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Post by Peejay on Oct 21, 2014 20:47:28 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Oct 21, 2014 21:05:16 GMT -5
Here's Johnny...
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Post by fforr on Oct 22, 2014 19:01:29 GMT -5
Big game for both teams. Isles would love to make a statement. Thoughts and prayers for you folks up north.
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Post by nfld77 on Oct 22, 2014 19:14:16 GMT -5
Thanks fforr, very thoughtful of you!!
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Post by capecodder on Oct 23, 2014 4:33:42 GMT -5
still hate the trade, welcome home Johhny
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Post by madmarx on Oct 23, 2014 7:29:46 GMT -5
Wish Johnny B all the Best except against the Bruins , glad it's a 7 pm start .
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Post by Losing my mind on Oct 23, 2014 8:18:29 GMT -5
Maybe somebody should go drinking with Johnny before the game and slip him a sleeping pill or two, just enough so he misses the game  |
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Post by DonnyBrook on Oct 23, 2014 9:01:28 GMT -5
oh im going drinking before the game.......not with johnny tho.
i dont expect to watch this game....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Post by kjc2 on Oct 23, 2014 9:10:39 GMT -5
The Isles always played us tough even when they weren't a good team, now they are a legit good team so we'll have our hands full. Good luck in your next game Johnny just not this one.
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Post by offwego on Oct 23, 2014 10:21:36 GMT -5
Maybe somebody should go drinking with Johnny before the game and slip him a sleeping pill or two, just enough so he misses the game I was thinking something similar but that could work too. and based on an article i read (posted in articles of interest) I don't think Johnny B's looking forward to this game either.... oh well....GO BOSTON GO!!!! |
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Post by KSJ08 on Oct 23, 2014 10:47:53 GMT -5
Yea CI is broadcasting both feeds so I can get the NESN even thoug won't be in HD :-(
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Post by nfld77 on Oct 23, 2014 10:50:52 GMT -5
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Last season, Garth Snow got aggressive for the New York Islanders, and it was a mistake.
Acquiring Thomas Vanek was a redundant move. It was clearly a rental, as everyone and their mom knew he was going to Minnesota, or at the very least not staying on Long Island. It cost the Islanders a first-round pick in a draft so deep that it probably reaches the Earth’s core.
This season, Garth Snow was patient, and it’s been brilliant so far.
He knew he had two things coming into this season: a weak blueline and a ton of cap space. He knew the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins had two things: a surplus of defensemen and cap problems. So like a frugal shopper waiting for that party dress to hit the clearance rack, Snow acquired Nick Leddy and Johnny Boychuk, who were thrown together as a pairing and have been part of the foundation for the team’s stunning start.
Boychuk has six points in six games, averaging 22:50 per game. Five of those points have come on the power play, and that’s where the biggest change has come for Boychuk vs. his time in Boston: 4:07 of ice time so far per game on the man advantage for the Islanders; he averaged 0:18 seconds per game on the power play with the Bruins last season.
But that’s because the Bruins had a logjam in front of him: Zdeno Chara, Torey Krug and Dougie Hamilton all played more on the man advantage.
It’s that logjam that jettisoned Boychuk to the Islanders. At the time of the trade, he noted the Bruins had eight defensemen.
“Somebody had to go, and it was me,” he said.
The Bruins could have waited, playing out the season up against the cap before cutting bait with Boychuk in the offseason, when he’s unrestricted. Instead, they opted to move him.
And now Peter Chiarelli’s taking a beating for it. From Eric Wilbur in the Boston Globe:
Less than three weeks ago, Thursday night’s game against the Islanders was little more than an early-season throwaway game for the Bruins. That was before Peter Chiarelli went and angered the masses by trading popular defenseman Boychuk to an NHL franchise that might as well be in Siberia for all the relevance they should muster this season.
Now, Thursday night is as much about Bruins fans welcoming Boychuk back to his old haunts as it is sticking it to Chiarelli, who created the very salary cap shambles that forced him to surrender a top-four defenseman on the eve of what might be another run at the Stanley Cup.
… In many ways, Boychuk made the most sense to go in order for the Bruins to create some cap relief. That doesn’t relieve Chiarelli of the blame though. This is still all his fault for mismanaging the cap to the degree where someone with even the slightest knowledge of the financial workings of the NHL could foresee this was going to become a problem eventually, the way the GM handed out three-year deals like BOGO frozen yogurt coupons at the mall.
Ouch.
Snow, meanwhile, waited the weeds for the Bruins to get capped out, knowing something would shake loose. It was Boychuk, and he’s having a transformative effect on the Islanders.
The “rings in the room” argument for player acquisition is a myth, but it’s hard to argue that adding a guy from a prestige team who brings it every single shift sets a tone for a roster that’s still trying to figure out this whole “playoff contention” thing.
Now he returns to Boston with an Islanders team that’s tied with them in the standings – a team on the upswing, while we’re all trying to figure out which way the Bruins are climbing.
“It’ll be different to be on the other side,” said Boychuk earlier this month. “The fans, the whole city was always behind us.
“Well, most of the time, depending on how the game was going.”
One assumes he’ll get a hero’s welcome tonight.
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Post by KSJ08 on Oct 23, 2014 11:22:19 GMT -5
Chia did bring the cup back to Boston! Let's see what Snow does during his career. I hated that JB got traded & to an East coast team too. Like stated earlier NYI always gives the Bruins fits......... It's still early & a LONG season. They are getting vets back in the line up & are showing signs of what the team can & will do. Tue night was a good test and a GREAT come back!!
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Post by SeaBass on Oct 23, 2014 11:43:01 GMT -5
I would like to see Looch knock Johhny on his ass...
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Post by nfld77 on Oct 23, 2014 12:02:02 GMT -5
I'd like to get another look at Svedberg between the pipes. He's been spectacular so far in this early season. If he continues to play great and Subban plays well in Providence, is it possible they would consider trading Rask down the road, especially if he has a bad playoff, especially vs Habs?? I know I'm looking way down the road!!
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Post by Losing my mind on Oct 23, 2014 13:06:14 GMT -5
I'd like to get another look at Svedberg between the pipes. He's been spectacular so far in this early season. If he continues to play great and Subban plays well in Providence, is it possible they would consider trading Rask down the road, especially if he has a bad playoff, especially vs Habs?? I know I'm looking way down the road!! That's how GM's have to think now, if you have younger, cheaper talent that can displace older more expensive talent, you have to take advantage. That being said, I don't want to see Rask moved anytime soon. |
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Post by SeaBass on Oct 23, 2014 14:03:26 GMT -5
Sounds like it is going to be Svedberg vs. Johnson tonight. Let's see who is the better Bruins backup.
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Post by capecodder on Oct 23, 2014 14:21:01 GMT -5
hope Johnny doesn't line up any of our players tonight. Has that ever happened, a player traded comes back and destroys one of his old team mates a couple weeks later.........
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Post by kjc2 on Oct 23, 2014 14:38:24 GMT -5
hope Johnny doesn't line up any of our players tonight. Has that ever happened, a player traded comes back and destroys one of his old team mates a couple weeks later......... Johnny hits hard, I don't think he'd go out of his way to do it but if it presents itself I'm sure his instincts will take over. |
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Post by fforr on Oct 23, 2014 15:23:07 GMT -5
Not the same old Isles anymore. On top of what they have tonight, Hamonic, Grabovsky, Grabner and Carkner are out with injuries. Would think they would want to match Johnny against Looch........ Have to get to Chad early and often.
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Post by Peejay on Oct 23, 2014 16:20:31 GMT -5
Sounds like it is going to be Svedberg vs. Johnson tonight. Let's see who is the better Bruins backup. Nice to see CJ is rewarding Svedberg. I don't care what your title is, a shutout should always get you back in the net sooner then later. |
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Post by capecodder on Oct 23, 2014 17:12:58 GMT -5
Good point Peejay, I've wondered a few times when the back up has a good game why not just put him back in for the next game
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Post by Peejay on Oct 23, 2014 17:47:55 GMT -5
Good point Peejay, I've wondered a few times when the back up has a good game why not just put him back in for the next game I've been saying for years no matter who was the back up at the time. |
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Post by Peejay on Oct 23, 2014 18:21:45 GMT -5
Bah
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Post by nfld77 on Oct 23, 2014 18:21:44 GMT -5
Bergie -1 so far..He's in a funk!!
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Post by madmarx on Oct 23, 2014 18:23:43 GMT -5
Loooch welcomes Johnny ..
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Post by nfld77 on Oct 23, 2014 18:44:59 GMT -5
Lucic FINALLY!
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Post by Peejay on Oct 23, 2014 18:45:24 GMT -5
Woo
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Post by madmarx on Oct 23, 2014 18:48:37 GMT -5
Chara??
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Post by nfld77 on Oct 23, 2014 18:50:04 GMT -5
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