Yeah they're bigger and yeah I'd like to see this team have more size but John Scott is not going to help this team
Of course Scott won't help this team, but it is what it is. The Bruins just pound us, and at this point big teams are terrible matchups for us. And Torts has Nash OFF the 1st PP unit, and Girardi ON the 2nd PP unit. I don't get it.
Like I said, no Nash on the 1st unit. Girardi on the 2nd unit. Very weird to me. AV channeling his inner Torts.
They just don't have the staying power to hold off teams like this. Either the dmen do something stupid or the offense goes into a shell.
Nothing to really go crazy about. We are what we are. Teams with size like the Bruins just pound us and wear us down. 75% of that game was in our zone. Players like Richards and MZA struggle against their size. This team has flaws. Personally I say F it and bring up McIlrath for some size on D and deal MDZ for a forward who can score. But that's me.
And BTW, for the record, to scratch MDZ game after game and not deal him is maybe the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Deal him or play him. Enough already. All you do is hurt your trade leverage by scratching him game after game. Dumb.
They need to draft size that can skate and when the play gets chippy be able to dish it out also and take no prisoners.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. If he's not good enough to play in New York, what do you think you can get for him.
I don't think it was a poor effort, they lost by 1 goal at a very good team who was fired up after their last game was a whipping. I simpy think they have too much size and pound us to death. I don't think it is an effort thing IMO.
When you can only manage 2 shots, on 4 powerplays, it was a poor effort. Another own goal, Chara being left wide open to score the winning goal, and how many countless mistakes on the defensive side, allowing the Bruins to come in on two many odd man rushes?
thats what ive been saying. It really shows in a game like this. There is a good chance if this team makes the playoffs they will verse the bruins
I get it. This is what happens on boards when teams lose. We all become GM's. We all say do this or do that. Didn't play hard. Hank didn't do this. On and on. All BS to me. The bottom line is the Bruins pound us when we play them. That is all. We lost 3-2. In their place. With them coming off a terrible L. I won't blame effort today. That team is just bigger and stronger than us, and pounds us shift after shift. It is why we turn the puck over 700 times, and why 75% of the game is in our end.
