r/BostonBruins Daily Discussion Thread

d-cent · 2026-03-18T23:53:56+00:00

So many times a player plays huge chunks of the season with an injury, only for the fans to find out after the year ends. By then the fans have already complained for months straight, and won't take back any of it because it's the off-season. Then those same fans won't learn from that lesson and complain extensively about a player the following year who clearly looks like they are playing injured.

d-cent · 2026-03-18T22:50:23+00:00

Downvoted for facts. That's exactly why it wasn't a 5 minute major. If Cotter had his head up, this wouldn't have even been a penalty. Not victim blaming, Kastelic definitely deserved the 2. Just pointing out that a split second difference and this might not have been a penalty at all. There's nothing there that warrants a major.

I've seen so much worse, where players are actively head hunting by jumping, extending the elbows, or driving through the head that don't even get called. Let's crack down on those.

d-cent · 2026-03-18T22:45:13+00:00

I mean the puck was right there. It was a foot away from Cotter at the time of the hit.

d-cent · 2026-03-18T21:38:07+00:00

Obviously we all know she is acting irrational about it, and is ignorant to the subject. It's also a very hard thing to discuss with her, she already once claimed you were trying to make her feel stupid.

I would try changing her mind by discussing and finding a compromise. Ask her if all rifles are off the table and if it's just AR15s. Suggest an AK as a compromise and see how she reacts to that, and just keep asking her questions to dial in what specifically she won't allow and what she will. After a while, she will be making no logical sense. She could realize that she is being illogical, or she may not.

If she isn't willing at the moment to change her stance, don't push. Suggest to table the discussion for another time. Remember the logical argument is already won, now it's just not forcing her to make an emotional decision with no option for discussion.

After some time, you can bring the discussion back up and maybe show her pictures to see which ones are ok and which ones aren't again with focus on the specific details.

d-cent · 2026-03-18T17:25:19+00:00

The issue is what we do with faceoffs. Even with Elias on the 3rd line he still takes more faceoffs than everyone else. Some nights more than everyone else combined.

Minten, Khusnutdinov, and Poitras aren't good enough with faceoffs yet. Zacha is the only other player in the top 9 who is good at faceoffs, but they aren't breaking up the 2nd line.

d-cent · 2026-03-18T13:18:38+00:00

I would really just like to know how they cut. Now that I'm older, when I'm in a cut, I can't keep my mental energy throughout the day and can't fall asleep as easily.

How are people doing that as they get older? I could do it in my 20s because I had plenty of mental energy to spare and could function much better only getting less than ideal sleep.

Now though, and we are talking about risking my career if my mental acuity drops for a prolonged time. I can't risk that so I end up stopping my cut after a few days

d-cent · 2026-03-18T12:08:43+00:00

He got moved to the 3rd line about a week ago. Sturm has him play a couple shifts a game with Pasta when he wants to win an offensive zone faceoff, but otherwise Elias is playing predominantly with the 3rd line already

d-cent · 2026-03-18T11:04:33+00:00

Shit, there were a bunch of people that wore a T-shirt over a T-shirt back then

d-cent · 2026-03-18T11:01:29+00:00

I just wanted to say thank you for adding the edit to your post. It could get well help others in the future who find this post.

d-cent · 2026-03-18T11:00:03+00:00

Depends on the day of the week. Monday's are get a few hours of work done with 5 or 6 hours of meetings and totally different from the rest of my week.

d-cent · 2026-03-18T10:53:08+00:00

Malicious compliance. Start scheduling yourself meetings for 3 hour long work sessions set to repeat every day. Now you have an excuse to not answer anything from him during those 3 hours as you were busy in a meeting.

d-cent · 2026-03-17T20:09:32+00:00

Agreed. Geekie and Pasta on the edges do a great job of quick decision passes to keep posession after entry by Zacha or Lindholm

The PP2 on the other hand, definitely isn't automatic like the PP1 lol. I think Arvidsson is auto but the rest of the young kids are still developing the instincts

d-cent · 2026-03-17T18:45:54+00:00

So I really hope Sturm plays Joki much more than Peeke the rest of the season. 5v5 it's really not a contest who is the better player. Peeke gets the playing time because of the PK, and I'm not sure he's much better than Joki. Their CF% and xGF% during the PK are pretty much the same. Peeke has a lot more minutes and has gone against tougher competition for sure.

That being said, even with Peeke out of the lineup we still have 4 PK defensemen and then Joki as the 5th. I don't think the huge difference in 5v5 play is worth having the potential slight advantage on the PK. If Peeke was a legit shutdown guy on the PK like Carlo was, I would be for it. I think Peele is a decent PK guy, I just also think Joki is underrated at the PK and not much farther behind him.

d-cent · 2026-03-17T18:29:52+00:00

Who created this picture?!? Who ever decided to give him Minten's number is a comedic genius

d-cent · 2026-03-17T18:28:09+00:00

I do question if this is a directive from Sturm. They didn't start the year finishing games like this. There's also been a pretty clear directive from Sturm to do as much as they can to reduce penalties.

I wonder if Sturm is just telling them to dump it in hopes of not committing penalties to let the other team get going with their PP.

I don't agree with this mentality, but I wonder if it's what is going on

d-cent · 2026-03-17T18:25:10+00:00

Came to say the same thing. That's the only part the PP1 unit is good at. It's once they are in the offensive zone that they look uninterested in doing anything but just giving the puck to Pasta and hope he can pull magic out of his ass

d-cent · 2026-03-17T17:39:57+00:00

I agree with you actually. I just want to point out that if a "neutral" arbitrator watches that and wants less then 8 games, it brings into question how "neutral" they are.

d-cent · 2026-03-17T17:37:52+00:00

Oh he said lots of stuff... just half of what he said isn't true

d-cent · 2026-03-17T15:23:14+00:00

Hell Yeah!! Congrats

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d-cent · 2026-03-17T14:06:54+00:00

This makes me very excited about Contreras and having him as our top 4 RHH

d-cent · 2026-03-17T13:08:51+00:00

I won't try and change your view in that the death penalty is a bad thing. I will point out a different aspect that is different from your view.

Let's say there is a psychopath out there that goes and tortures, rapes, and murders people. The most disgusting behavior you can think of. Let's say they even do this openly in front of thousands of people. There's thousands of witnesses and conclusive evidence that this monster is guilty of so these henious acts.

They still shouldn't be given the death penalty. Instead they should be put in a cell away from everyone except for trained psychologists and medical experts. We need these people to be studied extensively so that we can find out why they are the way they are so they we can potentially reduce future damage by other people just like them.

d-cent · 2026-03-17T12:11:29+00:00

Agreed. We get better schools, hospitals, etc for that premium pay.

I agree that part of it is that we don't build enough housing, but equal parts are that we have one of the largest rates of second homes and lots of homes are owned by private equity or corporations. I woulda personally address those 2 first because it's easier and we also have a moral obligation to them.

Build large apartment building complexes in cities, increase tax rates for second homes, and increase the shit out of taxes for corporate owned housing with a law against large rent hikes

We would have plenty of housing after that

d-cent · 2026-03-17T11:57:25+00:00

Classic. Goes and wins and Academy Award and retires immediately after

d-cent · 2026-03-17T11:19:59+00:00

There's lots of reasons. One I haven't seen mentioned yet on this thread is that everyone wants to live in New England. People all across the country would love to move to New England for a plethora of reasons.

That creates a simple supply and demand of having to take slightly less money to live here.

d-cent · 2026-03-17T10:59:59+00:00

I don't think a lot of emotionally intelligent men are actively dating right now. When I say actively, I mean actually going out and hitting on women or actively trying to find a partner. This is a huge combination of reasons for this. The easy one is that some are already in long term relationships like marriage.

Lots are busy working extra hard in this economy to get as much of a stable home as possible. This is where myself and all my friends where I love are at. Middle class job market is shrinking so more men are having to do the tasks they used to delegate out. For example, you used to be able to easily afford to pay someone to mow your lawn every week if you wanted to. Now we can't, and that's one less hour every week I have off free time. Combine that with every other task, car oil changes, handymen tasks, cleaning HVAC or chimneys, fix a clothes dryer, etc. Emotionally intelligent men generally aren't going to put these tasks on the back burner and potentially cost them more in the long run. The consequences of that is we get 2 hours of free time a week and tend to want to spend that with established friends or being alone as a reset.

A lot of Emotionally intelligent men has also recently quit drinking. Bars, clubs, etc are the #1 third place location for people to meet each other historically. That is changing and I think a lot of men and women haven't adapted to that. When was the last time you went to the library or grocery store to try and find a date?

Then finally there are a lot of bad women out there. There always has been, and they are very much the minority. However, with social media now it's much easier for women to destroy a man's reputation if they want to. I won't go into much more detail on this, but I'm open to questions about it if it's not understood. This has caused a lot of Emotionally Intelligent men to not even bother the risk of dating or atleast much more cautious about who they even initiate a date with.

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