Bruins 2022-23 Season Thread

Meanwhile, this Trade Deadline might be one of the craziest I've ever followed. Big names "coming off the board" every day and it's not even Friday yet.

Still wonder if there is anything else (besides potential cap moves) to come. My gut would have said no but I wonder if the Hall injury and, now, a potential Foligno injury (not sure if there has been anything on that), maybe they need to add another forward.

Their are other considerations that may help you keep Hall:

1. Accruing that space by moving someone THIS year
2. Trading all 3 of the D mentioned and filling bottom pair with much cheaper salaries (including giving Zboril a regular gig)
3. Don't think it should be expected to get Bergy for much cheaper than the 2.5 hit but i'm not sure how the bonuses work so maybe it's possible for only a small reduction to him (but bigger reduction on his hit)
4. Maybe Krejci doesn't come back. Zacha moves to 2C with Hall and Pasta.
5. The holdup on Pasta was reportedly due to assurances that they'd remain competitive. Reducing that ask would certainly help keep this thing going
6. And maybe Orlov would follow suit
7. It's even possible they trade a G (I put it last for a reason).

Anyway, there are ways to make this happen.

In other news, Pasta official. 8x11.25

wowwwwwwww

this team is gonna be so annoying to play against with the additions of Hathaway and Bertuzzi

And the pasta deal *chefs kiss*

I wanted a new front office after the inexplicable MM signing- I gotta say I’m quite happy they didn’t do that after the last week

Talk about going for it

Watch the netflix special on gambling in sports including the one about Donaghy the referee that was fired by the NBA, a league which threatened to sue any publisher from him writing his story. If you watch that with out your mind being glued to the idea you don't want it to be true you'd sing a radically different song. That and regardless of what you think the moment they legalized gambling through apps for the major sports has forever changed any arguement of substance to believe sports is holier than though and without question. It's beyond niave. Before responding watch the special on it. Listen I truly would rather think different than I do. But I can't ignore something so obvious. I when I say the game is rigged sure their are times it may be a simple bad call, that does happen, but the way the rig em is it's not every game and they mess more with the betting line than the game itself, sometimes those are one and the same. The way Donaghy explained it is to brilliant for him to have made it up. Money makes the world turn.

Other than winning the Cup, this has been the second best set of news we could hear this year. Going for the season record and all that won't reaally mean to much without winning the Cup now if they win the Cup and set the season record then that makes the whole thing that much cooler and unforgetable. I hope Hall makes it back. My understanding is he has to be out a minimum of 10 games for the B's to use the loop hole and keep the roster with Bertuzzi in tact without making any other moves. TB did it one of the years they recently won a Cup. 

Marchand injured tonight

They’re starting to pile up

Blood bath of a win per usual

Don’t sleep on Poitras either, dude has been lighting it up. Great passer. 60 apples in 53 games. 74 points

Extending any of the new guys or not, I think hard decisions are coming. As indicated above, I think only 1 of DeBrusk and Hall end up on this team after next season. So how do you handle that? Let JD walk after next year? Same with Grz and Forbort (and Reilly).

If the plan is to just let them walk, then not having the draft picks or robust pipeline (it's probably better than "public" evaluators suggest - even if not "ranked higher") can be crippling. That's why I think they'll look to trade off some of these players to replenish some of that.

Ty Anderson, yesterday, thought Krejci was one and done. So the hope would be that Zacha can improve at the dot and be your #2 C (he certainly has developed some chemistry with Pasta - just about improving at the responsibilities of being a C instead of a wing.

As to Swayman, I'm with Ty on this one too. If you're biggest concern is depth at C, a damn good way to offset that is a lockdown D and stout goaltending. He projects that Sway could get a 3.5-4M bridge deal. Paying 8.5-9 on THAT goaltending tandem is not unrealistic. Especially if you're not (can't) spend on high end Cs.

The plan I had outlined in my previous posts above was based on creating room to re-sign Orlov. I think some of it happens regardless.

PS I REALLY don't like Bertuzzi and hope that they don't re-sign him.

100%, they look stout today!

I’m usually all in on the fun of projecting forward but for once let’s just enjoy this team and not care what happens next year and beyond. This is pure insanity. They NEED to win the cup. Bergeron deserves another one. There’s no one more deserving of it.