One of the announcers asked this question during the Bruins game today and it got me thinking: can the bruins really win at all in the playoffs with such a lack of offense? To tell you the truth, probably not. The Bruins have the lowest amount of goals per game in the NHL at 2.35.
At that rate, I'd say to the team "There's always next year." But I can't. You know why? Because technically the season isn't over quite. And to tell you the truth, I really don't want to say that. What I really want to say is: " Get your act together. You still have 11 games left in the season, and if you try hard enough you can do it."
But really that isn't the point of this post. I think that if the team goes into the playoffs playing their absolute best, putting a 60 minute effort into every game they can at least make it past round one. Sadly though, the lack of offense the Bruins have posted this season added with the loads of pressure to play well coming off of last season is most likely going to bring them nowhere after round 1 of the playoffs.
So where do we go from there? I say go in to the offseason and work on the lack of offense the team has. Try building skills going up to the net. Work on being able to score power play goals. And most importantly, think about how this season was played and then learn to play with a lot more emotion and heart. Until then, I'll just have to hope the rest of the season goes well and pray to God I won't be saying "There's always next year" one more time in my life as a Boston sports fan.
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