The way the Boston Bruins polished off their “perfect” 5-for-5 homestand brought to mind the opening verse of the Modest Mouse hit, “Float On.”
I backed my car into a cop car the other day. Well, he just drove off. Sometimes life’s okay.
That was how inept and out of focus the Bruins appeared to be even as they got away with a come-from-behind 2-1 shootout victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets.
To let a game stay that close against the decidedly worst team in the NHL can hardly be considered smooth execution. That goes especially when you’re talking about a team that has recently sculpted the league’s best cumulative goal differential engaging a team with the worst differential.
By the halfway mark of regulation, only five Boston forwards had a single shot on goal. By night’s end, after 65 minutes of full-scale hockey action, the Bruins had tested Columbus stopper Curtis Sanford 27 times. The likes of Gregory Campbell, Andrew Ference, Nathan Horton, Daniel Paille, Benoit Pouliot and Dennis Seidenberg had no part of that.
Granted, Boston did attempt 55 shots, one of which hit ...
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Boston Bruins: Did The Homestand End In The Nick Of Time?
November 18th, 2011 by Al Daniel Leave a reply »
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