The "Big Bad Bruins" are back. I just got done watching the Ducks and Bruins beat each other up on my DVR. Wow! You have got to love the way Bruins TV announcer Jack Edwards calls a hockey fight. On the Lucic fight, I think Andy Brickley is right Mike Brown broke the code when he sucker punched Lucic in front of the Ducks goal and Milan Lucic hammered him. Incidentally, Milan Lucic suffered an upper body injury tonight and didn't play in the third period and I wonder if he broke his hand beating up Brown because he seemed to be favoring right hand in the penalty box after the fight with Brown. I am sure we will find out soon.
In the heavy weight fight of the night Shawn Thornton fought former Princeton grad George Parros. I have to give Thornton credit for fighting Parros because that is about only thing he is good at doing. Parros also took a run at Bruins Star Marc Savard tonight during the second period.
(Hockey fights on the game tonight) It seems that the Bruins have fought in bunches this season. The majority of the team’s fighting majors have come during six multi-fight games. Last night was no different in Boston’s game against the Ducks.
With the B’s up 3-0, a heavyweight bout between Shawn Thornton and George Parros took place eight minutes into the second period. Moments later, things escalated after Mike Brown took exception to Milan Lucic rushing in on Ducks goaltender Jonas Hiller, who was covering the puck.
Brown gave Lucic a gloved punch to the face and then continued to go after him. They dropped the gloves and Brown landed a right hand before losing his balance and falling to the ice. Lucic followed him down and hammered away until Sheldon Brookbank jumped on top of him. All of the other players on the ice (sans goalies) piled in but nothing else came of it. Brookbank was ejected from the game for being the third man in.
Less than a minute later, Marc Savard dropped the gloves after being roughed up by Scott Niedermayer, but the two only received roughings. The Bruins and Ducks won’t see each other again this season, but their next meeting might be one to look out for if certain players remain on the respective rosters.
I'm sure Lucic broke his hand, I have him on my fantasy team. And besides, punching someone in the back of the head with their helmet on is not good for one's hand.
ReplyDeletePunching anyone on the ground when they are in a vulnerable position is low and extremely class-less. Typical Bruin thug. I hope he messed up his hand and it sidelines him for a while. That'll teach him. In other highlights though, it was highlight reel night for UND alumni last night in the NHL: Jason Blake's shoot-out spin-o-rama, TJ Oshie's thread the needle top shelf goal, and Zach Parise's imitation of Ovechkin of banking the puck of the boards to himself and then coming in an roofing one to the cookie jar. Good stuff!
ReplyDeleteYa, I was waiting to see what you were going to write about your beloved Bruins.. I'll agree with "wcha" on this one, Lucic shouldn't have kept hammer punching him when he went down. (it's all about the code, i'm sure if Lucic hadn't left the game, Georgio, would've reminded him of it.)
ReplyDeleteAs for Tj's goal last night, it has stirred more blues fans stomachs because that was the 1st shift for the "kid line" (Oshie, Perron, Berglund) and they score.. the next shift they take 1 shot, and the 3rd shot they score. Making it very hard for Coach Murray to not keep them together, but I'm sure he'll keep double shifting Oshie with that line, because the Blue's top line is McDonald, Tkachuck, Oshie.
As for the Zpar's goal scoring he needs to keep it up, and try to keep some distance between him and Ove..