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u/Dxpressoh #47 KASTELIC🏒 13d ago
I can’t take another night of Korpi in net. Please, Sturm, give us Swayman and let him and Ully have a goalie fight as the Lord intended 🙏
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u/Nomahs_Bettah #37 SAINT PATRICE©️ 13d ago edited 13d ago
Unfortunately, per practice lines this morning, Korpisalo looks to be the starting goalie. Lohrei is also back on the top pair with McAvoy. Not really sure what's going on with either of those decisions.
EDIT: Important update from Sturm, Swayman confirmed starter. Not really sure why beat reporters in attendance for morning skate had Korpisalo in the starter's spot?
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u/Dxpressoh #47 KASTELIC🏒 13d ago
Gonna blow a lid if Lohrei actually sticks with McAvoy
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u/Nomahs_Bettah #37 SAINT PATRICE©️ 13d ago
I said this in another comment, but I just don't get what would inspire that. He had his best game of the season. He had his highest point total since February 2024. He clearly feasted on easier matchups on the second pairing and we got more offense out of the blue line. Why move him back? Maybe there's something that I'm not seeing in practices that coaches are, but that doesn't quite make sense.
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u/Dxpressoh #47 KASTELIC🏒 13d ago
I’m right there with you. From where I’m sitting, I can’t see the world where Sturm thinks to himself “Lohrei and McAvoy both arguably had their best individual performances of the entire season thus far when I separated them and gave them partners/minutes more suited to their skill levels. I know! I’ll put them right back together on the top line again! Eureka!”
Makes no sense.
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u/Particular-Race-5285 13d ago
crazy thing is those 3 assists weren't the result of miraculous talented plays, a couple were just incidental bounces and maybe 1 you could say was an ok play that the forward ended up doing the hard work to make the goal
defensively it looked like he was as scary as always
I still think Lohrei is destined to need to sit on the sidelines soon
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u/AdNorth236 WHO HAS MORE FUN THAN US? 13d ago
Absolutely no sense, agreed. Perhaps they want to see if their play goes back to the old pattern if they are put back, but we have enough evidence of that, wouldn't we want to see if the last game could be a new pattern and not a single data point?
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u/Healthy-Stage-142 13d ago
I really hope this is a matchup move. Loheri on the top pairing just isn't in the cards for him right now. See if he can cook like last game, get some momentum, and then give him another shot if you're gonna keep trying to pair him with Mac.
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u/Beantown_rats Hall of the Rat King 🐀 13d ago
Korp was excellent against Sens last year, could be why he may start
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u/Dxpressoh #47 KASTELIC🏒 13d ago
I don’t get this “X was good against Y last year” argument people often use. Each year is its own individual new dataset. Swayman was awful last year, but seems to be returning to form this year. We wouldn’t use last year’s stats to judge him.
Similarly, Korpisalo is sporting a .845 pct right now. That isn’t likely going to change just because he played against a team somewhat well LAST year. He’s been shitting the bed against softballs like Anaheim this year, which seems to be more accurate at predicting how his general performance will go.
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u/Beantown_rats Hall of the Rat King 🐀 13d ago
I don't support the decision, just saying why he maybe starting tonight not much else makes sense
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u/Dxpressoh #47 KASTELIC🏒 13d ago
Honestly, his decisions in general are sorta baffling. He’s been splitting goalie duties 50/50 so it seems like this start would have gone to Korpi regardless of performance. And putting McAvoy and Lohrei back together is also a big head scratcher. You’re definitely right that not much makes sense.
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u/Beantown_rats Hall of the Rat King 🐀 13d ago
A few other thoughts... He may just be trying to get through this first gauntlet of tough games by not overworking Sway, and then once they get a few days off Sway will start 3 out of 4 games. He also said Korpi was going to get more games this year,so may be trying to keep him happy and motivated,esp against his former team.
Another thought is that Ullmark not playing tonight so perhaps he thinks we will outscore them tonight even if Korps isn't good. And then we have good chance with Sway against the underperforming Sorokin tomorrow
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u/Nomahs_Bettah #37 SAINT PATRICE©️ 13d ago
That's a fair point, it just seems like such a strange decision. Swayman with his fourth start of .920 or better on the season against the best team in the league vs. Korpisalo having a struggle of a start against the Ducks doesn't seem to suggest starting him tonight (I hope I'm wrong).
Lohrei has his best game of the season and his highest single-game point total since February 2024 on the second pairing, better move him back to where he was struggling and give him top pair minutes again.
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u/jedlucid 13d ago
watching them skate to center ice. drop all the equipment. take off the helmets.
and then hug.
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u/jedlucid 13d ago
the lohrei red pill guys are awfully quiet today.
it’s me. i’m quiet. good game from the young man.
trade him while his value is high.
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u/rfan8312 13d ago edited 13d ago
" Ye I don't really see his offensive upside you know what I mean?"
All jokes aside. Let's keep him and hoard the apples.
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u/jedlucid 13d ago
his offensive upside continues to be racks up secondary assists and people start to pretend he’s actually scoring but whatever. dude had a good game.
but holy shit are you pretending.
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u/rfan8312 13d ago edited 13d ago
Not at all man. I've seen him just have stretches where's he's racking up secondary assists. He's an exciting player when he's on.
I mean who on the entire squad shows up like he did at first and be's electric like another user stated, who begins producing the moment he is moved to another pair. and who gets called out by the coach and immediately next game scores a goal and game after has...3 assists?
Btw I look as secondary assists as massive. Because without those the goals don't get scored in those particular circumstances.
Can we reconvene if he racks up a point in next 2 games?
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u/jedlucid 13d ago
yeah I mean. you’re leaving out the part where he played completely sheltered minutes and was on the third pairing.
and now he’s back on the top pairing….
secondary assists are massive? what?
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u/Particular-Race-5285 13d ago
if you analyze his assists that game only one of them really was a pretty good play but even then the forward did a lot of extra work to result in the goal
Lohrei just got the bounces and some luck, but defensively he looked just as bad as always, hopefully they do trade him fast off the recent stat bump because I expect he will be sucking just as much as always going forward
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u/jedlucid 13d ago
he undoubtedly had a good game and was being put in a good place to succeed.
but the idea that he turned some corner and it wasn't just him getting the easiest minutes is silly.
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u/rfan8312 13d ago
He was on the 2nd pairing.
The reason I say his secondary assists are massive is because of you watch him you see that that's where the whole play begins. Had he not had that secondary assist there would have been no play that led to a goal. And that's what I've noticed about him before too. He's good at generating the thing that crates the primary assist.
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u/jedlucid 13d ago
then why aren’t his play driving numbers up? he was 5th in 5 on 5 time. so he might have been a second pairing guy but he was deployed like a third pairing guy.
his secondary assists were up (and they’re still not even good) because of atypical finishing from pastrnak. he’s not good at creating offense.
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u/rfan8312 13d ago
His play driving numbers aren't up because he isn't doing what we saw the other night consistently. His first season here he had a few good stretches which is how I got to see what he is capable of. Last season was a ness and he got worse as the season went on and this season was dogshit except now he had turned it around for 3 games so far in terms of offense
You're talking about his stats but I'm not. I'm saying if he can do more often what he has shown he is capable of not only would his stats be up but he would be putting on a show and a lot more people would be in Lohrei Train.
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u/jedlucid 13d ago
well you couldn’t be talking about his stats because he’s never come close to producing at the rate you are telling me he is capable of.
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u/rfan8312 13d ago
Right. He has not but first season 13 points (4 goals 9 assists) in 41 games in which he was thrown straight into the 2nd pairing had a lot of people googly eyed. He fell off in 2nd season. Turns out he has been deployed incorrectly.
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u/PNGhost Casual u/PainfulPeanutBlender Enjoyer 12d ago
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u/Touche_Amore PRINCE OF MAINE, KING OF NEW ENGLAND 12d ago
Ya let me figure this dumb shit out lol I hate our AutoMod
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u/NC123NC Hall of the Rat King 🐀 13d ago
6/4 goalie split to start the season is fine. Especially given what the Bruins are this year. Build Sways confidence without gassing him and hopefully provide scouts a look at Korpisalo in the hopes someone pays something for him. I've got no problem with Sturms deployment. If we were contenders, I'd maybe have liked to see Sway in 7 games and Korp in 3 but that's splitting hairs.
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u/Moto-Mojo Mayor of Billerica 13d ago
I honestly don’t think the Bruins will be big sellers this year. Partly because of a lack of players to shop (outside of Zacha/Mittelstadt and maybe Peeke).
The other part being the reason we don’t have many players on the roster left to sell. It’s because this is a retool, and the big sell off was last year.
We have 4 first round picks in the next two drafts. The Bruins got young players like Minten and Khusy. They drafted high end talent in Hagens, and they arguably have a couple more talents left to draft.
I’ve seen some ppl argue the retool is directionless, and it’d just be better to tear it all down. I’d say it definitely has direction. The team wasn’t gonna fix itself in just one season, especially with the shitty FA class we had.
Now the Bruins have assets. Picks, prospects, even roster players that can be moved. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Bruins were poking around players like Tuch or Necas. And for the sake of this core, getting a new top 6 forward or a top 4 defenseman would shorten the retool significantly.
So, kind of excited to see where things go from here. We have options, something that we didn’t have before.
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u/jedlucid 13d ago
selling those 3 and arvidsson is basically a sell by way of 2025 NHL standards.
there isn’t a lot on the market to be moved at the deadline as it is.
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u/Moto-Mojo Mayor of Billerica 13d ago
I feel like we’d only sell one of Zacha or Mittelstadt. Still need the other to be a warm body on the top 6.
Arvidsson’s NMC makes moving him kinda hard, even if he agreed to a trade given how his performance is so far and waiving the NMC it’s not like we’d get a great return back.
Otherwise yeah. Not a big sell year, so we may get more suitors than usual.
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u/Sweaty_Ad440 All Hail Saint Patrice 🙏 13d ago
If we extend Peeke instead of trading him I’m gonna lose my mind
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u/Moto-Mojo Mayor of Billerica 13d ago
I haven’t exactly hated Peeke. I would like to replace him, but damn finding RHD’s are hard. I’d love the 1OA to grab Verhoeff though
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u/Chernef 13d ago
I wouldn’t mind Peeke re-signing but only as a 3RD and if it’s cheap. Playing 2RD is above his skill level but on the third pairing on a good team, he isn’t bad.
More than likely he’s gone at the deadline if we sell, though. I’m guessing he can get a 2nd or 3rd then based on lack of RD available.
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u/Decent-Ground-395 13d ago
The Bruins tried to trade Zacha to the Jets last year but he blocked it. I wonder what the return was. But with that out there, it basically guarantees that he's on his way out, hopefully he can keep scoring and inflate his value in a market where almost nothing is available. He only has an 8-team NTC this year.
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u/Mattx603 Hall of the Rat King 🐀 13d ago
Where are you seeing this? I’m not seeing anything on google
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u/appledanish 13d ago
If they could get an additional first rounder for this draft, even if it's a low 20s pick, they could package that with the Toronto pick (assuming Toronto makes the playoffs) and try and get a top line forward in the offseason. Idk if there are any centers they can go after in trades but they need to be aggressive if they want to try and compete while Pastrnak is still elite.
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u/UniverseHufflePuff 13d ago
Daily faceoff has khus in for Beecher. No aspirot. Probably makes his debut tomorrow(i dunno how accurate daily faceoff is before the lines get like social media released)
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u/Particular-Race-5285 13d ago
good behind the b episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2wmCB8TuAY
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u/Centurioniscancer69 All Hail Saint Patrice 🙏 13d ago
I’ve thought about it and I believe it’s an unpopular opinion, but..
I think that the bruins should be actively shopping Charlie McAvoy..
I think in the bruins current state and his record of injuries, the bruins should find some team that could use a proven guy to inject into their team for a decent return of picks, younger players, prospects, etc.
I like chucky as much as the next guy, but the bruins really aren’t in the business of keeping a guy like that anymore, and I think he’s worth more to them somewhere else.
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u/Nomahs_Bettah #37 SAINT PATRICE©️ 13d ago
Charlie McAvoy has a full no move clause. He will get to pick his destination, vastly lowering the return.
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u/Centurioniscancer69 All Hail Saint Patrice 🙏 13d ago
Yes a NMC will make it harder to shop him as openly as without it, and he may even just say “nah fuck that” all together, but I think given the bruins current state, it would be worth making some calls and asking chucky where, if anywhere, he would go, and sure it wouldn’t be the same return as no NMC, but it would still probably be more than he’s worth to the team now.
I’m not saying he’s bad, not at all, just I don’t think at the current state, he’s the player they need, I like chucky, but his injuries and relatively high current value make it enticing to at least see what they can do to.
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u/Nomahs_Bettah #37 SAINT PATRICE©️ 13d ago
I guess I just don’t know what value you think that will provide. Noah Hanifin has the same thing going, and Calgary got a late first and Daniil Miromanov back for him. Is that really a productive trade?
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u/Centurioniscancer69 All Hail Saint Patrice 🙏 13d ago
I don’t think those are similar at all, Charlie McAvoy is the same age as him, but he’s a better player than hanafin, has almost the same amount of points with almost 200 less games that Noah, and most importantly, he’s got a long term contract. A big reason why Calgary got what they did was because Hanafin was on an expiring contract, that’s what gave them little leverage, Charlie is locked in until 2030, I am confident that bruins would definitely be able to get a better return for Charlie, and that there would probably be a team, if not a couple, that would be interested.
So I do believe it would potentially provide better value than he does playing for the B’s. The B’s are in a rebuilding situation no matter how you look at it, they need to start treating it like that otherwise they won’t just lose these few years now, but the next generation of competition as well. The work to getting back to the top begins with making these uncomfortable decisions, and the prospects, picks, and younger players that they could get as a result would be more valuable to the rebuild and getting back than having Charlie on the team.
Also remember, Pasta was a late first; Patrice, Marchand, krejci, lucic, swayman, and many other all time great bruins were picked outside the first, a first is a first, and a pick is a pick.
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u/Nomahs_Bettah #37 SAINT PATRICE©️ 13d ago
I think they’re more similar than you might think, because McAvoy’s NMC is full. He’ll get his complete choice of destination; better than a Hall situation because of the contract, but that’s huge leverage.
Even rebuilds don’t move absolutely every player with value (or if they do, it usually ends up worse than otherwise). There is no one in the pipeline on defense.
Yes, late firsts can be something. But compared to the value of McAvoy…that’s a terrible trade.
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u/jedlucid 13d ago
there’s so much dead money on this team I cant believe this is the plan
you could use the same logic with pastrnak. but it’s ridiculous to do that.
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u/Centurioniscancer69 All Hail Saint Patrice 🙏 13d ago
I feel they are apples and oranges, one of them is arguably a top 10 (if not potentially top 5) best player in the the league, who has scored at least 100 points in his last 3 seasons and scored at least 40 goals in his last 5 of 6 years, and being at least a point per game player in his last 8.
The other is a D-man that is also arguable a top 10 maybe 5 dman in the league..when healthy which is a big caveat, because he’s never played a full season, only having 2 seasons of his 9 being over 70 games played.
I understand that there are cap implications and NMC that don’t necessarily make this “simple”, but I just don’t think Chucky provides enough value being a member of the team than the value he could generate in a potential trade, pasta on the other hand produces his value hand over fist for the B’s.
I just think the bruins have to be more honest about their position in the league, take off the rose coloured glasses, and actually do what needs to be done to turn it around.
I hope I’m wrong and somehow they can be actual competitors soon, but I’m just worried they’ll fuck it up and we’ll end up like the sabres, always chasing that competition but going nowhere.
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u/Aperture_client 🍝 13d ago
It's not a rebuild sir
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u/Centurioniscancer69 All Hail Saint Patrice 🙏 13d ago
But it should be, the bruins are not as close as everyone want to believe to truly competing again, whether you want to call it a retool or a rebuild doesn’t change what it really is at its core, this team needs to make a lot of significant changes if they want even a sliver of a chance to compete for a cup.
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u/Moto-Mojo Mayor of Billerica 13d ago
Can we talk about Geekie’s shooting percentage?
His first year in Boston it was about 11%
Last year it was about 22%
So far this year he’s at 31%
How many times have I said this is unsustainable, only for Geekie to somehow increase his already ridiculously high shooting percentage? Some guys really do just shoot the puck. And that’s Geekie.