McQuaid/By S. Bradley
WILMINGTON, Mass. — While the Bruins had some gloomy news on center Patrice Bergeron today, the prognosis for defensemen Adam McQuaid and Steven Kampfer was better.
McQuaid, who suffered a sprained neck in Game 2 of the Philadelphia series last Monday and hasn’t played since, should be ready for the start of the Eastern Conference finals series with Tampa Bay, according to general manager Peter Chiarelli. That prediction is pending what the schedule for the series looks like once it comes out.
Chiarelli also said that rookie Steven Kampfer, who just started skating after suffering a knee injury with the Providence (AHL) farm club just before the end of the regular season, would also be available.
McQuaid had been skating on a regular pair with Tomas Kaberle, while Kampfer hadn’t played a regular-season game for Boston since March 31. He was a healthy scratch for three games before he went to Providence on a conditioning assignment.
Hnidy has to go, too slow. It would be tough for him to catch the fast little guys from TB
why we talking sheriff and kampfer if darth quaider will be ready?
Hnidy is prone to penalties as we have seen, because of how much slower he is than opposing forewords. Unfortunately Kampfer takes some bad ones too.
I’d rather have Kampfer than Hnidy. Sure Hnidy has experience, but Kampfer has way more talent and ability, so there is definitely a drop off.
Mcquaid >> Hnidy > Kampfer
Hnidy played just over 2 minutes and his only contribution was a penalty. I think I’ll take Mcquaid thank you
McQuaid would be a huge boost. The drop off to Hnidy is gigantic
Love McQuaid and really want him to return ASAP but would still feel much more comfortable with the veteran Hnidy back there instead of Kampfer. This tampa series is gonna be soooo tight we can afford to have Kampfer making rookie mistakes in the ECF when he doesn’t have the experience.
I don’t know if you intentionally wrote these last two articles to get my spirits up or not. Either way thanks MK. I was trying to think who could we afford to lose? The obvious fourth liners is easy to say. Still every player has contributed to get to this point. They’ve filled their role and worked so damn hard it hurts. I’ll keep thinking of the player we could afford to lose and I’ll get back to you. May take a while.