Who would have thought Manchuk would get hurt before Ferrence? Four weeks sucks. Chara is going to be back to playing the ironman minutes for sure.

Cap!

Jack (of course) had the best comment on this, when Boychuk went out of the game: “well, Dubinsky got his two minutes worth, that’s for sure.”

I wonder how they will do the D pairings now.

You don’t want to pair McQuaid with Chara, at least I don’t. McQuaid is a placeholder, nothing more. I wouldn’t want him playing 25+ minutes. He should be a third pair guy, even if Big Z can probably make him look better than he is.

The easy solution would be pairing Chara with Stuart, Seidenberg with Hunwick and Ference with McQuaid. But Hunwick and Ference have done a good job together, and Hunwick has recovered nicely after his wretched opening game. Playing with Ference probably helped, since Hunwick and Seidenberg played together like two guys who met for the first time five minutes before the game in the opener. I would be very reluctant to break the two of them up, especially considering Hunwick’s rather fragile confidence level.

So, I don’t want McQuaid on the first pair, and if you pair Stuart and McQuaid together, the Bruins would never get the puck out of their own zone. I guess the logical move would be to put McQuaid on the second pair with Seidenberg, keeping the Hunwick/Ference team together and putting Chara with Stuart.

damn

I like McQuaid, he a tough a grittiy kinda reminds me of Mark Stuart. Hate so see Boychuk out for a month or so though.

The Black and Blue and Gold

As stated earlier, with the coming cap issues on the return of Sturm and Savard, might be a chance to see if some of the youngins are ready for some NHL playing time if we end up having to move a D-man.

This is a sad bit of news. I’m heading to Thursday’s game, so lets see how the new matchups work.

I don’t think McQuaid was bad at all last season – He’ll be in the same role…filling in…and that sounds like a decent move – What about Bartkowski? He was the last to get sent down and heard that it wasn’t an easy decision – I like Cornelius Hardenbergh’s comment “If Hunwick is in NHL-Player mode and not useless-sack mode, we could be okay”…if we’re seeing a Wideman for ‘10-’11 it is looking like Hunwick…sketchy play in our own zone – What happened there? Confidence? He looked solid last year – Regardless…sad to see Boychuk on the shelf…for 4 weeks…OUCH!

Reports earlier about Hunwick, Ryder and Wheeler on the trading block. I don’t think Hunwick will do much more then what we have already seen from him. I think he has peaked and they should try to move him along with someone else toi make room for Savard or Sturm when one of them return.