The Season in Stats
The Bruin's playoffs were a wild ride which ended in a crash and burn that went down in the history books. The Bruins fell to the Philadelphia Flyers who became only the fourth team in North American major-league sports history to overcome an 0-3 deficit in a best-of-seven playoff series. The previous 3 were the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs, the 1975 New York Islanders and, of course we all remember the 2004 Boston Red Sox who won four strait after being down 3-0 against The Yankees and then went on to sweep the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series.
The Bruins hovered around the bottom of the league in almost every offensive category scoring 196 goals, 31st (dead last) in the NHL, 117 goals behind the #1 Washington Capitals. They were 23rd in power play percentage with 16.6%, and 30th in assists with 348, 175 behind the Caps. Goaltending was a bright spot with Tuukka Rask getting allot of ice time. Bruins were 2nd in the NHL with a Goals against avg of 2.28, and tied for 1st with the Buffalo Sabres in save %.
This team needs some soul searching offensively and hopefully with the addition of our #2 pick in the 2010 NHL draft along with some much needed off season changes we can get just that. Stat Junky and management agrees, there are changes to be made:
Statistical info Courtesy of Yahoo Sports, thehothand.blogspot.com, espnboston.com, thebostonbruins.com.
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