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Felger & Mazz

Felger & Mazz

Have the Boston Bruins underachieved since 2006-07?

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Prior to the 2006-07 NHL season Zdeno Chara joined the Boston Bruins as a free agent. Since that time no team in the NHL has more points than the Boston Bruins. On Friday’s Felger and Mazz, the guys discuss if that mean the Bruins have underachieved or not since that season.

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  • BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - APRIL 30: Patrice Bergeron #37 of the Boston Bruins shakes hands with Aleksander Barkov #16 of the Florida Panthers after the Panthers defeat the Bruins 4-3 in overtime in Game Seven of the First Round of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs at TD Garden on April 30, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

    BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – APRIL 30: Patrice Bergeron #37 of the Boston Bruins shakes hands with Aleksander Barkov #16 of the Florida Panthers after the Panthers defeat the Bruins 4-3 in overtime in Game Seven of the First Round of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs at TD Garden on April 30, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

  • Have the Bruins underachieved?

    Felger: Chara got here in 2006 and I feel like it’s basically the same program from 2006 to right now. We had three coaches, two general managers, I feel like it’s sort of the Chara-Bergeron era and in that time, since Zdeno Chara got here in 2006 the Bruins have the most points in the NHL, the most points. If you start the clock in 2007 when Claude Julien took over from weirdo Dave Lewis, they have the most wins in the NHL. So they have the most wins in the NHL, they have the most points in the NHL, I think they have 3-50 win seasons, they have three Presidents Trophies, and they have One Stanley Cup. So I ask you….are we sitting here looking at an underachievement at the end of the day?

    Mazz: Yes.

    Jim Murray: Yeah.

    Mazz: Look, again, you know, it all always comes down to the context and the framing of the question. So if you had asked me going in, would they win a cup? I would say no.

    Felger: Have they underachieved the last seventeen years?

    Mazz: Given what they’ve had the answer is yes. Yes. And the part that you can’t overlook is they went to three cups and lost two of them. So like to me, that’s a big one. If you say they got to three cups, is that an underachievement? My answer is no. Three cups is pretty good. You got there. Like you competed for three cups. But you’ve got to come out of there with a winning record like. Going 1-2 in those three finals is not good enough. You got to come out of there with two given the teams that they’ve had. How many Presidents Trophies did you say?

    Felger: Three.

    Mazz: I mean, you know, you got to come out of there with one more.

    Jim Murray: And I get the unpredictability of the Stanley Cup playoffs, we all do, and I know you don’t think that they are as good as what their record was, but given what the record was this year, you raised the bar on yourselves. So it was another underachievement this year too. Yes, Underachievement.

  • Felger: I don’t think they underachieved. And this is what I’ve arrived at. It’s like we would like to ask. You only have two choices, Bruins fans: in the last 17 years either they’re chokers or they’re overrated. You can’t have both. It’s got to be one or the other. To be the best team in the league in the regular season for 17 years and have one championship means you’re either gaggers or you’re kind of a fake best regular season team. And I’m going with the second thing. When you say they’re 1-2 in the finals and I look at it, you know what? That’s exactly what they should be.

    Mazz: No, it shouldn’t, because they should have beaten St Louis.

    Felger: But they should have lost to Vancouver. Of those three finals, they were the better team only once and that was the St. Louis series. Vancouver are chokers. Vancouver should have won that series. Vancouver should have skated circles around them. Vancouver was a better team.

    Jim Murray: With that puke goalie of theirs? Please.

    Felger: You had a better goalie for sure. And were tougher. So you won sort of the intangible battle. That Vancouver team freaking loaded. So when I look at it, if I go back and I say you played that Vancouver team wiith the Sedin twins and etc, and the goalie was a good goalie, he just sort of wet his pants. But that Vancouver team, that Blackhawks team, that St Louis team. I’d say that’s a 1-2.

  • bruins lose cup

    Jun 12, 2019; Boston, MA, USA; Boston Bruins players react from the bench after losing to the St. Louis Blues in game seven of the 2019 Stanley Cup Final at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: Greg M. Cooper-USA TODAY Sports

  • Listen to Felger and Mazz from 2-6 every Monday-Friday on 98.5 The Sports Hub, with hosts Mike Felger, Tony “Mazz” Massarotti, and Jim Murray “Big Jim”. You can listen live in the Sports Hub App and subscribe to their podcasts here. Follow @FelgerAndMazz on Twitter to keep up with the show!

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