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  I was at this game last night - it was awesome. Even though the Maple Leafs won.

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Milan Lucic is a bad man
Boston Sports Buzz - Red Sox Patriots Celtics Bruins MLB NFL NBA NHL Baseball Football Basketball... — How are people in this city still pronouncing Lucic's name wrong? With hits like these, this man's name should be in the back of every sports fan's mind from now until the day he retires. Show him the respect he deserves, or you're the next one through the glass. On a somewhat related note, how awesome would it be to decide to go balls out and pay the big bucks for seats in the first few rows (something I've done just a few times myself) and you get repaid by having the glass break right in front of you? Yeah, I'm sure it's a bit on the dangerous side, but it has to be that safety glass stuff, right? All I know is that even ...

Hits Of The Year?
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OK, Hockey is Still Sometimes Awesome
The Slanch Report — Try as hard as I might I can never truly escape hockey, my once fandom simply won’t allow it. Sigh. Anyhoo, the Bruins are still winless on the season, you know, because they blow, but Milan Lucic did provide some excitement during last night’s game. That’s because he leveled a giant hit on Toronto Maple Leaf Mike Van Ryn that shattered the glass. Van ...

Milan Lucic Hits Mike Van Ryn Through The Glass
FanIQ Blog — Say hello to your NHL hit of the year. Milan Lucic of the Boston Bruins sizes up Mike Van Ryn of the Toronto Maple Leafs perfectly, and drives him right through the glass. Awesome. The announcer might have understated his response when saying, "That'll make every highlight reel for about a decade." Probably longer. At the very least, it'll make every sports blog for about a week. Enjoy.

B's Game Notes: TOR 4 BOS 2
Stanley Cup of Chowder — The Bruins jumped out to an early 2-0 first period lead before giving up 4 unanswered goals. The loss is the B's third loss in a row. The Bruins record is now 2-2-3 overall and 1-1-1 against division foes. - Too bad hockey games are 60 minutes long out 20. - Patrice Bergeron got his first goal of the season. - The B's were laying some HUGE hits on the Leafs. Matt Stajan got his bell rung by Dennis Wideman when the Bruins' defenseman caught him entering the attacking zone with his head down. Then of course there was Milan Lucic literally putting Mike Van Ryn through the ...

That's going to leave a mark
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Hockey Is Apparently Still Really Violent
AwfulAnnouncing — Sorry for the half day nature of the site today, but it's Friday....who really cares right? Friday is also a day for violence and glass exploding during Hockey games. Here is the Bruins' Milan Lucic checking the Leafs' Mike Van Ryn through the glass.... ...

The Best NHL Hits Always End With Teammates Picking Glass Out Of Your Jersey
Tirico Suave — This was a once-in-a-lifetime hit and all but Mike Van Ryn still has absolutely nothing on Garry Hoy when it comes to the best story involving someone from Toronto going through a pane of glass.

Awesome Hit Nominally Related to Michigan Hockey
The Ace of Sports — Remember Mike Van Ryn? He left Michigan after his sophomore season for the NHL Draft, and little has been heard from him since. That is, until yesterday, when he was on the receiving end of this spectacular hit: I will say this. Van Ryn did a great job of playing the puck out of the zone despite knowing that a big hit was coming. I just don't think he expected quite THAT big of a hit. ...

An Order Of Maple Leaf, Under (Shattered) Glass
SPORTSbyBROOKS — Hit of the century last night by Boston Bruin Milan Lucic on Toronto Maple Leaf Mike Van Ryn. Video after the jump - plus a bonus glass-shattering extravaganza! (more…) Share This

OMG You Killed Tom Renney Manny Legace
The Pensblog - A Pittsburgh Penguins Blog From Behind The Veil Of Cryptic Online Identities — From the game tonight. Rangers coach, and all around jerkoff, Tom Renney got smoked by one of his own players stick. F You BNG New York Rangers coach Tom Renney was taken to the dressing room after being hit on the head by a stick in the second period against the Columbus Blue Jackets on ...

Milan Lucic is Dirty
Off Wing Opinion — Milan Lucic is Dirty Nice to see our friends at On Frozen Blog showing one of my Bruins some love ... ...because you clearly don't want to be on his bad side. Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.ericmcerlain.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/8504 Comments Post a comment

LUCIC'S HIT
The #1 Source for New England Sports Opinions and Propaganda... — Milan Lucic's check on Mike Van Ryn of the Maple Leafs. You've probably seen it a hundred times, even if you're not a Bruins fan. But it's a sick hit and should be viewed over and over. Just a few thoughts about it: You can see Van Ryn tighten himself up as he can feel a big hit coming. If he hadn't, he may have been very hurt by the check. The worst hits are the ones you don't anticipate, just ask Dean McAmmond... Or Richard Zednick... And props to the NHL for not bitching to YouTube about ...

Milan Lucic: Team Canada 2010?
Greatest Hockey Legends.com — [image] This is Milan Lucic. As captain of Team Canada in 2007 he is hoisting the "Super Series" trophy after annihilating the Team Russia. Lucic has been in the news a bit lately. First for doing what he is known best for - hitting hard. He put Mike Van Ryn through the glass . Then he did something he may also become known for - he scored a hat trick . For both of these reasons Lucic has become a fan favorite in Boston, similar in both style of play and level of adoration as Terry O'Reilly, and maybe one day Cam Neely. Born in Vancouver to Serbian immigrants, Lucic starred with the WHL's Vancouver Giants, bringing the Memorial Cup to the BC's Lower ...

Halloween Costume Suggestions for NHL Players
Sean Leahy's Going Five Hole — Happy Halloween everyone! I hope you have your costume picked out for tonight’s festivities. Myself? I’ll be going as a “Guitar Hero” with my GH guitar, rock star hair, and assless chaps. It’s going to be gold. Since today is a fun holiday, I’d like to offer costume suggestions for players around the NHL who should enjoy some trick-or-treating after practice or their games today. Photobucket ...

Federalbaseball.com Watches TV...Sports Soup Week Three...
Federal Baseball — (ed. note- "As part of the arrangement with the people behind Versus' Sports Soup, I agreed to review the first eight episodes of Matt Iseman's new show in return for the chance to participate in an interview with the host. This was originally supposed to be published Friday 10/31, after I had watched Thursday night's episode, but I was under the weather, fell asleep Thursday, and didn't really wake up 'til Saturday...so here it is anyway...just a little late...Sports Soup, Week 3...") Soupedia...   Episode 5 Originally Aired ...

Milan Lucic: One Big Bad Bruin
Josh Q. Public — On the day I was born, the nurses all gathered ’round.  And they gazed in wide wonder, at the joy they had found.  The head nurse spoke up, and she said leave this one alone.  She could tell right away, that I was bad to the bone.  -George Thorogood & The Destroyers Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  I’ve been waiting for this day.  Anticipating for the day.  Ever since Ulf Samuelsson knee checked Cam Neely (Thank you Tie Domi), I’ve been waiting for a hockey player to come along that I could call my ...

Mike Van Ryn Can't Win For Trying
Deuce of Davenport | Sports News, Commentary, Humor, Videos — We're not gonna lie. It's been a shitty couple of weeks for the Maple Leafs' Mike Van Ryn. First he was helped through some glass on October 23rd. Relive the good times! Van Ryn was probably thinking it couldn't get much worse than that. Wrong. The Habs' Tom Kostopoulous was jealous of Milan Lucic and decided to see if he could put Van Ryn through the glass too. Fail. Bet he wishes the glass gave way that time although he would have taken it out with his face. This time, he stayed down and he'll be out for a month with "a ...

Five Players That Have Fueled The Boston Bruins' Resurgence
Small White Ball — Just when we thought we had satiated our sports fix with red (Sox), green (Celtics) and red, white and blue (Patriots), a team that plays on a sheet of ice in the dead of winter is attempting to push some black and gold into the equation. I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I'm going to take it very...very...slow. Here goes. ...

Bruins at the Quarter Pole
Stanley Cup of Chowder — The Bruins are roughly one quarter of the way through the season and off to a surprisingly strong start. Through the first 21 games, the B's are 14-3-4 and currently hold the top spot in the Eastern Conference. To find the last time that the Bruins failed to collect points in a game, you need to go all the way back to October 30th when they lost 3-2 to the Calgary Flames on the road. The B's have gone 9-0-1 since then. The Bruins have used their depth to their advantage by getting significant production from all four lines and getting solid play from younger guys who have stepped up when veterans went down with injuries. The Bruins have gotten ...

DSRTSV! 12/17/08
The Bad News Bloggers — My fellow BNB cohorts provided the activity for today, while I was stunningly busy. Very stifling. I will put up the "10 things..." tomorrow in lieu of some links (I know, skipping two, I'm tired). Anyways, Mike Van Ryn can't catch a break...

Video: Bruins goalie Tim Thomas, a.k.a. Leafs-seeking missile
Puck Daddy — When the Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs meet, glorious violence and bizarre physical plays just seem to organically occur. Like when Milan Lucic made it rain glass earlier this season, for example. Last night in the Bruins' 4-3 comeback shootout victory in Toronto, it was goalie Tim Thomas who provided the memorable highlight in the second period: Literally launching himself at Jason Blake, who beat him on the game's first goal, to thwart a scoring attempt. Check it out: Pierre McGuire certainly went into full-on Dick Vitale foaming there, didn't he? "This is ...

Boston Bruins vs San Jose Sharks liveblog, best team in the East vs best team in the West
Sharkspage San Jose Sharks NHL hockey and local sports blog — The Sharkspage liveblog of today's Boston Bruins vs San Jose Sharks game will begin at 3PM (PT). PRE-GAME: The Boston Bruins (39-8-7, 1st Northeast) vs San Jose Sharks (36-7-7, 1st Pacific) matchup tonight features a rare meeting between the top teams in each conference. The game will feature San Jose on a national Versus television broadcast for the first time this season, and will be aired over the radio on KFOX 98.5FM and WBZ 1030AM in San Jose and Boston respectively. Sports talk radio has been humming about this game on KNBR 680AM and ...

Lucic NHL.com Hit Of The Year Canidate
Hub Hockey — "Milan Lucic on Mike Van Ryn - Oct. 23, 2008 Lucic is enjoying a break-out campaign in his second full season in the NHL. His gritty, hard-hitting style of play has established him as a cult hero in the greater Boston area, and amongst fantasy hockey junkies across the globe. Early in 2008-09, before opponents really knew to keep their eyes open, and their heads on a swivel, for the swashbuckling sophomore, Lucic was skating in a game vs. the Toronto Maple Leafs. Defenseman Mike Van Ryn was trying to break out of the Leafs zone, which he accomplished with an outlet pass, but not before Lucic caught him with a clean, but vicious, shoulder check that knocked Van Ryn ...

Dear Sports Guy: I'm adopting the Bruins
Top Cheddar: sports, pop culture, and halfers — [image] Dear Bill Simmons/Sports Guy: My name is Jamie Uyeyama and I am writing to you today in all sincerity to let you know that I am officially adopting the Boston Bruins as my team for this year's Stanley Cup playoffs. I am, and always will be, a Vancouver Canucks fan so the Bruins will be my Eastern representation on the road to the Cup. I am doing this with the best intentions at heart because I know that you moved on from the Bruins long ago. With that in mind, I am going to attempt to follow them like they are my team. I'm going to watch every playoff game, live and die with every goal, and then write about it the next day. And I'm going to ...

Kevin Garnett: The Man Who Saved Boston Hockey
Josh Q. Public — Somebody save me .  I don’t care how you do it.  Just stay.  Stay.  Come on.  I’ve been waiting for you.  -Smallville  Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way.  The Boston Celtics were going to heaven.  The Boston Bruins were going the other way.     ...

Why you'll watch - February and March - 7-24-09
Empty Netters — Something we've done the past two offseasons is examine the recently revealed schedule, and just in case you needed a little bit more enticement to watch a team like the Penguins, come up with reasons to watch all 82 games on the slate. So without any further delay, here's why you'll be watching in February and March (February's schedule is short due to the Olympics). Feb. 1 - vs. Sabres - Because we'll have to find a way to incorporate this picture of a Patrick Lalime Starting Lineup figure into our game preview: Feb. 6 - at Canadiens - He may be inconsistent, but there are times when Carey Price looks like the ...

Preview: Introducing the 2009-10 Boston Bruins!
Puck Daddy — NHL season previews often sell you an impressive bill of goods before you realize, at the end of the season, you're holding an empty box. Which makes using advertisements and infomercials the appropriate template for Puck Daddy's 2009-10 NHL Season Previews, presented each day throughout September. Last Season's Ad Copy (See also Bruins Eulogy): First in the Eastern Conference, (53-19-10, 116 points); lost in the conference semifinals to the Carolina Hurricanes in seven games. The Bruins rolled through the first half of the regular season, hit a speed bump in the midway through, but finished the season on ...

Top 15 Hitters in the NHL
The Hockey Writers — Agreements between hockey fans are few and far between. Deciding on who is the league’s top player is the easiest argument producer. Small details which seem irrelevant can also stir up much debate. What every supporter should be able to approve of is the advice which reads: always keep your head up. There are those who have fallen victim to this trap over and over again. Defensemen, forwards, heck goalies have even engaged in physical contact. A clean hit is extraordinary to view, so is a complete miss. It’s not just the individuals who constantly throw themselves against the ...

Five Bold Predictions for the 2009-10 Boston Bruins
The Hockey Writers — This is a guest post by Mark Marino, who writes about the Boston Bruins at Examiner.com.  Please thank him with some comments and a visit to his site. image from Dan4th (link at bottom) orr-is the answer My second favorite off-season acquisition by Peter Chiarelli this year was the signing of ...

MY BIG BAD BOSTON BRUINS PREVIEW
The #1 Source for New England Sports Opinions and Propaganda... — If you'd told me before the 08-09 season that the Bruins would advance as far as Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, I would have been pleased. If you'd told me in the MIDDLE of the 08-09 season that the Bruins would advance only to Game 7 of the Eastern Semis, I would have been disappointed. In other words, the B's have unfinished business. In this inflexible salary cap era, the Bruins were unable to add much to their team. Yet they will be better, because the guys they already have will be better. Yes, they will be better despite the loss of Phil "fantasy points" Kessel. The Bruins have a rare thing in this day and age: ...

Big Bad Bruins Preview
DUELING COUCHES — If you'd told me before the 08-09 season that the Bruins would advance as far as Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, I would have been pleased. If you'd told me in the MIDDLE of the 08-09 season that the Bruins would advance only to Game 7 of the Eastern Semis, I would have been disappointed. In other words, the B's have unfinished business. In this inflexible salary cap era, the Bruins were unable to add much to their team. Yet they will be better, because the guys they already have will be better. Yes, they will be better despite the loss of Phil "fantasy points" Kessel. The Bruins have a rare thing in this day and age: ...

The NHL Face-Off Saturday' drinking game
Puck Daddy — Last October, hockey fans experienced "Super Saturday", the only day of the 2008-09 season that all 30 teams were in action. This season, that rare occurrence will happen twice this month. Today is being dubbed "Face-Off Saturday", the first of two times this season where every team will play on the same day. The next "Face-Off Saturday" will take place on Saturday, October 24th. The action kicks off today at 12 p.m. ET when the Chicago Blackhawks and Florida Panthers meet again in Helsinki, Finland. The day will end around 1 a.m. ET when the horn sounds at Staples Center after the Phoenix Coyotes and ...

The NHL Face-Off Saturday drinking game
Puck Daddy — Last October, hockey fans experienced "Super Saturday", the only day of the 2008-09 season that all 30 teams were in action. This season, that rare occurrence will happen twice this month. Today is being dubbed "Face-Off Saturday", the first of two times this season where every team will play on the same day. The next "Face-Off Saturday" will take place on Saturday, October 24th. The action kicks off today at 12 p.m. ET when the Chicago Blackhawks and Florida Panthers meet again in Helsinki, Finland. The day will end around 1 a.m. ET when the horn sounds at Staples Center after the Phoenix Coyotes and ...