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The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
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Jon
Say, this is nice.
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
I believe this year has been such a colossal failure all the way around that merely pointing at one player the Bruins were stupid enough to drive out of town is almost besides the point. This team can NOT score when they need to and they can't play defense when they need to. They've basically turned a first place team into a middle of the pack team moving down the basement. It's awful hockey to watch. Chiarelli and company have gone from Ghostbusters to Manos: the Hands of the Fate in one year. It's maddening.
I believe this year has been such a colossal failure all the way around that merely pointing at one player the Bruins were stupid enough to drive out of town is almost besides the point. This team can NOT score when they need to and they can't play defense when they need to. They've basically turned a first place team into a middle of the pack team moving down the basement. It's awful hockey to watch. Chiarelli and company have gone from Ghostbusters to Manos: the Hands of the Fate in one year. It's maddening.
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
I posted this on my blog, I feel like it sums up my feelings pretty well so I will post it here too:
What exactly happened to the Bruins this year. How does the entire team collectively take a massive dump on this season? Dennis Wideman is absolutely awful. It's apparent that Patrice Bergeron will never get back the level that made him a potential star. Zdeno Chara looks years removed from his Norris trophy. Steve Begin and the entire fourth line gets waaaaay to much ice team. Blake Wheeler and David Krejci had phenomenal rookie seasons and have gotten sucked into the sophomore slump. This season is a disaster, can it just end already?
Whoa, whoa whoa. You mean to tell me that soft wristers from the perimeter with no one crashing the net aren't going to go in?
I posted this on my blog, I feel like it sums up my feelings pretty well so I will post it here too:
What exactly happened to the Bruins this year. How does the entire team collectively take a massive dump on this season? Dennis Wideman is absolutely awful. It's apparent that Patrice Bergeron will never get back the level that made him a potential star. Zdeno Chara looks years removed from his Norris trophy. Steve Begin and the entire fourth line gets waaaaay to much ice team. Blake Wheeler and David Krejci had phenomenal rookie seasons and have gotten sucked into the sophomore slump. This season is a disaster, can it just end already?
Terrierbyassociation
Fight Cancer, Wherever You Find It
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
If only someone realized that if you got rid of Kessel you needed to find another goal scorer...
If only someone realized that if you got rid of Kessel you needed to find another goal scorer...
GreatLakerMohawk
Mushroom Cloud-Laying Mofo
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
Don't worry, they'll grind their way into goals.
Don't worry, they'll grind their way into goals.
bronconick
Yep, still here
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
Eagles, just accept the fact that the 2008-09 Boston Bruins played *way* over their heads offensively.
Shooting percentage by team last year (from http://www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/NHL_2009.html)
Boston 10.9%
Pittsburgh 10.8%
Philadelphia 10.7%
Detroit 9.7%
Chicago 9.7%
San Jose 9.2%
Lucic scored on 17.5% of his shots, Krecji 15.1%, Ryder 14.6, Kessel 15.1.
By comparison, Malkin was 13.9, Crosby 13.7, Ovechkin 10.8, Semin 15.2, Datsyuk 12.0, Hossa 12.9, Zetterberg 10.0, Heatley 15.1, Marleau 15.1, Carter 13.5
You're not getting that kind of performance this year. And frankly, you should never have expected it.
Eagles, just accept the fact that the 2008-09 Boston Bruins played *way* over their heads offensively.
Shooting percentage by team last year (from http://www.hockey-reference.com/leagues/NHL_2009.html)
Boston 10.9%
Pittsburgh 10.8%
Philadelphia 10.7%
Detroit 9.7%
Chicago 9.7%
San Jose 9.2%
Lucic scored on 17.5% of his shots, Krecji 15.1%, Ryder 14.6, Kessel 15.1.
By comparison, Malkin was 13.9, Crosby 13.7, Ovechkin 10.8, Semin 15.2, Datsyuk 12.0, Hossa 12.9, Zetterberg 10.0, Heatley 15.1, Marleau 15.1, Carter 13.5
You're not getting that kind of performance this year. And frankly, you should never have expected it.
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
I'm not so sure its the loss of Kessel. Obviously he would make this team better but currently nearly every player is underproducing from last year.
I understand this argument but I don't buy into it. Yes, they played much much better than anyone would have predicted. But you can't say that they were second in the NHL scoring after 82 games by accident. Thats a long time for things to mellow out and for the team to return back to their typical baseline. But they didn't. They played well throughout the entire season and even in the first round of the playoffs.
I think they played a little bit better than they are capable of last season and they are playing much worse than they really are this season.
I'm not so sure its the loss of Kessel. Obviously he would make this team better but currently nearly every player is underproducing from last year.
I understand this argument but I don't buy into it. Yes, they played much much better than anyone would have predicted. But you can't say that they were second in the NHL scoring after 82 games by accident. Thats a long time for things to mellow out and for the team to return back to their typical baseline. But they didn't. They played well throughout the entire season and even in the first round of the playoffs.
I think they played a little bit better than they are capable of last season and they are playing much worse than they really are this season.
NCAA watcher
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Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
Which happens with a top end talent -- he makes everyone around him better.
Chiarelli, you reap what you sow. Don't value talent and goal scoring, and guess what -- you don't get goals.
But Boston will never figure that out -- they love grit guys like Lucic more than talent. And they love physical guys like Mark Stuart, passing on Zach Parise when he dropped to them (only a goal scorer).
Of course, down in New Jersey, Lamouriello continues to spin his wheels, wasting picks and money on guys like Parise and Gionta who only score goals.
Which happens with a top end talent -- he makes everyone around him better.
Chiarelli, you reap what you sow. Don't value talent and goal scoring, and guess what -- you don't get goals.
But Boston will never figure that out -- they love grit guys like Lucic more than talent. And they love physical guys like Mark Stuart, passing on Zach Parise when he dropped to them (only a goal scorer).
Of course, down in New Jersey, Lamouriello continues to spin his wheels, wasting picks and money on guys like Parise and Gionta who only score goals.
GreatLakerMohawk
Mushroom Cloud-Laying Mofo
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
Brendan Shanahan has officially retired from the NHL.
Also, Nikita Filatov is being "loaned" to CSKA Moscow of the KHL for the rest of the year so he can actually play hockey rather than be a healthy scratch under Hamburglar Hitchcock's ruling hand.
Brendan Shanahan has officially retired from the NHL.
Also, Nikita Filatov is being "loaned" to CSKA Moscow of the KHL for the rest of the year so he can actually play hockey rather than be a healthy scratch under Hamburglar Hitchcock's ruling hand.
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
Yikes! Its like every Boston hockey fan out here is channeling the spirit of Rover in their comments about the Bruins. I always knew this day would come, but now that its here its a little more eerie than I thought it would be.
What I have to laugh about as I read the comments in the Herald are people starting to get on Julien's case. Idiots, the team sucks and has AHL level talent. That's not the coaches fault, although when he inevitably gets turfed at the end of the year the cycle will be complete, and I wonder then if the last few holdouts will finally start singing Won't Get Fooled Again by the Who when the B's try to jack up ticket prices in the offseason.
Yikes! Its like every Boston hockey fan out here is channeling the spirit of Rover in their comments about the Bruins. I always knew this day would come, but now that its here its a little more eerie than I thought it would be.
What I have to laugh about as I read the comments in the Herald are people starting to get on Julien's case. Idiots, the team sucks and has AHL level talent. That's not the coaches fault, although when he inevitably gets turfed at the end of the year the cycle will be complete, and I wonder then if the last few holdouts will finally start singing Won't Get Fooled Again by the Who when the B's try to jack up ticket prices in the offseason.
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Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
You mean Julien, whose benching of Kessel in the playoffs cost the Bruins against Montreal in 08, and set in motion Kessel hating Boston?
You mean Julien, whose benching of Kessel in the playoffs cost the Bruins against Montreal in 08, and set in motion Kessel hating Boston?
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
Usually I would say that is true but in this case I disagree. Kessel would be invisible for nearly an entire game but manage to get a goal or an assist. Marc Savard had 28 more points than Kessel, I think his loss hurts more than Phil's.
Usually I would say that is true but in this case I disagree. Kessel would be invisible for nearly an entire game but manage to get a goal or an assist. Marc Savard had 28 more points than Kessel, I think his loss hurts more than Phil's.
Jon
Say, this is nice.
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
The only thing this team is grinding is my ****ing sanity.
The only thing this team is grinding is my ****ing sanity.
Jon
Say, this is nice.
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
The Red Sox want to kill you.
The Bruins want to drive you mad so you kill your neighbor.
The Red Sox want to kill you.
The Bruins want to drive you mad so you kill your neighbor.
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
Then it's his own **** fault for not knowing then.
Then it's his own **** fault for not knowing then.
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
I love that you can justify murder
Then it's his own **** fault for not knowing then.
I love that you can justify murder
Terrierbyassociation
Fight Cancer, Wherever You Find It
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
Bradley just got lit up by Voros.
Bradley just got lit up by Voros.
Terrierbyassociation
Fight Cancer, Wherever You Find It
Re: The 2009-10 NHL regular season thread: Slightly less meaningless hockey
Soft as hell penalty on Avery and Ovechkin with a blast that Henrik never saw.
Soft as hell penalty on Avery and Ovechkin with a blast that Henrik never saw.
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