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

[22Brad Park]

You trade players for young players, not draft picks.

You do both

 

[eightspokedb]

The Vegas love fest has begun

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Oh thank God, Wahlstrom's back in.

Another mercenary non Bruins player. Instead of a prospect the Bruins allegedly have.

This is the issue. The bodies the Bruins play instead are no more impactful than a rookie prospect yet that Cam quote speaks volumes.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Any word on lineups?
Or same old rotating junk?

What are you hoping for, Bergeron and Chara in the lineup?

 

[Boston Bandit]

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?

It is so refreshing to read posts like these. They should be stickied to the top!

 

[22Brad Park]

It is so refreshing to read posts like these. They should be stickied to the top!

Refreshing would be firing those dinosaurs running the Bruins.Their vision is just not good enough.

 

[Olden McGroin]

What are you hoping for, Bergeron and Chara in the lineup?

Ryder, Peverley and Kaberle

 

[caz16]

They say all of the right things, but what matters most is how they play on the ice.

True, but what do you expect them to say? If they say "we just aren't talented enough", everyone would be screaming for their heads. I don't really listen much to those interviews, they are usually pointless.

 

[Mr. Make-Believe]

Oh thank God, Wahlstrom's back in.
Pasta reminds me of this guy.

Wahlstrom has played 14 games this season for the Bruins. They’ve won 6 of ‘em.

I’m excited too.

 

[Alicat]

Hatty incoming. That is a stunning suit.

 

[Olden McGroin]

 

[The don godfather]

Play air tight let's go! Lindholm stay hot.

 

[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)

 

[OV]

Yep. Sad but true

And who wants to chance playing the Leafs and having them finally beat us with the team we have??? Living in Canada I would either have to cancel my cable or put my foot through the TV to combat the massive Leaf homers that would be inundated with

You could just rent a leaf mulcher for a few days. Home Depot maybe????

 

[GahdenRinkRat]

A few pregame pics( maybe last ones for some of the usual suspects???)

 

[quietbruinfan]

Hatty incoming. That is a stunning suit.

Quite a suit, but he looks like he just woke or was on a bender.

 

[Alicat]

My sister said Pasts’s suit looks like a terribly upholstered sofa

 

[Gordoff]

Refreshing would be firing those dinosaurs running the Bruins. Their vision is just not good enough.

HEY, Sweeney wears glasses... So there!

 

[pgm16]

Go Bruins !!

 

[Alicat]

HEY, Sweeney wears glasses... So there!

We sure they’re prescription?

 

[Blitzkrug]

We doing the thing where we have to wait for the other ESPN game to end?

 

[BergyWho37]

My sister said Pasts’s suit looks like a terribly upholstered sofa

I bet she’d still.. oh nvm I’ll keep it PG13

I’ll see myself out

 

[OV]

My sister said Pasts’s suit looks like a terribly upholstered sofa

He's taking fashion hints from Don Cherry! lol

 

[PlayMakers]

Another mercenary non Bruins player. Instead of a prospect the Bruins allegedly have.

This is the issue. The bodies the Bruins play instead are no more impactful than a rookie prospect yet that Cam quote speaks volumes.

Wahlstrom is the same age as Merkulov.

 

[OV]

6-3 Tampa