2021 Bruins Season

Let me show you his own coaches comments first:
"Coach Bruce Cassidy explained the one simple thing Lauzon can do to avoid replicating his costly mistake:
“We’ll go D-to-D high, we did it a lot. We got a lot of good offense from it tonight, but his partner wasn't there. So he just has to look, you have to survey the ice," Cassidy said.
“There are set plays for us that we run but there has to be a player there, so you have to look, and usually you look first, and that’s some of the learning curve for younger guys." (his comments on Rask were further disparaging of the Defense in general last night)

All the guy has to do is look. Huh. If you're not looking, what are you doing? Auto-pilot? paralyzed by fear? just going through the motions and following the system?

You said: "Rocket's it off his leg." I had to re-watch the goal to make sure I didn't miss a slap shot pass, but no, no, it's just a wrister, that Lauzon even lunges out to block--leads with the leg and stick to try to block a passing lane. wrist pass.

Here's the thing with Lauzon, and with some respects Carlo, who someone else was calling out--I think Carlo is a much better player, but they both get these times in their own end, where they're both lost. Just completely, seemingly, not knowing where they're supposed to be. In these times, they do things like panic, and skate back toward their own goal, WITHOUT looking. Carlo, for instance, did that, wasn't watching the play, and basically skated a goal in, that fortunately didn't cost us in the latter part of the Caps series. Lauzon isn't seeing a puck coming for his feet at all, nor adjusting at all. With due respect, if it were a rocketed slap shot, ok.

The guy stands out for this, maybe because he's just more of a goon body type so he doesn't react like some of the smaller quicker guys, or some other reason puts him in this lost/panicked/whatever mindset that doesn't allow him to react compared to the others. You can look back over the course of the whole year and see that some guys have a much higher "chance" of this happening to them. McAvoy easily had most minutes all season on D. I can vaguely remember this happening to him once ALL YEAR? Maybe there was a second time I missed, but I watched almost the entire season. I see someone like McAvoy, a lot more, if the puck is headed for his feet, his eyes are following it and he's kicking it outward, away from the goal to the corner. He seems to know his feet are appendages he can control if he wants to, meanwhile the above mentioned seem to get wooden and forget their own feet are theirs, and they could also kick a puck.

I'll spend a few minutes googling today looking for a new stat that tracks defensemen being lost in their own zone. I don't think there is one yet.

I don't think Lauzon was at fault for the goal between Rask's legs, I just said he was on the ice for it. You've got your own strawman going there on that one.

If anything on that play, I'd say Lauzon seemed to know Rask didn't know where it was, and he was concerned it was going to trickle through his legs. However, as you point out, while Rask was guiding it in the goal as he was moving, Lauzon was trying with his stick behind him to prevent a bad outcome, and ended up tugging on one of Rask's Skates, HOWEVER, the puck was already across the line I think when that happened. None of the camera angles were great on that goal. Again, don't think that goal is on Lauzon, and at least on that play his instincts seemed right.

I'd still like to see Swayman myself. Perhaps I'm extremely wrong in wanting that, but I'd like to see it all the same. I'm not sure Swayman, clearly healthier, isn't a better bet right now.

FINALLY some luck! wow, hard fought game, so little luck last two games with the puck, bounces, etc. got some nice luck for Marchand's shot there! Woohoo! 2-1!

Up 2 games to 1...I'll take it! The injuries are worrying.

Just find a way to scrape out a win tonight. Then maybe Miller back for game 5, and a good chance we can put away a team that will be feeling down while we're at home, and get some rest for the next series.

I saw an exhausted team tonight. I don't know that I've ever seen McAvoy so wiped out.

Pasta had an off game, part of his on again off again way of playing the game. I hope they can go home and get some rest and turn it around, based on fatigue and effort tonight, they're done. I hope they bring a new mentality Monday Night.

Dominating. Should be at least 2-0. Not cashing in that many chances makes me nervous for the rest of the game.

Spot on.  While Debrusk is frustrating because of his inexplicable inconsistency--show me that Wagner or Kuraly are playing better by some metric.  Let's see some changes to Line 4 that might bring a spark.

No luck and a total BS call. A dominant period and it's 1-1. Screw you, refs.

That goal was ART!

This team gets so sloppy so often and it's always frustrating and it always bites them.

Way to kill your own PP, guys. FFS.

True on all of the above.

This game isn't on Rask, but if there were a time to throw Swayman in, this would be it. 

Of course we don't get that call. Just of course.