Will Smith was the best centerman on his team? Turns out you it's more important to outscore/chance your opponent than to have a true "defensive conscience".
It's a massive oversimplification of the large scale roster turnover that NCAA teams experience year over year to say the difference between the 23 and 24 seasons was those two players joining their respective teams
Sounds like a pretty good line, is it possible that was also their best line?
It was, it was also their 2nd line that got deployed against 2nd tier competition at even strength while the Gauthier line was tasked with hard-matching opponents' top units, a luxury Celebrini was not afforded while crushing his minutes as the youngest player in the league
I think he also is underrated at moving the puck. He's not a wizard with it, but there's a clear difference between him and all the other veteran defensemen when it comes to handling and passing the puck. Of course, that's a low bar to clear.
Maybe BU's other players would have looked a little better if Celebrini wasn't so puck dominant? Smith is a lot like Curry as a ceiling raiser while Celebrini is more of a Westbrook floor raiser. Both very good players.
I wish we'd rolled out 2 B squads. Felt more like a C+ squad at best.
Celebrini is an incredibly unselfish player who moves the puck to reset and find open space without the puck at every appropriate opportunity, any comparison to Russell Westbrook is asinine, he's no puck hog
I’m looking at the terms and conditions for the coupon from last night. Minimum purchase of $1.
"4 in the net pizza you get" is still the best goal promo they had. I got so many round table personal pizzas as a kid growing up
Something to complain about, which has surpassed baseball as America’s #1 past time.
I mean the Secondary Smith was a joke that I still don't get how people didn't realize was a joke in the context. He had a not very impressive start of the year then completely dominated for 4 months and was playing at a level higher than Celebrini was during the same timeframe.Am I dreaming? Watching @LilLeeroy defend Smith is wild after he was the flag bearer for "Secondary Smith, passenger on his own line" for most of last season
If we're going to make wild, undeserved, and lofty comparisons, then Celebrini is LeBron. He makes the most effective decision with the puck, whether that's a pass, shot, or handle. He has every skill you need and is close to elite at almost everything. Definitely carried BU last year, a team with fewer offensive geniuses and prospects other than Hutson really, even though they were very good ... compared to an extremely deep and prospect laden BC team that rolled 4 effective lines all season.
I can't believe we're calling Celebrini a puck hog now but I guess it's good to start creating new years-long debates so we can stop talking about "Thorton is Tin Man" (sic) and whether Marleau's contract was market in 2008.
I didn't say puck hog I said puck dominant, which is exactly how Toffoli described his game a couple days ago?
Not only this, but I don’t think a number of posters (not saying you are one) appreciate that even our veterans are either new to the team and/or playing under a different coach/system than last year. The composition of the team is better but still bad, and even the quality players are going to take some time to coalesce in terms of creating chemistry and learning/applying Warsofsky’s system.
