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Boston Bruins: Why is it vital to extend Torey Krug beyond this year?

By Raymond Crane

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - MAY 27: Torey Krug #47 of the Boston Bruins checks Robert Thomas #18 of the St. Louis Blues during the third period in Game One of the 2019 NHL Stanley Cup Final at TD Garden on May 27, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - MAY 27: Torey Krug #47 of the Boston Bruins checks Robert Thomas #18 of the St. Louis Blues during the third period in Game One of the 2019 NHL Stanley Cup Final at TD Garden on May 27, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) /
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BOSTON, MA - SEPTEMBER 25: Boston Bruins left defenseman Torey Krug (47) turns up ice during a preseason game between the Boston Bruins and the New Jersey Devils on September 25, 2019, at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
BOSTON, MA – SEPTEMBER 25: Boston Bruins left defenseman Torey Krug (47) turns up ice during a preseason game between the Boston Bruins and the New Jersey Devils on September 25, 2019, at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /

Torey Krug’s positive on-ice contribution

To further promote the point of Krug’s positive contribution while on the ice, he finished the season as the sixth best Bruins skater in Corsi %.

Corsi, which measures a player’s ability to influence his teams scoring chances over the opposition’s chances, is a strong metric to view a team’s most impactful, and least impactful players. Krug also ranked as the Bruins top defenseman in this category.

To go a little bit further (not that anyone is truly questioning his offensive ability) Krug finished the season as the 12th highest scoring defenseman in the NHL and had the 7th best points per game out of all defenseman with at least 20 games played in 2018 – 2019. In the past 4 years, the statistics don’t change much as Krug also placed in the top 10 for total points and points per game.

Being a Boston sports fan, I know that the one thing that irritates us more than anything is a player who misses long amounts of time due to injury. After a player goes through a few ‘week-to-week’ stints, we are often too quick to label a player as injury prone and claim that they do not amount to their contract value.

The reality is, it’s nearly impossible to say this about Krug. Besides a few games missed last year, the guy has almost been an iron man for the Black & Yellow – clocking in the 25th most games played out of all active defenseman in the NHL in the past six seasons.

If you want to talk about getting the best bang for your buck, you don’t have to look very long to find it on this Bruins roster.

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