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CLAUDE JULIEN CALLS OUT P.K. SUBBAN, CANADIENS FOR EMBARRASSING THE GAME WITH EMBELLISHING
Bruins coach Claude Julien went off on the Canadiens following Montreals 4-3 win over the Bs Sunday night, calling the Canadiens out for embellishing to get penalties.
Julien felt that the Bs were at a disadvantage because Alexei Emelins second-period cross-check on Tyler Seguin wasnt called, though Zdeno Chara got an instigator penalty and a 10-minute misconduct for challenging and fighting Emelin after the play.
The frustrating part is that you end up with 17 minutes in the penalty box when you should have been on the power play. Its as simple as that, Julien said. Its frustrating because tonight, as everybody saw, there was a lot of embellishment and this is embarrassing for our game, embellishing. Right now, theyve got over 100 power plays so far and its pretty obvious why. Were trying to clean that out of our game and its got to be done soon.
Its not about tonight. Its about the game and the embellishment embarrasses our game, and we need to be better at that because it was pretty obvious when P.K. [Subban] gets hit, he throws himself into the glass and holds his head. You know what? If we start calling those penalties for embellishment, maybe teams will stop doing it, but until we take charge of that, its going to be an issue.
Julien said that the Bruins shouldnt have to feel the need to play less physical against the Habs. He wants the games to be called better, specifically with Habs players getting their comeuppance for diving.
We cant change our style. Weve got to play the way we play, he said. If its clean, then it should be deemed clean, but its hard on referees because when people embellish, it makes them look bad. Well, weve just got to make sure we get the right people when it comes to that. When you call the embellishment, maybe theyll stop embarrassing referees.