Boston Bruins: It’s time to move on from Torey Krug

Basically the same player

With both defensemen, the Black and Gold are allowing a redundancy on their blue line. I’ve been knocked in the past for saying Kevan Miller and Adam McQuaid are “pretty much the same player,” and I’m ready to be knocked again. Krug and Grzelcyk serve very similar purposes. I’ll go a step further. If Cassidy trusts Grzelcyk to log the minutes he logged last season, and trusts him to play a game similar to his counterpart, it’s time to cut the cord from Krug.

This is not to say Krug’s game has no value or merit with the Bruins. During the 2013 Stanley Cup run, Krug’s emergence was the first sign of a Bruins team that seemed to be changing their philosophy. Opening up their game, allowing defensemen to serve a purpose elsewhere but their own end. But he was only logging third-pair minutes then. Now the Bruins rely on Krug to serve as a major player in their defensive game plan. And as the aforementioned series loss proved, the team’s needs and his skill set are not in step with one another.