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Post by homerdante on May 17, 2023 21:08:30 GMT -5
What happened to this team at halftime? WOW!
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Post by homerdante on May 1, 2023 17:49:20 GMT -5
His decisions seem completely indefensible to me. I'm not sure how anyone takes the other side on this one.
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Post by homerdante on May 1, 2023 17:31:50 GMT -5
His last month of the regular season was off too. It's difficult to peg exactly when he went into his end of season decline, but it clearly extended into the playoffs.
Take a look at last season's playoffs too against Carolina. Zero points last year too, zero points this year. He fades. It's what he does. 2 points -3 in his one playoff series with the Ducks too. He's not a postseason winner.
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Post by homerdante on May 1, 2023 15:46:56 GMT -5
I agree with your idea from the other thread, CDJ. I think it's blow it up time. At least blow up this core, and soft rebuild around Pasta, McAvoy, Swayman, Carlo, Zacha, etc.
Krecji and Bergie retire. Get major haul for Ullmark. Try to find someone who wants veteran leadership who will take the twilight of Marchand's career. Look for trade partners for Lindholm--he's somewhat young, might be a market for him if you eat a little bit of his salary (his contract wasn't horrible but also wasn't great). Look for a partner for Hall, but that will be tough with him getting some no-trade protections as I recall. Look for a partner for Coyle. Maybe someone wants a vastly overpaid third line center, I don't know, you might have to buy him out. He's got 3 years left we're stuck with. Blessedly Foligno is gone. One of the worst contracts since Backes. DeBrusk is only 26, but he feels like he's got a fragile mindset. I don't know which way you go with him. Bertuzzi melted in the playoffs, I'm moving on from him unless there's some argument that he grows up, he's only 28. I think he probably wants too much money. Frederic is RFA, depends on how much he wants. He's probably a third line guy, so I wouldn't go very high on him, and definitely not long term. Lauko and Greer give you ok performance for their respective lines based on their salaries. Lauko is RFA, if it stays a low number, you probably bring him back.
You're probably stuck with Forbort at an absurd number, and Grzelcyk too, less absurd relative to performance for Grz.
Clifton is likely gone unless his number stays low, but honestly I don't want him.
That leaves you with a group of Pasta, DeBrusk, Zacha, Frederic?, Lauko, Greer up front for next year. McAvoy, Grz, Carlo, Forbort, Zboril on D so far.
Pasta 11,250,000 McAvoy 9,500,000 Carlo 4,100,000 DeBrusk 4,000,000 Zacha 3,500,000 Grz 3,687,500 Forbort 3,000,000 Frederic? Zboril 1,137,500 Lauko 764,167 Swayman Big raise, was 925,000 this year.
4.5 overage from Bergie and Krecji bonuses from 22-23 That's ~46,687,500 (NOT including raise for Frederic and raise for Swayman.
~$85,090,323 is projected cap for next year, which is an increase of a million.
I doubt all of those movements could occur, but that would give you a good deal of space to rebuild and bring up your 3 viable prospects and see what they have. Lysell seems like he needs a second line spot at least.
I bet that's just to much to hope for in a year, but it's certainly pointing in the direction I think they need to head.
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Post by homerdante on May 1, 2023 0:02:27 GMT -5
For some inexplicable reason, the fabric of this team revealed itself in game 2. Montgomery had 5 games to respond to game two. Plan around it, watch tape, coach--do his job. He failed. He could not reach this team. He's not the only one who had trouble reaching teams with this core. Cassidy couldn't over and over again. You can say, well then it's not the coach, it's the players. That's probably partially true at least, and now with a change in leadership, we'll find out. I'll always appreciate the legacy of Bergie and Krecji, and simultaneously regret it in some ways. They were chokers, and guys who tried to be overly tough instead of taking rest, preparing for the playoffs. I'm deaf to their narrative. I'm growing deaf to Chris Sale's too. You can only listen to the same thing, the same BS and not see action from the speakers so many times, then it's obvious who they really are. These guys were chokers, and did not demand accountability from people who didn't deliver over and over and over again.
Lindholm was trash from about 75% of the way through the season. No idea why. Someone needed to get into the guys face. Ask him for more. He's just an example. There are a dozen of these guys who stopped improving, stopped correcting tendencies. One strategy by the Panthers completely broke a team billed as one of the best in history. They could not make adjustments. I've never heard anyone in any sport say their game on some level wasn't about adjustments. The Bruins stayed in one track and didn't adjust. It's was painful to watch and I found the team embarrassingly bad.
Ullmark ought to be traded if a major haul is possible. He's not a playoff goalie. If the system can get restocked at all by moving him it should happen. Still stuck with so many bloated contracts relative to performance I don't know that the team has a shot until Coyle, Foligno, Reilly, et. al are cleared off and a couple of prospects turn into something.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 21:18:38 GMT -5
If they could run it back again, I think a less historical year and a Cup run could easily happen. But with the cap problems, and questions on Bergeron and Krejci, not realistic. Hope they retire. This core wasn't good enough. They really weren't. I've never wanted to root for a team harder than this year, and kept getting let down over and over and over in these playoffs. This wasn't the only year either. Playoffs just seemed to lead to vanishing performances. Need some new leadership and see if Pasta and McAvoy can evolve with better leaders.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 21:03:32 GMT -5
and finally, two years in a row, Ullmark can't do it in the playoffs. Fairweather regular season goalie. His responses after that abortion of a mistake that gave game 5 away made me done with him for good. He was so unwilling to take responsibility. "That's just what happens..." I'm afraid we're going to lose Swayman as an RFA this year because of Sweeney sucking at contracts. Decent at trading, horrid at contracts.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 21:00:32 GMT -5
Still put this series on Montgomery,. Shuffling lines, playing abad and hiurt Ullmark, pulling Dryz for Clifton in game 6. Too much panic. Too many nonsensical decisions. He was horrid this series. Literally, horrid. Made some of the most indefensible decisions. How many years do we have to put up with him as a coach. Good with young players, ok, sure, but trash in playoffs. I don't want him behind my bench.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 20:58:14 GMT -5
We witnessed history - perhaps the all time choke in the history of the NHL. This is one of those "where were you when"...moments - in the worst sense. I don't realistically think I'll ever see a worse choke in hockey.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 20:53:09 GMT -5
One of the worst chokes in the history of the franchise with as much talent as they had. Montgomery is not a good coach. Fairweather only. He's the Arod of coaches. Great when it doesn't matter.
Thrilled Krecji is done. He's not good anymore. Wish Marchand was right behind him. He doesn't look good anymore, not compared to his salary or his past performance.
The future looks bleak.
As much as I love Bergeron and many of the things he's done, for such an incredible player, he did so little come playoff time because of not be able to manage injuries (this is career long, not just this season). Tried to play through too much, rather than taking the last bit of a season to get healthy and come back for playoffs, he tried to out tough guy things. 1-3 in Stanley cups because he was always playing broken.
Three Bruins right there on the last goal and lost the puck.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 20:51:48 GMT -5
Can Marchand be sent down on the minor leagues to just simply practice passing? Is that a thing? I've never seen a professional player lose the ability to hit a guy on the stick with a pass. It's consistent with him. Trash, trash, trash.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 20:44:58 GMT -5
Lindholm is hot garbage for so long now I can't remember the last thing he did right. So many games of mediocre and just outright garbage play.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 20:42:46 GMT -5
McAvoy looking like an ass, get your head in the game Charlie, wtf.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 20:25:30 GMT -5
Too many of them are too tight tonight. It's not going to get better in OT. The Bruins have to luck out, they're the team with greater fear. They're going to throw it unless they get lucky. I wish it weren't so, it was such a year, but this is 16-0 Patriots. Too tight, can't clear their minds and do what they need to do.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 20:04:38 GMT -5
Imagine having a goalie play like Swayman is playing this game the last two games not giving up soft goals.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 19:12:43 GMT -5
Zacha, loser hockey, can't hit an open net. Krecji, loser hockey, blind passes to other team, again and again. Does he watch film of himself or even try to get better at this point or he's just already retired and can't be bothered?
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 18:41:53 GMT -5
Montgomery turns out not to be the coach for these guys. He hasn't been able to reach them and keep them from going tight. A team with legendary talent like the Bruins this year have to be reachable by their coach. If they go tight, and the coach cannot get them to loosen up, he's one and done for me. He puts the wrongs lines together and plays the wrong goalie. Trash playoff series, horrible coaching. Loser hockey.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 18:18:48 GMT -5
Carlo ties the game there if it's not loser hockey missing open nets.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 30, 2023 18:09:17 GMT -5
Game seven and Orlov is going to let a guy with the puck skate straight past him uncontested. Loser hockey.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 28, 2023 21:19:35 GMT -5
This is a trash team. They played front-running hockey all season, and now they're incapable of learning lessons in this series. This is not a professional hockey team or a professional coach and they're being outed in the playoffs. Sweeney is not a genius. They do not come to play in the playoffs, and Montgomery is making first year coach errors and has no control over the team anymore. It's literally pathetic. They deserve to lose.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 28, 2023 21:07:59 GMT -5
Clifton is hot garbage tonight. He can't be out of town as a UFA this summer fast enough for me.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 28, 2023 21:04:01 GMT -5
Should have given Swayman a start. I hated Ullmark's response after giving the game away in game 5. Swayman should have been in net one of the games so far. I think Ullmark needs a break.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 28, 2023 21:00:23 GMT -5
The mental issues this team is having right now are unbearable...
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Post by homerdante on Apr 27, 2023 10:14:11 GMT -5
Next game let's see Trent Frederic replace Lauko. I like Lauko but Frederic brings a heavier presence that the B's will need in game six. I like Lauko in the regular season, but not the playoffs yet. Clearly he needs experience, but I'm not sure this is the year to get it for him. The game got away from him last night (obviously the refs didn't help), but he cost us with stupid penalties. Need Freddy back being the wrecking ball that he is. He mostly knows how to control it now and doesn't take as many dumb penalties.
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Post by homerdante on Apr 26, 2023 21:15:55 GMT -5
gave away the game.
I've seen enough of Forbert. Please, please rotate him out of there.
Ullmark and Grizz....wtf.
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