The Bruins are a mess.
Could it be because of this?
It’s part of it.
That’s all I’ve got.
Morning Free Association, October 27
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“Have Flames put Dougie Hamilton on the trade block?”
Answer: No, but it’s sure funny that there’s even an article about it.
http://www.thehockeynews.com/rumors/article/rumor-roundup-have-flames-put-dougie-hamilton-on-the-trade-block
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/huge-if-true-would-the-flames-actually-trade-dougie-hamilton-135959144.html
If they did, would it be worth bringing him back to Boston?
Moot, since he doesn’t want to play here. If he did want to play here…dunno…he’s been getting 3rd-pair minutes in Calgary. Not sure what’s up with that.
Maybe his time in Calgary has shown him that he needs a system like Julien’s in order to play well.
One would figure that with Brodie, Giordano, and Dougie the Flames would have a ludicrously good defense.
its snowing… ugh.
Besides the top line, everyone has been awful. I find it hard to call out one or two or three players when they’ve all been wilting flowers. Get it together Bruins!
Not everyone. The Schaller-Moore-Acciari unit has been a revelation. Potentially one of the better 4th lines in the league. Also the Charlo pairing.
Yeah that fourth line has been a lot of fun to watch. They just make things happen.
They win battles, put some pressure on and are defensively responsible. Can’t ask any more of a fourth line. Moore has looked a great signing so far.
Hes looking like a killer mentor for Acciari to boot
For sure. I’m really enjoying the Moore Friars line.
http://thumbs.picclick.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/gqkAAOSw0e9Uy~HL/$/Pitco-Fryer-Catering-Equipment-Gas-Fryers-Sg14-Not-_57.jpg
Somebody order moar fryers?
I’m not impressed to tell the truth with Chara and Carlo. For every glimpse of promise, there are plenty of bad turnovers in every, from breakout passes to bad D to D passes in the offensive zone, cough ups in the neutral zone and lost battles.
I can give the fourth line credit but I also don’t heap too much praise on them.
You know what? You’re absolutely right.
Bagel’s thoughts on the Bruins.
I bet Tuukka doubters changed their minds. This is what you get when you have an average defense and rookie goalies.
Also, I remember why Anton Khudobin spent time in the AHL after his last stint with the Bruins.
Colin Miller is fine. He’s a second year NHL who still needs a lot of work, but the reward is there. This is why LA felt it was okay to trade him.
Can the second and third lines please show up? Teams know they can spend all their time on the first line. That will ruin your defense and offense.
Rask has looked good especially when you consider he’s been fighting an obvious injury. Twice he went down in clear pain but finished the games (and won).
I don’t think that’s fair to Khudobin at all. He’s been better than the other backups we’ve had the past couple years.
Colin Miller, I’m fine with. But he needs work. If guys are going to sit I’d rather see him play than McQuaid whose ceiling is falling on his own head.
Yeah basically the middle of the team has been melty soft-serve ice cream, and teams are pounding Marchand into dust because they don’t need to worry about depth threats.
Hi, I’m Chad Johnson.
Couple generally means 2 (CJ30 was 3 years ago)- and Dobie hasn’t been worse than Sveddy or Gus I think- he’s the closest thing to having been ‘in’ that Habs game we had going
Oh god Svedberg was terrible! He batted the puck around like a kitten on caffeine.
My office Tuukka doubter actually said to me, “We really need Tuukka back”. That’s when my head fell off.
Well, Tuukka is undefeated so far this season, while our other 3 goalies are winless.
So with the Ducks having signed Lindholm to a $5.25 million for 6 years contract, the Ducks are $1.3 million over the cap and have no choice but to make a trade between now and 5 PM tomorrow to be Cap compliant. World seems to think Fowler will be in play. I’m not overly interested in Fowler, but now that the Ducks have no choice but to sell RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, literally anyone in talks with Bob Murray has all of the leverage
I hit send too early and edited, refresh if you want to see the full thought.
On top of that, his cap hit goes up like $30k/day, as per Uncle Bob last night.
BUY HIM, BRUINS
DO THE THING, SWEEN!
I actually do have hope he can get something like this done. I mean, the team still sucks but overall Sweeney’s moves this season have been for the better (dual McQ/Miller signing aside)
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd he’s signed.
?
Holy mackerel. That’s gonna be quite a kettle of vultures circling around the Ducks.
Yuppers. Somebody is gonna fleece Murray.
This could be how we find out if Tuukka is down long term- Bernier. Ugh.
Bernier?
NO.
Bernier’s persistent presence in the league has long surprised me.
If Tuukka is out long term, hes better than Pavelec, and Anaheim would give him away cheap to a not-Kings team.
Fuck I hope Tuukka isn’t out long term
I keep hearing that he might be back this weekend, but the lack of communication never seems to be a good sign when it comes the Bruins. Day to Day always turns into weeks and weeks.
Oh god. We’ve reached “Better than Pavelec” desperation levels?
Not gonna find any better unless we’re dropping lots of assets.
Probably true, hopefully not needed.
Wonder if any of them are named Don.
Ha ha.
The collective interest might actually force one team to offer a decent return.
Especially combined with the absurdly high asking prices for defensemen lately. I’d expect a normal-ish return for Fowler. As much as I’m also not super hot on Fowler, he might be what the B’s need.
a multi-million LHD is not what I would chase right now first choice, but if the price is reasonable. and picking up a D with low term is fine- we only have 2 defensemen that we really really need to (or are required to) protect from expansion right now in Z and Krug
Agreed. Not my first choice, either, but if the price is right he could help us out a lot.
I would take Fowler anytime. He has improved greatly the last two years.
Depends. I’ve read that Murray doesn’t want to trade Fowler if he can avoid it (although hes got expansion issue on the back end- required to protect Bieksa, presumably would like to avoid losing as many of Lindhol-Vatanen-Fowler-Manson as possible). If someone comes along offering to take one of his other cap problems off his hands- Bernier, Stoner, etc, I bet Murray lets them go for very, very little (Stoner is a more expensive mcQuaid though, so god no)
Their cap situation might prevent them from accepting a decent return.
Ducks always need a Fowler!
Ugh! I always get that wrong! It’s the Fowler that needs Ducks, not the other way around.
Duck Hunt 2: In Soviet Union, Duck hunts you!”
According to thehockeywriters.com, the Ducks got back under the cap by putting Simon Despres & Nate Thompson on LTIR
Only buys them time, it solves nothing. Especially if they get better.
But time is a valuable commodity when making deals. It means they don’t have “sell RIGHT THE FUCK NOW”, just pretty fucking soon.
FIFY
A DOPS hearing for that?
WTF!?!
I’ll have to check the rulebooks on whether there is some automatic thing that requires this or if they’re just being a bunch of wusses.
doesn’t say in person.
I assumed it wasn’t, but if one watches the replay, it is not only not a suspension-worthy hit, but a legal one that probably shouldn’t have been penalized
The more I watch this play, the more legal I think it is. Minor penalty at most.
Girardi facing him square on has to be a factor in the decision
Principal point of contact was the chest. Anyone who says otherwise isn’t watching it at full speed.
leading foot is on the ice, the shoulder is down and the head snaps forward onto the shoulder due to momentum change, as he follows through with the hit the shoulder elevates pushing the head back making it look like a head hit when 90% of the energy transfer is to the breast bone.
If they do anything more than talk to him and go, hey…when making this hit we prefer “Such and such,” you ave no previous history just be careful going forward….i will be shocked.
a-fucking-men
I’m with you, I would just stress that Pasta needs to be carful more than Im upset about the hit.
Re: the last part –
Agreed wholeheartedly.
I agree but with the way this season is going he’ll probably have to sit.
The more I watch this hit, the more dirty I think it is. Charging and hit to the head.
I said this last night during the game thread, it looks like Pasta was deciding between go up for a jump ball for the puck or wait it out & shoulder to chest Girardi when he made contact with the puck to strip it from him & ended up doing a bit of both
I felt the opposite…
Opposite to me.
I have much to do today. I need my voice for one of them. It’s dicey.
Things I may do today:
I was going to vote but had a long meeting, and now it’s too close to noon. I figure lunchbreak hour is not the time to get that done in a timely manner.
I also did not vote. I have tomorrow, I guess. I hesitate only because I am hung up on a referendum item.
“Fellas, what do you think?”
#0
“We think the morning skate should be as scary as the Bruins’ play!”
…my body is ready (for your spooky gifs!)
#6
Touch my pumpkin! Love him!
EXCUSE ME? I didn’t hear you! Your dancing is too silent!
https://youtu.be/v4IC7qaNr7I
Launch Jimmy Hayes into the sun.
Launch Colin Miller into the sun.
Today in hockey terminology: double flamingo
http://www.tsn.ca/nylander-earns-ribbing-from-vets-for-double-flamingo-1.593099
Yes, lets fire our best possession defenseman (by a lot) and with a comically low sub- 900 PDO into the sun, thats a fucking sane idea.I’m gonna go with the “watch the game” test and say, “He contributes nothing.” I’m sick of how many times he’s caught out of position. The Liles-Chiller pairing has been flat-out atrocious.
Their goals-for percentage is indistinguishable from Krug’s. Chiller is no more a problem than any defensemen not named Chara or Carlo has been, and arguably less so than at least a few.
Also, don’t be that guy
Dude, you need a timeout. You’re pretty insufferable today. You’re not an expert and people have a right to their opinions.
My point was simply that we have a lot of players failing the eye test badly, and I really don’t think expelling the one of them who is doing the best on the stat sheet seems like a particularly sound plan.
But I will point out that yes, I am sick and cranky because its a very nice day and I should be out breaking rocks and shit.
The fifth goal was all Chiller. Bad decision making. And that was the worst of many bad decisions.
I wouldn’t give up on him so far but this team as a whole really needs to start playing their role and do what the system needs of them FOR ALL PERIODS.
And I agree with all of this.
I like advanced stats. I really do. However, Chiller’s comically low PDO isn’t because he’s been comically unlucky – it’s because he’s been comically awful. Look at the second goal against Montreal. Three Bruins behind the goal line and Chiller in front of the net facing backwards. Yes, there were other Bruins clearly screwing up there, but Chiller was just standing there watching them screw up instead of trying to cover anyone. It’s been a pattern with him – he’s not sure where he should be or who he should cover.
Yes, Quaider’s getting turnstiled. Yes, Krug’s brain is missing. Yes, nobody is playing confidently given who we’re forced to put in net. However, this is the year we really needed Chiller to step up and he’s simply not doing it. I don’t care what his PDO is. I don’t care what his CorsiOnRelFor% is. I don’t care what his drag coeffecient is. He’s not pulling his weight at all.
Do things get better when Killer comes back? *shrug* At the very least the pairs could involve Quaider and Killer only getting 3rd-pair minutes. (side note: Dougie Hamilton is still getting only 3rd-pair minutes in Calgary. lulz)
But hey, at least Carlo’s playing well. He might even be playing better than Chara. For all the fretting and hand-wringing about Donny not going out and getting a 2nd-pair d-man, we found one in our system.
Look- I get it, I’ve watched *most* of the games. Chiller hasn’t been good. He hasn’t even been the best of a bad bunch (thats probably still Krug), but to punt him when hes clearly offering *something* when McQuaid (or god forbid Morrow) are offering less than nothing isn’t a sound plan.
Kevan will make it better, but if its Chiller he ousts, the situation is unlikely to improve.
Thank god for Carlo though. Rookie warts and all, hes been a revelation and with him Z is playing better than he has since he lost Boychuk.
For the record, I didn’t mind the “don’t be that guy” jab. You were being snarky, I was being snarky.
If it was anyone else, I probably would have pulled my punches
http://24.media.tumblr.com/e2bd49c2ced6048180541cbac72c6dbd/tumblr_n4j7jtqded1s2wio8o1_500.gif
I find the cow wearing a skirt with her legs somehow outside of it to be rather disturbing…
And the chain runs inside the skirt, rather than to her leg. Udderly ridiculous!
I’ve gotta agree with this. He gets caught out of position with startling regularity. He uses his speed to recover from this, so it often works out in the end, but there are going to be teams (Rags come to mind) against which that will not work, and he’s gonna get torched with regularity against those teams.
He’s gotta get his eyes open & read the situations better – he can and should be a better player.
See: Les Habitantes
Seems like that term is silly since even flamingos aren’t weightless. Still, a rookie move as they say.
Not really, since a “flamingo” is one leg up. It’s just double a flamingo.
It’s hockey. It’s not supposed to make sense.
Bruins, why you do not like the second period?
It seems like they don’t really like hockey lately, either!
This is true. My follow up question should have been “And why do you not like the first and third periods?”
Last night they loved the first period and hated everything else.
I think shock therapy is the only answer here.
They believe in numerology and the number 2 has been identified as a number to avoid?
Two is skeeeery!
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See? He IS skeery! (just ask Ace Bailey)