Bruins old and slow? Check the stats!

[PaulD]

28’s aging for a winger. Not a lot of them maintain their peak past their late 20s.

This is also ignoring that they just shed a bunch of 30+ year olds over the summer, so obviously observations from the past won’t apply in the same way they used to.

The Bruins game seems to defy the aging of players the way Crosbys game defies personal aging.
How many seasons have opposing fans been calling for Bruins to crash.......and then the Black and Gold go out finish above those same teams by end of season.
2 years ago many TSN pundits picked Boston to miss the playoffs.....
The Bs went out and had the best season in NHL history. ha!
Amazing organization that drives us Habs (and Leaf fans) to pure envy.

 

[tarheelhockey]

The Bruins game seems to defy the aging of players the way Crosbys game defies personal aging.
How many seasons have opposing fans been calling for Bruins to crash.......and then the Black and Gold go out finish above those same teams by end of season.
2 years ago many TSN pundits picked Boston to miss the playoffs.....
The Bs went out and had the best season in NHL history. ha!
Amazing organization that drives us Habs (and Leaf fans) to pure envy.

So, you’re making the comparison to a Penguins team that missed the playoffs?

I get what you’re saying, but the reality is the Bruins are shedding talent year-over-year. Being young sounds great but unless that youth is replacing the talent level that departed, it means the team is taking a step back to reload.

To the premise of the thread, someone who said the Bruins were old at the end of last season was correct. It doesn’t make sense to come back after a bunch of 35 year olds drop off the roster over the summer and say those people were wrong. The reason the Bruins are so young right now is because they were so old 4 months ago.

 

[PaulD]

So, you’re making the comparison to a Penguins team that missed the playoffs?

I get what you’re saying, but the reality is the Bruins are shedding talent year-over-year. Being young sounds great but unless that youth is replacing the talent level that departed, it means the team is taking a step back to reload.

To the premise of the thread, someone who said the Bruins were old at the end of last season was correct. It doesn’t make sense to come back after a bunch of 35 year olds drop off the roster over the summer and say those people were wrong. The reason the Bruins are so young right now is because they were so old 4 months ago.

No it was as an analogy.
I never even mentioned the "Penguins team".

 

[PaulD]

So, you’re making the comparison to a Penguins team that missed the playoffs?

I get what you’re saying, but the reality is the Bruins are shedding talent year-over-year. Being young sounds great but unless that youth is replacing the talent level that departed, it means the team is taking a step back to reload.

To the premise of the thread, someone who said the Bruins were old at the end of last season was correct. It doesn’t make sense to come back after a bunch of 35 year olds drop off the roster over the summer and say those people were wrong. The reason the Bruins are so young right now is because they were so old 4 months ago.

Yes , everyone goes down eventually.
But it's worth a mention that the Bruins have gone on longer as a top team than all the experts predicted.
I'm a Habs fan and the Bruins were said to heading downward for atleast the last 5 years. I get what your saying .....hard not to when its rolled out on here every September.
Nobody ever reposts the inevitable Bruins demise predictions November thru April..... as they rip through the league yet again

 

[BTO]

I checked the stats

You checked last year’s stats. Bruins got a whole boatload of new players who are big, fast, nasty and mean. Personally I’d be happy with nasty and mean.

 

[Mattb124]

Why did you use how much they weigh and how tall they are as pieces of evidence for why they aren't slow?

Because of the total lack of evidence they aren’t slow to support the notion they aren’t slow.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Yes , everyone goes down eventually.
But it's worth a mention that the Bruins have gone on longer as a top team than all the experts predicted.
I'm a Habs fan and the Bruins were said to heading downward for atleast the last 5 years. I get what your saying .....hard not to when its rolled out on here every September.
Nobody ever reposts the inevitable Bruins demise predictions November thru April..... as they rip through the league yet again

Again, we were saying these exact same things about the Pens until we weren’t saying it anymore. And before that it was the Red Wings.

It’s not like the Bruins (or any team) sprinkle magic dust on their players. They were great for a long time because they hung their hat on players like Chara and Bergeron and Marchand who all have exceptional longevity as elite players, meaning the Bruins had a core of surefire HOF’ers for about 15 years.

That was the special secret sauce in Pittsburgh and Detroit well. The challenge is keeping it going — Detroit managed to bridge the Yzerman years to the Datsyuk years. Once upon a time, Boston went from Orr to Park to Bourque without a break. Pulling that kind of feat in a 32-team league is a major challenge. Currently, Boston has a couple of cornerstones in Pasta and McAvoy, but if there is a young future HOF’er on that roster they haven’t identified themselves yet. I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions that their current construction won’t require a deep rebuild in the near future.

 

[PaulD]

Again, we were saying these exact same things about the Pens until we weren’t saying it anymore. And before that it was the Red Wings.

It’s not like the Bruins (or any team) sprinkle magic dust on their players. They were great for a long time because they hung their hat on players like Chara and Bergeron and Marchand who all have exceptional longevity as elite players, meaning the Bruins had a core of surefire HOF’ers for about 15 years.

That was the special secret sauce in Pittsburgh and Detroit well. The challenge is keeping it going — Detroit managed to bridge the Yzerman years to the Datsyuk years. Once upon a time, Boston went from Orr to Park to Bourque without a break. Pulling that kind of feat in a 32-team league is a major challenge. Currently, Boston has a couple of cornerstones in Pasta and McAvoy, but if there is a young future HOF’er on that roster they haven’t identified themselves yet. I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions that their current construction won’t require a deep rebuild in the near future.

I know what the Bruins are. Why they did well. And why they are still doing well.
Again "the deep rebuild they may require in the near future" ....been hearing that every summer since 2019.
One of the years the annual predictions are bound to hit.

 

[The90]

Odd because a majority of posts are indeed calling out the Bruins for being aging, declining, and slow... have been for years. Let alone the criticism of the prospects (warranted unless Lysell, Poitras, and Lohrei succeed).

Nah, that’s just the narrative you’ve built in your head. It certainly was a thing when Krejci and Bergeron were still playing though