Brendan Shanahan anyone?
Brendan Shanahan has had enough with the New York Rangers. The 39 year old will be open to the free agent market. Now the question is, if you could, would you take him on the Bruins?
I would, which I know is against what you probably think. But, think about it this way. The Bruins have a 7 forwards under the age of 23. That is young. Shanahan would provide instant leadership and could help make the kids like Kessel, Wheeler and others develop into better players. The 11th all time goal scorer could not hurt this team.
Now, making room for him is another issue entirely. As we all know, the entire roster will not stay healthy all season, Kobasew has already been out, Axelsson is injured every season, and anything can happen. And, we could use some more help scoring. Shanahan would provide more depth and help the PP out. He had 11 PP goals last season. A guy like Stephane Yelle could be placed on waivers to make room, or Blake Wheeler could be sent down to Providence to work more on his game.
Price is another thing. If Shanahan wants 3-4 million, then no thank you. But if the price is 1-2.5 million, you take a look.
Shanahan-Savard-Ryder
Sturm-Bergeron-Kessel
Lucic-Krejci-Kobasew
Axelsson-Nokelainen-Thornton
Yelle-Sobotka
I don't know, but Shanahan looks a lot nicer up there than Axelsson.
posted by Matt at 6:07 PM
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I think we need another realiable defenceman instead.
fabrizio in MTL
yeah lets bring on an overaged over priced ex super star and put him on the first line and waste 2.5 million in cap space on him...thank god idiots like you arent the GM of a hockey team seriously stick with the team we have we need them to develop more
also visit hubhockey.com...they actually update the site more than once a week
I'm not sure how they'd clear enough cap space even if he took less money. I'd definitely love to have him on that first line with Savard and Ryder though.
im sure anyone in the world looks better than axelsson on the first line. including jeremy reich
i miss dave lewis behind the bench. I also miss glen murray on the ice for 22 minutes a game with that stick waiting for the perfect pass, which somehow resulted in 28 goals. I miss wayne primeau and mark mowers playing on the second line and receiving 18 minutes a game plus powerplay time. I miss paul mara doing his best hal gill impression back on defense. I miss how brandon bochenski and petr tenkrat were once our first line wingers. I miss how everyone thought stan chistov was the next coming of sergei samsonov(well his years in boston). I miss when jason york would let my grandmother skate by him. I miss when shean donovan would just skate up and down the ice and do absolutely nothing.I miss andrew alberts going his best paul mara impression. I miss jeff hoggan playing on the third line. I miss it when every time the bruins got the pucked they simply just dumped it into the offensive zone. oh how i miss thee dave lewis.
WHERE ART THOU DAVE LEWIS
-falsse montreal
How about Sturm to Vancouver for Bieksa or Ohlund?
I do agree on the veteran leadership i.e junior seau Patriots. But where's the cap space!!!
DS NH
bring him in i'd like to see that for a year. Then after hossa has his 1 year stint in detroit we can toss him more cash in the summer when we let shanahan and fernandez.
NO.
how is jokinen working-out in phoenix?
great dave lewis post
mook hows ur boy tim thomas playin now? TIMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!
how about this....
-sign shanny for 2.5 million
-trade axelsson for a bunch of broken stick blades -1.85 million
-assign sobotka to providence -700k
theres your 2.5 million right there. plus what ever you would like to do with wheeler(providence saves ur 2.8 or keep him with the big club)
lucic-savard-ryder
sturm-bergeron-kessel
shanahan-krejci-kobasew
thornton-yelle-nokelainen
i dont kno if alot of you noticed this or not, but after this year we lose alot of dead weight. axelsson, yelle, and fernandez are all going to be UFA's at the conclusion of the season. how awesome is that? frees up 6,933,000 million for next season. all three guys are easily replaceable (rask, sobotka, another UFA). maybe a play for a big time scorer or a true first line LW??
Hey this wouldn't be bad if it didnt ask for alot of money. I seen him play last year and I truly believe he still has some gas left in his tank. He has a better shot then Murray and very good on the PP plus he would also be alot less money. Scott NY
Wheeler belongs in Boston.
Shanahan costs way too much money.
Noone is going to trade for P.J. Axelsson.
noone wants pj axelsson. he is injury prone, cannot provide anything offensively, skating is on a major decline, and is highly, highly overrated on the PK. not worth the 1.85 million dollar mistake.
you guys are pretty rough on Axleson - he has overall been a decent player over the past years - If Ryder is worth 4M Axleson is worth 1.8 - Even worse how can you justify 8M for Chara. Axleson will not hurt you like Murray or Alberts did.
watch axelsson on the pk tonight
Thats dave lewis post had me laughing so hard I almost threw up.
Man, after Axe is gone who are you going to blame? Everyone bitched about Murray and now he is gone. Now it is Axe. Every team has players like this. No one has every player that is perfect. Have some loyalty to players that have bleed black and gold.
vince m
OH HOW I MISS THEE
the one and only "BIG PREEMS"
how you constantly would hook
and then give that stupid look
you would try to be a sly fox
but no, you always ended in the box
you were once traded for jumbo joe
but you move slower than Vaughn, Mo
you would play on the powerplay
but add nothing at the end of day
you would shoot in the shoot out
which meant a sure lose in the bout
oh what a dump trade to make
but it worked for dave lewis' sake
we know you would get lewis to bend
but we got chuckand andy in the end
OH HOW I MISS THEE
BIG PREEMS
Nothing against PC cause hes done a great job rebuilding this team but really dont think he has nuts to pull off a blockbuster trade. Hes to afraid of what people will say or maybe worse dismissal, he seems to always be in the mix but the trigger is always jammed....... Fallse Ontario
lol quite the poet
The Dave Lewis post was hilarious.
But seriously Shanahan does not solve any of the Bruins issues. The team needs to play more discipline resulting in less penalties, needs a better PK, and better overall "D" with better transition from D to O.
I think a vet just takes away form our youth's development (Nokie, Sobotka, Wheels, etc...)
Interesting stat for all of you "fans":
PJ last year: GP75 G13 A16 P29 +11
Milan last year: GP77 G8 A19 P27 -2
Don't preach to me about "systems" and all this shit...hypocrites.
interestin stats for mook,
lucic played on the fourth line until around game 50 and received no playing time on the PP until then, where as axelsson played on the first line(with someone named marc savard?? whos he? he totaled 137 assists in his first two years with the bruins) and the powerplay all season. milan totaled 12:09 of ice time last season where as PJ totaled 17:35. Axelsson was 32 with 10 seasons of pro experience under his belt. Milan Lucic was 19 and a rookie in his very first NHL season. Wow your right it just makes me think of how much Axelsson really does suck .
I'm a fan, always have been just dont like pj.
LOL what a joke comparing PJ to Lucic this kid will past PJ career pts in 3 yrs or so and that has nothing to do with team systems. Just like the other dude said its about minutes played and who your playing with thats it thats all. Tell me this MOOK when is the last time PJ energized this team with an on ice play or hit or even got in to a fight for that matter...... Fallse Ontario
just proving my point.
this game isn't just about offense and scoring goals.
and for the record, players on the bench don't get throbbing hard-ons (like you at home) after watching fights...a successful penatly kill is MUCH more energizing. i bet you're one of those people who wish the nets were bigger to see more goals! yee-haw!
and don't think i'm milan-hating or anything...just wanted to compare apples to oranges ;)
still, comparing pj to lucic is dumb. but i like pj he serves a purpose on the team, just not on the first line. am i the only one who is confused about the yelle pick up, hes the same player as pj, but pj is better. and btw plus minus does not count on pp or pk. and pj dropped the gloves in a huge spot against montreal last year. surprised nobody remembered that. no shanahan please, keep team as is or try to get a quality d-man. one change i would make though is drop yelle bring back reich. i like watching him play he is a scrapper, we need some more of that.
MOOK thats more like comparing a steak to a mc donalds burger. Ya a good PK could energize a team tell me again whats are PK percentage and what was it last year? Ya great job PJ. Dude you need to get your head out ass or should I say get your hand off PJ cock...... Fallse Ontario
fallse ontario you are the man
-fallse boston
Thanks Man some people make it to easy. Ya know what Im saying !!!!!! Fallse Ontario
Dont take me the wrong way people there is nothing wrong with your own opinion but think it through first and really watch the game it comes down to details and all the little things our team does right and if you dont see them, then take the beer out of your hand cause you've had enough..... Fallse Ontario
missed the point completely.
What a play by Lucic on Wheelers goal!
I think Mook was comparing Lucic to PJ, in light of the fact that Lucic's popularity outshines that of PJ, where PJ is an effective and important player to this roster.
Why dont you all consider the fact that...PC, Cam Neely, Julien and everyone else who actually makes the calls appreciates PJ, and does not take him or his contributions for granted. Nor do they look for greener grass on the other side of the fence, as some of my fellow Boston sports pundits have a nasty habit of doing.
no he was comparing their numbers, trying to say that axelsson brings more offensively than lucic does. if my grandmother skated on a line with savard for the whole season,she could score 29 points too, but probably more.
we all think pj is a decent, regressing player. 4th line duty and ice time should be all he receives. when it is more than that it is frustrating, especially last night when pj was the extra attacker with a minute left in the game? r u serious julien?
as for being appreciated by julien, that is not sayin much, look at yelle hes appreciated very much by julien. as was glen metropolit, no offense to him but hes a 4th liner not a 2nd liner. julien loves his veterans, a la dave lewis, and does not want to lose them by cutting minutes.
axelsson is more appreciated by the media. dupont loves him. jack edwards wants to have his babies. the same jack edwards that was in love with wayne primeau. he mentioned how GREAT of a player primeau was for the bruins and how any team would want him. HAHAHAH seriously jack.
mook's point is well made. Although Lucic will have better numbers this season, being his second and playing with the likes of Marc Savard, PJ is still a PK master and will have a high +- because of his defensive abilities. If one of the requirements of the Selkie award wasn't to score 30+ goals in a season PJ Axelsson would be a finalist every season. As far as "thanks PJ" for our "bad" PK numbers last season, PJ was hurt for a significant portion of the season. Think back to the 2006 olympics who was the Swede's top PK Unit? Samuel Pahlsson and PJ Axelsson, with 2 D men. I'm sure Team Sweden didn't add Axelsson to score goals, and I believe Mr. Axelsson has a nice shiny gold medal to prove his contribution. PJ is a vital part of this Bruins squad and I hope to see him healthy and killing penalties with Stephan Yelle all season long.
I was at the Oilers game and PJ wasn't all bad...but his main role on the team is PK and we gave up 2 PP goals again last night against the Flames and he was a -1. Yes PJ was one of the best PK'ers in the game when he had Rolston but thats his main role. Is anyone else frustrated with the damn passive box PK they play...put some pressure on the puck carrier.
Fallse Alberta
Listening to you guys talk about PJ like hes some kind of defensive god is making me sick. 4 times last night he couldn't get the puck out of our end witch lead to a Calgary scoring chance. He doesnt put any pressure on the guys with the puck on the PK he sits back and lets them set up. How can you guys not see that. They even centered him out last night on one the back checks that lead to the 3rd goal when he didnt cover for his defencemen. Scott NY
I love manboobs and sniffing ballsacks. Fallse Ontario
i'm saying pj plays his role well and we are basically getting what we paid for (1.85 is peanuts these days).
what i am also saying is that he does not belong on the first line, i'm not disputing that.
i am also saying that if pj is traded or cut, i won't care that much either...and yes i'd take rolston over him in a second but is it worth the extra salary?
in short, suck my balls. go watch some mma or something.
Wow so creative. YA I love your wife's man boobs the way they drop to belly button it turns my crank. Your so cool dude!!!!!! Fallse Ontario
you like man-boobs. so that makes you gay then. makes sense...
you said it!
yes i do. i also like to take-on 3 or 4 guys at once. i'm such a pillow biter...i also enjoy the occasional cleveland steamer and louisiana hotplate. Fallse Ontario
since people are using my name Fallse Ontario, i will no longer go as that name. instead i will be known as...Fallse Canada
okay enough of this stephane yelle experiment.
think of this lineup next year.
kovalchuk-savard-kessel
sturm-bergeron-ryder
wheeler-krejci-kobasew
sobotka-nokelainen-thornton
and NO AXELSSON!!! YES
probably wont happen lets hope the cap is around 60 million then theres a chance.
axelsson and mook can go live together on a deserted island somewhere.
fallse earth
how about this line-up next year
kovalchuk-savard-kessel
ryder-bergeron-hossa
wheeler-krejci-kobasew
sobotka-nokelainen-thornton
vince m
not enough cap space for that vince
Here's what were looking at next season, including the bench line.
steamer-savard-sanchez
hotplate-bergeron-clevenger
blumpkin-krecji-furball
tunamelt-nokelainen-chilidog
shanahan-gretzky-neely
jeffamerica
I know Manny and PJ gone next season opens up cap space but doesn't Tuukka bring in a 3 million dollar hit and you have to re-sign Timmy as well.
Anyone know of Tuukka's cap hit next year??
I wouldn't be shocked if we stick with this team next season as well. With the exception of a top 4 D-MAN.
The trade deadline might bring in a loaner.
3.3 mil for rask i think. greatest news in years, no more dead weight contracts on this team- pj and manny gone.
seriously what the fuck is up with the yelle shit. why is he here, i know hes a "good guy" and all that and has experience but hes not useful to this team, we got him to play a role, mainly on the pk and our pk is fucken terrible. drop his ass and bring up reich, hes a good fourth line player and can fight some people, this teams to soft right now.
julien is worse than lewis when it comes to stickin by his veterans. axelsson, yelle, murray, hnidy all examples. ryders been awful this year but he still keeps him on the number 1 pp unit. switch it up a bit try kessel up there. it just seems as if julien doesnt trust younger players. i cant explain why because in some cases these guys he keeps playin bring much less than other options. its like hes afraid to give the kids a look, which is why im suprised wheeler is still on this team.
hey bruins fans, i'm looking to sell an autographed bruins stick from the 1992 season, has Neely, Bourque, Moog, Sweeney, Murray, Oates, and 18 total autographs on it, if anyone is interested please send me an email at jpotrzeba51@yahoo.com
are they fake?
Does anyone else think an updated post is too much to ask for. This is now November a post a month would even be nice.
why would we bring an 80 yr old washup to a young exciting team? For Leadership? Not buyin' in
All off season we heard there are no posts because there's nothing going on with the team. Now the season is 10 games in and there's no posts why?
That being said, Stars are giving up huge goal numbers this year. Turco hasn't been Turco, but their D is terrible so you can't put it all on them. It would be nice to see Sturm net one tonight and the B's put up 4. Timmy could use a little help after how great he's been playing
p.s. When is Katherine Tappin gonna stop dressing like a grandma? Show some cleave already
a response to the "ps" about tappen...me and a couple of my buddies have been asking the same question for the past year. always completely covered up, nothing. lmao funny u said that man, i say it all the time.
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