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So... on Saturday we should do what we did Thursday and lost....
I say attack, Bob is all-world and can stop the Bruins..... If The CBJ don't score Boston will steal this series.... Boston is old, slow and tired... I say go after them, attack them as they did to us in game four..
The Bruins aren't old, don't know why you keep saying that. They're younger than the NHL average.
Huh? Bjork played with Bread and PLD. Dzingel-Wennberg-Tex played together in their cameo rolesTorts did a very poor job of coaching. The Tex-Pooh-Bjork line was a joke and it imposed a heavier burden on the other lines. If Nash is available Saturday nite. Pooh should be back in upper deck watching the gamer. Hope Nuti is back. But Pooh needs to sit. He adds nothing.
We had no screens in front of Rask. We were not there for rebounds. Bob was not superman tonite. I can disregard Torts' post-game interview because it is obvious he is not giving away his real thoughts. and strategy. But I thought overall we played poorly. Hopefully they get it together for Saturday.
Yep. I think Torts had a three line game plan all along. And I’m now convinced Sedlak for Wennberg.Nobody does. Torts doesn't either, he only gave them 5 minutes.
But I'm wondering why he put them together in the first place. Is it his plan to only use 3 lines? Or does he really think they will be better than they are?
There's a lot of different things that might work. Rotating in Anderson as you've mentioned. I'd much prefer Sedlak to Wennberg, or putting Nash in for Wennberg there. There's also swapping Dzingel and Foligno - restores the Dzingel - Duchene - Atkinson line and adds some heft to the 4th unit.
The Bruins aren't old, don't know why you keep saying that. They're younger than the NHL average.
I really hope that Anderson finds his game for the remainder of the playoffs. He did make a sweet behind the back pass to someone in game 4, but he hasn't had much of a presence this series. When he's flying around the ice and creating scoring chances, he's a dangerous player. IMO when he concentrates too much of the physical end, he loses a lot of his effectiveness. He needs to have that balance between physical and game breaking speed to be at his best.
Cam is off right now, but he can turn it on in a heart beat. I hope that heart beat happens in game 5.
If these two can contribute offensively, I think we have a very good chance of winning. If they stay in their short term funks, it's going to be difficult to beat the Booins.
Jenner has been creating so many chances, but just isn't finishing. I hope the odds catch up with him on his scoring chances.
That’s not true, at least according to data from the start of the year. They were 8th-oldest in the league on opening night. Further, their age is largely in big-time players, not limited bottom six grinders (a la Dubi for us) Their captain is in his 40s. Three of their 4 leading regular season scorers are 33 (34 in two months), 30 (31 in a week), and 33. They just inserted a 35-year-old into the lineup.
I went off this page: Boston Bruins 2018‑2019 Stats
Yeah some of their "old" guys are their best players. Foligno is 31, Bob is 30, Cam is 29. Does Boston having a few guys in their early 30s really swing the pendulum that much in the Jackets' favor? I don't buy it.
Also Chara is still a beast at 41.
Face off wins are a tough stat. How many of those 37 wins did Boston keep possesion. How many were won and then Columbus gained possesion within 10 seconds. If you win a face off to the corner and Boston comes in a takes the puck from our defenseman in 5 seconds and centers it out front and they score does it matter we won the face off? If you do something right off the face off that matters,i.e. scoring or clearing the puck, I just don't think face offs are a big deal until maybe the late in the game and you need a goal. I would rather lose a face off and gain possesion quickly than win one and have the defenseman miss it and go back to our defensive zone.Bergeron, Krejci, and Kuraly were a combined 30 of 44 on face-offs, for an average of 68.2%. Throw Coyle in and their four centers were 37 for 59 (62.7%). For me, that's where we lost the game. We need the puck more than we have it. We looked tired at the end, IMO, because we're chasing the game the entire night.
- Win face-offs, at least get to 50% there.
- Eliminate the dumb penalties.
- Rask has to be only slightly mortal.
Do those things and we're coming back to Columbus ahead 3-2.
Torts, feel free to mix up the D a bit too. I'm ready for #44.
Face off wins are a tough stat. How many of those 37 wins did Boston keep possesion. How many were won and then Columbus gained possesion within 10 seconds. If you win a face off to the corner and Boston comes in a takes the puck from our defenseman in 5 seconds and centers it out front and they score does it matter we won the face off? If you do something right off the face off that matters,i.e. scoring or clearing the puck, I just don't think face offs are a big deal until maybe the late in the game and you need a goal. I would rather lose a face off and gain possesion quickly than win one and have the defenseman miss it and go back to our defensive zone.
I went off this page: Boston Bruins 2018‑2019 Stats
Yeah some of their "old" guys are their best players. Foligno is 31, Bob is 30, Cam is 29. Does Boston having a few guys in their early 30s really swing the pendulum that much in the Jackets' favor? I don't buy it.
Also Chara is still a beast at 41.