Bruins Blowup: When 5 Goals Still Isn’t Enough | Snap Shots Episode 54

0:00 Speaker 1: Last night's game against the Anaheim Ducks had to be

0:03 Speaker 1: the most insane, unhinged game the Bruins have played in

0:08 Speaker 1: a very long time. I don't think I have the

0:11 Speaker 1: words in me to adequately describe what I watched. One

0:17 Speaker 1: thing that has become crystal clear. Offense is not the

0:22 Speaker 1: problem for a team with an incredible piquet. They might

0:27 Speaker 1: as well not have any defenseman on the ice besides

0:31 Speaker 1: Nikita Zadorov. Ken Sturm, stop the hemorrhaging, or will management

0:35 Speaker 1: take things into their own hands and finally get rid

0:38 Speaker 1: of some of these assistant coaches. This is a Bruins

0:42 Speaker 1: tape to tape snapshot.

0:47 Speaker 2: I'm at a loss, folks, as to how to even

0:49 Speaker 2: begin this snapshot with respect to the Boston Bruins game

0:54 Speaker 2: against the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night. The Bruins lost

0:59 Speaker 2: seven to five against a team that they should be

1:04 Speaker 2: able to be Stop me, if you've heard that already

1:07 Speaker 2: in this early part of the season. Not only did

1:10 Speaker 2: they lose seven to five, one would think that when

1:14 Speaker 2: you score five goals, it would be enough to win

1:17 Speaker 2: a game in the National Hockey League. Oh no, but no.

1:21 Speaker 2: Not with this year's version of the Boston Bruins. Apparently

1:26 Speaker 2: Thursday Night's game was an embarrassment. And I'm not the

1:31 Speaker 2: only one saying that. Morgan Geeky said it. Jonis Corposalo

1:36 Speaker 2: said it, and I'm sure that other players are thinking

1:40 Speaker 2: it if they haven't said it. Cam Neely needs to

1:43 Speaker 2: take this so called vaunted defensive structure where he thought

1:48 Speaker 2: that this team would be so difficult to play against,

1:52 Speaker 2: and light it on freaking fire, because at this point,

1:57 Speaker 2: what I see is I see defense, kinsman and forwards

2:02 Speaker 2: who look lost in our own end, and when I

2:05 Speaker 2: tell you lost, they don't seem to have a clue

2:10 Speaker 2: who is supposed to be doing what, which might leave

2:13 Speaker 2: our goaltenders wondering what the hell is going on here?

2:18 Speaker 2: Is someone gonna play the man? Is someone going to

2:22 Speaker 2: take care of the puck and make a play on

2:25 Speaker 2: the puck. It seems to me that even coach Sturm

2:29 Speaker 2: is at a loss at this point. So I'm not

2:33 Speaker 2: sure where this team goes from here. After all of

2:37 Speaker 2: the effort that was made in that third period for

2:41 Speaker 2: David Pasternak and Morgan Geeky to score goals twenty five

2:46 Speaker 2: seconds apart, and then let the Anaheim Ducks back in again.

2:51 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. That is inexcusable, in my view, inexcusable. And

2:57 Speaker 2: the so called leaders on this team, and I'm talking

3:01 Speaker 2: about Charlie McAvoy and David Pasternach and whoever else in

3:06 Speaker 2: that locker room thinks that they're a leader, they had

3:10 Speaker 2: better start playing like leaders because if not, there are

3:15 Speaker 2: going to be some serious changes on this team. I

3:19 Speaker 2: don't know where those changes are coming from, because based

3:22 Speaker 2: on what Marco Sturm said, folks, we might be stuck

3:26 Speaker 2: with this roster as it's currently constructed for the foreseeable future,

3:32 Speaker 2: and the foreseeable future really doesn't look pretty at this

3:36 Speaker 2: point in time. When is the last time that any

3:39 Speaker 2: of us have watched a game where Charlie McAvoy has

3:43 Speaker 2: thrown a hit that has changed the momentum of the

3:46 Speaker 2: game for the Boston Bruins. Because the last time I

3:49 Speaker 2: saw Charlie McAvoy play with any type of aggressiveness was

3:54 Speaker 2: during the tournament last season when he represented Team USA,

4:00 Speaker 2: and before he got injured, we all said to ourselves, boy,

4:05 Speaker 2: oh boy, if that's the Charlie McAvoy that we can

4:08 Speaker 2: get on a regular recurring basis, this team will be

4:12 Speaker 2: in pretty good shape. But we haven't seen that out

4:15 Speaker 2: of Charlie McAvoy. Now, these issues are not exclusively on him,

4:21 Speaker 2: because there's lots of flame pie to go around. I

4:25 Speaker 2: see forwards who are unwilling to backcheck and to make

4:30 Speaker 2: a play in their own end. Dare I say that

4:34 Speaker 2: Nikita Zadorov for all the shit that that player took

4:39 Speaker 2: because of his contract, he has been this season thus

4:44 Speaker 2: far the Bruins' best defenseman, and in my mind, he's

4:48 Speaker 2: a better leader at this point than Charlie McAvoy is.

4:52 Speaker 1: It feels like we are in a deep, dark hole

4:55 Speaker 1: from which we will never escape, and as long as

4:57 Speaker 1: the wrongs that were committed by management ownership are not righted,

5:02 Speaker 1: we are doomed to repeat these losses over and over again.

5:07 Speaker 1: On Saturday, the Bruins play the Colorado Avalanche for the

5:10 Speaker 1: final time this season. Of all the losses that Boston

5:13 Speaker 1: has faced this year, it's the only one that was

5:16 Speaker 1: by multiple goals. Because Corpusolo played on Thursday night, we

5:20 Speaker 1: most certainly will see Jeremy Swayman in the net with

5:23 Speaker 1: the hopes of securing a much needed win. Not much

5:27 Speaker 1: has changed for the Avs since last Saturday. They continue

5:31 Speaker 1: to be without a regulation loss, maintaining a five to

5:34 Speaker 1: zero and three start for the season. They even went

5:38 Speaker 1: so far as to end Carolina's fantastic start and handed

5:42 Speaker 1: that team their first loss of the season. The Avs

5:45 Speaker 1: are among the top three teams leading the league in

5:48 Speaker 1: goal differential and I can't imagine that will change anytime soon.

5:53 Speaker 1: They're also maintaining a fifty five plus percent shot attempt

5:57 Speaker 1: slash COURSI four percentage compared to Boston's forty eight percent. Yes,

6:03 Speaker 1: Boston has been getting more and more shots on goal.

6:06 Speaker 1: Last night, they had forty two shots on goal to

6:09 Speaker 1: Anaheim's thirty, but they have a lot of ground to

6:12 Speaker 1: cover on that front, and with the current state of

6:14 Speaker 1: Boston's defense, Jeremy better be praying to the hockey gods

6:19 Speaker 1: for some good luck, because he might as well be

6:21 Speaker 1: out there on his own. Boston was able to be

6:25 Speaker 1: a little more disciplined when it came to going on

6:28 Speaker 1: the PK last night, only taking three minor penalties and

6:32 Speaker 1: one matching five for fighting, but they are still going

6:35 Speaker 1: to need to be on top of their game. Can

6:38 Speaker 1: they actually pull it off? Make sure you rate and

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