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Playoff Push or Tank?

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Playoff push or Tank?

  • Playoff push

    Votes: 23 41.1%

  • Tank

    Votes: 33 58.9%
  • Total voters
    56
Tank, but not in the sense of you're actively trying to lose games.

Bring up the kids, let the new guys like Middlestadt show what they got, maybe call up some of your newer prospects like Wanner/Minten at the end of the year to give them a taste. See if you can figure out where you stand going into the offseason.
 
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Tank

And when push comes to shove they will drop out of the race because to make the playoffs the PP and offence needs to turnaround. I don’t see that happening.
 
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I never want them to deliberately lose. The fact is the Bruins don’t have the talent to win consistently enough to make the playoffs.

All I ask is for a strong effort every game.
 
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I’d prefer a tank at least for this season. The team is good enough though just poorly coached, I wouldn’t be surprised if they sneak in.

It’s tough to tank with Sway in net and Pasta filling the net.
 
I'll never root for players to take their foot off the gas.

But if we make the playoffs, Sacco and co will stay. This organization needs to clean house except goalie Bob.

So that's my worry.

And regarding the draft. Say we did tank. Say we somehow got in the top 5. Whose to say Donny is drafting the best player?

It's a catch-22.

I'll just keep watching and hope they just compete every night. That's all.
 
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Play the games like you mean it, whatever happens happens. It would obviously be best to draft as high as possible but my personal stance on this stuff is that you do the best you can and accept the results. I also question whether the teams that overtly tank are really rewarded for that. Many of the bottom feeders in the league have been in that situation for years now. I have no idea when Chicago will actually be good again.

The way I see it, the dye has been cast, this team started a reset last week and their actions say they mean business. I highly doubt that a modest winning streak would change their intentions to further revamp this team. It is already significantly different than it was 10 days ago and I expect it to further change over the summer. Coach, players, all that are up for grabs.
 
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These are professionally paid athletes that do not know the word tank

If they had a loser mentality, they would of never made it to the pros

They will fight to the end
 
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I can’t root against sad Pasta so grudgingly I’m playoff push

I want Florida in round one - I’ve always said if Marchand was on Toronto, Montreal, or Florida I’d hate him

I need to feel the hate until he returns July 1

EverettMike said:
3 points and minus three games. And they're bad. Can't forget they're bad. That's really huge. How bad they are.
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Pick 6-8 or Florida in round one

That’s it
 
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I aways watch every Bruins' game hoping for a win.

As much as a high draft pick could spur the retool, I do not think any pro athlete ever plays to lose.

As for tanking, I hearken back to the end of the 1986-1987 season where the Bruins had Vancouver's first round pick and the top prizes were touted as Pierre Turgeon and Brendan Shanahan.

Unfortunately Vancouver won their last 3 games and finished 2pts ahead of both Buffalo (Turgeon) and New Jersey (Shanahan).

The Bruins picked Glen Wesley at No. 3 and then picked Stephane Quintal at No. 15 one pick ahead of Quebec selecting Joe Sakic.

As much as we rail on the Bruins for the 2015 draft, I often think the 1988 and 1990 Stanley Cup finals could have had a different result if the Canucks had not played out to the final whistle and the Bruins had gotten at least 1 of the 3 best forwards in that draft.
 
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EverettMike said:
3 points and minus three games. And they're bad. Can't forget they're bad. That's really huge. How bad they are.
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The issue for this team tanking is well covered in this article. Some bolded sections below to highlight why tanking may not work for this Bruin team.​

www.nytimes.com

How to tank: Getting to the bottom of the NHL standings is more difficult than it looks

A look at the difficulties involved in executing a successful tanking strategy.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Hungry young players can be a problem​

It’s one thing to say a team is or should be tanking and another to execute the strategy in the real world. Professional athletes are universally motivated to win. It’s in their DNA. It’s how they got to the highest rung of their sport in the first place. And so, sending a message that the goal is to lose a game is hard to do.

“What people forget is, players are fighting for their jobs for the following year,” said former Anaheim Ducks executive David McNab, who spent more than four decades in the NHL, first as a scout and then as a front-office executive. “I think it’s extremely hard to try to lose. You can run guys up from the minors or play different lineups, but I believe it’s very hard to tell a good young player who is trying to get a contract, or enhance his value, to go out and play lousy.”

If a team is seriously interested in being as bad as possible, they are almost better off playing a lot of jaded veterans, nearing the end of their careers, where the motivation to give their best, every night may be flagging — rather than a hungry youngster, eager to make a positive first impression.

In short, it’s not always possible to create a downward spiral in a game such as hockey, where even the very best players spend more time on the bench than on the ice.

Accordingly, for tanking purposes, the focus needs to fall on the individuals who can most directly influence the outcome of a game by themselves — a team’s goaltenders and its coach.

Bad goaltending and bad coaching are key to a successful tank​

 
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