Bruins 7 - Maple Leafs 0
8 Golden Points:
1. Spell check keeps trying to tell me "Bruins 7" is wrong. I promise you checker, the Bruins scored 7 goals and in the past two games have scored 12. What?! The Bruins absolutely positively dominated this game. All three zones, every situation, all the battles, everything. The Maple Leafs literally gave up half way through the 3rd. I don't know if I've ever seen a team just STOP playing. It was beautiful. Let's hope he B's can keep this up.
2. The big story of the night, of course, is Tyler Seguin. His first career hat trick with three beautiful goals: PP on timer, bats one out of the air, and a nice complete end to end play. He did this in front of HIS hometown, growing up 40 minutes outside of Toronto, and in front of his country as it's "Hockey Night in Canada" on Saturday nights.
3. On the flipside, the player we'll always be comparing Seguin too, Kessel, had another miserable outing against the Bruins. The B's have to be in his head. He's the leading goal scorer in the NHL and he only had 2 shots on net? He had a golden opportunity to give most of us the bird when he had a break away in the third, but decided to pull his best Peverley impression and completely miss the net.
4. The Bruins only had two power play opportunities this game, but again converted on one of the tries. Baby steps in the right direction. And again the stone wall known as the penalty kill unit stepped up to the plate, shutting down the Leafs on all four of their chances. I was not keeping track but it seemed like the Bruins penalty killing unit actually generated more shots on goal the the Leafs power play unit. Again...domination.
5. I love saying good things about Lucic. You lose a lot of credibility when the the player of the jersey you own stinks. Lucic stunk in the playoffs and smelt like he needed a diaper change earlier in the season, but once we got him a fresh set of pampers he's been lights out. Not wanting Seguin to get too far ahead of him, he decided to throw two goals in the net himself. He now has goals in 3 straight games, 5 out of the last 6. I could really use a Lucic fight soon.... Just saying.
6. Timmy gets his first shutout of the season. It must be nice to have to carry your team once in awhile. He didn't have to make any ridiculous saves, didn't really have bail any of his teammates out too badly (Kessel did that himself by missing the net), he just played a solid game. The Bruins played from puck drop to the end of the game and rewarded Timmy with a shutout. I'm hoping we see some Rask and hopefully the team continues to play well.
7. I haven't said anything about the defense and you'd think they would have something to do with a shutout right? Agreed. It's just not as juicy as a Seguin hat trick or putting Kessel down, but the defense the past two games has been Claude-esque. Meaning I'm not just talking about defensemen, the forwards also played great defense. The whole "onion" system is working again and if you watch the game you'll hear Jack and Brick constantly talk about layers. Get by one layer of the defense, your met with another. It's not flashy, but when it's working right it's fun to watch.
8. I thought with the game out of reach, there was no way Thornton was going to have to fight anyone. WRONG...well sort of wrong. He didn't fight anyone, but he tried to fight Phaneuf after his hit on Kelly. I'm not sure how Phaneuf didn't get a penalty because it sure looks like he left his feet on this one. You see who the first person over to greet Phaneuf was...Caron. What a guy! Nice things about Caron - 2, Nice things about Pouliot - 0.
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