Good morning!
A few random thoughts while we dig out from a quick little snowstorm and look forward to nearly 70 degrees on Wednesday...
- Not the way for the Bruins to start a long road trip, with a 6-1 loss to the Canucks, but what are you going to do? They had lost twice in their previous 25 games. I'd rather get one stinker out of the way than string together three mediocre games. We'll see what happens at 4 p.m. Monday with the Flames.
- Interesting report from Chris Price, among several good tidbits, that it seems to be trending like James Harrison will return in 2018. While the Patriots prefer to get a little more leadership from the veterans they bring in — Harrison is a bit of a lone wolf — he certainly deserves to be back. His six total QB pressures in the Super Bowl were more than the rest of the team combined, and he helped force a critical fumble on the final drive of the AFC Championship Game. Harrison would be a good matchup piece against teams as he can fill either a run-stuffing role, or bring a little pressure.
- It's amazing to me that as I'm out and about, people are still asking about Malcolm Butler in the Super Bowl. I'm obviously not afraid to be critical in an effort to give readers a realistic picture of their team, but I just can't bring myself to criticize Bill Belchick about this. There's no game film to scrutinize over this. Nobody's talking yet behind the scenes. I'm sorry, but in my opinion, Belichick deserves a wide berth on this. He obviously had a reason for benching Butler and, with a sixth Super Bowl title staring him in the face, it had to be a pretty good one. All this talk about ego is nonsense in my opinion. People really think Belichick would hurt his own chance to win another Super Bowl just to prove a point? I just don't see that at all.
And away we go...
CATCHING UP
Patriots
Red Sox
Celtics
Bruins
ON TAP
Celtics are off.
8:
15-9:15 a.m.:
8 p.m.:
Winter Olympics TV schedule
NBCSN
2:40-5 a.m.
5-7:10 a.m.
7:10-10:15 a.m.
10:15 a.m.-1 p.m.
1-5 p.m.
7-10:15 p.m.
10:15 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
United States
USA Network
7-9:30 a.m.
NBC
3-6 p.m.
7 p.m.-Midnight
12:35-2 a.m.
CNBC
4- 7 p.m.
United States
PARTING THOUGHT
Al Horford
Kyrie Irving
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