Thorny

We don’t need Hasek, we would see a lot of improvement merely by striving for “not absolutely terrible” The goaltending is simply awful, *relative to what our poor (in need of improvement, but not awful) defence gives up*. That means, accounting for how many chances we give up, and the quality, the goalies STILL save significantly less than others in the same position what this means is that, SHOULD we improve the D, and the amount of chances and quality chances we give up, our goalies will STILL give up more than the other goalies league wide facing those chances ie any way you dice it we need to improve in net

Very true..

I am going to read it in that voice now

I don’t think he was ever going to win. Karlsson will get it but what is disappointing is he’s playing, and has likely already played himself out of a nomination altogether.

I’m totally willing to leave a blank space on that, “how will he perform in crunch time games”. Absolutely. Presuming you are willing to grant that he played very well in the games, early in the year, that you were arguing were some of the important games, last year during the hot stretch to end? So, no, not the MOST important yet, but he has 75% of it covered. That’s a reasonable amount to go on, for Kevyn Adams and his team building supplementation, one would think

Jack’s fault

This isn’t to be negative, it’s just a reality- whether by his play, fatigue, injury, or pairing partner, Dahlin has absolutely played himself out of the race with this putrid stretch. He hasn’t been very good since the all star game, but particularly of late, after another -3 today: he’s got 0 points in his last 8 games and is a *minus -13*. Whereas he was among the D leaders in this category (which can matter for Norris), a minus season is actually possible after all that which was simply unfathomable a few weeks ago. it adds a certain sting cause as a fan you can sometimes fall back on individual careers years / progress in light of team failure, as a silver lining, but that too is drying up across the board

We have a big advanced stats team now, right? Explains why Granato refuses to pull him, he’s expecting the numbers to improve

Bruins were on a back to back and didn’t try very hard

This is the correct term

This is actually bad. Like it’s pretty telling and depressing

My mistake

If we finish with about 82 points.. probably out of the playoffs

I hope Skinner or Lyubushkin scores so they have to play some dumbass goal song

We’ve only lost in March. This isn’t meaningful games in March. That means you are playing meaningful games THROUGH the month and it’s half way through and that ship has long sailed.

Tomorrow: “UPL day-to-day with lower body injury”

“Almost looked like they laid down on that shift and that’s unacceptable” - bruins commentator

Team quit Quinn doing that thing where he tries to do it all himself too. Back of net what exactly are we developing?

LMAO

Ooo Tage looks steamed

Owen Powerrrrrrrr

In fairness UPL did his thing and kept it to 4

Don’t worry, 1 earth year is almost nothing in the grand scheme of a long term nhl rebuild

Shifting to about next year for me. Next year is HIS plan’s third year. Gotta make the playoffs by 3 years in. 4 total as GM.