This Bruins Prospect Looks SCARY…And He’s ONLY 21, Boston FLEECED Maple Leafs AGAIN?

This Bruins Prospect Looks SCARY…And He’s ONLY 21, Boston FLEECED Maple Leafs AGAIN?

The talk around Boston is how are the Bruins doing this? How are the Bruins still in a playoff spot in almost mid December now? David Posternok just got back in the lineup last night against the Blues, but he had missed five games. Charlie Makavoy has been out for a considerable period of time. And yet the Bruins just keep winning. It’s four of their last five. They’re dominating teams over their last three outings. a 52, a 4-1, and another 5-2. So, do the math there. It’s it’s a it’s a lot. It’s 14 to five. That’s right. Uh they’re outscoring teams by nine goals over the last three games. So, how is this happening? This was supposed to be a basement dweller. This was supposed to be a team that had no talent outside of Charlie Makavoy and specifically David Posternok. And then you take them both out of the lineup and they not only tread water, but they go over 500. They’re staying in a playoff spot. How is this happening? Well, tell you what, they have a ton of guys stepping up that I don’t think anybody expected to step up. And the biggest one for me so far and and I think specifically last night, Fraser Mitten is a player. Okay, you you robbed the Leafs with that deal. And I know people are going to say, seriously, everyone’s hyping up Fraser Mitten. Six goals, five assists, 11 points in 31 games. Why are we hyping this kid up so much? Well, I think he did a lot of great things without putting points on the board uh through the first couple of months of the season, but you saw last night exactly what this kid is capable of when he is playing with talent. This is what he can do. David Posternok’s first game back in the lineup. Marco Stern puts him down on the third line with Fraser Mitten centering. And what happens? Fraser Mitten scores two goals. David Posternok gets three assists. You add Mark Castelik’s two goals in there and you have got a game that is fully dependent on depth scoring and you won by three. When Fraser Mitten is playing with Tanner Jano and Mikey Asamont, he’s a really stingy effective defensive player. When he plays with real talent, transcendent kind of talent, he looks a hell of a lot better. Does that speak more to David Postno than it does to Fraser Mitten? Probably yes. But David Poster’s a top five forward in the league. But Fraser Mitten, when he’s playing out there with real talent, and the Bruins are going to have real talent around him someday, he is a stud player. He’s a plus guy who wins more than 50% of his faceoffs as a 21-year-old. Like, think of how long it takes other guys to get that part of the game down. Like that’s a huge reason for stunted growth among centers. They can’t win faceoffs. They can’t play in the defensive zone. Fraser Mitten does both of them. It’s at like 51%. So room for improvement, sure, but he’s 21. Like Lord knows James Hagens doesn’t have it down, you know, doesn’t have the faceoff thing down. And he was a top 10 pick in the draft and a deserved top 10 pick in the draft. Not trying to take anything away from him, but there were some games in the NCAA where they put him on the win because they don’t want him taking the faceoffs. Mittton’s got that down. And since last year’s trade deadline when you got him, so from that to the start of this season in a dozen games plus training camp, Fraser Mitten made himself undropable. He supplanted himself way above Matt Potra in the pecking order here. Patra hasn’t even played an NHL game this year. Like that guy was supposed to be the future of the position for you. Remember the next Berseron Berseron goes out, Matty Potra comes in. And yeah, that was obviously way too much hype and I don’t think anyone really really bought into that. But you were thinking, okay, here’s a guy who plays a similar style game. You need the help at that position. Here is your future right here. Turns out he wasn’t. He probably isn’t. It is Fraser Mitten even though they’re roughly the same age. Potra’s 22. And the best part about it, you got him for Brandon Carlo. Like Carlo was going downhill to begin with. I I mean good 22 23 season. I thought not very good in 23 24 and really poor last year. Like just couldn’t handle the puck. Really had trouble clearing his own zone. Um which the whole Bruins team had trouble with last year. And you sold him with a bag of goods to Toronto. Like I I don’t know how the Leafs thought that Brandon Carlo was going to be a guy who was going to be your big physical stay-at-home defensive defenseman. He’s not that. And now he’s in the athletics top 10 trade bait for the deadline. Like Toronto’s offloading him already. The Bruins potentially have a center for the next 10 years out of that deal and a first round pick. My god, man. This could go down like the Tukar Ras deal, like the Kessle deal for a little bit. You know, you’re fleecing this team over and over and over again. And Fraser Mitten’s not the only one, okay? Because one of the other guys, obviously Morgan Geeky, looks like, you know, potentially the MVP of the league right now. But how about Mason Lorai? Remember him? We haven’t heard anything about him lately. Remember, he’s the one who was scratched five games in a row last month and they won all five. And we were wondering if he was ever going to play for the team again, whether they were going to trade him because they they had no use for him. And here he is. He’s sitting with 12 points in 25 games. for a third pairing defenseman. He’s set to definitely surpass the 33-point total he had last year. And he’s he’s quarterbacking your second power play, a power play unit that, by the way, is top five in the entire NHL after being the worst Bruins power play in 20 years last year. And he’s a plus player. This is a guy who literally he won the Masters last year. League leading minus 43 minus 43. And this year his team was supposed to be even worse. He was supposed to be even worse just last month. But he’s a plus player. He responded. He’s a young guy who was sent up to the ninth floor for over a week and he responded just like everyone else has responded to Marco Sturm. Lori has been better since being benched. Middlestat has been better since being benched. Swayman has been better since being benched. He’s a players coach who’s not afraid to call them out when he needs to. And these guys respond. They don’t pout. They don’t take their puck and go home. They don’t get the coach fired like Jake De Brusk did. You’ve got a group of mentally tough guys here. And last year it didn’t seem like that. I didn’t think they would have that this year, but they seem to have good leadership, especially from the coaches box, from Marco Sturm behind the bench. I got to say, so far I have been way wrong about Marco Sturm. And I’ve been way wrong about the depth about this team. You know, everyone was wrong about the depth for this team. This was supposed to be a bottom five team in the league. Like sucking miserable for McKenna, I think is what it was. Miserable for McKenna. And yet they’re in a playoff spot in December and they’re playing good hockey even without some of their best players in the lineup. And now the now the reinforcements are coming. Posterox’s back in the lineup. And Makavoy has made the trip here. It’s a tough couple of games in a row with Winnipeg and Minnesota, but this is a guy who broke his jaw. lost 20 pounds in the last month and everyone was saying, “Yeah, he’ll be back by the Olympics.” But now he’s making the trip. He’s skating. He might play this week, two months before the Olympics. I tell you what, things are trending in the right direction for this team. I know Jerseyy’s on a bad stretch and that’s who they beat on Saturday and the two games in between were St. Louis and St. Louis sucks. I get it. But they were losing to teams that sucked last year. Now they’re beating them handily and this is going to be an interesting couple of couple of weeks here really. But these next couple of games, Winnipeg and Minnesota, you know, Winnipeg obviously uh a wagon last year kind of up and down this year. Minnesota redot with with Walt their goalies been unbelievable. So I think this will be a good uh measuring stick road trip and then you got a couple of important divisional games right before Christmas. So how have they done it without poster knock? They’ve all stepped up. Everyone stepped up and I can’t believe it myself, but here they are. Who has been the most impressive to you? Let me know in the comments section below. Be sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel because we come at you live on YouTube every weekday, noon Eastern time, and then we’re available wherever you get your podcasts as well. Your lunchtime alternative to Boston sports talk radio right here on the Wicked Boston show with Cam Stewart.

In this segment of The Wicked Boston Show, Cam Stuart breaks down how the Bruins have managed to tread water despite being without superstars David Pastrnak and Charlie McAvoy for significant stretches of the season. At the center of it all: 21-year-old Fraser Minten, who continues to elevate his game far beyond what anyone expected this early.

Cam highlights Minten’s poise, maturity, and two-way impact — and dives into just how impressive he looked when finally paired with real top-end talent on Tuesday night against the Blues, where he scored two goals alongside Pastrnak. Cam explains why that performance wasn’t a fluke, but instead a preview of Minten’s ceiling when surrounded by the kind of players he’ll regularly skate with in the years ahead.

From the Bruins’ resilience without their stars to Minten’s emergence as a legitimate future foundational piece, Cam lays out why Boston fans should be excited about where this youth movement is headed.

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