Player Discussion David Pastrnak

[DKH]

David Pastrnak on ice with his daughter Freya

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so cute - we have a cat named Freya, who two years ago got out when painters left window open. Was gone 52 days … we have coyotes and the thoughts were traumatic but this is last night chilling

 

[chizzler]

He's having a poor season by Pasta standards. He is still talented enough to score at a point per game pace even playing below his usual level. I buy the lingering injury, but even if not, the whole team looks out of whack offensively and Pasta is affected by it too. He needs to be better, and so do a number of other guys.

He needs a center that thinks the game like he does. Sweeney didn’t address the center position when he should have and now it’s too late. No way Geekie should be playing in that first line.

 

[smithformeragent]

Bright spot to see him pot a couple of goals last night.

 

[Mick Riddleton]

Bruins Forward David Pastrnak Reveals Offseason Injury​

'The problem was mainly mental'​

Nov 10, 2024

“I was injured for a month and a half in the summer,” Pastrnak said in an article published in Czech and translated into English. “Not so much physically, because then there was still a lot of time, but the problem was mainly mental. Because in the summer, I normally prepare for the season, and I haven’t been injured for so long.

“And mentally, it’s hard when you can’t work for a month and a half at this stage nothing to do. But I feel better and better with each match.”

“I had a couple of bruises and bumps during the summer that I couldn’t train for a little bit, so I had to take a couple of weeks off,” Pastrnak told McLaughlin during Bruins’ training camp in September. “But at the same time, it was kind of lucky timing. It was during my wedding and all that stuff, so it kind of worked out. Obviously not ideal, but now I’m back to 100 percent and glad that I got it over with.”

 

[Gordoff]

Bruins Forward David Pastrnak Reveals Offseason Injury​

'The problem was mainly mental'​

Nov 10, 2024

“I was injured for a month and a half in the summer,” Pastrnak said in an article published in Czech and translated into English. “Not so much physically, because then there was still a lot of time, but the problem was mainly mental. Because in the summer, I normally prepare for the season, and I haven’t been injured for so long.

“And mentally, it’s hard when you can’t work for a month and a half at this stage nothing to do. But I feel better and better with each match.”

“I had a couple of bruises and bumps during the summer that I couldn’t train for a little bit, so I had to take a couple of weeks off,” Pastrnak told McLaughlin during Bruins’ training camp in September. “But at the same time, it was kind of lucky timing. It was during my wedding and all that stuff, so it kind of worked out. Obviously not ideal, but now I’m back to 100 percent and glad that I got it over with.”

Sooo, I'm making excuses but I'm not?
This article is confusing. Even if he couldn't work
out for a month and a half, that leaves around 3 months
where he could. WTF happened then David?
WHAT is this injury besides the mental aspect?
IMO at this point it doesn't matter.
He has nobody in his caliber to play with.
He's trying to do too much but his linemates
play like when my wife drives her car with the emergency
brake on. Not good.
Marchand 3 surgeries but DS couldn't tell the truth
about that.
Pasta needs help.
McAvoy is subpar but if they had a
real #1 Center both would prosper.
So, IMO the biggest problem is that there
isn't a #1 Center on this team, just a couple 2's, a couple 3's and
some wings who can take the occasional faceoffs and bandaid the position.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

He needs a center that thinks the game like he does. Sweeney didn’t address the center position when he should have and now it’s too late. No way Geekie should be playing in that first line.

Geekie didn't play on the first line last night. It didn't help.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Sooo, I'm making excuses but I'm not?
This article is confusing. Even if he couldn't work
out for a month and a half, that leaves around 3 months
where he could. WTF happened then David?
WHAT is this injury besides the mental aspect?
IMO at this point it doesn't matter.
He has nobody in his caliber to play with.
He's trying to do too much but his linemates
play like when my wife drives her car with the emergency
brake on. Not good.
Marchand 3 surgeries but DS couldn't tell the truth
about that.
Pasta needs help.
McAvoy is subpar but if they had a
real #1 Center both would prosper.
So, IMO the biggest problem is that there
isn't a #1 Center on this team, just a couple 2's, a couple 3's and
some wings who can take the occasional faceoffs and bandaid the position.

There wasn't a number 1 center on the team last year either. But Pasta put up110 points and was a +21, best of all forwards on the team.

Bruins Forward David Pastrnak Reveals Offseason Injury​

'The problem was mainly mental'​

Nov 10, 2024

“I was injured for a month and a half in the summer,” Pastrnak said in an article published in Czech and translated into English. “Not so much physically, because then there was still a lot of time, but the problem was mainly mental. Because in the summer, I normally prepare for the season, and I haven’t been injured for so long.

“And mentally, it’s hard when you can’t work for a month and a half at this stage nothing to do. But I feel better and better with each match.”

“I had a couple of bruises and bumps during the summer that I couldn’t train for a little bit, so I had to take a couple of weeks off,” Pastrnak told McLaughlin during Bruins’ training camp in September. “But at the same time, it was kind of lucky timing. It was during my wedding and all that stuff, so it kind of worked out. Obviously not ideal, but now I’m back to 100 percent and glad that I got it over with.”

So on November 10, Pasta said he was back to 100%.

Has he been injured or not?

 

[Mick Riddleton]

Sooo, I'm making excuses but I'm not?
This article is confusing. Even if he couldn't work
out for a month and a half, that leaves around 3 months
where he could. WTF happened then David?
WHAT is this injury besides the mental aspect?
IMO at this point it doesn't matter.
He has nobody in his caliber to play with.
He's trying to do too much but his linemates
play like when my wife drives her car with the emergency
brake on. Not good.
Marchand 3 surgeries but DS couldn't tell the truth
about that.
Pasta needs help.
McAvoy is subpar but if they had a
real #1 Center both would prosper.
So, IMO the biggest problem is that there
isn't a #1 Center on this team, just a couple 2's, a couple 3's and
some wings who can take the occasional faceoffs and bandaid the position.

Agreed, Pasta is the main target of teams. He needs some help and Sweeney let go of guys that could score and did not replace them. He seems to be skated pretty good to me tonight, there is no injury. This kind of checking he sees is non stop and there is no Bergy and prime Marchand. Add to that the PP is stale and predictable without a quarterback like Krech or Krug .

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Well suck for a decade and get pantsed in the trade and they'll lose their ST base if Pasternak is traded. It's a miracle he's a PPG player on this pile of crap team.

Coyle Carlo Zacha Fredric are the ones to move. All have value around the league to bring back players. A huge offer for an aging Marchand should be considered. I assume Lohreis value is too low to move but if he brings back a plug and play guy with skill him too.

 

[Gee Wally]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/05/sports/bruins-defensemen-scoring-drought/

When David Pastrnak is feeling it, all the Bruins in turn feel better.

With back-to-back two-goal games, including a pair in Sunday night’s 5-4 overtime loss to the Islanders, the elite Czech winger looks as though the swagger is back in his stick.

“Definitely today, I felt confident, I was making plays,” said Pastrnak, who averaged 54 goals the last two seasons. “I think our line was all around it the first two periods and then we scored two goals in the third. It’s crazy how the hockey works.”

It’s been clear of late that hockey has been maddeningly frustrating for Pastrnak, a classic example of a fine-tuned shooter who grows sullen when his shots aren’t finding the net.

Pastrnak now has 17 strikes for the season with 40 games to go. That’s a 33-goal pace. Still not the Pastrnak who has been one of the game’s most feared scorers the last few years, but a closer facsimile.

“When you start moving [confidently] and you are moving your feet,” he said, “you are skating faster and find open spots. Pucks find you. You can skate out there forever like that and you don’t feel tired. And you have days you feel like you have cement in your legs.”

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

fans: "why dont players reveal things to the media"

this thread: ...

 

[RiverbottomChuck]

Sooo, I'm making excuses but I'm not?
This article is confusing. Even if he couldn't work
out for a month and a half, that leaves around 3 months
where he could. WTF happened then David?
WHAT is this injury besides the mental aspect?
IMO at this point it doesn't matter.
He has nobody in his caliber to play with.
He's trying to do too much but his linemates
play like when my wife drives her car with the emergency
brake on. Not good.
Marchand 3 surgeries but DS couldn't tell the truth
about that.
Pasta needs help.
McAvoy is subpar but if they had a
real #1 Center both would prosper.
So, IMO the biggest problem is that there
isn't a #1 Center on this team, just a couple 2's, a couple 3's and
some wings who can take the occasional faceoffs and bandaid the position.

Is there even a way to get the center they actually need without drafting top 3 or getting extremely win the lottery levels of lucky on a later pick ala Bergeron? I guess we can pray McDavid goes to free agency but we all know that's not actually gonna happen. I don't disagree the lack of a true number one down the middle is the biggest issue night in night out but that's the hardest position to fill in the league imo.

 

[smithformeragent]

Just keep finding the back of the net, and we're good.

Solves one major piece of the equation as far as fixing this thing.