Player Discussion David Pastrnak

[Bruinswillwin77]

He was on Jumbotron Thursday and was listing ice cream

He did get vanilla & strawberry- and my favorite chocolate chip

But

He said apple - followed by it’s his favorite

I didn’t know they had apple ice cream and to say it’s his favorite is disturbing

Better than ovechkin and his spaghetti with ketchup.

 

[NDiesel]

Imagine suggesting trading this guy.

 

[DKH]

Imagine suggesting trading this guy.

Only after a bad turnover

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Imagine suggesting trading this guy.

I desperately want Ovechkin to stop playing in the NHL ASAP so we can start a count down for Pasta to get the all time goal record.

Go own a team in the KHL and play for them please.

 

[Over the volcano]

14 pts in their last 6 games

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Better than ovechkin and his spaghetti with ketchup.

A Moscow delicacy.

 

[Bruin4]

He has to be in consideration for the Hart,Its scary to think where this team would be without him.

 

[Ladyfan]

Imagine suggesting trading this guy.

I know...How foolish is that?

 

[Dr Hook]

I know...How foolish is that?

And yet, the suggestion was made by more than one person

 

[Ladyfan]

And yet, the suggestion was made by more than one person

There is more than one fool

 

[Blitzkrug]

It's pretty clear a lot of his earlier struggles (if still being PPG is considered struggling) was from the fact he had to essentially revamp his game.

He was always the triggerman, and while his passing was always underrated, he was so clearly not used to having to do everything offensively rather than having somebody to work off of. All that overthinking essentially disappeared and now he's the guy people are working off of. Geekie especially.

While I think the Hart trophy is a bit unrealistic (look at the monster seasons Drai, MacKinnion and shit even Hellebuyck are having) I am glad the people on this board aren't running the team because he would have been traded by the end of November.

 

[Dr Hook]

There is more than one fool

I don't get it. I guess maybe in the 70s Pasta would have been moved like Janney? He is never going to win any defensive awards, and he isn't the greatest backchecker, and tries too many high risk plays BUT the guy is pure magic with the puck. I am glad they locked him up long term because he is the type of player that never would have been a Bruin years ago and we'd wonder why we couldn't have anything nice.

 

[goldenblack]

This gear he has is scary.

Can we give Rantanen 14M and put these two on a line?

 

[weaponomega]

Now 3rd in the league in even strength points behind MacKinnon and Draisaitl.

 

[BruinsFanMike82]

 

[Ladyfan]

Congrats to David! Love that kid.

 

[BMC]

And yet, the suggestion was made by more than one person

That means there is more than one stupid person posting on this board, as I have long suspected

I have had my issues with Pasta but he's really won me over this year. He's become a more complete player & a real leader. Trading him would be beyond stupid.

 

[Over the volcano]

What bugs me most about him is that he can do it all and makes it look so easy, makes the rest of the team look incompetent or lazy.

 

[LouJersey]

What bugs me most about him is that he can do it all and makes it look so easy, makes the rest of the team look incompetent or lazy.

The funny thing I notice when I go to the Bruins games here in NJ and NY he's just so much better than the rest of them he actually has to slow it down it looks. Him with a McDavid or MacKinnon would be worth the price of admission

 

[Kegs]

Pastrnak is literally carrying this teams offence. If they get into the playoffs he deserves the hart.

 

[Gee Wally]

If David Pastrnak keeps up his pace, he has a shot to become the Bruins’ all-time leading goal scorer - The Boston Globe

Pastrnak, 28, has 376 goals, and is 169 behind all-time team leader Johnny Bucyk.

www.bostonglobe.com

The image of David Pastrnak to behold has him firing that blistering one-timer from the weak side, initiated with a puck sent across the slot and the Bruins right winger exploding full force from a spot near the left-wing faceoff dot.

It’s “Pasta” in full, reminiscent of those mighty swings Reggie Jackson took in his “Mr. October” prime, when he taunted pitchers to bring the heat, then ferociously tore into their offerings. He then would pause the extra two seconds to watch the ball sail out of the yard, drop lumber, and charge around the bases with that fullback-like home run trot.

Pastrnak, 28, won’t ever be Jackson’s equal as a showman (join me here in a thankful amen). Over recent years, though, he not only has placed a copyright on that one-timer, but simultaneously evolved as the game’s No. 1 goal scorer.

When the league entered its 4 Nations Face-Off, no one had scored more than Pastrnak’s 136 goals since the start of the 2022-23 season. Leon Draisaitl (133) or Auston Matthews (129), or the great Connor McDavid (118) or even the soon-to-be greatest of ‘em all Alex Ovechkin(99). Only Pastrnak — a feat to be appreciated all the more when considering his last 75 goals have come on a team searching for a bona fide No. 1 center to get him the puck the past two seasons.

Now with a team-best 28-40—68 line through 57 games (projection 40-58—98) this season, Pastrnak is in position again to reach 100 points (following marks of 113 and 110). If so, he’ll become only the third Bruin to string together three 100-point campaigns, a mark equalled and surpassed here only by Causeway legends Bobby Orr (six straight) and Phil Esposito (five).

Though not a numbers guy, and still considering himself more a playmaker than a goal scorer, getting to 100 again would be important to him, Pastrnak said on the eve of the 4 Nations Face-Off hiatus.

“Yeah, you know, the kind of player I am … that’s my standard,” he said during a quiet moment at the club’s Brighton/Warrior practice facility. “I set my standards high, right? So I definitely would be a little bit disappointed [not to do it] — because that would mean I didn’t do a good enough job for the team. That’s the way I look at it. It’s not so much that I worry about [the number itself], where I end up. But I know if I get there, I did my part offensively.”

Pastrnak, now with 376 career goals, has put a puck in the net at a rate of slightly better than one every other game (.514 per game) since pulling on Black and Gold. The club’s all-time leading goal scorer, Johnny Bucyk (545 goals), delivered at a .361 over his illustrious career of 20-plus seasons. In his goal-scoring prime as a member of the prolific Bruins’ squads of the early 1970s, Chief for three seasons knocked goals home at only a slightly better rate (.526) than Pastrnak has produced over his 731 career games.

All of which is to say, with Pastrnak now ranked seventh all time in Boston goal scoring, he has a solid shot at eclipsing Bucyk atop Mount Vulcan. In fact, if he can maintain that .514 goals-per-game clip, he would hit goal No. 546 only 331 games from now (good seats still available for late in the 2028-29 season).

Pastrnak today is some 30 pounds heavier, and significant degrees stronger, than when the Bruins selected him 25th in the 2014 draft. He had celebrated his 18th birthday only a month earlier and he was, by NHL standards, a featherweight 167 pounds.

“I had to get stronger,” said Pastrnak, thinking back to his pre-NHL days, playing in Czechia and later in Sweden. “In Czech and Sweden, compared to USA, we start lifting in the gym way later than kids do here. So I think that’s why I wasn’t strong when I got here — I didn’t start lifting weights until I was 16, maybe 17. Only had a couple of years in me. That first year, I got pushed around. Then I was maybe 180 the next year. With age and experience you become stronger, and the muscles are heavier …I love where I am now, 195-200 … I am strong enough.”

“Pasta is a one-on-one machine, with his moves, his speed and that one-timer,” said Cassidy, who directed Vegas to the Cup in ‘23. “Marchy is one-on-one, too, but if you truly watch him, he is into you when he makes those one-on-one plays. He has that whack-the-stick move, gets into your body and kicks the puck, and his low center of gravity helps him. He beats you by coming into you, whereas Pasta beats you with his lateral ability, quick hands and shot. But they are both one-on-one guys who want to beat you. Not all are like that ... some are just shooters.”

The evolution of Pastrnak’s thundering one-timer, in part, is what led Cassidy to move Pastrnak to the No. 1 power-play unit not long after he took over the bench from Julien in the spring of 2017.

“His one-timer’s evolved so much,” said an admiring Cassidy. “And he got stronger. He’s not the same [now] as he walked through the door as a 20-year-old, [different than] some of the guys I’ve coached. He’s put a lot of work into that.”

Written to the richest deal in Bruins history (eight years/$92 million), Pastrnak is in year No. 2 making an average $11.25 million per season. He’s paid to score, which he’s doing at a rate that could make him the best we’ve ever seen in the Hub of Hockey.

 

[22Brad Park]

And yet, the suggestion was made by more than one person

I can think of one poster right away who was tearing Pasta steady but not a peep about him since Jan 1st.

 

[22Brad Park]

If David Pastrnak keeps up his pace, he has a shot to become the Bruins’ all-time leading goal scorer - The Boston Globe

Pastrnak, 28, has 376 goals, and is 169 behind all-time team leader Johnny Bucyk.

www.bostonglobe.com

The image of David Pastrnak to behold has him firing that blistering one-timer from the weak side, initiated with a puck sent across the slot and the Bruins right winger exploding full force from a spot near the left-wing faceoff dot.

It’s “Pasta” in full, reminiscent of those mighty swings Reggie Jackson took in his “Mr. October” prime, when he taunted pitchers to bring the heat, then ferociously tore into their offerings. He then would pause the extra two seconds to watch the ball sail out of the yard, drop lumber, and charge around the bases with that fullback-like home run trot.

Pastrnak, 28, won’t ever be Jackson’s equal as a showman (join me here in a thankful amen). Over recent years, though, he not only has placed a copyright on that one-timer, but simultaneously evolved as the game’s No. 1 goal scorer.

When the league entered its 4 Nations Face-Off, no one had scored more than Pastrnak’s 136 goals since the start of the 2022-23 season. Leon Draisaitl (133) or Auston Matthews (129), or the great Connor McDavid (118) or even the soon-to-be greatest of ‘em all Alex Ovechkin(99). Only Pastrnak — a feat to be appreciated all the more when considering his last 75 goals have come on a team searching for a bona fide No. 1 center to get him the puck the past two seasons.

Now with a team-best 28-40—68 line through 57 games (projection 40-58—98) this season, Pastrnak is in position again to reach 100 points (following marks of 113 and 110). If so, he’ll become only the third Bruin to string together three 100-point campaigns, a mark equalled and surpassed here only by Causeway legends Bobby Orr (six straight) and Phil Esposito (five).

Though not a numbers guy, and still considering himself more a playmaker than a goal scorer, getting to 100 again would be important to him, Pastrnak said on the eve of the 4 Nations Face-Off hiatus.

“Yeah, you know, the kind of player I am … that’s my standard,” he said during a quiet moment at the club’s Brighton/Warrior practice facility. “I set my standards high, right? So I definitely would be a little bit disappointed [not to do it] — because that would mean I didn’t do a good enough job for the team. That’s the way I look at it. It’s not so much that I worry about [the number itself], where I end up. But I know if I get there, I did my part offensively.”

Pastrnak, now with 376 career goals, has put a puck in the net at a rate of slightly better than one every other game (.514 per game) since pulling on Black and Gold. The club’s all-time leading goal scorer, Johnny Bucyk (545 goals), delivered at a .361 over his illustrious career of 20-plus seasons. In his goal-scoring prime as a member of the prolific Bruins’ squads of the early 1970s, Chief for three seasons knocked goals home at only a slightly better rate (.526) than Pastrnak has produced over his 731 career games.

All of which is to say, with Pastrnak now ranked seventh all time in Boston goal scoring, he has a solid shot at eclipsing Bucyk atop Mount Vulcan. In fact, if he can maintain that .514 goals-per-game clip, he would hit goal No. 546 only 331 games from now (good seats still available for late in the 2028-29 season).

Pastrnak today is some 30 pounds heavier, and significant degrees stronger, than when the Bruins selected him 25th in the 2014 draft. He had celebrated his 18th birthday only a month earlier and he was, by NHL standards, a featherweight 167 pounds.

“I had to get stronger,” said Pastrnak, thinking back to his pre-NHL days, playing in Czechia and later in Sweden. “In Czech and Sweden, compared to USA, we start lifting in the gym way later than kids do here. So I think that’s why I wasn’t strong when I got here — I didn’t start lifting weights until I was 16, maybe 17. Only had a couple of years in me. That first year, I got pushed around. Then I was maybe 180 the next year. With age and experience you become stronger, and the muscles are heavier …I love where I am now, 195-200 … I am strong enough.”

“Pasta is a one-on-one machine, with his moves, his speed and that one-timer,” said Cassidy, who directed Vegas to the Cup in ‘23. “Marchy is one-on-one, too, but if you truly watch him, he is into you when he makes those one-on-one plays. He has that whack-the-stick move, gets into your body and kicks the puck, and his low center of gravity helps him. He beats you by coming into you, whereas Pasta beats you with his lateral ability, quick hands and shot. But they are both one-on-one guys who want to beat you. Not all are like that ... some are just shooters.”

The evolution of Pastrnak’s thundering one-timer, in part, is what led Cassidy to move Pastrnak to the No. 1 power-play unit not long after he took over the bench from Julien in the spring of 2017.

“His one-timer’s evolved so much,” said an admiring Cassidy. “And he got stronger. He’s not the same [now] as he walked through the door as a 20-year-old, [different than] some of the guys I’ve coached. He’s put a lot of work into that.”

Written to the richest deal in Bruins history (eight years/$92 million), Pastrnak is in year No. 2 making an average $11.25 million per season. He’s paid to score, which he’s doing at a rate that could make him the best we’ve ever seen in the Hub of Hockey.

If Pasta stays healthy he will pass Bucyk no doubt for # 1 here all time.This was a good read ,ty.

 

[PlayMakers]

He deserves Hart Trophy consideration.