Post-Game Talk: GAME 69 - Buffalo 3 BRUINS 2 F/OT - Westward Ho!

Nope they will add a half dozen players (McAvoy, Lindholm, Marchand, couple of Providence guys like Poitras & Minton, and at least one UFA forward)

They will absolutely not suck

I'm all in for the tank this season to get the best possible draft pick, but no way are they going to be Buffalo next season. It's one down year with a clean out and they will be a better team for it. But for the rest of this year, play hard, try to win, do their best, but keep losing.
 
Terrible coach, terrible refs, terrible roster.

Play the prospects. No more of the garbage. Letieri, Brown, Mitchell.

Bruins were engaged physically until the 3rd, entertaining before the hitting quieted down with the hits only by Buffalo late.

OT was dreadful. The soft OT call aside, the Bruins spent more time at center ice with the puck than in the offensive zone.

Glad I skipped this one.

From an entertainment perspective, I'm only tuning in to watch the youth... in hopes of what could be. Even if it isn't much. I'm sure guys like Brown, Tufte, Koepke, Lettieri, Koepke, Viel, Mitchell etc. are good guys. Probably up on merit from their work as AHL veterans. Realistically though, they are NHL rejects who have no future here or with any other NHL team. It's harsh, but that is reality. I understand you want to reward them, but.....

This seems like a good time for some younger players to get their feet wet. Limited pressure. Everything to gain. Nothing to lose. Also find it odd that Beecher and Lohrei have been given this blanket level of trust that nobody else has seemed to gain.
 
Working the 5 game trip

I have a VIP ticket to Jimmy Kimmel next week so

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Nope they will add a half dozen players (McAvoy, Lindholm, Marchand, couple of Providence guys like Poitras & Minton, and at least one UFA forward)

They will absolutely not suck
Yes they will suck! Just like Buffalo, so keep wanting to tank! You will get what you ask for! Lol
 
Bruins go 0-13 they likely get to 3 and Hagens

Probably get some points and are 6-8

Betman probably tosses them a top 1-3 he’s had enough of Buffalo, Chicago & SJ

Look for one of Nashville and/or Boston to rise after lottery
 
Bruins go 0-13 they likely get to 3 and Hagens

Probably get some points and are 6-8

Betman probably tosses them a top 1-3 he’s had enough of Buffalo, Chicago & SJ

Look for one of Nashville and/or Boston to rise after lottery
If they got to 3 somehow, I prefer Desnoyers or Frondell over Hagens. They all have 1C ceilings and high end 2C floors, but Hagens isn't as good a 200 ft player.
 
I'm all in for the tank this season to get the best possible draft pick, but no way are they going to be Buffalo next season. It's one down year with a clean out and they will be a better team for it. But for the rest of this year, play hard, try to win, do their best, but keep losing.
If they get locked in to say the #7 spot overall with 2 games left they should bring up
Minten, Poitras, and Lysell. Go with Pastrnak, Zacha, Lindholm, Geekie, Khustidinov,
Lauko Kastelic, Beecher and Koepke.
 
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But as the Bruins made their way off the ice following their third-straight loss, Boston’s star winger David Pastrnak opted to give the officiating crew another earful on the frozen sheet.


“I mean, I felt like if anybody should get a power play in the overtime it should have been us,” Pastrnak said postgame. “I think they’ve been having power plays the whole game. Yeah, that’s just my opinion. That’s why I was mad.

“I thought Korpy got slashed, when he covered the puck twice on the power play, and then they could have evened it up, and they decided to look away. So frustrating that they got the power play opportunity in overtime, but at the same time, we made the mistakes on the puck to make it happen. But it’s very frustrating.”

Korpisalo did little to hide his frustrations during overtime, at one point drop-kicking the puck out to center ice in order to object to what he viewed as a post-whistle slash by Buffalo.

“I thought it was a penalty,” Bruins interim head coach Joe Sacco said of Khusnutdinov’s penalty. “But I did think before that — I think it was Mason [Lohrei] who had a two-on-one. I thought there was an opportunity for a call there. I thought he got slashed on his hands on the 2-on-1 before that.”

“We have work to do,” Pastrnak said. “We’re trying to build with every game. And like I said, if you look overall at the effort. The effort was there today. We played overall a much better game than last game.

“We can build from that. And as I said, we just need to be better — because, we’re going on the [West Coast] trip, and if you’re not going to show up there with effort and and hard work ethic, it’s not going to be pretty.”
 
It easily could have turned out different. Pasta, Zadorov and Lohrei all had breakaway 1-0 type chances. They couldn't finish. Maybe it was on purpose? ;)
They had other point blank chances where they passed when they should have shot. Even Sacco mentioned that.
As for Lohrei, sure we saw early he didn't have his "A" game, but got cross checked in the mouth, still was +1 and not on the ice for any goals against.
At this point I'm looking for any positives.
 
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It easily could have turned out different. Pasta, Zadorov and Lohrei all had breakaway 1-0 type chances. They couldn't finish. Maybe it was on purpose? ;)
They had other point blank chances where they passed when they should have shot. Even Sacco mentioned that.
As for Lohrei, sure we saw early he didn't have his "A" game, but got cross checked in the mouth, still was +1 and not on the ice for any goals against.
At this point I'm looking for any positives.
I can say for sure that none of the players would lose on purpose.
 
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Who would you bring up?
It’s all about next year. Minten, Lysell and Potrias. Possibly Merk too. They need to see what they have in these guys and not just one game. Like the remaining of the season. If any looks great and promising it just makes off season FA grabs easier and spend less money.
 
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It’s all about next year. Minten, Lysell and Potrias. Possibly Merk too. They need to see what they have in these guys and not just one game. Like the remaining of the season. If any looks great and promising it just makes off season FA grabs easier and spend less money.

There's been a case made that you don't want to bring the young guys into the shit show, with the exception of Merk, because he is the one that the team absolutely needs to make a decision on. I tend to agree with you, but I can see why they don't. Maybe if they are well and truly out of the playoffs you can use the last few games of the season to give guys some looks.
 
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