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Julien has had enough 11.16.09 at 11:12 pm ET
By Mike Petraglia

Claude Julien has had enough.

The Bruins head coach, who won the Jack Adams Award last year as the NHL’s best coach, has had enough of his team not coming out hungry. He’s had enough of his team feeling frustrated for hitting posts and crossbars. He’s had enough of injuries and weak power players. And, of course, he’s had enough of losing games.

But maybe most telling following Monday’s 4-1 lackluster loss to a hungrier, tougher Islanders team on Monday night, Julien had enough of answering for his players.

Julien doesn’t want to hear his players talk anymore about coming out flat.

Julien said his team is not playing smart hockey.

Julien said his team has no identity right now.

David Krejci said the Bruins just aren’t doing the little things right now to find goal-scoring success.

Krejci said it’s inexcusable not to score on the 5-on-3 power play they had.

Derek Morris said the Bruins were just outworked by the Islanders.

Morris said the Bruins were just flat the whole game.

Blake Wheeler said the Bruins just aren’t doing enough of the dirty work.

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  • dabroons13

    Neely needs to go in the locker room and start kicking some Black & Gold ass!

  • Anguillaman

    The TEAM stinks…it no longer has the talent to be an upper tier team..they did have the talenty but they don’t now. They do not have one player who is the best player at his position in the NHL…not one!

  • Brian

    Blah Blah Blah… same old song and dance by a panicky coach. This organization never changes.

  • Palmer

    If the team stunk, Anguilla, they would have gotten rid of more players, and made room for better ones. This team doesn’t stink. We have lots of good players that are capable of playing well, and contending far into the playoffs. If the team stunk, we’d be at the bottom of the Eastern Conference.

    Claude is not panicking, Brian. He’s trying to instill a will in his players to come out more hungry. He wants to have the Bruins come out as a better team, with a true purpose and mission. The team does not have one right now.

    Give it time, guys. We’re only 1/4 through the season, and everyone’s panicking. We can’t compare these guys to last year’s team. That’s just foolish. As soon as the injuries go away, I’m certain we’ll see a much better, and different, Bruins team.

  • B’s on MV

    Where’s Haggs been? Miss his column.

  • Anguillaman

    Imagine how many empty seats there will be next year….and then the year after that…..I talk to hockey fans and almost all of the old RUINS fans have like the COACH–”HAD ENOUGH”…its been 40 years of nothing but a shameless song and dance. Why is it that only the RUINS have failed to win a championship in the last 40 years…that’s simple its not the fans who have supported the team..its ownership and management.

  • Hockey Joe

    blah blah blah blah… why do these people even bother coming onto a bruins blog? Im gonna attempt to use statistics and logic to dismantle the Anti-Bruins bomb these a-holes have planted…here we go

    Aaron Ward – 3 points
    Derek Morris – 11 points (younger than Ward)

    Stephane Yelle – 2 points
    Steve Begin – 9 points (younger than yelle and compliments Bitz and Thornton better)

    P.J Axelsson was a great Bruin but he had absolutely no offensive contribution to this team last year and the Bruins could and did easily replace him with someone younger (Paille, Bitz, Begin) who could not only do his job on the backcheck and the PK but also could put the puck in the net once in a while.

    Phil Kessel is a great scorer and he is very fast but he will NEVER be a top 5 player in this league simply because he is not tough enough. He does not do the little things necessary to become an all around player. Currently, Toronto is last in the East with a 4-11-7 record and if this trend continues, the Bruins will own a top 5 pick in the NHL draft and they have already proven that they can develop talent within their organization (Kessel, Krejci, Lucic, Bitz). With the money the Bruins chose not to spend on Kessel and the money they saved by trading Kobasew, the Bruins were able to get Daniel Paille, somoene I believe fits their system better than Kobasew at a smaller pricetag and lock up Milan Lucic, a cornerstone to the Bruins future. ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT THEY ARE BEING CHEAP WITH THEIR MONEY NEEDS THEIR BRAIN SCANNED FOR ACTIVITY

    It also appears the B’s are close to locking up Marc Savard, their best overall player, to a cap-friendly deal. The Red Wings have made this type of deal famous by locking up guys like Zetterberg and Franzen to deals like this. It allows teams to keep their talent without hindering their cap flexibility.

    Now that the team is finally back at full strength and starting to gel as a unit and find their identity, true fans of this team will watch the Black and Gold take off and I can only hopes that the morons who can find nothing better to do then complain about things they know very little about on this site are under the rocket ship when it blasts off

    P.S: any haters can feel free to debate me if you can

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