Ty Anderson: It's Over: B's bounced, Thomas, and the Joel Ward hate

Twas a toughie. Just wasn't meant to be.

EDIT: Great year end blog Ty

This whole Ward thing is disgusting. The guy scores the biggest goal of his life and its completely overshadowed a by bunch uf racist pussies in Beantown.

So pathetic.

Ty Anderson: It's Over: B's bounced, Thomas, and the Joel Ward hate
- tyanderson

People with an agenda against the Bruins won't be able to resist using this topic as a (specious) means to disparage the whole region. Many of them will even have recent events where they were sick of being associated with a shady few in their own pasts, but will willfully look the other way and refuse to learn from those experiences.

Why?

As you say, the Internet is full of bumholes.

People with an agenda against the Bruins won't be able to resist using this topic as a (specious) means to disparage the whole region. Many of them will even have recent events where they were sick of being associated with a shady few in their own pasts, but will willfully look the other way and refuse to learn from those experiences.

Why?

As you say, the Internet is full of bumholes.
- nfph

People with an agenda against the Bruins won't be able to resist using this topic as a (specious) means to disparage the whole region. Many of them will even have recent events where they were sick of being associated with a shady few in their own pasts, but will willfully look the other way and refuse to learn from those experiences.

Why?

As you say, the Internet is full of bumholes.
- nfph

You mean like how all the people in Boston stated every one in Vancouver was a looter and hoodlum and classless after game 7 last year?

I see.

You mean like how all the people in Boston stated every one in Vancouver was a looter and hoodlum and classless after game 7 last year?

I see.
- JDJ

took the words right outta my mouth.

You mean like how all the people in Boston stated every one in Vancouver was a looter and hoodlum and classless after game 7 last year?

I see.
- JDJ

This post is pretty much exactly what I mean, yeah.

I myself am a brown person, east indian to be exact. For me to be racist would be completely stupid as people have been racist against me and I know what it feels like. I just hate the fact that a smart hockey play by Joel Ward, which was following up on a rebound by Tim Thomas, has been overshadowed by the sheer stupidity of some of our fellow human beings.

Not only that, but I continue to wonder what makes us the "alpha" species on this earth. I don't see it when it comes to issues like this. It's 2012, get over it people, it's skin colour. From all of the interviews that Joel Ward has given, I have come to the conclusion that he is a down to earth individual who had to work VERY hard to become what he has become. Those people who need to work harder than others to achieve their goal never take it for granted.

I hope Joel Ward wins the cup this year just to shut everybody the (frank) up.

You mean like how all the people in Boston stated every one in Vancouver was a looter and hoodlum and classless after game 7 last year?

I see.
- JDJ

- nelson911

I bet at least one Pens/Habs fan was in on that too. I know there was more than one Sabres fan piling on.

And the lesson from that experience wasn't "man, what a bunch of dumbasses," it was "man, can't wait till I get to be one of those dumbasses," apparently.

Yay, humanity.

A disappointing end to the season to be sure, and as Ty said, self inflicted to some degree.

I feel we should acknowledge the efforts of Washington as well though, they earned this. Holtby was outstanding and their D did a good job of keeping us to the outside and blocked a ton of shots.

As we saw last year the old adage is very true, if you wanna win in the play offs your best players have to be your best players, and in this series ours were not.

All Bruin fans are racists, only in the way that all Vancouver fans are rioters. As my high school history teacher would say "Never use absolutes, you're always wrong."

All Bruin fans are racists, only in the way that all Vancouver fans are rioters. As my high school history teacher would say "Never use absolutes, you're always wrong."
- martok2309

All Avs fans are wise!

People with an agenda against the Bruins won't be able to resist using this topic as a (specious) means to disparage the whole region. Many of them will even have recent events where they were sick of being associated with a shady few in their own pasts, but will willfully look the other way and refuse to learn from those experiences.

Why?

As you say, the Internet is full of bumholes.
- nfph

hi

ZAP.

hi
- 2Real

you still in walnut creek, man?

The Bruins won their Cup in historic fashion with all those game 7s, especially after having blown that 3-0 series lead the previous year; that was pretty stylish redemption. Even though a first round exit is not the Cup defense you want, playing the only seven game series in NHL history in which every game is decided by one goal is not shabby at all. If you're a champ you will go down, what you want to do is go down swinging and the Bruins did that. Respect.

I see a lot of talk from the powerhouse teams' fans who have made surprise exits so far talk about the need to make big changes because of first round exits. But I think what this shows is just how tight the league really is. The Bruins didn't lose to a team that had twenty less points than them, which was sometimes the case in first round matchups in the past. There are no head-and-shoulder favourites anymore, and there is no way to really build a dynasty team. That to me just means the NHL's post-lockout changes worked brilliantly, because not only are the NHL playoffs the best of the big sports, from first round to last, but it also means the regular season is far more meaningful now. Getting to the dance means a lot now, unlike in the NBA where greater disparity exists and the first round is more of a formality for the top seeds. We haven't seen a lower seed win it all yet, but it will happen...possibly this year.

As for the Ward thing, I agree totally this is a function of social media providing an outlet for something which unfortunately is everywhere, not a reflection on Boston. I have heard these same ugly things said in regards to black guys in the so-called 'white' sport of hockey many, many times in Ontario, and I can absolutely guarantee you if the Leafs were eliminated by a black guy you'd see the same garbage, sadly. I've heard guys who never mention race in connection to baseball, basketball or football, and who cheer on their teams' black players, make these types of comments in regard to hockey because they think it's funny or something to see a black guy on the ice.

I look forward to the inevitable continued growth of diversity in hockey, because it is happening, it is cool, and it will shut up a lot of this nonsense when a black face is no longer a novelty on the ice.

Oh yeah and that total ass-kicking the Leafs got from Boston in the season series this year sucked, and I want a piece of them next year. Looking forward to it!

you still in walnut creek, man?
- nfph

for the moment i've been trying to move hopefully i can get out in the next few months

for the moment i've been trying to move hopefully i can get out in the next few months
- 2Real

Right on. It's a nice place but I'd imagine it can get a bit dull.

Ya, you hit the nail on the head in regards to fans of certain teams. I could not help but think that if this was the "most hated team" in hockey's fans that tweeted this how it would be justified to have such a title given to them. Even more so if Ward played for Vancouver, Ward himself would receive much less sympathy if any, from everyone just due to the fact that he played for Vancouver. Yes, people do associate Vancouver fans with rioting or being arrogant when they speak of them. The rioting comment has been made by fans of other teams as well as bloggers and that is what is always brought up no matter how unfair it is to true fans of the team. Having to defend ourselves to such idiotic comments gets tiresome. Being arrogant ? Sure, I can vouch for that. Despite not having a cup we have won 5 division titles in the last five years, back to back Hart trophey winners, a Selke winner, back to back President Trophey's and last year were first if not in the top 4 of almost every stat in the league. What fan wouldn't be a little arrogant of their team ? Tired of other fans saying " you play in a weak division". Sure, but we do not pick what division we play in and we travel the most of any other team in the NHL so that should at least balance it out. Take the Atlantic division for instance where they bus to half their games. You could add up all the airmiles of all those teams and Vancouver would probably be even with them in travel time if not have more. This makes a huge difference at the end of the season when going into the playoffs, not to mention making it to game seven in the finals. There are alot of players who downright refuse to come out west due to travel. This is why Jersey's GM was adamant about not screwing with the schedule a couple of years ago when they were toying with the idea of eastern and western teams doing a sweep in each NHL city every year as oppose to every three years for more fan exposure. He was not the only eastern GM who was against that idea either. Thats why the west will always be more difficult for a player to perform good year round as to playing in the east. Not saying the west is better just saying it takes a dedicated player to do so, mentally and physically. But I am getting off topic here, the fact that Boston fans are now being grouped together with those who tweeted racial slurs at Ward does not mean ALL boston fans are racist's, obviously. But be prepared to defend yourselves as racist's and poor loser's for years to come because of a few lowlife fans just as Vancouver and Montreal fans have been doing. Believe you me it will wear on you. Enjoy !

Right on. It's a nice place but I'd imagine it can get a bit dull.
- nfph

yea it's very nice i'm hoping to move over to the palo alto/santa clara areas if i can find a job there

yea it's very nice i'm hoping to move over to the palo alto/santa clara areas if i can find a job there
- 2Real

Good yeah you'll get some more life over there with the schools and whatnot. Good luck, man.

Good yeah you'll get some more life over there with the schools and whatnot. Good luck, man.
- nfph

i'll let you know how it goes hopefully i can get to lots of sharks games next season

need my live hockey fix

the only thing hab, leaf and bruin fans can agree on is that the racist tweets against ward were not the right thing to do.