3/28 vs. Nashville - But I'm Working Harder Than Ever and You Could Call It Macking

cshea

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His backup has a save percentage of 0.899.
Rask's save percentage is .897 over his last 42 games going back to the beginning of December. I'd sink or swim with him, but there are legitimate concerns with his play. He's been below average for 2 seasons now. Last year I was willing to write it off as him being run into the ground and playing behind a porous defense. This year he still got run into the ground but the play in front of him was improved.
 

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Rask is in net tonight. Krejci is a game time decision, but Cassidy thinks he'll play. Liles in for Colin Miller, unfortunately. I really disagree with this decision.
 

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Rask is in net tonight. Krejci is a game time decision, but Cassidy thinks he'll play. Liles in for Colin Miller, unfortunately. I really disagree with this decision.
It is ridiculous to be sitting C. Miller for Liles, no idea what Cassidy is thinking.
 

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Here's some Miller numbers. His ranking is among the 161 qualified D with 750 minutes of 5x5 TOI this year:

CF%- 60.5%- 1st
CF60- 67.16- 1st
CA60- 43.93- 1st

PDO- 96.9, 155th

SF60- 35.35, 1st
SA60- 21.26, 1st
SF%- 62.5%, 1st

Scoring chances for %- 1st
SCF60- #45
SCA60- 1st

He does get the 3rd most OZone starts in the league. The only knock here would be the scoring chances, they aren't turning the volume of shots that they're taking with him on the ice into as many chances as they could. They also aren't finishing, as evidence by his middling production numbers. Still, the puck spends pretty much the entire time in the offensive end when he's on the ice. It's not a shooting gallery against. Considering the Bruins main problem is a lack of scoring and scoring depth, I'd probably give him an expanded role more than anything

Tl:dr- he's one of the Bruins better defenders and scratching him, absent any sort of undisclosed injury, makes the team worse.
 

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Rask is in net tonight. Krejci is a game time decision, but Cassidy thinks he'll play. Liles in for Colin Miller, unfortunately. I really disagree with this decision.
This has Cam Neely written all over it. He's a veteran! Grr, grit and veteran leadership and blah blah blah.

I never thought I'd come to the place where Neely is someone I think is incompetent, but here we are. The sooner they get rid of him, the better off they will be.
 

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This has Cam Neely written all over it. He's a veteran! Grr, grit and veteran leadership and blah blah blah.

I never thought I'd come to the place where Neely is someone I think is incompetent, but here we are. The sooner they get rid of him, the better off they will be.
This completely reeks of Neely. Same with the Rask decision. Cam's not trusting his job to Anton Khudobin. No fucking way. I hate sitting Miller and what's just as infuriating is that it's not like Colin Miller has been playing soft. I don't know what this kid had to do.
 

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Rask's save percentage is .897 over his last 42 games going back to the beginning of December. I'd sink or swim with him, but there are legitimate concerns with his play. He's been below average for 2 seasons now. Last year I was willing to write it off as him being run into the ground and playing behind a porous defense. This year he still got run into the ground but the play in front of him was improved.
I think that doesn't do justice to what's been happening to Rask. From 2009-10 to 2013-14, including the playoffs, Rask played in 238 games. Through most of the last three seasons, he's played in 193, and can almost certainly get close to 200 with the rest of this season on the line. Unless a goalie is a freak along the lines of Price or Brodeur, the abuse both in-season as well as interseasonal has to take a toll.
 

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When Tuukka missed a few games earlier in the season, it was reported that it was an injury that wouldn't be able to heal/get fixed until the offseason, right?
 

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He hurt his groin or some muscle in that vicinity in the first game of the season. There were several times where he took a while to get back up from the butterfly. It eventually led to a week or so of whatever the opposite of a three headed goalie monster is with the Khudobin-McIntyre-Subban trio.
 

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McIntyre up again. As of noon today Rask said he was good to go and Cassidy affirmed. Who the fuck knows what's going on.

Apparently Khudobin related

 

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Rask is always pretty stone-faced and careful when talking to the media, but I get the sense he's not real thrilled about playing tonight.
 

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Random thought, K. Miller has played so much better this year than last year.