Boston Bruins Can’t Score | Bruins Game 23 Recap
The Boston Bruins lose 2-0 to the Vancouver Canucks on the Jake Debrusk revenge tour.
The Bruins outplayed the Canucks at every turn but couldn’t score goals. The Bruins goals can’t only come from Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak this year and expect to win.
I break down Game 23 for the Boston Bruins and examine what they could do about scoring more goals.
Time Stamp
intro 00:00
Game 23 00:38
Outro 9:28
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22 Comments
What can they do to score more goals?
I simply can't get through to internet fans that scoring starts with your goalie.
When they shrunk The gear, the role of the goalie changed.
I was goalie coaching then. I lived through this transition.
So you can criticize somebody for being a lower level goalie – but they start these changes with us before they hit the NHL
We lost a lot of goalies because of the expenses and changing the equipment..
You couldn't trade in used gear for new anymore. Had to buy new, lot of it was garbage, expensive and had to be backordered
I skipped a lot of freakin' meals to keep my kid safe, in proper legal gear and a new back up throat guard in the vehicle at ALL times!
I was part of this growth in the game. They started in the lower leagues first, two years before the NHL made many of the changes official
We had to go through it first in the lower leagues. And we're not millionaires!
This has also contributed to why USA does not produce elite goalies. We produce elite players, yet the best goalies are coming from Europe!
ARGUE WITH THAT!
I even heard Patrick Laine talk about the fact that he was a goalie until he was 10 or 12 years old, and his father couldn't keep up with the expense so he made him skate out. And according to Patrick's age that would have been exactly right, the changes we saw in the USA.
Public arenas, beer league teams, anybody and everybody were scrambling for goalies at that time – some arenas even helped me keep my kid in the proper gear in exchange for letting him play until midnight having to get up for school the next day!
That's the only way I would have been able to afford it, and how my kid got so much experience so fast with so many different leagues
When they changed that gear, they were looking for higher-scoring games – and it worked, fans were so stupid they really thought hockey players got better at shooting…..?
The overall NHL GAA went up 40% in one season, nobody noticed!!
DUH?
shrunk pads, blockers, trappers, helmet, restricted the size jersey a goalie could wear
measured their tape job to make sure it wasn't too thick
Goalies will take every millimeter of advantage from wearing a larger Jersey to double taping their blade to get that extra millimeter to stop that puck
The league caught on to it
This meant goalies needed to be much larger and more athletic.
Smaller goalies had to move more, get pulled out of position.. they had to work harder to stop the puck, they couldn't sit still, maintain their angle and get ready to flick the rebound out to their defenseman. Moving way too much, injury-prone
Can't tell you how many kids blew out their knees trying to keep up with the butterfly
More precise angles lead to more control over the rebound.
Hybrid style worked best, not blowing out young goalies knees with the butterfly
They're standing up more, their pads are up and angled – they are helping the forward lines when they control their rebounds to the point that they're flicking them out as passes, like Rask used to do
Linus is huge and strong – had the strength to use the boards, help transition the puck up quickly – handed players breakaway opportunities they blew
If NHL stats went back to include who actually sets up plays that lead to goals, go back one more touch of the puck, goalies would have a lot more assists on goals
Linus has three assists on goals, got two with the Bruins
Rascals somewhere like 17 or 19 assists on goals, but he came from that older League where that was more unusual.
If they would go back to the fourth touch, fans and sports jocks would see exactly what they do. Where goals come from
Then fans could play with those numbers.
But they don't know what to look for in this new league unless they're fed numbers, stats.
They don't have an eye for detail to see the stats that don't make it on the board – a lot of my support behind Charlie Coyle is the same thing.
Nobody else sees it!
He's the fourth touch of the puck setting up goals, his work doesn't get rewarded nor appreciated
So it's not worth spending any more time discussing why the Bruins aren't scoring because everyone still thinks that Jeremy is the future of the Bruins
So there's no conversation to be had
Just picking apart specific players and lines once again –
Scoring starts from the back end
It starts with your goalie.
If korpisalo could gain more experience with this defense? He'd be the fourth touch off of more goals
I don't know if korpisalo can keep up a starter schedule.
But I suspect, we may not win them? But we would have higher scoring games with a more experienced goalie like Joonas
I won't harp on this anymore. But I'm having a real hard time watching the same same comments,
same approach – with the same results – that's the definition of insanity.
We've been hearing: "We gotta bury our chances" since the end of the Nathan Horton era.
Pasta and Zacha are useless. Couldn't score on a soccer net.
Lindolm is looking like the worst contract in Bruins history. Don't see how Sweeney still has a job.
Most offense goes through the Center’s. Bruins Center’s have all underperformed.
Again, I stated it last video, we need potra back with our 4th line. That line was so good when he was with that line, why do you break it up? Or put him with the top line with pasta and Marchand. Just my thoughts
I will never bet on the bruins again
Why is Swayman playing two in a row, it's bad luck and the team lets down, like in the playoffs the last two years. Ever noticed how Bruins forwards love shooting at anything but net? Self defeating they are.
You have the Elmer Fud look going lol.
Islanders 5-1 tonight. Maybe they’ll work a trade and leave McAvoy on Longggg Island.
pasta doesn't look good
Of the two, I'd rather have resigned Denton Heinen. He gives the b's a lot more hustle, consistently, and he is a less streaky player. Probab ly would cost a lot less, too. We have an issue w/ goal scorers. We lack scoring. Trent… I don't know. He needs to go. Sit for a few. Give Merkulov, Mitchell, and the rest of the kids, a chance, on 3rd.
Geekie reminds me of some management that gets promoted up because they aren't good enough to stay where they are..he wasn't as good as the third and fourth liners so they moved him up instead of sending him down.
to start with, 4 guys must go, the following week, at least 2 more, AND get a goalie from the colledge leaugue
Great analysis. Just comparing & contrasting McAvoy vs Hughes last night, it's not close on either end of the ice. Bs fans love Charlie but he's just not a Norris candidate, he's not in the mix.
I think Pasta knows the abilty or the lack of it for this Bruins team. The goalie can be fabulous and the defense is great but you cannot survive in this league if you cannot put the puck in the net!
I'm so thankful for your coverage of my beloved B's. It takes a bit of the sting away with every loss. I hate to say it, but you've changed my mind. I think you're right and the good old days of the BBB are over. It may be time to blow it up and start fresh next season.
Yes we got held off the score sheet but honestly we can't expect our offense to win us games. I thought we played a great game and just got unlucky. We ran into a hot goaltender and they blocked like 25+ shots. I can handle us losing like that. We need to continue to play like that and the goals will come. We are playing 100% better than we were for the first 18+ games.
Defense was great, need to pick up the scoring
He looks like quagmire
Up til now defense was as suspect as scoring. Now that seems to have turned around…..baby steps.
said it all post last season and pre-season Sweeney and Neely got to go. Neely made a fiasco regarding Swayman's deal and Sweeney flipping and signing the wrong players