Bruins vs Washington

[LogansDad]

Getting a point against Washington is nice, though I wish it was two.

I feel like the next ten days are important. The Bruins play a really bad NJ team, Buffalo, which has fallen back to earth after a hot start, a really bad Minnesota team, and then a huge game against Montreal, who have been playing well lately. On paper, they should get six more points before that Montreal game, but injuries and the aforementioned playing down to their competition makes me a bit nervous about it.

Having the lead in the division going in to Thanksgiving would be really nice.

 

[Mueller's Twin Grannies]

Tough loss, good to get a point. Didn't like my previous version of this post.

 

[BaseballJones]

Why is Brad Marchand such a great goal scorer and such a terrible shoot-out performer?

 

[stepson_and_toe]

Why is Brad Marchand such a great goal scorer and such a terrible shoot-out performer?

They have had two successes in 16 tries in shootouts this season, both by Charlie Coyle, so maybe the question should be why is everyone else on the team who has tried to score in shootouts so terrible.

 

[cshea]

I think a lot of it is just random. It’s kind of like a hitter in baseball going on an 0-10 in the middle of the season. Marchand is 9/32 in his career, 28%. He’s 0/4 this season, so entering the year he was 9/28 which is a shade under 33%. 33% is decent. I don’t know the exact stats, but I’d guess that is around league average, maybe slightly higher. I’ll chalk him up to a cold streak. Pasta is a bit more befuddling, he’s 3/17 now and looks like a mess on his attempts. He stick handles himself to death and then the puck dribbles off his stick with zero chance of going in. Next time he has to do it I’d tell him to just skate in and rip it.

The Bruins don’t have a specialist like Oshie who is over 50% so I think they are prone to these droughts.