Post-Game Talk: GAME 44 - Tampa 4 BRUINS 1

[mar2kbos]

Bruins notebook: With losses piling up, team at a crossroads

The Bruins are not a real contender. That brings upper management to some hard decisions

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Just like when he took over the Bruins a decade ago, GM Don Sweeney and his team are at a crossroads.

The B’s have not experienced seas this rough since 2015, the last time they suffered a six-game losing streak. This current one is in grave danger of stretching to seven on Saturday when they face the defending Stanley Cup champions in Florida. Call up the NHL standings and they’ll show you the Bruins are in the playoff bracket, but not really, not when you factor in points percentage and games in hand, which all the teams behind them have on the B’s.

The promise of a suffocating, defensively sound team that will win a bunch of 2-1 and 3-2 games has not been kept. They are 29th in goals per game (2.55), 21st in goals against per game (3.16), 31st in power play (12..2%) and 25th in penalty kill (75.9%).

It’s amazing with those putrid stats that they are even in a playoff position currently.

 

[DKH]

All satire aside, do you think there's no one in the hockey world that could do a better job? Maybe there isn't, but sooner or later we'll find out. The days of the Sinden type tenure are long past. 96-98 were ass, and they had some decent teams after that, but the early 2000s were not so hot either. I'd prefer not to revisit those times, but pro sports being so cyclical it's hard to imagine it won't happen- it might be happening now.

Me and Lou

 

[Olden McGroin]

 

[JerseyBruin]

They've gone back to a passive 1-4 forecheck most of the time. I think they wanted to go to a more aggressive forechecking scheme before Monty was canned, but it was a failure. They didn't have the horses up front to play that game. The 4th line did, because the 3 of them (Koepke/Kastelic/Beecher) are all strong skaters and good forecheckers.

The top 3 lines were just too slow as a group to play a fast heavy forechecking style like a Carolina or Florida.

Plus they're deadly afraid of giving up odd man rushes so they need to always keep that 3rd man high . Its pathetic to see a 3 on 1 or 3 on 2 get negated as the Bruins peel back in the offensive zone.

 

[KWbruin]

You sticking around through the rebuild

I worked as a Seer in Salem back in the days of Lori Cabot and Jake ‘Frankenstein’ Lowenstein.

I still got it -and I’m seeing 2031 next playoff spot

Been a lot of fun last 25 years here so 6 years isn’t bad

Well I've been a Bs fan for over 50 years so I don't think this particular chapter is going to drive me away. So yeah, I'll stick around. And I'll read your posts and enjoy most of the ones I understand.