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Here's how the Flyers saw that gosh-awful bad hit by Scott Hartnell on Andrew Alberts.
BTW: ALberts was not seriously hurt but the Bruins are not saying whether he is concussed. They said more will be announced tomorrow.
I asked Hartnell to give us his view of the play:
“Lupul chipped the puck to that d-man and he went down low to block the puck,” Hartnell replied. “I thought it was gonna get by him. I let up a bit and finished my check. I think he put himself in a vulnerable position. I definitely didn’t intend to injure him.
"I'm sure I will get a call [from Colin Campbell]."
Campbell had no comment tonight when I asked about whether all these Flyer hits are going to factor into his decision.
Gonna seem like a deliberate head shot by another Flyer, I said.
“It wasn’t deliberate, I didn’t try to hurt him," Hartnell replied. "I’m not that kind of player. If you look at the all games this year and past years, I’m a guy who finishes his check. He was close to boards. It wasn’t like he was 2-3 feet from the boards … I let up. It’s unfortunate he stayed down.”
Here is John Stevens:
“I had a brief look at it between periods and I have to get a chance to look at it,” Stevens said. “He looked like he was trying to let up, but he obviously didn’t.”
Bruins coach Claude Julien:
"I'm not gonna react. We’ll let the league take care of that.”
GM Peter Chiarelli had no comment, as well.
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As for the flat opening by the Flyers once again ...
“We seem to get satisfied with a win and think it will just duplicate itself on its own,” Mike Knuble said. “The wins in Ottawa and Carolina were 19-guys committed. You’d think at home we’d grab that momentum and against Washington and [Boston] we came out a little flat. If we think it’s gonna happen on its own, it’s not true.”
Stevens on that same issue:
“As these guys are progressing, I’m trying to figure out why we look great in Carolina, come home really flat against Washington, great in Ottawa,” Stevens said. "I don’t know emotionally, if we are ready to be a consistent hockey team.”
Gets no argument from me there.
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Timonen lower body injury. All we know.
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Absolutely no need for what Scott Hartnell did to Andrew Alberts. A dangerous hit to the head on a guy on his knees at the boards. Hartnell will be suspended but he is lucky that Alberts was not seriously injured or I could see this being a 25-gamer.
Again, the NHL penalizes by injury. Since Alberts was not concussed, carried off, etc., this won't be a long suspension. If Alberts had been hurt, the league would throw the book at Hartnell, saying this is another in a growing list of Flyer-related hits ...
Either way, it was a cheap shot by Hartnell. Totally unnecessary as the game was getting out of hand with Boston ahead, 5-2.
Ugly.
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Richards falls down ... turnover and Savard gets another point as Murray makes Biron look bad with shot off the rush.
I said this before. When Biron is ON, he is ON. When he is OFF, he is waaaaay OFF. Flyers are trying to make a goalie change ...
Next stoppage
Flyers were booed going off the ice after the period. Biron didn't have much of a chance on either goal but the fact is, the Flyers did not match the Bruins intensity in that period.
"I don't know," Richards said after the period. "They came out hard. We had a lot of turnovers that should not have happened but they did. We are down 2-0 and we just have to get back at it."
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Savard hurts Flyers twice now ... Slapper moving backwards top of the right circle and his shot goes off Jones' stick, changes directions, but Biron still fans on it with glove hand.
2-Zip!
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Can't remember last night Mike Richards turned a puck over and it cost the Flyers a goal.
Tried to get it around the back of net but hje put it right on M. Savard's stick, and he fed wide open G. Murray in the high slot. 1-0.
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Lengthy delay here in the opening minute vs. Boston as PJ Axelsson shattered a pane of glass.
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Both tough guys sit tonight: No Riley Cote, no Milan Lucic.
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Kevin Paul Dupont tells me that the Bruins really do not expect Patrice Bergeron back this season. His concussion is Grade III and they still have not done surgery to his nose.
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