Toucher: Bruins Season Is Over
BOSTON (CBS) -- The Boston Bruins' season is over.
Not officially, of course, as they're still clinging to a playoff spot. But after dropping their fifth straight game in regulation, the Bruins are slipping quite a bit, and it's been bad enough for Fred Toucher to say definitively that the season is over.
"Yes, it's over. It's over, ladies and gentlemen. The Bruins season is over," Fred said. "It's over. The season is over. ... It would've been fun. ... That's the way that you've got to look at sports. Like you know what they did? They robbed me a weekend. Like the Bruins just robbed you of like two weeks of having something to watch. Now you've got to watch 'Vinyl,' which is kind of mediocre."
The Bruins have one more point in the standings than Philadelphia, but the Flyers have two games in hand. The Red Wings are also just a point behind Boston, and they too have a game in hand. The Islanders are holding the first wild-card spot, with one more point than the Bruins and three games in hand.
Fred, of course, was a huge proponent of the Bruins buying and not selling at the deadline, and he wanted the team to keep Loui Eriksson, because he believed the Bruins were good enough to make a playoff run of some sort. He admitted Friday that his feeling was off.
"And you might say, 'Oh, Fred, wait! You said that the Bruins were OK.' And then I'll tell ya, you know what? I'm fallible," Fred said. "I still don't believe that it's a big deal that they kept Eriksson, but I would agree, I don't expect them to make the playoffs. I think that they will finish out of the running of the playoffs, and I just look forward to the possibilities of the offseason. Claude Julien should not be fired; I do not put this responsibility on him. He was handed a bucket of garbage."
Fred's comments sandwiched a memorable drunken Bruins recap, and you can listen to it all below: