Anthony Travalgia: Defenseless The Bruins mismanaged the puck at will in Game 6, and with it, their season comes to an end.

Chara was gassed and did not pull Was through to 2nd round.
Krug would not have made a difference in this series.

Losing Miller and Carlo certainly did hurt. We seem to have key injuries on our defense every playoffs.

But Bruins had a lot of passengers - not working hard enough and too easily pushed off the puck. DeBrusk & Kuraly looked soft as baby-poo out there.

Too many times the entrys to NYI zone was interrupted when forwards failed to get the puck deep. And I lost count of the number of times forwards could not clear our own zone.

Yeah, D was weak and NYI scored. But our forwards could do squat-all unless they had a PP. The blame can be placed on both the D and the forwards.

At least Tuukka stuck it out this time and didn't bail over a toothache and a cavity

Swayman will be the starting goalie next year. Hope they can get Krejci and Hall on friendly deals. Dcore definitely needs to get a little stronger as well.

"At least Tuukka stuck it out this time and didn't bail over a toothache and a cavity"

If you are going to criticize then get your facts straight. His daughter was sick and he didn't want her exposed to Covid. Not unreasonable at all. Rask haters like yourself need to get a life!!

Rask and hall are useless

I thought it was the refs that lost you the series and not your young defence

Man I'm sore.

At least it wasn't Queefs .

This (frank)ing team is groundhog day except for that one time it worked out. (frank)ing loser franchise and will continue to be until Jacobs dies/sells out/a meteor hits. (frank) this (frank)ing team.

Wins lot of games regular season, Make playoffs, go to 2nd round, lose in 6 to great team.

Fan reaction: &@$$ %+**.

The 1st line was worn down this series. TOI was way off with the rest of forwards.

Krug was a liability against the Blues a couple years ago, and chara proved in the first round what he had left. They definitly needed more depth, but those two werent it. Bruins got outplayed, the better team won.

Swayman will be the starting goalie next year. Hope they can get Krejci and Hall on friendly deals. Dcore definitely needs to get a little stronger as well.
- deezdoughnut

or maybe go in a different direction. once smith got hurt, that 2nd line was done.

Problem as I saw it was no secondary scoring Taylor Hall was mostly invisible and the only ones producing was Marchand Pasta and Bergeron Other than that.....Everyone was a passenger. You cannot win like that unless the other team is built the same
Granted bad officiating had a lot to do with it also but you need to have more threats to score. I would not sign Hall. Waste of money IMO

This (frank)ing team is groundhog day except for that one time it worked out. (frank)ing loser franchise and will continue to be until Jacobs dies/sells out/a meteor hits. (frank) this (frank)ing team.
- glove_was_stuck

been to cup finals 3 times in the last decade, thats not to shabby. Doesnt take the sting out of this year though.

Give the Islanders credit, they played well.
It does seem that every playoffs, critical dmen are forced to sit. Secondary scoring again disappointed.
As a player, you don’t have to score every 2 games…but you need to be responsible defensively.

Chara and Krug would have made no difference in the outcome. The loss of Miller and Carlo were the death knell of the Bruins this playoff season. The loss of the only two "true" defensemen was insurmountable.

Rinse and repeat...for whatever reason, our d-men can't make it through a post-season and until that somehow changes we are going nowhere. Is that coaching (teaching better on-ice awareness to avoid damaging hits)? Is that on the training staff (better strength and conditioning, etc.)? Or is it just pure dumb luck? I don't know but nothing has changed in that regard in several years. We go into the post season missing a key defenseman and/or losing one or more during the playoffs...hard to recover from that.

I'm hoping for a similar transformation with Carlo like Krejci. It wasn't long ago that Krejci couldn't stay on the ice to save his life and was Mr. Glass. In the last few seasons that has changed and Krecji is just about the ironman of the fwd group. Right now Carlo is Mr. Glass but if that can change things might look up.

Should be an interesting summer...
I would be shocked if Debrusk is not traded, his value is not that good unfortunately.

I thought it was the refs that lost you the series and not your young defence
- mascqp

Don't you have some cars to light on fire?

Islanders just have more skill and better coaching. Big bad bruin hockey fails again.

Problem as I saw it was no secondary scoring Taylor Hall was mostly invisible and the only ones producing was Marchand Pasta and Bergeron Other than that.....Everyone was a passenger. You cannot win like that unless the other team is built the same
Granted bad officiating had a lot to do with it also but you need to have more threats to score. I would not sign Hall. Waste of money IMO
- broncohorvath

Bad officiating had a lot to do with it.. and bruin fans cant figure out the problem. Still.

Great series guys. It had a little of everything in it. I facking hate Marchand but man is that guy a great player

Great series guys. It had a little of everything in it. I facking hate Marchand but man is that guy a great player
- Isles

Palmieri continues to be a Bruins slayer, no matter what sweater he's wearing. That was a cheap shot on McAvoy though and I knew we were done when there was no response at all from our group to that hit. How Palmieri didn't have to answer for it is beyond me...embarrassing.

Don't you have some cars to light on fire?
- jmatchett383

It's weird how some Vancouver fans are STILL butt-hurt over 2011.

What else can explain their trolling when they yet again did not make it to the playoffs?

It's not like we are rivals and play them regularly...

Chara and Krug would have made no difference in the outcome. The loss of Miller and Carlo were the death knell of the Bruins this playoff season. The loss of the only two "true" defensemen was insurmountable.

Rinse and repeat...for whatever reason, our d-men can't make it through a post-season and until that somehow changes we are going nowhere. Is that coaching (teaching better on-ice awareness to avoid damaging hits)? Is that on the training staff (better strength and conditioning, etc.)? Or is it just pure dumb luck? I don't know but nothing has changed in that regard in several years. We go into the post season missing a key defenseman and/or losing one or more during the playoffs...hard to recover from that.

I'm hoping for a similar transformation with Carlo like Krejci. It wasn't long ago that Krejci couldn't stay on the ice to save his life and was Mr. Glass. In the last few seasons that has changed and Krecji is just about the ironman of the fwd group. Right now Carlo is Mr. Glass but if that can change things might look up.
- bluemoon737

Pretty piss poor performance from the back end. How is Krugs replacement Gryz looking right about now? I had feeling this could bite the Bruins this year rolling with a young d core and not properly assessing Krug and Charas value.