Claude Julien on Burrows bite: 'It's a classless move'

June 02, 2011|By Steve Silva, Boston.com Staff, Globe Staff

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Bruins coach Claude Julien spoke about his team's tough loss in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals and the incident involving the Alexandre Burrows bite on Patrice Bergeron.

"I haven't seen it, to be honest with you," Julien said. "I haven't had time to look at that stuff right now. I'm going by what Patrice told me. Obviously there was something that happened. I guess I'll save my comments for after I see it. But if that's the case, it's a classless move, not something players should be doing at this level anyway."

Julien did see the winning goal with 18.5 seconds left.

"It's obviously a nice goal by them," Julien said. "I thought for the first two periods we played a pretty even game. Obviously, in the third we just seemed to lack some energy and lost our legs. They just seemed to come at us pretty hard. They kind of took the game over in the third period and obviously found a way to win it with a late goal... I haven't really looked at it. Even if it was or wasn't (offside on Vancouver), wouldn't change the outcome right now."

More from Julien:

Q. Does it feel like one that got away at this point, given how well your team played?

Julien: "I think we played a real good road game, to be honest with you. To be in the situation we were after two periods, I didn't mind it, especially against this hockey club. I thought our PK [penalty killing] did a great job against their power-play. Timmy
made the big saves when he had to. Like I said, for two periods, I was pretty pleased. Obviously, third period they were the better team and they ended up scoring that goal. It got away from us, but we still got an opportunity here in the next game to hopefully get that one and kind of get the home-ice advantage."

Q. With both goaltenders playing as well as they did, can you get a sense maybe this is the way the series could play out?

Julien: "It's the way it happened tonight. I think it's pretty hard to predict what's going to happen, because throughout the playoffs there's been different situations that happen. Some games you get those kind of scoreless games for most of it, and then other games everything seems to go in. We'll take it one game at a time.

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