Why is NOBODY taking the Bruins seriously?

Why is NOBODY taking the Bruins seriously?

Okay the Boston Bruins currently lead the NHL in points Rangers and Panthers have the best points percentage but the Bruins lead the NHL in points very much in the picture a favorite for the president’s Trophy and nobody believes in them I’m not saying that I disagree with nobody believing in them or that

People not believing in them in wrong are wrong but it’s crazy that a team is having as good a season as they are and Sean said it yesterday he said Boston people are acting like the Bruins are going to miss the playoffs despite the record they’re having I turn on the

Radio yesterday our executive producer Mike felger is saying to his co-host you know the Bruins are going to win the president’s Trophy and I’ve never been more positive a team is going to lose than these guys and everyone’s like yep and they don’t even sound like they’re

Being haters the betting odds they have the fifth best betting odds to win the Stanley Cup again they lead the HL in points but they’re behind Panthers Oilers Avalanche and hurricanes betting odd odds wise to win the Stanley Cup so let’s try to make a little heads or tals

Of of this shall we yeah I mean it was this was essentially prompted yesterday to uh before the felger thing with there was a tweet that said like the Bruins are on Pace to win the most fraudulent president’s trophy of all time and like I have two schools of of thought here

Where I sort of land on the side of Mike felger here which is wild to say but like the Bruins might actually be the weakest president’s Trophy winners in a in a long time where wherein that like I haven’t really believed in that team as being a serious true true Contender like

Can they win the Stanley Cup sure any team that makes the playoffs can win the Stanley Cup but I don’t see them as like an Eastern Conference Powerhouse I didn’t even in the first half when they were when they were playing much better than they are right now I think that

Like this second half post All-Star break has revealed a lot of their flaws and some of uh been more of an indication of who I expected them to be this year but like I don’t think that the Bruins should be the ones catching the flak here like I don’t think that

The fraudulent president trophy is a reflection on like a poor reflection on the Bruins I think it’s more a poor reflection on the system and when we talk about like the changes that I would make to the league yesterday first thing that I said essentially was the 321

Point system and so as an exercise here I I went through and looked at what the 321 point system would give uh for like standings results and like yeah this is more indicative of where I kind of find the Bruins and it’s sixth in the league not first and obviously like those 15

Loser points that they have in the standings have helped them to First under this current format but like this is way more indicative of how I would kind of rank the teams in the league right now yeah that’s I think that’s really good work on your part because

That also falls in line with the Vegas thing that they’re seen as the fifth best team by Vegas 321 would slate them as the sixth best team and would they even be the sixth best team because by points percentage there I’m just looking right now Carolina would be ahead of

Them so they’d really be like the seventh best team I think they feel to a lot of hockey fans like more the fifth sixth seventh eighth best team in the league I think a reason that so many people don’t believe in them is a combination of PTSD and recency bias

PTSD obviously that they were the president’s Trophy winner last year and lost in the first round in seven games to a team that they should have been able to beat but a team that in the Panthers that ended up making quite a nice run themselves recency bias because you mentioned pre-

And post All-Star break the Bruins were really really good pre-all-star break they’ve been kind of terrible SLS sleepy post Allstar break Sean you want to throw up that low that uh full screen look at it right there before the All-Star break fifth in goals for per game fourth in goals against per game

Power Play top five PK top seven after the break 20th in goals for per game 14th in goals against per game 25th power play 14th PK I think largely the issue has been and I know that you see that like the PK hasn’t been great the goals against

Haven’t been as good uh as they were in the first half but the huge drop offs are in the goal scoring department so I think that it’s really just a combination of they’re not scoring goals and they’re also blowing leads if you want to come back Sean they they’re also

Blowing leads at the end of games like crazy I think that some of their goal scores are getting better we can talk about that in a second but the two things are they’re not scoring their goal tending is a little worse I’m not like freaking out about olark and s in

The way some people are omark’s actually been quite good of late it’s the last five six seven minutes of games where you’re like holy grow up you dummies yeah I mean they consistently get caved in in the third periods especially down the stretch and like it’s not like that wasn’t really a

Problem in the first half too because in the first half Jim Montgomery was constantly shortening his bench at the end of games and that’s just it’s not sustainable and uh you know I I think that we’re seeing uh a that kind of come to fruition here in the second half is

That like they’re just not a strong team at the end of games they just White Knuckle it and hope for the best you you mentioned the goal tending that has has fallen off this is largely a team that has been bailed out consistently by goal tending over the past couple of years

Like they’ve been riding Elite level goal tending if that comes back down to earth so do the Bruins um so like the the scoring the scoring obviously is is a bit of an issue especially when you’re heading into the playoffs where you’re going to get matched up against teams

That are are pretty sound defensively they can they can shut you down so I am worried about the brues I do think that they have their flaws but I also think that this is a team that shouldn’t necessarily be victimized by what happened last year or or like fall

Victim to the PTSD that might come with last year because I I do think that they’re going to be better off for it Jim Montgomery is going to be better off for it in the way that he handles the goal tending I think that he’ll be a

Little bit more in line with the way that he coaches and manages the lineup during the regular season and won’t kind of overthink it and I hope that the players treat the uh the first round this year with a little bit more tact and a little bit more intensity and uh

And I guess just like more Focus than they did in in the second half of last year’s second round first well the thing well the thing of the thing of last year and getting embarrassed in the first round this is a hundredth time we’ve

Said this on the show but I think it is so important to remind people yes this roster is worse and now here’s where my argument’s going to sway a little more Pro Bruins yes the roster is worse but so many teams have embarrassed themselves to death and then come back

The next year and won the Stanley Cup 2018 capitals 2011 Bruins the year like the year before the Bruins won the cup they obviously got reverse swept by the flyers in second round had a three lead blew it had a 30 game seven lead blew it jvr in the Gang

Those guys are the best but Bruins bounce back the next year they win the cup capitals 2017 load up this is the year they’re going to go for it they lose they come back the next year with a worse roster they lost shaton Kirk and all those guys they win the cup 2019

Lightning got embarrassed so so so bad they come back the next year they win the cup what two years in a row so do not sleep on a team just because they got embarrassed the previous year and their roster might not be as good hockey’s weird Panthers they like they

Didn’t win the cup but Panthers a couple years ago win the president’s trophy lose guys retool their roster a little bit a lot bit come back the next year and they make a run to the Stanley Cup Final so I would say the PTSD part shouldn’t scare you as much as maybe the

Recency bias part and what they’re doing this year should especially because they’re still going to be dealing from a position of strength like they’re going to have uh whole mice for a good portion of the playoffs they’re going to have some of the matchups that they want like

Obviously I know that both of those things applied last year as the number one seed against Florida but like I they’re going to take the lessons from last year and still be in a pretty decent position of strength in a weak Eastern Conference that’s pretty wide

Open so I would not count out the Bruins I just I do I do think that if you’re knocking them for being the president Trophy winners and not being the best team in the league this year I think that’s very fair I think it’s a very

Fair thing to do but if you’re going to knock like the fraudulent president trophy your bone to pick I think is more with the system than it is with the team this team can make a run they’re not my pick to win the Stanley Cup but I think

That we’ve become a little too positive they’re not going anywhere that’s the way I’ll put it I don’t think they’re winning the cup but I said I don’t think I didn’t say don’t know and a lot of people know that they’re not going anywhere and I just want to lightly push back on That we all sitting like the mayor

The Boston Bruins might win the Presidents’ Trophy this season and yet nobody seems to believe in them. Are they a paper tiger or is the hockey world sleeping on Boston?

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