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Loserish way to look at it, pal..

The Bruins have a good GM in place, a leader of a coach, and a stable full of young players with a lot of playoff experience now with the ability to fight through adversity.

It was cute of all you people to jump on the bandwagon for two days, please don't come back next year.

Thank you B's for taking Montreal to the wire... You played with a ton of heart and character. We have some very good young players on this team that just gained a ton of playoff experience.

NOTE to NHL & Referee's: The league needs to take a long hard look at diving. How can a player be called for a diving penalty and the opposing player get a tripping penalty? Montreal would get called for diving, and Boston would go to the box as well. Either it's a dive, or it's not... Montreal is the type of team that thrives in four on four situations, so what's to stop them from diving. It was starting to look like a soccer game at times with all the diving for crying out loud. Also, I'm still upset about that bogus overtime penalty in game two...

"NOTE to NHL & Referee's: The league needs to take a long hard look at diving. How can a player be called for a diving penalty and the opposing player get a tripping penalty? Montreal would get called for diving, and Boston would go to the box as well. Either it's a dive, or it's not"

With all due respect, are you new to the NHL? The penalty / dive rule has been called this way ever since the dive penalty (unsportsmanlike conduct) was introduced. I agree with you that it ought to be one or the other - it's either a dive or a real penalty, not both. But, both teams took dives (Krejci, Axelsson, etc.). Boston has a long history of complaining to the league instead of worrying about their own shortcomings. Restraining fouls are a classic tactic of a less-talented, slower team trying to get even with a more skilled, faster team.

The OT penalty in Game 2 was a legitimate call. The player lazily put a stick on Markov instead of trying to skate up to him and catch him. This is the garbage that was allowed before the lockout and the league smartly worked to eradicate it from the game. Some players still haven't gotten the message.

Great season. Great product, all year. Great coach, great effort. Can't wait for next year.

As for game 7, the holding call on Chara was questionable, and the resulting goal was the back-breaker, but you can't complain too much -- the B's had their chances on the power play.

Add someone with some size up front, to clear out some space (and the shooting lanes) and we've got something. Really looking forward to it.

No offense taken Rich in Vermont... No, I'm not new to the NHL or hockey. I've watched and played the game most of my life. I know that the "unsportmanlike conduct" penalty has been called this way for awhile now. It doesn't mean that it shouldn't be looked at by the league.

"The OT penalty in Game 2 was a legitimate call." Yes, Reich did put his stick lazily on Markov, but' you don't make that call in the playoffs. It's overtime and the opposing team is already on the powerplay. The players on both teams had infractions much worse than that throughout the game, then this call is made... And' what was up with the delay in making the call.