Tonight, the Toronto Maple Leafs face the Boston Bruins, who for the majority of the past few years have been the bane of the team’s existence. Be it through hindsight on trades, regular season scorn, playoff heartbreak, and everything in between, the Bruins have done nothing but be a gigantic piss off. To be fair, they’re a piss off to the other twenty eight NHL teams and several others who haven’t been granted relocation or expansion yet.
But today is a new day, and a new opportunity for the Leafs to defeat the super villains of the hockey universe.
The Leafs
Projected Lines via DailyFaceoff.com
My only hope is that Leo Komarov plays like, 48 minutes tonight. Put him out there with every group, with his sole purpose being to piss everybody off. Morgan Rielly isn’t actually playing right wing, the Leafs are running seven defencemen.
The Bruins
Projected Lines via DailyFaceoff.com
Zdeno Chara is so old that he gets hurt from his own hits. Adam McQuaid has the most New England-sounding name in NHL history and he STILL had to be taken from Canada. Kevan Miller doesn’t know how to spell his first name. Dougie Hamilton is well on his way to becoming the most linemate-sheltered defenceman in the history of the National Hockey League. Andrew Raycroft won more games in his first year with the Leafs than Tuukka Rask has ever won in a year. Okay, that one was pushing the limits.
Starting Goalies
Tuukka Rask faces Jonathan Bernier. Rask is an expert at creeping people out with his Finnish Metal Library, while Bernier is an expert at being French-Canadian. In seriousness, Rask can singlehandedly win games – Bernier occasionally has that ability too, but you don’t see it as often.
Final Thoughts
You’re encouraged to use the comments as a platform to express your disdain for the Boston Bruins. Seriously, talk all the crap you want.
Milan Lucic was really ugly and then got even uglier when Colton Orr broke his nose.
This should be a fun game to watch especially because chara won’t be chasing kessel all over the ice like kessel took his dog away from him. The pregame ceremony should be special. I also cant wait to see glen healy chastize kessel all game and say how bad of a trade it was because hamilton is playing top pairing. I hope kessel scores a hat-trick. Healy is the worst.
Say could you remind us who the first star was for the game. How come Kessel sat on the pine for part of the third period? Great prognostication on your part.
Cant wait for Toronto to beat the bruins by like seven goals, bruin fans start chanting fire Claude Julien, then the following day Claude Julien is replaced by a coach who is so old fashioned he thinks helmets cause concussions then for the bruins GM to strip the roster off all scoring depth with plugs, and in the off season sign a plug for a five million dollar contract for SEVEN years!!!!
Awesome LGD – so much sass
Still not sure how Raycroft shares the Leafs franchise record for most wins in a single season…AND they missed the playoffs.
Aside, the Bruins managed to turn Seguin into overrated Loui Eriksson, and Dougie Hamilton into a D-man who’s getting first line minutes for lack of a better option. Rask is decent (OK, understated), but I’d still take Kessel for Rask and the other two.
Also: Raycroft still has more regular-season NHL wins than Rask. (In like 80 more games, but still, if we’re trash-talking…)
leafs rule bruins drool
When a team like Boston absolutely owns you in your own barn and Rask is practically unbeatable and has an amazing g.a. avg. writing such a tongue in cheek column makes you come out looking like a fool, especially when the Bruins wipe the leafs all over the ice.
I seriously expect better articles than this one.
You really had nothing better to do at 2am than talk trash on a leafs fan site? You really must be a bruins fan…the worst kind