Bruins 2017-18 Season

 Pedro Pedro Pedro here is some reading for you.

boston.cbslocal.com/2018/03/27/tuukka-rask-postseason-facts-bruins/

 Goalies are just like all other athletes, they have bad days. It certainly hasn't looked great but most of those goals over the past 2 games were off some pretty shots and moves. I would say their were 2 soft goals in 2 games, not great but you don't trade the guy who is top 5 in the world.

I'm not the one calling Rask average, Casidy is. I wouldn't call Rask a top 5 goalie either.

As someone who has watched thousands of hockey games, I find save percentage to be a pretty lousy way of judging goalies. You take a goalie on a great defensive team and put him on the worst defensive team and his save percentage will drop dramatically while remaining the same goalie. I don't know anything about advanced NHL stats, but there has to be something better than save percentage and GAA by now.

A perfectly executed 2 on 0 will result in a .000 save percentage. A bunch of shots from the red line with no screen will result in a 1.000 save percentage. That's for every single goalie. I used extreme examples for a reason. You just have to factor the quality of shots faced.

No love for the Bruins after taking game 1 in TB.

Does Backes have a buyout? Im confused how NHL contracts work.

Great year, though frustrating that so many external factors conspired against them for the playoffs: Playing every two days for more than the last month was unique to the Bruins and, exhausted them- prior to beginning a whole second grueling marathon of the playoffs and probably contributed to the large number of injuries they finished the year with- in the exit interviews 6 of their top nine forwards and 3 of the top 4 defensemen were either taken out by the last round, playing very compromised, or coming back from injuries like concussions not at full speed. You top that off with such disgraceful primarily one sided officiating against them- cited by numerous writers and broadcasters- Michel Bergeron even stated several referees should have been reprimanded. Take the sum total of all the above and the on ice product which was simply analyzed as "Tampa was a better team, more depth, better 5 on 5 play and deserved to win" may have all been turned upside down. We will never know. But it's unfortunate that the best team in the NHL from November through March was deprived of their chance, possibly by external factors.

If I'm Jacobs and Cam Neely I would press like hell to never again have a heavier schedule than all the other teams in the last 6 weeks before the playoffs. Also, for at least one play per game, maybe two, all plays (including "on ice calls" such as penalties, but leaving the offsides rule as is) need to be subject to video review as league wide during the season and during the playoffs the officiating was inexcusable and this would serve to not only get calls corrected, but give rotten officials embarrassment, and hopefully eventually the boot. Lastly, as per Ken Dryden's book, concussions on dirty plays should be severely reprimanded- it's a joke to let players slide on the basis of whether the injured player comes back, turned or looked down at the last moment, or had a head injury with contact also generated elsewhere. Keep it very simple- if a player gets a head injury, had his numbers facing back-or released the puck a while ago- it's a severe- as in 10 game reprimand, escalating to 20, 40, 80 then lifetime ban for each offense period. The player loses pay and team is fined.  Without that implementation, a very high percent of the league gets concussions currently, and players are compromised for their careers and lifetimes.
This is the fastest, most exciting, most athletic and truly greatest sport but it needs cleanup- and it can still retain a quality of action and clean hitting.