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GDT: Canes v. Bruins 10/31 7:00

KK has such a sweet shot and I wish he would make use of it much more. He's going to celebrate his first goal of the season by not talking to anyone, eating black licorice, and drinking a lot.
 
Are the Bruins that bad or were the Canes that good? Or a combination?

The Bruins had about 5 minutes of PP time in the first and 2 extended 5 on 3s. Through 2 periods, they had 18 shot attempts. Not shots on goal. Attempts. That’s…not good.
 
All treats no tricks for the Canes, could have been 12-2 from where I sat to watch that beat down!!! Feasted on Bear on all night long…
 
CanadaCanes said:
Does he think because he’s local he can’t give the Canes a break, generally sucks most nights.
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Eh, I'm mostly kidding about any 'because he lives here' angle, but I can say I'm generally unimpressed with his feel for a game and tendency to fall for the most blatant embellishments
 
andyt said:
Are the Bruins that bad or were the Canes that good? Or a combination?

The Bruins had about 5 minutes of PP time in the first and 2 extended 5 on 3s. Through 2 periods, they had 18 shot attempts. Not shots on goal. Attempts. That’s…not good.
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Also trying to figure that out... answer, like always, is probably some from Column A and some from Column B.

Our new guys are standing out as fitting in very well so far and producing, and Necas and Svech are starting the season on heaters, both of those statements would have been on all our wish lists going into the season. Even KK has 7 points. The goalies are on the worry list, like normal, especially now that we have week to week Freddie, and I worry we're asking too much of (ever the warrior) Burns at 40 than he'll be able to maintain.

The Bs looked lost last night but I haven't seen them enough this year to say any more. I did expect more fight back or fireworks after it got out of hand, but they just kind of rolled over and played dead.
 
My feeling is that Swayman's awful start has their confidence in being able to win a game in the cellar and that has them chasing the game instead of trying to establish it. Also, how about spending less time targeting a young rookie to welcome him to the NHL and just try scoring more goals?
 
Farther removed from Bergeron and his culture plus less guys that were there for that, to learn what it takes, plus finally getting beyond their window.

They were way too slow to handle what the Canes brought last night.


On the Canes side I feel like the mix they have gives them other options aside from the Aho style game. Replacing TT did that - it just changes the mix so you don’t have so many of those style guys.
 
He won't keep up the ridiculous 25% shooting so he'll want to mix in some assists on his Cy Young stat sheet, but early returns on Roslovic are pretty good, too bad we only got him on the 1 year for that 2.8.
 
The blowout gave RBA a chance to rest some guys. Aho, Svech, Jarvis and Necas all played less than 4:30 in the 3rd. The last 5 minutes was a steady diet of Staal, with Roslovic instead of Jarvis and Drury. Aho and Svech were under 10 minutes at even strength, Jarvis was barely over 10. Burns played just over 19 minutes and more than 2 was on the PK. The back to back 5 on 3s didn’t help. All the dmen played on the PK last night, even Ghost got in 16 seconds. Burns did play the fewest PK minutes of any dmen not named Ghost, so maybe a little of load management there too.
 
cmaleski2 said:
If Elias Lindholm is your #1 center you are asking for trouble. Bruins need Swayman to be Vezina level or they are going to lose a lot of games.
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They made two big free agent commitments this summer and they're both well documented low-character guys.

Lindholm has proven unreliable when needed at three different stops now, and overlooking that and just doing the skill set math on him is 100% magical thinking. The reason you got a guy with a No. 1 center's toolkit for $7 million and change isn't that you're brilliant negotiators or that Lindy just wanted to be there so badly or whatever other nonsense they sold themselves on in Boston ... it's because nobody else trusted him with the responsibility. Congrats.

And signing Zadorov was even dumber ... a guy who just keeps finding ways to fail. He's never had any discipline, has never played to a system worth a dang and even when he finds a role is constantly either hurt or suspended. What? He throws a couple of ugly thuggish hits for the Canucks last season and you figure he's worth $5 million on a 6 year deal? Just ... wow. I know most of the UFA defensemen signed this summer have struggled, but this one was guaranteed to be a problem contract.
 
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