It really should be interesting, and with the cap rising, Marchand who's been grossly under paid from the Bruins, may want a nice pay day, and there's more than likely a team or two out-there who'll give him one and a multi-year deal.
Filling gaping holes is hardly “going all in”.Let me answer that for you then.
No way Sweeney moves Marchand. It would be him waving the white flag on a team he went all in on during the off season with his FA signings. He'll make a small add and convince himself that Lindholm is their big add at the deadline. Sweeney giving up on a season while being this close to playoff revenue is not in his DNA.
Sure but when you pay them the money he did, its not to likely he's throwing in the towel after spending to the cap with his off season moves, so essentially it was all in for him, the right moves is totally a different conversation.
I watched him in Providence. What an entertaining player. He was fun too watch. I knew he would Mackenzie in the pros. Didn’t expect his first 20 games to be scoreless but nonetheless lit worked out.
#88 was pretty clearly playing thru injury the first 30 games. His goals pace was running about a 27 goal season. Marchand took probably 10-12 games to work through those his surgeries, so injuries have impacted the forward group, just not with actual games missed. Having said that they were healthy in their top 6F last year also.
If he's 3rd pair then you have a really deep and good d corps. He has shown in the past to be a good 2nd pair guy for us, outside of this season.
Poitras doesn't exactly play two way hockey. He couldn't maintain a place in the line up on a team that doesn't exactly strike fear into opposing forwards worried about scoring goals.
I think Poitras works very hard on the D side of the game. He will only get better with size
Matty P is 20...Twenty years old in the NHL is pretty darn good .The rest of his game will come .
The effort is there. Far more than Zegras. The Bruins system would be a culture shock to Zegras. Their stats aren’t that far off one another this season despite Zegras ignoring his d zone, being 3 years older than Poitras & averaging 4 mins more per game.
I would take Schneider, Whitecloud, Pesce and one of Letang\Karlsson based on being a Right shot D based strictly on ability\impact.
That's just not true.
Go over to the main board and suggest a trade Poitras for Zegras. Doubt you get
No, it doesn't. It's just about playing hockey well. So, so many Cup teams won while enduring internal strife, much it of it well-publicized after the fact
Well that's fine but he is us in his D+3 year and Zegras produced 60+ points in it.
Yea well I cannot see Bruins moving Matty P .He has skills ,can skate ,is smart and cheap.Yea he has some warts like strength but I want to see more of him personally.
I doubt Sweeney would turn that down in the off season.
