BRUINS GDT GAME 57 3:45 PM - Vegas invades the Causeway Street Strip - WCVB (5), WMUR (9), ABC, SN, 98.5 WBZ-FM

[Olden McGroin]

 

[NeelyDan]

A few pregame words from NeelyDan

 

[Blowfish]

A must listen!

 

[HumBucker]

I get the whole rebuilding-retooling thing, where people are willing to miss the playoffs to achieve these things - sell to get younger pieces or higher draft picks. Problem is, by the time those picks develop - which is always a crap shoot to some degree - Pasta (28), McAvoy (27), etc will be entering their back 9 years - both would be over 30, and no one wants players over 30, right! God help us if either gets more banged up. We'd still be saddled with an underdeveloped roster. Or at best, the window for winning would be fairly narrow.

I'd rather bolster the roster now as best we can without selling the farm or emptying the prospect cupboard. If waiting 3-4 years gives us more developed versions of young players like Poitras and maybe Lysell, Merk, great, except they'd have zero NHL playoff experience.

I want Poitras to get as much playoff experience as possible. Same with Lohrei and some of the other D and some of the other forwards. I want Swayman to get MORE playoff experience. If we expect to win somewhere down the road, that will all be invaluable.

 

[22Brad Park]

This has been driving me crazy all season long. All of them have said the right things but then they've failed to follow through more often than not. I don't know what is causing this disconnect.

It's because they can't.Bad teams never follow through.The Bruins GM needs to start unloading the dead weight, one way or another.

 

[Blowfish]

Fight until there is nothing left to fight for is all I ask....then play spoiler if need be

Guelph will remember this beauty! Fight the good Fight!

 

[22Brad Park]

I get the whole rebuilding-retooling thing, where people are willing to miss the playoffs to achieve these things - sell to get younger pieces or higher draft picks. Problem is, by the time those picks develop - which is a crap shoot - Pasta (28), McAvoy (27), etc will be entering their back 9 years - both would be over 30, and no one wants players over 30, right! God help us if either gets more banged up. We'd still be saddled with an underdeveloped roster. Or at best, the window for winning would be fairly narrow.

I'd rather bolster the roster now as best we can without selling the farm or emptying the prospect cupboard. If waiting 3-4 years gives us more developed young players like Poitras and maybe Lysell, Merk, great, except they'd have zero NHL playoff experience.

I want Poitras to get as much playoff experience as possible. Same with Lohrei and some of the other D and some of the other forwards. I want Swayman to get MORE playoff experience. If we expect to win somewhere down the road, that will all be invaluable.

You mention prospect cupboard .I am not trying to be negative or rude but I just don't see nothing there.

 

[Boston Bandit]

 

[HumBucker]

Is Eichel playing today after being run over by Tkachuk last night?

 

[Boston Bandit]

 

[Blowfish]

Hope it's for Brazeau.

 

[BMC]

Two weeks w/o Bruins hockey????

 

[bruins19]

You mention prospect cupboard .I am not trying to be negative or rude but I just don't see nothing there.

Hence the downside of trading for picks.

 

[22Brad Park]

Hence the downside of trading for picks.

Maybe it's the people making picks here

 

[Olden McGroin]

 

[GahdenRinkRat]

Two weeks w/o Bruins hockey????

That’s it, I’m going to the beach (probably like most of the guys not in 4 Nations).

 

[bruins19]

I get the whole rebuilding-retooling thing, where people are willing to miss the playoffs to achieve these things - sell to get younger pieces or higher draft picks. Problem is, by the time those picks develop - which is always a crap shoot to some degree - Pasta (28), McAvoy (27), etc will be entering their back 9 years - both would be over 30, and no one wants players over 30, right! God help us if either gets more banged up. We'd still be saddled with an underdeveloped roster. Or at best, the window for winning would be fairly narrow.

I'd rather bolster the roster now as best we can without selling the farm or emptying the prospect cupboard. If waiting 3-4 years gives us more developed versions of young players like Poitras and maybe Lysell, Merk, great, except they'd have zero NHL playoff experience.

I want Poitras to get as much playoff experience as possible. Same with Lohrei and some of the other D and some of the other forwards. I want Swayman to get MORE playoff experience. If we expect to win somewhere down the road, that will all be invaluable.

Agreed. Presuming we can find a trading partner and are not holding out to make fantasy Xbox trades like Draisaitl for a bag of pucks, it makes sense to build the best team we can going into this playoff and run as long as we can. If nobody new is on deck, take your best shot with what you have. If you are trading for roster players, no UFAs — only players with term left on their contracts. We aren’t close enough to the prize to make a UFA deal worthwhile. Missing the playoffs in the hopes we get better doesn’t necessarily mean we get better. It just means we get a mid-range pick in a shallow draft, missed the playoffs, and had a season of 82 meaningless games. Who wants that?

 

[BlackFrancis]

David dressed in a modest windowpane suit and not something from Huggy Bear's wardrobe?

Ill omens, my friends.

 

[chizzler]

Agreed. Presuming we can find a trading partner and are not holding out to make fantasy Xbox trades like Draisaitl for a bag of pucks, it makes sense to build the best team we can going into this playoff and run as long as we can. If nobody new is on deck, take your best shot with what you have. If you are trading for roster players, no UFAs — only players with term left on their contracts. We aren’t close enough to the prize to make a UFA deal worthwhile. Missing the playoffs in the hopes we get better doesn’t necessarily mean we get better. It just means we get a mid-range pick in a shallow draft, missed the playoffs, and had a season of 82 meaningless games. Who wants that?

You trade players for young players, not draft picks.

 

[Bruin4]

Yea well this Bruins team sucks regardless.Time to start moving parts even if retention needed.

Whoa, Now thats a little harsh. It mat not be their best team in recent memory, but to say they suck? Come on, your better than that!

 

[HumBucker]

You trade players for young players, not draft picks.

Are there any teams who are playoff bound who are looking to jettison promising young players for the likes of Coyle, Frederic or Carlo?

 

[eightspokedb]

Two weeks w/o Bruins hockey????

Providence Bruins playing well...better than these guys....

 

[22Brad Park]

Whoa, Now thats a little harsh. It mat not be their best team in recent memory, but to say they suck? Come on, your better than that!

They are in the bottom 3rd of most major stats so it's not very positive to say the least.How does not very good sound then? I am not trying to be negative but the truth is the truth.Anyhow, I keep watching them and always will,good or bad.

 

[Gordoff]

Oh thank God, Wahlstrom's back in.
Pasta reminds me of this guy, always looks like an unmade bed.

 

[Olden McGroin]

DROP THE f***ING PUCK ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Could be a delay, Bolts vs Wings just started the 3rd