JVR to Boston

nolasoxfan

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Edit: looks like @RedOctober3829 & @EL Jeffe broke the tape before me.

Didn't see this posted. I am cutting and pasting directly from Boston.com.

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12:14 p.m. – James van Riemsdyk to Boston

Here’s your potential Bertuzzi replacement — at least in terms of a netfront option.

Just 12 goals last season, but did bury 24 goals the year before. Remains to be seen how much he has left in the tank, but no complaints for that $1 million cap hit.

Bruins have to essentially “moneyball” this season.
 

wiffleballhero

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JVR is a player I've always sort of misread in the sense that when he started to put up some solid numbers in Toronto I thought it was the beginning of what would be half a dozen years or more of really top level play. Never seemed to happen. I've still maintained maybe a weakly substantiated anxiety about him going off on any given night against the Bruins. Maybe he'll find the fountain of youth this summer and surprise us? I'm on board.
 

Ale Xander

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Good depth piece at only 1M. Had 24 goals 2 years ago. Another Hockey East guy too of course
 

joe dokes

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There was a stretch when he was with the Flyers where it felt like he was going to singlehandedly wreck the Bruins every shift. He seemed unstoppable.
Of course, we were all younger then.
 

Jed Zeppelin

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There was a stretch when he was with the Flyers where it felt like he was going to singlehandedly wreck the Bruins every shift. He seemed unstoppable.
Of course, we were all younger then.
I remember this well, treating all of our players like traffic cones.
 

cshea

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He’s a good net front guy. He will bang in pucks on the PP, that’s always been his calling card.

It’s a little difficult to fully evaluate JVR and Shattenkirk and what they have left because their previous teams were so bad.