Here is a pretty good fan blog article that I found on the Boston Bruins. I have to agree with the writer that the Bruins went from being one of the best teams in the East to barely being able to score goals. I think the Bruins have to make a move to get more offense or they will be a one and done team in the NHL playoffs, if they make it that far. There is no way you can win hockey games when your team if offensively starved or a playoff series if your team is unable to score goals. You can't expect your team to win 2-1, 1-0 hockey games all of the time.

Compare and contrast: I think its funny how one of my favorite teams has gone from being one of the most exciting teams to watch in the NHL to as boring to watch as last season’s Minnesota Wild team. On the flip side of things; last night’s Wild game was amazing and are now more exciting to watch play hockey. I didn’t think it was possible but Martin Havlat has finally found his scoring tough and has been on a tear.

The Bruins need to find Marc Savard someone to play with fast or this season could go south in a hurry. Sturm and Wheeler are not getting it done; I think the Bruins should try to move one or both of these players along with a prospect. Also the Defense is pretty stacked at defense I think Dennis Wideman is now expendable as well.

It wasn’t that long ago that the Bruins were irrelevant in this town. Last year’s miracle season went a long way towards “making Boston a hockey town again” as Marc Savard recently put it. They were an entertaining team to watch last year, with the second best offense in the NHL, and several bangers and brawlers to put exclamation points on their wins and to give fans something to cheer about in their losses. Fans came back in droves. Attendance went up. TV ratings went up. Season ticket sales spiked. And the revival was underway.

But then things started to go wrong…

The Bruins had a very public, very messy divorce with one of their most popular players in Phil Kessel. Which reminded many of these casual Bruin fans of the days when the Bruins constantly put profit ahead of winning. It didn’t matter that this wasn’t one of those times. And the Bruins rushed right out and signed Lucic and Savard to long term deals, as if to send a message to these fans that they really weren’t being cheap- they just didn’t like Kessel’s game. But the damage was done.

The Bruins also failed to capitalize on all of their pre-season hype and excitement by flopping on opening night, and getting off to a miserable start. The fans that came back, eager to watch a winner, were suddenly getting turned off by a team that wasn’t winning.

To make matters worse- the Bruins were not very entertaining either. Their offense had gone from best in the conference last year to 2nd worst in the NHL by Thanksgiving. Their most entertaining non-scorer, Milan Lucic, was put on long-term-injury-reserve, only to come back for 4 games, get re-injured, and go right back on the LTIR. So even when they finally started winning games consistently, they were boring, low scoring affairs. And while hardcore hockey fans take plenty of gratification out of a hard fought, defensive win, the casual fans that the Bruins need to become relevant again- want to see goals, hits and fights.
[Lunatic Fringe]