That lineup's got the beef!Looks about right
That lineup's got the beef!Looks about right
One of these things doesn't look like the other......Any trade between now and the fall is solid enough if it's for the top six.
Otherwise, I'd bet 99% of us could picture them going with this lineup and then trading for a winger at the deadline if the kids choke:
Zacha - Lindholm - Pastrnak
Marchand - Coyle - (POITRAS/MERKULOV/LYSELL)
Frederic - Geekie - (POITRAS/MERKULOV/LYSELL)
Jones - Beecher - Brazeau - Kastelic - Brown
Lindholm - McAvoy
Lohrei - Carlo
Zadorov - Peeke
Wotherspoon
Swayman
Korpisalo
Why Dangle Beecher? Young Center, plays defense. fastest skater on the team. Played well as a rookie, and has growth potential. Sure if someone offers a great asset you have to consider it, but no need to deal him
Good readYup Bruins better and tougher
1. got best center who will get Pasta better, cover his creative mistakes, win FO, play last minutes of games with leads and actually get puck out of zone
2. Picked up one of the games toughest players who has offensive element- and will knock the crap out of his former Calgary buddies on Florida who will start crease crap
Good luck to Max Domi trying jujitsu moves on Charlie McAvoy
3. Opened up opportunities for Lysell & Merk - added responsibility for Poitras
Great day
300 days to playoffs - Donny we need the lineup round 1 v Leafs by Thursday 4h
Marchand had 67 pts we definitely can't be counting on him to carry big load anymore.Cautiously optimistic. Lindholm definitely needs to improve his stats. I am sure he will, but until then, that's a question needing to be answered. His faceoff and defense is definitely an improvement.
Defense I am way more confident in. With Z and the emergence of Lohrei I think we have a very well rounded back end.
Got Sway (we know contract will get done) so we are good there.
Question will definitely be goals 5 on 5. I dont think anything they did really addressed it. It still will be score by committee and hoping we get a rookie to surprise. Also Marchand is another year older, and we cant always expect him to be on top of his game. Age always catches up, especially if you have hard miles on ya like Marchand.
So forward group is going to be question mark this season. I mean everything they did last year worked, so hopefully it does this year too.
Did Tomas NOSEK go to the Panthers? After what Tkachuk said about his wife? OMGJust because this crossed my feed...
Potential Bruins 4th Line in 3 months
Jones - Beecher - Kastelic
Avg 24 years old ; 6'3" ; 218lbs
Excited also. Even more excited for the 81 games after that to pass so we can be back in the mix and take care of business in the playoffs. Seems so long. 1 game at a time, I know…I am excited. 99 days to game one.
Is he comparable to Zadorov? I expect Toronto would be beefing up too. It's starting to be an arms race (war). The Bruins are BIG, mean, and ready for thatLeafs sign Haakenpa, he is a big tough D.
Thank you for this Louposted in the wrong thread lol
I am not even going to worry about term or money
Don & Cam,
Thank you for today. Thank you for not caring about anything but restoring my beloved franchise to a rough and tumble team. This week, Kastelic, Zadorov and Max Jones. Out were Boqvist, Gryz and Heinen. Could you two be any more emphatic about what you're trying to do here? My pride is bubbling over again, thank you both for seeing what the fans want. If that wasn't good enough you doubled down and added borderline dirt bags in Tufte, Sweezy and Viel to Providence and just a phone call away to send a message if need be. You are making regular season hockey fun again, and I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.
Your biggest fan, LouJersey
Viel
So where are we at? 1C and stiffening up our D? Check. A little more forward depth? Tick. All good.
Issues:
- a key player short, as usual. Need another top 6 winger. But can potentially deal with that at the deadline.
- I look at that D group and still see potential issues with getting the puck out of our own end and playing in transition. That's a concern.
- roster looks slow. That's the biggest problem for me, and the one that could ultimately be fatal to any Cup chances as it's not easily fixed. I think you need proper speed to seriously compete in the modern league, and the Bruins don't have it.
Overall reasonably happy. Think this will turn out to be another solid team. Whether it's more than that I'm very unsure about, but as always we'll see what happens.
Let's goooooooooooooooooooooooooooThank you for this Lou
I got emotional just reading this
Feels good to be able to wear my O’Reilly jersey grocery shopping again
Feels like 2013 againAny trade between now and the fall is solid enough if it's for the top six.
Otherwise, I'd bet 99% of us could picture them going with this lineup and then trading for a winger at the deadline if the kids choke:
Zacha - Lindholm - Pastrnak
Marchand - Coyle - (POITRAS/MERKULOV/LYSELL)
Frederic - Geekie - (POITRAS/MERKULOV/LYSELL)
Jones - Beecher - Brazeau - Kastelic - Brown
Lindholm - McAvoy
Lohrei - Carlo
Zadorov - Peeke
Wotherspoon
Swayman
Korpisalo
I will say, some of the new 4th liners actually do have some speed.
For instance, one of these players is Max Jones and the other one is Jespar Boqvist. Guess which one is which?
top speed: 22.96 ( 84th percentile )
speed bursts over 20 MPH: 132 ( 81st percentile )
top speed: 22.37 ( 55th percentile )
speed bursts over 20 MPH: 95 ( 66th percentile )
Built for playoff hockey. I don't hate it.Any trade between now and the fall is solid enough if it's for the top six.
Otherwise, I'd bet 99% of us could picture them going with this lineup and then trading for a winger at the deadline if the kids choke:
Zacha - Lindholm - Pastrnak
Marchand - Coyle - (POITRAS/MERKULOV/LYSELL)
Frederic - Geekie - (POITRAS/MERKULOV/LYSELL)
Jones - Beecher - Brazeau - Kastelic - Brown
Lindholm - McAvoy
Lohrei - Carlo
Zadorov - Peeke
Wotherspoon
Swayman
Korpisalo
Given the framing of the question, I'm going to guess that Jones is the quicker guy. Well that's something. But it's going to take more than that.
had extra tin foil from covering seafood so taped to my knuckles in honor of the Viel signingLet's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooo