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Boston Bruins 2010-11 midseason report cards

Posted on: January 12th, 2011 by Mark Marino 4 Comments

Brad Marchand is my midseason front-runner for the Seventh Player Award

Now officially in the second-half of the 2010-11 NHL season, TheHubofHockey.net takes a look back at each players’ first-half of the season and their respective midseason grades.

The Boston Bruins made a statement last night at the TD Garden for not only being a tough team to play against at home, but a team entering the last half of the season with a bang – slaughtering the Ottawa Senators, 6-0.

With the victory, the B’s are now atop the Northeast Division with 53 points on the season, and third overall in the Eastern Conference with their 23-12-7 record.

Here’s how the Bruins looked, as a team, after game 41, as well as their individual report cards — in order of points totals:

  • 22-12-7 record (51 points)
  • 43 man-games lost to injury
  • 17.6% power play
  • 84.3% penalty-kill
  • 2.83 goals-for per game
  • 2.15 goals-against

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Boston Bruins report card: No. 91 Marc Savard

Posted on: June 11th, 2010 by Mark Marino 1 Comment

Marc Savard, Boston Bruins, NHLName: Marc Savard
Position: Center
Age: 32
Height: 5’10″
Weight: 191
Shoots: Left
Status: Signed through 2016-17 NHL season at $4,007,143 cap-hit per season

Line combinations:

Regular season, EV: 12.61% w/Byron Bitz and Blake Wheeler; 12.44% w/Marco Sturm and Steve Begin
Regular season, PP: 53.52% w/Michael Ryder and Sturm
Playoffs, EV: 50% w/Milan Lucic and Miroslav Satan
Playoffs, PP: 47.73% w/Ryder and Satan; 36.36% w/Satan and Lucic

StatsGoalsAssistsPointsPlus/MinusPIMTOIShots on goalFO%Games played
Regular Season102333plus-21418:349048.8%41
Playoffs123plus-21217:212250.0%7

The Good: Without a shadow of a doubt, Marc Savard makes the Boston Bruins precipitously better on the power play. And despite the injuries that kept him sidelined for exactly half the season—foot, knee, concussion—Savard’s 17 power play points led all Bruins’ players; now making him the club’s leading point-getter power play for the fourth-consecutive season. His 10 goals, 23 assists, and 33 points  put Savard in the Bruins’ top-7 list  in each respective stat category.

Savard courageously returned from his third IR stint, Grade 2 concussion, for all seven games of the Bruins’ final round of the playoffs. After blasting a howitzer of a shot that had eyes over the shoulder of Flyers’ goaltender Brian Boucher in Game 1 of the semifinals, Savvy showed his ability to snipe—being more than just a set-up man.

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Boston Bruins report card: No. 81 Miroslav Satan

Posted on: June 10th, 2010 by Mark Marino 3 Comments

Miro Satan, NHL, Boston Bruins, Miroslav SatanName: Miroslav Satan
Position: Right wing
Age: 35
Height: 6’3″
Weight: 191
Shoots: Left
Status: UFA

Line combinations:

Regular season, EV: 16.39% w/Vladimir Sobotka and Milan Lucic
Regular season, PP: 37.5% w/Michael Ryder and Marco Sturm
Playoffs, EV: 33.02% w/Krejci and Sturm
Playoffs, PP: 21.65% /Marc Savard and Ryder

StatsGoalsAssistsPointsPlus/MinusPIMTOIShots on goalPPPGames played
Regular Season9514plus-81215:45590-0-038
Playoffs5510plus-41618:31372-1-313

The Good: Picked up for short money—$700,000 pro-rated—on Jan. 2, the B’s acquired the 14-year veteran forward who showed he still had a lot of offense to contribute. Although potting nine in 38 regular season games—on pace for roughly 20 in a full 82-game season—it was in the playoffs where Satan’s signing turned into a steal.

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Boston Bruins report card: No. 73 Michael Ryder

Posted on: June 8th, 2010 by Mark Marino 3 Comments

Michael Ryder, Boston Bruins, NHLName: Michael Ryder
Position: Right Wing
Age: 30
Height: 6’0″
Weight: 186
Shoots: Right
Status: Final season under three-year, $12M contract; $4M cap-hit per season

Line combinations:

Regular season, EV: 45.91% w/David Krejci and Blake Wheeler
Regular season, PP: 39.45% w/Marc Savard and Marco Sturm
Playoffs, EV: 53.29% w/Vladimir Sobotka and Wheeler
Playoffs, PP: 25.30% w/Savard and Miro Satan

StatsGoalsAssistsPointsPlus/MinusPIMTOIShots on goalPPPGames played
Regular Season181533plus-33515:171917-3-1082
Playoffs415minus-4215:47371-1-213

The Good: Started the season off with a bang; thinking we’re finally going to see the 30-goal Michael Ryder in black-and-gold. He tallied 3-3-6, plus-1, and 16 shots on goal in his first eight games of the season. Finished the 2009-10 campaign with 18 goals—tied for third on the team. During the playoffs, the 30-year-old lit the lamp four times—including two important goals in Game 2 in Buffalo.

Surprisingly, Ryder finished seventh on the squad with 109 hits;  his 191 shots on goal ranked him third; and was one of two Bruins skaters to have played in all 82 games.

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Boston Bruins report card: No. 60 Vladimir Sobotka

Posted on: June 7th, 2010 by Mark Marino 3 Comments

Vladimir Sobotka, Boston Bruins, NHLName: Vladimir Sobotka
Position: Center
Age: 22
Height: 5’10″
Weight: 183
Shoots: Left
Status: RFA

Line combinations:

Regular season, EV: 13.43% w/Miroslav Satan and Milan Lucic; 10.23% w/David Krejci and Michael Ryder
Playoffs, EV: 54.01% w/Ryder and Blake Wheeler; 9.39% w/Ryder and Daniel Paille

StatsGoalsAssistsPointsPlus/MinusPIMTOIShots on goalFO%Games played
Regular Season4610minus-73011:056754.3%61
Playoffs022minus-101513:191354.0%13

The Good: Was there a more physical player in Black-and-Gold for the first round of the playoffs than Sobotka? Even throughout the entire season, on a consistent basis, No. 60 threw his weight around ice, night-in night-out. The 5’10″ sparkplug registered 30 hits in the six games against Buffalo, and despite a shoulder injury, still managed to notch 40 total for the post season (third most). And his 136 hits, in 61 regular season games played, was fourth-most on the squad.

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