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Van Alan

@van-alan.bsky.social

Bruins outsider. Zero Fs given. Twitter personality in exile. Producer of OneVanArmy w/ @jwirb.bsky.social‬ and Snack. Recurring character @shortshiftpod.bsky.social‬. Has a day job.

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Latest posts by van-alan.bsky.social on Bluesky

Dudes stuck is a WMD

02.12.2025 02:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He sticks when all are healthy. Not a top-6er but can contribute in a bottom-6 role.

30.11.2025 04:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I repeat.

30.11.2025 02:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This Morgan Geekie thing is getting ridiculous

30.11.2025 01:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Wishing I had recorded the BC game.

28.11.2025 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lysell is never playing for the Bruins and it’s frankly absurd that they haven’t traded him.

28.11.2025 16:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Doesn’t look like there will be a call up today for the Bruins. They need a forward the guy should be Fabian Lysell. It won’t be because they hate him. However I at least get not doing one for todays game - day off yesterday and matinee today. Tough spot for a call up.

28.11.2025 15:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When all you got is cliches

27.11.2025 16:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know the Bruins have a hair across their ass about Fabian Lysell, but he really is their best option right now.

Blumel played like a jackass when healthy. Now he's hurt. Arvidsson and Mittelstadt aren't skating. Steeves and Tufte are 4th liners. He's been Providence's best guy. You gotta do it.

27.11.2025 04:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A W is a W, but yeah this Bruins team is really struggling to generate anything at all right now. You aren't going to win many games when you get outshot 40-14.

27.11.2025 03:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When all are healthy Alex Steeves sticks at 13th forward.

27.11.2025 03:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Did Blumel actually get hurt? Or did get waived 5-minutes into the game?

27.11.2025 02:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tanner Jeannot beat a goalie!

27.11.2025 02:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That 1st period was pretty ugly for Boston. Lucky to get out of it tied.

27.11.2025 02:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I want to give Matej Blumel some real rope, but right now he's playing his way back to Providence. Turnovers happen, but you can't turn the puck over literally every time you touch it.

27.11.2025 02:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

The fact that the dude is still alive is a cruel joke that would actually be kinda funny in a dark kinda way if the joke weren’t on all of us

26.11.2025 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Next game if I were Sturm I'd put Blumel back in with either Pasta & Lindholm or Zacha & Geekie, drop Steeves to LW4, and bench Tufte. That's their best lineup right now IMO.

24.11.2025 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everything Bruins must be taken with the grain of salt that they're injured, but so is everyone else. Concern is they're becoming the team we thought the'd be - a team that gets 0 offense from anyone besides Pasta or Geekie and can only win if those guys combine for 3 goals and Sway makes 40 saves.

24.11.2025 16:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Pasta through the kitchen sink at Askarov. He had the answers.

Felt like the Bruins had SJS on the brink. Then Jeannot iced it and Zadorov did…….whatever that was.

Sway gave them a chance.

Holy crap Lohrei was bad.

24.11.2025 04:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If Marchand-Lindholm-Geekie didn’t work it should surprise you when Steeves-Lindholm-Geekie doesn’t work

24.11.2025 03:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Incredible effort by Boston to kill the 5-on-3.

Wouldn’t be quite so hard if Kuraly or
Zacha could win one single faceoff.

24.11.2025 03:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sturm switched Lindholm and Zacha midway through the 2nd period. About a period and a half longer than it should’ve taken.

24.11.2025 02:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Steeves-Lindholm-Geekie is a line with no plus skaters and no play drivers. You will get nothing from them. Marco outfit to recognize that.

24.11.2025 02:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

That’s not how you pronounce Liljegren Judd.

24.11.2025 02:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I completely with putting Lindholm at 2C.

You signed this guy to play with Pastrnak. He was playing well with Pastrnak before he got hurt. Play him with Pastrnak.

24.11.2025 01:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

*wouldn’t

22.11.2025 21:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I cannot believe the Seattle Kraken would give a guy who can shoot the puck like that 2x$2M. Unreal.

22.11.2025 17:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

They both suck

22.11.2025 17:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Studies have also not ruled out that Robert Kennedy is a giant cockroach wearing an MIB-style human suite.

22.11.2025 17:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There was this old Who poster of Townsend about to smash a guitar with the caption “this guitar has seconds to live”.

That’s what I think of when I see Morgan Geekie winding up for a 1T. This puck is about to die.

22.11.2025 14:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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