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NHL Draft lottery race - Bruins currently have 4th Pick

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Bruins win
wasn’t all that bad

Buffalo won
Kraken won
Penguins won

As for game
Swayman fantastic
Geekie passing unreal
Pastrnak one of greatest games ever seen a player have

Flyers lost but same record as Bruins and Philly coach ain’t going to tank

4OA can happen

We lose in regulation today likely we are back at 4
 
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Babajingo said:
Hopefully its just a battle for 4, 5 & 6 place. Buffalo is close but they have 2 games in hand.

I feel like an Oilers fan in the early teens. Doing a draft pick watch.
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6th place is more likely to draft 7 then 5 or 6. 6th place is not a good place to end up in this draft. I do like Eklund but he is a tier lower and after him it feels like two more tiers to McQueen, Bear, O’Brien and Mrtka.
 
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HustleB said:
6th place is more likely to draft 7 then 5 or 6. 6th place is not a good place to end up in this draft. I do like Eklund but he is a tier lower and after him it feels like two more tiers to McQueen, Bear, O’Brien and Mrtka.
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This board criminally underrates Victor Eklund everyday. I think he’s going to be a very dynamic winger in this league.

I’ve seen many rankings where he’s a top 4 player in this draft. Watching Frondell some, you almost notice Eklund more..
 
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BB88 said:
Yep.

Just their drafting alone needs to get them fired, you can’t build a vision for rebuild/retool when you can’t draft offense to save your job

From 2015 they’ve had nothing but misses on forwards and the next 2 drafts are going to be the most important for the rebuild



Because they have one of the worst prospect pools in the league and you need to rebuild that..

In Florida example they need to draft their own Barkov& Tkachuk, they can’t afford to trade for those guys so they have to draft them

Trade for Reinhart/Bennett caliber player isn’t good enough to turn them around into contenders but they would take them away from where you can draft your Tkachuk/Barkov the most likeliest

So that’s why, they have a bottom 5 prospect pool+ roster filled with major holes

You try to draft your Tkachuk+ Barkov in the next 18 months and then you try to find yout Bennett/Reinhart with the extra assets you’ve acquired

So in short, you 1st build the base strong enough and then add on it. Not the other way around. With how this season has gone they’ve been given the chance to do so. Don’t ignore it and decide to ”retool on the fly”
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All I can say, is that they are in charge and they better get it right.
 
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BB88 said:
Yep.

Just their drafting alone needs to get them fired, you can’t build a vision for rebuild/retool when you can’t draft offense to save your job

From 2015 they’ve had nothing but misses on forwards and the next 2 drafts are going to be the most important for the rebuild



Because they have one of the worst prospect pools in the league and you need to rebuild that..

In Florida example they need to draft their own Barkov& Tkachuk, they can’t afford to trade for those guys so they have to draft them

Trade for Reinhart/Bennett caliber player isn’t good enough to turn them around into contenders but they would take them away from where you can draft your Tkachuk/Barkov the most likeliest

So that’s why, they have a bottom 5 prospect pool+ roster filled with major holes

You try to draft your Tkachuk+ Barkov in the next 18 months and then you try to find yout Bennett/Reinhart with the extra assets you’ve acquired

So in short, you 1st build the base strong enough and then add on it. Not the other way around. With how this season has gone they’ve been given the chance to do so. Don’t ignore it and decide to ”retool on the fly”
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Correct me if I am wrong here, but Florida traded to get Tkachuk in the 1st place.
 
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Time to sit as many starters as possible, make sure we don't win any more games lol. The better chance to jump into top 3 the better!
 
bigbadbruins1 said:
Time to sit as many starters as possible, make sure we don't win any more games lol. The better chance to jump into top 3 the better!
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Top 3 isn't going to happen unless they win the lottery. I really like the pride and compete level this team is showing, so I'd like to see all the lesser teams just win out, all but one of their games with the exception of Philly, they can win them all.
 
Oates2Neely said:
You’re completely ignoring my points, and Florida didn’t draft Tkachuk they traded for him.

The bruins can keep their 2026 & 2027 1st and still potentially have as trade assets:

Toronto 2026 1st
Florida conditional 2027 2nd/ 1st
(5) 2nd round picks 2025-27
Minten
Zellers
Mittlestat
Lysell
Poitras
Lohrei
Merkulov
Khusnutdinov

Show me how Florida (or Vegas) used more than the above to acquire Reinhart Verhaege Bennett (3 of their top scorers).

Bruins have a star in his prime in Pastrnak. I’d rather have McAvoy than Ekblad.

Sam Reinhart (center) 94 points last season (57 goals)

Carter Verhaege (wing) 72 points last season

Sam Bennett (center) 50 point checking center

All three of the above were acquired for less than the Boston assets I listed above. If the Bruins were to add a #1 center who could score 57 goals/ 94 points (Reinhart), a 72 point LW (Verhaege) & a 50 point 3rd line checking center (Bennett) this offseason for a few of the above listed assets, and still keeping their own 2026 & 2027 1sts, would you object?? Would it not improve the team?

Geekie Reinhart Pastrnak
Verhaege Zacha Lindholm
Marchand Bennett Poitras

Don’t tell me hockey trades CANNOT be made. Maybe the team needs a GM who can make them.
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Rheinhart is a wing on Florida. Barkov, Bennett & Lundell are their top 3C.
 
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McBrom7 said:
This board criminally underrates Victor Eklund everyday. I think he’s going to be a very dynamic winger in this league.

I’ve seen many rankings where he’s a top 4 player in this draft. Watching Frondell some, you almost notice Eklund more..
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Really?

Also, I should know this, but are there any decent to very good to even sure thing center draftees?
 
bigbadbruins1 said:
Time to sit as many starters as possible, make sure we don't win any more games lol. The better chance to jump into top 3 the better!
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That will not happen. This is the kind of stuff that pisses me off. Suggesting they intentionally tank is just garbage.
 
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GordonHowe said:
Really?

Also, I should know this, but are there any decent to very good to even sure thing center draftees?
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Depends what you mean by "sure thing" I guess.. If you mean franchise cornerstone I think maybe Hagens and Misa is that whole list in this draft. Hagens is more a maybe though.. Small player but very creative. Jack Hughes type.

The rest of the top 12 OV can get there if developed properly, in my opinion.

If you mean relative to their projection (NHL Player).. I think you're looking at a decent top 20 OV and then it's just dart throws.
 
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Oates2Neely said:
You’re completely ignoring my points, and Florida didn’t draft Tkachuk they traded for him.

The bruins can keep their 2026 & 2027 1st and still potentially have as trade assets:

Toronto 2026 1st
Florida conditional 2027 2nd/ 1st
(5) 2nd round picks 2025-27
Minten
Zellers
Mittlestat
Lysell
Poitras
Lohrei
Merkulov
Khusnutdinov

Show me how Florida (or Vegas) used more than the above to acquire Reinhart Verhaege Bennett (3 of their top scorers).

Bruins have a star in his prime in Pastrnak. I’d rather have McAvoy than Ekblad.

Sam Reinhart (center) 94 points last season (57 goals)

Carter Verhaege (wing) 72 points last season

Sam Bennett (center) 50 point checking center

All three of the above were acquired for less than the Boston assets I listed above. If the Bruins were to add a #1 center who could score 57 goals/ 94 points (Reinhart), a 72 point LW (Verhaege) & a 50 point 3rd line checking center (Bennett) this offseason for a few of the above listed assets, and still keeping their own 2026 & 2027 1sts, would you object?? Would it not improve the team?

Geekie Reinhart Pastrnak
Verhaege Zacha Lindholm
Marchand Bennett Poitras

Don’t tell me hockey trades CANNOT be made. Maybe the team needs a GM who can make them.
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I almost didn’t bother to reply and leave on read

Nowhere, nowhere& nowhere did I say trades can’t be made. I said Boston isn’t in a place to make trades like that right now..

When Florida made those trades they had Barkov 1C, Forsling 1D, Ekblad 2D, Bob 1G in the building

When Boston did the retool on fly in 2015 they had Bergeron, Krejci, Marchand, Pasta, Chara, Rask in the building

Right now they have one of the worst prospect pools in the league, they have ZERO level A prospects, they aren’t in a place to start trading their best futures for non franchise players. You need to rebuild that prospect pool, you need to add 2-3 level A prospects. If you add a non franchise level forward into the group you set them up as a WC team, not good enough to compete, not bad enough to address the prospect pool

You realize Reinhart isn’t and has never been a C in the NHL? Florida didn’t trade for a 50 goal 1C, they traded for a good but not elite winger with room to develop and even a similar trade would take the best prospect Boston has+ a 1st round pick

So yeah you can trade assets, you can add players but Boston right now isn’t in a place to go for the win now moves. What Florida did, what Tampa had been doing. They had their major core players already in the building and then went for those trades. You want to skip that part and go straight to the win now moves, they are fighting for the last place in the East for crying out loud.. & yeah let’s skip fixing the prospect pool and go for the win now moves!!

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Again you now draft the missing top talents into the prospect pool and then you go for the win now moves, you can’t do it the other way around
 
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KillerMillerTime said:
The tanking absolutely sucks and to be honest rather see the NHL do a Draft PO, lol.
Season ends and each Conference non PO Teams do an NCAA style Tourney and
Champion gets #1 pick and other finalist #2. Sure as hell will stop tanking lickety split and give teams fans something to watch and be invested for...lol. Never happen for multitude of reasons but a man can dream.
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I don't see the NHL as having a tanking problem, unless you are upset a team like Boston traded away form UFA at the deadline. This is nothing like the NBA I don't see teams shutting down marginally injured player who would normally be playing for the season with 6-10 weeks to go in the season. I don't see teams sitting out key healthy players for rest days. I dont see teams benching their best players in the 3rd period of close games.

I don't think the Bruins are tanking. they are missing their top 2 defensemen with very legitimate injuries. They are still playing their #1 goalie most nights. they have not called up a bunch of overmatched kids to play. They are still riding Pasta heavily every night.

And look around the league. The Sharks and blackhawks are awful Beyond them you see all of the other "tank" teams playing hard and playing their best players on a nightly basis. The fans may be rooting for th tank, but the players on the ice are playing hard out there
 
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McBrom7 said:
Depends what you mean by "sure thing" I guess.. If you mean franchise cornerstone I think maybe Hagens and Misa is that whole list in this draft. Hagens is more a maybe though.. Small player but very creative. Jack Hughes type.

The rest of the top 12 OV can get there if developed properly, in my opinion.

If you mean relative to their projection (NHL Player).. I think you're looking at a decent top 20 OV and then it's just dart throws.
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Thank you.

Miss seems to be the consensus top center available.

I'm not certain either he or Hagens will still be there when the bruins pick. I guess they have fallen down to number six after yesterday's win.

True?

Other scenarios? How's that for a broad question?
 
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