The Rangers also paid the physical price against a Bruins team with several bruising players.
Not to mention, the turf has a history of scraping and bruising players' legs, made notable by USWNT forward Sydney Leroux's now-iconic tweet.
It did not bother Mauricio Pochettino that there were times when his bruised players tried too hard to extinguish their disappointment at failing to reach the FA Cup final.
As the Jets returned to the huddle play after bruising play, players threw their hands in the air or turned to each other quizzically.
Hockey is a game of unabashed intimidation, and it is easy to play a threatening style that makes less bruising players shy and therefore less effective.
In a recent practice, in her red headband and No. 32 practice jersey, with a brace on her recuperating left knee from reconstructive surgery six months ago, she was more slick playmaker than bruising pivot player.
And both men are consumed by their craft and bring to their job an intensity that, although it sometimes risks bruising a player's ego, also leaves little doubt as to who is at the top of the chain of command.
Tortorella defended Avery, his sometimes-bruising player.
The Huskies have all their stars back -- three all-Americans in Svetlana Abrosimova, Shea Ralph and Sue Bird; the most valuable player in last year's Final Four, center Kelly Schumacher, who blocked nine Tennessee shots in the final; three bruising inside players in Swin Cash, Tamika Williams and Ashja Jones, and a backup point guard who could start almost anywhere else, Kennitra Johnson.
Party leaders tend to revel in their image as bruising political players who have dragged the Democratic Party to the left.
But Okafor, a 6-foot-9 center, epitomized the confidence of the Huskies (27-6) when he was told how, moments before, Maryland's bruising frontcourt players had vowed to go right at him.
