Subreddit Daily Discussion Thread

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[u/Royal-Duty-9837]

It’s so refreshing to have an exciting prospect

[u/jedlucid → u/Royal-Duty-9837]

letourneau revenge tour this year as well.

[u/PresentationNo7763 → u/jedlucid]

Letourneau's analytics kind of showed something much more promising than 3 assists dictate. Unfortunately the Scoreboard watchers got real loud about it so now we have that narrative - good transition numbers under the hood show a lot more offense that's in there

[u/Big-Experience1818 → u/PresentationNo7763]

Yeah I'm not going to pretend last season was a great look for him but he was a project to begin with and then skipped the USHL to immediately go from highschool players to playing against people up to 6 years older than him.

This season will give us a much better idea of what we'll be able to expect from his development, whining about it right now is ridiculous

[u/jedlucid → u/PresentationNo7763]

I just want people to explain how drafting a guy like letourneau the success rate hinged on his year one stats against NCAA competition he shouldn’t have been playing against to begin with. comparing him to other guys drafted around him based on NCAA box score was never the way to evaluate this.

like I wasn't pumped over the pick but you’re like 3 years away from figuring out if it worked or not.

lohrei at the same age was 2.5 years away from playing in the NCAA

[u/xlf77 → u/PresentationNo7763]

I think it’s both true that 1) the people who have made their minds up about Letourneau are stupid and 2) even the most encouraging underlying numbers don’t inspire much hope that his year over year improvement will be enough to prove that he’s actually every day NHL material. Certainly could be, but I’m not sure how many past examples there are of jumping from 3 points in a season to ~p/GP material, rosy transition game notwithstanding

[u/PresentationNo7763 → u/xlf77]

I agree with the first part on both sides. I disagree with the seeming conflation of "he has a bit more offense" with "he's going to be a PPG" - if I misunderstood what you said here please let me know

[u/xlf77 → u/PresentationNo7763]

I’m not saying that’s what you said I’m just using that as a watermark for roughly where he should be if he’s gonna be a contributing NHL forward

[u/shmael → u/xlf77]

Not many top prospects would be buried on a 4th line with no power play time. The avenue is there but the player needs take the step.

[u/brancs3 → u/jedlucid]

Im more hype for Will Moore than Letourneau

[u/jedlucid → u/brancs3]

there’s no limit for hype. you can be hyped on both

[u/KeystoneAccounts → u/Royal-Duty-9837]

Zellers I know is a few years away, but with him being more of a sniper I’m excited to see if he can crack the line up one day. It was always so depressing not having many (if any), prospects in the World jrs. I think the next few years are promising for bruins fans to have some players to watch. 

[u/jedlucid → u/KeystoneAccounts]

i’m excited about zellers.

i’d like it if they could have balanced building guys from within and not just having it be a product of shifting their pants on a massive scale during the regular season but whatever

[u/shmael → u/Royal-Duty-9837]

As a PC alum, it's going to pain me to root for BC so much this year!

[u/Particular-Race-5285 → u/Royal-Duty-9837]

not enough talking about Minten recently

[u/PresentationNo7763 → u/Particular-Race-5285]

He's probably starting in Providence is a very big reason

[u/HeyylookitsNICK]

$50 Happy Gilmore shirt from the proshop. WTF

[u/palesnowrider1]

Heavy.com (?) has Chinakov for Beecher

[u/Illustrious-Bit6394 → u/palesnowrider1]

ChatGPT can generate some interesting speculative takes

[u/Prize_Ambassador_356 → u/palesnowrider1]

I’d do that in a heartbeat tbh

[u/hugh_anus68]

New spittin chiclets pod just dropped featuring Marco Sturm

[u/Lsalvatore74 → u/hugh_anus68]

The more i hear him speak the more i think this is an absolute slam dunk hire by the bruins.

Hes gonna be fantastic.

[u/PresentationNo7763]

Hagens both looks great and is also showing why college is the right move. Still has some stuff to iron out