LQR Game 45: The Garden Massacre :Canadiens @ Bruins
Dude I’ve got good news Well my cup runneth over what are you going to add to my already phenomenal night uh is he dead yeah probably but don’t don’t look at that look at look at good what’s the good news okay well I just fired Lambert and made your alltime favorite goalie
Our coach oh Patrick W is back that is amazing for me definitely not for you but genuinely good news what a night jeez well he’s not dead more good news I think I just had a horrible nightmare you were celebrating some sort of bull crap about your history that no
One cares about and then you put up nine goals on H it actually happened didn’t it it did God could this night get any worse Patrick was back in the league [ __ ] low quality f a high quality Bruins team that is a dub every single Bruin except for forbort and
Ptra had at least one point tonight that’s nuts that’s that’s squirly that’s unbelievable tenacity you can’t teach that this team just kicked the absolute butter balls out of the Montreal toilet seats my good I mean a game that until the third period was close it was a mess and the
Bruins were the better team through the first two but it was still a close game and then they just took a heaping dump on them I don’t mean to be vulgar but I don’t get paid by some professional company to do this so I get to say whatever the [ __ ] I
Want we beat the hell out of those guys holy [ __ ] what a great game what a great game and if you’re a Habs fan and you stumbled over to this channel look man all you can do is laugh all you can do Bruins fans know it every franchise knows it sometimes you get
Embarrassed and that third per period was embarrassing honestly the other two were as well except we also had embarrassing moments that wasn’t exactly what I’d call Great hockey like fundamentally great what a game nine nine I know you wanted 10 so did I but let’s not let’s
Not get get selfish over greedy greedy is the word don’t not get greedy over here on a night where we were celebrating the 1988 Boston Bruins I did not get to catch any of that because I was late coming home from work but I’m sure it was great and we sure did honor
Them by putting up an 80s esque score good stuff you having fun I’m having fun I’m I’m having a good time a good time the Montreal Canadians the proud franchise this is our third meeting of the year we had an overtime loss to them early in November
And then a week after that we had a pretty emphatic win over them they suck at everything pretty much the bottom third of the league in goals allowed in goals scored in power play in penalty kill they’re a bad team they’re genuinely a bad team but here’s the good
News for Habs fans here’s genuinely good news is two of the most difficult positions to find on a championship caliber team are usually considered your Topline Center your onec and your goenda is somewhere around there I don’t know the exact games and a fantastic two-way game really looks like he’s
Going to be their onec for the next 10 years and then Sam monmo with a 910 save percentage a 285 goals allowed average on a team giving up the third most expected goals per game this year yikes looks like he really has starter qualities can be a true number one
Goenda now of course he’s 27 but go tenders don’t if they’re good don’t drop off as hard their early 30s the way some players will so if that’s your guy for the next 5 to8 years and you’ve got Suzuki as your 1C you filled in some major pillars for when you’re trying to
Build back towards being competitive now of course I do want to make the point screw them I hope they’re never competitive again even though the league is a better place when the Habs are good I know that you know that that fan base knows that but screw them screw him
Coffield looks good mat’s been great this year they’ve got some pieces they’ve got some pieces but the thing is about the Habs people tend to forget this about the Habs um they suck the Habs suck like that’s a you know how like the Yankees suck like that’s just a fundamental truth the Habs
Suck duh let’s talk about the Bruins though who don’t suck we get four players back from injury I just told somebody can’t remember who it was I apologize it was in the YouTube comments can’t find it just told you that for more could still be considered week to
Week because that is the update I had very recently gotten I lied turns out didn’t mean to lie but I did Carlo ptra omark and former all go back into the lineup just a fun little jam session of injured dudes back into other dudes what
Am I I don’t know what I’m saying I’m a little delirious it’s been a very long week I have bags under my ey I do have bags under my eyes goodness it’s fine everything’s fine the lines shake out as such Martian coil pasta jvr zaka debrusk lco geeky Frederick Bist ptra Heinen
Gism lindom Carlo for more shaton Kirk olark gets his first start since getting injured 11 days ago ptra on the fourth line is stupid and it’s not about him being a rookie it’s not about his level it’s about the fit and that makes no sense at all and he didn’t even spend
That much time with them he did but he bounced around to a few different lines laurri and W spoon and Steen will all fall on the sword they all get moved out of the lineup I know we’re going to be upset about laai and W spoon and some
People about Steen beer got sent down to Providence which I kind of get but it sucks cuz there’s just so many flashes as him being this really responsible fourth line Center who wins faceoffs defensively it’s great and then he has moments where he really just doesn’t look like he
Belongs bummer but he’s still working through some stuff his career certainly isn’t over just just a bummer there if you dig hockey and you dig the Bruins and maybe you dig this channel feel free to join the Discord below as well as jump in with Twitter conversations and
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Anymore honestly I really appreciate you guys uh let’s talk about this game where most of the conversation is going to be about goals because there were 13 of them my my prediction by the way if you listen to the short shift pod was a 40 shutout for the Bruins I predicted a shut
Out I’m not good at my job I’m not pck drops 406 in mat who have been praising all year long goes for crosschecking we’re going to the power play no dice special teams through two periods fing awful awful 822 in shaten Kirk’s going to go for slashing it was
Uh a call 56 seconds into this power play we are going to do something that’s going to make me want to pull my hair out it’s so weird the 180 you take during this game how frustrated you were through it and then by the end of it
You’re just elated either way the puck is drifting towards the left Point we’ve knocked it away it looks like we get a clearance out of this get the puck out and marand is screaming his way towards it and mat is coming the other way if Martian can Corral this we have a
Breakaway we have a Bruins player in the neutral zone ready to take off Martian knows this but he also has matth bar Ling down on him he tries to Corral it mat smacks it away deeper into the zone now marshan is way out of position they set back up
Forbort has to try to compensate for marshan no longer being on that right side that Circle left side depending on your angle and so they have a freebie in passing to uh Coffield who is literally just sitting next to Omar all alone cuz forbort drifted up into that Circle he
Receives the puck and he has no problem just dunking this past omark short side one zero power play goal for them that stuff kills me it kills me the Home Run play was so unnecessary there you’re on the penalty kill kill the penalty first worry about scoring a goal after drives
Me nuts but hey we don’t have to wait too long for Revenge cuz only a few minutes later with 730 13 left in the period Carlo is going to be striding his way through the middle of the neutral zone and he’s going to see Freddy on the
Left side and he Chucks it over to him let’s take the offensive zone and Freddy receives his Puck and he goes hey screw it let’s get the big man some buckets 2v2 it’s Freddy it’s Carlo and in front of Carlo is Harris yeah I don’t weird weird weird occurrence having Carlo join
The rush like that Carlo manhandles Harris and allows himself to be opened up enough as he’s driving towards monmo that Frederick from that left wall after they take the offensive zone lays a perfect saucer pass in the air foot off the ground boom lands right on his stick
And Carla’s able to tip this glove side far side and it’s 1-1 just like that Harris had a terrible game he got absolutely annihilated this game so I don’t know why I’m being mean to him but not good 5117 left shaton Kirk pinches up in the neutral zone and open Ice hey
You want a good tip here don’t pinch into open Ice in the neutral zone don’t don’t do that I have no idea what he was thinking there it’s not like he was going to get to this Puck first the guy who received the puck didn’t even have
To move to beat shaten kerk to it I I don’t know what we’re doing either way the play is going to keep going our way except for shaten kerk’s now deep in the neutral zone so it’s a two onone a two on one against forbort by the
Way great so he’s going to go W is going to go down the left side of the offensive zone for’s going to go let’s close the gap and he does and it’s not even how much I hate this play because forbort was going to be behind this
Regardless you could already see that he was too flat footed to catch up with this so it was either two on none or he tried to eliminate one of the bodies he goes for w and W is then going to to fing this into the slot where armia has
Beaten Bist by a stride or two armia gets a glove side tap in past Omar and it’s 2-1 and everyone’s pissed off again but once again about I don’t know 4 minutes later Buck 50 left in the period it’s a heart noose shift by the second line but the Highlight is actually Carlo
Who if this didn’t work we’d be criticizing that’s how it works unfortunately not really fair he’s going to pinch on that right wall all the way down basically to the right corner he’s going to come all the way down breaks up the play it allows de Brusque and jvr to
Jump in into that corner as well win the board battle de Brusque is going to have the puck just scooched towards the net but still behind the net and he’s just going to take it right in short side couple of long strides and he manages to
Squeak it through monteo it’s 22 I don’t even really know how it gets in and then 40 seconds later we’re going to do it again we’re set up in their Zone this is a new line this one was Hein and Freddy geeky just shifting those lines around
Again and they’re going to get set up and geeki wins a board battle down low puck gets moved around to the left Point Grizz is back there and just sees hey heinan isn’t really covered by anybody and he’s back door so it’s a slap pass intentionally wide but disguise it as a
Shot everyone sells out except for Heinen who tries to go off of the stick and just redirect it into the net doesn’t work it redirects off his stick and Es skate into the net who gives a crap that’s a goal it’s 32 with 50 seconds left of the period huge and
We’ll go into the second with that lead and then 510 into the second coil goes for high sticking we’re going to the Penalty kill and for the second time on a penalty kill we’re going to get scored on about a minute into it the Habs are
Set up once again this is actually just a really nice play by Monahan who’s standing in the slot all alone he receives a pass from Suzuki and just Taps it sorry he wasn’t all alone he just redirects it to go to mat who is all alone who just gets to load up from
The high slot and goes basically bardownski on Mark glove side I think omark got screened a little bit here CU this is one even though it’s an excellent shot that we’re kind of used to seeing olark save either way it’s 33 power play goal for them they’re two for
Two on the power play but for Mor and Carlo are back so I don’t know what the issue is I actually the the second power play goal was just really good and the first one was a turnover and that was Martian’s fault and I’m not going to blame forbort for that even though
Forbort did not look good 755 in Freddy continues to just be awesome by the way he’s just great and Anderson they’re going to get tied up Anderson is going to Palm Freddy’s face like this and then put his head into the ice wall the ref is locked in on that play
And initially keeps his arm down they are going to get up and fight a little bit Anderson gets the better side of this it was kind of an awkward fight but he he gets the more more hits in uh but after all of this is settled and the
Commercial break comes back we see that they actually got the extra two for elbowing I don’t understand we’re going to the power play low and then with 7 seconds left of the power play that we did not do anything with P Harvey penard is going to clear this out of the Z
Over the glass clearly delay of game I mean it wasn’t even close to the glass and they call it and as that arm goes up the whistles are blowing the refs get together and then they wave it off one of the refs was certain it hit something
I don’t know what it hit maybe his massive ego I don’t know how you wave that either way we’re not going to the power play Everything sucks I hate it here 914 left it’s a clean breakout from our Zone and it turns out the puck don’t lie because it’s a nice redirect by
Boquest he just Springs a two-on-one for Heinen and Patra and Heinen pretty much shows shoot the whole time the defense really does cover up the pass ptra didn’t have a chance on this one so Heen goes fine I’m going to go block her side sniper Rooney and cheese absolute bullet
And it’s 43 and then 49 seconds later we are in transition again and it’s a long pass from the defensive Zone all the way up to marshand who’s standing on the opposing blue line just on that that left corner and he sees pasta coming so
He hits the brakes he waits and he just dishes this off to Pasta he’s going to collect and head straight for the high slot who he is thinking shoot the whole time obviously but there is another option that opens up as coil is streaking down the right side getting right in monmo
Pasta tries this great just tries to lead him enough right lead him enough and the pass goes oh it’s a 5050 ball right between him and monteno but Coyle is able to reach out and hit the puck right before it hits where mono’s trying to get to and it goes past him blocker
Side it’s 53 that’s your game-winning goal by the way Coyle got it the guy who’s not going to get a ton of praise for this game but was brilliant the entire time 641 left multiple failed clearances leads to this it keeps the Play Alive drives me nuts but it wasn’t
Enough not enough for us to just keep you know leaving the option open for the Habs no we also wanted to help by giving it directly to them because shaton Kirk’s in the left corner with the puck with a little bit of time and he just
Pushes this forward to give it away to Harvey penard now look I know he’s trying to elevate and do something different in the year he doesn’t do this on purpose obviously but doesn’t and so Harvey panar goes oh cool I’ve got Gallagher in the slot who’s got to step
On lindome feeds it to him Gallagher swoops around tries to beat Omar to the far post Omar is there makes the save but lindol swipes the puck into the net after the save is made and it’s 54 and with 104 left slashing on Grizz we’re going to the Penalty kill we kill off
That 104 we star in the third period up a goal but on 56 seconds of the penalty kill this is massive and then we kill it and then we start rattling them off 126 in Gallagher flubs the puck in the left Point leads to a pasta Breakaway he’s got struble draped
Over his back doesn’t matter enough because pasta is going to go in on monteo try five hole save made but the puck bounces right back to him and he’s able to bury this stick side it’s 64 another one for pasta and then with 432 left it’s horrible Puck management by
The hals as sovi just gives it away to coil in the middle of the slot like literally passes it to him I don’t know what he was doing here he is going to look to the net realizes he doesn’t actually have a shot as a Defender
Collapses in on him so he’s going to start going around the net and he skates right around his Defender uses the net as a pick for that Defender and as he frees himself up as he circles around the other side he sees that marshand is primed in the dead center of the slot
Quick Pass to him and he’s going to beat mono uh glove side so that’s going to be seven to four and that’s his 11th consecutive 20g goal season for marand incredible and then 5 minutes after that a Faceoff win by zaka debrus is going to
Jump in he’s going to circle all the way from the left wall down and around and he is going to see that zaka just went back door he just goes straight to mono’s blocker side no one picks him up so as de bruss circles the net he flings
It across tapping for zaka it’s 884 and we’re having a great time they’re finally going to pull monteno and bring in Primo which sure at that point why not on the on the date that Patrick Wall was hired once again as an NHL coach let’s make sure our goalie doesn’t get
Destroyed too much cuz we saw how that worked in the past I believe that’s Zak’s 100th goal if I’m correct here 950 left Suzuki going to go for slashing we’re going to the power play and 30 seconds into the power play shaton Kirk with the puck on the left dot he really
Does do a great job on the power play unit he shifts this to geeki who’s to the right of Primo he sees Heinen inside of Harris well you know you know what I mean Quick Pass to him and Heinen gets the tap in it is a hattick for Danton
Heinen the first of his career I believe and that’s horrendous defensive coverage by Harris who was terrible all night I’m really picking on this guy but screw him he’s a Hab N9 to4 your final score what game notes could I possibly have let’s talk about the guys returning from injury
Shall we we’ve got forbort who looked bad he did what are we doing here he looked bad here’s the thing I am willing even though I know that forbort looked really bad when healthy in the past I’m going to give the guy a fair chance it’s
Not fair to just crap all over I’m like okay let’s get you back to game speed and see where you look see where you look ah God it is late Carlo looked mostly awesome he had a great game Patra not great really struggled to find any chemistry with his Lin mates let’s give
Him a little time as well and then olark did not get much help but let’s be honest not his best effort either uh he he’s going to shake that off though I’m really not worried about him the PK really struggling again so I’m hoping that with Carlo back fulltime and maybe
Forbort can add to this penalty Hill gets back to where it should be which is a top 10 penalty kill I’m pretty sure over the past month and a half we’ve been like the 22nd ranked penalty kill it’s been it’s been bad like genuinely bad those are my only Game notes how fun
Was that how awesome was that watch highlights if you weren’t able to watch the game that was awesome and the Olay that they were singing the wave that the crowd did I hate the wave I’ll forgive it in this instance I don’t care what a great night if you are at this game
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Results like this are a good indicator as to how good the team is mentally. A mentally strong team enjoys the score line, but asks questions about how such a poor team managed to score 4 weak goals against them and works on that. A weak minded team takes the result and thinks it’s a great result.
Our forwards were excellent throughout however our defence was awful in the first two. Couldn’t get the puck out of our zone and made bonehead plays which gifted Montreal easy chances. A better team punishes us much more for this
You keep saying to need a name for the membership program but "Mid qualify Bruins fans" is right there.
My boyfriend, a Habs fan: I'm just gonna pretend the third period never happened and the Habs played a good game 😂
I went to sleep after the first, saw the title of this video when I woke up and got spooked because I didn't know which team got massacred. Thankfully it wasn't the Bruins lol
Go Bs! Go Heinen! 4 goals is too much to give up.
And f Patrick Roy. The guy's an asshole.
Dude your intros only get better and better.
Butterballs lol
From the LQBFC (?) – Low Qual Bruins Fan Club, I am spitballing here!!!
1. We really appreciate the hours you put in, the truth, and sheer expert fan view!
2. Marketing view- may get more conversions to all star level if you announce/display them first, maybe a 10% boost.
3. To the LQBFC ? , thank you and for those advertising to teams and friends, thank you! I need to keep this channel and the skits going. Go Bs!!
Neely- anyone else catch Neelys competive fire at a 9.2!!! Feel bad for the office chair that caught the wrath after the Habs 4th goal.
I think trading Grizz would be a good idea ,lets dump him in To , I am sure they think he is a no1 d 😂
Intro was like expected! Go Bssssss! 😉
Debrusk playing himself into a 6M contract? (Trade him at deadline?) (Agent says 7M on open market) thoughts?
Last night was just too perfect!!? On the night where they're celebrating the 1988 Bruins team that finally beat Montreal in the playoffs for 1st time in a long time and they're playing the Canadians and the Bruins absolutely spank em 9-4!!!! Unreal!! That was so awesome!!!
Annihilation
Yeeesss!!! Pucking DROOOOPS!!!😂
Monahan would look pretty good playing C for the B’s … just saying 🔥🐻
The refs waving off that OBVIOUS delay of game penalty was fucking ridiculous!!?? The 1 ref with the best view of it called it right and was guna call it but then for some reason he let's the other officials convince him to change his mind and they don't call it even tho it was clearly delay of game and the 1 ref knew it and was guna call it but then they did their stupid thing where they get together to talk about it which is so stupid!!? If they're guna do that then y not just go look at the replay real quick that way u know u made the right call!!?? Really the 1 ref that was Gina call itshouldve stuck to his guns and told others…"hey fuck u it's delay of game I saw it clear as day and I had better view than the rest of u so fuck what u guys think happened!!?" He should've either done something like that or refs should just look at the replay!!?? It's so dumb having them get together to talk it over cuz none of them r actually sure of what happened so what good does them talking about what they think happened do!!? If there's any question about what happened then they should just take 20-30 seconds to look at replay real quick and get call right!!!!?? It's so ridiculous!!? I keep saying this but I think the NHL needs add 1-2 more officials to officiating crew but not have them on the ice!? They should have them sitting up top with access to replay and they can basically do like the video coaches do for all the teams and they can quickly look at replays to make sure correct calls r made and if call on the ice is wrong they can quickly see its wrong and radio down to refs on ice so they can fix it and make correct call!!?? That way like say the puck went out of play into netting but nobody on ice noticed in real time but there was a question as to whether it went out or not, then 1 of the refs up top could be looking back at the replay as play is continuing on ice and then they could see and verify "oh yea puck did go out of play at this point" and they could radio it down to ice and they could stop play for a missed stoppage and rewind click back to the time puck hit netting and then they can continue game and make sure all the calls r correct!!!?? It's absolutely ridiculous for fans and teams to still be having wrong calls effect outcomes of games!!?? I think they really should do my idea of having 1-2 more officials but have em up top looking at replays and making sure all calls r the correct calls and radioing to officials on ice when a wrong call is made so they can fix it and make right call!? Also I think they need to force refs to answer to media after games and I think refs should be fined for each wrong call they make and if their shit call effects outcome of the game they should really get nailed with a fine!? Really they should not get paid for that game cuz they effected outcome by being horrible at their job!? They need to do something about it!? They either need to do something like my idea and have extra officials off ice double checking every call with replay to make sure every call is right or they need to make officials answer to media and fine them when they make wrong calls and maybe even for calls that weren't called but should've been and they clearly saw but just didn't call!!? There needs to be some kind of motivation to make refs make sure they're doing their absolute best to get calls right cuz way it is right now the refs have no reason to care about making sure they call everything they see that's a penalty or whether call they're making is actually right or not!? There's 0 consequences for them when they do an absolutely shitty job and make wrong calls or just don't call obvious penalties that happened right in front of them that they obviously saw!? There needs to be consequences for the officials for not doing their jobs right!? I'm sure if they had to answer to media and get embarrassed by media and called out for their making wrong calls and if it started to effect them financially I'd bet that they'd start doing a much better job at calling games right and fairly!!?? Something has to be done cuz it seems like each season the officiating just keeps getting worse and worse!!? It's ridiculous cuz there's 0 consistency to their calls!!?? They'll stand there and clearly watch a guy get punched in the face and won't call anything but then they'll call a guy for hooking or something like that and it'll be the weakest hooking call ever with no hooking even happening on the play!? Or they'll call a guy for slashing cuz he reached out and went to try to hit guys stick and just barely tapped guys glove with his stick shaft in process of trying to back check and they'll call slashing when it was in no way a slash!!?? It's absolutely absurd some of the crap they call as penalties!? They'll call the weakest things, that aren't even really penalties, at one point but then when a blatantly obvious penalty happens right in front of them they don't call it!!?? It's fucking absurd cuz they'll call a guy for hooking,slashing, or holding and it'll be the weakest call ever, and really there's nothing there worthy of a penalty, and the ref calling it will be the 1 ref with the worst view of what's happening, but they'll make the call anyways even tho there's really no penalty there!? But then other times they'll literally be 3 feet from a couple guys and 1 guy will punch other in face or they'll clearly interfere with and hook/hold guy.. with ref right there but fucking ref won't call anything!? It's just ridiculous!!!
I would prefer Wortherspoon vs Forbort
Poitras… 2g, 10pts since October. That's not good. No more "he's a rookie". The Bruins have massive 23/24 Cup dreams. At what point does his production become an issue? In October, Bruins fans thought they had a Calder candidate on their roster. Now, he's (most likely) playing injured, on your 4th line and no where to be found on any rookie leaderboard. Fair to say that Poitras' first half season has not been good at all.
Olé! Olé! Olé!
Was at the game and you know it was a ruckus when even the the 100's are loud and going nuts for most the game!
Sing it with me:
🎶Oh what a night…. Just 20 days after 2023… Wicked special night for fans of the B's… The Habs surrendered, what a night!🎶
I apologize, wake n bake Sunday morning. 🤷
However bet the 12.5 over come collect ur grand prize
So I was checking out some team stats after this game… how tf do we have a top 5 power play???
The Bruins were killer behind the net and down low.
But screw him he's a hab 😅. You kill me
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So why is The Patty Roy back in a Good for the B’s! Curious
My buddy went to the game and he told me it was crazy.
One of the best intro 😂
"My prediction … was a 4-0 shutout for the Bruins." Just tell everyone you meant the 3rd period.
I gotta say, Ive been a fan of your videos since the Jet game in December. You are even more entertaining than Dangle and he has built his own sports empire. Really looking forward to tomorrow's game. I hope Schiefle can play so we can roll our four lines in Boston. Win or lose I subed. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, Ian. Keep up the great work. We love you down here in Jensen Beach, FL
Decided I'll do the team and player mid season review tonight instead of the usual game review. Couldn't wait for like another 2 weeks lol, hoping I don't hit any character limit either.
Pastrnak: A+
He is one of the main reasons this Bruins team is not around NHL 500. You don't expect him to be great defensively, and outside of a few aggravating moments he has been everything we expected and more.
Marchand: A-
Whilst he has had some struggles at times, I feel like he has performed perfectly. He isn't the perfect captain but he can energize the team in key moments and carry the team when needed as well.
Zacha: B+
Whilst he is not a first line center he has filled that role fine enough. He has had his struggles at times but he has exceeded expectations for this season.
Debrusk: B-
He hasn't been the same as last year but that was to be expected with Bergeron's retirement. He has always been a streaky player and this year is no different, his defensive play has heavily improved which helps his offensive lapses.
Coyle: A-
He has exceeded all my expectations this year. He has become a perfect 2C for this team, with both his offensive and defensive production really growing with his new role.
Heinen: B+
Heino has been an amazing steal from the offseason. He not only replaced Lucic as the utility player for the Bruins, has played that role better, and is on a 775k contract.
JVR: B
He has fallen off a bit from how he was in the first 20 games but he has still been a very solid offseason pickup and has exceeded our expectations by a mile.
Frederic: B
He has stepped up in every aspect of his game, he is solid on both ends of the ice, a solid PK player, and he should center lines more often.
Geekie: C+
The Geekster has moments of brilliance, but overall he's been middle of the road and what I expected of him, bottom 6 guy who can fill in a top 6 center spot when desperately needed to.
Lauko: C
He had a very hot start to the season, those first 10 or so games he was the perfect 4th line guy you'd want, but after injury his play really fell off. He's slowly picked it back since then but I can't deny I have been very disappointed in his season so far.
Boqvist: B-
I did not expect anything from Boqvist outside of a emergency 13th man call up and he has proven me very wrong. He has solidified himself in that 4th line center role where Beecher used to be.
Beecher: C-
His Oct and Nov was really really strong, but as the season went along I think the NHL schedule got to him. Hope to see him return later in the year better than ever.
Steen: C+
I'll be honest I never really cared for Steener a lot, and whilst he'll probably never be a true NHL regular, I think he's done his role well enough, and he also allows others to rest up for a game or two whilst he's in the lineup instead.
Poitras: B
Whilst he isn't on the score sheet every night like at the start of the year, he has been amazing nearly every single night. Every game he shows us why he will be the next top center for the team, he can drive lines and offense and is reliable on defense. He's definitely hit a rookie wall, but remember he still has years of development left, both in his game and also physically.
Merkulov: N/A
I don't think he got enough time nor was put in a good enough role to see what he could've actually done.
McAvoy: A
Not much to say about Mac, he is still a top 5 defenseman in the league, and whilst his goal scoring is not where you'd want it, he makes up for it in every single other aspect.
Lindholm: B-
He has really struggled this season with creating offense, but his defensive play for the most part has been very solid, he is a reliable two way defensemen, and I have no real complaints about him
Carlo: A-
Carlo is the epitome of defensive defensemen, he is an absolute stalwart in the defensive zone, but this season he has also been able to be a bigger presence in the offensive zone as well which makes his value 100x even better. I genuinely would consider him a top 25 defensemen in the league.
Grzelcyk: C+
Before his injury Gryz played his usual solid 2 way play, but after his injury he has become a complete liability outside of a few games here and there. I hope he returns to his usual standard eventually, but I would not be bothered if he got traded for draft picks or a rental at the deadline.
Forbort: B-
In my opinion Forbort has gone underrated this season. November and early December he was one of the best defensemen the B's had, and I hope this rust he's gotten by being out for so long doesn't stay with him, because he was on a very good warpath to prove all his naysayers wrong up until a week or so into December and his LTIR stint.
Shattenkirk: B-
I did not expect anything from Shatty outside of a depth 7th Dman that'd share time with Mitchell. But his play in November was solid in portions and he's solidified himself quite well in that 3rd Pairing, his play has improved as the season has gone along and he is a genuine threat on the powerplay.
Mitchell: D-
I expected a lot more from Mitchell. He had the potential to be a very solid 3rd Pairing Dman, but everytime he was on the ice he was a gigantic liability. A complete disappointment from what I had expected of him.
Lohrei: B-
His first stint with the B's showed glimpses of what he was capable of, but it took his second stint to really prove to everyone that he at the very least should be ready next year to take a top 4 spot in the Bruins defensive structure. His play for the vast portion of his time was solid, you saw him improving every game for awhile there, and whilst he hit a rookie wall, he should come back even better next time.
Wotherspoon: B+
I had 0 expectations for Wotherspoon but his play has completely changed my mind on him, and I glad he stole that 7th D role from Mitchell. He played his ass off for that spot, he does everything right, you can trust him when he's on the ice, and he's become the B's utility Dman they can rely on anywhere on the defense.
Ullmark: B+
Obviously he wasn't going to live up to last season, but he has not disappointed in this year's play. He is still a top 15 goalie in the league, and his stats do not represent how solid he's been this year.
Swayman: A-
His vezina level pace at the start of the season has definitely slowed, but he is still a spectacular goalie through and through, plus he has that fiery attitude to go along with his amazing play which makes every single start of his an absolute joy to watch.
Montgomery: B
He has continued to not only keep this B's group play at a top 10 league pace, but he's been able to make what would have been in any other circumstance a 13-18th ranked team into a real cup contender. Whilst I still do not enjoy a lot of his line shake ups and his lack of trust in the bottom 6 or rookies in 3rd periods, I cannot deny this man has a large part to play in the B's dominating play these last 2 seasons.