The National Hockey League is known for many things. From rewarding losing to being the only team sport that still allows fighting, it has developed another reputation: it’s a copycat league. Every time we see a team win the Stanley Cup, the media pundits all try to figure out how they did it. They come up with Team X’s model and the rest of the sheep in the NHL flock to copy it.
In 2011, the Bruins model was building a tough, physical team with great goaltending. Did you notice that Boston has pulled away from that model in the last eight years?