And you're just a little fanboy who can't see anything but points. And ya, I'm a newbie. Only played professionally for 5 years. Total newbie

Haha yep. And I’m a HOFer. What professional names themselves after a bruins player? You’re a kid. Simmer down and don’t lie.

I’m not a fanboy and I see more than just points. Good chirp hahahahahahahhahaahha

He's not awful defensively lol. Is he slightly below average at best? ya, but I've seen much worse lol. I'd agree with BreKel though, +/- is a terrible stat for judging how good a player is defensively. I think if you look at Krug's numbers you see a similar trend to what you see with a kid like Hanifin. Year over year his pts go up, but his oiSV% keeps dropping and his oZS% starts to dwarf his dZS% compared to earlier years. In a perfect world, Krug is a #3 OFD that QB's your PP and those guys are just as important. If anything I'd look to add to the defense, get Krug to his final year and then trade him in the off-season. By that point either Grz or Zboril or Lauzon or Vaak can play #3LHD.

I'm not saying he sucks, unless I'm being hyperbolic....but, he is flat out horrible defensively. I know plus minus is broken but when you're putting up a point per game and your a dash, that's a concern. When he plays with a defensive rock he's fine, but when he plays top four minutes he gets absolutely torched. The Bruins have seen his best, ship him out. He looked so bad against Tampa.

A lot of guys looked bad vs Tampa, does that mean we should trade all of them off too?

No one looked as bad as he did on the back end

Could have something to do with the fact that the team was struggling to score and Krug being an OFD took it as his responsibility to inject more offense. By doing so you take more chances and unfortunately it didn't work out. I think Krug finished the post season with like a 83.5% oiSV% which obvoiusly isn't great, but you look at the B's top line (our best defensive duo) and Marchy was only an 84.8 oiSV% and Bergeron was an 86.6 oiSV% for the post season.

Carlson is not the answer on D. I agree with trading Krug, but package him with a prospect for a high end two way LD to pair with McAvoy. Krecji should be playing with Pasta and Bjork can fit in with Bergeron. If it doesn’t work to start the year then move pasta up with bergy. RNH is nice, but not the right move for a bruins team that has plenty of other young talent coming up.

When Green was with the caps Carlson spent a decent amount of time on the left side. He slots in there fine.

So, let's not be vague. Who is this high end left side d? It sounds pretty easy when you can just say "a top center," or a "top d." It's a little harder when you have to come up with a name

OEL, Hanifin, Jake Muzzin, Ekholm, Brodin, Klefbom... want me to continue?

When you play 20 minutes a night, you can’t hide from the defensive end. Just because you start in the offensive zone more doesn’t mean anything. Zone starts are such an overused stat. All it proves is that a player takes faceoff in zone X. So if you take a faceoff in the offensive zone, Quick shot and a save. You start there again. Also, zone starts leave out the neutral zone so they’re not even the true start.

And the last thing. Why wouldn’t you start a player who is good offensively in the offensive zone?

On the road right now so I can't quote the stats for you, but I was comparing Krug's numbers to Grzelcyk's the other day, and Gryzelcyk's shot and goal metrics all exceed Krug's even with an 11% disparity in OZS - 54 v 65. He's not a great defender and the Bruins coaching staff knows it.

He’s not a great defender. I don’t think anyone would argue that. But to reference zone starts to back it up doesn’t work. You put players in positions to succeed. He’s a stud offensively. You start him in the offensive zone.