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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: Mike Cratty | Follow Me On Twitter @Mike_Cratty
With the upcoming season getting the green light, why not continue the BNG line predictions series started by BNG writer Patrick Donnelly with an installment of my own? It feels good to be getting back into the swing of things.
I feel like most … Keep Reading
By: Brandon Flowers | Follow me on Twitter @BKFlowers1
We now know that the 2020-2021 NHL season will be underway as of January 13th, 2021. Each team will play a shortened 56-game season and be split up over 4 new realigned divisions (North, East, Central, West). The Bruins already have a few key players that will miss the start of the … Keep Reading
By: Patrick Donnelly | Follow me on Twitter @PatDonn12
The Boston Bruins will open up training camp in just over a week on Jan. 3 as the start of the 2020-21 season on Jan. 14 against the New Jersey Devils draws closer. With the departure of Torey Krug (and potentially Zdeno Chara, who knows), the additions of Craig Smith and Greg McKegg, and the … Keep Reading
By Michael DiGiorgio | Follow Me On Twitter: @BostonDiGiorgio
News broke that the Vegas Golden Knights are trying to unload contracts to stay cap compliant after the signing of Alex Pietrangelo. The Knights signed Pietrangelo, knowing they’d need to trade one of their other mainstays to come in under the cap this coming season.
By Michael DiGiorgio | Follow Me On Twitter: @BostonDiGiorgio
A few nights ago, the NHL world received the news they’d all been hoping for.
By: Andrew Taverna | Follow me on Twitter @andrewtaverna
The Boston Bruins have had a much quieter offseason than most fans would probably like. This leaves the question open: Who do the Bruins rely on for their secondary scoring this upcoming season? The real answer probably lies somewhere between analytics and in-game luck, but let’s take a look at the options and who the people of … 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: Max Mainville | Check me out on Twitter @tkdmaxbjj
The National Hockey League has a very difficult task at hand to get the 2020-21 regular-season and playoffs underway. With the ideas of having players in a bubble similar to those in Edmonton and Toronto during the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs and potentially a shorter season from the normal 82-game schedule – it is not going to be easy to … 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
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