Torey Krug
It’s easy to forget that Torey Krug is still only 28 years-old, especially as he’s been part of the Boston Bruins’ runs to both the 2013 and 2019 Stanley Cup Finals.
He too should hit a regular season appearances milestone for the Boston Bruins this coming season, with game 500 easily within his grasp. He currently sits at 462 regular season games in the black and gold, so even if he finds his year shortened for any reason, it’s fair to expect 38 games.
Given he has seldom had a bad season for injuries, it’s all but expected that he’ll be near ever-present as he had been the past five (ignoring last year). In all five of those seasons he managed a minimum of 76 games.
That however, also isn’t the milestone we’re looking toward. The milestone we’re looking at will be moving to sixth overall in points among all Boston Bruins defensemen. If he can match his career-best 59 points in the 2017-18 season, that becomes fifth overall.
In moving to sixth all-time, he’ll find himself climbing above Dallas Smith, who took almost double the number of games to make it that high and Glen Wesley. Doug Mohns is awaiting at fifth overall on 347 points; Krug by comparison sits on 288 presently.
The most achievable goal for Torey Krug should be hitting 300 points as a Boston Bruin; that is all but certain to happen. Based on his production rate of 0.82 point per game last year, it should be a foregone conclusion by November 6th.
That game will be away to the Montreal Canadiens; what better way to celebrate the milestone than to do so against one of the Boston Bruins’ biggest rivals. If it leads to a win on the night, even better!!