Boston Bruins vs Ducks Recap: Missed Chances, McAvoy Out, Kings Preview | Snap Shot 63

0:00 Speaker 1: Stop me if you've heard this one before. Twenty guys

0:03 Speaker 1: fly to the West Coast, work really hard, but fail

0:06 Speaker 1: to take advantage of easy opportunities and let a win

0:09 Speaker 1: slip from their grasp. Yep, that's right. This Bruins road

0:13 Speaker 1: trip has started out as a copy paste of their

0:16 Speaker 1: last Western trip. But with key guys hurt and out

0:19 Speaker 1: of the lineup, can the young guns pick up the

0:21 Speaker 1: slack and keep Boston at second in the Atlantic. This

0:24 Speaker 1: is a Bruins tape to tape snapshot.

0:29 Speaker 2: The Boston Bruins started their West Coast trip on Wednesday

0:33 Speaker 2: night with a four to three loss to the Anaheim Ducks.

0:37 Speaker 2: The bad news with regard to the start of this

0:40 Speaker 2: trip is that it appears that the Bruins will be

0:43 Speaker 2: likely without Charlie McAvoy as a result of having some

0:47 Speaker 2: quote unquote facial surgery, as was put by Marco Sturm.

0:52 Speaker 2: Good news is that Elias Lindholm did travel with the

0:56 Speaker 2: team to the West Coats coast, and the hope is

0:59 Speaker 2: that he'll slot back into the lineup at some point.

1:02 Speaker 2: The game itself against the Anaheim Ducks, to me, was

1:06 Speaker 2: won and lost in the first period by the Boston Bruins.

1:10 Speaker 2: The Bruins got down two to nothing quickly to the

1:13 Speaker 2: Anaheim Ducks, and although they were able to cut the

1:17 Speaker 2: score to two to one in that first period, they

1:20 Speaker 2: were unable to capitalize on scoring opportunities that presented themselves.

1:26 Speaker 2: And credit to the Anaheim Ducks goaltender Lucas Dostell, who

1:32 Speaker 2: was absolutely excellent in that game against the Bruins. The

1:36 Speaker 2: Bruins were statistically the better team in that game, but

1:41 Speaker 2: unfortunately a couple of defensive lapses is what cost the

1:46 Speaker 2: Bruins points in this game. And I have some motherly

1:50 Speaker 2: advice for the Boston Bruins. You have all worked so

1:53 Speaker 2: hard to get yourself into a playoff posi position and

1:59 Speaker 2: at the top of the Atlantic Division standings. Don't miss

2:04 Speaker 2: out on opportunities to take points away. We are not

2:09 Speaker 2: expecting you to win every game on a road trip,

2:14 Speaker 2: or on this road trip in particular, but a game

2:17 Speaker 2: such as you played against the Anaheim Ducks where you

2:20 Speaker 2: walk away with simply no points is not going to

2:25 Speaker 2: help your cause in trying to stay at the top

2:29 Speaker 2: of the standings.

2:30 Speaker 1: The Bruins stayed in Southern California after last night's loss

2:34 Speaker 1: and they face a dark horse in the La Kings.

2:37 Speaker 1: They may have had a slow start, but this Kings

2:39 Speaker 1: team is making sure that Copaitar's farewell tour is a

2:43 Speaker 1: memorable one one thing in Boston's favor. They're hanging out

2:46 Speaker 1: in LA waiting for the Kings to come home from

2:48 Speaker 1: a trip to the Bay Area where they play the

2:50 Speaker 1: Sharks on Thursday and then immediately the Bees on Friday night.

2:54 Speaker 1: Probably explains the ten thirty pm Eastern seven thirty pm

2:58 Speaker 1: Pacific start time. In fact, not only are the Kings

3:01 Speaker 1: playing the Bruins on the second night of a back

3:03 Speaker 1: to back, it's the King's first game home off of

3:06 Speaker 1: a six game mostly East Coast road trip, so maybe

3:09 Speaker 1: they'll be extra tired. This could be quite the battle

3:12 Speaker 1: of the goaltenders if we see Kemper and Net against Swayman.

3:15 Speaker 1: I'm actually curious to see which goalie they play in

3:18 Speaker 1: San Jose and which in LA. That might tell us

3:20 Speaker 1: how much of a threat they think Boston is. If

3:22 Speaker 1: it is Kemper and Net, he's been doing exceptionally well.

3:25 Speaker 1: Both he and Swayman have nearly identical stats at this

3:28 Speaker 1: point in the season, a sub three goals against over

3:32 Speaker 1: nine hundred safe percentage and they both have over ten GSAX.

3:37 Speaker 1: Go read the substack post to put out this past

3:39 Speaker 1: weekend about GSAX and why you should be using it

3:42 Speaker 1: in your evaluation of goalies from here on. Out link

3:45 Speaker 1: is in the notes. On the skater side of things,

3:47 Speaker 1: the Kings are considered pretty even in their playing style,

3:50 Speaker 1: if maybe a little boring. They've struggled much of the

3:53 Speaker 1: season so far, with their gold differentials only just going

3:57 Speaker 1: into the positive on November thirteenth, But don't let that

4:00 Speaker 1: fool you. With players like Perry and Fiala seriously overperforming

4:04 Speaker 1: when it comes to goal scoring and can be shooting

4:07 Speaker 1: like his life depends on it, the Bruins are going

4:09 Speaker 1: to have to figure out a way to get on

4:11 Speaker 1: top of prime opportunities. Again. Remember our expectation during the

4:16 Speaker 1: losing streak was that if Boston could just manage one

4:19 Speaker 1: more goal on the power play, or take advantage of

4:22 Speaker 1: just one more opportunity, no matter what it is, it

4:26 Speaker 1: could really change the outcome of the game. They've got

4:28 Speaker 1: the right drive, persistence, and overall attitude. They just need

4:33 Speaker 1: to capitalize on it.

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