Boston Bruins 24-25 Roster/Cap thread VI

[BamBamCam]

Hindsight is 20/20 but a retool could've started if McAvoy was traded at the draft. Something like the Sergachev package. (*Note Sergachev cap hit brought in Guentzel.)

 

[NDiesel]

Hindsight is 20/20 but a retool could've started if McAvoy was traded at the draft. Something like the Sergachev package. (*Note Sergachev cap hit brought in Guentzel.)

Lmao, as soon as I saw that you posted in this thread I knew it was to bash McAvoy...props for consistency, wish I didn't have to read your opinion on him in every single thread though, maybe keep it to one or two?

 

[Over the volcano]

Sign Johnson

For the next 5ish games run with

Pastrnak Zacha poitras
Marchand lindholm kopeke
Johnson Coyle Brazzeau/Jones
Beecher Kastellic Frederic

Poitras needs some high end offensive on his line. Koepke gets rewarded for being their most productive forward. Frederic gets to remember how to play with speed and confidence. Coyle gets a seasoned vet with some offense on his line he doesn't have to think about.

Keep their eggs in different baskets and play to their strengths. Geekie gets a full on reset.

 

[NDiesel]

Sign Johnson

For the next 5ish games run with

Pastrnak Zacha poitras
Marchand lindholm kopeke
Johnson Coyle Brazzeau/Jones
Beecher Kastellic Frederic

Poitras needs some high end offensive on his line. Koepke gets rewarded for being their most productive forward. Frederic gets to remember how to play with speed and confidence. Coyle gets a seasoned vet with some offense on his line he doesn't have to think about.

Keep their eggs in different baskets and play to their strengths. Geekie gets a full on reset.

Honestly they should roll their lines like the Kraken did a couple years ago when they had Sprong/Geekie on their bottom two lines. Pretty much had 4 lines, all spread out playing similar minutes. Keep it simple and forecheck and play with some speed

We have a way more skilled 1st line and should just spread the rest of the skill through lines 2 to 4 and play them equally

 

[Over the volcano]

Honestly they should roll their lines like the Kraken did a couple years ago when they had Sprong/Geekie on their bottom two lines. Pretty much had 4 lines, all spread out playing similar minutes. Keep it simple and forecheck and play with some speed

We have a way more skilled 1st line and should just spread the rest of the skill through lines 2 to 4 and play them equally

Always like thinking of lines as pairs - right now it'd be

Zacha Pastrnak
Lindholm Marchand
Coyle Johnson
Beecher Kastellic

And compliment them with the strengths of the remaining forwards

 

[CellyHard]

I still don't understand why they don't give Lysell a shot

I look at Calgary who is undefeated on the year and it's crazy. They have Kuzmenko who doesn't play a lick of defense on their first line with Matt Coronato...you know the 2021 1st round pick selected 8 picks before Lysell. He's a right wing...same size, speedy kid.

They are getting scoring all over their lineup and they are trusting their kids like Pospisil and Zary with big roles on their team.

If you can plug him into the 2nd line RW spot, it actually slots players in their right roles so we don't have to rotate lines all year long. I go

Zacha Lindholm Pastrnak
Marchand Coyle Lysell
Frederic Poitras Geekie
Beecher Kastelic Koepke

I rotate Brazeau in when needed to get heavy but otherwise, let's get some skill in this lineup and put our prospects in a position to succeed

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

I'm still hoping for Brazeau to come around, if given the chance.

Five games seems a little quick to give up on a guy that looked so good last season.