Hitting The Links: Meet Me In St. Louis Edition
by sarahconnors on Feb 21, 2012 10:10 AM EST
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The Bruins have an entire day off in St. Louis today. I'm pretty jealous. I too would love an entire day to run around downtown, go up in the Arch, visit some of the gardens and museums and stuff, probably hang out on the roof deck. All awesome things. Hopefully new arrival Carter Camper gets some quality bonding time with the big kids, and maybe there will even be a trade to make things interesting today.
Carter Camper's callup is making one thing shockingly obvious: Zach Hamill's time has come and gone. The Bruins gave the former first-round pick a number of games this year, after burying him in the minors since 2009, and he did next to nothing with them. He has three assists, no goals in 19 career NHL games. The singular move I actually expect to see the Bruins make at this trade deadline is to move Hamill at the trade deadline; his contract is up at the end of this season, and while he's struggled in Providence as well under the eye of Bruce Cassidy, he may well be able to help another AHL team shooting for the Calder Cup.
After the jump, hilarious Capitals fans are hilarious, a short thing on Carter Camper, and Rick Nash to New York or LA?
Bruins News:
- Carter Camper, this new callup, is an undrafted college GRADUATE whom the Bruins signed in April. Good move, Chiarelli. [Something's Bruin]
- More trade speculation. Is a trade necessary at this point? If so, what would the Bruins have to sacrifice? [Mass Live]
- Claude Julien, for one, is not leaning on trade help. [Globe]
- Apparently broadcasters this weekend were STILL talking about Tim Thomas' facebook. Oddly, this is a picture of those announcers I happened to find. [PHT]
NHL News:
- The Senators killed the Islanders in the early game on this President's Day Monday. [Citizen]
- The Capitals dropped a huge turd of a game to the Hurricanes, too. [Times]
- At least Caps fans are taking this opportunity to self-mock and running with it. Here are four fictional hockey teams that could beat the Caps right now. [Russian Machine Never Breaks]
- How scary would the Rangers be if they added Rick Nash? [CBS NY]
- If this supposedly near-complete sale of the Coyotes to Rick Jamison goes through, expect to see them in Glendale for the foreseeable future. [SBN]
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The Rangers would indeed be scary if they got Nash… what would they have to give up, though?
I don’t necessarily know that a trade is necessary for the B’s; I think they’re biggest problem is that they aren’t playing their usual angry, physical hockey.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
I’m pretty sure the problem is that they aren’t scoring goals
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 21, 2012 10:35 AM EST up reply actions
as i said before, we haven’t had a true goal scorer since Glen Murray (you can say Phil Kessell, but i dont feel like talking about how we went for Krejci instead….angers me)
whether it be Carter, Selanne or Nash— the B’s gotta get someone who has proven he can put the puck in the ne if they wanna get out of this funk. The Bruins won’t play their usual “angry, physical” style without Horton or Peverley and their chances of coming back and being effective are becoming slimmer and slimmer with each passing day.
I’m fairly comfortable saying if we switch out Krejci for Kessel, I would have been free to make plans on June 15th of last year.
Answer me this. Why do we need a Carter, Selanne, Nash type scorer when the team was one of the top scoring teams in the league with just a Nathan Horton type scorer?
What we need is the right type of player to fit with either Lucic-Krejci or Marchand-Bergeron. Probably a Teddy Purcell type of player (I’d put him on Bergeron’s line and move Seguin up with Krejci-Lucic.
by Michael Taylor on Feb 21, 2012 12:00 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I don’t think you break up Marchand-Bergeron-Seguin until all other options have been exhausted.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 21, 2012 12:14 PM EST up reply actions
They’re pretty close to having been exhausted. Remember we dominated the Stanley Cup Finals with Marchand-Bergeron-42 year old. I’d personally like to see
Lucic-Krejci-Seguin
Marchand-Bergeron-Caron for the next few games.
by Michael Taylor on Feb 21, 2012 12:50 PM EST up reply actions
I agree with Corny in that I wouldn’t break them up, but what you’re saying is tempting… things haven’t been working lately, so there has to be a shaekup, and obviously I wouldn’t want it to be via trade unless absolutely necessary.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 21, 2012 12:55 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I see your point. I guess it’s better to play around with lines now than in april/beyond
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 21, 2012 1:36 PM EST up reply actions
They seem to have been struggling too
Or at least, relative to how they’ve been playing earlier in the year. I don’t think either Seguin or Marchand have scored a goal since Super Bowl Sunday and to me they just haven’t been as sharp as they were earlier in the year. I feel like that line hasn’t been dominating with puck possession, like they do when they’re on their game. Not a knock on them, it’s something you’d expect from second year players, especially ones who were on such a torrid pace earlier in the year. And besides, the entire team is struggling right now…wonder if moving one of them off the line would help them find their game again. Seguin seemed to develop some chemistry with Lucic earlier in the year when he went on a tear…I wouldn’t mind a Lucic-Krejci-Seguin line until Horton comes back. Marchand-Bergeron-anyone would be a solid second line.
I wouldn’t break up Bergy, Seguin, and Marshmont.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 21, 2012 12:36 PM EST up reply actions
Teddy Purcell
I would be a big fan of that move. Probably the move I’d like to see the most actually out of the players available (or at least the ones I’m told are available). I feel like he scored a goal per game in the playoffs against us last year. He’s a solid young player and I think would be a great fit for our lineup. This of course, is assuming Ryan Smyth or Knuble aren’t available, which I’ve read both are not. I think I’d prefer Purcell to Hemsky, Malone, or any other names they’ve thrown out there (though I wouldn’t mind Malone as a rental). However, I wonder if Tampa would trade Purcell, especially considering that he’s relatively young and they do seem to want to rebuild around youth.
Obviously that’s a problem, but is it the only problem? No. Do they play better and score more when they’re playing their physical game? Yes.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 21, 2012 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
they score more when their secondary scoring is going nuts, which it was to start the year. Everyone was scoring.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 21, 2012 12:35 PM EST up reply actions
What I’m saying is that for this team, the physical part of the game plays a huge role in their success. I’m not saying it’s the only problem, and I’m not saying that hitting people and fighting is going to instantly make us repeat, however, I don’t think anyone who has watched this team lately can say that they’ve been playing their same physical style of hockey in the last month or so. Obviously the simplest answer is that they aren’t scoring; the most simple answer to “why didn’t we win?” is always “we scored less than they did”.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 21, 2012 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
Conversely, they are also allowing way too many goals against. Chara looks to be playing at about 30% of his ability.
Yep.
Lots of defensive gaffes/positioning errors. Can’t blame them all on goaltending.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 21, 2012 8:36 PM EST up reply actions
I’m sure Columbus has a giant price list of packages they would want to give Nash away, and I’m also sure that said packages would either dismantle a team’s core right now or cause them to mortgage their future. Everybody loves lusting after the big names, but teams have to be careful that they only spend what they can afford.
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Oh, I’m sure, and they’d be stupid to demand less.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 21, 2012 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
The Nash trade would take a lot
Last time I heard on TSN the deal was supposed to be somewhat in the range of:
A top 6 forward or top 4 D roster player
2 elite level prospects
and the teams first rounder.
I like Nash but no way I want to pay that price. Not even close. I was hoping that Johnny Boychuk would have been dangled as some sort of trade bait but I guess not. Who from this team is a worthy asset that wont disrupt the Bruins chemistry too much? I cant see anyone on that roster right now that PC would like to move.
They did it for Savy, they did it for Horton, they did it for each other, they did it for us. I give you the 2011 Stanley Cup Champions....The Boston Bruins!!
My Lions lost to the Saints who are clearly the better team. (This is what happens when you back your team and they lose),
WAY to high of a price, IMO. I could see a top 4 forward and a top 4 D, or one of those + an elite prospect, but to mortgage your future for Nash? Nah.
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 21, 2012 8:41 PM EST up reply actions
I was at Monster Jam (and buying a new car) all weekend, so this might have made the links earlier, but OTF abso-freakin-lutely crushed it with this article.
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by Arenacale on Feb 21, 2012 10:37 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
the pro-est click
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 21, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
i have lost the ability to function at work due to excitement over tomorrow’s game. WELP
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TSN says Downie is now an Avalanche
suck it Western Conference
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 21, 2012 4:04 PM EST reply actions
For Kyle Quincey
Who?
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 21, 2012 4:09 PM EST up reply actions
Kyle Quincey flipped to Detroit for a first rounder and Sebastian Piche (minor league D)
Tampa and Chicago also just swapped minor league players
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by sarahconnors on Feb 21, 2012 5:09 PM EST up reply actions
Deadline Day on TSN is going to rule
glad I took the day off for that
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Feb 21, 2012 5:19 PM EST up reply actions
Here's a good read...
Also, people with bigger hockey IQs than mine say Selanne has struggled to put up points in defence first systems (I have no stats to back this up.) While it seems pretty obvious that defense first = less offense, does this change anyone’s opinion on Selanne, if what I heard is true?
Keep Calm and Tim Tom
Thanks for the link. I read the first page, but alas, time to get to work. I’ll have to check it out when I’m at lunch – I can never seem to tear myself away from anything WWII or hockey related, so I’ll definitely be finishing this one up!
Kick his ass, Seabass!
by phonymahoney on Feb 22, 2012 8:53 AM EST up reply actions
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