Suck it beeyotches!

Thank god for the preseason. Bruins fans would have nothing otherwise.

Sir, I must inform you that I have $20 on the bruins to win the stanley cup.

Just taking shots while I can.

I hope you got 30-1 on that bet.

I didn't know you were a Bruins fan Troy... with that Nordiques jersey and all. Remind me to kick your weasly bruins *** if you ever show your face at Rounders again buddy

Ulf Samuelson won't allow that to happen.

I just love the nordiques jersey. I'll wear my Bruins jersey next time I play rounders.


I didn't even know you posted here?? 450ish posts and I've missed every one of them?

I got 45:1 actually. I bet $20 on Minnesota at 45:1 too, believe it or not.

I thought they were actually pretty decent bets, but you would know better than I.

45:1? Wow, very nice.

sportsbook.com or something is where I placed the bet, I think.

My brother is into sportsbetting, I asked him to look around for the best odds on those teams after I saw the post here. I figure if I win either of those bets, I'll buy a nice jersey or something out of the $900 in unexpected income.

Bump. Bruins sweep Islanders.


Is this going to be a good year for Boston? Or am I just prematurely getting my hopes up?

Boston will suprise a lot of people this year.

They surprised a lot of people last season too.

lol, this is true.

Yea they are going to surprise everyone when they package Chara, Bergeron, and boyes in exchange for 3 pylons a footlong sub and a bag of pucks

I'm still sick from those trades last year. My whole heart isn't into them this year because of it. Of course if they come out and win a bunch of games I will probably be able to get over it.

Not looking good so far. Our penalty kill sucks.

Actually our defence/ goaltending were both lousy tonight too.

Why in god's name is Tim Thomas their No. 1? Seriously. Touchdown, florida.

two reasons

1. hes a good goalie, horrible last night though
2. they're playing back-to-back games, so each goalie was going to start one of the two, no number one goalie for the Bruins yet. If both stay healthy, it'll probably break 50/30 Toivonen

And the other 20?

50 games/30 games

not %

Gerry Cheevers starts the other 2

Maybe my bet is still live after all.

duh...lol

Maybe this year?


Seriously though, will we have a good team in a few years?

They have nice jerseys...

I think fernandez will at least give them a chance to compete for a playoff spot.

omg, the blues are 50-1 on sportsbook.com to win the cup. I'm SO placing that bet.

I don't hate the Bruins chances either.

I love Bergeron; Savard can score at will, seemingly, and Fernandez is a MAJOR upgrade between the pipes.

Savard is the new Andrew Cassels.

last year we won 5 and lost 3 vs Boston... but keep cheering, I'm sure it's for a valid reason_coughcough

You just wait until this year next year the year after next!

strongly disagree, he's vastly overrated

goaltender wasnt the problem last year, it was the D-men in front of him.

that's when we will be favorite to win the cup

agreed.

i saw a stat earlier this off season that had fernandez numbers compared to thomas' and they were near identical despite the fact manny had the minn system working for him. thomas could oust his way back into the number 1 job.

Yes, Thomas was in no way to blame for the record the Bruins showed, he and Savard we're MVP's for the team, I saw so many games where Tim Thomas would be standing on his head the whole game and for the better part of it his team would still be in the contest.

Have you watched much of the Wild in the last few seasons? Their system is not nearly as trap-happy as it used to be. Also, Fernandez had an off year because of a knee injury that he aggravated roughly 15 times.

I should probably stop arguing this and start offering trades for him in the Yahoo league.

Minnesota isn't completely trap happy, but they can still go an entire period without giving a good team a legitimate scoring chance. Just like with Roloson, it is hard to get a complete handle on how good Fernandez is until he leaves Minnesota. It is no coincidence that every goalie Minnesota has ever had has shown good numbers. I'm not saying Fernandez is bad by any means, him and Thomas would make a good platoon.

still a considerably better system than the one Boston used last year. I believe it was called "the fire drill"

Manny looked pretty bad last night.

As for the rest of the Bruins, I had mixed emotions. They played well at times, and awful at times. I really really hope they improve quickly.

they will likely be real bad again

average goaltending

below average forwards(including the best guys being quite bad defensively)

terrible defensemen

going to be another long year in Boston

Well that was a much better game for Boston. There were a lot of good things for them in this game. The powerplay looked decent, Thomas was solid, the forechecking was good. Defence was meh, but that's expected. Thomas needs to work on not giving up rebounds, but every time he did he made the 2nd save as well. Schaefer, Bergeron, and Kobasew stood out tonight.

Negatives from this game were getting outshot pretty badly, though it might have been closer on scoring chances, as a lot of Phoenix' shots weren't great quality. Also Savard didn't play very well and then sat out the 3rd with some sort of injury.

Hopefully Thomas gets the start again against Anaheim next game.

Well it was good to see the Bruins score some goals. Manny played about as well as expected giving up 6 goals, but a win's a win.

Kessel with a hattrick, and Lucic with the Gordie Howe hattrick. The Bruins look like a good team some days, let's hope to go 3-2 on the starting 5 game road trip in San Jose tonight.

Lucic is looking like he's here to stay.

Burns me that they decided to pay Fernandez 4 million rather than spend that money on the #2 defensman they desperately need.

Yeah really.

Good news: Tim Thomas is playing incredible.

The Bruins are off to a 3-2 start after 5 road games.

I didn't get to see last night's game due to being out of town, and now the B's don't play til Thursday..that's kind of a bummer.

Also it's nice to see Toronto and Montreal looking up at the Bruins in the standings

I hate this threads name.
The Bruins do not sweep the Habs.
The Bruins are weak.
The bruins do not sweep the Habs.
I hate this thread.

Start an ***Offical Bruins threads*** instead of a Habs hating one.
Gl not sucking this year.

Everytime I read your posts, I can't help but picture you as the french-canadian Serge.

if ray agrees, i can just edit the title of this one...

i could care less though.

i really wanted to edit the title of the TML thread to serge's fantasy rants or something, but resisted the temptation.

Serge Wonka and The Last Place Factory?

Yeah please do, I was actually going to the other day, but I realized I didn't have the ability.