PlayMakers
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lets just get Hoffman please
They've got enough offense. They need to upgrade the defense.
lets just get Hoffman please
I like it......I'd prefer to keep Kase though. I think him, Krejci, Hoffman could be a very good line. Not sure what would need to be added to Bjork, Moore and a 1st for Hanifin if we removed Kase. I'd love to throw in Wagner, keep Ritchie and have a 4th line of Ritchie-Kuraly-Frederic/StudnickaTrades:
Flames: Bjork, Kase, Moore, 1st
Bruins: Hanifin
Team: Ritchie
Bruins: 3rd
Signings:
Chara 1 year, 1mill
Hoffman 1 year, 5mill
Marchand-Bergeron-Pastrnak
Hoffman-Krejci-Smith
Debrusk-Coyle-Studnicka
Frederic-Kuraly-Wagner
Senyshyn
Hanifin-McAvoy
Gryz-Carlo
Chara-Lauzon
Miller-Clifton
Puts us just under the cap
I like it......I'd prefer to keep Kase though. I think him, Krejci, Hoffman could be a very good line. Not sure what would need to be added to Bjork, Moore and a 1st for Hanifin if we removed Kase. I'd love to throw in Wagner, keep Ritchie and have a 4th line of Ritchie-Kuraly-Frederic/Studnicka
I'm not great at the cap but aren't we allowed to spend 10% over? If Marshy, Miller and Pasta are all on LTIR effective the start of the season, would we be cap compliant until they got back?keeping Kase unfortunately puts us over the cap.
They do not have enough offense, we have needed another top 6 winger for a long time.They've got enough offense. They need to upgrade the defense.
They've got enough offense. They need to upgrade the defense.
I like this, while I would prefer a year of Studnicka in Providence if you have to have him in Boston the third line with a big, puck controlling center like Coyle is a good fit, it will show him how to be an NHL center. DeBrusk also works better on the third line and this would cause match up problems for other teams.Trades:
Flames: Bjork, Kase, Moore, 1st
Bruins: Hanifin
Team: Ritchie
Bruins: 3rd
Signings:
Chara 1 year, 1mill
Hoffman 1 year, 5mill
Marchand-Bergeron-Pastrnak
Hoffman-Krejci-Smith
Debrusk-Coyle-Studnicka
Frederic-Kuraly-Wagner
Senyshyn
Hanifin-McAvoy
Gryz-Carlo
Chara-Lauzon
Miller-Clifton
Puts us just under the cap
Grzelcyk is not a top 3 D on any contending team. Yes they need a top six winger but they are better trying to get offense out of Kase than going into the season with the current D corp. Vaak and Zboril are not NHL players. Lauzon and Clifton are good bottom pair/depth guys as is a healthy Miller.They do not have enough offense, we have needed another top 6 winger for a long time.
Grzelcyk is not a top 3 D on any contending team. Yes they need a top six winger but they are better trying to get offense out of Kase than going into the season with the current D corp. Vaak and Zboril are not NHL players. Lauzon and Clifton are good bottom pair/depth guys as is a healthy Miller.
Smith with Krejci may be able to produce more than 20 goals. They have the same holes they have had for years (second line scoring, grit and size) now they can add a porous D to it.
GM of the year my ***
Krug and Chara. Both played over 20 minutes a night last year and they have nobody to replace them.Because they lost Krug?
They do not have enough offense, we have needed another top 6 winger for a long time.
Last season the Bruins were 9th in goals scored, 1st in goals against.
They lost Krug. A great offensive defenseman. Who was -4.
Krug and Chara. Both played over 20 minutes a night last year and they have nobody to replace them.
Chara's not quite dead yet.
Obviously an exaggeration but I can handle the puck as well as him these days.To watch him play these days you'd be forgiven for thinking so . . .
We’re not better.I must be missing something because I'm reading that we are now all set with a better team than last year. Losing Krug and signing Craig Smith made us better? How can that be?
God I hope the people who love Kase are right. Because he doesn’t look like a real addition to me.And we added Kase and Smith.
I'm with you here.We’re not better.
And the team wasn’t good enough to begin with.
Just going backwards.
I'm with you here.
You gotta keep in mind that the core of this team isn't getting younger, either.
I'm not sure if i think this team is worse, but it's certainly not better. It's spinning tires to me.
Out:
Torey Krug
Joakim Nordstrom
Zdeno Chara (potentially)
In:
Craig Smith
I don't see how this is a better team right now.
Let's not forget how many points Coyle had in his first 21 games with us (6 pts in regular season) while looking pretty good. Kase hasn't even played 21 games with us yet we've written him off even though he's looked good, points aside.God I hope the people who love Kase are right. Because he doesn’t look like a real addition to me.
0 goals, 5 assists in 17 games, gets hit a LOT and every time he does it’s like he’s catching a live grenade. There’s skill there for sure (in f***in spades) but even his decision-making with the puck was too erratic to mesh with the ever-deliberate Krejci.
Also, to call him an addition is disingenuous. He skated all five games the Bruins lasted against the Lightning and did precisely what one feared he might - nothing.
Smith is a real add and a big plus. But I don’t believe the Bruins are appreciably better up front unless he represents some filler to help round out the top six. DeBrusk - Krejci - Kase as your second line gets you one-and-done (optimistically) and that’s not even factoring in what’s required along the left side of the blueline.
They’re a whole lot better off than they were heading into last seasonI'm with you here.
You gotta keep in mind that the core of this team isn't getting younger, either.
I'm not sure if i think this team is worse, but it's certainly not better. It's spinning tires to me.
Out:
Torey Krug
Joakim Nordstrom
Zdeno Chara (potentially)
In:
Craig Smith
I don't see how this is a better team right now.