Boston Bruins on the Brink vs Sabres | Ep. 140

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0:50 Speaker 1: Welcome in everyone to another episode of Ruins Tape to tape. I will be your host today. I am Maria from Watertown. We are recording today's episode on Monday, April twenty seventh, the day after one of the most disgusting playoff losses in recent Ruins history. But before we pile on to that horrible, horrible showing out the Boston Ruins, I want to welcome in my fabulous co host, Caroline with a K. Welcome in, and have you recovered from our rant of yesterday. I'm actually more discussed today because flipping around on social media and seeing a very short one from Storm and a short one from Chucky, and I'm like, I don't care what you.

1:41 Speaker 2: Have to say.

1:41 Speaker 1: There wasn't even any excuse making because they were like DearS in the headlights When asked about it, particularly the coach, I have no answer for that. Well, you better find a fucking answer, marfo or you're all going to be packing your golf bags. Potentially on Tuesday night, We're gonna take a little bit deeper dive into yesterday's game and also this series as a whole, because I have been away for most of these games. I was able to listen to some of the games because I was disjointed with the time change in the area of the world that I was in.

2:14 Speaker 1: Did we underestimate the Buffalo Savers? Are we borderline disrespecting the Buffalo Savers? Were our expectations too high for this Boston Ruins roster going in to this series given the way that games have played out thus far. I also want to talk about the Bruins whole playoff record since twenty nineteen, and also the fact that we are potentially not going to have Victor Arvidson in the lineup because as of our recording, the Ruins have started their regular practice and Arvidson is not on the ice for practice, and in looking at the replay of the hit that he took that sent him down to the tunnel.

2:58 Speaker 1: He looked a little bit sunned and out of sorts, and now I'm beginning to wonder if we're looking at a potential percussion isshue. It doesn't appear that Marco had any type of update. And also another absentee player. This is supposted by our friend of the pod, Bridget Prue. Nikita'sadora is also absent from Brohan's practice today. Interesting, So I do recall that Nikita, I can't remember if it was game three, game two, he disappeared for a little bit down to the tunnel at one point in time. So I'm wondering if there's something that is nagging, creeping up or bothering him, because he too hasn't he hasn't exuded his full authority, so to speak, in this series as well.

3:50 Speaker 1: Well, we'll get to all of that as it relates to the Western Bruins that we will take our spin around the rink because there are other playoff series that have now concluded and others that may end up concluding in the very near future. So we had in the West, we had the Colorado Avalanche sweep Bank La Kings yesterday, bittersweet ending for Anse Copetar, who has had an illustrious career in the league. So I'm sure the LA Kings did their best to try and extend that series, but Colorado was a little bit more than they could handle.

4:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I find it interesting that I don't know if it's really like a criticism, but people have said, how come it was so close? And why did Colorado not totally obliterate them? At the end of the day, Colorado doesn't want to spend all the gas in the tank on a first round team, so why would you expect them to blast them out of the water. They clearly were the better team in spite of the best efforts that LA could throw out there. It almost felt like Colorado was just reserving their energy and their effort to be just good enough because they know it's a marathon, it's not a sprint, So what's the point in potentially opening up yourself to injury or exhaustion.

5:22 Speaker 1: So I find those kind of criticisms of Colorado a little bit silly. I hear what you're saying, but my opinion is that the Stanley Cup playoffs is a totally different dynamic and mindset than the regular season, and it seems that players and teams find another gear, and I think that's why in most instances, the games themselves are relatively closer than what you might be saying in the regular season. To the ABS credit, even if they were not clicked into high gear, they bought themselves a little that of rest for they have to get to the next round.

6:04 Speaker 1: So kudos to them for giving themselves a little bit of a breather so that they can potentially survive the marathon that.

6:12 Speaker 2: Is the Stanley Cup playoffs.

6:13 Speaker 1: And just looking at my bracket too, realizing that they're going to have to play the winners of Dallas Minnesota, and whoever comes out from that series, I think is going to be a much tougher competition. Again, no disrespect to LA they kept up. It was competitive. It was not a blowout.

6:36 Speaker 2: No, they were not blowout games.

6:38 Speaker 1: You're right. No, whoever it is that Colorado plays next, it's going to be a much more.

6:43 Speaker 2: Difficult series to play against, definitely.

6:46 Speaker 1: And continuing in the West, I find this shocking. The Anaheim Ducks are up three games to one on the Edmonton Oilers. Now, the game on Sunday night went into overtime and it was a bit of our controversial goal that the Ducks scored only a couple of minutes into overtime. It took a long time to review this goal. The original call was a good goal. How the officials called it a good goal when you couldn't see the entirety of the pop crossing for redline because Jari Skate was there, and so right after an extensive review, they deemed it to be a good goal.

7:30 Speaker 1: And Anaheim is now up three games to one. But I still find that shocking. I don't know how you feel, but I guess I'm not. I'm let me put it this way. The part that I find surprising is the fact that it's Anaheim. I'm not surprised that Edmonton is finding themselves in this kind of situation because a couple of things. One, this is a team that I think overly relies on two players to make things happen. And I have said for years hockey is one of those sports where you cannot win a championship on the back of one player two players.

8:20 Speaker 2: You can't. It is like not really possible.

8:23 Speaker 1: You have to have deep play, like deep lines and contributions from everyone, and incredible goaltending and you're seeing again this situation where it's coming back down to McDavid and dry Cidle, maybe Zach Hyman, but you also have Tristiannari. Sorry, I'm rarely ever going to go after a goaltender because, like we talked about in our emergency pod, when you are losing games six to one, that is rarely entirely fault of the goaltender. Okay, you're losing six to one, what the heck are the other guys doing in front of them?

9:06 Speaker 1: But two things can be true at the same time. And I say this also about Stuart Skinner in Pittsburgh, and I said this the last game that he played. It's not necessarily his fault that they're losing if the players in front of them are not getting the job done. However, Harry and Skinner are not going to steal games for you.

9:31 Speaker 2: They're just not.

9:32 Speaker 1: They're not Wedgwood, they're not Swaymen, they're not Basilevski, they're not Bobrovski.

9:38 Speaker 2: We saw.

9:39 Speaker 1: I can't remember now because the three years in a row that the Panthers have been to the finals, but one of those years the Florida players were basically losing the series and it was Bobrovski who kept them in it and got them out of that series.

9:56 Speaker 2: Sorry, Tristan, it's not you.

9:59 Speaker 1: And again the Oilers have played deep two years in a row.

10:04 Speaker 2: Look at what happened with Florida.

10:05 Speaker 1: They fell apart, not because they were bad, but because they physically had to recover from three straight Stanley Cup runs. Edmonton has gone deep two years in a row. It just becomes physically challenging in this day and age to go far. I can't believe that Anaheim is the beneficiary of whatever the heck is happening over there, But here we are. They had to have known that it was still a risk putting their eggs in the Jari basket, right. They didn't make a change, Maria, they know, I know, and you know what, I don't feel bad for them anymore.

10:40 Speaker 1: I'm actually kind of sick and tired of fearing about it. To be perfectly honest with you, If you're not at this point, I think even an unseasoned hockey fan understands that to some degree, you need to build your team from the back end forward. If you don't have good gold, then how far do you think you're going to get you can have as many Connor McDavid as you want, but it's you're not getting good goaltending or you don't have a good defensive structure, then you're not going to get very far. That's just my opinion.

11:16 Speaker 1: We'll see what happens and see if Anahearm can block what like glean might be a very big upset. Honestly, you know what would be hilarious. And this is just a sidebar because I thought this conversation has been coming up again in the social seeds that I see, because it's not only that time of year playoffs people complaining about the structure of the playoffs, which we have voiced our opinions on, but then also a lot of newer hockey fans saying, wait a minute. You're telling me that the two teams that play against each other in the Stanley Cup aren't necessarily the two best teams.

11:53 Speaker 1: And that's a fact because think about it this way. But you mean to tell me that the next round could be Utah versus Anaheim, Okay, Colorado versus Dallas, Yes, and that the winner of those two, like the Western Conference, would be between some behemoth Dallas, Minnesota, Colorado and newby Green to playoffs Anaheim and Utah. Like good for Anaheim and Utah. Don't get me wrong, would call that parody? Someone call that parody and give credit to parody. I know. I'm just saying that's the buzzword that is being used.

12:36 Speaker 1: That's just crazy to think about. And again in the West, they have I think a significantly bigger issue with that. We've seen this many years in a row now that the teams that are not making it to the conference final, like it's absolutely insane that they're not there because they get knocked out earlier around.

12:58 Speaker 2: I don't see that.

13:00 Speaker 1: Being an issue in the East, but I think that's where your parody is. Where it's like every single round, those teams are genuinely killing it. I mean, I'm trying to say this without being insulting, but like, no, I understand the promise of what you're saying. That's out being disrespectful to those teams. Listen, that Pacific Division was hot garbage. It was not in line with the level of play that we saw in the other divisions this season. So the next series in the West is the Dallas Yards and Minnesota Wild and those teams are tied at two games apiece and I have no idea who is going to come out in that series, but that has the potential to go six to seven games.

13:46 Speaker 1: Yeah, very well matched. Colorado could be getting the nice long rest there, which is pros and cons to that. I think sometimes when a team sits around for too long a period of time and all they're able to do is practice against each other, I don't think that helps keep you sharp and focus. And then to finish up in the West, we have Utah Mammots and Vegas Bolden Knights, with Utah being up to games to one at this point. But I am so disinterested in this series, like just care less of us, And even though my guy John Tortorella is behind the bench for Vegas, I really am not like, yeah, I'm not dying to.

14:26 Speaker 2: Watch one of these games.

14:28 Speaker 1: No, by no means, but I am thrilled that Utah is doing well and I want to see them move on.

14:34 Speaker 2: They're my underdog.

14:35 Speaker 1: Thanks to Anna forgetting me on that wagon, because I love to see that success story because they are the buffalo of the West in the sense that ownership issues management issues really prevented them from having a genuine opportunity, and the league did them a disservice too. Yeah, and you want to see a quote unquote new young franchise be successful in a new place because that's just good for the game.

15:05 Speaker 2: And also screw Vegas. Yeah, I hear you. Okay.

15:09 Speaker 1: So our roundup in the East is Carolina swept the Ottawa Senators over the weekend. Tim Stutzel is such an a hole. He is just such an a hole, right with all of the embellishment. I'm glad they're gone.

15:25 Speaker 2: I'm glad.

15:26 Speaker 1: I feel bad to Lena's because he played his assaf he was their best player. Rady could Chook was almost a no show in this series. Yeah he was. Yeah, he was a waste of space. We're waiting for Carolina to just get to the Eastern Conference finals so they can choke yet again. But watching Carolina, we talked all season in the East about how it never really seemed like somebody took charge and took the lead in the conference, like.

15:55 Speaker 2: Colorado head out in West.

15:57 Speaker 1: But watching Carolina, they have sent a message this playoffs that they are serious. They are sticking with their game plan, coming in peppering the opponents with a gazillion shots, and they are good this year. They've always been good, but I feel like they are a little bit next level. And Freddy Anderson has been lights out. His kryptonite is getting hurt. He always has been an excellent goalpender. He's just prone to a variety of sometimes weird injuries. Just from what I've seen, I'm super impressed and I think that they will be a very scary opponent to play against.

16:40 Speaker 1: Well, we'll see who they end up playing. Because Tampa and the Nadians are tied at two games apiece, this is another series that may go the distance as well, and whoever gets them, I don't know how much these guys either team will have lucked in the tank. That one's actually been a little bit surprising in the sense that I feel like Tampa Bay is underperforming and Montreal is overperforming, and they've met in the middle, and I don't know who's going to come out on top, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's Montreal.

17:16 Speaker 1: This is a young team that is hungry, They are fierce. They've got some phenomenal goaltending. If the Habs don't figure out how to stop Brandon Hagel, they're going to be in one. He has just been a one man wrecking machine for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Their only weakness I think is shockingly Vassilevsky. He's not really where he's been in the past, especially in past playoffs.

17:44 Speaker 2: I think he's beatable.

17:45 Speaker 1: He's getting a little long in the tooth by Goltemper standards. He peeked young, he pieced early right, and he's played a lot of hockey, and he has seen a lot of rubber. So it stands to reason that that could cut up to you at some point in time. But that's been that's been a fun series to keep keep your eyes on. It's been good, entertaining, floppy. The other series that could end up finishing tonight is the Penguins and the Flyers. They are up three games to one right now and they play tonight in Pittsburgh.

18:22 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's been a highly entertaining series. Those teams do not like each other at all. It was literally no room left. I forget what game. It was no room left in my other penalty box. And I think they call Biscinette referred to it as like the Flyers playing stumpbag hockey, and I don't think he meant it. Meant it in a detrimental way, but when you it reminded me of old school flyers for bullies. Yeah. Yeah, I certainly didn't expect Pittsburgh to lay such an egg the first two games.

18:58 Speaker 2: I didn't think that they were going.

19:00 Speaker 1: To get swept, and it was possibility, But of the three that where he were on sweepwatch, they were the ones that I thought, there's no way that Sidney Crosby is going to allow that to happen. And they played a completely different game. They were much more disciplined, and they had a different goaltender, which I think made a big difference. He was much better than Stuart Skinner, unfortunately for Skinner, so we're probably going to see him again tonight. I got the sense that the nerves and excitement for this really young Philadelphia team also got to them thinking that, oh, look, we might be on the verge here and nobody thought we were going to get in, and we snuck in at the last minute, literally in overtime.

19:43 Speaker 1: But four wins in a row for a team as old as Pittsburgh, I don't know.

19:46 Speaker 2: I've got it.

19:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, they might want to ask they might win tonight. I wouldn't be surprised if they take this game, but I think it's going to be Philadelphia. I could be eating my words in a week, but I just think they're too far behind the eight ball Rick talk. It is a good and agel coach. He'll have his flyers ready to go and understanding the significance. To me, it's a far greater task and a more rewarding task finish off a team on their home ice. It's awesome to do it in your own building, but to me, it's a better testiment to you as a team to finish off your opponent in their own building.

20:29 Speaker 1: That's another coach, you know what we were talking about yesterday. That's another coach who's extremely experienced up against a newer coach, a younger coach, younger coach. Ye, the younger coach has more veterans. The veteran coach has kids. And I think there's something there. There's something to be said about that kind of dynamic that can you teach an old dog new tricks? I don't know, And that's what I think is happening with Pittsburgh. I mean, yes, they've got some young kids, but it's not the same energy that you see out on the ice with those flyers, So they might be playing Carolina, know that'd be my guest.

21:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll have all of those updates for our next bog. So now we get to our team and the predicament that the Bruins find themselves in, which is they are now down three to one to the Buffalo Sabers, and even after our rant of yesterday, we will both significantly hissedo. As I'm sure many people in that building were many people who gave up a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Boston to sit inside and watch this hockey game to the degree that they could tolerate it. That first period, as I was thinking about it last night, reminded me so much of the first period of Game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals against the Saint Louis Blooms, where you know, the Bruins lost the game in the first period and there was no way in hell that they had any chance of coming back to win that game because of the way they started.

22:09 Speaker 1: So I did a little checking, and I wanted to see what the Bruins won't playoff record has been since that period of time. Now I understand They've been a great home team all season long. But it's a cliche, but the Stanley Cup Finals are different. Everyone starts with the clean slate, and the Bruins record at home in the playoffs since twenty eighteen and nineteen is a dismal eighteen wins and twenty three losses on a whole.

22:42 Speaker 2: Nine sounds like we've.

22:43 Speaker 1: Got to hire an Etsy witch here, Maria stage the plays now in this instance, in this series, I understand they don't have fume ice advantage, which is all the more degree of importance that you maintain, serve and you win. We can rehash everything we talked about yesterday. You know what I wanted to get your thoughts on at the introduction of this pod. Did we underestimate Are we underestimating the Buffalo Sabers? Were our expectations too high with this buster rule and til and can they regroup and try to make a series of this?

23:21 Speaker 1: So to answer your first question, I don't think that we underestimated Buffalo. I think that is not a good excuse for any NHL team going into the playoffs because you have an entire staff of people whose job it is to prepare the team for against the opponent that they are playing. And one of the things that makes playoff hockey different from the regular season is the fact that you are playing the same team at least four times in a row. Now, well, the Bruins are playing a divisional rival, so yes, they played them four times this year.

24:05 Speaker 1: They played them though at four very different points in the Sabers season, three of which were really before their GM change and the breath of fresh air that they received. It was still early in the season, but Boston played Buffalo like three times pretty quickly, and then they played them one time much later. And in that particular game, Boston was rolling with some wins and Buffalo was going through a little bit of a rough patch.

24:36 Speaker 2: So Boston got the win.

24:38 Speaker 1: But I don't think any team should ever say that they underestimated their opponent, because you have scouts, you have coaching staff, You're watching video, You're learning how these teams play. You're trying to figure out these are their plays, this is how they behave, this is how you get under their skin. You do the homework so you're prepared to play a good game, and then you make adjustments in game. So I think what's happened in that regard is not that they have underestimated Buffalo. Either they didn't prepare, they didn't do their homework, or as I have been saying like the last week, their in game decision making is absolutely atrocious.

25:23 Speaker 1: Atrocious. If Lindy Ruff has some tricks up his sleeve, good for him. Every NHL team is going to have little tricks up their sleeves, things that they might not debut until the playoffs, right because they're trying to be sneaky and strategic. But then it behooves the Boston Bruins to continue to do the work, continue to do the homework, continue to watch the video, continue to adjust their game in game if the other team makes changes, and I think that's been shockingly bad, especially on home lines.

25:55 Speaker 1: Look at the last change. I think what has happened with the Boston Bruins is threefold. One, we've known all season that this is what we've been working with, because how many times have we seen them go through a stretch where it's like they've fallen and bumped their heads and they don't remember how to play hockey, multiple stretches, at least three really bad ones. Secondly, I think this is a massive failing from the coaching staff the administrative side of things. Now, that does not excuse the players from any responsibility of said homework and decision making in game, because obviously, like Hampus, what has been wrong with you all season?

26:42 Speaker 1: You can't make a good decision to save your life. That's nothing that a coach can necessarily fix. That's not something that's as fixable as calling a time out an appropriate time during a game when things are getting out of hand and your team is just standing there. But the third thing is this is the culmination of every bad habit, everything that Boston has been doing wrong since twenty nineteen. And this is where I was like, oh, we got to get the Etsy Witch to clear out this bad juju, because it almost seems like when they are faced with adversity, these bad habits creep in and it doesn't really seem to matter who the personnel is because we've obviously, for the most part, cleared house from twenty nineteen.

27:30 Speaker 1: So where the heck are these bad habits coming from? How is it possible that since twenty nineteen we've had three fourish coaches who want to count last year having to and the power play ceases to exist at a certain point, the actions that are being taken on the ice keep happening, the players looking lost. These are things that I have been seeing just creep in when things start to go wrong, losing the mental battle, not having the mental fortitude to power through. How is that sticking around when you have an almost entirely new team and they don't seem to have an answer to be able to slow down Buffalo's wor check.

28:14 Speaker 1: And we've talked about this in the past, where the defensive structure that's a Brewings want to play requires everyone everyone to be skating and backchecking forwards, defenseman okay, And when that doesn't happen, it is a recipe for disaster because then the system starts to break down and other guys feel like they need to do a little bit more, and it is a domino effect. Not only that we're not even establishing our own for check to try and set up some sustained offensive ozone pressure in Buffalo's end in four games, pretty much the only players who are plus players in the four games against the Buffalo Sabers are Andrew Pete, John Corally, and Mark Casteller.

29:09 Speaker 1: Everyone else is a minus Pablzaka minus five, Pastronoch minus five, h lind Home minus five. War I didn't even play yesterday, but it's still a minus four Middle stat minus four, Macaboy minus four. It goes on and on. Everyone is in pretty much negative numbers because not only aren't they scoring anything, but they're on the ice when Buffalo is kicking your ass putting goals in the net. So I don't know how you change that at this point because your roster is what it is. You have can move a die or two in and out or up and down, but it's not helping David Pasternak.

29:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not helping Pabozaka, it's not helping Elias lind Home. It's I don't see how it changes.

30:03 Speaker 2: For the next game.

30:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, because to your point from our emergency pod, then and now you're going back to Buffalo where Lindy Ruff's going to get whatever matchup you want. Yeah. Yeah. After Boston has these bad games, they have a tendency to come back the next game and do well. I know that there is at least one instance this season where that was the expectation and it didn't happen. But also if you recall early in the season when they were on that ten game just nightmare tour of the West. We kept saying, Okay, surely the next game is going to be better, because when they've had a bad game, they're better the next day.

30:47 Speaker 1: But they had to hit rock bottom to come back, and they were playing different teams each night every time that happened, and that is a variable.

31:00 Speaker 2: It does not exist in this particular equation.

31:03 Speaker 1: Right now, they know what you're doing, right, they have figured out your game plan, and they have figured out a workaround for it, which we've seen many other teams figure out, which is check the frigging hell out of everybody that's out on that ice, because then you're going to get what we see, which is the scrambling around, the panic with not making a smart play on the top, and it's a total breakdown. And I don't know how hunger that because, as I said before, your roster is what it is now. It's a roster that has served you well during the regular season.

31:44 Speaker 1: We've got you into the playoffs, we see how difficult this team can be to play against when everybody is on board and doing what is ass of them and doing the job at hand. Yeah, but it seems like now we are the ones being the Boston Bruins being worn down. Yeah, and I like Storm's system. I think it's a good system. It's different is one two to two defensive structure. I don't think that the answer is well, throw that out the window for next fall and try something what easier. I don't think that's the answer.

32:26 Speaker 2: I don't know. Is it a roster.

32:27 Speaker 1: Issue where there are guys who are just not bought into it. I don't understand how and why these crazy bad habits are creeping in when it's not the same team anymore. It's the hesitation to actually shoot and passing that has been a problem for at least three years. At least three years. It's the lack of urgency multiple years issue from time to time, depending on the season. All Right, the epitaph would read all they could didn't clear it or they couldn't enter the zone. But these little things add up and you end up with a game.

33:08 Speaker 1: That is what was out there yesterday for the people on social media who were dumping their truckload of shit on Jeremy Swayman, and they'll see it again. I'm run Swayman bandgirl. I still think he has things to prove to me. However, what happened, what is happening in this series is not at the feet of Jeremy Swayman. Now are the golds during the series that you say, yeah, you know what, would you like to have one or two of those backs yesterday in that first period? If I was Jeremy Swayman, I would have freaking pulled myself out of the game.

33:43 Speaker 1: And then when I skated over to the bench, okay, I would have given my teammates a lot more shit than he gave them when he skated off, right, because they deserved to get an earful from their goalie. O. For the people who were dumping this on Shor, you're never going to win a Cup with Swaymen, you all don't know what in hell you're talking about. You just jump on the bend wagon with the I hate all the elite goalies in Boston bride right. That's lazy, it's lazy, it's uninformed, and you clearly don't understand the game in front of you if you think those four goals were his fault, because here's these are the four goals.

34:28 Speaker 1: First goal, McAvoy could not pass to Jonathan asbro Asparo couldn't catch the pass. Mitton grabs the puck for whatever reason, gets forced back into the defensive zone and he gives up the puck under pressure, and so it turned into a two on one rush and Krebs slams it in. Okay, you want to say, well, but Jeremy should have stopped it. Jeremy should have never seen that puck correct That puck should have been out of the fricking zone. That was a failure of the skaters in front of him. Second goal, the classic Boston Bruins too many men penalty because of course, of course it's many men.

35:08 Speaker 1: Hampus Lynnholm sends the puck up into the air to the middle of the ice, in the middle of the penalty, Kill didn't put enough mustard on it, and it ended up getting intercepted by boeen Byram and Josh Dong gets it into the net. Maybe if Hampis wasn't being lazy about how he sent the puck out, if he took the puck out, if he actually looked around and made a better decision, maybe we don't know, it wouldn't have ended up back where it came from. And what have we been calling these all season long?

35:39 Speaker 1: What have we been calling these issues? Inflicted wounds? Self flicted wounds? Yep, Jordan Harris. I mean I feel for him, I like him very much, but he didn't get on a playing time. But still he gives up the puck, he was not strong enough on the puck while trying to get out, and Zach Benson grabs the puck and does a close range backhander on net. He got the pad on the shot, but then rebound. So if your skater had been stronger on the puck, had better puck possession, swim and would have had to face that rebound.

36:16 Speaker 1: And then Casey Medlsett just turned it over to allow Benson to get a shot on goal and swim and stop the puck, but then he had to freeze it for a defensive zone draw, and Geeky then just turned over the puck under heavy for checking once again, and there was a close range shot put pastwaymen. So your team is basically allowing all of these incredibly high danger shots on goal. They're called high danger for a reason. It's because a lot of goalies don't stop those shots. So what are we doing here?

36:52 Speaker 1: I don't know what we're doing here, and I don't know why Marfo either is stubborn were unwilling to make in game adjustments. I myself was shocked to see Swayman come back out in that second period. I thought sure there would be a ringing of asses in the locker room in between periods, pointing at my goalie and saying, you all let this fucking guy down. He was the only one that came out ready to compete and play in the first period. And again, how much of a difference would that have made, I don't know, But we're allowed to talk about it and second, yes, and have conversation about it.

37:35 Speaker 1: Sure, but I think it's almost as irritating to me the mismanagement from the bench as some of the comments that just again screams to me, you don't know and understand hockey when you just say either there was entirely Swayman's fault or the other gross misunderstanding of seeing that clip of Jeremy Swayman getting off the ice and kind of giving the bench the business as he's walking off the ice and interpreting that as him being mad that he got pulled. I'm sorry, what were you not watching this game.

38:10 Speaker 1: He's not mad that he was pulled. He was pissed that the people who were in front of him were not doing their job, because I would be livid too, What are you doing?

38:21 Speaker 2: He had every right and I don't care that he did it.

38:25 Speaker 1: No, I don't give him more of the business. I don't care. You know what, I care about the emotion that he was missed off enough to look as teammates in the eye. And I don't know what he said, but I can only imagine that it would be something like do your fucking jobs or get your heads out of your asses, just as in aside, I'm looking because I'm looking at my social media. The practice lines today, Janelle Corallly cast alike. You're not going to touch Dkluving because they've probably been the Roan's most consistent line throughout this series, which is great but is also a bit of a problem when you what line is your best and most consistent line Defensive pairings Asparro McAvoy, Lintold Harris Lorid Peak, So it looks like he might be drawing Lorice drawn back in the extras at Practice, Pagan's Steve's and Joki Hary So there you have it.

39:18 Speaker 1: This could be your lineup for the game on Tuesday night. But listen, I know I tried to finish our rant yesterday on a somewhat positive which is not like me. We've seen this team bounce back before.

39:33 Speaker 2: But I don't have a good feeling.

39:35 Speaker 1: I do not have a good feeling at all going into this game on Tuesday night of Boston Ruins. And it's simply because of the lack of adjustment in the last two games. We've seen them be able to even in other games, make adjustments, make changes, not allow three straight periods of chaos and there's been zero adjustment. There's been zero in game change. So after six periods, why would I think that they could make a change. Maybe they can make a change for one game. Okay, so it goes to six games. I don't know unless something happens drastic in this game on Tuesday.

40:19 Speaker 1: But unlike the Philadelphia Flyers, who I think, like I said, their youth got them nervous and excited and maybe they just couldn't close the deal there with Pittsburgh, Buffalo is not that. Yeah, they're new to the playoff scene, but their players are not inexperienced guys in general, they've been steady eddy stay the course, especially since Game three. The first two games with the fighting, I think maybe that's something that came from Lindy. I wouldn't be surprised if he says, all right, you've had your fun, you've got it out there, now just go and take care of business.

41:00 Speaker 1: And that's what Buffalo has been doing. They've been going in and they've taken care of business, and good on them, and they've got confidence, they've got swagger yep. So to me, it'll be a it'll be interesting to see how the Bruins respond and the level of leadership that is going to be on display on Tuesday night, from the likes of David Pasternach, Charlie McAvoy, empisilintome. Those guys are all we are letters on their chest and the rest of the team should be taking their signals from them.

41:33 Speaker 1: Dick Taps, do we have any We've got a couple of works. I mean, Jeremy's Slayman. It's a no brain showing the most leadership out of any one of those nineteen other guys. He's been showing leadership and consistency in his play that is unmatched across the board.

41:49 Speaker 2: That's it.

41:49 Speaker 1: And I do want to give stick taps to the Bruins fourth line because i've oh, yeah, yeah, I've said they. They seem to be the only grouping that is playing consistently.

42:02 Speaker 2: Well in the penalty box.

42:04 Speaker 1: I've got pretty much every phase of the Bruins game except for the goaltending, and I will give it up to the penalty kill units.

42:13 Speaker 2: They've done.

42:14 Speaker 1: The PK has been good, but the offense has stunk like they have been kept to what how many goals on home ice too? Too? Yeah, that's that's two freaking sad and disgusting. And the Bruins defense, so the defensive structure, they are not getting the job done. They are not making virtually anything far forward the Buffalo Sabers. And again I don't think it's because the defensive structure as a plan is a bad plan. They are not.

42:47 Speaker 2: Executing on it. So that's on players.

42:50 Speaker 1: To that end, we have Game five on Tuesday evening in Buffalo. I can't even venture to make a prediction because I don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling at this point in time based on the regression of play that we have seen from the Ruins and the elevated level of play. Because I don't want to disrespect the Buffalo Savers, but they seem to have elevated their game. No, they changed their game appropriate and being down rid to one is not insurmountable. But it's a hill to climb because it's just not been close.

43:25 Speaker 2: It's not been close.

43:26 Speaker 1: No, no no. So with that said, thank you for listening. Please make sure that you like and subscribe to the more content. Be sure to leave a rating and a review to help other SAD Bruins fans find us. You can also support our podcast by joining our Patreon or following us on our socials at Tape to Tape MK and you can find us on substack at Tape to Tape mk dot substack dot com. With that said, any closing pats my friend go Mobies, Hobies