Bruins are unreal. How are they still managing to be a well above 100 point team? I dislike Boston, but I respect them also.
Winning Team culture, focus on team defense and disciplined play, smart trades, intelligent team construction and exemplary work ethic, I guess. I must admit they rebuilt on the fly really well. Only Brad Marchand is left of the original bruins core who won the cup back in 2011.(Bergeron, Lucic, marchand, chara, Thomas, krejci)
They are consistently competitive year to year, I will give them credit for that. McAvoy and Pasta were great draft choices, and they are the heart of the « bruins 2.0 » and they managed to replace Thomas with rask and then rask with swayman/
ullmark without missing a beat.
Pasta signing contracts well under his market value also helped the bruins when it came to salary cap management.