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Way to go kid! When in doubt, put the puck in the net.
His comments during the interview were great: "I was ecstatic...surreal".

Kudos to a young defense man giving his all.
 
He'll tell his grandkids he went coast to coast to score that first one. :laugh:

He's been fine, hasn't been panicky playing in some high pressure situations.
 
Has looked good. Stepping in some big shoes right now, definitely using his size more than his first call up. Reminds me a bit of JB.
 
WBC8 said:
I love Trotman....I took a lot of heat for it earlier , but people are seeing what he can become.
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Agree 100%. You watch him play and seems to always pick the safe / smart play out of his zone.
Pretty telling when Chara is the one making the bonehead plays in the D zone , not the rookie.
Now if we can get Morrow up next year and move some old , slow, deadwood out we should be a real puck possession team that can make tape to tape passes as apposed to the high glass or waist high passes we continually do now.
I am pumped with the trade for Connolly and Talbot as our 4th line was terrible, old, and slow and our forward lines had zero shooters with the skill Connolly has.
B,s starting to look good again.
Duffy in Mineville.
 
WBC8 said:
I love Trotman....I took a lot of heat for it earlier , but people are seeing what he can become.
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duffy said:
Agree 100%. You watch him play and seems to always pick the safe / smart play out of his zone.
Pretty telling when Chara is the one making the bonehead plays in the D zone , not the rookie.
Now if we can get Morrow up next year and move some old , slow, deadwood out we should be a real puck possession team that can make tape to tape passes as apposed to the high glass or waist high passes we continually do now.
I am pumped with the trade for Connolly and Talbot as our 4th line was terrible, old, and slow and our forward lines had zero shooters with the skill Connolly has.
B,s starting to look good again.
Duffy in Mineville.
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I have been happy with him, work in progress. Keep writing on here he is a 7th round pick. Talk to Detroit about those, I am not carried away with him but know when to be pleased.
 
kytem2 said:
As I said in the Hamilton thread, I prefer Trotman in over Dougie.
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That's ridiculous.

Trotman has looked better than he did the first time around, simplified his game. To prefer him to Dougie, I don't know what to tell you. First season watching hockey maybe.

Truth be told, goalie should have had that one, but I'll take it, Kudos to him anyway for recovering the blocked shot and throwing it on net.
 
'With the final pick of the 2010 draft....Zach Trotman

Joe Haggerty has been doing a synopsis of prospects on Comcast....I realize Joe has his detractors here, but he does a good job and its both informative and entertaining.

Trotman gets little to no love on HF Bruins fans projections, but the organization likes him and he's got all the visuals- big shot, size, right shot. I recommend you don't stop with Joe's view of Trotman lot of other guys he sheds light on.

http://www.csnne.com/boston-bruins/countdown-to-boston-bruins-camp-zach-trotman

I would think he's going to get a good shot in camp and will be fighting Colin Miller for a top 6 spot but with a one way you have to think he's in a great spot.

I also think Franson is not here because if he is, what do you do with Trotman and Miller.

HERE IS KIRK'S 2015-16 DEFENSEMAN BREAKDOWN that sheds a lot of info on Trotman and everyone else for that matter....my advie is grab a beer, hit the deck, and read this....Chara stuff really concerns me

https://scoutingpost.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/boston-bruins-2015-16-season-preview-defensemen/


Certainly sounds like ZT is showing up on the Bruins front office top six spot.
 
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I'm always having problems when Haggs talks about Kemppainen.
He should be looked at as a 4th line C who will be a strong pk guy for us, not Soda #3C replacement and he puts too much pressure always on him and plays him down because of that.

I've said it before but if Trotman is with us in 2-3years time it means a lot of our prospects have busted, not a fan :laugh:
 
BB88 said:
I'm always having problems when Haggs talks about Kemppainen.
He should be looked at as a 4th line C who will be a strong pk guy for us, not Soda #3C replacement and he puts too much pressure always on him and plays him down because of that.

I've said it before but if Trotman is with us in 2-3years time it means a lot of our prospects have busted, not a fan :laugh:
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here is Kirk's take on the centers and Kemppainen

https://scoutingpost.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/boston-bruins-2015-16-season-preview-the-centers/


A player who enters camp with expectations of winning the fourth-line center job is Finnish veteran pro and newcomer Joonas Kemppainen. A member of the SM-Liiga’s championship team Karpat this past spring, Kemppainen has a big, 6-2, 200-pound frame and at age 27 is a mature two-way center who can do all of the little things you need. Although not especially fast, he has a powerful stride and uses his body well along the walls and in front of the net. He doesn’t have high-end puck skills, but he works hard in the trenches and gets his points off of opportunism and hard work. He was brought to development camp in July, but pulled a hamstring while working out at home before the trip, so fans unfortunately weren’t able to see him. He should be fine for camp, but this will be something to monitor and watch going forward
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if trotman can learn to pick his spots more effectively with his shot and anticipate the type of space wingers in the nhl can cover in quick time, he can be a very effective bottom pairing guy. he reminds me a lot of shaone morrisonn
 
Maybe it's the long summer getting my optimism up, but I'm starting to think Trotman can surprise us in a very nice way next year. It would be nice to see him take a top 4 position, maybe even accompany Chara and because he can not because we have no one else.
 
Tampbear said:
Maybe it's the long summer getting my optimism up, but I'm starting to think Trotman can surprise us in a very nice way next year. It would be nice to see him take a top 4 position, maybe even accompany Chara and because he can not because we have no one else.
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He will be a top 4 this year. He's underrated here, big time. This system was made for him. Boychuk 2.0
 
WBC8 said:
He will be a top 4 this year. He's underrated here, big time. This system was made for him. Boychuk 2.0
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Sans nasty but with a better first pass.

Edit: and sans abandoning his coverage area to go for a big hit. To be fair, in later years he made this risk more appropriately.
 
I'm no scout and I've probably been wrong 2x for every time I've been right, but I just don't see much in Trotman. He seems like a career AHL'er to me.

To me, he should be coming in to camp well behind Morrow and both Millers on the depth chart, as he's very redundant on a corps that includes Z, Seidenberg, McQuaid, Irwin and K. Miller

I'd like to see three stay at home types and 3 mobile guys.

He's clearly behind Z, Seids and McQuaid (probably Irwin too) as a stay at homer and not as mobile or talented as Krug, Morrow or C. Miller.
 
sarge88 said:
I'm no scout and I've probably been wrong 2x for every time I've been right, but I just don't see much in Trotman. He seems like a career AHL'er to me.

To me, he should be coming in to camp well behind Morrow and both Millers on the depth chart, as he's very redundant on a corps that includes Z, Seidenberg, McQuaid, Irwin and K. Miller

I'd like to see three stay at home types and 3 mobile guys.

He's clearly behind Z, Seids and McQuaid (probably Irwin too) as a stay at homer and not as mobile or talented as Krug, Morrow or C. Miller.
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Agreed, he might do everything "well" but he does nothing great and to me to be in the NHL you have to have some greatness in your game in at least one area. Just makes me think it's going to be a long season if Trotman is the guy we are counting on. He's already 25 and hasn't broken in yet, he most likely won't now. The Johnny B comparisons are off because Johnny was a top D in the AHL before he broke into the B's a la C.Miller.
 
ZacEdwards said:
won't now. The Johnny B comparisons are off because Johnny was a top D in the AHL before he broke into the B's a la C.Miller.
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For one year. JB was a JAG in the minors until he broke out at the age of 24/25 with Providence.

To me, Trotman is JB-lite. Not as heavy, doesn't have as big of a shot, doesn't nail people as much, but he has all those JB elements to his game and he's actually much more rounded defensively at this age than JB was. I think he'll carve himself a good career as a solid top 4 defensive dman
 
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