Post-Game Talk: GAME 15 - Marchand wins it in OT - BRUINS 4 Calgary 3 F/OT

Aussie Bruin

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Bruins scoring 4 goals was great, but how they scored was even better.

Someone actually made a play to someone else who finished it. Pasta set up H Lidholm, Pasta setup Zacha, Coyle setup Koepke, E Lindholm setup Marchand. No broken plays, lucky bounces off someone else's butt. Good passes, on the tape, handled and deposited.

Still, goalie gives up a bad goal 20 seconds after they take a lead. Can't score on the power play. Captain takes a bad penalty; PK can't kill it. Blew 2 goal lead in third period.

Frederic moved to the 4th line, ends up -2. Koepke a +1 playing with Coyle line. May be time for Freddy to have a seat upstairs. Seems to drag down every line he plays on.

Some of Frederic's underlying numbers aren't horrible - 4th amongst Bruins forwards for corsi, 3rd in SCF%, 7th HDCF%. His lines are getting a fair amount of possession and shot attempts. But they start to go really south around actual goal-scoring - he's 8th in SF%, 11th in xGF%, 11th GF%. The Bruins' shot percentage when he's on the ice is a miserable 3.9% (interestingly it's even worse for Marchand) and their SV% is the worst at a lowly .878 when Freddy's around.

It feels like his general play is ok but his lines aren't generating enough of a serious scoring threat and they're giving up too many good chances the other way. That poor on ice SV% is making him look even worse but it's difficult to say how much that's just bad luck on his part. Overall not miles away, but not good enough either. Not impactful enough. A spell upstairs could well be earned and might do him good. Try that, see how he responds, and if it's still not going very well then he definitely becomes a trade option.
 
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22Brad Park

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One guy certainly is tired of all the line switching
 

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