Post-Game Talk: GAME 31 - Sleeping in Seattle - Kraken 5 BRUINS 1

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SEATTLE — The long-and-winding road delivered the Bruins to another dead end Thursday night at Climate Pledge Arena.

Paced by a pair of Oliver Bjorkstrand goals, and the steady work of Philipp Grubauer (33 saves) in net, the Kraken dismissed the Bruins, 5-1, leaving the Black-Gold 0-for-2 on their five-game road trip.
That’s 0-for-2 with only two goals scored.

The Bruins will be in Vancouver Saturday night for stop No. 3 on their five-game Western swing.
The Kraken took an early 2-0 lead, Bjorkstrand connecting on a power-play goal only 24 seconds into play, followed by Jaden Schwartz at even strength.


With only 5:14 off the clock, the Bruins were faced with a two-goal uphill climb that they couldn’t erase.
After scoring only once in the road trip opener Tuesday night (an 8-1 shellacking in Winnipeg) the Bruins scored the lone goal in the second period when Brad Marchand scored on a penalty shot at the 10:28 mark.

Marchand was awarded the free chance when Brandon Montour, the one-time UMass-Amherst backliner, was charged with covering the puck in the crease as Marchand attempted to jam the puck over the goal line at the left post.

On his freebie, Marchand barreled in alone, faked a forehand shot in the low slot, and then slid a sleight-of-hand backhander through goalie Grubaeur’s five-hole. It was Marchand’s seventh career penalty-shot goal, tying him with Pavel Bure, the Russian Rocket, for the league’s all-time lead. The L’il Ball o’Hate previously was tied at No. 2 with Mario Lemieux.

The Kraken, currently out of the playoff mix in the West, put it out of reach in the third on goals by Vince Dunn and Bjorkstrand’s second of the night, boosting the lead to 4-1. Jared McCann closed out the scoring with an empty-netter with 1:54 to go.

Joonas Korpisalo made 16 saves on 20 shots in the Bruins' net.
The Bruins lost the services of Elias Lindholm midway through the second period. The underperforming center (31 games: 3-10–13) who signed a $54.25 million deal in July as an unrestricted free agent, sustained an upper-body injury.

If Lindholm can’t suit up Saturday night against the Canucks, the Bruins on Friday might consider calling up Matty Poitras from AHL Providence. Assigned to there a month ago, Poitras has wielded a hot stick the last two weeks, and the Bruins now are desperate for offensive pop.

The Bruins, who began the trip after winning a season-high four straight games, now stand 7-4-0 since Joe Sacco took over as interim coach upon the dismissal of Jim Montgomery.

The loss left the Bruins with a 6-7-1 record on the road this season.

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[lopey]

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.

 

[Dr Hook]

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.

Do they have the team speed to swarm like Florida does, though? Legit question.

 

[lopey]

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]

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.

Florida might be an in your face team but they also have a lot more firepower than the Bruins.

 

[Dr Hook]

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]

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]

Florida might be an in your face team but they also have a lot more firepower than the Bruins.

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.

 

[TCB]

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.

Marchand?
Id take Marchand over Verhaeghe, Rodriguez and although I'd love Bennet as a Bruin, Id much rather have Marchand.

 

[LouJersey]

Marchand?
Id take Marchand over Verhaeghe, Rodriguez and although I'd love Bennet as a Bruin, Id much rather have Marchand.

Tkachuk-Barkov-Pasta
Verhaege-Lundell-Reinhart

No Marchand.

 

[I Hate Philadelphia]

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.

 

[bigbadbruins1]

so glad I didn't stay up to watch this.

Wonder what player(s) Sweeney will trade away before he gets fired

 

[TCB]

Tkachuk-Barkov-Pasta
Verhaege-Lundell-Reinhart

No Marchand.

Really like Lundell and Verhaege but if Marchands on that team they slide down, for me anyways.

 

[analyser]

That's not the point I am making here, though. Leave the contract aside. Has he been playing hurt? Because whatever you think his true level is (44 or 80) he is better than the 30 point pace he is currently on.

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.

 

[TD Charlie]

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

 

[TCB]

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

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.

 

[nORRis8]

Do they have the team speed to swarm like Florida does, though? Legit question.

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.

 

[Aussie Bruin]

Islanders and Caps sucked ass last season and made it. Preds had one hot streak mid season and it put them in.
3 or 4 lousey teams get in every year......mostly on the backs of all the tankers , rebuilders and just brutal rosters.
Bruins are not scaring anyone this year. Media and fans have been calling for this drop off every summer for years. It's finally here. But can they be win a wild card spot. Sure they can.

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]

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.

Why would you think that?

 

[TD Charlie]

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.

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

 

[BruinDust]

Why would you think that?

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]

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.

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.

 

[PaulD]

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.

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"

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

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.

So the first 15 years don't count for anything?

 

[whitetape]

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.

 

[BTO]

Brad"s goal was fun.... that's all I've got.

Lots of sad Bruins fans were there.

We are waiting to get on the train to Vancouver. Not holding out much hope

Focus on the scenery. Enjoy that.