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BostonAJ
They fucking won?
I wonder if this is the case for a lot of teams. Or maybe he's just getting the usual midseason burn out. I don't care what your name is, psychologically this is going to wear you down...
Tim Thomas has a theory. The Bruins goaltender just thinks there’s been way too much drama surrounding this team, too many games that were described as must-win, too much overwrought analysis and too much pressure.
“What game is this, 40?” Thomas was saying before Saturday’s game at Montreal’s Bell Centre. “Well, I think we’ve talked about a playoff-type game for about 37 of the 40 games. Let’s play some regular-season games first.”
Thomas, along with defenseman Zdeno Chara, has been the team’s first-half MVP — although he did let in the highly peculiar, slow-moving Brian Gionta goal that sparked the Habs’ dramatic late rally Saturday. But he sees a B’s team that’s been unable simply to settle into a game-by-game routine, just because so many individual games were seen as so terribly important.
“I just think we have to get to the attitude that it doesn’t matter who we’re playing or what day it is — just show up and do the same job, play your game,” said Thomas. “And stop making every game into the seventh game of the Stanley Cup finals. That takes too much energy over the course of a whole season. Save those games for when they’re real.
“Just show up, suit up and shut up, you know? That’s it.”
No doubt, the B’s have failed to adhere to the ancient sports clich�½©: Don’t get too high or too low. In this season, there have been too many highs and lows, too many crises, too many sky-high hopes, too many monumental failures. Every game, it seems, has been so important for one reason or another.
“To be honest, we let the media do that to us sometimes,” said Thomas. “That’s your guys’ job, to build up every game. I’m not blaming you. It’s us. . . .
“This season, it’s like every time we play Philly, we played them in the playoffs so it’s a huge game. Every time we play Montreal it’s so big. Every time we play someone in the division, you know, it’s a four-point swing so it’s such a huge game that we’ve got to win and push them down.
“Save the drama for the ice. Put the energy into doing your job right in each game, not the story off the ice.”
Tim Thomas has a theory. The Bruins goaltender just thinks there’s been way too much drama surrounding this team, too many games that were described as must-win, too much overwrought analysis and too much pressure.
“What game is this, 40?” Thomas was saying before Saturday’s game at Montreal’s Bell Centre. “Well, I think we’ve talked about a playoff-type game for about 37 of the 40 games. Let’s play some regular-season games first.”
Thomas, along with defenseman Zdeno Chara, has been the team’s first-half MVP — although he did let in the highly peculiar, slow-moving Brian Gionta goal that sparked the Habs’ dramatic late rally Saturday. But he sees a B’s team that’s been unable simply to settle into a game-by-game routine, just because so many individual games were seen as so terribly important.
“I just think we have to get to the attitude that it doesn’t matter who we’re playing or what day it is — just show up and do the same job, play your game,” said Thomas. “And stop making every game into the seventh game of the Stanley Cup finals. That takes too much energy over the course of a whole season. Save those games for when they’re real.
“Just show up, suit up and shut up, you know? That’s it.”
No doubt, the B’s have failed to adhere to the ancient sports clich�½©: Don’t get too high or too low. In this season, there have been too many highs and lows, too many crises, too many sky-high hopes, too many monumental failures. Every game, it seems, has been so important for one reason or another.
“To be honest, we let the media do that to us sometimes,” said Thomas. “That’s your guys’ job, to build up every game. I’m not blaming you. It’s us. . . .
“This season, it’s like every time we play Philly, we played them in the playoffs so it’s a huge game. Every time we play Montreal it’s so big. Every time we play someone in the division, you know, it’s a four-point swing so it’s such a huge game that we’ve got to win and push them down.
“Save the drama for the ice. Put the energy into doing your job right in each game, not the story off the ice.”
