I’ll do my best to post quotage from NBC Sports/NBC Sports Network following the NHL Stanley Cup Final games. Despite receiving quotage for Game 1, it ended so late, I just went to bed and decided to forsake a post.
With the Bruins ending Game 2 in the first overtime, I have time to give you some fresh content.
Here’s the quotage from NBC Sports Network for Game 2 of the Bruins-Blackhawks series.
2013 STANLEY CUP FINAL NOTES & QUOTES
Game 2
NEW YORK – June 15, 2013 – NBC Sports Group continued its exclusive coverage of the Stanley Cup Final tonight with NHL Live on NBC Sports Network from 7-8 p.m. ET, followed by game coverage at 8 p.m. ET.
Emmy Award-winner Mike ‘Doc’ Emrick (play-by-play), Eddie Olczyk (analyst) and Emmy Award-winnerPierre McGuire (Inside-the-Glass analyst) called the game from United Center in Chicago, Ill.
At 7 p.m. ET, NHL Live began coverage from United Center. It was hosted by Liam McHugh, who was joined by analysts Mike Milbury and Keith Jones. In addition to pre-game analysis, the the Hart Trophy (Most Valuable Player), Vezina Trophy (Outstanding Goaltender), Norris Trophy (Outstanding Defenseman), Calder Trophy (Outstanding Rookie) and Ted Lindsay Award (Outstanding Player) were presented during the hour in conjunction with the CBC. NHL Awards coverage was hosted by McHugh and CBC’s Ron Maclean.Jeremy Roenick, Darren Pang and McGuire conducted an on-ice segment on power plays.
NHL Live (7-8 p.m. ET)
Milbury on playing 3OTs: “I think these guys have no trouble recovering.”
Game (8 p.m. ET)
First Intermission
Milbury on Jaromir Jagr: “He can’t skate in this series, and they’ve got to get him off this line…He turned the puck over repeatedly…Don’t be looking at Jaromir Jagr, the legend, look at Jaromir Jagr in real life during this period, and it was not pretty to look at. There’s no hustle there to get to the bench. Absolutely lazy in a Stanley Cup Final.”
Second Period
McGuire: “Fair to say, Eddie, that Chicago looks quicker in all facets of the game right now?”
Olczyk: “Yes.”Emrick on game-tying goal: “(Chris) Kelly, who has been a whirling dervish out here physically, has been able to mash home the tying goal.”
McGuire: “They needed a surge. The most vocal Bruin tonight has been Kelly. The most aggressive Bruin has been Kelly, and he gets rewarded with a goal.”
Second Intermission
Milbury on Blackhawks’ power play: “This is just a picture of ineptitude.”
Milbury on Seabrook’s slash on Marchand: “This absolutely should have been a penalty.”
Jones on hits and physicality: “I thought the Bruins did a much better job on that in the second period.”
Third Period
Emrick: “A tense third period tied at one.”
McGuire with approximately seven minutes left: “You can see the fatigue factor really starting to set in…I think we’re finding out that Game 1 was not as easy as maybe some people wanted to tell you after Game 1 was over.”
Emrick: “And so, overtime, again. (It is) the second straight Final we have overtimes in Games 1 and 2. Before that, the last time it happened was only 1951.”
First Overtime Intermission
Jones: “Chicago great at the start of this one; Rask terrific; Second half of the game, the Boston Bruins are going. Jagr actually making plays.”
McHugh on Tuukka Rask: “This guy’s become a star.”
First Overtime
McGuire on what he’s hearing Inside the Glass: “A lot of communication, more so than what I heard in Game 1 in terms of making sure the right line changes are being made.”
Olczyk on game-winning goal: “The change of lines by Claude Julien putting Paille, Kelly and Seguin together ends up being the difference in this hockey game. After having a really difficult first period, they found their legs in the second, played real well in the third, and really dictated the pace in overtime.”
Post-Game
McHugh: “We saw an amazing first overtime in Game 1. We might have seen a better one in Game 2.”
Milbury on Paille, Kelly and Seguin line: “That line had speed, and that’s what’s working in this series.”
That will do it.
