VIDEO: Brian Boucher's Gigantic, Perhaps Season-Saving Save

by Travis Hughes on Apr 6, 2010 11:58 PM EDT

If the Maple Leafs score here, the game will likely go to overtime. Once that happens, there are no guarantees what the outcome will be. Did Brian Boucher save a playoff spot with this save, as the Leafs announcer says in the clip? We might never know for sure. But there's no denying that it will be remembered for some time around here.

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Someone buy that man a drink!

A save like that probably deserves a few.

by chillicothe20 on Apr 7, 2010 1:13 AM EDT reply actions

Thank you BOOOOOOOOOOSH

What a way to earn your 100th win!
Its crazy to think that on the same night Brodeur got a shutout as well as he recorded this 600th win.
Thats 500 more wins
a season is 82 games long
Thats just over 6 full undefeated seasons worth of wins
(and thats not including his first 100)
I fricking hate the Devils, and Brodeur, but the guy is good at his job

by Prometheus74 on Apr 7, 2010 2:20 AM EDT reply actions

Boooooooooooooooooosh! =)
That will be all.

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by Sakurafire on Apr 7, 2010 9:37 AM EDT reply actions

I have busted on him here in the past but now i will insert foot in mouth.

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by Christopher A on Apr 7, 2010 9:48 AM EDT reply actions

The Waterboy!

C-c-c-c-c-coach Kline said I should keep the p-p-p-p-puck out of the net.

by Phalange on Apr 7, 2010 10:07 AM EDT reply actions

Save of the year?

by phish'n on Apr 7, 2010 10:20 AM EDT reply actions

2 more games…2 more

by j reed on Apr 7, 2010 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions

Yes, but 2 games with people going “Come on Boosh, we know you can do it!”, versus 2 games of “Start Backlund!”. Definitely a difference for Boosh’s confidence, there.

by DragonGirl0583 on Apr 7, 2010 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions

It almost looked like Laviolette said “Wow” in that clip.

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by HockeyOutsiders on Apr 7, 2010 10:47 AM EDT reply actions

I saw a more angry response than “wow”, but no idea what he said.

Then again, maybe Lavy is just always angry.

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by Geoff Detweiler on Apr 7, 2010 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions

Lavy does seem to have that demeanor, but you’re right, he is pissed, probably because Boosh even had to make a huge save like that.

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by Psy09 on Apr 7, 2010 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions

My lip reading is usually really good, but what I’m reading doesn’t make sense…. I watched it about 25 times, and while I’m pretty sure the first part is “Damn it”, he definitely appears to purse his lips to make a “p” or “b” sound, so where everybody else thought he said “wow”, it reads like “Damn it, Powe”, but he isn’t on the ice! Its the last word that I can’t figure out, unless Lavvy has a nickname for somebody that I don’t know about.

by DragonGirl0583 on Apr 7, 2010 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions