Crazy Final Minutes In Boston

[seeinred 1,488]

Well, there is plenty of reason to rest your players. As you said, AO was risking injury. If he gets injured they're non-existent. What's the difference between winning by 2 goals or 8? a win is a win. You have every reason to rest your stars.

Well we agree that you should rest your players, we just disagree on the reasons I guess.

[sergei_is_still_a_wing 1]

i agree running up the score is in some cases unnecessary.

BUT. lets look at todays game vs. Nashville: say the wings got up 3 nil and decided to coast and not "run up the score" (not far from what happened TBH). nashville doesn't roll over and take the loss scoring 3 goals in the third. that game would have been tied and the wings would have jeopardized the extra point of a regulation win (not to mention nash is in their division).

all i'm saying is that in the "new NHL" i've seen teams roar back from 4-5-6 goals down to tie and in some cases win games.

10-2, i know its a stretch to say they were just putting the game out of reach. but i believe there is some truth to it.

i also agree to some extent with the poster who said that these are professional atheletes and they should be able to take it.

[Doggy 130]

i agree running up the score is in some cases unnecessary.

BUT. lets look at todays game vs. Nashville: say the wings got up 3 nil and decided to coast and not "run up the score" (not far from what happened TBH). nashville doesn't roll over and take the loss scoring 3 goals in the third. that game would have been tied and the wings would have jeopardized the extra point of a regulation win (not to mention nash is in their division).

all i'm saying is that in the "new NHL" i've seen teams roar back from 4-5-6 goals down to tie and in some cases win games.

10-2, i know its a stretch to say they were just putting the game out of reach. but i believe there is some truth to it.

i also agree to some extent with the poster who said that these are professional atheletes and they should be able to take it.

Of course they're just going to have to take it. However, I just think it's pointless and classless. Look at the Caps, they got theirs almost straight away.

[esteef 2,679]

Looks good on Brashear because he's a f*cking moron. With your team up by 1 with about 6 minutes left you sucker Hnidy in the face after you've already taken a penalty, my god.

Exactly. That's the type of s*** you WON'T see out of Downey. Brashear is an idiot.