Baby Bruins - a mystic mess

Despite playing about .300 hockey, the Providence Bruins may not as big a mess as would be expected. Of course, they may be even more of a mess than expected as well.

The first line is playing, on average, -18 hockey, but the rest of the team is near even. The team's leading scorer is Jiri Jakes, averaging .69 points a game - thirty-four points in fifty-four games, with sixteen goals - including three game winners - and eighteen assists. To go with his team leading scoring, he has also accumulated one hundred seven penalty minutes. He is closely followed by Brett Nowak (12-20) with thirty-two points in forty-seven games.

If the Providence defense is to be relied upon when they hit the pros... the pros are screwed. Currently, the team's top four defenseman all have more than 125 penalty minutes this season and are each averaging three-and-a-half penalty minutes per game.

The team's top goaltender is playing simply terrible hockey and letting beach balls by, but the back up played even worse. On the plus side, the team at least has one of the worst penalty kills AND power plays in the league.

"While we thought the previous management had dug us quite the whole before, at the pro level, it was nowhere near as bad as what we have down in the farm," GM Joshua Anderson stated when discussing the farm club. "All sorts of lines have failed to work, and we're actively searching some trades for picks... but we'll see what happens. It won't be quick, but we'll see."