Good morning, everyone! Thanks to everyone who hung out with us in the draft party threads! A recap of the Bruins’ picks:
14th- D Charlie McAvoy
29th- C Trent Frederic
49th- D Ryan Lindgren
135th- LW Joona Koppanen
136th- D Cameron Clarke
165th- C/RW Oskar Steen
195th- Traded to FLA for 2017 7th-round pick
As Drhandgrenaid points out, we added 2 right-shot d-men, 1 left-shot d-man, 1 left-shot shot C, 1 C/RW, and 1 LW. It’s a diverse draft group, and we got the top-pair-potential, right-shot d-man we were looking for, but we didn’t stock the system with a high-potential right wing like we needed. I’m thrilled with the McAvoy and Lindgren picks, and our system is now loaded with defensemen. The Trent Frederic pick seems overly safe, and I would have preferred a gamble on top-end talent, such as Adam Mascherin or Pascal Laberge. I personally have a no-smurf policy, but carvinbass18 really, really, really wanted Alex DeBrincat with the #29 pick.
The Bruins did not trade for a defenseman. Apparently the Blues’ asking price for Shattenkirk was at least the #14 pick plus Pasta. Hahahahahaha no. The Bruins ought to get on the phone with Liles’ agent and get a deal done. Drhandgrenaid’s of the opinion (and I concur) that the B’s should also try to acquire Tobias Enstrom from the Jets, with the Jets retaining a good portion of that salary.
Other notes and happenings from the draft…
Probably the most intriguing thing that happened was the Coyotes trading up to draft Jakob Chychrun. It started with Chychrun falling further than expected, out of the top ten and even the Bruins passing on him at #14. The Yotes got on the phone with the Wings and agreed to take the Pavel Datsyuk contract in order to move up four spots to #16, giving Detroit #20, #50, and Joe Vitale. With the #16 pick, they snagged Chychrun, while ridding themselves of the Datsyuk contract has Detroit giving Toronto an anxiety attack over Stamkos.
The Habs traded Lars Eller to the Caps for two 2nd round picks, then traded two 2nd round picks for Andrew Shaw of the Hawks. Now they have both Gallagher and Shaw, creating a stereophonic, goalie-crashing, douche-tandem. Yay. But now they have even less talent at forward, so at least there’s that.
The Blue Jackets shocked just about everyone and passed on Jesse Puljuljarvi at #3, taking Pierre-Luc DuBois instead. It could be that after trading Ryan Johansen to the Predators, the Blue Jackets wanted to fill the need of a big center. With Edmonton picking next, they decided once again that they didn’t need pick a top defensive prospect, and picked Puljuljarvi. He’ll love playing RW with Connor McDavid as his center, if they can ever get the puck out of their zone.
For the third time in four years, a goalie was not selected in the first round.
It was the best year ever for American-born players, with a record 12 being selected in the first round – more than *GASP* Canada. It was a great year for Finland, too, with 3 Finns selected in the top five and four overall in the first round.
Filip Helt of the Czech Republic is this year’s Mr. Irrelevant.
Free Agency Day is nigh! What’s on tap?
http://i.imgur.com/w4AYv.gif
Cheers to that!
Running payroll….
Hockey Hall of Fame inductees get announced to day at 3:30pm EST. I’m still amazed that Andreychuk still isn’t in the HOF. Who you got?
https://www.nhl.com/news/2016-hockey-hall-of-fame-candidates/c-281037940
Come on, Recchi
Recching ball!
Good morning, friends. I’m on hold with the TX DMV. You envy me.
With the shit I’m dealing with. Yes I am envious
Woof. Godspeed.
If faster than light travel is supposedly impossible, but God can do anything, does that mean Godspeed = Lightspeed?
“Set a course for Earth, maximum godspeed. Make it so”
Theologically speaking, that would have to be true, since God (of the Judeo-Christian variety) spoke light into existence.
The speed of light is a crawl at the DMV.
Hey kids!
Good (late) morning!
Some bullet points:
What you did there, I see it.
Demers, Boyle, Campbell, Yandle…SOMEONE NOT SHIT.
Yandle is off the market
It’s for the best, really.
I hate that contract so much
7 years is absurd…but hes always younger than i think he is too….even with age he has a lot of milage on him.
True that….slip o the mind.
Demers, please. I feel the others are overpriced and past their prime. We don’t need more of that.
The winnings will go into our joint account, anyway.
of course.
Good Morning All! Great weekend on the Deerfield River. Worked on some stuff, had a lot of laughs and was soaking wet all weekend. Nice camping spot. I thought we had a cabin, but much to my surprise I booked a walk in site on the banks of the Cold River. I love sleeping to the sound of the river. It was cool enough for campfires up in the hills and we took full advantage.
I’m happy with the draft picks. Great if we can pick up some D via free agency, but i don’t see a lot out there.
Coffee, no bourbon… it’s getting better.
Let’s go live to the Loui Tracker 5000:
SIGN HIM 5×5!!! DO IT …JUST FUCKING DO IT.
That whole thread was absolutely brilliant
So good.
So best.
HA!
Much funny
Good Morning!
The party over the weekend went well. Luckily it wasn’t too hot on Saturday. Yesterday was nice. We just hung out. I finished a small project I had started over a month ago and made dinner.
Thank you for the quick summary on the draft outcome. I missed all of it (plus news) this weekend and didn’t really know what was happening. The Blues are a little cocky on what they think a team will go for, eh?
Realizations: Last Friday was my last Friday at this place. Today is my last Monday. And I won’t be working a full week of work until July 25th. I could get used to this.
Good news!
No blood clots!
I got a significant raise!
My sudden and high fever is gone along with the shits!
My hockey team won 4-0! It was our goalies first official shutout since 1989.
Bad news.
I have small amount of poison ivy on my left foot.
I’m going to say overall: the good outweighs the bad on that list.
Second’d
Oh absolutely.
Thirded. Glad to hear it’s nothing serious.
Yay!
Yay!
Woo!
Yaaaaay!
Wahoo!
Uh, boo.
How’s the leg? Any improvement? There are exercises on line that can help that numb leg if it’s an IT band issue.
Glad to hear it’s nothing serious.
Correct doctor stripes! My IT ban is extremely tense and I have a lovely case of Meralgia paraesthetica. The latter can cause extreme numbness like I’ve been experiencing. The pain I have if from my IT band and Meralgia paraesthetica going wild. A double whammy!
I also had some bruising which made me fear the worse, but it ends up I just have bruises. I get slashed a lot.
My son found the exercises on line and we both found that they helped.
That’s good to know!
Good morning. First some hockey stuff:
I mean do you blame them? How do you pass up on a gift like that? The other option being you call up St Louis and go hey, Shatty for the #3 ranked prospect? C’mon man.I love the McAvoy pick so much. I also loved his tweet saying he hated the Bruins back in ’13. People who were actually upset about that need to either take the lead pipe out of their ass or put one in for fun. I wish he didn’t delete it lol. Still really bummed about not getting DeBrincat. Those hands are lethal and now he’s on the Hawks. Now I have to hate him. As with most people, I’m not thrilled with the Fredric pick, but there is something to be said for high floor type players and he pans out to be a Marcus Kruger, then okay.
Now on to the not hockey: Had a great weekend. This weather is amazing and I never want it to end. Had a fire for roughly an hour on Saturday and realized, nah fuck this it is way to hot out. Shocked the pool so I couldn’t even go swimming.
Sunday had a double header playing softball. Went 0-2 and I managed to tweak my back pretty good again. Golden View softball has now dropped to 1-4 on the season. Season is not going so well. Oh well. What’s on tap today?
Can someone briefly explain the problem with the Fredric pick? I’m horrible at prospects (yes, I know you ran a series on them) because I haven’t had the time to look stuff up.
He was projected to go in the late 2nd early to mid 3rd round. Same situation as Senyshyn in that he was taken super early when there were still higher skilled players on the board. Keith Gretzky has come out and said they don’t project him to be a top 6 forward either. He’s a classing Bruins guy. All grit, but http://www.sbncollegehockey.com/2016/6/23/12013064/trent-frederic-2016-nhl-draft-profile-scouting-report projects him with some pretty good hands.
So a Paille but with hands?
Yeah, Frederic appears to be what you’d call a “high floor, low ceiling” type pick. He’s very likely to be a useful NHL player, but he doesn’t appear to have first or second line potential.
If you use Scott Cullen’s data, there’s only a 42.9% chance of a #29 pick playing 100+ games in the NHL. The Bruins appear to have chosen to up their odds for 100+ games but at the cost of lowering the potential for a higher-talent player.
http://www.tsn.ca/statistically-speaking-expected-value-of-nhl-draft-picks-1.317819
Much thanks to both of you. One wonders if it’s like last year and he hoped to make some kind of deal, only to have to resort to the next in line when plan A failed.
It seems as though the Blues priced themselves out of the market with their asking prices for Shattenkirk. They told the Wings they wanted Dylan Larkin for him. Not really sure what Blues’ plan is at this point. Maybe hold onto Shattenkirk and trade him at the deadline next season.
Pasta and a 1st as a starting point speaks to a team that’s a little drunk with power.
Yeah, that’s just insane.
I saw some tweet regarding that this morning that all of it is full of shit too, but i was not awake enough to grab it.
Yet NBCSN reported it out that that it was true
If they’re asking for Pastrnak and two firsts, why WOULDN’T they ask for Larkin?
In that same thread Strickland said that that the pasta deal was also untrue. Uhhh, doubtful that multiple GMs are saying your bar is too high
Yup.
Lets be honest…Like Haggs is with boston…hes just on the Blues payroll.
I don’t like thinking that there are multiple versions of Haggerty
I dunno why but i feel like any “inside beat writer” that isn’t Amalie is on the take to publish team friendly propaganda.
Of course there are. I don’t know why everything thinks every problem related to Boston sports is exclusive to Boston sports.
Yeah…im cynical when it comes to media as a whole. Downside of “The Newsroom” is that it made me wish a news organization with integrity and political unbiasness still existed…and it doesnt.
Oh I don’t mean in terms of Boston Sports, but that there is more than one person that dumb lol
Honestly, part of me sort of likes that they went for a “just in case” pick like this, you know? What if BOTH your firsts are busts? Maybe you take one who is a sure shot to make the league. It’s risk management, in a way, despite it being a weird way to go about it.
I hear ya, but we’ve been saying that about Edmonton for the past 6 years now. At least they drafted a defenseman (Darnell Nurse) two years ago. It doesn’t have to be Puljuljarvi, but they have to move or two of their forwards in exchange for defense.
Exactly.
I see him more as a chris kelly type player