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The Bergeron of HF
- Feb 27, 2002
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Like the cute little girl in the Arbella commercial eagerly starring into the tumbling dryer waiting for her favorite blanket to finish doing its thing, knowing all will be well shortly- Claude Julien has that same feeling with the thoughts David Krejci and Gregory Campbell will soon return giving him his version of that warm blanket and the safety of knowing 'the SYSTEM' should be fully operational with his Fantastic Four.
This has been a trying month for Claude but security is only days away. By this time next week barring injury, every one of the 3,600 seconds in a regulation game should have Krejci, Patrice Bergeron, Carl Soderberg, or Campbell on the ice. Take that little girl.
And it gets almost as good at wing- of the 8 wingers he will dress- four are Stanley Cup winners in Boston (Lucic, Kelly, Marchand, and Paille), two others (Eriksson and Smith) have been here, and the 7th Simon Gagne, I wouldn't put it past Claude to have a poster of in his Man Cave. He's in comfort land here.
He can ever resubmit Bartkowksi to the second pairing where he played well last regular season and play 7 guys who were on last years team and 6 with SC Finals experience. Again- more comfort for Claude.
This may not seem great to many, and with a couple of potentially stud young offensive forwards in Providence in Khokhlachev and Pastrnak nearby I think we can forget that.
This is a coach who has a SYSTEM that Loui Erkisson- a player who averaged over 70 points in a four year period, and a two time Olympic medalist who openly admitted at Shawn Thornton's summer charity he attended that he struggled with the system.
This is a coach who oversaw Tyler Seguin's last 27 games in Boston score 1 goal.
This is a coach who oversaw Jaromir Jagr score 1 goal in his last 27 games in Boston as well.
Seguin and Jagr combined 2 goals in an aggregate 54 games.
Ryan Spooner the 2012-2013 all rookie first team AHL center has not scored a goal in 25 games and today in the Globe Sunday column Fluto makes a description of his center play as if describing instead how Ryan looked after a night in the Amittyville Horror House.
Add Spooner, a creative, superb playmaker, and excellent skater to the list with Seguin and Jagr and you have 79 games and 2 goals.
And I'm reading Pastrnak and Koko can help this team
Matt Fraser has been getting hammered here and the 25 goal predictions of last week seem hard to believe. I thought he'd get his Chris Bourque 15-25 games to show if he could do it, but with the Gagne signing and the call up of Seth Griffith, he may have gotten only 2.5 games.
Claude did not put Fraser in the best position to succeed. The kid can shoot it. He also finds seems. I personally don't like him on the RW unless its on the power play- but no sign of him.
Washington last night put a power play (their second unit) overloaded on one side with two left shot forwards on the wall/half boards- Burakovsky and Kuznetsov; they put a single shooter on the opposite side relatively high, and two right shot defenseman- Green and Niskanen. Result goal.
Why cant Boston have Fraser as the shooter about 20 feet out in the seem in the defensive box? because he is not a vet? Claude has to cater to Lucic or who the hell knows?
I am going to be curious to see how Fraser is used if it all.
But to think Pastrnak could come up here and do a few dipsy do's and try fishing for pucks instead of going all Byron Bitz seems a bit far fetched.
Koko and Pastrnak look like two dynamic players to me. My DP viewing is limited but I've seen Koko a lot and he can be a pretty big (and exciting) point producer at the next level- but I just don't see the SYSTEM allowing this.
The System can work very well with a very good goalie, strong defense (hello Johnny), and four centers who at their core will come back and support the defense.
Claude pretty much still has that (hello Johnny)
I do like Julien though- he's been at the helm of this Bruins renaissance and by all accounts as a damn good guy. I am not asking for his removal, just a word of caution as Brick said last night the system is your friend....and those four centers are his blanket....and its almost ready.
This has been a trying month for Claude but security is only days away. By this time next week barring injury, every one of the 3,600 seconds in a regulation game should have Krejci, Patrice Bergeron, Carl Soderberg, or Campbell on the ice. Take that little girl.
And it gets almost as good at wing- of the 8 wingers he will dress- four are Stanley Cup winners in Boston (Lucic, Kelly, Marchand, and Paille), two others (Eriksson and Smith) have been here, and the 7th Simon Gagne, I wouldn't put it past Claude to have a poster of in his Man Cave. He's in comfort land here.
He can ever resubmit Bartkowksi to the second pairing where he played well last regular season and play 7 guys who were on last years team and 6 with SC Finals experience. Again- more comfort for Claude.
This may not seem great to many, and with a couple of potentially stud young offensive forwards in Providence in Khokhlachev and Pastrnak nearby I think we can forget that.
This is a coach who has a SYSTEM that Loui Erkisson- a player who averaged over 70 points in a four year period, and a two time Olympic medalist who openly admitted at Shawn Thornton's summer charity he attended that he struggled with the system.
This is a coach who oversaw Tyler Seguin's last 27 games in Boston score 1 goal.
This is a coach who oversaw Jaromir Jagr score 1 goal in his last 27 games in Boston as well.
Seguin and Jagr combined 2 goals in an aggregate 54 games.
Ryan Spooner the 2012-2013 all rookie first team AHL center has not scored a goal in 25 games and today in the Globe Sunday column Fluto makes a description of his center play as if describing instead how Ryan looked after a night in the Amittyville Horror House.
Add Spooner, a creative, superb playmaker, and excellent skater to the list with Seguin and Jagr and you have 79 games and 2 goals.
And I'm reading Pastrnak and Koko can help this team
Matt Fraser has been getting hammered here and the 25 goal predictions of last week seem hard to believe. I thought he'd get his Chris Bourque 15-25 games to show if he could do it, but with the Gagne signing and the call up of Seth Griffith, he may have gotten only 2.5 games.
Claude did not put Fraser in the best position to succeed. The kid can shoot it. He also finds seems. I personally don't like him on the RW unless its on the power play- but no sign of him.
Washington last night put a power play (their second unit) overloaded on one side with two left shot forwards on the wall/half boards- Burakovsky and Kuznetsov; they put a single shooter on the opposite side relatively high, and two right shot defenseman- Green and Niskanen. Result goal.
Why cant Boston have Fraser as the shooter about 20 feet out in the seem in the defensive box? because he is not a vet? Claude has to cater to Lucic or who the hell knows?
I am going to be curious to see how Fraser is used if it all.
But to think Pastrnak could come up here and do a few dipsy do's and try fishing for pucks instead of going all Byron Bitz seems a bit far fetched.
Koko and Pastrnak look like two dynamic players to me. My DP viewing is limited but I've seen Koko a lot and he can be a pretty big (and exciting) point producer at the next level- but I just don't see the SYSTEM allowing this.
The System can work very well with a very good goalie, strong defense (hello Johnny), and four centers who at their core will come back and support the defense.
Claude pretty much still has that (hello Johnny)
I do like Julien though- he's been at the helm of this Bruins renaissance and by all accounts as a damn good guy. I am not asking for his removal, just a word of caution as Brick said last night
the system is your friend....and those four centers are his blanket....and its almost ready.
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