Bruins old and slow? Check the stats!

[tarheelhockey]

I've never heard this about the Pens. The secret sauce for the Pens was being a crappy team at the right time,

What I meant by that is the Pens were at least a decent team, and usually a contender, for about 30 years straight with the exception of one little gap, during which time Crosby and Malkin fell in their lap. By 2020 were indeed plenty of people saying things like “never bet against the Pens, everyone says they’re too old but they just keep winning” as if there was some dark magic keeping them from missing the playoffs. And of course that was foolish because the Pens WERE getting older and slowing down, and there wasn’t another Crosby in the wings to keep things going.

Is there another Chara, Bergeron, Rask in the wings for Boston? If not, this is the normal life cycle of a team losing A-level talent and replacing it with draftees who are young and promising but not as good. We saw this when Detroit was high on their own fumes with Nyqvist and Tatar and DeKeyser, decent players who would obviously become superstars because it was the Red Wings and they had magic.

Pasta being old and slow and past his peak is certainly a take.

Not what I said. I said his current state will very likely prove to be his peak, meaning he will start to decline in a couple of years. 110-point seasons past age 30 for a winger are almost unheard of, the sort of thing you might get from Jagr or Kucherov, but not even Ovechkin ever came close. Betting on Pastrnak to be at that level in a few years, that would certainly be a take.

 

[PaulD]

What I meant by that is the Pens were at least a decent team, and usually a contender, for about 30 years straight with the exception of one little gap, during which time Crosby and Malkin fell in their lap. By 2020 were indeed plenty of people saying things like “never bet against the Pens, everyone says they’re too old but they just keep winning” as if there was some dark magic keeping them from missing the playoffs. And of course that was foolish because the Pens WERE getting older and slowing down, and there wasn’t another Crosby in the wings to keep things going.

Is there another Chara, Bergeron, Rask in the wings for Boston? If not, this is the normal life cycle of a team losing A-level talent and replacing it with draftees who are young and promising but not as good. We saw this when Detroit was high on their own fumes with Nyqvist and Tatar and DeKeyser, decent players who would obviously become superstars because it was the Red Wings and they had magic.



Not what I said. I said his current state will very likely prove to be his peak, meaning he will start to decline in a couple of years. 110-point seasons past age 30 for a winger are almost unheard of, the sort of thing you might get from Jagr or Kucherov, but not even Ovechkin ever came close. Betting on Pastrnak to be at that level in a few years, that would certainly be a take.

Hilarious how some of these critics who cant shit on Bruins present season year after year .....start bashing the teams future seasons. Tarheel transferring that to Pastrnac as well.
Talk about reaching.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Hilarious how some of these critics who cant shit on Bruins present season year after year .....start bashing the teams future seasons. Tarheel transferring that to Pastrnac as well.
Talk about reaching.

What about saying Pastrnak is likely to peak in his late 20s and then slow down is shitting on him?

You’re falling into exactly the pattern I’m talking about. Pointing out that a team has lost a lot of HOF-level talent, and is gradually moving toward post-peak of their top remaining talent without any obvious replacements on the way, is not “bashing”. It’s living in reality where time progresses whether we like it or not.

 

[Nothingbutglass]

What about saying Pastrnak is likely to peak in his late 20s and then slow down is shitting on him?

You’re falling into exactly the pattern I’m talking about. Pointing out that a team has lost a lot of HOF-level talent, and is gradually moving toward post-peak of their top remaining talent without any obvious replacements on the way, is not “bashing”. It’s living in reality where time progresses whether we like it or not.

Do we need to worry about it now? What does that have to do with the Bruins being old ond slow?