Boston's Morgan Geekie Leads the Way as Penalties Become a Crisis | Snap Shot 64

0:00 Speaker 1: This was by far the messiest week of Boston Bruins hockey.

0:03 Speaker 1: The first major milestone of the season has come and gone,

0:06 Speaker 1: and Boston is pingponging up and down the standings, currently

0:10 Speaker 1: sitting in second in the Atlantic on the last day

0:13 Speaker 1: of November. But it will be all for nothing if

0:16 Speaker 1: they can't stop the bleeding when it comes to penalties.

0:20 Speaker 1: Oh and can anyone else score goals right now besides

0:24 Speaker 1: Geeky with pastor knock out? That would be great. This

0:27 Speaker 1: is a Bruins tape to tape snapshot.

0:33 Speaker 2: I'm going to start this snapshot with a simple question.

0:36 Speaker 2: After the Boston Bruins defeated the Detroit Red Wings on

0:41 Speaker 2: Saturday night at the ted Garden by a final score

0:44 Speaker 2: of three to two, and it took a shootout for

0:47 Speaker 2: the Bruins to secure that extra point. But my simple

0:51 Speaker 2: question is where would the Boston Bruins be this season

0:55 Speaker 2: without Morgan Geeky. He is now tied for the lead

1:00 Speaker 2: in the league with twenty goals alongside Nathan McKinnon, which

1:04 Speaker 2: is not too shabby company. And in the game against

1:08 Speaker 2: the Red Wings, he not only got the scoring started,

1:12 Speaker 2: he added a power play goal to make it two

1:15 Speaker 2: to one in the third period. That goal came after

1:18 Speaker 2: it looked like Morgan Geek went down with some type

1:22 Speaker 2: of an injury that seemingly looked a little bit scary.

1:26 Speaker 2: But this guy is in total beast mode this season, folks,

1:30 Speaker 2: and he came back to score that power play goal.

1:33 Speaker 2: In addition, Casey middllstat cemented the win with a sweet

1:38 Speaker 2: goal in the shootout, and Jeremy Swayman was excellent, excellent,

1:43 Speaker 2: excellent in the third period, the entire game, but particularly

1:48 Speaker 2: in that shootout, stopping the likes of Patrick Cain and

1:52 Speaker 2: Lucas Raymond. All in all, folks, what a great rebound

1:57 Speaker 2: win for the Boston Bruins after the dud that they

2:00 Speaker 2: laid against the New York Rangers on the Black Friday game.

2:04 Speaker 2: In that game, the Bruins showed very little signs of

2:07 Speaker 2: light until the third period. At that point, it was

2:11 Speaker 2: too little, too late, and even Marco Sturm was not

2:15 Speaker 2: pleased at all with the efforts of the players out

2:18 Speaker 2: on the ice, and he made no excuses for the

2:21 Speaker 2: fact that the Bruins have injuries, none the least of

2:24 Speaker 2: which is now we've seen two games without David Pastronach,

2:29 Speaker 2: which is why I asked the question where would the

2:32 Speaker 2: Bruins be without Morgan Geeky And if David Pastronach is

2:36 Speaker 2: out for any extended period, I might start to get

2:39 Speaker 2: a bit nervous about how the Bruins are going to

2:43 Speaker 2: string together wins. But be that as it may, I

2:46 Speaker 2: was glad to see number one a coach holding the

2:49 Speaker 2: players who are taking the ice accountable for their play

2:54 Speaker 2: on the ice, and the fact that those same players

2:57 Speaker 2: responded with a great team effort against the Detroit Red Wings,

3:03 Speaker 2: who are not playing bad hockey themselves. The Bruins secured crucial,

3:09 Speaker 2: that crucial extra point in the standings to keep pace

3:13 Speaker 2: with other teams in their division. These same two teams

3:17 Speaker 2: will face each other again on Tuesday night, and it

3:21 Speaker 2: will be interesting to see what turn that game takes,

3:25 Speaker 2: as it is a bit of a rivalry to original

3:30 Speaker 2: six teams and two teams who need every point against

3:34 Speaker 2: each other that they can scrape together.

3:36 Speaker 1: The Bruins are heading to Detroit for the second part

3:39 Speaker 1: of a home and away with the Red Wings. Personally,

3:41 Speaker 1: I'd like to see Storm start swaying again, as he

3:45 Speaker 1: was clearly the difference maker in the last game. In fact,

3:48 Speaker 1: I'll let you in on a little preview of my

3:51 Speaker 1: Thanksgiving model that will be coming out later this week.

3:54 Speaker 1: Get ready to be totally shocked by this one, folks.

3:57 Speaker 1: Boston's elite goaltending has been hiding all manner of sins

4:02 Speaker 1: and they won't make the playoffs this year unless they

4:05 Speaker 1: get their penalties under control. It's literally going to be

4:10 Speaker 1: the thing that sinks them if they can't figure it out.

4:13 Speaker 1: And I don't mean that just as a fan watching

4:17 Speaker 1: the game. I mean that even mathematically. We've talked about

4:21 Speaker 1: them losing winnable games, and yes, that is also a

4:24 Speaker 1: pathway to the playoffs if they can figure those out.

4:27 Speaker 1: But the one that is the most infuriating is the penalties.

4:31 Speaker 1: It's all self inflicted. It will be the biggest reason

4:35 Speaker 1: they fall short if they can't get themselves under control.

4:38 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying they need to cut back on

4:40 Speaker 1: all of their penalties, Let's be honest, that's impossible with

4:44 Speaker 1: the target on Boston's back. But if they can reduce

4:47 Speaker 1: their penalties by just twenty percent and increase their PDO

4:52 Speaker 1: which is also known as their shooting percentage plus save percentage,

4:56 Speaker 1: i e. Shoot more, score more, just a little bit.

5:00 Speaker 1: Then they might actually make the playoffs, but we'll see.

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