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Post by homerdante on May 19, 2021 20:53:54 GMT -5
Smith is clunky tonight. His legs are moving, he's putting in the effort, but something is off...
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Post by homerdante on May 19, 2021 20:13:49 GMT -5
Ritchie has been a major disappointment in this series. I'm also with you on Ritchie. Aside from about 15 minutes in the regular season, I don't see much from this guy. He had a chance to win the game with about 50 seconds to go, and couldn't stay strong on his skates there by the net. He looks like he's trying to play the bumper off to the side of the net like it's a PP, even when it's 5v5. I'm ready for him to go.
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Post by homerdante on May 19, 2021 20:05:04 GMT -5
Lazar with some nice blocks tonight, can't help but noticing. Rask is also holding strong here in the 3rd.
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Post by homerdante on May 19, 2021 19:57:49 GMT -5
Pastrnak needs to quit being a negative. And I'm gonna stop talking to myself now. I was just thinking about how bad of a letdown Pastrnack is right now, and really has been for awhile. I'm starting to wonder if something is decently wrong with him, because he's not really doing anything right now. The entire team looks flat footed tonight. Through this entire Bergeron "era" the homecoming games always seem to be a weakness, which I've never understood. I wonder if there are some real ballbusters in the wives corps. Gotta focus boys. MARCHAND!!!! just as i was writing this, finally! we wake up!
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Post by homerdante on May 19, 2021 17:36:06 GMT -5
HERE... WE... GO!!!
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Post by homerdante on May 17, 2021 21:41:44 GMT -5
Great to get that win, feels a heck of a lot better coming home 1-1, that's for sure.
Things I noticed.
As frustrating as the second goal was when Rask wasn't even down in position, he had a couple really nice stops sliding to his right, especially on a quickie little breakaway in the first period. Gotta give him credit, his push to his right is still really strong and he's powerful with the leg pads there.
Today Miller looked really lost on D. I'm not sure what was going on in his head, but he cost us at least the one goal pinching and seemingly having no plan.
The first line obviously regained some mojo, and Krecji's passing looked great tonight.
The Pasta spinorama passing fascination can't end soon enough for me.
Bergeron deflection was insane.
McAvoy, please shoot it more when you're close in! Krecji too!
Gotta love the effort and play from Hall again. Don't even know if you'd be here, or won it if not for that trade.
Onward to the Garden!
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Post by homerdante on May 17, 2021 21:24:51 GMT -5
Love to see the ENTIRE on ice team crashing the goal there...nice effort. Blue Collar Bruins Style! Ugh...unfortunately followed by Debrusk missing so much empty net and hitting Anderson in the chest. wow Not gonna give DeBrusk too much grief there. He got it up and to the open part of the net. Dude got over quick, puck went off his side and into his glove. Would live perfect shot there, but he was about 3 inches from the winner. It feels like we've gotten none of the luck so far. We do feel a bit snake-bit at the moment. All the bounces not going our way...
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Post by homerdante on May 17, 2021 21:23:25 GMT -5
Gotta get a break from the hockey gods on a weird deflection soon especially since we've had two incredible deflections that found Anderson instead of going in. That Bergeron deflection in the second period was amazing, what a change of direction...
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Post by homerdante on May 17, 2021 21:11:26 GMT -5
Love to see the ENTIRE on ice team crashing the goal there...nice effort. Blue Collar Bruins Style!
Ugh...unfortunately followed by Debrusk missing so much empty net and hitting Anderson in the chest. wow
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Post by homerdante on May 17, 2021 20:20:39 GMT -5
Even the NBC announcers seemed to be saying we got a bit pass happy there. Krejci tried to force that pass you mentioned, AND, McAvoy doesn't shoot that puck from 5 feet wide open, tries to pass instead. Oof!
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Post by homerdante on May 17, 2021 20:02:57 GMT -5
What is this thing with Pasta falling in love with the spinorama backhand passes lately? Anyone else notice that? It's usually way off the mark too, but it's like some new thing he's in love with lately or something.
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Post by homerdante on May 17, 2021 19:50:40 GMT -5
We REALLY need to get our PP rolling again. Let's see if we can get one here!
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Post by homerdante on May 17, 2021 19:36:17 GMT -5
LOL. And Coyle with a terrible defensive play, bailed out by Rask, followed by a great play to set up a goal. That Coyle offensive play might have been the best I've seen from him in a Bruins sweater. Rask though tonight....man. I know, i know, the bodies are in front of him, but he didn't even have his stick covering his 5 hole on that 2nd goal. Wow that was frustrating. Clearly Bergeron doesn't miss that many faceoffs in the D end, but you gotta be ready. Team feels better tonight though overall on offense. More motion, more effort. At least through one period.
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Post by homerdante on May 17, 2021 17:16:18 GMT -5
Well, it won't be Lauzon's fault if we lose tonight. I think Clifton is a better player at this stage, but two RH shots together is a little awkward. And, since Washignton's game plan was clearly to flood the front of the net with bodies, losing the most physical D-man probably doesn't help as much as some people think. Clifton's insane number of penalties in the regular seasons scares me too...I hope he can find the line, or have the team tell him where the line is, and not cross it to feed the Caps too many PPs. Of course, some of those games when he was heavily penalized were those games when it felt like the refereeing was horrible and inconsistent on standard of conduct. I recognize I'm hard on Lauzon, but incidentally, has anyone seen Charlie Coyle recently? You can barely tell he's on the ice. Certainly he's not making himself known all that well. Is he another one of these hurt guys under the radar we're going to hear has 5 surgeries in the off season? Or is this who he is and why Minn. let him go?
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Post by homerdante on May 16, 2021 11:48:13 GMT -5
the GA/60 doesn't look like skill to me, looks like some babip style luck. Who he's played with, or the lines he's played against. I believe it with McAvoy, he's out there against the best. Lauzon looks more like the guy who got to play in all the Sabres games against their 3rd and 4th lines.
He was on the ice for two of the three goals against last night. Was the game winner in OT his fault? After he hit the lead guy in the back--as he seems to do programmatically--then he was sitting in his space to the left of Rask, watching it go in. Now granted, we've seen the best of the best playoff defensemen actually drift back behind the goalie there and save some of those, but can you EXPECT that of someone so inexperienced? I wouldn't say so. I would instead nitpick on Rask there--he completely lost track of the puck and hit it in himself on a puck that was going directly downward off his chest, Rask put it in with his leg pads trying to reposition them to squeeze, he knocks it back and in. I'm strongly in the play Swayman camp. I think it's time to move on and rely on someone with faster twitch skills in that position at this point when Swayman's positioning has been demonstrably fine, and his focus has been great this year so far. Ride the hot hand. I think Rask has been borderline mailing it in now for a couple years with only a couple stretches where he wasn't distracted and was really focused, not just an excellent positional goalie. There was zero motion in his glove hand on the first goal. Rask looks reaction slow to me. Positionally sound, but otherwise cooked at times.
The issue I have with the 2nd goal is that sure, Lauzon's battling Ovi, (who I have a great deal of dislike for as well, and don't understand why the players conduct committee farce doesn't sanction him at all--which for me feeds into Wilson's behavior and feeling he can get away with what he does, because Ovi does) and the battle with Ovi takes up 100% of his attention. There's no awareness on his part, his stick is literally just incidentally stuck to him, swinging around. From better defensemen, I see more awareness in sticks down on the ice, sticks in passing lanes, etc. Even when they're tussling, they can shoulder someone, body up on someone, and still have some presence of mind. I'm not saying that's a 100% thing, but with Lauzon I see someone who plays more like what we expected Tinordi to play like. Unconscious thug like, and I think he can be better than that. I see him on offense with some accuracy on a wrister to hit the deflector in front with some consistency. I know he has it in him. He just goes unconscious on D a lot.
for the ST time, I was looking at the game log quickly and I thought they credited him with 7 seconds of time or something, I must have misread that, apologies. I do remember him in the box, so obviously you're right since they had the one penalty.
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Post by homerdante on May 16, 2021 2:55:34 GMT -5
Sorted for Giveaways on the team: Rk Player Age Pos GP CF CA CF% CF% rel FF FA FF% FF% rel oiSH% oiSV% PDO oZS% dZS% TOI/60 TOI(EV) TK GV ▼ E+/- SAtt. Thru% 1 Charlie McAvoy 23 D 51 1034 733 58.5 5.9 823 555 59.7 6.3 9.9 89.9 99.8 54.4 45.6 23:60 19:36 20 44 6.0 189 48.7 2 Brad Marchand 32 LW 53 802 515 60.9 9.0 646 400 61.8 8.9 10.9 89.0 99.9 58.2 41.8 18:55 14:04 42 36 5.3 228 62.7 3 David Pastrnak 24 RW 48 771 507 60.3 8.1 630 390 61.8 8.6 10.0 89.0 99.0 60.2 39.8 18:37 15:05 25 31 3.8 334 52.7 4 David Krejci 34 C 51 738 549 57.3 3.8 565 421 57.3 2.5 8.3 95.1 103.4 65.6 34.4 17:08 14:33 21 28 3.6 141 58.9 5 Jeremy Lauzon 23 D 41 547 518 51.4 -5.9 430 392 52.3 -5.8 8.2 91.4 99.6 46.3 53.7 18:43 15:33 7 20 0.1 98 49.0
I do watch basically every single game, yes.
Lauzon makes bone headed plays. ok, it's only his 3rd year getting games in the nhl, but in fewer games than the rest in the top 5 for Giveaways on the team, he's there in the top 5 with 20 giveaways to only 7 takeaways.
What has gotten my attention is not that I look for him on the ice, but rather, the game is flowing along well, and all of a sudden, there is a really crap play, and I look to see who it is, or wait for the announcer to get around to revealing who made that terrible play, and many times, it's Lauzon. Of course, this year it's also frequently Pastrnak too. For some reason he's seriously out of sync this year. Doesn't mean he's still not a great shooter, but his passing is off badly this year in general, and sometimes he loses focus and the puck goes over or under his stick, or off his skate and he loses it, or any number of other horrible outcomes that last year happened to him far less. Lauzon has been such a flow killer for this team this year, it's extremely annoying, yes. Multiple games the dude had multiple penalties. He really does seem to be confused out there a lot, and make the wrong play, or end up in the penalty box.
Last night he had 2 giveaways, leading the team. He also saw almost no time on ice for special teams, which is a big downgrade from the season. I hope that trend continues.
I don't see massive upside with this guy in any dimension of his game. feel free to send all the lmaos and and believe he had a good game if you like, but his play and stats don't back it up imho.
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Post by homerdante on May 15, 2021 21:27:52 GMT -5
and Rask knocked in the third, drops down, knocks it in with his own pad. Good clean play from a sharp team.
Wake up boys, you can outplay this caps team. when you first got Hall, etc. after the trade deadline, you smoked 'em.
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Post by homerdante on May 15, 2021 19:45:38 GMT -5
Lauzon tips in goal #2. woohoo This guy is in over his head.
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Post by homerdante on May 11, 2021 15:33:50 GMT -5
So sit everyone and lose to maximize the pick opportunity in this draft.... hmmmm. Actually, play all the "regulars" we've got, including all the time on the court for Smart we can get. That's done pretty well to tank the season already. Do NOT play the kids who have anything to prove, or TimeLord, that has been a formula for winning sometimes, so let's avoid that. #TankforthePick
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Post by homerdante on May 10, 2021 19:54:42 GMT -5
Tank for the pick!
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Post by homerdante on May 7, 2021 20:55:12 GMT -5
Unwatchable.
The older I get, the more sour I get about some of these guys making 8 figures, and being able to 100% mail it in 10-20 games a year. Not for lack of talent, or time spent in the gym on off days, etc. But on game day, not figuring out how to show up even when you don't have "it". I always thought that was what was amazing about athletes from the last generation. They might not have "it" that night, but you bet your a$$ they were going to give you a show that night anyway. No mailing it in...
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Post by homerdante on May 7, 2021 4:04:13 GMT -5
Couple thoughts after an easy win, first game I've been able to watch for a little bit: - Easiest shutout ever for Swayman. - Was prepared to come here and praise DeBrusk's night even before he scored that goal. He was all over it tonight. - I really like Kevin Miller. Underrated player when healthy. - Not to re-hash the couple of posts above this, which were a couple of weeks ago, but I think Lauzon is OK, but he does seem to average one dumb turnover per game. Had another tonight, didn't cost us. - He won't, and shouldn't really, win, but boy Marchand deserves serious MVP consideration. The guy is one of the best and seems to still be getting better. Agreed. At one point the defense just kept puking all over itself, but it's come a long way in the past couple of weeks. Hopefully with Carlo returning, Lauzon sees less time and has less of those 1 off opportunities per night to kill his own team. Recent pet peeve is realizing that Pasta is either all in, or a space cadet. There doesn't seem to be an in between. Lately he's been in space mode, passing to other team, missing sticks by a mile, flailing and not even hitting the puck a lot instead of receiving it. He's so much better than that, you hate to see when he's off his game. Marchand has really been amazing this year overall.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 23, 2021 20:19:26 GMT -5
If you recorded the game to watch later, DO NOT WATCH IT. It's literally the least effort I've seen hockey players make in a game. No defender can be bothered to even find a sabre player to defend. lazy, lazy, lazy. Worst Bruins game I've seen.
Can we get rid of Lauzon somehow, like, immediately? I'm so sick of watching him just hand the puck to the opposite team over and over again.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 17, 2021 21:12:12 GMT -5
Smart vs. Curry 3 pts...let's keep taking those odds the rest of the night, why not?
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Post by homerdante on Apr 9, 2021 15:08:57 GMT -5
I keep thinking of Tatum's rookie year as I watch him struggle this year. He's such a pure shooter. The way he was used year number one, was that wing 3-pt shooter role. Someone else created his shot for him. That really worked, because his shot is the best part of his game. His handle at this point is really a major weakness in his overall game. So to force him to be the creator at this phase of his career is rushing it a bit. I'd so much rather see him cutting and a good passer finding him. So much of the offense is standing still these days except for the pick and roll/pop guys. I miss more motion in offense off the ball.
If I'm trying to be fully objective, I have no idea how badly COVID has been for him. He's said even months later it's been a struggle. I see the absolute giving up on defense so much and for a max level player it makes me sick, but, I've also never watched a player with 85% lung capacity trying to make it happen every night. Maybe there is some cause to give him some additional slack on D. The handle stuff though...live with a basketball in your hands...there are so many handle drills it's easy to work into your life around the court. That's one area where JB is and has shown so much improvement is with his handle. His wasn't amazing when he hit the league, but it's gotten so much better, and his ability to adapt is vastly superior to Tatum's at present.
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