Cassidy's final message to the Boston media: "I want Brad and Ime to get the title. They look great and The Cassidy family is behind them 100 percent. Go Celtics."
He's gutted. Bruce Cassidy grew up a Bruins fan. Loved everything about the city. Been with the organization for a decade and a half. Had the numbers to back it up despite management's repeated shortcomings. Fired after a one-goal Game 7 loss to division winner. Feels wrong.
"If any player is coming here... Do your homework, and make sure you know what you're getting yourself into."
Kyrie Irving talks about what it's like playing for Boston...
Montgomery says there’s been a lot of times this season where he’s gone to talk to a player about how they’re doing mentally and asking where they’re at and the player says “Patrice actually talked to me about this, so I’m feeling better already.”
The NBC crew defending Paquette (a player with a rapsheet and one game removed from boarding Karson Kuhlman) after holding a candlelit vigil for Nikita Kucherov getting clipped with a high-stick is legitimately embarrassing.
Bruce Cassidy: "The Bruin is basically tattooed to me. That's the difficult part. I feel I did my job. We can always get better, we can always be better .. '19 still bothers me to this day. Do I still wanna be here? Yes."
Citing respect for Zdeno Chara, Nikita Zadorov says his nickname is over: "On my old teams, they called me Big Z. Please do not call me Big Z ever again."
Favorite Khudobin story I've never found a way to work into a feature: Khudobin once explained to me in great detail that he tries to be an extra coach on bench. Was really proud of how he helped Carlo grow. I asked Carlo about it.
Carlo: "I never knew what he was saying."
I have no interest in doing this again. Rask broke his silence and explained the situation (didn't have to). It was a med. emergency involving his child. He put family first. If you can't accept that, you're a total psycho and I have no interest in hearing from you. Get help. 🤗
Extremely weird to watch the Padres spend $920M on three players while the Red Sox let the core of the greatest team in franchise history walk for magic beans and comp picks in real time.
Torey Krug is a player everybody in Boston should absolutely, absolutely love. Wrestles with Perron for like a minute, loses helmet, kills Thomas, chirps at Binnington.
David Krejci sounds very emotional. Hat down real low, not looking at camera. Said he realizes this might be end for core. "Some of us have one or three years left. I don't regret coming into this bubble and fighting for the Stanley Cup. I would do it again."
Asked Lohrei about this tonight. "It seems like you can never rattle the guy. He's always smiling, always singing along to songs. It's relaxing. I see it and makes you remember it's just a game. He can go out there and play as well as he does and have fun, makes you do the same."
Many Bruins fans have reached out to team and fan relations today to express their disappointment with decision to sign Mitchell Miller. There’s been so many that fans are getting an auto-reply informing them that they are experiencing higher than normal traffic.
Taylor Hall: "There's something different about playing for an Original Six franchise like the Bruins. There's something about the culture that's special."
An emotional David Pastrnak says he’s happy this year is over. This is honestly *wrecking* me just watching him. Can’t imagine how much this was on his mind.
It was never a coaching issue. It was, and always has been, a bevy of personnel issues by the front office that couldn't draft for a solid five-year stretch and wasted millions in free agency.
Can absolutely tell how much it meant to the team that he was not traded. Leading up to deadline, Ullmark had a talk with Bergeron that made him feel better, and received a long text from Charlie McAvoy that made him very emotional.
Swayman said he, along with his dad and uncle, went over to Ullmark’s house yesterday. Swayman also noted that Ullmark’s wife makes the best cinnamon buns. “I had like six. Seriously. The best ever.”
Montgomery says Nick Foligno asked if he could have the room after the second period. Montgomery also admitted he got a little negative on bench during third period and Bergeron told him they’ll be alright. Montgomery: “Reminds me I can shut up sometimes.”
Ullmark: “I got emotional when Swayman said all these nice things to me at the end of the game today. It’s tough to talk about, but I’m so gosh darn happy.”
Pastrnak having a hard time talking about his year, asked how he was able to move forward. “Time. Time and love. I wouldn’t wish it on anybody. Better days are ahead.”
Swayman on Bergeron: “He’s one of the best humans I’ve ever met. One of the best leaders I’ve ever met. I would do anything for him because I know he would do the same for me or any stranger on the street.”
Maroon says he wants to be a mentor for the younger players and help push them to where they need to go. He also feels Bruins didn’t get best version of himself after undergoing back surgery and he wants to show them what he can do.
Rask: "I got a phone call the night before [Game 3] that our daughter wasn't doing so well. They had to call an ambulance. My mind went 'I need to get out of here.'"
Trading one of the best players in the league because you don't wanna pay a luxury tax after like 15 years of assaulting your fans' wallets. Arrest this thief.
There's been an extremely weird effort around the league to minimize, and even discredit, the man who is going to lead the league in wins, save percentage, and goals against average.
Friedman on TJMS: “The Vezina winner this year should be Connor Hellebuyck. I don’t care what anyone says. He just played 13 games in a row and got the Jets into a playoffs”.
Jim Montgomery did not watch any of the playoff race games last night. “Last night was my anniversary, so I took my wife out to dinner. That was more important. WAY more important.”
The Patriots fans straight-up turning on their team that's won five titles in less than 20 years because they're 9-5 this year and were on the wrong end of two game-deciding, game-ending plays are actually mentally ill.
Marchand: “I can’t say how proud I am of this team enough. Everybody wrote us off, said we weren’t a playoff team. From where we started to where we finished, I couldn’t be more proud.” Mentions Lohrei, Brazeau by name.
The puck is completely loose and the Bruins are all over the Panthers. Bobrovsky doesn't have it (not even close to having it, it's almost above the left faceoff circle), and the officials blow the whistle.
Zadorov: "Where do I start with why I chose the Bruins? Pretty much it was a no brainer when we found out Bruins were interested in me. Boston was at the top of my list my whole life. The Bruins style... I always loved it."
Asked Marchand about line’s success: “Funny how you say we had a good game tonight but we had more chances in our last game than tonight. Funny how you dictate what’s a good game.” Pastrnak takes next question: “I’m going to answer this cuz Marchand is a little crispy tonight.”
IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, SEXUALLY-BASED OFFENSES ARE CONSIDERED ESPECIALLY HEINOUS. IN NEW YORK CITY, THE DEDICATED DETECTIVES WHO INVESTIGATE THESE VICIOUS FELONIES ARE MEMBERS OF AN ELITE SQUAD KNOWN AS THE SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT. THESE ARE THEIR STORIES.
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It wasn't rock bottom, but it got dark-- Rinaldo. Hamilton wouldn't call you back. Hayes. Beleskey. Two straight DNQs. Vesey turned you down. Julien. This reinvention and turnaround over last 27 months has been remarkable.
The Bruins are going back to a Stanley Cup Final.
Sweeney on signing Mitchell Miller: "I am not going to downplay that this has been a personal struggle as well as a professional struggle."
They did not reach out to victim's family during vetting process.
Just having a hard time thinking this is worth it.