Good Monday to you and yours. It’s Labor Day, so you keep away from your work at all costs! You go eat that tube meat on the beach! You go consume that hamburger! If I catch you working it’ll be the paddle for you!
Hockey is now firmly in the horizon; a mere 20 days separate us from the offseason and the preseason, and already it’s clear the Bruins are ready to get the season going. Captain’s practices are set for tuesday and thursday, and from what it sounds like, at least from Ty Anderson, there’s
been plenty of Bruins who have made their way to Warrior over the summer as a result of missing the playoffs, so there’s a good chance that the current alternates will have a pretty good group to practice with.
Given how a number of them played last year, I sure hope it started with a primer on what the principal point of the puck is and why it’s good for it to be in the opponent’s net.
Other than that, it’s likely going to be gutcheck time for a good number of the preseason hopefuls in Boston over the next couple of weeks; Coach Sturm has yet to truly show us what he personally values in a team, and the young prospects (what little they have, anyway) have less than a week to get ready for a trip to the Harbor Center in Buffalo for the annual Prospects challenge. As a reminder; the Bruins will be playing the Pittsburgh Penguins at 3:30pm on the 12th, and then the Devils on the 14th at noon. If they end up winning those games, there’s a possible third game. After that, it’ll likely be the first couple games of preseason that will decide a number of young gun’s fates in this org. Some will stay as useful depth in Providence, others may relocate north to the Mariners in the ECHL, and some may have to find new homes.
And that’s just the prospects; there are a lot of new faces and returning faces that need to put their best foot forward for the Bruins faithful after last season, so the environment coming into camp will be very, very interesting indeed.
But of course, it all begins anew on Tuesday with the captains practices.
So yeah! What’s on tap, Chowder? I know for me it’s not doing a goddamn thing.