Go Bruins!

Last night's Bruins game? Rocked. To the tune of 9-0.

9-0!

At 6-0, the Bruins live-blog asked, "What is this? The Orange Bowl?" Today Puck Daddy named Patrice the number one star for yesterday, and of the game in general concluded:

Sure, a 9-0 loss is an anomaly and the Flames aided and abetted with a terrible performance here, but seriously, the Bruins average 2.09 even-strength goals more than their opponents this season. It's not much of an anomaly.

Amen, brother! That's 15 goals in two games now, and one against. The Bruins have scored more goals than any other team so far this year, and allowed fewer as well. Quoth the Globe, "The Bruins have a plus-69 goal differential to lead the NHL. Detroit is second at plus-40". This makes for a very entertaining time. There are little ups and downs, but most of the team is playing excellently all the time. I approve.

The only even slight shadow last night was when the crowd started chanting, and I knew what they were saying. Years ago I was at a Checkers game and the home team scored nine, and naturally the crowd was having a great time, and if you're having fun you want more, right? So they chanted, "We want ten. We want ten." I was remembering that game before the Garden crowd started the same thing last night.

And my beloved announcers, who are fully into the media hype for this Saturday's Bruins game against Vancouver, It's the Stanley Cup Finals rematch! We've all been waiting for this day since the schedule came out! Blah blah blah! decided that the crowd was chanting, "We want Van."

Honestly. That doesn't even make sense.

But other than that, it was a practically perfect game. They didn't give up, not to the final seconds, on playing the absolute best they could. It was fabulous.