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No Tim Thomas Trade Talk
by Paul on 01/30/12 at 01:29 PM ET
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from TSN,
Tim Thomas isn’t going anywhere.
Boston Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli shot down any trade rumours on Monday, saying there were no plans to move his star goaltender.
“Not trading him,” Chiarelli said in an e-mail to TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun. “I have not talked to anyone and I don’t plan to.”...
One rumour that surfaced during the All-Star break had Thomas being sent to Chicago in exchange for forward Viktor Stalberg.
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Evening Line
by Paul on 01/29/12 at 08:07 PM ET
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(Tim) Thomas’s decision to skip a team visit to the White House because he buys the garbage pumped out by Glenn Beck and his ilk was bad enough. But then, having pulled a highly public stunt to call attention to his whacko politics, Thomas blamed the media for paying attention.
Look, if this cretin wants to stand outside the White House and spew his drivel, that’s free speech. But standing up the president? All that does is show that Thomas has the class of a swamp-rat.
What’s worse, you know Thomas would not have done this with the liberal Democrat Bill Clinton in the White House. Truth is, he felt free to dis Barack Obama, because Obama is black.
-Jack Todd of the Montreal Gazette, where you can read a bit more on this plus other hockey topics…
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Thomas Still Dealing With His White House Decision
by Paul on 01/28/12 at 09:34 AM ET
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from Bruce Arthur of the National Post,
Tim Thomas waded through the crowd and sat in the shaky folding director’s chair behind the podium, in a room swimming with fellow NHL all-stars and media, and managed an easy smile. “I can’t believe this chair held Z,” he said, referring to his looming teammate, Zdeno Chara. He gave a little laugh.
That was pretty much the end of the fun, even in this most frivolous of weekends. As the rest of the available NHL constellation sat and talked with ease, the usually affable Thomas chose his words with great care, pausing to stare into the middle distance, and tried to hole himself up in the edifice he had created this week by skipping Boston’s Stanley Cup visit to the White House and releasing a libertarian political message on his Facebook page. Now, Thomas clearly wants the whole thing to go away.
“I think it should. I think it should,” Thomas said. “Why? Because it’s all media-driven right now. It has been from the start. And everything that I said and did was as an individual, not as a representative of the Boston Bruins. It … all it has to do is with me. But it’s separate from hockey. That’s my personal life. Those are my personal views. Those are my personal beliefs. It has nothing to do with hockey. It has nothing to do with this All-Star Game. And it has nothing to do with the Boston Bruins.”
That is an entanglement that seems impossible to break. It was, after all, a team event, and as Thomas has refused to expand on or defend his beliefs in detail — “I followed my conscience,” he said Thursday night after the NHL all-star draft — his teammates and coach and general manager have been asked to explain his actions, and how they might affect the team. As David Shoalts of The Globe and Mail asked Chara before the draft, “Zdeno, you said you won’t be picking all right-wingers. Does this mean you won’t be picking Tim Thomas?” As one Bruins team source told The Boston Globe’s Fluto Shinzawa, “[Expletive] selfish [expletive].”
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Talking Tim Thomas
by Paul on 01/24/12 at 09:01 AM ET
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from Joe Haggerty of CSNNE,
The question was never whether Thomas HAD the right to skip the White House visit, but SHOULD he simply have stifled his personal interests for the betterment of a team celebrating their win one last time. Many will applaud the B’s goaltender for damning the torpedoes and simply doing what he felt was right in his world view. That is the kind of stand-alone bravery that can foster change in times when it’s needed.
But here’s one suggestion: why not announce Thomas’ intentions prior to the visit in order to defuse the situation and take the heat out of it on Monday afternoon. Thomas is wonderful at stopping pucks in tense situations and he’s one of the most humble athletes you’ll ever come across.
But he’s not a brilliant PR strategist and there seems to have been no notion of getting out ahead of the train wreck that steamed into the East Wing of the White House Monday afternoon.
from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,
Shabby. Immature. Unprofessional. Self-centered. Bush league. Need I go on? All that and more applies to what Thomas did, on a day when Cup teammates Mark Recchi (now retired), Shane Hnidy (a radio guy these days in Winnipeg), and Tomas Kaberle (a member of some Original Six team in Canada), all gladly joined the red-white-blue-black-and-gold hugfest at the White House.
Thomas needed to be there in solidarity, and celebration, with his team. It was the same government yesterday, and will be today, that protected his country, his security, his family, and his right to make $5 million a year, all last season. In his absence, he stole his teammates’ spotlight. Win as a team. Lose as a team. And when asked to stand up and take a bow, then stand up there and suffer if need be, even if you don’t like the setting, the host, or any of the political trappings and tenets that come with it.
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Tim Thomas Does Not Attend White House Ceremony
by Paul on 01/23/12 at 03:01 PM ET
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via Fluto Shinzawa of the Bruins Blog at the Boston Globe,
Tim Thomas, one of two Americans on the roster, chose not to attend today’s ceremony at the White House, according to GM Peter Chiarelli.
“We’re like a family. We have our issues,” Chiarelli answered when asked if Thomas’s decision overshadowed the visit. “You deal with them, move on, and try and support everyone. It may or may not. If it does, I hope it doesn’t. The guys seemed to enjoy it. I enjoyed it.”
All other players were in attendance. Chiarelli said attendance today was not mandatory. Steven Kampfer is the other American player.
“I can require someone to attend a team event. If they don’t, I can suspend him,” Chiarelli said. “I’m not suspending Tim. Whatever his position is, it isn’t reflective of the Boston Bruins nor my own. But I’m not suspending him.”
added 6:15pm, Tim Thomas releases a statement via Facebook, read it below…
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Tim Thomas Talks Topics Of The Day
by Paul on 09/10/11 at 10:20 AM ET
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from Sean Gregory of Time,
As if leading the Bruins to their first Cup in 39 years wasn’t surreal enough, at the NHL awards show in Las Vegas a few days after Boston’s victory, some skinny guy with long hair approached Thomas on the red carpet. “He was like, ‘hey, congratulations,” says Thomas, who was MVP of last season’s playoffs. ‘I followed your career the whole way, this and that.’” I was like, ‘thanks.’ He was like, ‘you don’t remember me, do you?’” I’m like, ‘no.’” He goes, ‘I lived on your floor freshman year, at the University of Vermont, two doors town from you.’” I was like, ‘Tex?’ And I never put two and two together that this guy was Dierks Bentley, the country singer. It was pretty cool.’”
While Thomas is reveling in his new fame, he’s not immune to the shocks hitting hockey.
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Evening Line
by Paul on 08/24/11 at 05:47 PM ET
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“The Midwest work ethic is heavy in this state. I was taught if you want something bad enough and you’re willing toward for it, you can get it. It’s kind of the American dream, so to speak, which I think a lot of people, to be honest, have given up on.
“I’m proof you still can (do it). If there’s anything that the younger generation that’s watching here today or is part of this can take out of it, it’s that it’s up to you. You can do nearly whatever you want if you’re willing to work hard enough and long enough at it.”
-Tim Thomas of the Boston Bruins during his Cup Day in the Flint, MI area. More from Thomas by Brendan Savage of the Flint Journal at Mlive.
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The Case for Number One in Goal
by Ian Gooding on 08/22/11 at 08:00 AM ET
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Determining a first overall pick in this year’s fantasy hockey drafts is anything but easy, but we probably know this much: the first overall pick won’t be a goalie. Yet a goalie is an important investment to fantasy hockey teams, since only two goalies can be responsible for four out of a team’s ten stat categories in many fantasy hockey leagues. The need for solid goaltending explains why many starting goalies can fly off the board early in fantasy hockey drafts.
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Another Case For Number One
by Ian Gooding on 08/18/11 at 08:40 AM ET
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Is Sidney Crosby still the number one pick in fantasy leagues?
Mere hours after my posting suggesting that Crosby should be the first overall pick, Josh Rimer’s tweet about Crosby’s unlikeliness to be in the Penguins’ lineup to start the season was making the rounds.
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Let’s Talk Goalies
by Doug Miller on 07/26/11 at 12:29 PM ET
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As you’ll likely figure out over time from reading “Cluster Pucks” - I tend to be a bit partial to goaltenders. This undoubtedly stems from the fact that I myself spend the majority of my young hockey career in between the pipes. It would be the same position I would continue to play up to this very day, if you consider the EA Sports NHL series of video games as “playing” and their online player league, the EA Sports Hockey League, an actual “league”. Both of which I do, having had plenty of firsthand experience at very high levels of play that exist in this “game”. I think many of you would be surprised at the level of seriousness that many players (such as myself) take with a mere video game.
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Little Timmy Thomas
by Paul on 06/22/11 at 09:26 AM ET
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from Brian Cazeneuve of Sports Illustrated,
In the front of the lead duck boat, Tim Thomas Sr. recalled the boy who would ask his father to toss him footballs near the backyard bushes outside their Flint, Mich., home so he’d have to dive into them to make a catch. “It was more of a challenge that way,” the junior Thomas says. He would even attempt to make diving catches in the street until the day he collided with a slow-moving car. Yes, thanks, just a scrape. Oh, and how is your Buick?
In 1980 a five-year-old Thomas watched goaltender Jim Craig play beyond his means to lead Team USA to its Miracle on Ice victory over the Soviet Union and, with a win over Finland two days later, the Olympic gold medal. “From then on,” says Thomas, “I wanted to be a goalie.” Within a few years Tim Sr. and his wife, Kathy, had pawned their wedding rings for $300 so they could send Tim to a peewee tournament. The father sold cars and, later, local produce, and at 16 the son went door-to-door peddling bushels of apples. “He was determined to be the best at that too,” says Tim Sr., 57. “Sometimes if people wouldn’t answer the door, he’d peek around the back to go find them. He’d sell about five bushels and make $40, and he’d stay out until he made it.”
In his yearbook at Davison (Mich.) High, Thomas was dubbed Rip Van Winkle because he could sleep through classes yet still maintain an A average, frustrating teachers by having the right answer when they woke him up.
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Thomas Addresses Crowd at Stanley Cup Parade
by Alanah McGinley on 06/18/11 at 12:45 PM ET
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Tim Thomas takes a moment to say a few words to Boston Bruins fans at today’s Stanley Cup Parade.
Video below shows more scenes from the event:
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Video- Bruins Appeared On Today Show This Morning
by Paul on 06/17/11 at 09:30 AM ET
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Geez, a full two minutes for Tim Thomas, Zdeno Chara and Patrice Begeron to talk about winning the Cup.
Wonder how much time they would get if the NHL wasn’t on NBC?
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Video- Thomas & Bergeron Post Game Q & A
by Paul on 06/15/11 at 11:42 PM ET
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Thomas Sets Numerous Records
by Alanah McGinley on 06/15/11 at 10:22 PM ET
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From NHL.com:
Thomas’ first save of the night, a stop on a shot by Vancouver’s Chris Tanev 1:48 into Wednesday night’s game, was his 762nd of the playoffs, giving him the mark for the most saves by a goaltender in one playoff year. He broke a tie with Kirk McLean, who made 761 saves for Vancouver in 1994, the last time the Canucks went to the Final.
Thomas finished the night with 37 saves, giving him a total of 798 this spring.
The first shot Thomas stopped in the second period gave him another record—it was the 821st he faced this spring, moving him past McLean’s total in 1994. He finished the spring facing 849 shots, passing McLean’s total of 820.
Thomas also broke the Final record for saves, which had been held by Toronto’s Johnny Bower in 1964. Thomas’ 37 saves in Game 7 gave him 238, five more than Bower made in leading the Leafs to the Cup 47 years ago. He wound up facing 246 shots the seven games, third on the all-time list behind Bower (250) and McLean (247).
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Easy to Pull for Tim Thomas, Ain’t It?
by Jon Jordan on 06/15/11 at 09:01 AM ET
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How can you not like this guy? (Vancouver fans: You, of course, are excused from answering.)
I was fortunate enough to chat with him briefly in Raleigh during All-Star Weekend earlier this season and caught him at the podium during the East Final but it seems like Tim Thomas has a gem or two lined up every time he gets behind a mic.
In Tuesday’s off-day presser, in discussing childhood driveway fantasies of Game 7 situations, Thomas relayed, “Well, I was Stevie Yzerman, which doesn’t make sense for a goalie, but…” Later, as a reporter began a question with, “Standing here today,” the Bruins’ netminder extraordinaire jumped in for a moment of levity, affably quipping, “You’re sitting and so am I.”
Stuff like that is, well, it’s just fun. Kinda like watching Thomas play the game.
As a hockey fan with no team of interest in the Cup Final, a Game 7 is all I - or anyone in my position - could ask for. I won’t be rooting but if Thomas is fortunate enough to raise the Cup this evening, he’s definitely one guy I’d be happy to raise a glass for and toast in his honor in turn.
Here’s the rest of yesterday’s presser:
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Evening Line
by Paul on 06/12/11 at 07:54 PM ET
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In this business we all make mistakes. We all get off on tangents at times, and sometimes just to have fun. But this one isn’t doing the Canucks goalie any favours and it’s just plain wrong.
-Tony Gallagher of the Vancouver Province on the media who have written about the comments Roberto Luongo made regarding Tim Thomas. More on this…
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Tim Thomas Q & A Today
by Paul on 06/12/11 at 11:48 AM ET
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Q. Tim, you and Ken Dryden are likely the only two goaltenders that graduated from college and gone this deep into the finals. Have you thought about that and what that’s meant to the college game and this run for you so far?
TIM THOMAS: Well, I didn’t realize that me and Dryden were the only two. You know, it’s an honor to be mentioned in the same sentence as Ken Dryden. He played at Cornell, the same league that I played college hockey at.
When I was in college, I remember looking at what he’d accomplished and his stats. Those were stats that I was gunning for to try and reach in college because he had a good college career. I read his book either when I was in college or I think the year after I was out of college, too, and gained some insight from that.
So I didn’t realize that was the case. I would like to hope that I can finish it off and get the Cup like he did.
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Video- If The Bruins Have A Bulletin Board
by Paul on 06/10/11 at 11:41 PM ET
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Watch as Roberto Luongo discusses the goaltending style of Tim Thomas and then Kevin Weekes of the NHL Network gives his two cents worth.
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One Thing Wrong With Tim Thomas
by Paul on 06/10/11 at 08:40 AM ET
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from Steve MacFarlane of the Calgary Sun,
Tim Thomas is a throwback.
He’s a heart-on-his sleeve, all-or-nothing, fight-for-everything he gets goaltender who has stolen the spotlight in the Stanley Cup final.
He’s everything Canadians want to see representing the game they call their own.
But the Boston Bruins’ Thomas is also (gasp!) an American.
Say it isn’t so … a hockey hero inspiring a team in a championship series, who with his bushy ginger playoff beard looks like a lumberjack fresh out of an old-growth redwood forest in B.C., and he calls Flint, Michigan, home?
It just doesn’t seem right.
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Post-Game 3: Bruins Transcript/Video—Thomas & Recchi
by Alanah McGinley on 06/06/11 at 11:32 PM ET
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Q&A with Tim Thomas and Mark Recchi. Video (and transcript below):
TIM THOMAS: Don’t call us ‘old man,’ because we’ll both answer (laughter).
Q. What part of your anatomy are we supposed to kiss tonight?
MARK RECCHI: It is what it is. Like I said before, I care about what my teammates and coaching staff are thinking. People that have any question marks about it don’t know what it takes to win so…
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Bruins Handle The Canucks With Ease Tonight
by Paul on 06/06/11 at 10:10 PM ET
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Final score in case you missed the end of the game was 8-1.
One play can probably paint a picture on what kind of night it was for the Vancouver Canucks.
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The Perfect Goalie For The Philadelphia Flyers - Tim Thomas
by Paul on 06/05/11 at 07:46 AM ET
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from Chuck Gormley of the Delco Times,
The Flyers should go after Thomas. Hard. But they should not sacrifice Carter, who is in the prime of his career with at least four or five productive seasons left in him. Thomas now has two years remaining in his contract and provides the perfect bridge to Sergei Bobrovsky, who at 22 could benefit from an entire season as a starter in the American Hockey League.
How can Holmgren make it happen?
First, the Bruins need to convince themselves they can win without Thomas. They have 24-year-old Tuukka Rask waiting for the opportunity, but Rask lost the starting job to Thomas early this season and never got it back.
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Game 2 Post-Game: Bruins Transcripts/Interview
by Alanah McGinley on 06/04/11 at 11:13 PM ET
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NOTE: Milan Lucic, Mark Recchi and Patrice Bergeron videos added down below.
Transcripts and video from the Bruins. First, Tim Thomas on video:
Next, coach Claude Julien, transcription:
Q. Why was it Zdeno Chara and Andrew Ference to start in overtime?
COACH JULIEN: Because we don’t know who they’re going to put on. They got the last change. It’s a pretty normal thing.
Q. It’s two games in a row now where they were able to exert their will, take over in the third period. How alarming is that for you right now?
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Goalie Contact Calls Getting Clarification Today
by Alanah McGinley on 06/03/11 at 05:19 PM ET
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From Eric Duhatschek at the Globe & Mail:
Burrows took four penalties in the opener and coach Alain Vigneault suggested one - a goalie interference call on Tim Thomas - was largely unwarranted. The contact, in that case, did appear to be incidental and the Canucks have said that between games, they have contacted the NHL to get a clarification about why those calls are made, if Thomas is always leaving the crease to stop the puck. Thomas’s counterpart, Roberto Luongo, changed his style this season, to play deeper in the net, and Vigneault implied it had to do with avoiding incidental conduct.
According to Burrows, the answers were expected to come later Friday.
“At the same, I’ve got to be aware, around the net, to make sure I can’t bump the goalie. That’s his ice if he’s already there. I have to be smarter and make sure I don’t put my team down a man.”
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Video- Tim Thomas After Game 1
by Paul on 06/01/11 at 11:15 PM ET
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Tim Thomas had a great game in goal tonight and did deserve a better outcome.
Watch as he discusses the game.
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Boston Bruins Quotes Today
by Alanah McGinley on 05/30/11 at 02:44 PM ET
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A ton of quotes from the Boston Bruins today, including Claude Julien, Patrice Bergeron, Mark Recchi, Tim Thomas, Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg.
BOSTON BRUINS HEAD COACH CLAUDE JULIEN:
On if they are done celebrating the Game 7 win…
Well I think one thing that we were done celebrating was the next day. That night was an opportunity for us to enjoy the moment and rightfully so but next day it was about getting our rest. And we started working on things yesterday and so it’s preparation here for the, for what we feel is obviously the biggest part of the season coming up. So it’s sunk in. I mean it sunk in that we’re there. It also sunk in that we’re not done. We realize that there’s a lot of work ahead of us, probably the hardest games to win as you know will be against a team that kind of dominated the league this year. And we know we’re capable of doing it. We certainly don’t feel like we’re a team that is not capable of winning games against this team and we’re going to have to go out there and prove it. And that’s the thing that we want to do, is prove that we’re as good a team as they are and that’s where the challenge lies.
On how big a factor Tim Thomas’s experience will be in the Stanley Cup Final…
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Thomas Needs To Be At The Top Of His Game
by Paul on 05/26/11 at 08:56 PM ET
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from Jeff Z. Klein of Slap Shot,
Tim Thomas’s importance to the Boston Bruins cannot be understated. It has been proved time and again that if he is not standing on his head in the nets, the Bruins will probably lose.
More evidence in support of that statement came in the Tampa Bay Lightning’s 5-4 victory in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals Wednesday, when Thomas stopped just 21 shots. In fairness to him, three Lightning goals came on power plays, but still, he was ordinary at best.
He will have to be better than ordinary on Friday night in Game 7 at TD Garden. Thomas’s Lightning counterpart, Dwayne Roloson, has an impeccable career record in elimination games — he has been the winning goalie in all seven he has played.
Boston Coach Claude Julien would not say it, but the Bruins are entirely dependent on Thomas’s often amazing goalkeeping. For Thomas, however, that is proving harder to conjure against Tampa Bay.
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Video- The Saves Of Tim Thomas
by Paul on 05/25/11 at 07:53 AM ET
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His top 10 saves…
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Video- PTI Talks Tim Thomas
by Paul on 05/25/11 at 12:34 AM ET
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Post-Game 5 Transcript: Bruins Tim Thomas & Brad Marchand
by Alanah McGinley on 05/23/11 at 11:04 PM ET
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Q. Did it matter to you guys whether it was Roloson or Smith? Tampa Bay Lightning seemed to be very cagey about what their plans were.
BRAD MARCHAND: Yeah. They were playing a little bit of mind games there on who they were going to start, but we knew either way we had to get shots in front of their goalie. He was seeing the puck pretty clearly. We knew it didn’t matter who was going to be playing. We had to focus on what we had to do to score and us getting bodies in front of the net and pucks in the net, and we did that pretty good tonight.
Q. Brad, I don’t know if you had a look at the save that Thomas made on Downie. Did you see it? What did you think of that save?
BRAD MARCHAND: Yeah, I saw it. That was unbelievable. I was sitting on the bench. I thought it was for sure going to be a goal. Those are always pretty easy tap-ins. But Timmy came up with an unbelievable save there, and that was a turning point.
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Video- Tim Thomas Robs Steve Downie
by Paul on 05/23/11 at 09:55 PM ET
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Bruins up 2-1 midway through the 2nd period when Thomas comes up with the save of the night.
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Goalies Made In The Same Mold
by Paul on 05/14/11 at 12:05 AM ET
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Both Tim Thomas and Dwayne Roloson have had a similar career path.
Watch the Sportsnet report…
Update 1:31am ET: More on Dwayne Roloson’s early career can be found here.
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Evening Line
by Paul on 04/28/11 at 08:07 PM ET
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“I have respect for the Montreal Canadiens team and the way they played that series and the way that they battled, but to be completely honest, I don’t have respect for actions like that.
“That’s a travesty to the game. That’s not the way the way the game is supposed to be played. When I saw that happen in the first period, when he threw himself back on Campbell, it can be infuriating.
“If anything, it seems the refs let him get away with more, which I’m very surprised at. He’s making the refs look not good on a regular basis. He has got enough talent, and he’s a good enough player that there’s no need for stuff like that.”
-Tim Thomas, goaltender for the Boston Bruins on Montreal defenseman P.K. Subban. More at the Toronto Sun.
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Some Tim Thomas History
by Alanah McGinley on 04/22/11 at 01:58 PM ET
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From Yvonne Marton at Wheels.ca:
As a teen, he says he was shooting for the Olympics (he ultimately won silver at the 2010 Games) and “still had the dream to play pro hockey.” But his immediate goal was to get a college scholarship. Attending college would be a family first.
With the auto industry in decline, well-paying jobs with GM were scarce (made famous in Michael Moore’s 1989 documentary Roger and Me, which illustrated the impact of GM’s plant closures and subsequent job losses on Flint).
“Unless you had somebody who was in the union leadership, you weren’t getting in so that was never a goal of mine. And I didn’t know if I was going to end up a car salesman, because my dad was in it and my uncles were in it,” Thomas says.
“Actually, I wanted to go to college so bad because I didn’t want to be a car salesman and that was really the only option that you could see from Flint, Mich.”
And a scholarship was the only way Thomas said he could afford to go to college: money was tight. In addition to buying and reselling cars, he also pitched products door-to-door; exhibiting a lot of initiative for a teenage boy.
continued… with some hockey, some automobile talk
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Miller Sits, Enroth Starts, Many Overreact
by @DaveDavisHockey on 02/15/11 at 01:04 PM ET
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An American-born goaltender from Michigan has a career year, leads his team to the Northeast Division title, wins the Vezina Trophy, injures his hip early the following season and proceeds to stink up the joint. Sound familiar?
As you probably deduced, I’m referring to Tim Thomas.
While the numbers have been eye-popping for the Boston Bruins goaltender in his comeback season, the Sabres have a pretty talented goalie of their own who finds himself in a similar situation to where Thomas was a year ago.
And now, after a nightmarish performance by Ryan Miller Sunday against the New York Islanders, things here in Buffalo have gotten a little crazy. It’s amazing what one awful game in a 12-4-2 stretch will do to people.
A local radio station ran a poll on its website yesterday asking Sabres fans whether or not new ownership should move forward with Miller as their goaltender. Pundits are enlightening us with the notion that non-elites like Antti Niemi, Marc-Andre Fleury and Chris Osgood winning Stanley Cups somehow translates to Miller being expendable.
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Final Thoughts on Raleigh and All-Star Weekend
by Jon Jordan on 02/01/11 at 01:44 PM ET
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The intent of my trip to Raleigh for coverage of All-Star Weekend was simple: Get a feel for the experience from a professional perspective as well as monitor the pulse of the fans, chat up some players I don’t get to see all that often and also those I see on a regular basis in a different element, do some networking and, as Boss Man Paul continually reminded me to do throughout the weekend, have a little fun.
Looking back, that final component is exactly what I’ll remember most about the adventure and my guess is that most that attended All-Star Weekend – be they fans, players, media, league execs, sponsors or those belonging to some other miscellaneous category – would probably say the same thing.
Raleigh, as many others have opined before me, did a wonderful job as a host. The locals were as excited for the event as they were prepared, welcoming, happy and proud of their city, as well they should be. I’d never spent any significant time in these parts in the past but it will definitely be worth another stop in the future.
This being my first big league event, I had consulted with several people who have experienced something of this nature in the past in the weeks leading up to the trip and, while a few cautioned that an occasion of this magnitude could be slightly intimidating at times, I didn’t find that to be true at all for myself and I’m not sure many other first-timers would say otherwise. The vibe, from the moment I picked up my credentials on Friday morning, was light-hearted. At the same time, the entire operation throughout the weekend was first-class. Kudos to the NHL, the city of Raleigh and the Carolina Hurricanes for pulling everything off in fine fashion.
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Goalies Thomas, Ward Square Off in Fastest Skater + Quotes from the Red Carpet
by Jon Jordan on 01/29/11 at 07:31 PM ET
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I thought I was totally joking when I asked a couple of All-Star goalies how they would feel about a goaltender’s fastest skater competition. But last night’s first overall pick in the NHL’s inaugural All-Star Fantasy Draft, Carolina’s Cam Ward, let the cat out of the bag that tonight, my little joke would indeed become a reality as part of this year’s SuperSkills.
“Rumor is that I’m going to be doing that tonight,” Ward said. “I hope my legs don’t turn to jelly and I don’t bite it into the corner or anything like that.”
His opponent?
“I think I’m going up against Tim Thomas.”
Boston and Carolina fans have since endured some heart palpitations, I’m sure.
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by Paul on 12/16/10 at 10:28 AM ET
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A fan has a request for Tim Thomas.
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Video- Tim Thomas With The Save Of The Year On Francois Beauchemin
by Paul on 12/04/10 at 10:07 PM ET
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Thomas with the save in OT, Bruins did lose in the shootout.
added 10:11pm, via Elliotte Friedman tweet,
Beauchemin on Thomas save: “When I shot, there was no one in net. If we had lost the shootout…” (Stopped and shook head.)
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Trying To Score On Thomas & Halak
by Paul on 11/05/10 at 09:58 AM ET
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from John Kreiser of NHL.com,
What’s the toughest thing to do in the NHL right now? Is it getting a puck past Tim Thomas? Or it could be turning on the red light behind Jaroslav Halak?
Who’s better? That could be answered (at least for now) Saturday in Boston, where the two could be at opposite ends of the ice when Halak and the Blues come to TD Garden for a game against Thomas and the Bruins.
It’s hard to argue with the performance of either goaltender so far
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All Tim Thomas
by Paul on 11/04/10 at 07:45 PM ET
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from James Duthie of TSN,
James Duthie: You gave up two goals Wednesday night. That must be pretty embarrassing for a guy who had a .50 goals-against average going in. I’m frankly surprised Claude Julien didn’t pull you after the second one.
Tim Thomas: (laughs) I think the coach didn’t know what to do. I’d hadn’t put him in that situation this year.
JD: Be honest. Did it actually cross your mind when they scored that giving up two goals was going to balloon your save percentage and GAA?
TT: It did for a second, but that’s a terrible way to think. You start the season just thinking about the wins, but when you have the kind of streak I had, you can’t help but think about the numbers a little bit. So for a split second, yeah. But then reality set in. It was 4-2 with more than 10 minutes left, and I had to get my head straight and remember the priority, to get the win.
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JJ’s Three Cheers: 10/29/10
by Jon Jordan on 10/29/10 at 08:21 AM ET
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This morning’s salute to the top three stars from last night’s NHL contests:
***Cheers to Jaroslav Halak of the St. Louis Blues, who stopped 24 shots in Nashville to top the Predators, handing the home club their first regulation loss of the season. This was Halak’s second consecutive shutout, after blanking Pittsburgh on Saturday and the former Montreal Canadien now boasts a scoreless streak of 151:15 dating back to a second period goal by Chicago’s Brent Seabrook last Friday. So far this year, Halak is certainly proving that last season’s playoff success was no fluke, with a 1.55 goals-against average and a .939 save percentage.
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Tim Thomas Has His Style Back
by Paul on 10/21/10 at 08:43 AM ET
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from Dan Rosen of NHL.com,
Claude Julien sees the difference in Tim Thomas’ game, how the Bruins’ goalie is attacking more, challenging shooters.
“He’s played more like he did a couple of years ago,” the Bruins’ coach said.
Thomas feels the difference in his game because the nagging hip injury that bothered him last season is gone and he’s free to flail and flop around in his crease in the way only he can.
“That’s my style,” the goalie quipped.
And with the puck requiring the world’s greatest GPS to find the back of the Bruins’ net, their opponents have learned that the old goalie, 36 and coming off a forgettable 2009-10 season, still has plenty of life left in his game, enough to create the most fabulous of goalie controversies.
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JJ’s Three Cheers: 10/20/10
by Jon Jordan on 10/20/10 at 09:52 AM ET
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A toast to those who shined last night (albeit 10:00 in the morning!) It’s time, once again, for JJ’s Three Cheers.
***A collective cheers to the Carolina Hurricanes, who rode a complete team effort, with five different goal-scorers and 11 players with at least one point, to a 5-2 decision over the Sharks in San Jose. Chad LaRose led the way with a goal and two assists and Cam Ward stopped 41 San Jose shots in the win for Carolina, who will finally finish a seven-game, three-country adventure after stops in Los Angeles tonight and Phoenix on Saturday.
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JJ’s Three Cheers: 10/11/10
by Jon Jordan on 10/11/10 at 08:59 AM ET
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Today’s three cheers (an all-goalie edition!) for those who deserve as much from their performances of a night ago:
***Cheers to Edmonton’s Nikolai Khabibulin, who turned aside 26 Florida shots in the Oilers 3-2 win over the Panthers, for his second win in as many outings on the young season. After off-ice woes and injury problems recently, Khabibulin’s solid start to 2010-11 is a great sign for both he and a young and exciting Oilers club. If he can return to form and stay healthy, the many pundits who automatically tabbed Edmonton for the Western Conference cellar will end up looking awfully silly come season’s end.
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Tim Thomas Wants To Stay In Boston
by Paul on 08/07/10 at 06:58 AM ET
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from Matt Kalman of The Bruins Blog,
An affable sort who has always been willing to face the media, win or lose, Thomas seems to have soured on the fourth estate after what’s been written this summer – most of which he says has been inaccurate.
“There’s so many little pieces of misinformation that I’m not even going to waste my time setting the record straight,” he said. “I’m just not going to discuss it anymore. As far as how hard this summer was, every summer I’m replaced as the No. 1 goalie. So it’s pretty much standard course.”
While he wouldn’t get into specifics, he said one of the things that was inaccurately reported was that general manager Peter Chiarelli gave Thomas’ agent Bill Zito permission to seek a new home for his client.
One thing Thomas wanted to make clear is that not only does he expect to be with the Bruins when training camp opens in a little more than a month, he wants to be in black and gold.
“Of course [I want to be here],” he said. “The fans have never turned their backs on me. And that’s who you play for is the fans, and the fans of Boston have always been great for me.”
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Afternoon Line
by Paul on 05/19/10 at 01:38 PM ET
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“They know that no matter where I’m at or what’s going on, I’m going to be competing, for sure. If you look over the course of my career, every time I’ve had some sort of setback, I came back even stronger. I think that’s what people should plan on. Because that’s what I plan on.’‘
-Tim Thomas of the Boston Bruins. Chris Nichols of Sportsnet looks at Thomas for next year from a fantasy point of view.
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Calling Out Goalies
by Paul on 05/18/10 at 08:11 PM ET
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from Stan Fishchler at the Hockey Journal,
* Roberto Luongo’s dismal playoff performance against Chicago – for the second spring in a row he choked against the Blackhawks – underlines a few points:
1. He is the most overrated — and overpaid—goalie in hockey;
2. Vancouver will never win a Stanley Cup with Luongo in goal; and
3. The sooner dear Roberto gives up the captaincy, the better off it will be for the entire team….
* Now Boston must deal virtually useless Tim Thomas, who’s overpaid and over-the-hill and a dubious Number One anywhere.
As the Bruins went down in the last moments of Game 6 in Philly, the cameras caught Thomas smiling on the bench, talking to Tuukka Rask, who’d just been pulled. We wonder what was so funny at that point in time.
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Brian Campbell For Tim Thomas?
by Paul on 05/16/10 at 07:57 AM ET
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from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,
• Keep an eye on Chicago defenseman/puck-pusher Brian Campbell in the Sharks-Hawks series. He has six years left on a deal that carries a $7.14 million cap hit. By no means an easy deal to shake. But with Bruins goalie Tim Thomas carrying a $5 million cap hit for three more years, and Tuukka Rask now distinctly the No. 1, a Campbell-Thomas exchange is something the sides might explore around the June draft. Campbell, by the way, turns 31 Sunday.
• With five weeks to go before the draft, the Lightning still don’t have a CEO or GM, which could mean Jim Hammett (player personnel director) and Darryl Plandowski (head amateur scout) would make the call on Tampa’s picks, including No. 6 overall.
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