So, how fucking awesome did Gragnani play?! He looked WAY too calm out there, he played like a 10 year NHL veteran

holy shit toews lol

Vanek had a tough time defensively this series.

I had noticed this too alot about Gragnani he looked pretty darn good out there. I just knew Buffalo wasn't going to win game 7 tonight. When you have a chance to bury a team on your home ice to close out the series and you blow 2 two goal leads and then lose in overtime you deserve to lose the series. I know I will hear shit about it but it's true. Good teams find away to win games. They took way too many shitty penalty's all series long.

I don't know, I had a good feeling about Game 7. I kept thinking that neither team could win 2 in a row and both teams were winning more on the road, it seemed like it was the Sabres turn to win one. And with the emotion level of a few injured players returning, and with TC being hurt and the league not caring, I thought the Sabres would come out with more emotion and bring the play to the Flyers. But the Flyers played great. It was the only game the Sabres didn't win or be in. They got taken to task by a much more experienced team.

Here is one issue I had in this series. They didn't play Briere physical enough at all down low. He should have been hit every chance they got. At time's they played tough in both games that Miller shut Philly out and the other games they disappeared.

As I mentioned somewhere before, they actually out hit the FLyers in the series! Which is still kind of shocking to me, how they could out hit a team like that. But that may speak more too how little we had the puck.

As for Briere, I don't know if hitting him would have slowed him down, but I do think they could have been more aware of him and played him tougher. But you don't get a point per game in the playoffs by accident, he knows where to be and when to be there. There's a lot going on between his ears in the playoffs, very smart player.

I totally agree that Briere is a smart player and I agree this team should have been more aware of him. They needed Briere to be aware of if he's getting the puck down low that he was going to pay the price . They didn't lay the lumber on him enough and body him enough. That's all I'm saying. Most teams know he operates down low and they should have buried him every chance they got.

I will blame the NHL and referees for failing to hand out penalties and suspensions to James van Riemsdyk and Mike Richards for intentionally injuring Pominville and Connolly. IF you are going to bias with a team to win a series by injuring players, you are going to have issues.

I pray the Bruins win their series. Chara and Boychuk can use Briere, Pronger, Richards, and van Riemsdyk as punching bags.

i agree with richards, but i don't think jvr injured pommer on purpose, i think it was incidental