Welcome to a new week, folks!
We’ve officially hit mid-August, and we’re actually in for a weird bit of fall-like weather in New England this week.
In case you weren’t already feeling the looming end of summer, a high temperature of 71 degrees should get you thinking about upcoming flannel and pumpkin-flavored everything…just not quite yet.
In a clear sign that we are still firmly in off-season mode around these parts, I realized this weekend that the Morning Skate I’d painstakingly, lovingly crafted for Friday published, but never made it to the home page.
In other words, it may as well have not been published at all, so…yeah. Still learning this new CMS and working out a few kinks. Please bear with us.
As we get closer to the end of August, we hope to start a new combination of both looking back and looking forward with posts on Bruins players.
These will take the place of the traditional “rank the player” posts, and will serve as a sort of recap/preview for each player, all in one.
The reasoning behind this is relatively simple: in the past, we spent a lot of time putting posts together for players who were no longer with the Bruins, which didn’t make a ton of sense (as much as we know you enjoyed arguing about Oskar Steen).
With this year’s trade deadline exodus, it didn’t seem to make much sense to spend time talking about Brad Marchand, Charlie Coyle, etc. in August.
Instead, we’ll do posts on guys currently on the roster, giving a snapshot of what happened last year and a look at what’s in store for this year.
Hopefully that isn’t too disappointing, but it’s meant to strike a balance between things that are interesting and things that aren’t a waste of everyone’s time/digital ink.
If you have any feedback or would prefer to see a different approach, you know where to find me.
Anyways, it’s another August Monday. What’s on tap for today?
(If you’re reading this post, I’m already a step ahead of last week, so…things are looking up!)