After last night's 2-1 loss to the Scabs, the Bruins now sit in dead last in the Eastern Conference. It's become ridiculous at this point. usually I'd blame Coach Potato Head but he's done just about everything you could possibly think of. He's changed the lines, benched guys, given them mental health days off, changing the lines up again, and everything else in between. The dude's frustrated, and it shows. His quote after the game last night ("I might have nightmares tonight about the way we're playing right now.") may become a bit famous. If this is Cup Hangover, I think the Bruins have taken to a new level.
The god news is, Chiarelli isn't just sitting around. According to ESPN's Pierre LeBrun, Chiarelli is working the phones a little more dilligently to explore trade opportunities to jump start the struggling Bruins. Hopefully he's looking to snag a forward that can score, because the problem sure as hell isn't defense or goaltending. The offense so far looks like the '09-'10 team all us true fans despised oh so much. They have 0 spark and it's costing them games. The tricky thing is, who the hell is even available at this point in the year? The only names I've heard that could possibly be available are Rene Bourque of the Flames and maybe (still a big maybe) Daniel Alfreddson of the Senators. Perhaps if the B's wait a couple weeks there will be a few other teams that realize they aren't going to contend and there will be a few more guys on the market, but right now it sounds like the trade market is pretty barren. But hell, who knows. No one realized David Booth was available until Vancouver traded for him, so I guess you never know.
Basically what I'm saying is it's getting close to panic time. This is an extremely good team with a lot of talent in the back end and a good combination of talent up front, and they should not be playing this horribly. Get ready to hit the big red button Bruins fans, this season may be going down the tubes faster than anyone realizes.
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