TheRealness said:Also, this team is absurdly good. This is why I didn't want them to do anything big at the deadline. I feel like if things go as they should, we could be looking at a possible revenge series against Chicago in June. I feel like this is the best Bruins hockey team of my lifetime. If the Bruins win it all this year, I would compare it to the 2007 Sox championship team. They were just the best, and you knew if they played their best the nobody could beat them.
Not to mention the Eastern Conference is historically bad this season. Losing to anyone but Pitt would be a huge upset, and I'd definitely make the B's the favorites in that series. They're at better than even odds to come out of the east, and while they'd be the underdogs in the finals against the west's elite, they'd still have a pretty good chance. Mathematically speaking I think they should be the favorites to win the cup this season. The winner will likely come out of the west, but those playoffs will be a bloodbath this season, and I don't think any individual team has as good of a chance to win it all as the Bruins.
They were in a great position where they didn't have to mortgage the future to help themselves this season. It doesn't really make sense to trade big future assets to increase your chance of winning the cup a few percentage points above ~30% or whatever it is now. And there wasn't a move out there that would have changed those odds significantly. They got Meszaros which protects them against an injury to Boychuk/Hamilton which would have otherwise been pretty devastating.
And their forward depth is just absurd. Their 3rd line is better than a lot of 2nd lines in the league. Should be a huge advantage to keep guys fresh through the playoffs.