The good news?

There are countless articles that will tell you who scored the 8 goals for the Bruins last night against the defensivly challanged and Rookie netminding Kings. These same stories may also tell of the many LA strikes, 6. What I have not read yet today is the only good news I can find from such a dissapointing win. The last two seasons your Bruins would have pitched the tents and lost a game tied up 5-5 in the third, such as last nights. You see things were looking good, the boys were up 4-1 and should have cruised to a 4-1 or 5-2 victory, but the tires came off and there we were all tied up at 5 in the third period. How many of you were remembering the "here we go again" of the last two years? Well the good news is this year, once, they pulled this train wreck into the win column.

PS
Let the "oh we miss you Joe, what a mistake" garbage fill the internets now, but be quick then be done with for the year (please!).

Now What!!!???

These are the bleakest days, of the bleakest month, of the bleakenest season of my hockey discontent. What o what do we think about, blog about, scratch down on paper or call our hockey buds about? What? The new coach is in place. No one knows if he will turn another new set of helmets into something to really route for. The new coaching staff is in place (yawn). The new free agents are signed (O-boy?). The returning free agents are signed (not typical). The goaltending seems to be poised to be a mature tandem with some expectations of being reliable (boring!). The forwards well you can draw up lines all day but there do not seem to be many surprises coming from these 12-14. Defense? Also mostly the same. Anyone really care to discuss Z’s partner; should it be Ward? Or maybe Alberts is Z’s partner. OH! Who cares when they have sweat on their brow while typing! Rehashing last season, were all set with that right? How hurt was Bergeron (he better have been)? Pj is back on the third line (not as big a deal as people made it out to be)? Now what! I hate August Seventh.......

Unnecessary Move

It looks as though the Boston Bruins have acquired a new goaltender.

According to the Pioneer Press, the Minnesota Wild have traded Manny Fernandez to the Bruins for forward Petr Kalus and a future fourth-round draft pick.

Not that I think Manny is a bad goalie but Boston's problems last season were not the fault of goaltending. This is a panic move by desperate a GM who really doesn't seem to understand the BIG picture. P.C. looks like he is trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist instead of fixing problems that do.

Lets see what happens over the next few days (free agent market opens up today) to see what (if any) vision P.C. has for this team.

scott gordon comments from todays boston globe

scott gordon comments from todays boston globe:

"No complaints or regrets here," said Gordon. "I know we maximized our talent ability. We weren't that far off from winning the series. Our guys can certainly hold their heads high and know they gave everything they had."

hmm- can dave lewis say the same of his squad this spring?

"Off the top of his head, Gordon noted Krejci, Mark Stuart, and Nate Thompson as being three top candidates for big-league duty next season."

the names absent here are interesting - no hannu and no lashoff. very interesting and telling that they are not in his top canidates indeed.

there are more nuggets in the globe as well... but these are the ones that stuck out to this reader.

and then there were 2

if you are like me, you woke up this morning and you just needed to know, how many former bruins are left in the playoffs? anyone? bueller? bueller? its ok i had to look too. yup that's right sammy, we hardly new you, phalson and sean odonnell, both quacking it up in anahaim.

does it mean anything... well it means a lot to me, as there will now not be the pain of seeing some player i once loved - and i mean that in the pure sports sense - not that there is anything wrong with that, hoisting the cup and rubbing it in our faces that they are gone, or worse ray bourqueing us with the, i wish i could have done it there (or is that here).....

so go ducks!

forsberg?

have i mentioned that you can never have to many centers?

in that vein , should the brewing brass try to bring in the oft injuryed p. forsberg. since he has had trouble staying on the multiple rosters he has represented for years now, he might be cheap. the redsox for a while were experts in bringing in aging or hurt pitchers and getting a useful season or two out of them. will the "new nhl" bring about teams getting high skilled talent at bargain basement prices as a dusk settles on a career?

that said what is the max money you would be willing (if anything), with a roll of the dice, to risk with this formerly sweet swede (nutraswede?)?

i would take him at 1-2 mil, plus some .5~1 mil in incentives (if he is eligible?) on a 1-2 yr deal (max 2 million a season).

what about you?