Bruins 2023-24 Season Thread

Looks like he skated with Carlo this AM.

Could be a tough stretch with Charlie out the 4 games and Gryz on LTIR.

It seems to me that Carlo has taken a leap this year

Lohrei just did great late on a PK

Marchand is really getting under Klingberg’s skin


Swayman is a stud and the team made the SO look easy. Great win

lmao leafs fans want Marchand suspended, never seen a bigger group of babies since the late 2000s/early 2010’s Montreal fans


Beat them, have thousands of them cry on the internet for a bruins suspension. Clockwork.

Down 4-3 halfway through the 3rd. They have had a very bad last period and a half, if they turn the tides and scrape out a point I’ll be impressed

I missed the Anaheim game (not sure if that was worse, heard it was bad), but this third period is absolutely putrid. Wotherspoon looks like trash, shattenkirk looks cooked, Pasta makes a nice shot, then does his wooden leg dance that is supposed to be skating, loses it, trips the guy, game over just as we empty the net. come into the third 3-2, lost it 5-4, 3 gooals in ~3 minutes. Ullmark didn't look good during that stretch either. Frustrating game to watch tonight. Mediocre effort second and third.

Carlo did look great in the 2nd though.  He's seriously stepped up his play this year so far.

Nah. He and Forbort is a pretty weak pairing. Better than what's happened with the injuries, of course. But the defense at the start of the year was a strong top 4, very weak bottom 2, but Forbort does well on PK.

Both of those were cheap vet signings. Nothing to be excited about, but they were signed because we didn't have much cap, didn't move enough and had to fill a roster and we decided to do it cheaply with vets. Whatever we think of that, it is what it is and they were fine for the money they got, in a vacuum.

JVR has been worth more than his cost so far, if maybe his contributions have been overrated by some. He's been a great value pick anyway.


Honestly, Shattenkirk has still been worth his salary too. And I don't know how you'd replace him on the right side. But he's still just not that good.  

Gotta a little hairier than it needed at the end. But the W.

My own unconventional take on the three stars:

!. Swayman. I don't think we're quite at the point of asking if he is in the discussion for best Goalie in the game. But I think we're close to it.

2. The 4th line. You could see it everyttime they were out there. They titled the ice in our favor. Best line in the game, with a rookie and two guys who didn't make the opening day roster. So impressive.

3. The D corps. All of them. I thought all 6 played well. Mitchell, who I think was pretty much a disaster early int he year was tremendous tonight. Contributed to the first two goals, created a couple of other chances, had some big clears, no big mistakes that I noticed. Even Wotherspoon was solid. 

Honorable mention to Poitras who looked great all night again And Marchy with the clincher. 

2 of the top 10 l'll totally buy. Top 5 I can't go with, but again, I think Swayman is getting into that convo. 

I don't think Loire is a top 4 D-Man just yet. I can see taking it slow with him this year. But I'd love it if they moved Graz (who has been pretty good this year too)

So I don't know if it was a cause of that or not, but for some reason Shattenkirk fell back from the blue line on that play. I thought the play for Lohrei would be to pass it over to him but Shattenkirk wasn't there. I don't know if Lohrei would have passed to him or if he still would have lost the puck, but KS really screwed up by disappearing from the offensive zone on that play. Don't know what he was thinking. 

No, I am not saying that because of the earlier discussion of Shattenkirk, because other than that I was very happy with him tonight. Just that play was bizarrely bad. Again, don't know if it ultimately mattered but I was watching it live and pointing at him, like "what you doin, bro?"