Joe, I watched the hit again on the replay on NESN and I stand by my initial reaction: it was not a dirty play. I played hockey for a long time and I know what a deliberate knee-on-knee hit looks like and that was not it. LaRose was reaching with his hands to hold up Savard and this caused him to spread his feet to get a better base underneath him and their knees simply collided. It’s also the reason I don’t think Savard’s knee is that serious. If LaRose was doing it on purpose he would have stiffened up and driven his knee into Savard’s knee and really done some damage. The reason a player does this is so that he does not hurt his own knee in the process.

Yeah…I agree Matt. I thought the Sergei Gonchar/Ovechkin hit was dirtier, but I asked both Andy Brickley and Bob Beers about it. They both thought it was a good hockey hit and that Ovechkin wasn’t sticking his leg out to take out Gonchar. Beers said he’d broken his leg a couple of times on knee-on-knee hits, so he was sensitive to it.

This seems like a similar situation…and Savard should be okay. But we’ll see tomorrow. They wouldn’t let the Hurricanes in on it if for any reason Savard couldn’t play, so we won’t know until tomorrow.

–Haggs

Hay Haggs,
Your telling us that Marco Sturm was the only one skating. Do you think you could expound on that.

DO YOUR HOMEWORK !

I just watched that hit again. It does look like Chad pulls up as best he can.
Savard will be good for 3pts tonight. Any chance of Marco seeing the Ice in the later rounds?

No chance of Marco Sturm playing this postseason after major knee surgery. There would be so much rust on his game that it wouldn’t seem worth it even if he was 100 percent healthy and ready to go. I am also pretty skeptical that there’s a shot of Matt Hunwick playing if the team reaches the Stanley Cup Finals either, but the club keeps saying it’s a possibility.

–Haggs

Jerry,

Well,Well,Well. Where is Haggs with his homework assignment!

Thanks for your thoughts on those guys, but why is he skating infront of the media?

He was just getting a workout in…Most days he does it before practice starts, but since nobody else was skating Sturm took the ice. Is this really all that important?

Bottom line is that he’s not going to play this postseason.

–Haggs

I might be partial, but does this get any better? The Bruins in a 7th game at the Garden. Sox, Pats & Celts are great but what team really connects with the blue collar attitude of Boston. We call in Bruins. I know that slogan was a little lame. In the 48 hrs. since game six who hasn’t had thoughts of Neely, Bourque, Bobby, Espo, Chief and The Turk. Let the Garden rock like days of old and show Carolina and the rest of the NHL, this is the Hub of Hockey. Time to make some New Garden history. HERE WE GO BRUINS, HERE WE GO!!!

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