Photo by David Kirouac/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images NHL debut, first goal…good stuff. (Editor’s note: When putting tougher the rating sheets for this series, I somehow forgot to include a few forwards on the writer ratings. Blame summer, I don’t know. In any case, that’s why Lauko, among others, only has a reader rating. You …
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Photo by Brian Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images Coach Monty made a lot of fans and a lot of support coming out of a shaky offseason. Then April came around. Jim Montgomery – Coach Average Reader Rating: 6.5 Average Writer Rating: 7.4 Unlike the NFL or MLB, it’s kind of hard to gauge the real impact …
Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images He didn’t stand out, which is a good thing. There was a time in the early part of last regular season, during those “the Bruins may never lose a game” days, where Brandon Carlo set up his own island in the middle of the Low Event Ocean: Brandon Carlo finds …
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Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images He didn’t stand out, which is a good thing. There was a time in the early part of last regular season, during those “the Bruins may never lose a game” days, where Brandon Carlo set up his own island in the middle of the Low Event Ocean: Brandon Carlo finds …
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Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images He was good in the bottom-six mix, but relied too much on his physical game at times. Boston Bruins forward A.J. Greer was a good addition to the team’s fourth line who touted himself on his physical play — but at times it was too much this season. For Greer, …
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