“I mean no disrespect...”
“Don’t take this the wrong way...”
“I’m sorry if someone took offense...”
These are the things people say right before they contradict themselves and hope that conditional intro absolves them of responsibility.
So it goes with Boston Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy, who laughably asserted that his team is not going to bitch about the officiating...while bitching about the officiating.
When I first saw the tweets sharing a bit of Cassidy’s quote after Game 4, that the Bruins “haven’t had very many power plays,” I thought, okay, might be one sentence out of context, in response to a question that invited him to go there.