User:SeanachanSanxay2376

Each individual Saturday I like to analysis and talk about a little hockey trivia with all my fellow Hockey Chumps out there. Through the playoffs, however, I'm heading to restrict the info to stuff exclusively owning to do with both the Stanley Cup, playoff matchups, or the remaining playoff teams by themselves.

That reported, in regards to the Bruins v. Flyers series, did you know that this is the initial time these two teams have matched up in the playoffs in 32 years? You ought to follow breaking sports news. Quite tough to grasp, especially when you look at how superior - or at least competitive - both equally groups have been about all these a long time.

32 a long time back it was the Large Negative Bruins v. the Broad Road Bullies, when both groups had been much more so well-known for their potential to bash opponents up and down the rink, somewhat than their enjoying the more "skillful" pieces of the game.

In actuality, the Bruins had four people on their roster that 12 months that gathered - at minimum - 116 PIM each individual in the course of the common time of year. On the other aspect of the faceoff dot, the Flyers had five gamers with at the very least 119 PIM each. The Bruins won in five online games and moved on to the finals, in which they had been promptly disposed of by the quicker and extra skillful Montreal Canadiens.

For comparison's sake, this season's Bruins have just one particular player with more than 100 penalty minutes (Shawn Thornton at a "healthful" 141 PIM) while the Flyers have 4 players with at minimum 126 PIM.

Issues went as effectively as could be expected for two Northeast rivals...

This is a significant variation in terms of well balanced physical prowess, but in truth, this statistic only takes you so far in the new NHL playoffs. With the reduction of Jeff Carter and Simon Gagne, the Flyers do not have many possibilities in terms of players who can set the puck in the back of the web, a minimal element some may say, in pinpointing the end result of hockey video games (insert sarcastic voice listed here).

What is my assumed? Very well, I am (astonishingly) in arrangement with several of the specialists out there these days - and that is that in the long run, the quicker, extra healthier and skillfully balanced Bruins will prevail, but not ahead of the Flyers bodily sporting design of game leaves the Bruins bruised, battered and crushed when moving on to the Eastern Conference Finals.