Team is constructed to hit teams all game. If they don’t they have zero speed to play with teams. Looks like to me they have not bought into the in your face team like Florida.
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Do they have the team speed to swarm like Florida does, though? Legit question.
Good question i dont think florida good but i see no willingness to even hit when they can.
Bruinfanatic
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Florida might be an in your face team but they also have a lot more firepower than the Bruins.
This is really the problem overall. Whatever style they can do, they still can't score goals often enough. No style will really work with that unless we go full 90s Devils, but even then . . .
LouJersey
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The issue with Florida is Pasta would be their only top 6 guy. They are all locked in forever as well so if age doesn't catch up to them they will always be the Bruins daddy. Their entire defense is also under 20 mil.
BruinDust
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Also much faster up front. You need speed to go with the heaviness and tenacity to play that uber-forechecking game that Florida employs. Just being big isn't enough.
And last year's loss to Florida had more to do with the Bruin inability to finish and inability to gain the in the offensive zone than it did anything else.
Bruin4
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Marchand?
Id take Marchand over Verhaeghe, Rodriguez and although I'd love Bennet as a Bruin, Id much rather have Marchand.
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If I'm Marchand, I would be livid that this is the team they built around me for the last few seasons of my career.
Love him and he deserves better than this shit show.
Love him and he deserves better than this shit show.
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Bruin4
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Really like Lundell and Verhaege but if Marchands on that team they slide down, for me anyways.
I think he will never come close to 80 points again. Hurt or 100% he is not worth almost 8 mil. The point I am making is that DS screwed up again and blew all the Cap space so now we are actually a bottom feeder team.
You cannot use bandaids to fix up this mess. DS has been around hockey for many years and still screws up all the time.
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Watched the first period last night, and continued this afternoon. Skipped the rest once we hit 3-1. Which looked like a high stick to me, but this team sucks
Bruin4
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Too funny the Kraken video guy reported down that it was high and the goal was going to be overturned, so Dunn was surprised when they said good goal.
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The NHL, the stupidest League ever.
Like Winnipeg...the Panthers have 3 legit centermen who could be on any other teams first lines. That's where it starts.
We have none.
Yeah maybe, but why? What would it achieve? A one -and-done, two at absolute best, and then what? Much rather miss completely and force management to accept that deeper change is needed.
Dennis Bonvie
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It was bad enough that I was annoyed they didn’t waive it off in real time. To look at a replay and still hold onto the call as a goal was a surprise to say the least.
In the end it doesn’t matter. It certainly changed the complexion of the game, but this Bruins team is a farce anyway. If they deserved to win more of these games I would be more upset about getting hosed, but they certainly don’t deserve any better
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They do lead the league in hits right now. Part of that is roster construction, part of that is they simply don't have the puck very much.
Dennis Bonvie
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Not sure what change is needed. Nor how missing the playoffs will help answer that question.
I'm assuming they will have a new full time coach next season. A new system to go with it. But that's no guarantee to work. I'm certainly not up for a complete, 5-year plan rebuild that could turn into a 10-year drought.
I think they will realize that regardless.
There were a cintendercwith the likes of Rask, Bergeron, Chara, Krejci, Debrusk, ....all five gone and none replaced by anyone significant.
Of all negatives exposed on the team now......the biggest hit and maybe eye opening is that McAvoy has been garbage since getting owned by the Panthers round one 2023.
I know Monty, Swayman, Pasta, Carlo Gryzlek, Coyle, Lindholm get a lot of bashing ........McAvoy should top that list.
Remember the "Top 10 Dman" "Future Norris etc"
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Didn't anybody else notice how the NESN feed of the game abruptly cut out around 2 minutes into the third period, to be replaced by action back in the second period, including the McAvoy turnover, and then continued from that point on presumably back through the rest of the second period and onto the third (I cut out at that point once it looked like they weren't going to fix it)? It's as if somebody in the studio substituted the "Bruins in Two" feed for the live action.
