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Bruins Lacking Poise
by Paul on 05/08/09 at 09:33 AM ET
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from Stephen Harris of the Boston Herald,
So many people embraced the premise that the B’s are a great team - including the players themselves. And do not misunderstand: This is a very good team. Even if they do not rally to beat the Carolina Hurricanes - whom they trail 2-1 in their second-round series, which resumes tonight - it will have been a very successful season.
But it may be that these guys were set up to fail by their own success….
The B’s can talk all they want about execution. But their problem in losing the last two games was that the relatively no-name Hurricanes looked like a team that wanted to win more.
The emotional shortfall has been revealed in the B’s play. The team has lacked poise with the puck, giving it away too many times, and has lost too many one-on-one battles. The Hurricanes have just been able to set the tone for too much of the last two games.
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