Boston Bruins Can’t Score | Bruins Game 23 Recap

The Boston Bruins lose 2-0 to the Vancouver Canucks on the Jake Debrusk revenge tour.

The Bruins outplayed the Canucks at every turn but couldn’t score goals. The Bruins goals can’t only come from Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak this year and expect to win.

I break down Game 23 for the Boston Bruins and examine what they could do about scoring more goals.

Time Stamp

intro 00:00
Game 23 00:38
Outro 9:28

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24 comments

  4. I love how everyone is praising them for this. Have I changed to a different timeline or an alternative reality? This team is trash. They had 30 scoring chances but zero goals. It's like the college years when we went out… if we talked to 30 girls and none of them came home with us, I can assure you we wouldn't be sitting around our apartment after having a sausage party and telling each other how awesome we are. The only type of people that would do that were the ultra losers. The Johnny Somali Harry Sisson type of losers. My friends…. our Bruins are those bottom of the barrel losers. The ones we point at and say, ''Thank fu(k we are not those clowns!''. I'm not saying they have no chance, but we are being WAAAAAY too positive right now. It is also becoming clear that Monty had been talking to St Louis for a year. He moved his family home to St Louis a long time ago. He never had any intention on staying here. He was demanding a 5-6 year contract last year. I swear to God he had been sabotaging the team on purpose this year.

  5. we need a player who can score with regularity, I mean someone who other teams are intimidated by! Debrusks goal was something peewee hockey scores. The fact that he tried to chirp the bench should give you an idea of the type of person he is! WE CANT SCORE LIKE WE NEED TO! That needs to change, DUDE brazeau played his ass off for us!

  6. Agreed. Team play is great, but the need to add scoring has been there for too long. They need to add someone with finish, which I think will ease the pressure on Pasta, Marchy, and Lindholm. I was wracking my brain for a while who they could realistically get, and then word come out about Kreider. I think Kreider's game would be a perfect fit for the Bruins, it's just a matter of who they need to trade to get him (see my post on the previous video, too lengthy to rewrite here).

  7. You're right xD Putting Morgan Geekie in the top 4 isn't the best omen for the team. I hope they're able to find some more firepower so they can at least stay in contention for playoffs!!

  9. They've been of the mindset for years now that you can pair bottom-six wingers with top-six centers, and the wingers will elevate their game (or the centers will elevate the game of those around them). The problem now is, they don't have top-six centers to pair with their bottom-six wingers….so all you have a team full of 3rd liners. Ever since Nathan Horton left, there was a revolving door on Krech's wing that they never filled; and 12 years later, they still haven't filled that hole, but they are now playing with less skilled centers.

  11. Apparently, their goalie is 8-0 on the road , after last night. I didn't see any real scorers available last off season, I didn't buy the hype about E. Lindholm scoring ability, he was overhyped , not a first line center and he's overpaid 😛. I would get rid of Geekie and I like your ideas. Ultimately Coyle has to go his deal is up end of the year and he just doesn't score much and he's overpaid, I would trade Zacha , he's too soft and cannot seem to score also overpaid. Somebody's gotta go to bring new talent that can score and skate well. We will see if things pick up by January.

  17. Pasternak is cold and they have no one to step up. And they have no centers that are true playmakers to create scoring chances. Krejci and Bergeron are severely missed.

  21. Of course DeBrusk scored, it was inevitable. I said it in the last video. A power play goal and game winner just to rub it in. I'm surprised Heinnen didn't chip in. That would have been the icing on the cake.

    I'm sticking with what I've said all along, there is a lack of talent on the team. Coyle was never a big scorer, he's reverted back to who he is. Same for Freddy. Get Poitras back, stick him between Pasta and Marchand. Let Lindholm, Zacha and Geeky figure out the second line. Coyle, Freddy and Brazeau on the 3rd. Roll with that for 2 or 3 games.

  22. I simply can't get through to internet fans that scoring starts with your goalie.

    When they shrunk The gear, the role of the goalie changed.
    I was goalie coaching then. I lived through this transition.
    So you can criticize somebody for being a lower level goalie – but they start these changes with us before they hit the NHL

    We lost a lot of goalies because of the expenses and changing the equipment..
    You couldn't trade in used gear for new anymore. Had to buy new, lot of it was garbage, expensive and had to be backordered

    I skipped a lot of freakin' meals to keep my kid safe, in proper legal gear and a new back up throat guard in the vehicle at ALL times!

    I was part of this growth in the game. They started in the lower leagues first, two years before the NHL made many of the changes official

    We had to go through it first in the lower leagues. And we're not millionaires!

    This has also contributed to why USA does not produce elite goalies. We produce elite players, yet the best goalies are coming from Europe!
    ARGUE WITH THAT!

    I even heard Patrick Laine talk about the fact that he was a goalie until he was 10 or 12 years old, and his father couldn't keep up with the expense so he made him skate out. And according to Patrick's age that would have been exactly right, the changes we saw in the USA.

    Public arenas, beer league teams, anybody and everybody were scrambling for goalies at that time – some arenas even helped me keep my kid in the proper gear in exchange for letting him play until midnight having to get up for school the next day!

    That's the only way I would have been able to afford it, and how my kid got so much experience so fast with so many different leagues

    When they changed that gear, they were looking for higher-scoring games – and it worked, fans were so stupid they really thought hockey players got better at shooting…..?

    The overall NHL GAA went up 40% in one season, nobody noticed!!
    DUH?

    shrunk pads, blockers, trappers, helmet, restricted the size jersey a goalie could wear

    measured their tape job to make sure it wasn't too thick

    Goalies will take every millimeter of advantage from wearing a larger Jersey to double taping their blade to get that extra millimeter to stop that puck

    The league caught on to it

    This meant goalies needed to be much larger and more athletic.

    Smaller goalies had to move more, get pulled out of position.. they had to work harder to stop the puck, they couldn't sit still, maintain their angle and get ready to flick the rebound out to their defenseman. Moving way too much, injury-prone

    Can't tell you how many kids blew out their knees trying to keep up with the butterfly

    More precise angles lead to more control over the rebound.

    Hybrid style worked best, not blowing out young goalies knees with the butterfly

    They're standing up more, their pads are up and angled – they are helping the forward lines when they control their rebounds to the point that they're flicking them out as passes, like Rask used to do

    Linus is huge and strong – had the strength to use the boards, help transition the puck up quickly – handed players breakaway opportunities they blew

    If NHL stats went back to include who actually sets up plays that lead to goals, go back one more touch of the puck, goalies would have a lot more assists on goals

    Linus has three assists on goals, got two with the Bruins

    Rascals somewhere like 17 or 19 assists on goals, but he came from that older League where that was more unusual.

    If they would go back to the fourth touch, fans and sports jocks would see exactly what they do. Where goals come from

    Then fans could play with those numbers.

    But they don't know what to look for in this new league unless they're fed numbers, stats.

    They don't have an eye for detail to see the stats that don't make it on the board – a lot of my support behind Charlie Coyle is the same thing.
    Nobody else sees it!

    He's the fourth touch of the puck setting up goals, his work doesn't get rewarded nor appreciated

    So it's not worth spending any more time discussing why the Bruins aren't scoring because everyone still thinks that Jeremy is the future of the Bruins

    So there's no conversation to be had

    Just picking apart specific players and lines once again –

    Scoring starts from the back end

    It starts with your goalie.

    If korpisalo could gain more experience with this defense? He'd be the fourth touch off of more goals

    I don't know if korpisalo can keep up a starter schedule.

    But I suspect, we may not win them? But we would have higher scoring games with a more experienced goalie like Joonas

    I won't harp on this anymore. But I'm having a real hard time watching the same same comments,
    same approach – with the same results – that's the definition of insanity.

  24. Pasta and Zacha are useless. Couldn't score on a soccer net.
    Lindolm is looking like the worst contract in Bruins history. Don't see how Sweeney still has a job.

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