Can Bruins Make Some NOISE in Playoffs? | Poke the Bear
In this episode of Poke The Bear, Conor and Ty discuss Boston’s fourth-straight win over Dallas, Marco Sturm and Don Sweeney’s award candidacy, first-round matchups, and whether Boston can make some noise in the playoffs.
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17 Comments
Lohrei needs to stay ‘injured’
Just got here to say YES
We need to really take a moment to give sweeny and the scouts a shout out for the job they have done with these additions from last years trade deadline
The Leafs will land at 5 and fall 1 spot to 6. Ty will have to buy loose boxer shorts.
It is known!
What is the orange cat's name? Star of the show
LFG, B'S
The short answer?
The Bruins aren't very likely to go far in the post season
The "why" will provide the longer version of the answer
The Boston Bruins advanced 5×5 stats say that they've been piss poor defensively all season
Their Penalty Killing unit has also been piss poor all year as well
And although they've scored a fair amount of 5×5 goals…
They've been incredibly lucky in doing so because the Bruins are a bottom 5 NHL team in terms of generating quality 5×5 shots & scoring chances
Few team in the NHLs has a wider gap between actual 5×5 goals scored & their Expected 5×5 goal scored numbers
The Bruins are 28th in Expected Goal Differential
The Bruins are 2nd in Goals For Above Expected
That's called being incredibly lucky in terms of their 5×5 offense
No NHL team can realistically rely on luck in the post season to carry their offense
What's real with Boston?
All hard stats, advanced stats & the eyeball test say that Boston is a bad defensive team that stinks on the Penalty Kill
That the have an above average powerplay (although it's currently struggling)
That they've been more lucky then good at 5×5 offensively
And that Jeremy Swayman has had a Top 3 goalie performance this year & he 100% deserves Vezina votes
Boston Bruin's 5×5 STATS:
-xGF: 24th
-High Danger Shots For: 27th
-Medium Danger Shots For: 26th
-xGA: 30th
-High Danger Chances Against: 27th
-High Danger Shots Against: 29th
-Medium Danger Shots Against: 28th
OTHER BRUINS STATS:
-27th Penalty Killing Unit
-#1 NHL team in PIMs taken
There is not a rationale hockey fan on planet earth that could look at those stats and honestly believe that the Boston Bruins are going to go very far in the post season
Crap defensively
Crap on the PK
Average & super lucky 5×5 offense
Powerplay has gone south post Olympics
.500 or below road team all season
Jeremy Swayman is easily responsible for 7-10 wins this year for Boston, probably more
Just call it 7 (14 points) & then take those 14 points from their current total of 94 points
That'd give the Bruins only 80 points, they'd already be out of it & Sweeney, Neely & Sturm would already be fearing for their jobs
Jeremy Swayman has single handedly saved all their bacons & the Bruins regular season this year in the process
Surprisingly fun & entertaining regular season by the Boston Bruins
And it sure as though seems like there's a lot to look forward to in future years
However, unless Jeremy Swayman pulls a Tim Thomas and steals every playoff series….
The Bruins would be lucky to get out of the first round
The Bruins aren't bad
They're just average offensively, piss poor defensively & they have a Top 3 NHL goalie
I'm not sure that team profile screams Stanley Cup winner
Sweeney is making a comeback as a GM. He has had a good season. Made some smart Trades last year.
Imagine a team who made the playoffs possibly winning a round going into next year adding Hagens and Albert Smits 😳
Sturm – Jack Adam's. NO!!!! The kiss of death…..
What about the lottery? If Toronto wins the lottery into the top 5 then it is still protected and goes back to Toronto.
the back to back win was so importain ,what a strong win
Hagens was average at best against Utica. Blumel was really good.
Reichel has been better than Geekie.
Sweeney's only mistake last year was not getting enough for Marchand. And it was a big mistake.
Vasilevsky is second in GA and second in Save%. Yeah, he sucks.
Feels like Reichel literally auditioned the spot for James….like they wanted to simulate what that line could look like and now they could feel comfortable plugging him in 3rd wing if they decide to.