I think if the Bruins show they want to win this series by knocking our guys out of the lineup, we fight fire with fire.

And I mean we take their candlelight and come back with a blowtorch and a flamethrower.

the problem with that is that we just don't have the type of muscle they have. I mean McCormick isn't a force like Lucic or Chara are. Sucks but it's da truth

Muscle can be repalced by rampant unapologetic dirtiness.

It's not even that, Lucic and Chara use size to their advantage, but they don't know HOW to start swinging, kind of like those karate movies where the short skinny dude flips a big buff freak of nature. It's all in the wrists.

Bench clearing brawl, we put Miller safe in the locker room, Lindy takes a baseball bat to Julien's head.

Muscle can be repalced by rampant unapologetic dirtiness.

As a counterpoint, you could point out plenty of other things that Lindy has told them to do, and they DON'T do. So, how can you reasonably say they listen to Lindy completely when it comes to physicality, and ignore him completely with other things?

As a counterpoint, you could point out plenty of other things that Lindy has told them to do, and they DON'T do. So, how can you reasonably say they listen to Lindy completely when it comes to physicality, and ignore him completely with other things?

I love Lindy, but I do have an issue when players (seem to at least) blow him off when he tells them how to play. That shows me that he's ineffective and the even the best coaches are useless if they can't get the players to listen to them. So is the solution to fire all of the players? Well of course not, but a coaching change could be effective. Not saying it's what I want necessarily but Lindy has been here FOREVER with nothing to show for it. A coaching change may not solve anything, but really what would we be losing? Keeping him in my opinion is more about the warm fuzzy he gives us rather than what he's producing here. That being said...someone convince the right people to change the ownership or get a new GM in here to change things up and we might see a big difference. Then again I'm just a couch coach here...lol!

Hey if we need a new GM I'm available for about 1/25th of what Darcy is making...Just saying Mr. Galisano and Mr. Quinn

Well unfortunately what the problem in the NHL is, goal scorers get horrifically overpriced contracts. So these players are working more on their skill game, to get paid. I don't care what anyone says, every big guy like Goose wants Getzlaf money, and every forward wants Crosby/Ovechkin money. Every defensive man wants puck moving defensive man money, ala Brian Campbell, and every tough guy in the league collects a less than 1 million dollar contract.

Now yeah, it sounds like a ton of money to you and I, but let me put it like this. If all you had to do was sharpen your knowledge and skills at work, and collect 3x your current salary wouldn't you?

That's the issue, and until the owners are willing to pay big time money, for big time toughness you're going to see the size and talent in this league, try to become more skilled, and more skilled players don't necessarily take risks like fighting, and flying into the boards to finish checks. I dont know why, but they just dont.