Post-Game Talk: GAME 73 - Daffy Duck finally shoots Elmer Fudd - Anaheim 6 BRUINS 2

[Gordoff]

I hear you brother. We'll get a decent draft pick but Sweeney will probably take some guy slated for the 3rd round.

It's pretty discouraging. He's never been asked to raise a team out of the grave so now we'll really see what he's made of.

 

[yazmybaby]

Getting McAvoy and HL back will help the team.
Our only hope is to get a top 5 pick at the draft and pick the right player that can step in next year and play.
Minten may turn out to be a decent #3 center?
Take the cap space and invest in skilled fast players....hopefully someone wants to come here.
If you can find a trade partner, get rid of EL and Zadorov.

 

[Bruin4]

Perhaps the last GM deserves credit for the core he built for this era. Ironically after inheriting an excellent core himself. Sweeney had benefits most new GMs do not. Expectations should have been high.

Looking at this team now from when Sweeney took over. Ugly !!

Its still a job every GM would covet though. As their a franchise who has repeatedly spent to the cap. I think it will take time, but maybe not with the right signings and a shrewd trade or two, but dam is Sweeney the right guy to ask that from, seeing his previous FA signings and the way they've handicapped this team, and do you want him doing a full rebuild through the draft, as in his tenure here drafting surely hasn't been his strongest point.

Risky to say the least, but I think he'll stay, but one more losing season he's gone. I sure hope he gets right, because I don't want to see another losing season, McKenna or not and I don't want him dealing any of those 2026 picks unless its for an elite player who's under contract and 27 or younger.

 

[PB37]

Also, dropping the puck back before entering on the PP drives me crazy. Kills momentum.

Teams have been doing this regularly for almost a decade now. I think it was the Lightning that popularized the move. It's designed so the puck goes to one of your faster players to catch the defense either flat footed or force them to hold the blueline, allowing the puck carrier ( who should be one of your faster puck handlers ) to gain zone entry with speed. Problem comes when teams do it too much and the defense is ready for it.

 

[hrdpuk]

The tank road show is now 80% complete 0-5 doable

 

[Bruin4]

The tank road show is now 80% complete 0-5 doable

I never thought it was a legitimate achievement, but yea I think its in reach. This team is pretty putrid and thats with the players not tanking, but management has did an excellent job of doing that for them.

 

[BTO]

Slightly off topic (but it beats discussing the game), I actually heard Maiden's Hallowed Be Thy Name played at the Islanders game a couple of nights ago. I'm big into the guitar-driven 80's rock and was very impressed with the Isles' music.

Whitesnake's Still of the Night (slow middle section) and Skid Row's Youth Gone Wild were cued up when the opposition scored. And the Isles' goal song is Joe Satriani's awesome Crowd Chant.

Something wrong with late 60s, early 70s and early 90s guitar-driven rock?

 

[BTO]

I thought Lysell looked good and was one of like maybe two skaters who showed up in the first two periods.

Full steam ahead to the top of the draft!

Yeah but it’s the wrong draft. Next year is when we want 1st OA.

 

[Gordoff]

Something wrong with late 60s, early 70s and early 90s guitar-driven rock?

I don't think he said that. He just prefers what he prefers.

 

[HumBucker]

Cassidy was here for 6 seasons. That's a long time for an NHL coach with one team. Julien was here for 10 seasons, an eternity for NHL coaches. I thought Monty was sacked too soon, but I guess there were a lot of factors I wasn't clear on.

Some posters here want Mike Sullivan to return. He's coached a team with Sidney Crosby, Malkin, Letang, Karlsson and more. Haven't made the playoffs for the last 3 seasons.

Yeah, coaches have a shelf life. Is there a Jack Adams coach who hasn’t been fired?

 

[Hookslide]

Yeah, I was told by a self appointed hockey guru that "other teams today do it that way." Also, did you know that "slapshots are passe and that a wrist shot is more efficient and faster."
The lengths some here go to to justify this mess (beyond tanking on purpose) is just plain sad.

Wrist shots are supposedly more accurate, but someone forgot to tell Pavel Zacha.

 

[ON3M4N]

Yeah, coaches have a shelf life. Is there a Jack Adams coach who hasn’t been fired?

Rod Brind'Amour

Edit - Apparently Cooper has never won a Jack Adams. Talk about mind blowing that a 2x cup winning coach doesn't have a Jack Adams

 

[northeastern]

Not easy to find something positive to say after such a poor showing, but it was nice to see Geekie score is 26th of the season. He has been impressive in 2025.

Geekie getting 30 and Pasta getting 90 points is all we got.

 

[ON3M4N]

Geekie getting 30 and Pasta getting 90 points is all we got.

That'll make negations fun. A guy who had 39 goals in 256 career games coming into the season will be looking for 30 goal scorer money in FA.

 

[HumBucker]

Rod Brind'Amour

Edit - Apparently Cooper has never won a Jack Adams. Talk about mind blowing that a 2x cup winning coach doesn't have a Jack Adams

Interesting. So there’s one? And he’s in year 6 or so? Maybe he’ll be like Claude and have a long successful run.

 

[Patdud]

Agreed. My guess is that the Bruins viewed Monty as a longer term deal but a few things conspired against that. Playoff fail, no movement on a new contract, and then the oddities of this season probably told everyone that this wasn't going to work.

Sacco? What has he done that, either this season or setting us up for the future, suggests he's the guy to go forward with?

he wouldn't sign an extension because he wanted to go to STL. He then ran a terrible camp and slept behind the bench for the first part of the season.

 

[Aeroforce]

Something wrong with late 60s, early 70s and early 90s guitar-driven rock?

Absolutely not - it's all great!

Freebird for Team USA's goal song was superb, I dig Seattle playing the Nirvana lick when a penalty expires, etc.

When the Aeros were Minnesota's AHL team, we used to get REM's Everybody Hurts after a loss. That was cool, too, other than the loss.

 

[duffy]

Teams have been doing this regularly for almost a decade now. I think it was the Lightning that popularized the move. It's designed so the puck goes to one of your faster players to catch the defense either flat footed or force them to hold the blueline, allowing the puck carrier ( who should be one of your faster puck handlers ) to gain zone entry with speed. Problem comes when teams do it too much and the defense is ready for it.

Not to mention in the Bruins case, they usually miss the player with the pass or the player accepting the pass is too slow and lacks talent and IQ to enter the zone with possession!

 

[analyser]

Getting McAvoy and HL back will help the team.
Our only hope is to get a top 5 pick at the draft and pick the right player that can step in next year and play.
Minten may turn out to be a decent #3 center?
Take the cap space and invest in skilled fast players....hopefully someone wants to come here.
If you can find a trade partner, get rid of EL and Zadorov.

Zadorov could possibly be moved with his 5 mil cap hit. He is +14 on a very challenged team and can provide some muscle.

EL, I doubt we will get any takers with 38 points and a 7.750 cap hit for like 7 more years.

 

[Number8]

he wouldn't sign an extension because he wanted to go to STL. He then ran a terrible camp and slept behind the bench for the first part of the season.

Think that is a pretty fair summation.

 

[BTO]

Absolutely not - it's all great!

Freebird for Team USA's goal song was superb, I dig Seattle playing the Nirvana lick when a penalty expires, etc.

When the Aeros were Minnesota's AHL team, we used to get REM's Everybody Hurts after a loss. That was cool, too, other than the loss.

Yeah I used to love Free Bird (one of the great guitar breaks in rock and roll history). *Until* it became the Team USA goal song .

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

I never thought it was a legitimate achievement, but yea I think its in reach. This team is pretty putrid and thats with the players not tanking, but management has did an excellent job of doing that for them.

That was the plan.

 

[PlayMakers]

During the game, there are moments where they try to get everyone in the stands to yell quack, quack, quack! which my wife and I thought was ridiculous and hilarious.

Then, on our way to the car we were walking through an underpass and a few folks yelled, Ducks! for the echo and so my wife and I started saying "Quack, quack, quack!" sarcastically but the whole parade of folks started quacking, lol.

 

[mar2kbos]

Wrist shots are supposedly more accurate, but someone forgot to tell Pavel Zacha.

I mean he did go bar down on Korpi last night

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Zadorov could possibly be moved with his 5 mil cap hit. He is +14 on a very challenged team and can provide some muscle.

EL, I doubt we will get any takers with 38 points and a 7.750 cap hit for like 7 more years.

Why?