What Should the Boston Bruins’ Expectations Be This Year?

What Should the Boston Bruins’ Expectations Be This Year?

I guess yeah have if your glasses half full then you played backto backs on the road and you walked out of there with a point and so okay I sh you were you see that 781 text on the Subaru of New England text line which says shime is

Always whining about the Bruins on this show Yes sounds about right uh and never offers any solution when it comes to fixing the problems so I don’t I don’t I don’t know that that’s true but I yeah I I mean look I I think you need to address some of the issues defensively

You’ve been struggling like it’s been porous at times I think you know and Greg’s gonna hate me for saying this Matt grizzli is a big reason for that I don’t I don’t particularly like the way he plays defense I’m sorry he’s probably a great dude I don’t really care I don’t

Want him on my hockey team at the moment yeah I don’t care anymore if I see the guy in the elevator I see the guy in the elevator I I he’s he’s he has been that Donnie Sweeney type defenseman that Donnie loves because that’s what Donnie

Was when he played for the Bruins was uh you know a small gritty defenseman I they just don’t have Lind home has been an absolute epic disappointment this season um and he was great in the regular season last year kind of disappeared in the playoffs and then

Continued it this year uh now you got the injury thing to deal with with those guys and you don’t Curtis brought it up earlier the team is not they’re not intimidating like and and I don’t know you know you could look at it both ways Wiggy was kind of arguing like he always

Does is that intimidating you know are they not intimidating when it comes to the talent or are they not intimidating when it comes to the toughness I personally think they lack physical toughness on this hockey team they do yeah but I think that’s more like uh a product of

The NHL in general right like teams are there there’s not many that’s just not the way the game is played anymore this is not 1988 Greg this that’s not the style of hockey the style of hockey is guys play with skill and they use their their speed their talent and they’re not

There’s not a lot of and Shan sh watches it probably more than I do there’s not a lot of these big hits It’s not a lot of like guys are afraid to go in Corners no more because this team it’s it’s different come playoff time I’m just

Going to tell I’m going to tell both of you that it is and I would say that the Bruins I mean I think it’s perfect we didn’t plan this but the Bruins being patted on the back for not losing a regulation game on the road this year

Is sort of what they’ve become with Monty which is point accumulators in the regular season where you’re going to lead your division you’re going to be at the top of your conference you might even win the president’s trophy again but you’re not a team that other teams

Are intimidated by on or off the ice I don’t find the Bruins in any way what happened last year was they were a paper tiger we all saw it they lost three straight games after having the best statistical season in the history of hockey and now this year they’re back at the

Top of their conference but if they open the playoffs today would you would anybody be shocked if they lost again in seven games in the first round no and I’m sorry the lightning aren’t a tough hockey team the Panthers aren’t a tough hockey team I I would say the Panthers

Might be but like I don’t think the lightning are no is Vegas is Vegas considered a tough hockey team I I they were in the playoffs like I I I don’t know I I like again I don’t know what you’re looking for in today’s game like

I don’t know if you’re what you’re like also been dramatically below average this year at times yeah and I I mean I you’re you’re looking for the the days of the big bad Bruins and guys throwing their bodies no I’m looking for a little tiny little bit of

Physicality it’s not how the game’s played today Greg sorry to tell you you know I’m not like a you know watching I’m not like Curtis I don’t have the NHL package that’s great recommend it but the game is played with skill that’s what the game’s play you look at

Edmonton edmont team’s Edmonton is a team you know that it’s played with skill regular season it is but in the postseason if you want to get that cup if you want to hoist Lord Stanley over your head it is Will over skill but will is different I’m not I think toughness

Though I think you think I’m talking about you know a goon and fighting you talking about I’m talking about moving guys out when they are camped out in front of your goenda has an issue when it comes to handing uh rebounds that everybody every every shot so I’m talking about

Defensemen who are big and strong and can knock somebody out of the crease that’s what I’m talking about so and and this team doesn’t really have that like Charlie remove Charlie McAvoy from the discussion he’s been great this season but other than that it’s an issue it’s a

Giant issue to me when it comes to the playoffs see I think Curtis you might make a better point is it the will or uh you know that ability to kind of excuse me play not with an like that you have this built-in Edge but you’re willing to

Go the extra mile you’re willing to push guys out of in front of you’re willing to throw your body around it doesn’t have to be big and you know we we all talk about the hit that um who was the defenseman little short kid that we had

Here for a couple years oh went down the ice was just thinking of him he was to join the show uh he was on yes why now T crew guy right so that’s like a will right is it and that’s different maybe playoff hockey is more about the team

That imposes their will but you keep say you think that they got out physical by Florida last year when it came to the playoffs I think that they I think that they got up on Florida and then they took Florida lightly and then they fell

Asleep well you I you and I they up 3-1 in the series you and I you and I disagree and by the way you disagree with nearly everybody who is I disagree with everybody everybody who’s texting the show do you read the text line no I

Don’t read the text line Greg is Right 978 texter Greg is Right Florida pushed us around last year here’s what I would say what with we need a kachuck type tough guy that text say kachuck went to BC I know all things hockey um so what

What the Bruins in it was Krug and that it was Blues in the Stanley Cup yeah he got his helmet knocked off and went all the way down the ice and destroyed a guy what the Bruins do not possess is a guy that can reshape the momentum of a game

Or in the playoffs a series with physical play that is intimidating in any way to the opposing team that is not something that you know Sean Thorton was an a key cog old Lich who’s no longer part of the team but there were players Chara you replace Chara with makavo

Makavo as talented a defenseman as there is in the NHL not exactly physically imposing right so I mean that’s what this team is lacking yeah all right

What should the Boston Bruins’ expectations be this year? What does the team need to add, if anything, to improve its chances?

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