Last run for Recchi?

The guy's a lion.

Just saw on NHL.com that Minn picked up Hnidy for $750k. PC must've told him no scenario he returns to Boston. For $750k, he would have been ideal 7th Dman. Boychuk could stay in P and play every day and not sit in press box (and no one knows if he is truly ready to step in @ Boston), and with Ward, Ference & Wideman a risk to miss 50 or more games among them, he's proven he can fill a spot in Boston. Now Hunwick is a "must" and another GM better not offer him silly money and put Bs in a bind. Too bad, a good guy who set the example you can be drafted around 200th and work hard to the NHL.

We lost the Sherrif! Its a shame to see him go. He was a true Bruin. Hope Boychuk & Hunwick will be able to pick up the slack.

St.Pierre also gone to Ottawa.

I wonder who that 1% is in the locker room who doesn't want to win the Cup?

I wonder who the 1% is that doesn't want the Cup?

the hell w/ Hnidy, who's the 1% Recchi is referring to?

Losing Hnidy isn't the best news. It was nice having him in the fold.

Kessel

My guess is PC's signing priorities tell you who the 1% is.

i say that Recchi is dealt at the trade deadline once again....

Kessel has to go. It frees up cap space and nets some sort of a return via trade. Plus, Sturm is coming back from injury and the team has played well without Kessel before. It would be nice of Boychuk could see some games this year.

And what am I doing thinking about hockey in July?!?! This team has a hold of me ...

I think that if the Bruins were poised for the playoffs and Recchi were dealt I'd not want to be PC the first time they met after that.

1% Interesting. Must be either Chara or Thomas, neither one of them strikes me as very competitive.

As far as the "99%" comment goes... I think a lot of people are reading way too much into that.

The team also played well without Sturm all season. See if he'll waive his no trade. If not, trade Kobasew for a draft pick and resign Kessel. I like Sturm and Kobasew as players too. I'd rather invest my money in the 21 year old with more upside.

b&g, please tell me you're joking. Tim Thomas doesn't strike you as competitive?

Good thing for Chiarelli that Recchi signed. If he didn't, it woulda made the deal to give away Matt Lashoff (and Karsems!) look even worse than it already does. That deal was a dare-to-be-great. Problem is, it wasn't.
The Bruins needed to, at the very least, get to the Final to make it look good. Recchi's gonna wanna be good this, his last, tear. And Chiarelli's gonna want him to be good. because one thing's for sure, Matt Lashoff will haunt.

Maybe the 1% was Claude Julien. Of course, he wanted to win the Cup. But, If he's such a good coach, why didn't he have the courage to sit Krejci or Kessel who were obviously playing diminished versions of their game (as their surgeries, just days after elimination would attest). Why didn't Julien do what good coaches do and bravely dip into the Bruins deep and much vaunted talent pool? In particular, Kessel; if he was so lousy, so soft and one-dimensional, so lackadasical and uncommitted, SO INJURED!...why wasn't Sobotka or Wheeler put into service? Those decisions are the ones that separate the good coaches from the great ones.

//Kessel; if he was so lousy, so soft and one-dimensional, so lackadasical and uncommitted, SO INJURED!...why wasn't Sobotka or Wheeler put into service?//

You mean the Kessel who led the Bruins with 11 playoff points? That Phil Kessel?

"Diminished versions" of Krejci or Kessel were obviously the best options the Bruins had. In case you didn't notice, half the team was playing with injuries. Kobasew: broken ribs. Recchi: kidney stone. Lucic: injured foot. Savard: injured knee. Ward: cracked tailbone. Bitz: cracked ribs. And that's just some of the worst - we didn't even hear about the "ordinary" stuff (the sort of stuff that would put Joe Fan in the hospital).

As for Sobotka, he was nursing his own injuries as well - he missed the final games of Providence's last series. Wheeler very obviously ran headfirst into the rookie wall and was blanked in the playoffs.

You know, a coach can't play for his players. And he can't heal them either, nor can he impart experience to the youngsters. They have to learn their lessons the hard way, which is what champions do.

And of course b&g is joking. I'd lay odds that Thomas and Chara are the two most competitive guys in the NHL, let alone on the Bruins.

'duinne'...c'mon, obviously i was being sarcastic, right? We're working the same side of the street on this one. I was merely aping the wrong-headed words and criticisms of Kessel i've been reading here for weeks and months and years. I was, trying make a case for Kessel, giving everything he's got and then some. My point was that Kessel was so important, so impactful, so vital that Julien couldn't replace him - even a one-shouldered Kessel was better than any alternative.
Now, what i wonder is; what is Chiarelli's alternative? How does he plan to replace him? I think this kid has been wildly under-estimated because he doesn't exactly exude 'blood n guts'. He is a pure talent and the Bruins are, so far, saying they don't know if they can make space for that. Well, someone else surely will and Phil Kessel will haunt. His stats will soar somewhere else and us fans will be left to blog and argue over arcane and irrelevant comparisons and how he really didn't 'explode like that' til after he left.

Hey if I can get some airtime on the Theo and Duinne Show - I don't think the issues is that people (or PC) want Kes to go. I think, for whatever reason, he's the odd man out under the cap. If the cap were 3 mil higher, he'd be back, no brainer.

Hunwick is a beast and deservers a good contract at the end of the year last year before he go injured off a bush league play by komisarek he was arguably our best defensemen and looked like a seasoned veteran not a rookie, he is a fantastic skater and could develop into a top notch defensemen.