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[WhalerTurnedBruin55]

I've heard worse suggestions.


I've also heard better ones.


Last I heard 2023 was the reunion tour, after a fairly infuriating choke job, I'm kind ready to move on. Will always have a spot for Lucic in my heart, but logically I don't see it being an answer to anything except Nostalgia and selling a few jerseys.

 

[wintersej]

If he was here to replace Foligno as the 12/13 guy for under a million, sure why not.

 

[CrownofThornton]

Love Looch, but I still have a weird feeling about where the lack of physicality may be stemming from with this team. I still speculate if post concussion lawsuit questioning of old man Jacobs has led to a directive up top as not to engage in extra curriculars. I don’t know if any singular ill tempered player would fix that situation.

This team looked like a complete embarrassing pushover in the playoffs.

 

[BlackFrancis]

Any calls for getting him here before this summer were misguided, but if he'd come back this summer for a mill? If the only thing he did all season is beat the suet out of Maroon, it'd be well worth it.

 

[PlayMakers]

Yes. A thousand times yes.

 

[Fenian24]

Would love Lucic back, can add Corey Perry on contracts around a million. Veteran presence, both cup winners and pains in the ass to play against.

 

[LouJersey]

The new Bruins fan doesn't seem to have the time for a Lucic. He was by far the best game 6 and 7 performer during his time here. Yes he's slower now, but I would love him back. Cue the analytics charts.

 

[GordonHowe]

Imagine Tkachuk cross checking Lucic in the ribs in round 1? I’m not really for or against it but Lucic definitely has what every other player on this team lacks.

Guess what?

All season long, I thought the Boston Bruins had returned to their physicality DNA.

They had plenty of players ready and willing to stand up for themselves, and each other.

It was beauty to watch, as it was when the 2007+ B's began to gel as a team, "all for one, one for all."

Now, I know they ALL played like crap against FLA. There's no denying that. They're professionals, and almost to a man they played poorly and after game 4, without passion or physicality.

What happened?

I don't know.

But I suspect.

And my suspicions have grown after reading multiple times and from multiple sources that the Bruins were determined to "Play within the whistles."

That is, evidently, refuse to engage in scrums and nasty after same and thereby, theoretically, deny the Panthers the adrenaline rush & camaraderie to win the series.

I suspect someone named Jim Montgomery counseled this approach.

As with so many aspects of his coaching in round one, this proved a mystifying, fatal mistake.

Milan can't control a game. But he would not have put up with the shit FLA fed the Bruins without pushback.

It was embarrassing.

Embarrassing.

I posted this thread per Lucic, but I'm sorry, I remain extremely, extremely troubled and upset by Jim Montgomery's disastrous display of.... "stupefying" in Round One.

It's 3 June, and I STILL can't understand the layers of BAD, EXCEPTIONALLY BAD decisions Montgomery made as head coach.

STUPIFIED.

But it wil be coming around again.

Sweeney and Neely better address this, because as badly as they played, this is not on the players. And it's not, for once, on management.

It's on the head coach and his staff.

End rant.

 

[LouJersey]

Guess what?

All season long, I thought the Boston Bruins had returned to their physicality DNA.

They had plenty of players ready and willing to stand up for themselves, and each other.

It was beauty to watch, as it was when the 2007+ B's began to gel as a team, "all for one, one for all."

Now, I know they ALL played like crap against FLA. There's no denying that. They're professionals, and almost to a man they played poorly and after game 4, without passion or physicality.

What happened?

I don't know.

But I suspect.

And I suspect, after reading multiple times and from multiple sources that the Bruins were determined to "Play within the whistles."

That is, evidently, refuse to engage in scrums and nasty after same and thereby, theoretically, deny the Panthers the adrenaline rush & camaraderie to win the series.

I suspect someone named Jim Montgomery counseled this approach.

As with so many aspects of his coaching in round one, this proved a mystifying, fatal mistake.

Milan can't control a game. But he would not have put up with the shit FLA fed the Bruins without pushback.

It was embarrassing.

Embarrassing.

I posted this thread per Lucic, but I'm sorry, I remain extremely, extremely troubled and upset by Jim Montgomery's disastrous display of.... "stupefying" in Round One.

It's 3 June, and I STILL can't understand the layers of BAD, EXCEPTIONALLY BAD decisions Montgomery made as head coach.

STUPIFIED.

But it wil be coming around again.

Sweeney and Neely better address this, because as badly as they played, this is not on the players. And it's not, for once, on management.

It's on the head coach and his staff.

End rant.

Montgomery decided to preach "play between the whistles" and neutered them. Everything that worked all year, was switched up in the playoffs.

 

[DiggityDog]

Loved his time here. Was a big part of their resurgence. For league minimum I guess.

I just don’t think there’s much there anymore

 

[SPLBRUIN]

I would love to see him return to the Bruins. He is a feared fighter, arguably the top dog in the NHL and nobody wants to get hit by him, he can hurt you, the Bruins need someone like him.

 

[KnightofBoston]

It would be smart from a management standpoint, the bruins need some kind of positive buzz around the team come training camp, and seeing him, David, Marchand, bergeron, smiling together in camp before the centennial season would be a good way to start the year

 

[sarge88]

Yes, I can recall all the "if only we had Lucic" posts going into the Panthers series.

I never said he’d guarantee a win…..but if you don’t think the B‘s could have used more thump in their lineup then I don’t know why to say.

Here’s the problem with so many fans who talk in absolutes….they‘re just guessing, like the rest of us.

I have no idea if Lucic playing 4th line LW has any effect on that series.

But, nobody else knows that he wouldn’t have clobbered Tkachuk or another Panther with a clean hit and knocked them out of the series, or forced his way to the front of the net for a goal that won game 6 or 7.

In the end, we’re all just guessing.

Personally, I’d rather be guessing about a guy who has proven to have a warrior mentality and attitude than an overwhelmed Lauko who played a big part in costing them game 5.

 

[GordonHowe]

My heart would break hearing him boo’d.

He would not be bood.

I'm guessing that if this fantasy meets fruition, Milan would have very sheltered minutes.

He wouldn't be out there flailing away and totally gassed.

I understand that many here and elsewhere don't want him back, for various reasons.

Unless they're total no-nothings who want Fancy Dan's and don't understand Milan's contribution to bringing the Bruins back from the dead, I don't hear boo birds.

And if I do, that guy will be on the JumboTron, or whatever effing thing they call it these days.

And then, that guy will be booted forthwith from the building.

 

[GordonHowe]

because most of the yo - yos would still be expect mid 2000s Looch.
Ive lived here near 66 years.Feel pretty confident in my view.

True. Very true.

However, human beings can grow and mature.

Even Bruins fans.

I realize wisdom may be in short supply.

Even so, there are few "casual" Bruins fans. No pink hats here.

If they've been around long enough, or long enough to watch Looch in his Boston heyday, they should -- should -- understand that he is no longer 21 and this is 2023.

I extend credit to the fandom when perhaps it is not due. But as jerky as we can be -- and we can be, Carl Everett aside

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I believe Bruins fans know what time it is.

I also believe that save the fancy stats crowd, they'd welcome Lucic back with open arms for The Last Dance (or two),

Again, I would never expect



but something along this order would suffice,

Would have loved him on LW to target Gudas and Montour all series.

Also, it would be funny to see Tampa spend 2 drafts worth of picks on a (legit) tough-guy only to gave Lucic come back and feed him his lunch. *not to mention the attitude change from Maroon.

He's a mean, competitive SOB on the ice and we need that bad.

100% thrice.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Vet minimum? Hell yeah.

Still the baddest MF'er in the league and a good 4th liner

 

[EvilDead]

No. No more retirement tours. The problem is this team still thinks its 2011 and aren't moving forward past that team.

 

[GordonHowe]

Therein lies the problem. His toughness would be nailed to the bench in a tight playoff series.

That depends on who the head coach is.

At this point, that coach is no longer named Cassidy, and the head coach may not be named Montgomery, either.

Cassidy never cared about physicality, and it showed.

I thought -- I thought -- Montgomery valued same.

Then, after a regular season in which the Bruins FINALLY regained a measure of their DNA, Montgomery had, ah, second thoughts -- I think he had about a hundred of them, across the board -- and evidently instructed his players not to engage.

Apparently, to "take it" and preserve their energy exclusively "between the whistles."

Hence, your Boston Bruins were ONCE AGAIN manhandled, beat down, exhausted, wimpy, playing scared, etc.

HOW DID THAT WORK OUT, JIM?

Cassidy or Montgomery, this is a pattern. I'm f***ing sick of it.

Still disagree. He wouldn’t get booed unless they sign him for $3M AAV and stick him on the top line.

Everyone knows that is not going to happen.

IF -- if -- it's fourth line for Milan, sheltered minutes, less is more.

Mash it and smash it, as Milbury used to say about Grapes' teams.

 

[PB37]

We all would love to see Lucic back. But...

1. Does he want to come back? We all know why he left in the first place; if not, you haven't been paying attention

2. Lucic was eviscerated here on the boards for his play in his final season here. Maybe it would be different now because expectations aren't the same as they were when he was only 26.

 

[The don godfather]

Milan would bring a pulse to this team I say yes.

 

[GordonHowe]

I've heard worse suggestions.


I've also heard better ones.


Last I heard 2023 was the reunion tour, after a fairly infuriating choke job, I'm kind ready to move on. Will always have a spot for Lucic in my heart, but logically I don't see it being an answer to anything except Nostalgia and selling a few jerseys.

Understood.

This is highly unlikely to happen for various reasons.

Still, again, I am talking fourth line, sheltered minutes. Let the beast Looch, er, loose, when appropriate.

Of course it's not any kind of long term thing. It's a shot in the arm for a season or two when the Bruins could use one.
Plus, tickets and jerseys.

Milan Lucic Night.

Bobble heads ($35.)

$20, lukewarm Budweiser, $45 steak tips.

Boston's rat problem?

*Solved.*

Winning,

 

[NeelyDan]

Of course.

 

[GordonHowe]

Love Looch, but I still have a weird feeling about where the lack of physicality may be stemming from with this team. I still speculate if post concussion lawsuit questioning of old man Jacobs has led to a directive up top as not to engage in extra curriculars. I don’t know if any singular ill tempered player would fix that situation.

This team looked like a complete embarrassing pushover in the playoffs.

I don't believe Mr. Burns was directing from on high. Even for me, that's a stretch.

Rather, I believe that Jim Montogmery, inexplicably and inexcusably, instructed his players to stay away from the rough stuff. "in between the whistles" and thereafter.

I understand the logic, outlined previously (sic), but you'd have to ask Sunny Jim why he chose this tactic, and why doing so, along with several other head scratchers, proved disastrous.

Again, I don't want to dump on Jim Montgomery, yet he is clearly, indisputably responsible for the Bruins' "collapse."

Also again, Montgomery has a long list of questions to answer regarding said collapse.

I'm aghast and sincerely upset in the wake of egregious, head spinning decisions -- decisions -- on the part of Montgomery and his coaching staff.

"Call me an old softie, but that's how I see it."

 

[GordonHowe]

Moderator(s) or members, whoever created the poll, thank you.

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

I never said he’d guarantee a win…..but if you don’t think the B‘s could have used more thump in their lineup then I don’t know why to say.

Here’s the problem with so many fans who talk in absolutes….they‘re just guessing, like the rest of us.

I have no idea if Lucic playing 4th line LW has any effect on that series.

But, nobody else knows that he wouldn’t have clobbered Tkachuk or another Panther with a clean hit and knocked them out of the series, or forced his way to the front of the net for a goal that won game 6 or 7.

In the end, we’re all just guessing.

Personally, I’d rather be guessing about a guy who has proven to have a warrior mentality and attitude than an overwhelmed Lauko who played a big part in costing them game 5.

Just saying its Monday morning quarterbacking.

The team has the best regular season in league history but gee, we sure could have used Lucic.