There is a post over at Backhand Shelf today that lists 10 backup goalies that have out performed their #1 counterparts. It is an interesting read but it may be a perfect example of how simple statistics don’t tell the whole story. The first pair of goalies on the list are the Bruins Tukka Rask [...]
This past season the Boston Bruins were the lowest scoring team in the NHL with just 196 goals for (the only team not to reach 200 goals) or about 2.34 goals per game and in the playoffs they were only slightly better scoring at a 2.58 goals per game pace. So the question that needs [...]
There has been a lot of discussion over the last week or so on the rumoured trade offer that Brian Burke has made to the Boston Bruins for Phil Kessel and now that the trade seems very likely to go down, possibly within hours, we may as well take a look at it. (TSN is [...]
Mark Recchi has been traded to the Boston Bruins with a 2010 second round pick for defenseman Matt Lashoff and forward Martins Karsums. As good as the Bruins have been, they don’t have a ton of experienced playoff performers so this (along with Montador) is a good pick up for the Bruins. Recchi has a [...]
other
David Johnson