Bringing You News About The Boston Bruins
By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown
Now that we have some clarity on the NHL season we can start making predictions, bold or otherwise, about the season. In hockey, you need to score more goals than the other team to win so that seems like a good starting point for analysis and prognostication. Goal scoring has also been one of the leading anxieties for Bruins’ … Keep Reading
By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown
The debate over what matters more, offense or defense, has raged in sports likely since their creation. Does Novak Djokovic’s attack succeed versus Rafael Nadal’s ability to defend and return? Does the stalwart defense of the 1985 Chicago Bears hold off the offensive onslaught of the 2013 Denver Broncos? How does the dynamic offense of the … Keep Reading
By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown
The Boston Bruins locked up their final restricted free agent recently inking forward Jake Debrusk to a two-year bridge deal worth an average annual value of $3.675 million. The jury is still out on whether the 24-year-old can develop into a consistent and elite goal scorer. During the term of this … Keep Reading
By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown
Now that we impressed our friends with our commentary on the Bruins’ forward group, it’s time to rub in our smarts (ahem, prove to them our nerdiness) with a discussion on the Bruins’ defenders. We will again perform an investigation looking at individual expected goals (iXG) in comparison to actual goals scored (goals or G). As we … Keep Reading
By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown
While the only numbers that really count at the end of a hockey game are how many goals each team scored, it can be informative to look at a variety of metrics. Sometimes these additional data points can help explain how events unfolded. In other instances, they can help us predict future outcomes. Perhaps, most importantly, … Keep Reading
By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown
The Bruins look like they will go into next season with a goaltending duo of Tuukka Rask and Jaroslav Halak. While Rask rumors swirled in the early days of the off-season, and after his abrupt bubble exit, he remains on the roster. Both player and the team have shared the expectation is for him to … Keep Reading
By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @BruinsBreakdown
A few weeks ago, we spent some time looking at the players that make up the Bruins veteran core and the younger players that may make up their next core. Amongst the senior group was David Krejci, the creative, silky, and responsible long-tenured second-line center. During our exercise, Krejci was a player who looks … Keep Reading
By Leon Lifschutz | Follow me @LeonLifschutz
Welcome back for Part Three of our series predicting the performance of the Bruins’ core players. In Part One we examined aging curves and decided on who made up the Bruins’ veteran and young cores. In Part Two we analyzed the past performances and trends of the Bruins’ veterans in order to predict what the … Keep Reading
By: Patrick Donnelly | Follow me on Twitter @PatDonn12
With the Boston Bruins’ President’s Trophy-winning 2019-20 season now over, general manager Don Sweeney and the rest of the Boston brass head into the offseason with several question marks looming over the roster. How will management address the lack of depth scoring (again)? What will happen with the team’s restricted free agents? Or … Keep Reading
By: Lydia Murray | Follow Me on Twitter @lydia_murray12
Over the course of the past month or so, I’ve published articles using shot heatmaps on the Bruins offense, defense, and power play during the regular season. Now, it’s time to take a look at the penalty kill. In addition to breaking down how it was in the regular season, … Keep Reading
© 2025 Black N' Gold Hockey
Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑