Are the Bruins a Wagon Again? | Snap Shots Episode 60

0:00 Speaker 1: Guys, are the Boston Bruins a wagon like? Is this

0:04 Speaker 1: team finally figuring it all out for real? Now? I'll

0:08 Speaker 1: be honest. I'm nervous to let my guard down after

0:10 Speaker 1: such a horrible season last year and an absolutely disastrous

0:14 Speaker 1: start to this season. But last night's win against Toronto

0:18 Speaker 1: showed us that this team has the dynamic ability to

0:21 Speaker 1: pull off a win when everyone does their job and

0:23 Speaker 1: steps up when needed. For now, I will bask in

0:27 Speaker 1: the afterglow of a Bruins win Toronto and look forward

0:31 Speaker 1: to hopefully another win at home and maybe even Pasta's

0:34 Speaker 1: four hundredth Let's go. This is a Bruins tape. The

0:38 Speaker 1: tape snapshot.

0:42 Speaker 2: The Boston Bruins faced the Toronto Make Beliefs on Saturday

0:46 Speaker 2: night in Toronto. It was the Hockey Night in Canada game,

0:50 Speaker 2: so likely a great deal of eyes were on this game.

0:54 Speaker 2: Another big test for the Boston Bruins, which they passed

0:58 Speaker 2: with I won't say flying colors, however, it was a solid,

1:03 Speaker 2: solid team effort from top to bottom. I will say

1:07 Speaker 2: that in the third period of the game, Jeremy Swayman

1:11 Speaker 2: was by far the best player on the ice as

1:14 Speaker 2: it wasn't until the third period that the Toronto Maple

1:18 Speaker 2: Leafs started to put some offensive press on the Bruins.

1:22 Speaker 2: And actually it was the first time that I even

1:25 Speaker 2: noticed that Austin Matthews was playing in that game was

1:30 Speaker 2: in the third period. Anthony Stollard's started in net for

1:34 Speaker 2: the Toronto Maple Leafs, but he was pulled in the

1:37 Speaker 2: game and while he was having a very difficult time

1:41 Speaker 2: tracking the puck or getting any stops made, I'm going

1:45 Speaker 2: to go out on a limb here and say that

1:47 Speaker 2: the guys in front of Stolards did very, very little

1:51 Speaker 2: to help him. And I'm going to go even further

1:54 Speaker 2: in saying that the Toronto Maple Leafs defensive structure or

1:58 Speaker 2: whatever they call it, well, it absolutely stinks. We thought

2:03 Speaker 2: we had issues at times with our defensive structure. The

2:07 Speaker 2: Toronto made Beliefs have a hell of a lot more

2:10 Speaker 2: problems in that capacity than the Boston Bruins do. I

2:14 Speaker 2: will say, however, that the three goals that were given

2:18 Speaker 2: up were the results of defensive breakdowns by the Boston Bruins,

2:23 Speaker 2: two of them on the power play and one of

2:26 Speaker 2: them as the power play was completed and we got

2:30 Speaker 2: back to five on five. The Bruins did do a

2:33 Speaker 2: decent job killing off the penalties, but Toronto did enough

2:38 Speaker 2: to cause the Bruins to scramble around in their own

2:41 Speaker 2: end to create the scoring opportunities that they did have.

2:46 Speaker 2: Fraser Minton iced the game for the Bruins late in

2:49 Speaker 2: the third period, and how great that must that have felt,

2:53 Speaker 2: scoring against his former team. Nikita Zadorov rocked a hit

2:58 Speaker 2: on Scott Lowe that caused him to have to leave

3:02 Speaker 2: the game and he was not able to return. Now,

3:06 Speaker 2: I'm going to go off on a bit of a

3:08 Speaker 2: tangent here. I understand that that was Scott Lawton's first

3:13 Speaker 2: game back after being injured. However, Nikita Zadorov laid a clean,

3:19 Speaker 2: hard hit on Lawton, and I am now getting a.

3:24 Speaker 3: Little bit bored with the fact that players on opposing

3:28 Speaker 3: teams are going after players when there are clean hits. Okay,

3:34 Speaker 3: hitting is still allowed in the NHL, based on what

3:38 Speaker 3: I know, and it used to be that you didn't

3:41 Speaker 3: like the way someone got hit, you take the number

3:44 Speaker 3: of the player and you rock that player with the hit.

3:48 Speaker 3: You don't start a scrum and you don't start a fight.

3:51 Speaker 3: I don't know if this is part of the new

3:54 Speaker 3: age of hockey. But I'm frankly getting a little bored

3:57 Speaker 3: with seeing this game after game after game. These two

4:01 Speaker 3: teams will face each other again on Tuesday night at

4:04 Speaker 3: the TD Garden, so it will be interesting to see

4:07 Speaker 3: if there's any residual or any carryover as a result

4:12 Speaker 3: of Zadorov's hit on Lawton. But I will say that

4:17 Speaker 3: I am impressed with what I have been seeing from

4:21 Speaker 3: the Boston Bruins, and dare I say that we are

4:24 Speaker 3: actually going to have a hockey season and that the

4:28 Speaker 3: Bruins are starting to become a hard out in the league.

4:33 Speaker 1: The Leaves have to go through the Canes before they

4:36 Speaker 1: face Boston again, so let's hope they get obliterated and

4:39 Speaker 1: their confidence continues to get pummeled. But enough about the Leaves,

4:43 Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Bees and where they are at

4:45 Speaker 1: this point in the season. The Bruins haven't had a

4:48 Speaker 1: stretch like this since the opening days of the perfect

4:51 Speaker 1: season back in October twenty twenty three. They are finally

4:54 Speaker 1: at zero goals differential in all situations, up from their

4:59 Speaker 1: season low of no. Negative eight on October twenty seventh.

5:02 Speaker 1: The fact that they managed to get out of the

5:04 Speaker 1: hole in just six games. Shows how much better the

5:07 Speaker 1: Bruins have gotten on converting on chances and holding the

5:10 Speaker 1: line defensively. Geek continues to be superhumans, standing head and

5:15 Speaker 1: shoulders above his teammates, yes even Pasta when it comes

5:19 Speaker 1: to his ability to generate chances and score on those chances.

5:24 Speaker 1: His goal scoring efficiency is unmatched among his teammates. He's

5:29 Speaker 1: currently sitting at a one point zero nine expected goals

5:32 Speaker 1: per sixty and he's actually getting two point seventeen goals

5:37 Speaker 1: per sixty. Pasta also has a one point zero nine

5:40 Speaker 1: expected goals per sixty and he's converting at about one

5:43 Speaker 1: point zero two goals per sixty. Regardless, all eyes will

5:48 Speaker 1: be on Pasta Tuesday night, after having scored goal number

5:51 Speaker 1: three ninety nine against Leafs, it would only be fitting

5:54 Speaker 1: and write for his four hundredth to come at home

5:57 Speaker 1: and against the Leafs. He's also three behind Rick nifty Middleton,

6:02 Speaker 1: who had four h two At the other end of

6:04 Speaker 1: the ice, Jeremy Swayman stood on his head for the

6:06 Speaker 1: Bruins during his two hundredth career start, and again his

6:10 Speaker 1: season averages don't show just how on point he's been

6:14 Speaker 1: during this recent six game win streak. Case in point,

6:17 Speaker 1: his season average safe percentage is eight ninety eight and

6:20 Speaker 1: his goals against average is three point oh nine. Since

6:23 Speaker 1: his disastrous outing against Ottawa, Swayman has had a nine

6:28 Speaker 1: to twenty six safe percentage and a two point two

6:30 Speaker 1: eight goals against average. While I don't want to see

6:33 Speaker 1: Boston lose anytime soon, it will happen, and actually probably soon. However,

6:39 Speaker 1: now that they seem to be executing on storm system,

6:43 Speaker 1: what does the loss for this new Bruins team look like?

6:46 Speaker 1: And what does the game after look like too? All

6:49 Speaker 1: I know is I like what I see out there,

6:51 Speaker 1: and I hope it continues. Make sure you rate and

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