Boston Bruins: Round Two Game 3 (Flyers)

     What makes this Bruins team so special is they can beat you in a number of ways.  They can out score you, rushing up and down the ice in a fast paced shoot out.  They can grind out a low scoring affair with heavy hitting and great goaltending.  They can protect a lead with the trap.  They can battle from behind with tenacity.  They can fight, they can show finesse, and on days when the rest of the team doesn't show up their goaltenders can stand on their heads.  The only aspect they can't seem to get their heads around being the power play.  Each game of the Flyer series, so far, has shown a different side to this Bruins team.  Each one ending with a B's victory.  Some people may consider this type of play inconsistent, and at times it has felt that way, but at this point in the season I'd like to look at it as diverse.  If it was just inconsistent, the B's would most likely have found themselves more times then not on the wrong side of the win column.  But this team just keeps winning, or, at the very least, is never out of a game.  The Bruins seem to know that they can't have every aspect of their game firing on full cylinders every day and have learned to adapt to whatever style of play is going to get them the w.  I have to attribute this on some level to Claude Julian and his coaching staff, because what else could allow for such play other then preparation and conditioning?  I haven't always agreed with Julian's decisions and his inability to craft anything that resembles a successful powerplay is a glaring hole in the Bruins game, but one can't deny how diverse a team he has built.
     Is this team good enough to win a cup?  That still remains to be seen.  I feel like they will need a lot more then one powerplay goal the rest of the way if they want to hoist the cup.  But all the pieces are certainly there.  This team has something that most teams don't, a little bit of everything.  My fingers are still crossed that there is no giant collapse like last year, but I like the match-up with Tampa and anything can happen in the finals.  I won't make any bold predictions, I'm too superstitious, but I'm enjoying watching this team find new ways to win and hope they can keep entertaining me all the way into June.