Couple good saves, he stopped two breakaways while the Bs were on the PP, and another PP he had more shots than Smith.
Post-Game Talk: Game 6 - B's start with Rockie Mountain low and don't recover - Flames 5 BRUINS 2 F
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The Hockey Tonk Man
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As much as I love watching the first line dominate, would really like to see that first line split up to spread the skill out for a game or two, see how it goes
Really diggin' the 4th line though
Really diggin' the 4th line though
Rubber Biscuit
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Well maybe it will turn out that way as the season goes on, but right now this is not what is happening out there.
Fenian24
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He doesn't seem to know where the defensive zone is or seem very concerned about finding it.
I can't disagree with this at all. He has not been impressive- he had that one snazzy dangle last night and a bunch of nothing. Yeah they see something with him, and so do we all, but he appears to be getting a lot more rope than a lot of other guys have gotten when they played that poorly (Heinen, Cehlarik, Czarnik come immediately to mind).
Rask needs to be much better than he was in the first period or they are not going far.
He gave up one goal that he should have had- the other two his defense fell apart in front of him. No goalies in the league is probably stopping the first two goals there. You should change your post to "The defense needs to be much better that they were in the first period or they are not going far"
Certainly no more ridiculous than folks pulling the "sky is falling" card over a lack of secondary scoring in October.
UncleRico
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When secondary scoring has been a problem for a while now and there have been no improvements it’s rather unsettling. Especially when there is no secondary scoring against the extremely easy schedule the bruins have had to begin the year.
Backes having zero points against terrible competition while getting a lot of power play time is a big concern.
I guess that could bug people but that is the price for good experienced versatile players who have options. Right now line one makes 19 million (amazing), line 2a/2b make about 9 million each (respectable) - and line 4 makes 3 million (excellent), that allocation looks fine to me. The team has cap space available to grab someone if needed and if it ends up being a "2nd line" center Krejci can slide down, if it's a "2nd line" winger I think he will be fine as our 2nd best center playing with 2 solid wingers.
I look at it this way, if Bergeron/Marchand and Pasta all made 7.5 and Krejci made 6 everyone would be saying what a great job the front office did getting everyone on fair deals..... but we'd be spending 1.5 million more per year overall. Some deals are better than others but as a whole things look pretty good, I'd rather be sitting in the Bruins spot with the cap than most other teams in the league.
No improvements is debatable. Let's give them some time. NHL teams really have no idea what they have and what kind of team they might be until at least the holidays.
Again....supposedly this was a problem last season yet they still scored more goals than almost every other team in the league.
Agreed.
I don't argue with you about the cap overall- it isn't my money. I do have a problem with two guys that are basically 3c quality at the moment making a combined 13 million+. To put that in perspective you could have John Tavares as your 2C and Riley Nash as your 3c for close to that. So I don't think that is good value for what either guy brings right now. Having one of them, fine, most every team seems to have that guy, but now we seemingly have two and it kind of sucks.
The D does need to be better, but I would say 2 of the 3 goals in the first were Rask's fault, that first one he overplayed it by a mile. He has started slow last year too, so willing to see if he can get out of this funk , but if he does not we could be in trouble. I really love Halak as our back up, but don't think he can be a #1 all year type of thing.
Bruinfanatic
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Oh come on,I not one to jump on Rask,but he sucked,he was struggling to find the puck which he does sometimes,he did play great after he gave up 4 though will give him that.
He made some good stops in the first period too. I thought two of the goals were poor team play and not really on him, the third one was a softie deluxe. But we can see it differently. I believe if the team was what they needed to be it isn't a problem. I am not a defend Rask at all costs poster, but I don't think last night was really on him. If he had been lights out good- he wasn't- he could have kept us in it for sure.
LouJersey
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The only goal I am blaming on Rask is the 5th one. was slow going from bench to post, doesn't move like he used to.
I am happy I went to sleep.
I will try and watch tonight. Is the start time 9 pm ?
I am not too worried ...yet.
The top line is great but we need to get others going.
moving on....
I will try and watch tonight. Is the start time 9 pm ?
I am not too worried ...yet.
The top line is great but we need to get others going.
moving on....
mjhfb
Easier from up here
As Pierre McGuire would say, for that "big body presence".
Now take a drink.
Forwards on PP1- Marchand, Bergeron, Pasta, Bjork
Forwards on PP2- Krejci, Donato, DeBrusk, Backes
Forwards not on PP- Nordstrom, Wagner, Acciari, Kurlay
Which of those 4 would u want over Backes?
Blowfish
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Not true. The 2nd was terrible rebound control on a routine shot which lead to the goal.
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