Hibernation Coming to an End? BRUINS WIN.

Two weeks ago this game would’ve been over after Tampa went up 2-1. Bruins would’ve just given up and pouted the rest of the game. It’s amazing what some confidence can do for a team.

This was their best game of the season. Hands down. That was the most complete effort they put together all season. Instead of going into the third period and trying to sit on their lead the Bruins just went into all out attack mode and kept Tampa reeling. It was so ridiculously great.

Four wins in a row. First time they’ve won four in a row in over two months. Some spotty defense, sure, but damn are their offensive line trios clicking lately.

If the hockey gods are just, we will see a seven game series between the Bruins and the Lightning in a few months. This game was the most fun you can have without paying for it and having an awkward conversation with your girlfriend when she sees the Snapchats.

– Those sweet, sweet, SWEET hands on David Pastrnak. Sweet zombie Jebus on a pogo stick.

– I’m sorry but this is all I can think of when Jack or Brick say Cunningham:

– Carl Soderberg. So clever. So strong. So awesome.

– NESN talking about how McQuaid’s return is key to the Bruins recent streak, and then the Lightning showing how easy it is to expose McQuaid.

– When Pastrnak started displaying his speed and soft hands, I was positive Julien was going to bench him but then Pastrnak stole a couple pucks and I was relieved. Bet Chiarelli still called a few GM’s though to see if they wanted Pastrnak.

– Bruins had a handful of good chances in the first but that dick Ben Bishop decided to make good saves. Asshole.

– Koo Koo Kangaroo. Look ’em up.

– Sweet Jebus again. Pastrnak just makes things happen. He was key to that entire sequence that let to Marchand’s goal. Drew the penalty and having the extra skater on the delayed penalty helped too but damn. Then Soderberg with the fake out and pass to Marchand. That play was so pretty I want to date it. I’d even call that Soderberg pass the next day.

– Pastrnak and Krejci make quite the pair. Yummy.

– Again in the second Pastrnak shows his awesomeness with some slick moves and then hits a post. F you post. How dare you deny the Pastrnak.

– Convinced that if Soderberg didn’t hook Palat in the second and get that hooking call that Palat would’ve scored. At least Carl gave the B’s a chance to kill a penalty. Speaking of…

– Bruins PK got the job done in a big way. Huge, huge, HUGE PK in the third with Chara in the box for 10 years. Fantastic job.

– Steven Stamkos is magic and if you don’t like him as a player you’re a terrible person and you probably kick kittens you big jerk face.

– Bergeron-Lucic experiment still working for me. Bergeron seems to bring out the best in Lucic. No big surprise there. Bergeron is a god. Then again, that Lucic-Krejci-Pastrnak line looked orgasmic the small amount of time they were together.

– Are. You. Fucking. KIDDING. Pastrnak is ridiculous. He has soooooooo much confidence and holy shit those hands. What a goal. WHAT A GOAL.

– Pete Blackburn nails it like he’s a Roman putting Jesus on a cross:

– Ben Bishop is going to want this one back (or punch Stralman) but the key here was the insane pressure Krejci and Lucic put on Tampa. If they don’t crash the net like that Stralman doesn’t get to show his soccer skills. Bruins looked like they drank 1,000 gallons of Red Bull after Pastrnak’s goal and were just all over Tampa.

– Love that the Bruins started the third all goal hungry. They’ve had huge problems keeping momentum this season. This was great to see.

– Poor Bergeron. Marchand gave him some great set ups and Bergy got off some great shots but just couldn’t score.

– LOLOLOLOLZ Pastrnak. Holy balls. I don’t even have the correct parts but I still want to have Pastrnak’s baby. I wonder if he can average two goals a game for the rest of the season. The answer is no by the way. But let’s enjoy this.

– Carl’s in Charge with a great play, causing Bishop to mishandle the puck behind the net and coming within inches of scoring. He was a giant beast the entire game.

– The Bruins energy, confidence, drive and killer instinct in this game. Something we’ve rarely, if at all, seen this season.

– Fantastic, awesome, ridiculously good games by Soderberg, Marchand, Bergeron, Lucic, Krejic and Pastrnak.

– Don’t think the Bruins took even a single shift off in the third. If they were looking to make a statement, we heard you. That’s the kind of hockey that guarantees you a playoff spot if you keep it up.

– The Twitter arguments that broke out after Chara made Paquette regret that first exchange.

– This game. The back and forth action. The Bruins playing like an actual NHL team. What a night.

– NESN. Everything about them. Did you know Ben Bishop is tall?

– NESN cherry picking unrelated stats and trying to claim unrelated reasons for the Bruins three game winning streak (now four).

– Sad Tyler Johnson was injured. He’s fun to watch.

– Ben Bishop is 6’7″. It’s true.

– Not Bruins related but stay with me here. St. Louis for some reason thought Ryan Miller was better than Halak and traded for Miller to get them to the Cup. Which failed. St. Louis drafted a young goalie years prior by the name of Ben Bishop. He was then traded to Ottawa, then in one of the greatest robberies in recent memory, Tampa got Ben Bishop for Cory Conacher. You could’ve had Ben Bishop St. Louis. Ottawa… how bad do you want Bishop back too?

– Boyle, if you try to give Carl Soderberg a DDT one more time I will rip off your sack and make you eat it.

– People who get pissed because the DOY staff likes other hockey players who are not on the Bruins.

– Remember that time during the game where the Bruins left Stamkos wide open in front of the net and Stamkos scored? How in the hell does anyone on the Bruins think it’s okay not to cover Steven fucking Stamkos? And of all the things to possibly do wrong in this scenario, McQuaid did them all.

– Dennis Seidenberg and his wonky knee thinking he could get to Stamkos faster by going behind the net.

– Seriously. The Bruins should have literally gift wrapped that goal.

– Brad Marchand is a perfect example of how that playing style can backfire: refs will assume you did something wrong even when you didn’t.

– Jack Edwards jokes: Knock knock. Who’s there? Ben Bishop. Ben Bishop Who? BEN BISHOP 6’7″

– It’s going to suck when the Bruins trade Pastrnak in a couple of years because he’s too fast and too awesome. Or because he does a few shots of whiskey.

– Tampa’s second goal was just a great play all around. Palat with an intentional kick pass to Stamkos who again has plenty of room to shoot. He’s not going to miss from that position with that kind of space. Bruins no learn good. So pretty though. Love you Stamkos

– WE GET IT JACK! BEN BISHOP IS TALL! SHUT THE FUCK UP.

– How long it took the refs to figure out all the Chara/Stamkos penalty time after messing up the clock. I got dumber just watching them try to figure it out.

– I missed like five minutes of the third because my internet went out. You suck goat scrotes Comcast.

– People comparing Pastrnak to Stamkos. Why don’t we just slow it down a bit here, k?

– J.T. Brown stepping up to…. David Krejci. Yup. Real brave. Keep in mind McQuaid asked Brown to fight earlier in the game and Brown declined.

– Credit to the Lightning for crashing the net (like the Krejci/Lucic exchange) and that double deflection. Rask had no shot at saving that. Bouncy bouncy. That shot might have deflected off every player on the ice. Not positive.