Trading for JT Miller, especially for a package like that, would be absolutely batshit insane
Boston Bruins 24-25 Roster/Cap thread XI
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LouJersey
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bruinmann77
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this team is a mess and should become early Sellers IMO
Pasta better just man up and worry about himself yes6terday play was brutal
Pasta better just man up and worry about himself yes6terday play was brutal
LouJersey
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Amazing bruins leaking info to cover themselves when they deal Marchand. Lame
This poster is not the least bit surprised if that's true, send Pasta to the Nucks let Miller deal with him, lol
They will trade Pasta before Brad
DiggityDog
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22Brad Park
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I have always supported Pasta and think he is an awesome talent.But if he has an issue with Marchand calling out his game then that worries me.I definitely want skill players but not weak mentally players .Man the fk up.
gvkmedia
Let’s fight through this….
Was just going to post that link. Very interesting. I do believe that this losing is the cause of this. Pasta has stunk this year compared to the last several seasons
Bruin4
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gvkmedia
Let’s fight through this….
After another frustrating loss, it’s time for the Bruins to shake things up - The Boston Globe
For now, the Bruins seem content on spinning their wheels in hopes of a mid-season spark from a roster already running on fumes.
www.bostonglobe.com
The last time the Bruins dropped six games in a row, it was March 2015 — when a retooling roster mired in no-man’s land was charting a course toward a failed postseason bid.
The more things change …
The 2024-25 Bruins find themselves cut from a similar cloth — with a season that once started with so much promise teetering on the brink of disaster.
Once seemingly revitalized after Joe Sacco took the reins of a rudderless operation in mid-November, the wheels have fallen off once again for a team hindered by poor roster construction and a carousel of underperforming regulars.
The numbers aren’t pretty after the Bruins’ latest letdown — Thursday’s 4-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Bruins have yet to post a win since the calendar flipped to 2025, with Boston’s lone win since the holiday break coming Dec. 28 against a goalie sporting a .857 save percentage in Columbus’s Daniil Tarasov.
Boston’s 31st-ranked power play has not converted in eight games, while only seven teams have scored fewer five-on-five goals.
Add in a 25th-ranked penalty kill (75.9 percent), a porous zone defense, and a pedestrian season from goalie Jeremy Swayman (.893 save percentage), and the Bruins are clinging to a wild-card spot — with the Blue Jackets and Penguins just a point behind them.
The Bruins are one of three teams in the playoff picture with a negative goal differential. But their minus-27 mark stands as the worst in the entire Eastern Conference — and the fourth-worst across the entire NHL.
In other words, the 2023-24 Bruins might just be what they are this season: a middling team bracing for a long offseason or a first-round playoff exit.
It’s been a frustrating season, a sentiment further fueled by the Bruins’ inaction when it comes to shaking up an underperforming lineup at this critical juncture.
The need for a change — be it a call-up from Providence or a message-sending trade — has been long overdue.
A game removed from fans calling for the firing of Don Sweeney at TD Garden, the Bruins made no lineup tweaks before traveling to Florida for matchups against the Lightning and Panthers.
While the Bruins’ brass grapple with what might be the correct (albeit painful) course of action when it comes to potentially selling off pieces before the March 7 trade deadline, the unwillingness to call up young talent in hopes of a short-term spark remains puzzling.
It remains to be seen just what youngsters such as Matt Poitras, Fabian Lysell, and Georgii Merkulov have to offer at the NHL level — and whether it’s just wishful thinking that these unproven forwards have the capabilities to right the ship on a punchless forward corps.
But the Bruins also won’t have those answers if they continue to let them marinate in Providence — while players not long for a Black and Gold sweater such as Oliver Wahlstrom or underperforming regulars such as Trent Frederic continue to not move the needle.
Poitras needs to avoid putting himself in vulnerable positions and put on some pounds. Merkulov and Lysell have work to do when it comes to managing the puck.
It likely won’t be pretty at times if all three are given a shot with the Bruins this winter.
But would those lapses and miscues be any different than what we’ve already seen from the players sitting pretty at hockey’s highest level?
If the 2024-25 campaign is already looking like a lost year, the onus falls on the Bruins’ brass to draw whatever silver linings they can out of this season by fostering the development of the team’s shallow prospect pool.
If the likes of Poitras and Lysell can’t hold their own, at least the Bruins and a fan base starved for skill and excitement finally have some clarity. If they hit, the Bruins have some new building blocks to add to their foundation moving forward.
But for now, the Bruins seem content to spin their wheels in hopes of a midseason spark from a roster already running on fumes.
Be it the embrace of a youth movement, selling off UFAs for draft capital or even moving foundational pieces in hopes of a major reshuffle, something’s got to give.
This Bruins roster isn’t cutting it.
wintersej
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I think everyone knew the team needed more offensive talent. Pasta dropping 30 point. Coyle
Dropping 30 points. Zacha and Frederic dropping 20 points. Some of this don’t know how you could have expected.
You could be Elliott Friedman!
They will either buy big, sell big, buy small, or sell small!
Marchand is this team's engine. Team goes as Brad goes. He's getting older and this is result. There is no player who can take his place.
After Swayman fiasco, Brad can ask $12 Million for 3 years and it is OK. Management has lost a plot after giving huge salary for young inexperienced goalie after one passing lucky streak playoffs.
Pasta's ego can go. People do not want to give 1st rd draft pick, but think about what you can get with Pasta + 1st rd pick. That would give a chance to redirect franchises team identity to (maybe) better direction.
Wishful thinking, he has only scored 10 goals in 49 games. That does not translate well when he plays in the AHL.
He needs to put on around 15-20 pounds is a string bean.
"Believe nothing about what you hear from someone else and half of what you see!!!"
Oates2Neely
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If you believe in this roster you add a Kreider type who can be a veteran leader in the locker room. I’m not advocating stripping Marchand of the C now. Chara and Bergeron were both captain serious. Marchand doesn’t strike me as that, he needs some leadership help.
If you don’t believe in this roster, it’s time to start selling off some pieces and trying a retool
On the "Pucks With Haggs" podcast posted yesterday, Haggerty and New England Hockey Journal editor Evan Maranofsky pointed to a lack of leadership from ostensible Assistant Captains Charlie McAvoy and David Pastrnak.
After the lifeless loss to the Oilers, media types requested comment from Bruins leadership.
Charlie Coyle and Branden Carlo, neither of whom wear an A, stepped in to address questions.
McCavoy and Pastrnak were nowhere to be seen.
What does this tell you?
22Brad Park
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You are not going to get back enough value in a trade that you put Pasta & 1st rd pick in the same deal .Just my opinion anyhow.Did I read that correctly?
BruinDust
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I don't have an issue with Marchand calling a guy out but depends on how the message was delivered. Like most conflicts, it's not what is said but how you say it.
Marchand being his longest tenured teammate should know well enough by now how to communicate to Pasta and get his point across where the message is received the right way. 10+ years as teammates you can be sure it's had it's ups and downs, even during the best of times.
I didn't like it when Monty started yelling at Marchand on the bench earlier the year. I don't see the point of embarrassing the player. If this actually happened, did it happen in front of the rest of the team or in private?
And this could all be a pile of bullshit.
That Carlo and Coyle are also considered leaders in the room.
Lol, its believe none of what you hear and half what you read.
Sheppy
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It’s bad either way.
If it’s true, it’s bad.
If it’s not, and this is a smear, it’s bad.
I just wish this team could handle their shit internally
MarchysNoseKnows
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Why the assumption that the Bruins told this to Keefe? Keefe has a horrible track record of being right
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