11/6- Wild @ Bruins

[The Napkin]

Pretty good effort there by Schaller

 

[cshea]

Quality win tonight

 

[SoxFanInCali]

That got more dramatic than I would have liked, but still a good win.

 

[Return of the Dewey]

MVP chant for Irving

 

[TFP]

Quality win tonight

Can’t complain with the lineup they iced at all. Effort was clearly there too, just sloppy mistakes kept it close.

 

[kenneycb]

This team’s gonna be decent once the regular season starts.

 

[TFP]

What is Fluto talking about here? I thought Pasta dominated the first two periods tonight.

 

[TFP]

On no fucking planet does one say Schaller was the best player in that game. And I like Schaller and thought he played well.

I weep for the state of hockey reporting/analysis these days.

 

[Dummy Hoy]

I weep for the state of hockey reporting/analysis these days.

It's Fluto. Maybe Cassidy was bullshit at Pasta, but that doesn't make Fluto right. Dupes fucking ruined that kid. Of course there are alternatives:

MVP chant for Irving

Wow. Must have a lot of crossover appeal.

 

[TFP]

I’ve signed up for BSJ and Joey Mac is excellent. He doesn’t tweet that much however. Bruins Twitter is a wasteland.

 

[joe dokes]

On Spittin Chicklets, Ryan Whitney’s been pointing out for a while how McAvoy hits like a man even at 19. It’s such a great call and kind of an unexpected bonus to his skill game.

That's an interesting point on McAvoy's hitting, and, as someone else pointed out, his timing on hits. It brings to mind the number of times that McQuaid gets 35% opponent, 65% hard surface on some of his hard checks.

 

[cshea]

Pasta coughed the puck up on both Wild goals in the 3rd. I can see why Cassidy wasn’t happy. He wants them to be aggressive, but protecting a lead, Pasta probably could’ve made better decisions with the puck.

 

[Haunted]

T&R talked about Pasta this morning with Billy Jaffe and Jaffe confirmed that Cassidy was pissed at Pasta. I didn't see the game and have no idea why - they were weirdly vague on air.

 

[joe dokes]

Here's the tail end of the Glob game story, with Cassidy quotes:

But the Bruins let the Wild back in the game, mostly because of David Pastrnak’s carelessness with the puck. During a breakout, Pastrnak tried to send a hinge pass back to Patrice Bergeron in the middle. Pastrnak’s pass was off the mark, allowing Mikael Granlund to score at 1:33 of the third.
Later in the third, Pastrnak’s poor entry during a power play allowed Granlund to go the other way. Krug tripped Granlund, who was given a penalty shot. Rask punched out Granlund’s forehander with his blocker. The Bruins continued their power play, but not with Pastrnak, who was replaced by Charlie McAvoy on the No. 1 unit for the rest of Matt Cullen’s slashing penalty.
Coach Bruce Cassidy gave Pastrnak another chance after Niederreiter was called for roughing. But more Pastrnak softness with the puck allowed Eric Staal to score a shorthanded breakaway goal at 15:56.
“There are times you’re going to get your chance to show your skill,” Chara said. “But there are other times where you have to do what’s right, whether you’re going to place the puck in a good area for us to go on the forecheck, eat the puck to make a play, or chip the puck out of the zone. Simple things like that.”
By the time Minnesota coach Bruce Boudreau pulled relief goalie Alex Stalock for an extra skater, Cassidy had seen enough. He pulled Pastrnak off the first line, replacing him with Riley Nash. The Bruins survived Minnesota’s counterattack. But it didn’t need to be that close.
“Sometimes you’re going to give him some rope and hope he doesn’t hang himself with it,” Cassidy said. “Other times, you’re going to pull back. It’s just a feel. Sometimes it matters how the rest of the group’s going. Who else is in the lineup? Are you putting a better player out there in that position?
“Sometimes you just send a hard message no matter who’s there: ‘Hey, enough’s enough.’ There’s different ways to do it in-game. Tomorrow, there’s conversations. ‘Hey, do you want to be a leader? You’re getting into that phase of your career. Is that how leaders play?’ You kind of see what he thinks of the whole situation.
“He might have a different answer. Those are the challenges coaches face trying to grow his game without shutting him right off. So that’s what we’ll do tomorrow.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/bruins/2017/11/06/bruins-hold-off-wild-finish/upCFcEhetqyrOg4rpnKiUO/story.html

 

[McDrew]

I'm totally ok with Cassidy benching any of the 20 skaters if their play warrants it. Pastrnak is probably not someone you'd expect this from, but when it happens, it needs to be treated the same way.
Also mad props for Cassidy saying basically "and it means nothing beyond this game because we're going to help him not do that again"

 

[veritas]

It's a shame because for most of the game he was dominant. He only had 1 assist to show for it, but I thought it was one of the best games he's played, excluding the 2 terrible turnovers. And I'm fine with him taking some flak for those.

 

[Red Right Ankle]

He had a bunch of crap shifts, especially on the PP, recently. So, I think this is more a culmination than Cassidy lets on there.