I said this before but I see many here scapegoating Freddy, Coyle, Geekie etc.. but in reality this team needs more production from its stars ( Pasta, Marchand, Lindholm, Mac , Sway) .
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Absolutely. And they need to live thru his warts as a PP QB because Mac is not the answer there.
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Most of the time we play like this we win
Nyi, Pit, habs, Det, Chi, Philly next 6 games, now or never
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Totally agree. They out shot and out chanced Vancouver by a large margin. 13-1 High danger scoring chances. They are shooting 1.6% 5 on 5 under Sacco. Even the historically worst teams of all time are better than that. They have an entire roster that has been cold at the exact same time. The positives are the PK, goaltending, defense look significantly better.
The PP still needs to be fixed because I don't believe that is bad luck - I think its poor coaching, strategy and execution.
You could switch those guys jerseys and you wouldn't know which is which.
players who was on priority list of 99,9999% of humanity in 2015 draft are 14th 17th and 28th places in nhl scoring and that not include barzal and chabot…
They sure do but I've got to think Mac will pull out of his funk. At least I hope so.
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Agreed. I think we're watching the bottom fall out from under Marchand. He's just not the guy anymore. The earlier rumours of them working on a three year deal with him scares the f out of me because as great as he's been as a Bruin he won't be good for three more seasons.
Ugh. Oow.
Well, they kept up the relatively better defensive play, and had enough scoring chances, but they regressed back to sloppy passing. Never seen a group of players forget en masse how to make a tape-to-tape(ish) pass. Completely stymies the flow.
Swayman was good, at least. I thought he was solid. Unfortunately the Van goalie was better.
What does it say when our two best zone-entry puck carriers are D-men? McAvoy and Lohrei.
Well, they kept up the relatively better defensive play, and had enough scoring chances, but they regressed back to sloppy passing. Never seen a group of players forget en masse how to make a tape-to-tape(ish) pass. Completely stymies the flow.
Swayman was good, at least. I thought he was solid. Unfortunately the Van goalie was better.
What does it say when our two best zone-entry puck carriers are D-men? McAvoy and Lohrei.
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They only have one guy that can shoot left on the team. Last year they had 3 in Pasta, Debrusk and Marchand. One left, one had multiple surgeries and doesn't have the quick reflex anymore to get his shot off. All these other guys are not goal scorers.
When you are calling up Patrick brown, McLaughlin and Viel as your sparks, your roster is in trouble. Their one prospect that's supposed to be a scorer can't crack the show. They are toast. This is gonna hurt.
Last year was supposed to be the reset year after they dumped so much talent and signed a bunch of 1 year deals as trade deadline fodder. Unfortunately, they were in first place all year until the end.
Still, better to play a tight defensive game then get blown out every other night.
Sweeney has three options at this point, only two are realistic.
He can buy and spend and try to instill some life and scoring into the team right now. Get aggressive and mortgage more future.
Or can get aggressive and sell everything he can for picks, prospects and shitty contracts. Keep pasta and away and move anything else that will sell.
Or, let whatever happens this year happen. Add where they can, and slowly build this thing back up over the next 3-5 years.
When you are calling up Patrick brown, McLaughlin and Viel as your sparks, your roster is in trouble. Their one prospect that's supposed to be a scorer can't crack the show. They are toast. This is gonna hurt.
Last year was supposed to be the reset year after they dumped so much talent and signed a bunch of 1 year deals as trade deadline fodder. Unfortunately, they were in first place all year until the end.
Still, better to play a tight defensive game then get blown out every other night.
Sweeney has three options at this point, only two are realistic.
He can buy and spend and try to instill some life and scoring into the team right now. Get aggressive and mortgage more future.
Or can get aggressive and sell everything he can for picks, prospects and shitty contracts. Keep pasta and away and move anything else that will sell.
Or, let whatever happens this year happen. Add where they can, and slowly build this thing back up over the next 3-5 years.
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Based on this thread, I'll consider myself grateful that I missed this one on the schedule and didn't watch it.
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The only thing that will motivate him is if he sees one of his country club buddies like Coyle or Carlo sent packing for Calgary.
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Flames Don't want them. They are way ahead of Bruins in retooling for future with some really good young players getting mins.Miramanov is playing very well so wanting Carlo does not make sense e for them + Anderson a right shot with Weeger & Zary Kadri Huberdeau Backlund all have centre position covered.
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It hasn't happened overnight though, we could see signs of it all of last year. Still an effective player, but can't drive the line all by himself.
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I think Marchand has been better as of late.
I'd like to see Blake Coleman on the Bruins, but that's probably not happening.
I'd like to see Blake Coleman on the Bruins, but that's probably not happening.
No it isn't "the right choice" but the Devil demands his due. Jacobs needs to be able to swallow a year or 2 of no playoff gate for a retool or a partial rebuild.
Trade off assets that aren't exactly what they need going forward and take back picks and prospects. Rebuild from the bottom up.
It doesn't necessarily mean a tear down just a reassessment of what they have vs what they need and a plan to bridge the two.
It will be painful but if the plan is an obvious one I think Bruins fans can live with the pain of a re-tool/mini rebuild vs miring in mediocrity for the next several years (which is way more painful IMO).
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Well if they’re going to suck I hope they really suck. Porter Martone would look good in a Bruins uniform
Pasta injury is really hurting them he needs to have the surgery done now and get back within 8 to 10 weeks. Try to stay in the playoff race until then this is foolish that they are holding off I can't the surgery done ASAP he's going to need to do it in the off season anyway don't want it lingering into the start of next year
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Only if they can start putting the puck in the net.
Defense can be a winning strategy, but only if you have a killer PP or SOME scoring talent. If not you lose lots of close games just like this Vancouver one.
This isn't really a new problem. It's never been this bad but over the last few years we've had numerous stretches of low and poor goal scoring. Sometimes PP saved us and often we got a Pasta goal or two that made us overlook the lack of offense from the rest of the team. We won't succeed without more players scoring and I have no idea how to make that happen with this roster,
We also have to accept that Marchand is no longer a top threat goal scorer and thus we only have Pasta. Somebody needs to step into that spot. None of the kids have stepped up and with DeBrusk's occasional offense gone as well, we really don't have much if Pasta gets shut down or slumps.
