Red Mosquito

elliseamos wrote:

Mickey wrote:

elliseamos wrote:That's false. Carlo & McAvoy are arguably top 2 anywhere.

Correct only insofar as you can argue anything, even if you're wildly wrong! They're good defensemen, both of them, and maybe they make the top four of some of the remaining teams, but are they replacing the top pairing on Tampa, Colorado, Vegas? No, no, and no.

Tuukka has benefitted from good teams. He's really good, but he's missing a key ingredient to be great. Their depth was fine provided 5 guys didn't go down. Carlo, Miller, Zboril, Moore, and Kampfer were all out. The first two being the most significant losses.

I think that's true. And yet the same could be said of someone like Holtby, who I think of as a very similarly good, not great, goaltender. So I think both you and snd are correct, to an extent. The Bruins blue line was decimated by injuries--Carlo is massive hole! And yet it's also a thinner back-end than they've had in previous years, so while it's impossible to predict those kinds of things, not going after a defensive upgrade (the way the Lightning grabbed Savard) might look like a mistake, in hindsight.

fair points both. I am fine with the Bs top pair being 4th best in the league and I also wished the Bs had circumvented the cap to go all in. I don't mention it because I'm sour, I say it wholeheartedly: I want the Bruins to spend beyond the cap however they need to in order to win a cup.

Mickey wrote:Gonna revise my picks for the second round:

Colorado over Vegas, 4-2
Tampa over Carolina, 4-3
Boston over NYI, 4-2
Winnipeg over Toronto, 4-2

Mickey wrote:

elliseamos wrote:

Mickey wrote:

elliseamos wrote:That's false. Carlo & McAvoy are arguably top 2 anywhere.

Correct only insofar as you can argue anything, even if you're wildly wrong! They're good defensemen, both of them, and maybe they make the top four of some of the remaining teams, but are they replacing the top pairing on Tampa, Colorado, Vegas? No, no, and no.

Tuukka has benefitted from good teams. He's really good, but he's missing a key ingredient to be great. Their depth was fine provided 5 guys didn't go down. Carlo, Miller, Zboril, Moore, and Kampfer were all out. The first two being the most significant losses.

I think that's true. And yet the same could be said of someone like Holtby, who I think of as a very similarly good, not great, goaltender. So I think both you and snd are correct, to an extent. The Bruins blue line was decimated by injuries--Carlo is massive hole! And yet it's also a thinner back-end than they've had in previous years, so while it's impossible to predict those kinds of things, not going after a defensive upgrade (the way the Lightning grabbed Savard) might look like a mistake, in hindsight.

fair points both. I am fine with the Bs top pair being 4th best in the league and I also wished the Bs had circumvented the cap to go all in. I don't mention it because I'm sour, I say it wholeheartedly: I want the Bruins to spend beyond the cap however they need to in order to win a cup.

By all means, if you think the Bruins could make the playoffs losing Marchand for the season and Bergeron for the final third, you can suggest that idea to the front office.

Mickey wrote:I'd probably be wary of talking shit about the competitiveness of another division when you played the Sabres and the Devils 16 times, but what do I know

Mickey wrote:You can't put a guy on LTIR just for being old.

Mickey wrote:I'd be pretty surprised if Tampa took Vegas in five games but I am feeling pretty confident right now, and Kucherov would be the obvious Conn Smythe winner with his storyline (though I think the real MVP has been Vasilevskiy)

Peeps wrote:jesus, all bruce cassidy does is whine whine whine

Mickey wrote:

Peeps wrote:jesus, all bruce cassidy does is whine whine whine

I regret to inform you that Bruce Cassidy was right, the officiating tonight was awful again and it cut both ways.

Mickey wrote:Terrible call for goalie interference that led to the first NYI goal, followed by a missed SEVEN dudes on the ice for Tampa's second. On top of multiple bizarre make-ups and ghost penalties. Maybe one of the worst officiated games I've ever seen.

elliseamos wrote:

Mickey wrote:I'd be pretty surprised if Tampa took Vegas in five games but I am feeling pretty confident right now, and Kucherov would be the obvious Conn Smythe winner with his storyline (though I think the real MVP has been Vasilevskiy)

I contemplated a longer final, but then figured DeBoer will do something stupid like juggle goalies and squander it.