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# Saturday FTB: Hello Bruins, my old friend
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-maple-leafs-boston-bruins-i-was-saying-boo-ins/
- Published: 2019-10-19T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-10-19T09:00:00.000Z
- Description: We have a good ol’ Saturday night against the Boo-ins
- Author: Brian Stewart
- Tags: From The Branches, #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:15

*Hello Bruins, my old friend*

*I’ve come to play with you again*

*Because a first round series creeping*

*Left its seeds while off-season weeping*

*And the nightmare that was planted in my brain*

*Still remains*

*Within the sound of silence*

*In restless dreams I skate alone*

*Narrow hopes of game 7 at home*

*’Neath the halo of a goal lamp*

*My neck guard I don’t wear for some stupid reason turns cold and damp*

*When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of Saturday night lights*

*That split the night*

*And touched the sound of silence*

*And from the naked ice I saw*

*Ten thousand people, maybe more*

*People cheering without speaking*

*People jeering without listening*

*People singing songs that arenas always share*

*No one dared*

*Hope for victory to stall the silence*

*”Fools” said I, “You do not know*

*Silence like a cancer grows*

*Hear my words that I might teach you*

*Take my arms that I might reach you”*

*But my words like silent raindrops fell*

*And echoed in the chambers of twitter*

*And the people bowed and prayed*

*To the paywalled gods they made*

*And the sign flashed out its warning*

*In the words that it was forming*

*And the sign said, “The words of the prophets*

*Are written on the arena walls*

*And tenement halls”*

*And whispered in the rink of silence.*

## ONTO THE LINKS

[Maple Leafs lineup options without John Tavares](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-maple-leafs-lines-options-without-john-tavares-mitch-marner-auston-matthews-william-nylander/) | by Hardev

[Alexander Kerfoot gets the nod with John Tavares out](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/alexander-kerfoot-gets-the-nod-with-john-tavares-out-toronto-maple-leafs-sorry-tsn-its-not-spezza/) | by Katya

[How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Leafs](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-leafs/) | by Fulemin

[Marlies hang on to beat Hershey Bears 4-3](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/toronto-marlies-hang-on-to-beat-hershey-bears-maple-leafs-prospects-sandin-liljegren-korshkov-bracco/) | by Hardev

[UPDATED with a resolution: The NHL as Unreliable Narrator](https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/the-nhl-as-unreliable-narrator-toronto-maple-leafs-not-good-defensively-by-sacrificing-offence/) | by Katya

[Auston Matthews stars in ‘Lazlo Holmes’ video](https://theleafsnation.com/2019/10/18/auston-matthews-stars-in-lazlo-holmes-video/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) | by Thomas Williams at TLN

[Mike Babcock: “We’d been looking for a fourth line over four years… Now Goat seems to have come of age and Shore seems to be able to do it”](https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2019/10/18/mike-babcock-wed-been-looking-for-a-fourth-line-over-four-years/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) | transcript by MLHS

## AROUND THE NHL

[DGB Grab Bag: Coaches on the hot seat, when refs don’t suck and teenage Joe Sakic rides a bicycle with one leg](https://theathletic.com/1300619/2019/10/18/dgb-grab-bag-coaches-on-the-hot-seat-when-refs-dont-suck-and-teenage-joe-sakic-rides-a-bicycle-with-one-leg/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) | by Sean McIndoe

[Canucks’ Quinn, Devils’ Jack Hughes hate to lose, but love each other](https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/canucks-quinn-devils-jack-hughes-hate-lose-love/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) | by Iain McIntyre

[Devils sign Hischier to seven-year extension](https://www.tsn.ca/new-jersey-devils-sign-nico-hischier-to-seven-year-contract-extension-1.1383267?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) | by [TSN.ca](http://tsn.ca/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

Avs beat the Panthers in overtime thanks to Nathan MacKinnon.

> Stop us if you’ve heard this before...  
>  
> NATHAN MACKINNON IN OT, BABY![#GoAvsGo](https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoAvsGo?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) [pic.twitter.com/Dte1msDyHm](https://t.co/Dte1msDyHm?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) [October 19, 2019](https://twitter.com/Avalanche/status/1185372247277625345?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)

Penguins beat the Stars thanks to Kris Letang.

Darren Helm was not suspended for a blatant slash to the legs of Elias Lindholm, who will face no discipline at all for elbowing Helm in the head right before, in front of a fan who apparently spit on Helm as he exited the game for his match penalty. Hockey is stupid.

> [#RedWings](https://twitter.com/hashtag/RedWings?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com) Darren Helm has been fined $5,000 for slashing Calgarys Elias Lindholm. [https://t.co/ZClqQVi4ab](https://t.co/ZClqQVi4ab?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)
> 
> — NHL Starting Lineups (@NHL\_Lineups) [October 18, 2019](https://twitter.com/NHL%5FLineups/status/1185285935463682048?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=pensionplanpuppets.com)