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Biggest Boston choke job?

August_West said:
Unfortunately that game was over at 0-0 last night. Rangers were soooooo flat. Oh well. No shame losing a game 7 to a higher seed on the road.

Thought we could pull it off anyway.
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That sounds similar to someone walking into a casino with $250 on him, getting in a ridiculous streak at blackjack, sits at a roulette table up $75,000 only to slowly lose all but ~$150 at which point he returns to the blackjack table,drops another $100 then calls it quits and says, "well, I only lost $200 after ten hours of gambling, that isn't bad".

If they hadn't treated game three as a throwaway game they would have swept the Devils. If they cared at all about defending their zone or taking care of the puck they would have won the series in no more than six games.

After the first two games, winning as easily as they did the bulk of the team acted like they shouldn't be required to work in order to win. In their own zone it appeared that they felt Igor could stop everything and in the Devil's zone there were too few instances where they did more than pass the puck around the perimeter. Too few Rangers (the kids, the fourth line players, Trocheck and about 40% of the time for Zibanijad and Krieder) played like they wanted to win.

What bothers me most is that we could have been a younger, deeper and faster team than the Devils. We were building to that and two summers ago changed direction, threw away a few first and second round picks for rentals and gave away two quality prospects for nothing, primarily to lose this series in seven games.
 
Scrutiner said:
That was on Joe Torre. I still cringe when I think of how he didn't run on Wakefield.
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Run who? Posada? Gary Sheffield? Last-legs Bernie Williams?

That was the oldest team in the league (or close to it), built to win one way, and couldn't do it.
 
I'm sorry, but the 1964 Phillies up 5 1/2 with 12 games to go and blew the pennant. Gene Mauch threw his aces with two days rest which was a disaster. Aces = Jim Bunning and Chris Short. Cardinals went to the World Series.
 
If we're going to talk about all-time choke jobs, that would be 28-3 late in the 3rd quarter

Engineered by that all-time great BC Alum, Matty Ice. LOL
 
TheHorde said:
2004 ALCS. Oh, wait…
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Nah no comparison here unless you’re a Boston fan. Sox were a real good baseball team as good as the Yanks in 2004 throughout the season. The Bruins beat the Panthers by 43 points in the regular season and had a 3-1 edge heading home after losing game 1. By far this is a larger collapse period, they were the best team in hockey all year. Huge gag…..

My Rangers just won games 1 & 2 10-2 and lost their series. Not too pretty either except they lost it to the team with the 2nd best record for the season. Hockey is over for me as well.
 
As for the 07 Patriots, one all'time freak play from being 19-0. Hard to call them a choke. Hard to go 19-0 dontchaknow

Three rings since then put the Giants in our distant rear view mirror

"Arrogant and Spoiled"

Y'all know what I'm talking about ;)
 
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Scrutiner said:
That was on Joe Torre. I still cringe when I think of how he didn't run on Wakefield.
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That was on Torre, the biggest example of baseball coaching malpractice ever. Up 3-0 with a rainout pushing game four back a day, somehow he runs out of starting pitching while simultaneously viewing games four and five as throw away games. The most egregious malpractice was Boston pitching inside constantly, moving hitters off the plate, to quiet the Yankee power hitters yet Torre refusing to do the same to Red Sox hitters.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
That sounds similar to someone walking into a casino with $250 on him, getting in a ridiculous streak at blackjack, sits at a roulette table up $75,000 only to slowly lose all but ~$150 at which point he returns to the blackjack table,drops another $100 then calls it quits and says, "well, I only lost $200 after ten hours of gambling, that isn't bad".

If they hadn't treated game three as a throwaway game they would have swept the Devils. If they cared at all about defending their zone or taking care of the puck they would have won the series in no more than six games.

After the first two games, winning as easily as they did the bulk of the team acted like they shouldn't be required to work in order to win. In their own zone it appeared that they felt Igor could stop everything and in the Devil's zone there were too few instances where they did more than pass the puck around the perimeter. Too few Rangers (the kids, the fourth line players, Trocheck and about 40% of the time for Zibanijad and Krieder) played like they wanted to win.

What bothers me most is that we could have been a younger, deeper and faster team than the Devils. We were building to that and two summers ago changed direction, threw away a few first and second round picks for rentals and gave away two quality prospects for nothing, primarily to lose this series in seven games.
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All correct. Let’s go to game together next season.

Also, Lol bruins.
 
mauconnfan said:
Nah no comparison here unless you’re a Boston fan. Sox were a real good baseball team as good as the Yanks in 2004 throughout the season. The Bruins beat the Panthers by 43 points in the regular season and had a 3-1 edge heading home after losing game 1. By far this is a larger collapse period, they were the best team in hockey all year. Huge gag…..

My Rangers just won games 1 & 2 10-2 and lost their series. Not too pretty either except they lost it to the team with the 2nd best record for the season. Hockey is over for me as well.
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There’s every comparison unless you’re a New York fan. Up 3-0 and blowing the other team out in game 3, only to lose FOUR IN A ROW, including games 6 and 7 AT HOME. Much worse than losing a one game Super Bowl or Play-off Game.
 
TheHorde said:
There’s every comparison unless you’re a New York fan. Up 3-0 and blowing the other team out in game 3, only to lose FOUR IN A ROW, including games 6 and 7 AT HOME. Much worse than losing a one game Super Bowl or Play-off Game.
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It was so good it birthed Fever Pitch and pink hats for a generation of Boston fans.
 
TheHorde said:
If a baseball team was 16-0 to start the season and another in the same division was 14-0, which would be in first place? And how many games behind would the 14-0 team be in the standings?
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Each win /loss is a 1/2 game
The 16 -0 team would have a 1 game lead because of two more wins. The percentage would be equal but used only as a tie breaker .
It’s irrelevant because rarely do teams play a different number of games when the season hasn’t been decided .
A 15-1 vs 14-0 would be a tie in games but the 15-1 team behind at.937% vs 1000% for the 14-0 team.
No baseball season was decided after 14- 16 games .
 
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Scrutiner said:
That was on Joe Torre. I still cringe when I think of how he didn't run on Wakefield.
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Run on Wakefield? Which game? He got tagged in Game 1 and took it on the chin in Game 3's 19-8 loss so Francona didn't have to sacrifice the bullpen.

He only allowed three baserunners over the final three innings in game 5:
1) Miguel Cairo ended up on 2nd after Manny misplayed a base hit with 1 out in the 12th.
2) 35 YO Sheffield reached on a dropped third strike, and
3) Posada was intentionally walked to re-establish the force play after one of Tek's (seemed like 36) passed balls in the 13th (Both Sheff and Jorge moved up again as well).

Either they didn't have to and have the opportunity to run on Wakefield. Besides, 'Tek gave them extra bases by not being able to catch the knuckleball.

The Yankees should have bunted and hit & run all over Schilling in Game 6. Though he fielded his opportunities cleanly.
 
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August_West said:
Unfortunately that game was over at 0-0 last night. Rangers were soooooo flat. Oh well. No shame losing a game 7 to a higher seed on the road.

Thought we could pull it off anyway.
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No there is shame the season is a failure. You didn’t get Tarasenko and Kane to lose in the first round, credit to the Devils but the Rangers choked and this season is a failure. Didn’t put the Devils away and Rangers got what they deserved.
 
TheHorde said:
There’s every comparison unless you’re a New York fan. Up 3-0 and blowing the other team out in game 3, only to lose FOUR IN A ROW, including games 6 and 7 AT HOME. Much worse than losing a one game Super Bowl or Play-off Game.
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A playoff game? LOL don't play down the fact you hardly lost 4 games ALL YEAR and somehow after winning your last 15 of 16 and being the best team ever in the regualr season you lost 3 in a row to a team you beat by 43 points during the year. Dreadful considering. Again the Sox won the World Series after beating the Yanks let's see how the Panthers do then come talk to me LOL hilarious.
 
boba said:
Manning beat Belichick's defense; Coughlin's defense beat Brady.
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Eli was more clutch then Brady, under duress he delivered. Remember when Brady tried an Eli to Tyree type of play in super bowl 46, what happens he gets picked off by Chase Blackburn who was covering Gronk.
 
August_West said:
Unfortunately that game was over at 0-0 last night. Rangers were soooooo flat. Oh well. No shame losing a game 7 to a higher seed on the road.

Thought we could pull it off anyway.
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This guy didn't take the loss well...

 
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Scoe said:
Eli was more clutch then Brady, under duress he delivered. Remember when Brady tried an Eli to Tyree type of play in super bowl 46, what happens he gets picked off by Chase Blackburn who was covering Gronk.
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I’ll also add the Brady safety at the beginning of Super Bowl 46, under duress Eli was more clutch vs Brady. Eli delivered at the beginning and the end of those super bowls that’s why he won mvp.
 
CCSUblue said:
Fun fact, no team that holds the record for best record in a regular season among the big 4 sports has won the championship.

Mariners, Patriots, Warriors, and now Bruins all lost in the playoffs.
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So don’t win too much in the regular season. Hurley planned it right lol.

There really is a tremdous amount of pressure when your chasing history. The 98 Yankees could’ve won over 116 games, they took their foot off the gas, I think the Yankee meant more to Torre then the all time record.

Btw the Cubs are tied with the Mariners with 116 wins they got swept in the World Series by the Yankees.
 
mauconnfan said:
A playoff game? LOL don't play down the fact you hardly lost 4 games ALL YEAR and somehow after winning your last 15 of 16 and being the best team ever in the regualr season you lost 3 in a row to a team you beat by 43 points during the year. Dreadful considering. Again the Sox won the World Series after beating the Yanks let's see how the Panthers do then come talk to me LOL hilarious.
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It was indeed pretty terrible. Ultimately, they got stellar goaltending all year and Ullmark simply wilted in the playoffs. He was a sieve. He never made the playoffs with Buffalo and isn't a guy like Tim Thomas or Rask that rises to the occasion. Swayman is probably the better choice.

Credit to Bobrovski, he did come up big for Florida. So far, he did again vs Toronto.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
It was indeed pretty terrible. Ultimately, they got stellar goaltending all year and Ullmark simply wilted in the playoffs. He was a sieve. He never made the playoffs with Buffalo and isn't a guy like Tim Thomas or Rask that rises to the occasion. Swayman is probably the better choice.

Credit to Bobrovski, he did come up big for Florida. So far, he did again vs Toronto.
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In fairness to Ullmark if a guy's never played more than 4 straight games all season and he's battling an injury that affects his technique it is completely asinine to play him six straight games for the first time all season in the playoffs.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
In fairness to Ullmark if a guy's never played more than 4 straight games all season and he's battling an injury that affects his technique it is completely asinine to play him six straight games for the first time all season in the playoffs.
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Yes. Swayman needed to be in sooner. Especially since Ullmark wasn't exactly playing great, even in the wins. Coach feared criticism perhaps, I don't know. It was dumb.
 
BleedHuskyBlu said:
I wish the worst for all Boston sports teams
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We wouldn't have it any other way. I feel the same about every NY/NJ team. I would probably root for the Rangers over Montreal or the Flyers, but that's about it.

It's part of what made UConn fun. So much universal love for the Huskies, and yet such a severe split on pro sports.
 
Scoe said:
So don’t win too much in the regular season. Hurley planned it right lol.

There really is a tremdous amount of pressure when your chasing history. The 98 Yankees could’ve won over 116 games, they took their foot off the gas, I think the Yankee meant more to Torre then the all time record.

Btw the Cubs are tied with the Mariners with 116 wins they got swept in the World Series by the Yankees.
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The Yankee wins record meant more to Torre then eclipsing the 116 win mark.
 
HuskyHawk said:
We wouldn't have it any other way. I feel the same about every NY/NJ team. I would probably root for the Rangers over Montreal or the Flyers, but that's about it.

It's part of what made UConn fun. So much universal love for the Huskies, and yet such a severe split on pro sports.
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Funny I don't mind the Bruins at all. I would root for them versus most everyone else if the Rangers aren't alive, which they aren't. Now the Sox and Pats, never! LOL

UConn has made this year much easier, I could care less the Rangers crapped themselves and the Yankees suck. All gravy after the Huskies success, my absolute favorite fandom.
 
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