Player Discussion Charlie McAvoy IV

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‘We found our identity’: Charlie McAvoy on how Bruins have turned around their season

The Bruins weren’t used to struggling out of the gate, so it was quite an adjustment.

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Get Hampus back, call up Poitras

Sacco Magic returns led by the D

He and Hampus are a solid 1-2 when healthy. The D needs to be built around them and they need to have a consistent partner. Stop frigging around with the pairings.

 

[BamBamCam]

He and Hampus are a solid 1-2 when healthy. The D needs to be built around them and they need to have a consistent partner. Stop frigging around with the pairings.

And probably the most expensive in the league too.

 

[DKH]

He and Hampus are a solid 1-2 when healthy. The D needs to be built around them and they need to have a consistent partner. Stop frigging around with the pairings.

Studs - agree

Carlo- Lindholm very good

 

[NDiesel]

And probably the most expensive in the league too.

They are not. Colorado off the top of my head spends more

 

[wintersej]

They are not. Colorado off the top of my head spends more

Yeah many teams do. That are a lot of D making between 8.5 and 11.5 and some of those teams actually have a second good defender!

 

[BamBamCam]

They are not. Colorado off the top of my head spends more

Well for 25K more I'd rather have Makar and Toews than McAvoy and Lindholm.

 

[NDiesel]

Well for 25K more I'd rather have Makar and Toews than McAvoy and Lindholm.

It's one team, but you could have taken 2 minutes yourself to look up that there are multiple teams paying their 1-2 more

 

[elMatador]

At 27 yo McAvoy should be entering his prime but fundamentally he has been grossly mismanaged in the last 4.5 seasons and his game has regressed each year.
With Krug's and Chara's departure in 2020, all special units were given to him on a silver platter.

At 22 yo McAvoy still needed a role model to work on his game and polish it. Instead he got a Krejci treatment of a revolving door with Lauzon, Reilly, Zboril and Grzelcyk, none of them a top pair Dman.
Eventually Grzelcyk was the one to stick with him. Next to him, McAvoy looked like a dominant Dman since Grzelcyk could not play physical, had no slap shot, a weak wrist shot, no gap control, short reach, his only above average skill was skating and edge work.

The standard was drastically lowered. There was no one to challange him. During the regular season the pair was good enough against mediocre and lottery pick teams. However, as soon as the playoffs started, they got exposed and were just rubbish.

McAvoy's Playoffs production since 2020:
2021 1G 11A in 11 games
2022 0G 5A in 6 games
2023 0G 5A in 7 games
2024 1G 5A in 13 games

 

[KillerMillerTime]

At 27 yo McAvoy should be entering his prime but fundamentally he has been grossly mismanaged in the last 4.5 seasons and his game has regressed each year.
With Krug's and Chara's departure in 2020, all special units were given to him on a silver platter.

At 22 yo McAvoy still needed a role model to work on his game and polish it. Instead he got a Krejci treatment of a revolving door with Lauzon, Reilly, Zboril and Grzelcyk, none of them a top pair Dman.
Eventually Grzelcyk was the one to stick with him. Next to him, McAvoy looked like a dominant Dman since Grzelcyk could not play physical, had no slap shot, a weak wrist shot, no gap control, short reach, his only above average skill was skating and edge work.

The standard was drastically lowered. There was no one to challange him. During the regular season the pair was good enough against mediocre and lottery pick teams. However, as soon as the playoffs started, they got exposed and were just rubbish.

McAvoy's Playoffs production since 2020:
2021 1G 11A in 11 games
2022 0G 5A in 6 games
2023 0G 5A in 7 games
2024 1G 5A in 13 games

Should have traded McAvoy in '23 immediately after Panthers series before he had control. I was aboard the move McAvoy train then but now you aren't getting as much for him as in '23. Guy has had exactly one dominant playoff game
from '22 thru '24 and that was last year G5 against Panthers.