I think he's cooked. Had a good year but was riding the fourth lines in the playoffsi'd try to move out more money and sign tarasenko for RW
Rather keep the our players
I think he's cooked. Had a good year but was riding the fourth lines in the playoffsi'd try to move out more money and sign tarasenko for RW
Do you think Marchand will follow Bergeron and Krejci and take team friendly bbonus heavy deals?
He played well and confidence was growing, I think this D should be left alone and Wortherspoon is nice insurance.certainly didn’t bite them in the ass in the playoffs when he went down. The team got better.
This is exactly it with maybe Merkulov as a chance to push. Preseason will be really fun to watch this year with Poitras, Lysell and Merkulov licking their chops and even some of these "vets" they brought in (Tufte, Viel, Koepke). Bussi vs. Korpi will be interesting.Zacha-Lindholm-Pasta
Marchy-Coyle-Lysell
Freddy-Poitras-Geekie
Jones-Beecher-Brazeau
Kastelic
Zadorov-McAvoy
Lindholm-Carlo
Lohrei-Peeke
Wortherspoon
Swayman
Bussi (I think he wins a spot in training camp over Korpisalo)
Speed improvement- Beecher, Jones, Lysell, Poitras (vs Maroon, JVR, Heinen)
Toughness added- Zadorov, Jones, Kastelic, full season of Peeke)
Lindholm Poitras and Lysell add the scoring skillset we were missing in the top 9.
Lysell either shows he can hang in the top 9 or we go out and grab a guy who can. Unpopular vote would be to grab Kane out of Edmonton who's been asked to submit teams he'd waive to go to. Wonder if Korpisalo + Merkulov would work? Or Korpisalo +Geekie?
He played well and confidence was growing, I think this D should be left alone and Wortherspoon is nice insurance.
If Poitras not ready what does that 3rd line look like?
Frederic Geekie Brazeau
I think Geekie slots into 2nd line RW at the moment.
100%. He's already alluded to it. Chara started the trend and you are seeing it trickle down.Do you think Marchand will follow Bergeron and Krejci and take team friendly bbonus heavy deals?
He had a poor training camp and needs to come in healthy and ready to fight for a spot this year.I think if Lysell didn’t get hurt he would have seen nhl time
Zacha-Lindholm-Pasta
Marchy-Coyle-Lysell
Freddy-Poitras-Geekie
Jones-Beecher-Brazeau
Kastelic
Zadorov-McAvoy
Lindholm-Carlo
Lohrei-Peeke
Wortherspoon
Swayman
Bussi (I think he wins a spot in training camp over Korpisalo)
Speed improvement- Beecher, Jones, Lysell, Poitras (vs Maroon, JVR, Heinen)
Toughness added- Zadorov, Jones, Kastelic, full season of Peeke)
Lindholm Poitras and Lysell add the scoring skillset we were missing in the top 9.
Lysell either shows he can hang in the top 9 or we go out and grab a guy who can. Unpopular vote would be to grab Kane out of Edmonton who's been asked to submit teams he'd waive to go to. Wonder if Korpisalo + Merkulov would work? Or Korpisalo +Geekie?
I have some hope that one of the Providence guys can make the jump and be the guy the Bs need. I have no idea who it will be but fingers crossed.$8.6 million with a 22 man roster plus Swayman. Depending on the 22 you have on the roster.
They could use another LD in Providence.
Rico with a top shelf takeI gotta give Sweeney some credit here. Even if it doesn’t work out, he had the balls to basically change it all up at least from an attitude perspective on this team.
He’s been running the same type of team for years and finally went in pretty hard on some beef/snarl.
4th line is big, agitators on the wing, Beecher big and fast/not afraid to fight.
Zadorov was an amazing add and a legitimate tone setter physically. Bruins have been to reactionary in the past and finally feel like they’ve flipped the switch to guys who initiate physicality
Its a fair point, but we definitely are gonna need to add somebody to add a goalscoring threat. I don't think Lysell is ready to fill that role, and I DEFINITELY don't think he's got the size and durability to last a full season in the NHL even if he was. We saw what happened to Poitras this past season, and I can easily see that happening to Lysell as well.I think he's cooked. Had a good year but was riding the fourth lines in the playoffs
Rather keep the our players
Its a fair point, but we definitely are gonna need to add somebody to add a goalscoring threat. I don't think Lysell is ready to fill that role, and I DEFINITELY don't think he's got the size and durability to last a full season in the NHL even if he was. We saw what happened to Poitras this past season, and I can easily see that happening to Lysell as well.
I think Tarasenko on a 2-3yr deal (If he'll agree to that) makes a lot of sense as an insurance policy.
Poitras seems to leave himself vulnerable to big hits ,he scares me maybe less dangling more moving the puck quicker,unless Marchand can teach him how to do it better avoiding as many hits,he’s pretty good at it ,well not as much now as he was ,age and hip surgeries have taken away some of his craftiness unfortunately.Lysell and Poitras just have to play smarter in order to last in the NHL, use Mitch Marner as an example, small guy who has excelled in regular season hockey.
I don't believe so.Having Lindholm as the a bumper on the PP is extremely important. He has an extremely quick release and accurate shot.
Interesting question...has Zadorov ever played the PP net front in his career?
Faceoff percentage for our two new centers over their careers:
Lindholm:
-54.5%
-54.3%
-49.3%
-51%
-53%
-55.7%
-56.4%
Kastelic:
-58.3%
-56.9%
-54.4%
Y'all we might actually win at the dot this year
This is the opportunity he's been looking for. I hope he takes the next step and runs away with it.