from CBS Boston,
The Boston Globe’s Fluto Shinzawa joined 98.5 The Sports Hub’s Toucher & Rich to discuss the current state of the team, and said the B’s don’t have many options when it comes to shaking things up.
“I don’t know about a shakeup. It’s just the reality of where they are. They have a lot of good, young players, who if they hit their projections they should be pretty good players in a couple of years,” said Shinzawa, noting prospects such as Charlie McAvoy, Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson and Jeremy Lauzon. “But by then, where are you? Where is [Patrice] Bergeron in his career? Where is [David] Krejci in his career?”
Shinzawa warns fans against hoping too much for a big trade, which just doesn’t happen very often in the current NHL.
“It’s so hard for teams to make trades because of cap issues and because of parity and expansion,” he explained. “If you look at this roster, it’s just not as good as where it was before. They still haven’t replaced [Dougie] Hamilton. They’ll never replace what they traded away in [Tyler] Seguin. They have no [Milan] Lucic or [Johnny] Boychuck, pieces that made the Bruins what they were: A robust, legitimate top-place contender. You haven’t recycled and refreshed the roster to the point where they can be competitive with Columbus and Pittsburgh. They are who they are in terms of fighting for that final playoff spot and might miss it for the third season in a row. That’s the reality.”
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