Bruins 2009-'10 Season Thread

[TheMino007]

http://www.boston.com/sports/hockey/bruins...s_to_ottaw.html

NEW YORK -- The Bruins hustled out of here tonight, 3-2 losers to the Rangers, and will play tomorrow night in Ottawa, but highly-valued center Patrice Bergeron stayed behind in a Manhattan hotel room and will return to the Hub today to have a hand injury--possibly a fracture--assessed by team doctors at Mass. General Hospital.

 

Beregon broke his hand and could be out 6 weeks? WTF I've been saying the Bruins need to keep treading water until Lucic gets back, then Savard, then Lucic again, now its Beregon. Jesus crap can we have a full healthy team together for the whole year for at least some point? This is getting ridiculous. He is having a great bounce back year, once of his best as Bruin and now he gets a broken hand and is robbed of his Olympic Dream. If this team just gets healthy and gets on a roll in the 2nd half of the year there isn't no reason why we shouldn't make the ECF.

[msubulldogs21]

Heads up - Bruins and Sharks are on the NHL Network (215 on Directv) at 10:30 ET.

[CoachC.]

Bruins now 12 points behind the Sabres. Not good.

[msubulldogs21]

Bruins now 12 points behind the Sabres. Not good.

 

We haven't been good, but it doesn't help matters that Buffalo pretty much won't lose anymore. They're just 2 points back of New Jersey for tops in the East.

[msubulldogs21]

YES

 

Awesome win in the shootout. Chara came up in the 4th round and BLASTED one past Nabokov. Thomas did a real nice job as well.

[Imperial59]

Yeah, that was vintage Thomas. He stopped 41 of 42 shots in regulation and then stopped all 4 shots in the shootout. He carried this team. We can only hope he keeps this up while 1/3 of our team is on the bench.

[YanksHater213]

Last night during the shootout, Jack Edwards referred to Dany Heatley as "a cold blooded killer"

 

Pure awesomeness.

[msubulldogs21]

Last night during the shootout, Jack Edwards referred to Dany Heatley as "a cold blooded killer"

 

Pure awesomeness.

 

lolololol

 

The things I miss. (They showed the San Jose broadcast on the NHL Network)

[TheMino007]

Big Win for the Bruins. It is great to see Thomas finally show up night after night and carry this team. With Rask struggling a bit of late its good to see Timmy shut up all those doubters of him (myself included). Bruins need to hover around that 5 or 6 spot till everyone healthy and then make a push and get hot for the playoffs. Buffalo needs to start losing too. But then again, will there ever be a point this year were the Bruins are completely healthy?

[msubulldogs21]

But then again' date=' will there ever be a point this year were the Bruins are completely healthy?[/quote']

 

I'm not counting on it, that's for sure.

[msubulldogs21]

Picked up a point today @ LA

 

Not going to complain too much about that. The Kings are really good.

[YanksHater213]

I think it's inexcusable to blow a 2 goal lead.

 

Also the first goal Tim allowed was unbelievably soft.

 

Happy with the point, but there should be no excuses, it should have been two.

[msubulldogs21]

I think it's inexcusable to blow a 2 goal lead.

 

In the 3rd?

 

I didn't get the game on tv - just saw the result.

[YanksHater213]

Yeah... we slacked off defensively. With a team who lacks scoring and having our defense and goaltending being our identity, you really cannot blow that lead.

[msubulldogs21]

lol

 

Just lost back to back home games to Ottawa and Columbus

[YanksHater213]

Did you see the game?

[msubulldogs21]

Did you see the game?

 

No, couldn't get it

 

Read through the yahoo write up and it mentioned a bad penalty call I believe and Columbus got a late goal with about a minute to play. What are you referring to? I'm just disappointed with the results here lately.

[YanksHater213]

THey called Lucic for a 4 minute high stick when it was a Blue Jackets player's stick who hit his own guy. They get a power play, and win the game.

 

Horrible call but s*** happens I guess.

[msubulldogs21]

THey called Lucic for a 4 minute high stick when it was a Blue Jackets player's stick who hit his own guy. They get a power play, and win the game.

 

Horrible call but s*** happens I guess.

 

Last year that doesn't happen. This year, it does.

 

Just the bad breaks over the course of a season.

[TheMino007]

Every year when we have a great year, instead of building off it, we regress it seems like. This team is just flat, stale, dull. Ryder has been slumping all year, Wideman has been terrible, we can't score when we need it. Nobody can stay healthy, Krejci has regressed. Its aweful right now.

[TheMino007]

Bruins are down to 8th, 8th friggin place and with a Islanders win we would be out of the playoff picture if the season ended today. But it doesn't. Savard and Bergeron need to come back healthy and this team needs to trade for a scorer and then hopefully we can go on a run and move up the Eastern Conference standings before the playoffs start.

[WhiskeyBreath]

This team might be in 13 place this week.

[Imperial59]

Looks like the Bruins are trying to trade Thomas.

 

The Boston Bruins are apparently quietly looking for takers for Tim Thomas. The team is fine with Rask as their number one. However, Thomas' contract will be hard to move, and even if they did find a taker, Thomas would have to waive his NTC, which seems unlikely.

 

http://www.hockeyleaks.com/index.php?page=rumors

 

According to many sources, the Bruins are closing in on what should be the first trade of many as we head towards the March 3rd trade deadline. While no sources have been able to come up with any concrete names, I have heard that Carolina and Boston have stepped up discussions over the last few days and that Ray Whitney may be who the Bruins have their eye on.

[msubulldogs21]

I believe we went over the Tim Thomas thing months and months ago and why we shouldn't have done that deal.

 

But hey, great contract! Sigh.

[Imperial59]

A couple pieces of news:

 

Bruins likely out on Kovalchuck - http://www.thefourthperiod.com/news/bos100125.html

 

Given the price tag associated to acquire Atlanta Thrashers star Ilya Kovalchuk, the Bruins may be out of the running, reports the Boston Globe.

 

The Bruins are in the market for some scoring punch, but the paper suggests general manager Peter Chiarelli won't give up what the Thrashers will likely request.

 

According to the Globe, the Bruins would need to give up Milan Lucic or David Krejci as part of a package for Kovalchuk, something Chiarelli isn't expected to do given Kovalchuk can walk away as an unrestricted free agent July 1.

 

Bruins in on Souray - http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Eklund/Updates-on-Kovalchuk-Phaneuf-and-SourayNylander-to-Jokerit-done/1/25804

 

I was told that the Oilers are talking to "at least 4 teams" who have serious interest in Sheldon Souray and that Souray is fine with going to any of them. All that I know for certain is that as of this writing none of the possible suitors for Souray are Canadian teams.

 

The Devils and Bruins are definitely involved.

[Imperial59]

ESPN.com's Pierre LeBrun writes that the two frontrunners for llya Kovalchuk are the Los Angeles Kings and the Boston Bruins. The demands from the Thrashers is reportedly a player, a prospect and a draft pick. Here are the situations for both teams.

 

KINGS: They have had "significant" trade talks with the Atlanta Thrashers about acquiring, multiple sources told The Hockey News.

 

The Thrashers apparently gave the Kings a shopping-list of what they want for Kovy -- which probably includes players, prospects and maybe draft picks. (Jack Johnson and 2009 first rounder Brayden Schenn are possibilities.) However, Kings GM Dean Lombardi isn't willing to give up that much -- especially since there is no guarantee Kovy will sign a long-term deal with the Kings.

 

But if the Kings trade for Kovalchuk, Lombardi will certainly get to work on getting him signed to an extension. Lombardi has previously said he refused to trade for Kovalchuk as a rental. Still, he probably thinks he can convince Kovy to stay for the long haul because he has already made a trip to Atlanta to talk with Waddell about this trade.

 

BRUINS: LeBrun writes that the Bruins won't trade their first rounder they got from the Leafs this year because that could net them either Cam Fowler, Tyler Seguin or Taylor Hall. But a source told him that the Bruins are very much in the Kovalchuk sweepstakes. The trade could involve Blake Wheeler, but they won't part with Tuukka Rask.

 

This is a surprising development, given previous reports that they don't want to pay the high price for Kovy.

 

Also in the running might be the Washington Capitals. They might swap Alexander Semin for Kovy, but that seems unlikely. Still, some league execs feel the Caps are the odds-on favorite to land Kovy, but they're looking at him as a rental so the Thrashers may be more inclined to talk with the Kings.

 

The Chicago Blackhawks will also sniff around here. That trade would most likely involve Cam Barker, Kris Versteeg and Dave Bolland.

 

Per ESPN.com NHL Rumors Insider. If anyone could turn around the Bruins season, it would be Kovy. It will be interesting to see what he costs whatever team trades for him.

[Dojji]

Comes down to how much we're prepared to spend to make the playoffs this season IMHO. How many other flaws you see in the team that Kovalchuk wouldn't fix on his own.

 

I'm personally fairly neutral. As long as you can fit him under the cap without disrupting longterm plans, I'm good with Kovalchuk.

[Imperial59]

Comes down to how much we're prepared to spend to make the playoffs this season IMHO. How many other flaws you see in the team that Kovalchuk wouldn't fix on his own.

 

I'm personally fairly neutral. As long as you can fit him under the cap without disrupting longterm plans, I'm good with Kovalchuk.

 

I think it's apparent that our largest issue is offense. We're friggin last in the NHL in goals scored. Trading for Kovy and getting Savard and Lucic back in the lineup on a regular basis will improve that immensely.

 

It's not like we're an all around bad team. We're a top 5 defensive team who's been barraged by injuries and struggles to score goals.

[WhiskeyBreath]

The Bruins don't want to part with the Leaf's pick this year? WTF. If they could acquire him without giving up young guys like Krejci/Lucic/Rask I make the trade no matter what picks or prospects they need to give up.

[YanksHater213]

The chance at getting Taylor Hall is not worth passing up for a few month rental for Kovalchuk, who will most definitely not put this team over the top.

 

If we can get an extension worked out for Kovalchuk with a reasonable cap number, then I think it'd be appropriate to part ways with that pick, but only then.