Bruins recall Frank Vatrano and Jeremy Smith

[cshea]

Per the Bruins.

Vatrano's recall is notable as it is not an emergency recall. Presumably he's here to play (Hayes fired into the sun!?!?!?). Frank flew out West, sat in the San Jose pressbox, then flew back East and had a 2g 1a weekend for Providence. 33 goals in 33 games. The goal per game remains intact.

Smith is up as on an emergency basis. Rask isn't practicing today. Gulp.

 

[burstnbloom]

Rask "not practicing" is scary.

 

[cshea]

B's say he is under the weather. All 3 goalies will travel to New York.

 

[TheRealness]

Per the Bruins.

Vatrano's recall is notable as it is not an emergency recall. Presumably he's here to play (Hayes fired into the sun!?!?!?). Frank flew out West, sat in the San Jose pressbox, then flew back East and had a 2g 1a weekend for Providence. 33 goals in 33 games. The goal per game remains intact.

Smith is up as on an emergency basis. Rask isn't practicing today. Gulp.

Frankie's run is just ridiculous. The fact he is keeping it up makes me very very pleased. Good for him to get the callup. I agree with Hayes and/or Connolly sitting.

 

[burstnbloom]

I vote for Hayes. At least Connolly is trying really hard while being kind of bad. Hayes just does nothing.

 

[Maximus]

I vote for Hayes. At least Connolly is trying really hard while being kind of bad. Hayes just does nothing.

Hayes has been useless. Connolly tries hard but can't bury a goal. Happy to see Vatrano up again and I look forward to seeing him play here again.

 

[RetractableRoof]

Anyone have any reasonable opinion on why Hayes (13:45 on 18 shifts) got more minutes than Vatrano (10:02 on 16 shifts) against the NYR? I know the numbers are generally a wash but damn, if you are going to call him up in the middle of this stretch put him on the ice.

 

[joe dokes]

Anyone have any reasonable opinion on why Hayes (13:45 on 18 shifts) got more minutes than Vatrano (10:02 on 16 shifts) against the NYR? I know the numbers are generally a wash but damn, if you are going to call him up in the middle of this stretch put him on the ice.

I think it happens tonight. I think last night was a shake-out cruise for the coaches to assess Vatrano's improvement in playing without the puck in teh NHL game. I dont see Hayes getting top-9 minutes for at least the next week or so. At least not at Vatrano's expense.

 

[kenneycb]

Anyone have any reasonable opinion on why Hayes (13:45 on 18 shifts) got more minutes than Vatrano (10:02 on 16 shifts) against the NYR? I know the numbers are generally a wash but damn, if you are going to call him up in the middle of this stretch put him on the ice.

Because the Bruins were on the PK 5 (6?) times and I wouldn't want him on the PK. Plus they were chasing the game so a top 9 line will get on the ice more frequently.

 

[RetractableRoof]

Because the Bruins were on the PK 5 (6?) times and I wouldn't want him on the PK. Plus they were chasing the game so a top 9 line will get on the ice more frequently.

Thank you... that explains it a bit better.

You made me think to look at offensive zone starts (ZSO) versus defensive zone starts (ZSD). Vatrano was 5/1 ZSO/ZSD, Hayes was 4/6. So he isn't getting those extra shifts until he is trusted defensively. I was just looking forward to a big reduction of Hayes minutes.

 

[kenneycb]

The funny thing is he has this D zone starts with Spooner who, from the little I've been able to watch so far, is a nightmare defensively as a center. Awful angles, getting caught up ice, etc. I've noticed it more on the forecheck where he makes egregious mistakes and overcommits, even by a split second which fucks up the coverage (i.e. going too deep to force an opposing D pass and things like that to get him out of position), so I assume it translates into the D zone too.