Boston Bruins Take First in Atlantic, McAvoy Injury Raises Questions | Ep. 117

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0:51 Speaker 4: Welcome in everyone to another episode of Ruins Tape to Tape.

0:55 Speaker 4: We are recording this episode on Monday, number seventeenth, which

1:01 Speaker 4: is a somewhat different and unusual game day for our

1:05 Speaker 4: Boston Bruins. They'll be playing Monday night against the Carolina Hurricanes.

1:10 Speaker 4: Or we get started with a jam packed agenda. I

1:15 Speaker 4: want to welcome in my co host Caroline with a

1:19 Speaker 4: K and say, how does it feel to be talking

1:22 Speaker 4: about the first place Boston Bruins in the Atlantic?

1:27 Speaker 3: Pleasantly shocked? It almost doesn't feel real. But what I

1:33 Speaker 3: have seen in the last I can't even I don't

1:36 Speaker 3: even know how many days now, ten days, fourteen days.

1:39 Speaker 3: What I see on the ice is not a fluke product,

1:42 Speaker 3: so I shouldn't be surprised, and yet I am no.

1:47 Speaker 4: And we are not alone in that surprise, because I

1:49 Speaker 4: think there are other groups of people who talk and

1:53 Speaker 4: watch a lot more hockey than we do across the

1:56 Speaker 4: league are also in a bit of a whole shit

2:00 Speaker 4: mode when it comes to the Boston Bruins and how

2:03 Speaker 4: much better they are playing than anyone anticipated.

2:08 Speaker 3: Now is it sustainable? Who the hell knows.

2:11 Speaker 4: But all I know is I'm going to enjoy watching

2:15 Speaker 4: what I see for as long as it lasts and

2:19 Speaker 4: take any bad when it comes. But for the time being,

2:23 Speaker 4: we have got a team that is playing some pretty

2:27 Speaker 4: damn good team hockey. So we'll get started by setting

2:33 Speaker 4: our table. So today we're going to talk about the

2:37 Speaker 4: week that was and the week ahead. As we normally do.

2:40 Speaker 4: We are going to talk about some Bruins roster transactions

2:44 Speaker 4: that just came across our wires earlier.

2:48 Speaker 3: Today.

2:49 Speaker 4: We will also talk about some milestones that were reached

2:54 Speaker 4: by a couple of members of our Boston Bruins, and

2:57 Speaker 4: some injuries that are starting to pile up which have

3:02 Speaker 4: necessitated the roster transactions that we'll be talking about today.

3:06 Speaker 4: But before we start taking our deep dive into the Bruins,

3:10 Speaker 4: let's take our usual spin around the rink, and we'll

3:14 Speaker 4: start with our old friend who will always be a

3:18 Speaker 4: Boston Bruins in many of our eyes. But Brad Marshan,

3:23 Speaker 4: who hit the one thousand point milestone, unbelievable.

3:28 Speaker 3: You should have done it in a freaking Bruins uniform.

3:31 Speaker 3: But I'm not going to go back there. I'm still bitter.

3:34 Speaker 4: I'm still pissed off at both sides that they couldn't

3:37 Speaker 4: get it goddamn figured out to keep him here. But

3:40 Speaker 4: congratulations to Marchhand. A thousand points is something to talk about.

3:47 Speaker 3: Every single day that I see a picture, a video,

3:53 Speaker 3: someone making a post any mention of Brad Marshand. Every

3:57 Speaker 3: single time, it's like a tiny dagger to my heart.

4:00 Speaker 3: And I'm so sad that he's no longer in a

4:04 Speaker 3: Boston Bruins uniform. But I love this player. I'm so

4:09 Speaker 3: thrilled for him. I saw a great quote from him

4:12 Speaker 3: where he perfectly summed up his entire career in saying

4:18 Speaker 3: the one thousand penalty minutes represents the first half of

4:21 Speaker 3: his career and the one thousand points represents the second

4:25 Speaker 3: half of his career. And no truer words have been

4:29 Speaker 3: spoken about this player's path he's he's gonna be a

4:34 Speaker 3: Hall of Famer.

4:35 Speaker 4: There's there's no he's his name is on a Stanley

4:38 Speaker 4: Cup twice. Now, he's his name is etched in the

4:41 Speaker 4: Boston Bruins record books. He's now reached a thousand points.

4:46 Speaker 4: There's a no, it's a no brainer that he is

4:49 Speaker 4: a Hall of Famer.

4:50 Speaker 3: Yep, exactly the trifecta. Thousand games, thousand points, thousand pimns.

4:56 Speaker 3: What more could you ask for?

4:57 Speaker 4: So yeah, congrats to him. And the other little tidbits

5:02 Speaker 4: from around the league is that I don't know if

5:05 Speaker 4: you were aware of this. I had totally forgotten about this,

5:08 Speaker 4: but the Global Series happened this weekend in Sweden, where

5:13 Speaker 4: the Penguins and the Predators played two games. The first

5:17 Speaker 4: game went to the Nashville Predators in a little bit

5:20 Speaker 4: of dramatic fashion where they were down one to nothing.

5:25 Speaker 4: They tied it up and Steven Stampcos netted the game

5:28 Speaker 4: winner and overtime. The second game was all Penguins all day,

5:34 Speaker 4: all the time. They waxed the floor with the Predators

5:38 Speaker 4: board enough. But I had totally forgotten that this game

5:41 Speaker 4: was even happening. You know, one game was on at

5:45 Speaker 4: nine o'clock in the morning and it's on at two

5:47 Speaker 4: in the afternoon. But it just doesn't seem to me

5:50 Speaker 4: that the NHL really did that much in terms of marketing.

5:55 Speaker 3: Unless we were all asleep at the switch, which I

5:58 Speaker 3: mean also could be passed. But I feel like I'm

6:02 Speaker 3: chronically online enough and that I have my one of

6:06 Speaker 3: my socials algorithms set up to basically be just pure

6:11 Speaker 3: hockey stuff. I didn't see it. I saw all of

6:15 Speaker 3: the stuff afterwards, but I didn't see much ahead of time,

6:19 Speaker 3: so I don't know what to make of that. Yeah, yeah, anyways,

6:23 Speaker 3: wanted to touch about that.

6:25 Speaker 4: There are a couple of significant injuries threwing in the

6:29 Speaker 4: league right now, none of the least of which is

6:32 Speaker 4: a story that has me wondering is there more to

6:35 Speaker 4: the story that meets the I with the injury to

6:39 Speaker 4: Jock Hughes, we're going to be out for two months

6:42 Speaker 4: after having to undergo finger surgery, and the story itself

6:47 Speaker 4: saying that it was somewhat of a accident at a restaurant.

6:51 Speaker 4: Now again, right, I love the drama of this stuff.

6:54 Speaker 4: I'm a woman, I'm going to admit to it, but

6:57 Speaker 4: this sounds dearly similar to a story that occurred with

7:02 Speaker 4: our David Posternach oh a few years ago, where there

7:07 Speaker 4: was an event that David attended and he apparently slipped

7:13 Speaker 4: and fell on the streets of the North End somewhere

7:15 Speaker 4: and ended up injuring myself and is here correct correct? Now?

7:21 Speaker 4: There were different stories that were told about David Posternach's

7:26 Speaker 4: condition at the time of leaving this event. Mm hm,

7:30 Speaker 4: So I just wonder if there's more to this story

7:34 Speaker 4: than meets the eye. But having having Jack Hughes out

7:37 Speaker 4: for two months, it's huge Joe the New Jersey Devils,

7:42 Speaker 4: that that's going to be a tough one for them

7:45 Speaker 4: to overcome. And the other injury, although that might have

7:50 Speaker 4: settled itself, is Austin Matthews has been out of the

7:55 Speaker 4: lineup since they were in town on Tuesday night to

7:59 Speaker 4: play the Bruins, and as we recall, and those of

8:02 Speaker 4: us who watched the game recall, Nikita's door off hit

8:05 Speaker 4: him pretty good.

8:06 Speaker 3: And it seems clean to me. I'm not playing Homerism.

8:10 Speaker 3: It seemed clean to me.

8:12 Speaker 4: And Matthews looked a bit wobbly as he got up,

8:16 Speaker 4: and then I believe he then tried to get the

8:19 Speaker 4: door off, and he tried, and then that did and

8:22 Speaker 4: then that didn't go. That did not end well for

8:25 Speaker 4: Auston Matthews. He ended up having to lead that game

8:29 Speaker 4: and he did not return. So that is and the

8:32 Speaker 4: Toronto make beliefs are struggle. The lame mightily right now.

8:38 Speaker 4: Struggling mightily right now.

8:40 Speaker 3: I wonder, and this is pure speculation, I wonder if

8:45 Speaker 3: this is at all related to his lengthy injury issue

8:49 Speaker 3: last year that happened I want to say, decemberish, and

8:54 Speaker 3: he disappeared for quite a while. He went to Switzerland

8:58 Speaker 3: or something and then came back, and I don't know.

9:01 Speaker 3: It just makes me wonder because he clearly he was

9:05 Speaker 3: still struggling with whatever that issue was even after he

9:08 Speaker 3: came back, and so I almost would be I would

9:11 Speaker 3: be worried if I were a leaf stand which I

9:13 Speaker 3: am not, so I'm not worried, but I would be

9:15 Speaker 3: worried that it was. It's the same thing that just

9:18 Speaker 3: hasn't resolved itself, and that honestly, who knows. Who knows?

9:22 Speaker 4: But again, you know, one of the stars of the league,

9:25 Speaker 4: right he hasn't done much for them, And then I

9:28 Speaker 4: haven't been able to find anything online that tells me

9:31 Speaker 4: what Austin Matthews status is.

9:33 Speaker 3: Me know, Jack Hughes is going to be out for

9:35 Speaker 3: the foreseeable future, but at least to me, he's not

9:38 Speaker 3: even He's not even on he's not even on IR

9:41 Speaker 3: correct correct.

9:43 Speaker 4: So yeah, And I also want to make note of

9:46 Speaker 4: the fact that our Boston Fleet are preparing for their season.

9:51 Speaker 4: They have preseason games. Actually, they had one preseason game

9:55 Speaker 4: on the fifteenth. Their scheduled to play another preseason game

9:59 Speaker 4: today on Monday the seventeenth. Their season regular season begins

10:04 Speaker 4: on November twenty third against I'm sorry it starts in

10:09 Speaker 4: Lowell at the song Is Center on the Revenant twenty

10:11 Speaker 4: third against Montreal. And unlike the Boston Bruins, the Fleet

10:16 Speaker 4: have named a captain.

10:19 Speaker 3: That's right, because there's she either left or was traded

10:22 Speaker 3: as part of the expansion.

10:23 Speaker 4: I think their captain of last season was traded due

10:27 Speaker 4: to the expansion.

10:28 Speaker 3: Correct.

10:29 Speaker 4: So Megan Keller will wear the seed for the Boston

10:32 Speaker 4: Fleet this year, and her assistant captains will be Jamie

10:36 Speaker 4: le Rita and Alana Euler nice. So we wish them

10:40 Speaker 4: well and we'll try to provide updates in our spin

10:44 Speaker 4: around the rink as their season gets gets underway. Exactly right,

10:49 Speaker 4: We've got games to talk about, games and games, ten

10:53 Speaker 4: more games. This schedule is absolutely bonkereds absolutely bonkers.

11:00 Speaker 3: It is well and on top of all of that,

11:04 Speaker 3: with the injuries that have been occurring, either because of

11:07 Speaker 3: the sheer pace of play that's been happening with these

11:11 Speaker 3: games every other day, downtime, recovery time being less, who knows.

11:16 Speaker 3: But officially now we have a number of players who

11:20 Speaker 3: have been injured. They've had their injury status kind of upgraded,

11:23 Speaker 3: primarily at this point for a combination of cap related purposes.

11:29 Speaker 3: So for example, Jordan Harris is officially now on LTR,

11:33 Speaker 3: so his paycheck kind of is off the books at

11:36 Speaker 3: this point. We know he's not going to be back

11:38 Speaker 3: for a while anyways. Obviously that makes it a lot

11:41 Speaker 3: of sense. But we've also now seen Victor Arvidson and

11:45 Speaker 3: Casey Middlestap both elevated to the injured reserve again as

11:49 Speaker 3: a reminder that doesn't their paychecks are still on the books. However,

11:54 Speaker 3: this means that Boston can now fill their spots on

11:58 Speaker 3: the active roster. Is important because after the game against

12:03 Speaker 3: Carolina they're heading out West three games. Yes, they need

12:07 Speaker 3: to have that full complement of players and then some.

12:10 Speaker 3: So we've seen Bluemel getting called up, likely as a

12:14 Speaker 3: replacement specifically for Arvidson. This is one guy that I

12:18 Speaker 3: am very excited to see. We've talked about a lot

12:20 Speaker 3: of people are, but they're just quite literally wasn't room

12:24 Speaker 3: for him based on the position that he most excels at,

12:27 Speaker 3: and with Arvidson out, he can finally pop up and

12:30 Speaker 3: actually show us what he's got. So I'm very excited

12:32 Speaker 3: to see him play. And then we've also got Riley

12:34 Speaker 3: Tufty coming up. Likely he's just the extra because you know,

12:38 Speaker 3: you can easily I say easily, but relatively easily play

12:42 Speaker 3: a game down a defenseman. But considering Boston really still

12:47 Speaker 3: needs to be focusing on making sure that they can

12:51 Speaker 3: convert on offensive chances, they're bringing up an extra forward,

12:56 Speaker 3: so we've got him.

12:57 Speaker 4: And then the other bit of news that happened while

13:00 Speaker 4: we were pregaming before the podcast is that the Bruins

13:04 Speaker 4: have waved Johnny Beecher. Now, our speculation is that, according

13:10 Speaker 4: to the Bruins website, he is being waived with the

13:14 Speaker 4: intention of assigning him the Providence, but there's always the

13:19 Speaker 4: risk he doesn't clear and someone could claim him exactly

13:22 Speaker 4: because the Bruins currently and.

13:24 Speaker 3: Of course by the time this airs, I don't know

13:27 Speaker 3: what time he went on waivers exactly, but his fate

13:31 Speaker 3: will be known. But it's likely that he was placed

13:34 Speaker 3: on waivers for the purposes not just obviously of being

13:36 Speaker 3: sent to Providence, but for cap related reasons because right

13:40 Speaker 3: now he is still on the books in terms of

13:42 Speaker 3: his paycheck, and so the Bruins are actually over the

13:45 Speaker 3: cap by two hundred plus thousand dollars and so obviously

13:49 Speaker 3: they need to get into cap compliance and he's an

13:53 Speaker 3: easy one. He's been injured, so it's kind of a

13:56 Speaker 3: win win because then he can go back down to Providence,

13:59 Speaker 3: he can get plenty time, he can get conditioned up

14:01 Speaker 3: as well, and it's enough. You know, it's a risk

14:04 Speaker 3: that they're willing to take with rights and it doesn't

14:06 Speaker 3: seem like I mean, based on the fact that he

14:09 Speaker 3: does some type of an injury right now, and honestly,

14:13 Speaker 3: his foremance has been a little bit underwhelming. Yeah, it's

14:16 Speaker 3: it's likely that he will will clear. Weavers.

14:19 Speaker 4: The other injury that is still a gray area is

14:23 Speaker 4: Charlie McAvoy. And for anyone who didn't watch the game

14:27 Speaker 4: on Saturday night, shame on you, because it was a

14:30 Speaker 4: hell of a game between the Canadians and the Bruins.

14:34 Speaker 4: It reminded me of the days of old because genes.

14:40 Speaker 4: But Charlie McAvoy took a puff to his face.

14:44 Speaker 3: John's tooth come flying out in the slow right right.

14:48 Speaker 4: So the update from Marco Sturm earlier today was still

14:54 Speaker 4: rather vague and unclear in that Charlie was still undergoing

14:59 Speaker 4: medical valuation or doctor's appointments. Nobody seemed to know whether

15:04 Speaker 4: or not he would need any surgery or what his

15:08 Speaker 4: status will be. He's likely not going to play tonight.

15:12 Speaker 4: Sounds like Henry Yokiharu is going to draw back in.

15:17 Speaker 4: I would be a little concerned if they make that

15:20 Speaker 4: West coast trip without Charlie Matt in the lineup, given

15:24 Speaker 4: the way that he's been playing of late.

15:25 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the thoughts that kind of run through my mind.

15:30 Speaker 3: It's obviously anytime a player gets a puck into the face,

15:35 Speaker 3: and obviously he has lost some teeth. We don't know

15:39 Speaker 3: the degree to which he's been injured. Is it a

15:43 Speaker 3: twenty nineteen, Chara leveled broken jaw situation, although of course

15:49 Speaker 3: he came back like as soon as humanly possible and

15:52 Speaker 3: that involved. But he's not human, right, He's not a

15:56 Speaker 3: human being. He's clear he's not human. Or is it

16:01 Speaker 3: more akin to what happened to Mason LORII a couple

16:04 Speaker 3: of seasons ago in Columbus. He had to kind of

16:07 Speaker 3: roll up his stick and smacked him in the mouth

16:09 Speaker 3: and he also lost a couple of teeth. But he

16:12 Speaker 3: didn't break his jaw. He just had to get he

16:14 Speaker 3: just had to have oral surgery, which you know, the

16:17 Speaker 3: turnaround time on that is different. I am also concerned

16:21 Speaker 3: if he's not going to be able to make the

16:24 Speaker 3: trip out west, only specifically because of the turnaround time.

16:29 Speaker 3: So this is going to be this is actually going

16:31 Speaker 3: to be a really, really tough California trip because there's

16:36 Speaker 3: only one day in between the Monday game for Carolina

16:39 Speaker 3: and then they play Wednesday in Anaheim. If there was

16:43 Speaker 3: an extra day, I would say maybe he'd be able

16:47 Speaker 3: to get out there or have whatever he's done. I don't, again,

16:50 Speaker 3: not knowing if he were talking about a broken jaw

16:53 Speaker 3: or if we're just talking about teeth situation, but I'd

16:57 Speaker 3: be worried that he's not going to be out there.

17:00 Speaker 3: Do I think the Bruins, the way that they've played

17:04 Speaker 3: over the last several games, also having Hampus Linnholm there,

17:09 Speaker 3: do I think they could still walk away with points. Absolutely.

17:12 Speaker 3: I don't think that they will totally blow it. But

17:16 Speaker 3: then again, I thought the same when they went out

17:18 Speaker 3: West at the start of the season, but the team

17:20 Speaker 3: was very different at that point and they were also

17:22 Speaker 3: without Linnholm. I don't love it, but I really hope

17:25 Speaker 3: he can.

17:26 Speaker 4: Let's face it, Jeremy Jacobs can fire up the jet

17:30 Speaker 4: and fly Charlie Mack out to California separately if you

17:33 Speaker 4: wants to so.

17:34 Speaker 3: True, Yeah, because they didn't put him on IR. They

17:38 Speaker 3: didn't put him because because the other thing is by

17:41 Speaker 3: being placed on IR, while it doesn't take the salary

17:45 Speaker 3: off the books, it does take the player off the

17:49 Speaker 3: roster for a set number of days. They certainly don't

17:52 Speaker 3: want to put him on IR. If, okay, if they

17:55 Speaker 3: were able to get him in for surgery today, if

18:00 Speaker 3: they can get him on a plane tonight or Tuesday

18:03 Speaker 3: during the day, if he misses a game, but they

18:05 Speaker 3: can get him out there. I don't know. I feel

18:07 Speaker 3: like they would try and get him out there. Yeah,

18:08 Speaker 3: hopefully we'll.

18:09 Speaker 4: Know more if there's an update for Marco when he

18:12 Speaker 4: meets with the media before the game tonight. A little

18:15 Speaker 4: concerning injuries is starting to pile up a little bit

18:18 Speaker 4: at a time, at a time where this team is

18:22 Speaker 4: figuring things out, they're working well together, the lines are

18:27 Speaker 4: gelling with each other. So the timing of this is

18:30 Speaker 4: our injuries. Is there ever an ideal time? No, but

18:35 Speaker 4: every team has. Every team faces this, So I suppose

18:40 Speaker 4: if you're going to pile up injuries, I guess I

18:42 Speaker 4: would rather have that happen at the front end of

18:45 Speaker 4: the season as opposed to the back end if you're

18:48 Speaker 4: fighting to be in a playoff spot. But for the

18:50 Speaker 4: time being, we've got some good stuff to talk about here,

18:53 Speaker 4: we get some good stock. We'll start with the Leafs

18:56 Speaker 4: game that occurred on Veterans No. I was last Tuesday

19:00 Speaker 4: eleven eleven, same score as the game in which they

19:04 Speaker 4: played on Saturday night.

19:05 Speaker 3: Ruins won five to three.

19:07 Speaker 4: Anthony Stolars was pulled for the second time, and they

19:10 Speaker 4: came against the Bruins. It seems that this change might

19:15 Speaker 4: have been made as a result of maybe there was

19:18 Speaker 4: an injury to Stolars because he wasn't on the bench

19:22 Speaker 4: for the remainder of that game. A lot of speculation

19:25 Speaker 4: in Toronto about was it an injury? Was it because

19:29 Speaker 4: he was pissed off at Arubay for getting pulled again?

19:32 Speaker 3: Well, the hell knows. That team is in a bit

19:34 Speaker 3: of a disarray right now. And you know what, I

19:37 Speaker 3: love it.

19:38 Speaker 4: I love it.

19:38 Speaker 3: I love it. The schadenfreud is just delightful at this

19:42 Speaker 3: point to see them completely crash and burn. The Bruins

19:45 Speaker 3: were everything that the Leafs were not in this game.

19:50 Speaker 3: It was a copy paste situation from Saturday to Tuesday.

19:54 Speaker 3: The Bruins were dominating in the faceoff dot, they were

19:58 Speaker 3: dominating with rush chances. They were just commute. You know,

20:02 Speaker 3: they're we heard about how good, which is fine.

20:06 Speaker 4: You look at the stats. Okay, I'm not faulting anyone

20:09 Speaker 4: for that. Oh the Leaves are so good in the

20:10 Speaker 4: faceoff dot, so good in the faceoff dot. And you're right,

20:13 Speaker 4: the Bruins pretty much dominated them. The other thing was

20:17 Speaker 4: that the Leafs were so undisciplined in that first period

20:21 Speaker 4: here in Boss very undisciplined. It was almost like they

20:24 Speaker 4: were trying to play a similarly aggressive game as the

20:30 Speaker 4: Bruins play.

20:31 Speaker 3: But I are not built in that, man, No. And

20:34 Speaker 3: I think again, the way that the Leafs are playing

20:37 Speaker 3: right now very very similar to what we saw in

20:40 Speaker 3: Boston last year. Those kinds of undisciplined penalties, the way

20:45 Speaker 3: that they're kind of performing out on the ice, the

20:48 Speaker 3: lack of chemistry, the lack of a cohesive team, that's

20:52 Speaker 3: exactly what we saw last year. And we've preached this

20:56 Speaker 3: on the podcast since the dawn of time that it's

21:00 Speaker 3: not just having the skills to be the good hockey

21:04 Speaker 3: player out on the ice. You have to be a

21:06 Speaker 3: good team. You have to have the right culture, the

21:09 Speaker 3: right mindset to come together and play the right way.

21:13 Speaker 3: And when you don't, it shows on the ice. Things

21:17 Speaker 3: start to happen that you don't want to see happen,

21:20 Speaker 3: like these undisciplined penalties, those stick in fractions like we

21:24 Speaker 3: saw last year, where they're doing it because they got

21:28 Speaker 3: beat they couldn't keep up, or they so And we've

21:31 Speaker 3: also said for a number of seasons now that the

21:34 Speaker 3: Leaf's problem isn't the lack again of skill, and talent

21:40 Speaker 3: and the right players necessarily. The team culture is absolutely

21:45 Speaker 3: garbage and it's been like that for years. I mean,

21:48 Speaker 3: Rache Parner was never truly the problem, and clearly that's

21:52 Speaker 3: been proven out in his absence that oh wait a minute,

21:56 Speaker 3: the team issues continue and now we don't have is talent. Whoops.

22:01 Speaker 3: They made clearly made a mistake.

22:03 Speaker 4: So I will never understand the rationale for taking the

22:07 Speaker 4: sea from John Tavirus and giving it to Austin Matthews.

22:10 Speaker 4: I don't I don't understand it. I don't see what

22:13 Speaker 4: the stoken purpose of that was.

22:16 Speaker 3: But be that as it may.

22:17 Speaker 4: You Knoworov seems like on a mission, on a mission

22:23 Speaker 4: to single handedly just send guys to the to the

22:27 Speaker 4: the cold tub, to the cold tops in a quick,

22:31 Speaker 4: quick hurry. I mean, not only did he hit spot

22:34 Speaker 4: Lattin in the game Saturday night and sent him back

22:37 Speaker 4: to the dressing room, Austin Matthews was lost for this

22:40 Speaker 4: game as a result of a Nikita well the initial

22:45 Speaker 4: hit from Zadorov and then Matthews might have tried to

22:48 Speaker 4: like stick up for himself and which to me says like,

22:51 Speaker 4: why isn't someone else on your team?

22:53 Speaker 3: And I get it, do only try?

22:55 Speaker 4: Yeah, well that was stupid, stupid maxt Dolemy to his credit,

22:59 Speaker 4: brying to engage with Zadorov, and you know, much to

23:03 Speaker 4: my surprise, pleasantly surprised, Nikita is ador of like saying

23:07 Speaker 4: to himself, this is not worth my time.

23:10 Speaker 3: We're going to win a game. This is not worth

23:12 Speaker 3: my time. Bite this guy.

23:13 Speaker 4: So that game was another solid in game from the Bruins.

23:19 Speaker 4: Jeremy Swayman was unbelievable in the third period of that game.

23:23 Speaker 4: The Leafs did try to make it interesting and push

23:27 Speaker 4: the score to four to three in the third period,

23:31 Speaker 4: but Swayman was he was he was locked in.

23:36 Speaker 3: He was locked in.

23:37 Speaker 4: I will say, I will say penalties are a problem

23:40 Speaker 4: for me. Oh yeah, to continue, But what's a bigger problem.

23:43 Speaker 4: There's two things that pissed me off. Too many men

23:46 Speaker 4: on the ice, penalty lots of things pissed me off.

23:49 Speaker 4: On the top of my hockey list, too many men

23:51 Speaker 4: on the ice penalties kissed me off, and giving up

23:54 Speaker 4: shorthanded goals.

23:56 Speaker 3: Yeah, kiss me off. Yeah.

23:58 Speaker 4: So in the first period of that game, as well

24:01 Speaker 4: as the Bruins played, they had a power play opportunity

24:05 Speaker 4: again due to an undisciplined penalty taken by the Maple Leafs,

24:09 Speaker 4: and Charlie McAvoy had an egregious, egregious turnover. Egregious, there's

24:15 Speaker 4: no other way to describe it. And I would have

24:18 Speaker 4: liked a save by Jeremy Swainman on that short handed goal,

24:22 Speaker 4: but that ended up tying the game. Now, those can

24:25 Speaker 4: be huge momentum. As much momentum that you can gain

24:30 Speaker 4: from a good power play unit, a team can also

24:33 Speaker 4: gain the same momentum from a short handed goal.

24:38 Speaker 3: Just cannot let that happen. Absolutely not. No, I agree

24:42 Speaker 3: that was nerve wracking to say the least, and a

24:45 Speaker 3: little unsettling to see that happen so quickly in but

24:49 Speaker 3: considering that Boston was able to recover as quickly as

24:52 Speaker 3: they were, While it didn't completely absolve him of the

24:55 Speaker 3: sin of the turnover, it was great to see Boss

25:00 Speaker 3: turn the page after such a big mistake, and then

25:05 Speaker 3: not just turn the page to move on, but turn

25:07 Speaker 3: the page and take back control over the game.

25:10 Speaker 4: They did make the Leafs pay for being undisciplined, and

25:14 Speaker 4: by the same token, the Leafs were only one for

25:16 Speaker 4: five on the power play, and one of which I

25:19 Speaker 4: thought they had a five on three for a period

25:22 Speaker 4: of time in that game. Not ideal to allow a

25:25 Speaker 4: team like the Leafs who has a lot of fire

25:28 Speaker 4: power offensive fire power in its work two five power

25:32 Speaker 4: play opportunity. Yes, and huge milestone in that game. David Pasternak,

25:37 Speaker 4: He's climbing his way up to the top.

25:39 Speaker 3: And I would expect within three years or so we

25:44 Speaker 3: might be looking at three to four years, we might

25:47 Speaker 3: be looking at a new leader of career goals. Keep

25:52 Speaker 3: an eye because this kid, he's not even thirty yet.

25:54 Speaker 4: Else he scored goal number four hundred and goal number

25:57 Speaker 4: four hundred and one in the same game. Now, I

26:00 Speaker 4: just want to say this to people, those of you

26:03 Speaker 4: who were butt hurts or bitching about the fact that

26:05 Speaker 4: the Bruins came off the bench to celebrate Pasta's four hundred,

26:09 Speaker 4: I say, get an efting light. Can we not celebrate

26:12 Speaker 4: anything anymore? Can we not have a little bit of

26:16 Speaker 4: god damn fun?

26:17 Speaker 3: What are we doing here? Me a freaking break? So

26:22 Speaker 3: we're going and I digress. It's a great thing. Boston

26:27 Speaker 3: has has been going through it for the last year,

26:30 Speaker 3: and they're finally in a good place and they want

26:35 Speaker 3: to celebrate. You go ahead and celebrate, because you know

26:38 Speaker 3: what we have last year, I say, celebrate whatever the

26:43 Speaker 3: hell you want.

26:44 Speaker 2: This season exactly exactly, yeah, great, well, and what I

26:49 Speaker 2: what I what I will also celebrate as a little

26:52 Speaker 2: bit of a slight tangent, is the fact that going

26:57 Speaker 2: into the Ottawa game, all right, we're now pushing our

27:01 Speaker 2: luck with the number of wins that we've had.

27:03 Speaker 3: This is a team that has had our number. Is

27:05 Speaker 3: this going to be a scheduled loss? How are they

27:08 Speaker 3: going to show up to it? And then how are

27:10 Speaker 3: they going to rebound after the possible likely loss against Ottawa?

27:16 Speaker 3: And I'm going to celebrate that whole situation because even

27:22 Speaker 3: though the Senators, again they have had possib number for

27:26 Speaker 3: whatever reason, the hell yeah, and yes, there was a

27:30 Speaker 3: large number of self inflicted wounds that the Bruins did

27:35 Speaker 3: not roll over and give up. They pushed and they

27:40 Speaker 3: they didn't just let Ottawa take it and run. And

27:46 Speaker 3: coming off of that, they went to Montreal and that

27:51 Speaker 3: was one of the most solid games I've seen them

27:54 Speaker 3: play this season, and they've already had a number of

27:57 Speaker 3: very solid games. It was is a very competitive game.

28:02 Speaker 3: It was very evenly matched, Yet I felt that Boston

28:07 Speaker 3: was cool under pressure. They were calm, collected, doing their thing,

28:12 Speaker 3: playing their game and not getting ruffled by the constant

28:18 Speaker 3: chances also by the Maple Leafs and getting caught up

28:22 Speaker 3: in the history of the rivalry and what it means

28:25 Speaker 3: to play in this cathedral of hockey, that you're not

28:27 Speaker 3: only playing against the Montreal Canadians when you go to

28:30 Speaker 3: the Bell Center, you're also playing against the Pans and

28:34 Speaker 3: the officials.

28:35 Speaker 4: And it started than the game on't okay that the

28:38 Speaker 4: officials in the game in Ottawa absolutely sucked? Yeah, absolutely

28:42 Speaker 4: great stucked. They weren't much better in Montreal. And if

28:48 Speaker 4: you're not going to recall embellishment penalties when we can

28:53 Speaker 4: all see them on our TVs, then why the hell

28:56 Speaker 4: is the rule even in place like Timston's is a

29:01 Speaker 4: master of ceremonies. Now when it comes to embellishment and

29:05 Speaker 4: the fact that the officials, it's so siet, you should

29:10 Speaker 4: be efing embarrassed.

29:13 Speaker 3: So bad?

29:15 Speaker 4: Now? Is that not the reason why the Bruins lost

29:19 Speaker 4: that game? That game was a bit frustrating and maddening,

29:22 Speaker 4: because again, you could have taken a point out of

29:25 Speaker 4: that game because you were your own worst enemy, because

29:31 Speaker 4: you allowed yourself again to get into a potential run

29:35 Speaker 4: and gun with Ottawa, who clearly has more speed than

29:39 Speaker 4: you do, and therefore checking game is better right now

29:45 Speaker 4: than yours is. So you had self inflicted wounds in

29:50 Speaker 4: that game. And also Ottawa kicked the crap out of

29:55 Speaker 4: you in the face offs like a sixty percent you know,

30:01 Speaker 4: forty years It was bad.

30:03 Speaker 3: It was bad.

30:03 Speaker 4: It was bad, so and they ended your wind streak.

30:07 Speaker 4: We all knew it'd had to come to an end

30:09 Speaker 4: sooner or later. But the fact that the mistakes were

30:13 Speaker 4: self inflicted, I think is still a bone, a little

30:17 Speaker 4: bit of a bone of contention with this team. It's

30:20 Speaker 4: it periodically rears its ugly head. But that game in

30:25 Speaker 4: Montreal to me was Chef's kiss.

30:28 Speaker 3: Yep yea.

30:29 Speaker 4: How long have we been waiting for this rivalry to

30:33 Speaker 4: be reignited again and it was on Saturday night.

30:37 Speaker 5: It was awesome, one of the most fun games of

30:42 Speaker 5: the season. Yeah, I mean, that was exactly what I

30:46 Speaker 5: have been hoping for. When I say that I hope

30:51 Speaker 5: that Montreal can get it together.

30:53 Speaker 3: When I say that, I'm I'm rooting for them to

30:56 Speaker 3: some extent that they can get better, that they can

31:00 Speaker 3: be better, that they can be competitive, because it means

31:04 Speaker 3: that this rivalry can come back to life. I'm of

31:08 Speaker 3: a generation where the last time the Habs were really

31:12 Speaker 3: really good, I mean I was in elementary school the

31:17 Speaker 3: last time that they won a Stanley Cup. In my lifetime,

31:21 Speaker 3: the primary rival for the Boston Bruins has been the

31:25 Speaker 3: Toronto Maple Leafs. That's the team that I've seen the

31:28 Speaker 3: Bruins fight against time and time again, year after year,

31:31 Speaker 3: especially in the postseason. Now, yes, there have been times

31:33 Speaker 3: when we've had those classic Montreal run ins you know

31:37 Speaker 3: that we had that was excellent, but not consistent to

31:42 Speaker 3: the degree that it's been with Toronto. And it's when

31:46 Speaker 3: it comes to hockey in that sense, I'm a purist.

31:48 Speaker 3: If we're talking Original six, we got to have those

31:51 Speaker 3: old rivalries continue to exist. I hope it's sustainable so

31:55 Speaker 3: that it is a long term rivalry that we can

31:58 Speaker 3: keep seeing because especially if the Leafs are going to

32:00 Speaker 3: be going down the toilet, we need somebody, we need something. Well.

32:04 Speaker 4: I think it's given the historical aspects for both teams

32:10 Speaker 4: and the epic playoff series that have occurred, you know

32:13 Speaker 4: which in those playoff series have had some long standing

32:17 Speaker 4: impacts on each franchise. If the Bruins didn't pull out

32:22 Speaker 4: Game seven in twenty eleven against the Montreal Canadians, yes,

32:27 Speaker 4: I venture to guess that not only would Claude Julian

32:31 Speaker 4: have been fired, I would say that the entire management

32:34 Speaker 4: corps might have been fired at that point. So, you know,

32:38 Speaker 4: these teams have a long standing history with each other,

32:42 Speaker 4: and it's good for business and it's good for the

32:46 Speaker 4: league to have original six franchises be relevant and competitive again.

32:53 Speaker 3: So that game had everything.

32:56 Speaker 4: And the tone was set right from the drop of

32:59 Speaker 4: the pup by none other than Nakita's adoraf to, which

33:02 Speaker 4: is like, we're in Montreal.

33:04 Speaker 3: Why not? Exactly? Yeah, why not? Well, obviously it was

33:09 Speaker 3: a planned situation. And I got to say, my favorite

33:12 Speaker 3: part about that particular fisticuff if you caught it. At

33:16 Speaker 3: the very end, they gave each other a brief hug,

33:19 Speaker 3: like good job, like you know, a pat on the back,

33:21 Speaker 3: and I was like, that's excellent. I love this. I

33:23 Speaker 3: love this so much because it's not just about Boston

33:25 Speaker 3: going and playing Montreal and having the fights and the

33:30 Speaker 3: and the scrums and stuff. Because like, yes, that's great

33:32 Speaker 3: and we love it and it gets the crowd going,

33:34 Speaker 3: and that's that's an aspect that has always existed, even

33:37 Speaker 3: when one team was good and the other team wasn't.

33:40 Speaker 3: What really made this game truly special and excellent was

33:44 Speaker 3: the fact that this was an exciting competitive game. Yeah,

33:49 Speaker 3: I'm not mad if Boston beats the Habs nine to one,

33:55 Speaker 3: but I'd much rather watch the game that was this

33:58 Speaker 3: weekend because that was just it was fantastic. It had everything,

34:02 Speaker 3: It had everything you could want.

34:04 Speaker 4: It felt even even watching it at home felt like

34:08 Speaker 4: a playoff atmosphere.

34:10 Speaker 3: You know, Tanner Janeau wasn't shy about getting involved in

34:14 Speaker 3: the physicality. Mark Castelik wasn't shy. You had guys laying

34:18 Speaker 3: themselves out the block shots, and Charlie McAboy I think

34:22 Speaker 3: had a crushing hit on someone in the game. Mason

34:25 Speaker 3: Lorii blocked a shot, you know. The The one drawback

34:29 Speaker 3: was the number of penalties that the Bruins took in

34:32 Speaker 3: that game. They were perfect seven for seven on the

34:35 Speaker 3: penalty kill, but two of those penalties were five on

34:39 Speaker 3: threes that lasted well over a minute. That the Bruins

34:43 Speaker 3: did a great job killing them off, but again not ideal,

34:47 Speaker 3: and the Macavoy injury occurred in that in that game.

34:52 Speaker 3: The statistic that actually surprised me the most going into

34:56 Speaker 3: this game at the very start they mentioned and it

34:59 Speaker 3: and it is still the same today is that Boston

35:02 Speaker 3: went into and left that game sixth in the league

35:06 Speaker 3: in their power play percentage six with twenty five point

35:11 Speaker 3: four percent sixth, sixth. Maria, I know.

35:15 Speaker 4: We've gone from years where is this team ever going

35:18 Speaker 4: to score? God being power play goal Reddit to the

35:22 Speaker 4: coach who's now taken over.

35:24 Speaker 3: Mm hmm.

35:25 Speaker 4: The power play units, they're they're swinging the puck around,

35:29 Speaker 4: thank god, a lot.

35:31 Speaker 3: Faster and they four. The movement is great, the entries

35:35 Speaker 3: are good. Yeah, it seems like everything is starting to

35:40 Speaker 3: finally come together, that whatever Sturm's plan was is finally

35:46 Speaker 3: coming together. And you could reasonably expect at this point

35:50 Speaker 3: that what you want to see happen out there, whether

35:53 Speaker 3: it's power play PK five on five, it's gonna happen

35:57 Speaker 3: that they are actually able to execute on the plan.

36:00 Speaker 3: So that's just it could be happier. Yeah, So a

36:03 Speaker 3: lot of things to give stick taps to this week.

36:06 Speaker 3: For sure this week. Yes, so my stick taps.

36:09 Speaker 4: Know, if people are going to find this shocking, I

36:12 Speaker 4: am going to give a little stick tap to Mason

36:14 Speaker 4: laura Yeah, because since he has come back in the lineup.

36:19 Speaker 4: Now he's been back for four games, he's registered four

36:24 Speaker 4: points and he's not a minus player right now, and

36:27 Speaker 4: he's been good. He's been solid, he's been good, and

36:32 Speaker 4: he's making quicker decisions with the puck, especially in.

36:38 Speaker 3: Our own end. Mm hmm. Yeah.

36:41 Speaker 4: And I think this is the guy, this is the

36:44 Speaker 4: player that the Bruins invested in when they gave him

36:49 Speaker 4: that extension, and he needs to understand that there's a

36:54 Speaker 4: balance that he needs to reach between being a good

36:58 Speaker 4: defenseman and contrybuting to the offense.

37:02 Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, right now, Mason Laurai per your favorite player stat,

37:06 Speaker 3: he's a plus two and he's second in plus minus.

37:10 Speaker 3: So there you go. He's you know, I think it

37:13 Speaker 3: just it was just a matter of putting him in

37:15 Speaker 3: a position where he could be successful and challenged enough

37:20 Speaker 3: where he can still do what he naturally wants to do,

37:24 Speaker 3: which is obviously be a little more offensive. He's had

37:27 Speaker 3: a number of assists, he got a goal, so I think,

37:31 Speaker 3: and I'll be curious to see what the long term

37:33 Speaker 3: plan is ultimately over the course of this season, But

37:36 Speaker 3: it seems like they're trying to find that happy medium

37:40 Speaker 3: of there are certain things that maybe they just can't

37:44 Speaker 3: change about his game at this point, even though he's

37:46 Speaker 3: a young guy and if that's his natural inclination, it's

37:50 Speaker 3: it's not fair on him, and it's probably not a

37:53 Speaker 3: reasonable expectation to assume that, Okay, well, we're just he's

37:57 Speaker 3: just going to be able to change his game and

37:59 Speaker 3: it'll be fine. They're probably trying to figure out, how

38:01 Speaker 3: do we still give him the opportunity to play the

38:04 Speaker 3: game in the way that he likes it, but also

38:07 Speaker 3: learn this system, learn how to become more defensive, be

38:11 Speaker 3: more responsible on the puck, and eventually move your way

38:15 Speaker 3: up in the pairings so that way you can then

38:18 Speaker 3: continue to be challenged and be that defenceman that they

38:22 Speaker 3: clearly see the potential in for him. But you know,

38:24 Speaker 3: if that means he's got to be on the third

38:26 Speaker 3: line for much of this year, Okay, we continue to

38:31 Speaker 3: see improvement, we continue to see him contribute offensively, because

38:35 Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with him doing that is as long

38:37 Speaker 3: as he's doing that and being a defenceman like that's

38:41 Speaker 3: his primary job, then I think we will still continue

38:45 Speaker 3: to see him kind of move up the ladder.

38:47 Speaker 4: I think part of the plan for him and part

38:50 Speaker 4: of his projected contribution is to eventually be the quarterback

38:56 Speaker 4: on one of.

38:56 Speaker 3: The two power play units for this tusse yep, but

39:00 Speaker 3: she's big, so.

39:01 Speaker 4: When you're you're struggling with your defensive responsibilities, you can't

39:08 Speaker 4: be a liability out there.

39:10 Speaker 3: I'm going to throw in maybe a little of a

39:13 Speaker 3: surprising stick tap VL. This is a guy So I

39:18 Speaker 3: was watching the game and his name came up a

39:20 Speaker 3: couple of times, and I just want to give him

39:24 Speaker 3: a stick tap because this guy, he is a completely

39:28 Speaker 3: different player this season. When we saw his name on

39:33 Speaker 3: the roster after camp, I thought, you people have to

39:37 Speaker 3: be insane. This guy is such a major liability. There's

39:41 Speaker 3: nothing for as much as I agree with you on

39:45 Speaker 3: I hate, you know, the allowing a shorthanded goal. I

39:48 Speaker 3: hate pointless fighting because it's it's it's a tool. It's

39:53 Speaker 3: it's supposed to serve a purpose at a certain time,

39:56 Speaker 3: and there's a time you do it and a time

39:58 Speaker 3: you don't. Do it, because sometimes if you choose the

40:02 Speaker 3: wrong time, it actually can be very damaging to your team.

40:06 Speaker 3: It can really cause problems and cost the game. And

40:11 Speaker 3: so last year he had come up fewer than a

40:14 Speaker 3: handful of times, and every time he came up, every

40:18 Speaker 3: time he came up, he was dropping the gloves almost

40:21 Speaker 3: immediately for seemingly no reason. And maybe whoever was making

40:27 Speaker 3: that decision thought, well, we need a tough guy. We

40:30 Speaker 3: need a tough guy. And so it really makes you

40:34 Speaker 3: wonder what the heck were they telling this guy to

40:36 Speaker 3: do last year, or what they were saying his role

40:41 Speaker 3: was what was expected of him, right, And I have

40:45 Speaker 3: to say stick tap to him this year because he's

40:49 Speaker 3: not doing that. He's contributing positively. He's where he needs

40:54 Speaker 3: to be, you know, he's not out there helping out

40:57 Speaker 3: David Pasternak like Mara Husnadinov is. But just considering the

41:01 Speaker 3: change and the difference and the fact that he's no

41:03 Speaker 3: longer this like just crazy liability, stick tabs to him

41:08 Speaker 3: for taking on this different role, this different job and

41:11 Speaker 3: just continuing going to play and earning his spot. That's fine,

41:15 Speaker 3: I'm good with that. Stick tap. Yeah, penalty box for me.

41:20 Speaker 3: I'm the again.

41:22 Speaker 4: It sounds like we talk about this week in and

41:24 Speaker 4: week out, But the penalties that they've got to stop.

41:29 Speaker 3: Like, you can't give a team like the Leafs five

41:34 Speaker 3: six power play opportunities.

41:36 Speaker 4: You can't give the Montreal Canadians seven power play opportunities,

41:41 Speaker 4: two of which were five on threes. Now, I understand

41:44 Speaker 4: that in some circumstances i e. Refs who are inconfident

41:50 Speaker 4: and in and allow the crowd to make the penalty

41:54 Speaker 4: calls for them. Be that as it may, you still

41:56 Speaker 4: have to kill them off. Now you've been lucky. You've

41:59 Speaker 4: been lucky because your penalty kill has been operating at

42:04 Speaker 4: a very good pace. Yes, the problem with that is

42:08 Speaker 4: you don't get David Pasternak on the ice as much

42:12 Speaker 4: as you need him, or Morgan Geeky or anyone else

42:16 Speaker 4: who's not on one of those three K units.

42:20 Speaker 3: Not to mention that.

42:21 Speaker 4: You're fatiguing the players who were on those penalty kill units.

42:26 Speaker 4: So please, can we stop or stop with the five,

42:31 Speaker 4: six and seven penalties?

42:33 Speaker 3: Again? A funny thought did cross my mind as I

42:35 Speaker 3: was watching that Montreal game. At one point, there had

42:38 Speaker 3: been a series of Bruins' penalties and finally Pasta was

42:42 Speaker 3: out there, either for five on five player or power play,

42:46 Speaker 3: I don't remember, but he had a lot of jump

42:48 Speaker 3: and the announcer, I think Jen was saying, He's like, well,

42:53 Speaker 3: he hasn't been on a little bit, and I just

42:55 Speaker 3: remember thinking, oh, that explains why he's got so much energy.

42:58 Speaker 3: He's just been sitting there insting. I mean, that was nice,

43:03 Speaker 3: but I don't want that on a regular basis at all.

43:07 Speaker 4: I mean again, you know, Jeremy Swayman was spectacular in

43:10 Speaker 4: that game against Montreal, and I could be talking out

43:14 Speaker 4: of my butthole, but I don't know that he's ever

43:17 Speaker 4: lost in his career to the Canadians.

43:20 Speaker 3: That would be fun. I'll have to check that out.

43:22 Speaker 4: And another milestone in that game is that Victor Ardbudson

43:27 Speaker 4: scored his two hundred career NHL goal. Okay, and before

43:31 Speaker 4: anyone goes crazy, Bruins didn't leave the bench to celebrate,

43:35 Speaker 4: just making note of it, two hundred goals in Victor's career.

43:39 Speaker 3: The final penalty box. I mean, you kind of have

43:42 Speaker 3: said this just we're throwing the rafts in because the

43:46 Speaker 3: number of times that David Pasternak has been assaulted out

43:49 Speaker 3: there and received zero calls. It's because it's getting to

43:54 Speaker 3: a point that it's becoming a little egregious. I think I.

43:58 Speaker 4: Agree with you, I agree with do and you know

44:01 Speaker 4: the fact that the refs are being duped in many

44:05 Speaker 4: circumstances by the embellishment and why they don't call the

44:09 Speaker 4: embellishment is mind boggling to me. But that's that's a

44:13 Speaker 4: story that we could do a whole freaking podcast on them.

44:16 Speaker 4: All Right, So we alluded to the week week ahead,

44:20 Speaker 4: the Bruins are facing the Carolina Hurricanes. The last time

44:24 Speaker 4: these two teams faced each other was on November first.

44:28 Speaker 4: Now Carolina is coming off of back to back games

44:33 Speaker 4: that they played Friday night and Saturday night. Both games

44:37 Speaker 4: went into overtime.

44:38 Speaker 3: They're still very very strong on the shooting side of things.

44:45 Speaker 3: They but the Bruins that game that you alluded to,

44:48 Speaker 3: that's really when we saw the Bruins defense kick it

44:53 Speaker 3: up a notch because Bruins were able The Bruins were

44:57 Speaker 3: able to hold the Canes to under thirty shots on goal.

45:01 Speaker 3: And this is a team that to that point had

45:03 Speaker 3: been averaging thirty three shots on goals. So the fact

45:06 Speaker 3: that the Bruins were able to not allow that to happen.

45:09 Speaker 3: Was really when you noticed, Okay, this defense is actually

45:12 Speaker 3: starting to do things. As long as the defense can

45:15 Speaker 3: do its job, it's going to be a low scoring game,

45:17 Speaker 3: just like the other one. But hopefully if the d

45:20 Speaker 3: can smother the offense for Carolina, the game will go

45:23 Speaker 3: by quickly. Because that is, it's going to be a

45:25 Speaker 3: boring game.

45:27 Speaker 4: So, as my friend Caroline alluded to, the Bruins, after tonight,

45:32 Speaker 4: we they're heading for their annual trip out west. They

45:36 Speaker 4: play the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night at the ripe

45:40 Speaker 4: old time of ten pm Eastern Time. Then they face

45:45 Speaker 4: the Los Angeles Kings on a rare Friday night game

45:48 Speaker 4: which is ten thirty pm, oh good Eastern Standard Time.

45:53 Speaker 4: And then the twenty third, which is a Sunday night.

45:55 Speaker 4: This schedule just bites. Anyways, eight pm all games on

46:00 Speaker 4: Nessen and my hope, my hope. There's a potential six

46:06 Speaker 4: points there. Yeah, I would like them to come back

46:10 Speaker 4: with at least three points. I mean, I would love

46:12 Speaker 4: them to come back with more than that. But you know,

46:15 Speaker 4: the game against Anaheim, they should want to seek some

46:20 Speaker 4: retribution after Anaheim embarrassed that at home. That was the

46:25 Speaker 4: seven to five loss at home, and I think that

46:29 Speaker 4: was the big turning point, the straw that broke the

46:31 Speaker 4: camel's back in terms of the ship way the team

46:35 Speaker 4: was playing.

46:36 Speaker 3: No, that was Ottawa, I know, I know, LA.

46:40 Speaker 4: I mean, that was just demoralizing, absolutely demoralizing. But up

46:47 Speaker 4: until recently, Anaheim was one of the hottest teams in

46:51 Speaker 4: the league. But since they've lost three games in a row,

46:54 Speaker 4: so they could be right, they could be right. For

46:56 Speaker 4: the Pickens, I think they are getting some good goal

47:00 Speaker 4: from Lucas gostel Is at how to say it right now?

47:04 Speaker 4: I took this goalie standings this morning. He's third in

47:09 Speaker 4: the league with a point nine oh three save percentage,

47:12 Speaker 4: but right behind him is Jeremy Swimming yea, So maybe

47:17 Speaker 4: we'll see a goaltending duel in the Anaheim who knows, yep.

47:23 Speaker 3: Or the Bruins will do what they do best and

47:25 Speaker 3: make the Anaheim goalie look like as the candidate I know,

47:29 Speaker 3: I know. Let's hope they don't.

47:31 Speaker 4: Let's hope they don't, and then you know they're off

47:34 Speaker 4: to face the LA Kings, who are top top sixteen

47:37 Speaker 4: in the league. Right now and before their game tonight,

47:42 Speaker 4: they are winners of four in a row, so they're

47:44 Speaker 4: on a bit of a roll. And then they finished

47:47 Speaker 4: this trip in San Jose with the likes of macclin Celebrini,

47:51 Speaker 4: who no surprise, he leads the Sharks in points. He's

47:55 Speaker 4: got ten goals seventeen assists. I'm not sure about their

47:59 Speaker 4: goaltending situation there because San Jose is right now one

48:03 Speaker 4: of the bottom seventeens in the league. So they're just

48:07 Speaker 4: going to have to fight against long travel and time change.

48:11 Speaker 4: That's that's the that's the wild card that you just

48:14 Speaker 4: never know how the body is going to respond. Otherwise,

48:16 Speaker 4: I feel confident that if they were playing in Boston,

48:21 Speaker 4: I would have no qualms with saying they should easily

48:23 Speaker 4: walk away with.

48:24 Speaker 3: Five points, if not six. But we've seen them struggle,

48:29 Speaker 3: and it's not just Boston, it's it's any East Coast

48:32 Speaker 3: team that has to do such a quick turnaround in

48:35 Speaker 3: California with hardly any time for acclamation. It can be

48:40 Speaker 3: such a New York Rangers.

48:41 Speaker 4: They can win anywhere but Madison Square Garden apparently, So yeah,

48:46 Speaker 4: it'll it'll be interesting to see how they what what

48:50 Speaker 4: how the tone gets set for this this trip, but

48:54 Speaker 4: until then, we're going to enjoy the fact that the

48:57 Speaker 4: Bruins are sitting in first place in the Atlantic.

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