Ranking the 10 Bruins players most responsible for team’s record start to season
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Ranking the 10 Bruins players most responsible for team’s record start originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The Boston Bruins are off to the best start in franchise history with a 9-1-0 record through the first 10 games of the 2022-23 NHL season.
This impressive stretch isn’t the work of just a few players. Pretty much the whole team is playing a part, evidenced by the fact that 16 different guys have scored at least one goal so far. The goaltending, led by Linus Ullmark, has been top-tier as well.
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And we cannot exclude Jim Montgomery, either. The Bruins’ new head coach has his team playing a more up-tempo and offensive-minded style, and the results speak for themselves.
Here’s a ranking of the 10 players most responsible for the Bruins’ hot start.
10) Nick Foligno, RW
Foligno was awful last season. He scored two goals in 64 games and was put on waivers just prior to the current campaign. Despite all of that adversity, Foligno has been one of the Bruins’ most surprising players through 10 games. He’s already scored three goals and has brought plenty of tenacity and leadership to the ice. The challenge now for Foligno is playing like this for a full season, but his play so far is quite encouraging for the Bruins.
Krejci has missed the last two games with an upper body injury, but before that, he was making a strong impact offensively with eight points in eight games. His chemistry with David Pastrnak is awesome and he’s also helped elevate the production from Taylor Hall.
It was fair to wonder how Krejci would look after taking a year off from NHL competition, but through eight games it’s clear that he’s still very much a top-six caliber center.
8) Taylor Hall, LW
Hall has been a huge bright spot offensively with five goals in 10 games, and none of them were more important than his equalizer late in the third period of Thursday’s comeback win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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