The Goaless Beantowners.

Moving Nokelainen wasn’t that bad of a deal even if it was for Montador. He had scored 3 points (3 assists) in 33 games with the Bruins before the deal. He did kind of explode in Anaheim scoring 6 points ( 4 goals, 2 assists) in 17 games, but this year in 23 games he has 3 points (2 goals and an assist). When we traded for Montador he had 20 points (4 goals, 16 assists) which made him the third highest scoring defense man for the Bruins at the time of the trade. As good as PC is at GM he can’t see into the future. He had no idea Montador would come to the B’s and do jack shit, but at the time trading a young guy with 3 points for a veteran with 20 was a good deal. Wade Redden who was actually with the Rangers (and under contract at a ridiculous price until 2013/14) had 21 points at the time of the deadline, and would’ve commanded a lot more then a draft pick.

Recchi scored 16 points (10 goals, 6 assists) in 16 games for the B’s last year. Afinogenov scored 20 points (6 goals, 14 assists) in 4 games for the Sabres. There was no reason the B’s would go after a slumping Afinogenov when they could get a red hot Recchi for pretty much nothing (Karsums and Lashoff are nowhere to be found on a crappy club in Tampa Bay) At the deadline you are looking for players to come in and have immediate impact, not take chances on slumping players. Before March 4th 2009 both Racchi and Montador were impact players for their teams and PC thought both would put the B’s over the threshold. One worked out, one didn’t, but he didn’t give up much either way.

Maybe the B’s could have gone after Afinogenov in the offseason, but the cap was too tight. Recchi, however, is still producing fairly well for a guy of his age. He is scoring about half a point a game, ending the season with 41 points….not bad for a 41 year old guy on the third line

KESSEL WASN’T GOING TO SIGN EXCEPT FOR RIDICULOUS MONEY THAT WOULD’VE HANDICAPPED THE TEAM FOR YEARS. end of story we got 2 firsts and a second for a player who wasn’t going to sign….not a bad deal

Basically what I’m saying is the B’s are still good, and in a tight battle for first in the division with Buffalo. They have a good mixed core of young talent and productive veterans both at Defense and Forward, as well as two solid goaltenders all signed for a pretty long time. They are good now, and are set up to be good for years to come. Afinogenov and Redden weren’t the answer for last season’s 2nd round let down. We’ll soon find out, however, if the B’s have what it takes this season.

I think you are way off-base here. You really can’t complain about what Mark Recchi has brought to this team for the money. Kessel wanted out of Boston. He was never going to sign. All you need to do is watch that clip of him from this weekend nervously saying that he never asked to be traded to know that he didn’t want to be a Bruin. Obviously, you aren’t from around him because the only people who call Boston “Beantown” are tourists, so maybe you haven’t been able to follow the day to day goings on of this team.

Also, “Goaless”?

I’m sure if Chiarelli had received this poorly written drivel 12 months ago he would have made much different decisions.

Can you put something like this up before every game? I like these 7 goal games.

Nooooo thank you. Though Afinogenov is quite impressive this year…