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Originally Posted by MVP
They're done. Over the past week they played with no morale on the ice. Today on NBC they were talking about who is gonna be the starting goalie next year cause it will most likely not be Thomas. Toivonen was mentioned, but we gave him chances this year and he blew it every time. I want them to bring up Tuurka Rask seeing how he's considered the best goalie outside of the NHL.
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Tuuka Raask will be a great goalie in the NHL. Though I don't know if I agree to throwing him out there as our starting goalie. I would definately bring him up next year as the back up and either keep Thomas as the starter or find somebody in a trade or free angency. Let Raask slowly get into it and eventually become the number one goalie.
Our goaltending wasn't our problem this year. We just played pretty terrible overall. We need to keep our solid core group (Bergeron, Savard, Sturm, Murray, Axelsson, Kessel, Chara, Wideman, Bochenski, Ference, Kobasew, Ward) and build off of that. We really need some defence, big time. We are a really young team and it will take a year or two to really get going. I hope we make another big splash in the free agency market next year and land a solid leader. I know Chara is our captain and he did great in that role this year. I just think that we need a voice, somebody to really show this team how to win.
Kessel is going to be great next year and all of our young guys will progess, give it time. Alberts, Tenkrat, York and a few others will be gone. This will free up some cap space and allow us to pick up a few names. Also the cap is going up so look for the Bruins to make some changes. Also I wouldn't mind seeing Lewis out on his ass. Fire him now and go after Pat Burns.