The Boston Bruins are solely six video games into the 2024-25 NHL season with a 3-2-1 general file.
Whereas it’s not the file head coach Jim Montgomery is used to, given the Bruins have gone 11-1-0 within the first six video games the final two seasons, the bench boss is not overly involved with the outcomes.
“Within the final couple of years, we’ve gotten off to nice begins, and we performed quick,” Montgomery instructed reporters in Utah, per team-provided video. “I don’t just like the tempo we’re at the moment enjoying with.
“Being 3-2-1 at first of the 12 months; look across the league, that’s high quality. The file, I’m not nervous about. Outcomes, I’m not nervous about proper now. It’s the method and the method will not be persistently to our needs proper now.”
What’s regarding for the Bruins is the inconsistent play of the top-six ahead teams. The highest line of Pavel Zacha, Elias Lindholm and David Pastrnak. The trio has 12 factors mixed, however they’re nowhere close to as dominant as you’d count on the primary line to be — particularly given the star expertise of Pstrnak alone.
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Brad Marchand has a team-high 4 assists and he leads the league with 9 penalties drawn, however the Bruins captain continues to be in search of his first purpose of the season. Charlie Coyle has only one purpose on the season, and the road’s different wing, vacated by Jake DeBrusk within the offseason, hasn’t fairly discovered the precise personnel, with Morgan Geekie, Trent Frederic and Justin Brazeau getting seems to be.
Geekie has had probably the most seems to be on the road however has been held scoreless, whereas Frederic and Brazeau have some extent every. The road really appeared its greatest with Frederic, which generated seven photographs within the win over the Colorado Avalanche on Oct. 16.
The Bruins’ most constant line has been the fourth line of Mark Kastelic, Johnny Beecher and Cole Koepke. Montgomery reiterated that regardless that they’re era offense, he isn’t keen to interrupt them up and transfer any of the forwards up the lineup.
“I’m holding the road collectively,” Montgomery stated. “Possibly I simply obtained to start out enjoying them like 16 minutes an evening as an alternative of 12 like I’ve.”
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Even with the shortage of chemistry up and down the lineup, Montgomery is extra involved with the forwards’ stage of engagement.
“I’m not proud of the puck strain, particularly,” he stated. “We’ve at all times obtained to be dedicated to checking and proper now, I’m not seeing it.”
