in the handshake line, and I won't be] the last guy to do it," he said.

“I'm a guy that plays on emotion and this is a game of emotions. Sometimes you make decisions out of emotions that might not be the best ones. I didn't make the NHL because I accepted losing, or accepted failure. That got me to this point and made me the player that I am. Other than that, there's not much more to it.”

http://www.csnne.com/boston-bruins/l...-line-comments

Fraser played entire postseason on broken foot

“The pain was pretty intense," he admitted. "I don’t really like needles all that much, so I wasn’t getting anything to freeze the area up. But pretty much everybody is playing through some kind of issue at this time of year, so I was no different than anybody else.”

The left winger suffered the injury blocking a shot in the first game of the AHL playoffs with the Providence Bruins. He still managed to score three goals and five points in the P-Bruins' five-game playoff win over Springfield.

http://www.csnne.com/boston-bruins/f...on-broken-foot

Chara won't use fractured finger as excuse

The 6-foot-9 defenseman didn’t deny he had the injury, believed to have been caused by a Michael Bournival slash at the beginning of Game 3 in Montreal. It was apparent something was bothering his hand in the final two losses to the Canadiens.

Chara spent plenty of time without two hands on his stick and had obvious trouble receiving passes cleanly while avoiding taking shots. He had his two worst games of the playoffs in Games 6 and 7.

“I don’t like to talk about injuries. It’s something that doesn’t need to be surgically done so far, and hopefully it stays that way,” Chara said Friday as the Bruins packed their equipment away for the season. “But again, it’s not something that I’m going to be blaming, or making excuses.

“That’s the way it is. We all play with different injuries, or you’re banged up, and that’s part of hockey and the playoffs. For sure that’s not why we lost.”

http://www.csnne.com/boston-bruins/c...-finger-excuse

[taco.vidal]

How about spearing guys in the junk? Isn't that against the "code"? I haven't played professional sports but I have played amateur sports and going after the junk wasn't allowed under any sports unwritten code.

Originally Posted by Dion

Lucic 'not sorry' about handshake-line comments



"It's unfortunate, especially because a lot of what's said on the ice, stays on the ice," said Lucic. "Unfortunately, that code is broken, and it's unfortunate it blows up to what it is now."

[Itse]

Yeah, "the code". One of those nice things that are what ever you like them to be when ever you need them.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Itse

Eh, this is just such wtf stuff to me.

MAN SPEAKS TO REPORTERS ABOUT WHAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT THE THING THAT THE REPORTER ASKED ABOUT! THE BLASPHEMY! HE IS NOT A MAN!

Whatever

Montreal:
"we're not respected by the media!"
"Bruins don't respect us!"
"Chara is a bully!"
"Lucic said something mean in the handshake lineup!"

Boo fricken hoo. You're right. Manly

MAN MAKES EMPTY HYPERBOLIC THREATS AFTER LOSING A GAME WHERE HE TOTALLY SUCKED! THIS IS WHAT I WANT FROM ATHLETES!

What? He shouldn't have said it, but we want emotion. How do we expect players to flip the switch literally 5 minutes after getting their hearts ripped out? Almost every player I've heard interviewed since has said they've heard worse in the handshake lineup. Mountain out of Anthill here. Jesus


As for Weise, why whine about it after? You won, let it go.

You're expecting guys to go and shake hands minutes after they lose? This type of stuff has been going on for years, just we have cameras and microphones around now. Weise probably said the same type of stuff for 7 straight games. It's fine then, but wait! Game's now over so let's hug and whisper pleasantries 5 minutes after giving all they have to knock the other guy down? That's wtf stuff

[EldrickOnIce]

Pierre LeBrun ‏@Real_ESPNLeBrun 10h
Kings players joining Ducks in tapping their sticks, honoring Selanne. Holy. What a scene.

Pierre LeBrun ‏@Real_ESPNLeBrun 10h
Kopitar with a big hug for Selanne. Darryl Sutter showing respect as well in the handshake line to Selanne. What a moment here...

George Johnson ‏@GeorgejohnsonCH 10h
Now THAT's the way you shake hands. With class.

andy lassner ‏@andylassner 9h
I bet @MilanLucicCFC17 would have tried to fight Teemu in the handshake line tonight.

[Aarongavey]

Lucic is such a hunk of crap. I know a guy who coached in the dub when Lucic played in Vancouver and there was a player on his team that kept calling Lucic a hunchback all game. Lucic went and cried to the ref about this somehow being related to his race and eventually the ref T'ed up the player. Coach calls the ref over about what the penalty was for and the ref tells him that the player was saying racist things to Lucic. Coach asks what was said and the ref tells him.

Bottom line is what is said on the ice stays between the players, no need to cry to the ref like that dirty hunchback did in that story.

[Maritime Q-Scout]

I agree what happens on the ice stays on the ice. But that really means, what happens during the game stays within the game. Once the game is over, it's over.

The handshake is outside the game. So it's not "on the ice" in the same context as the game is over.

It's all about respect. Series is over. Lucic doesn't understand that, he does to know what he's talking about.

[AcGold]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

You're expecting guys to go and shake hands minutes after they lose? This type of stuff has been going on for years, just we have cameras and microphones around now. Weise probably said the same type of stuff for 7 straight games. It's fine then, but wait! Game's now over so let's hug and whisper pleasantries 5 minutes after giving all they have to knock the other guy down? That's wtf stuff

You are pretty far off base here. A show of respect after competition is prevalent in pretty much every sport. In mma the guys hug immediately after the end of the fight, showing mutual respect is a good thing in so many ways; it sets a good example for kids, it alleviates residual tension, gains respect from the fans. The fact that you can't understand why they would shake hands is telling, it borders on sociopathy and narcissism.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by AcGold

The fact that you can't understand why they would shake hands is telling, it borders on sociopathy and narcissism.

Yes. I'm a narcissistic sociopath. It's telling, you can tell. Holy crap


Let those who want to shake hands, shake hands. The NFL and NBA do it right. Some people mingle, some don't. A lineup to shake hands is ridiculous.

[AcGold]

I said it borders, a lineup to shake hands is part of hockey. If you don't like it I suggest not watching hockey.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by AcGold

I said it borders, a lineup to shake hands is part of hockey. If you don't like it I suggest not watching hockey.

A lineup to shake hands is a hockey play now? I'm bordering on being a narcissist and sociopath? I shouldn't watch hockey because I feel the handshake lineup is disingenuous?

I think your Internet psychologist/self improvement license needs to be revoked

[Street Pharmacist]

Let me be clear:

-What Lucic did was wrong and showed a lack of class
-What Lucic did was as wrong as Jay walking and we're making it like he's the first person to do this and it's so terrible
-this reaction can be expected 5 minutes after losing to a hated rival
-the forced handshake is disingenuous. Let them mingle and congratulate each other as they see fit like every other sport does. This isn't peewee hockey

[puckluck2]

Personally I love the handshake. It's what makes hockey so great imo. You can be trying to take the guys head off one minute and still have mutual respect for one another once the final whistle blows.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Let me be clear:

-What Lucic did was wrong and showed a lack of class
-What Lucic did was as wrong as Jay walking and we're making it like he's the first person to do this and it's so terrible
-this reaction can be expected 5 minutes after losing to a hated rival
-the forced handshake is disingenuous. Let them mingle and congratulate each other as they see fit like every other sport does. This isn't peewee hockey

Huh? Minor hockey league players shake hands because the NHL does it.

[Vulcan]

Let them mingle and congratulate each other as they see fit like every other sport does. This isn't peewee hockey

It would probably end up in a brawl, which I'm not necessarily against.