Bruins Free Agency Frenzy Fizzles? | Ep. 97

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0:41 Speaker 4: What's that for my? Welcome in everyone to a special

0:57 Speaker 4: live episode of Bruins Tape to. I'm your host today,

1:02 Speaker 4: Caroline with a K, and I'm joined by my fantastic

1:07 Speaker 4: co host, Maria Watertown. Hey, Maria, how's it going?

1:10 Speaker 5: Happy free, Happy free agency day, Happy first official day

1:16 Speaker 5: of retirement for me, So monument.

1:21 Speaker 4: That's wonderful news. That is awesome. Well, we also have

1:27 Speaker 4: lots of other big and exciting news here on the pod. Yes, today,

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4:13 Speaker 5: I know, I learn a lot of you know stuff, yeah,

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4:24 Speaker 5: you know, which I have a tendency to do when

4:27 Speaker 5: it comes to our Boston Bruins or some of the

4:29 Speaker 5: crap that happens in our beloved league.

4:32 Speaker 4: Yep. Oh yeah. Yeah. So that being said, hooray for us.

4:37 Speaker 4: But more exciting news is free agency. So uh, I

4:43 Speaker 4: don't know if you've noticed this, and again this is

4:46 Speaker 4: one of those things that because we only talk about

4:48 Speaker 4: it literally once every year, I can't remember how it

4:53 Speaker 4: has happened in the past. But tons of activity for

4:59 Speaker 4: sign and trade or well trade and signs, and a

5:03 Speaker 4: lot of extensions coming in really at the eleventh hour.

5:07 Speaker 4: We have a little spreadsheet that we use that again

5:12 Speaker 4: again perks of being in the discord, you get to

5:16 Speaker 4: keep track with us there. But well over one hundred

5:21 Speaker 4: signing slash extensions prior to the deadline this year, and

5:27 Speaker 4: part of me is wondering, and I want to get

5:29 Speaker 4: your take on this, Maria as to why it seems

5:31 Speaker 4: like there's been quite so many. I thought about this

5:34 Speaker 4: and I have I have a take on it. So

5:38 Speaker 4: do you think the reason behind it is the threat

5:42 Speaker 4: of offer sheets likely being a big thing this year

5:46 Speaker 4: or what's your take? Why do you think this is

5:48 Speaker 4: such a to do this year?

5:51 Speaker 5: Well, I think there is some concern that more so

5:55 Speaker 5: not just the offera sheets, but the fact that because

5:58 Speaker 5: salary k went up and teams have extra moneies to

6:05 Speaker 5: grow at guys that I think they really wanted to

6:08 Speaker 5: get their guys those that they wanted to keep certain

6:12 Speaker 5: franchises locked and loaded before they potentially had an opportunity

6:18 Speaker 5: to go out there and be wowed by someone else's offer,

6:23 Speaker 5: And it was almost a little bit of a like

6:26 Speaker 5: you know when you blow up a balloon and you

6:29 Speaker 5: start seeing the air coming out of the balloon. Because

6:32 Speaker 5: all of this drama or the splashes happened yesterday or

6:39 Speaker 5: late last night. So here we are free agency and

6:42 Speaker 5: we're like, Okay, who's left on the big board that

6:46 Speaker 5: anyone's really be interested in.

6:50 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very akin to what the NHL trade deadline

6:56 Speaker 4: had been for the last couple of years. So again

6:59 Speaker 4: we've talked about this that the last prior to this

7:02 Speaker 4: past NHL trade deadline, the two or maybe three years prior,

7:09 Speaker 4: teams weren't waiting till the eleventh hour for that blockbuster trade.

7:14 Speaker 4: On trade deadline day, it seemed like the start for

7:19 Speaker 4: the trades was really creeping further and further into February,

7:23 Speaker 4: and even at the very end of January. I was

7:26 Speaker 4: calling it like the Black Friday creed that used to exist,

7:31 Speaker 4: and so and then all of a sudden this year,

7:33 Speaker 4: you know, the trade deadline kind of went back to

7:36 Speaker 4: quote unquote normal what we are used to seeing. And

7:39 Speaker 4: so I kind of wonder if that's what's happened here. Again,

7:43 Speaker 4: everybody's just been super motivated to do business ahead of time.

7:48 Speaker 4: The new CBA is coming, so who knows how any

7:53 Speaker 4: of that's going to be changed. You know, it's there's

7:57 Speaker 4: a memorandum of understanding that's out right now, but it's

8:00 Speaker 4: not officially out yet, so you know, when we get

8:03 Speaker 4: the official like, yes, this is the deal, we'll go

8:06 Speaker 4: through it. But rumor is that the length of term

8:11 Speaker 4: is one of those aspects as part of the CBA

8:14 Speaker 4: and it's going to be shortened. So certainly another reason

8:17 Speaker 4: that if your player is eligible for extension because he's

8:20 Speaker 4: in his final year of his contract, that perhaps you

8:23 Speaker 4: want to get that in now before changes to term.

8:27 Speaker 4: And honestly, why.

8:29 Speaker 5: Risk it If you want to keep the player and

8:32 Speaker 5: the player wants to stay with your franchise, why would

8:37 Speaker 5: you risk the possibility of the potential that again, you know,

8:43 Speaker 5: the lure of money or the lure of money or

8:46 Speaker 5: term or both might be too big of risk yep

8:51 Speaker 5: for you to swallow if you want to keep a

8:56 Speaker 5: specific player yep. And I don't know, you know, get

9:00 Speaker 5: to this at some point, but I don't understand two things.

9:05 Speaker 5: I don't understand how Bill Zito of the Florida Panthers

9:09 Speaker 5: was not named GM of the Year, and I don't

9:12 Speaker 5: know how he re signed at Blad Bennett and Marshy.

9:19 Speaker 4: Ye.

9:20 Speaker 5: That is a dropping of the gauntlet across the league

9:26 Speaker 5: saying we're in this to become a dynasty and I'll

9:31 Speaker 5: show you how we're gonna do that.

9:34 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's truly astonishing to me because much as we

9:39 Speaker 4: have discussed how the culture of the team is very different,

9:44 Speaker 4: the way that Zito and his brain trust have gone

9:48 Speaker 4: about building a team is also a little bit different

9:51 Speaker 4: than I think we've seen in a lot of other teams.

9:54 Speaker 4: You know, if you I talked about this recently when

9:57 Speaker 4: I was a guest on the Post Huggers podcast, asked

10:00 Speaker 4: saying that if you call you know Moneyball and the

10:03 Speaker 4: Oakland A's from beck you know twenty some idd years

10:06 Speaker 4: ago where they took all these different random guys and

10:10 Speaker 4: based on analytics, built an incredible team. And the Florida

10:13 Speaker 4: Panthers are pretty well known for being an analytics heavy

10:17 Speaker 4: team looking for those guys that maybe are not the

10:20 Speaker 4: obvious best player, but because they have built a team

10:26 Speaker 4: where every player has a very specific job. You know,

10:29 Speaker 4: that's something that we have talked about for years now

10:32 Speaker 4: on this podcast that everyone has to have a job

10:35 Speaker 4: and they have to be really good at it, and they.

10:38 Speaker 5: Have to understand what their job is, they have to

10:42 Speaker 5: understand how to execute it, and they have to understand

10:45 Speaker 5: and know what the ultimate goal or result of doing

10:48 Speaker 5: your job should be. And you know, we we have

10:53 Speaker 5: talked many times on our own podcast about certain teams

10:59 Speaker 5: that we have both agreed don't play honorable games, true, right,

11:04 Speaker 5: And the Panthers are one of those those teams, and

11:09 Speaker 5: there are a couple of other teams in the league,

11:12 Speaker 5: but Jesus Christ, it's hard to argue with the success

11:18 Speaker 5: that they have in the impressive way they go about

11:23 Speaker 5: getting their business done.

11:25 Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, one hundred percent. So that's pretty astonishing. But

11:30 Speaker 4: let's shift gears really quick because we've got about three

11:33 Speaker 4: minutes until the season and we're going to get flooded,

11:37 Speaker 4: so you know, we'll be checking our phones and keeping

11:41 Speaker 4: everybody abreast of what's happening. And if you're listening to

11:45 Speaker 4: this a little bit later, because we're going to release

11:47 Speaker 4: this also as our podcast episode, you'll get to hear

11:50 Speaker 4: us kind of give our hot takes in real time,

11:52 Speaker 4: and for Bruins specific dealings, we will be doing deeper

11:59 Speaker 4: dives later in summer, but first and foremost for Boston,

12:05 Speaker 4: we've seen a flurry of activity. Even just in the

12:08 Speaker 4: last couple of days, we've had a number of extensions.

12:12 Speaker 4: So I'm going to go down the line real quick,

12:15 Speaker 4: and Maria, I want to I want you to give

12:17 Speaker 4: like a super hot take, couple of words, give me

12:20 Speaker 4: your opinion, and then we can discuss later. So they

12:25 Speaker 4: have extended Jeordi Merkilov in Boston at seven to seventy

12:30 Speaker 4: five cap hit for this RFA with arbitration one year.

12:36 Speaker 5: You know, this player doesn't totally excite me in any way,

12:41 Speaker 5: shape or form anyways. So I'm kind of, you know,

12:46 Speaker 5: okay with it.

12:47 Speaker 4: Okay, Henry Joki Harre you if you listen to a

12:51 Speaker 4: previous episode that we've already had, he's the one that

12:53 Speaker 4: we thought maybe wasn't going to be coming back. He

12:55 Speaker 4: signed an extension for three million dollars for three years

12:59 Speaker 4: to make him as a UFA thoughts there.

13:06 Speaker 5: I'm just I'm trying to understand how they're building their

13:10 Speaker 5: roster and I'm still struggling with the process and the plan.

13:17 Speaker 5: So again, I'm not getting any warm and fuzzies.

13:21 Speaker 1: Yeah.

13:22 Speaker 5: Well it's I don't know, me crazy, but yeah, I'm

13:26 Speaker 5: not getting any warm and fuzzies at this point.

13:29 Speaker 4: So we also have John Beecher also extended for one year.

13:35 Speaker 4: He's currently an RFA with arbitration rights for nine hundred

13:38 Speaker 4: thousand dollars. Welcome back, John Beecher.

13:42 Speaker 5: I guess, I mean, I guess like, look, you can't

13:46 Speaker 5: give up on all these young players, right, but true

13:50 Speaker 5: at some point. Okay, so if this is an instance

13:54 Speaker 5: where look, dude, we're giving you one more opportunity, Okay, sure,

13:58 Speaker 5: we're giving you one more opportunity to show us that

14:02 Speaker 5: you have what it takes and you're willing to put

14:05 Speaker 5: the work in consistently to show us what you have

14:12 Speaker 5: to warrant staying with our franchise.

14:16 Speaker 4: Yep.

14:17 Speaker 3: Uh.

14:18 Speaker 4: Mara Husnadinov was another young man we talked about that.

14:22 Speaker 4: We said that we wanted to see him come back

14:25 Speaker 4: nine five for a two year extension RFA with arbitration rates.

14:31 Speaker 5: I think that's a good deal for the Bruins. I

14:35 Speaker 5: think there is a potential for some good stuff to

14:40 Speaker 5: come out of this player.

14:42 Speaker 4: So I'm okay with that.

14:44 Speaker 5: And it's only two years, so you know, I have

14:46 Speaker 5: to give Sweeney some credit, but he's not he's not

14:49 Speaker 5: going all in with you know, these long contracts like

14:53 Speaker 5: the Edmonton Oilers did with a certain former bruin.

14:58 Speaker 4: We'll get we'll get to that one too. Sure, I'm

15:00 Speaker 4: sure we're going to skip the one that I know

15:03 Speaker 4: you got thoughts on for a little bit later. But

15:06 Speaker 4: Michael Callahan got an extension one year at seven seventy five.

15:11 Speaker 4: Quite frankly, I said yesterday, I don't even remember this guy,

15:13 Speaker 4: and Grant, I believe said and you can yell at

15:17 Speaker 4: me if I'm wrong. I played like seventeen games and

15:21 Speaker 4: I have zero recollection guy, So sorry any thoughts there

15:29 Speaker 4: because I didn't remember. Look, I mean.

15:34 Speaker 5: Each of every one of the players that you have

15:38 Speaker 5: mentioned to date, and I know that I've used this

15:42 Speaker 5: term on more than one occasion in previous podcasts. Is

15:48 Speaker 5: I qualify them as Jags just another guy? These are

15:52 Speaker 5: not going to be the building blocks four bringing you

15:59 Speaker 5: back from the this that you were in last season?

16:03 Speaker 4: Right right? Oh? All right? So we have a late

16:11 Speaker 4: breaking one from twenty minutes ago, so this is a

16:14 Speaker 4: little bit different. Let me pull up just on a

16:19 Speaker 4: bigger screen. The Bruins have made a trade at the

16:26 Speaker 4: deadline with the Oilers for Victor Arvison. Yes, so Victor Arvidson.

16:37 Speaker 4: He has a two year contract, so he's going into

16:43 Speaker 4: his second year. So I'll be curious to see if

16:46 Speaker 4: this turns into a possible extension because they have he

16:51 Speaker 4: is a cap hit of four million dollars with a

16:54 Speaker 4: no move clause, so he either Boston was on a list.

16:59 Speaker 4: I don't know that the details. So again, like I said,

17:03 Speaker 4: we're just getting the news, and Boston sends back a

17:05 Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven fifth round pick, no salary rotaine.

17:09 Speaker 5: So that's kind of the last I did ask on Twitter.

17:13 Speaker 5: Yes to Scott McLaughlin, who writes for WEEI and also

17:20 Speaker 5: is the one of the hosts of the Skate Pod,

17:23 Speaker 5: and he said, you know what exactly are the Bruin's

17:26 Speaker 5: doing here? So Ardvredson was Marcus Stern was an assistant

17:32 Speaker 5: during Ardvardson's first year with the Kings, so Marco has

17:36 Speaker 5: some familiarity with this player. And in addition, what Scott

17:43 Speaker 5: told me was is that he likes to shoot a

17:46 Speaker 5: lot this player and can average fifteen twenty goals a season. Yep, yes,

17:56 Speaker 5: so he has scored twenty plus goals five times. Scott

18:02 Speaker 5: referred to him as not an elite finisher, but he

18:06 Speaker 5: can pretty much give you twenty goals and he can

18:09 Speaker 5: make things happen on the rush too, and good on

18:12 Speaker 5: zone entries. So, you know, maybe because we've had so

18:16 Speaker 5: many issues offensively both you know, five on five and

18:19 Speaker 5: with the power play with zone entries. So thank you

18:24 Speaker 5: Scott for that context.

18:27 Speaker 4: Yeah, at this point, I'm not mad about bringing in

18:30 Speaker 4: a forward who has the propensity to shoot. I don't

18:34 Speaker 4: care if all we're going to get is twenty goals

18:36 Speaker 4: out of him, because I think the biggest complaint certainly

18:40 Speaker 4: last season, and I feel like it was probably this

18:43 Speaker 4: the case the season before, is you can't just be

18:48 Speaker 4: reliant on those quality shots like that. We don't have

18:53 Speaker 4: enough guys on the team who are elite enough. We

18:57 Speaker 4: don't have enough. We don't have ten David Poster Knox right,

19:00 Speaker 4: So you just have to pepper them with shots and

19:03 Speaker 4: you just increase your odds and if you've got the

19:05 Speaker 4: right guys around the net, and the right play setup,

19:08 Speaker 4: they'll get one in right. So I'm i'm I think

19:13 Speaker 4: this has some potential. We'll definitely do a deep dive

19:17 Speaker 4: on him because I'm curious about any other details around

19:21 Speaker 4: this particular player and what he could be bringing to

19:24 Speaker 4: the team. So that's great news. That happened literally twenty

19:29 Speaker 4: minutes prior to minutes ago, everything that just happened, So

19:32 Speaker 4: that's great. So a couple of other kind of what

19:40 Speaker 4: am I trying to say, Providence players can't even think

19:43 Speaker 4: right now, that have also been extended. Besides Michael Callahan,

19:47 Speaker 4: we've got Michael Dpietrow, who's a goaltender. We've kind of

19:50 Speaker 4: heard about him a little bit. He's the guy who

19:52 Speaker 4: came over from Vancouver if you remember a couple of

19:55 Speaker 4: seasons ago, who was definitely the victim of the bubble

19:59 Speaker 4: season his development. So I'm curious to know what they're

20:04 Speaker 4: going to be planning on with him because he just

20:07 Speaker 4: signed a two year deal for like eight twelve, which

20:13 Speaker 4: is like nothing, but he's twenty six, so I wonder

20:16 Speaker 4: if they are prepping him for some kind of support

20:21 Speaker 4: role in the future. Then we have Patrick Brown, Okay,

20:26 Speaker 4: great seven seventy five for one year. He's thirty three

20:30 Speaker 4: year old UFA. And then we've got the big ones,

20:35 Speaker 4: which are of course Morgan Geeky. That's the one that

20:38 Speaker 4: everybody was waiting for. Everyone was nervous, but you have

20:40 Speaker 4: to remember the qualifying offers weren't due in until literally yesterday,

20:46 Speaker 4: so they clearly were working down to the wire, giving

20:50 Speaker 4: us just a minor art attack, because this is definitely

20:53 Speaker 4: a guy who would have been offer sheeted for sure.

20:56 Speaker 4: He was extended at five point five million for five years.

21:02 Speaker 4: So I like that deal. Very fantastic deal. I thought

21:06 Speaker 4: it was.

21:07 Speaker 5: I was I thought he was going to kind of

21:09 Speaker 5: push from for you know, six sixish, somewhere in the

21:15 Speaker 5: six million. But you know, credit to him and his

21:19 Speaker 5: agent and and to Sweeney, because I think that is

21:25 Speaker 5: a pretty pretty decent contract, and you know the fact

21:30 Speaker 5: that he and Pasta worked, Yeah, you came out together right,

21:36 Speaker 5: and honestly, you couldn't risk you couldn't really run the

21:40 Speaker 5: risk of having him Geeky potentially go off to another organization.

21:48 Speaker 5: Because I've said it once and I've said it a

21:51 Speaker 5: hundred times. If Pasta is happy, I'm happy, and so

21:55 Speaker 5: should the organization be happy, and.

21:57 Speaker 4: I think it's actually a very fair contract. I don't

22:00 Speaker 4: I agree. I gave up honestly.

22:02 Speaker 5: I thought he might use a little leverage to you know,

22:05 Speaker 5: maybe get a few more bucks. But you know what,

22:07 Speaker 5: credit to him because he said at one point during

22:12 Speaker 5: the season, when asked about his contract status, that you know,

22:16 Speaker 5: he really liked it here. And you know, maybe a

22:18 Speaker 5: lot of players say this because they're blown smoke up

22:20 Speaker 5: our ass, but he really liked it here and he

22:24 Speaker 5: wanted to stay here, and you know, why not find

22:28 Speaker 5: yourself a good landing spot. And who the hell wouldn't

22:31 Speaker 5: want to keep playing next to David Pastro?

22:33 Speaker 4: Now, what do you make of the five year term?

22:36 Speaker 4: I feel like that's kind of an unusual term length

22:39 Speaker 4: these days, because you're either getting a you know, two

22:42 Speaker 4: three year bridge deal or you're going all the way

22:45 Speaker 4: for the full eight, So we don't really see a

22:48 Speaker 4: ton of five year deals. What do you think of that?

22:52 Speaker 4: Thirty two? Yeah?

22:53 Speaker 1: How?

22:54 Speaker 5: How what is the length of Pasta's current contract? I

22:57 Speaker 5: wonder if that five year term has anything to do

23:01 Speaker 5: with that to kind of try to keep them somewhat together.

23:06 Speaker 4: That's a good question. It's probably close to the same

23:12 Speaker 4: time for expiration. I am checking it right, this sem

23:17 Speaker 4: David Pasternak is signed. Well, this only goes this only

23:23 Speaker 4: shows me through thirty one and it continues on and

23:26 Speaker 4: this would put him at I think you might be right. Yeah,

23:32 Speaker 4: let me check here on this his deal goes through

23:36 Speaker 4: the end of twenty thirty to thirty one, okay, so

23:41 Speaker 4: that kind of you know, and this is the same thing.

23:45 Speaker 4: They end the same year, so yeah, yep, although this

23:50 Speaker 4: thing says six years, so I could be wrong. There

23:54 Speaker 4: you go, there you go. That could have been from

23:56 Speaker 4: previous reporting.

23:58 Speaker 5: So I think to the majority of past his tenure

24:02 Speaker 5: here right, Yep, he's got he's got a solid line

24:06 Speaker 5: mate and you know what if you know, if they

24:11 Speaker 5: can become the next you know the comfort level that

24:15 Speaker 5: you know, Bergeron and Marshy had with each other, do

24:20 Speaker 5: it do.

24:20 Speaker 4: It every day all day? Yep? Yeah. And then of

24:26 Speaker 4: course the other big extension was for Mason Lorai. Uh

24:32 Speaker 4: he was an RFA with arbitration rights going and he

24:36 Speaker 4: just signed a multi year deal for three point two

24:43 Speaker 4: million dollars for the twenty four year old defenceman. What

24:48 Speaker 4: do you think of that?

24:50 Speaker 5: You really want my opinion?

24:52 Speaker 4: That's why we have a podcast, Maria, what you know what.

24:59 Speaker 1: I mean?

24:59 Speaker 4: Well, certainly again dig a little bit deeper in this one.

25:04 Speaker 5: It's an to me my thoughts on this, it's an overpay, Like,

25:09 Speaker 5: what are you doing given this kid three point.

25:12 Speaker 4: Two million dollars?

25:14 Speaker 5: It's surprising when when you said you yourself, GM said

25:18 Speaker 5: he clearly has things to work off. Yeah, okay, and

25:21 Speaker 5: now he had he had a significant regression, but the

25:25 Speaker 5: rest of the team did. However, I do understand he

25:29 Speaker 5: needed a pay raise, but three point two million. Yeah,

25:32 Speaker 5: you couldn't have said to this kid, you know, even

25:35 Speaker 5: if I might, even if it was a million dollars,

25:38 Speaker 5: swallow it at two and a half million. But to me,

25:42 Speaker 5: to me, that is where I think sometimes Don Sweeney

25:47 Speaker 5: makes dumb decisions.

25:49 Speaker 4: Mm hmm, I think.

25:50 Speaker 5: And again, people can disagree with me, and people can

25:54 Speaker 5: tell me you have no idea what you're talking about,

25:56 Speaker 5: and that could likely be true, but I can and

26:00 Speaker 5: share what my opinion is, and my opinion is that

26:04 Speaker 5: is an overpay. I agree taking that million and a

26:07 Speaker 5: half dollars okay, and set it aside for some other use. Yeah,

26:12 Speaker 5: I'm just saying, yeah, yeah, it was certainly higher than

26:17 Speaker 5: I expected, and my eyebrows rose and I thought immediately, wow,

26:21 Speaker 5: he's getting paid.

26:22 Speaker 4: Well, he's getting me, like Kevin.

26:25 Speaker 5: One of the worst plus minuses in the league. Thank

26:28 Speaker 5: you right, sign me up for that job.

26:31 Speaker 4: Yeah. And certainly, you know, being paid as an RFA,

26:36 Speaker 4: no matter what flavor of RFA, you are being paid

26:39 Speaker 4: above the minimum that you are required per the contract

26:45 Speaker 4: to be paid. Right, so he was due a pay increase.

26:51 Speaker 4: Being paid above that certainly is you know, your management

26:55 Speaker 4: showing additional faithful faith in you. And again, like you said,

27:00 Speaker 4: seeing a pay raise. I think he warranted a pay raise,

27:06 Speaker 4: certainly because there's something there. There is clearly something there

27:10 Speaker 4: and they just haven't gotten it out of him yet.

27:12 Speaker 4: But that seems like an insane deal. There was also

27:17 Speaker 4: a trade, not Bruins related, right before noon. Sam Lafferty

27:23 Speaker 4: has gone to Chicago, so that's another person from Buffalo.

27:28 Speaker 4: That Buffalo just keeps sending people away, So I'm sure

27:32 Speaker 4: he will probably do very well, although he is going

27:37 Speaker 4: to Chicago, so caveat. I don't know if they're actually

27:40 Speaker 4: interested in trying to get better. And then Montreal acquired

27:45 Speaker 4: Zach Bulldock from Saint Louis this morning for Logan, I

27:50 Speaker 4: don't know how you say his name? May you maybe sure?

27:54 Speaker 5: Can we talk about who were disappointed in that the

27:56 Speaker 5: Bruins didn't.

27:59 Speaker 4: Yes, who didn't tender the qualifying offers?

28:03 Speaker 5: Yes? Yes?

28:04 Speaker 4: Uh not gonna lie. This was the other person that

28:07 Speaker 4: we talked about in a recent podcast episode. But you

28:12 Speaker 4: know what, No, it's not that we don't know what

28:15 Speaker 4: we're talking about. It's the fact that to me, hearing

28:20 Speaker 4: that Jacob Blauco was not given a qualifying offer to

28:23 Speaker 4: return to Boston to me says what the heck? Again

28:29 Speaker 4: confirms the idea of what the hell is that is

28:32 Speaker 4: Boston's big plan because they're not being very upfront, they're

28:37 Speaker 4: not being very clear. It doesn't make any sense. Why

28:40 Speaker 4: would you get rid of the speed unless we are

28:43 Speaker 4: going to be wowed in the next you know, day

28:47 Speaker 4: or so, why would why for nothing? I don't know,

28:54 Speaker 4: Like I don't know, I don't know.

28:55 Speaker 1: It makes.

28:57 Speaker 5: That was a little kind of like just the point

29:00 Speaker 5: because as you said, you know, we we had our

29:03 Speaker 5: player snapshots and you know, talked about the players that

29:08 Speaker 5: were acquired at the trade deadline, and he was he

29:11 Speaker 5: was one of those depth guys that I thought right

29:15 Speaker 5: showed that he had, you know, speed, and he had

29:21 Speaker 5: some skills and a good, you know, good work ethic,

29:24 Speaker 5: and why wouldn't you have wanted to keep him again

29:27 Speaker 5: unless it was an instance of, you know, maybe the

29:31 Speaker 5: player or agent had a different sense of worth than

29:36 Speaker 5: the organization did, right, I don't know, it's a value,

29:41 Speaker 5: you know.

29:41 Speaker 4: But some other big signings that well, I think they're

29:47 Speaker 4: just extensions that have taken place because we're still waiting

29:50 Speaker 4: on some dig big news yet these are all extensions.

29:56 Speaker 4: Connor Garland in Vancouver has extended his contract there for

30:02 Speaker 4: six years at a six million dollar cap hit. That's

30:05 Speaker 4: a twenty nine year old right wing left winger. Another

30:09 Speaker 4: big one down in New Jersey, Jake Allen, the goaltender,

30:13 Speaker 4: he has extended for five years at one point eight

30:15 Speaker 4: which is kind of interesting. Let's see, we have Logan

30:21 Speaker 4: stankovin eight year extension six million dollars in Carolina, So

30:27 Speaker 4: that's that young man is going to be set for

30:30 Speaker 4: a long time. He's only twenty two years old. He's

30:33 Speaker 4: only twenty two years old, so he's going to be

30:35 Speaker 4: there for a while. Martin Fairvari has also extended seven

30:40 Speaker 4: years for six million dollars in Washington. Lefty Thatcher Demco

30:45 Speaker 4: goaltender extended for three years at eight point five million

30:49 Speaker 4: dollars in Vancouver. What do you make of that, Maria?

30:52 Speaker 4: That your Demco twenty nine years old eight point five

30:56 Speaker 4: million dollar? Holy moly, are you kidding me? I am

31:01 Speaker 4: one serious.

31:03 Speaker 1: I just don't.

31:06 Speaker 5: Set the market, all right, I mean it, And again,

31:12 Speaker 5: excuse my ignorance, but is he on the same performance

31:17 Speaker 5: level as Jeremy Swayman?

31:20 Speaker 4: So I believe I heard recently, probably thirty two thoughts

31:28 Speaker 4: maybe someplace else, that they are interested in keeping him around,

31:35 Speaker 4: because I think they are. Vancouver is bringing in a

31:39 Speaker 4: new goaltending coach and they want him to work with

31:45 Speaker 4: this new coach.

31:46 Speaker 5: But you had to pay him eight and a half

31:48 Speaker 5: million dollars and he still needs to work with a

31:51 Speaker 5: goaltending coach. I mean, I just again, was it my franchise,

31:55 Speaker 5: not my money?

31:55 Speaker 4: But raight? Was it Thatcher Demco the one who got

32:00 Speaker 4: hurt with like the weird knee thing? Or am I

32:04 Speaker 4: thinking of somebody else? Was it him? I don't remember,

32:08 Speaker 4: I'm not remember. But even if it need your health,

32:11 Speaker 4: say it is and I think it is. So he's

32:14 Speaker 4: also coming back from you know, whatever serious leg injury

32:19 Speaker 4: that causes him pain that he's supposed to live with

32:21 Speaker 4: now apparently for the rest of his career.

32:23 Speaker 1: So it's a little eye opening. I mean, I just yep.

32:30 Speaker 4: Yeah. On a fun note, former Bruins legend tomash Nosek

32:36 Speaker 4: re signed or signed an extension with the Florida Panthers

32:41 Speaker 4: for the league minimum of seven to seventy five. But

32:46 Speaker 4: good on him, thirty two years old. Just want to

32:48 Speaker 4: Stanley Cup. This to me screams, I'm just here for

32:52 Speaker 4: the culture and the good time so I can play

32:55 Speaker 4: hockey with joy. I'm content there.

32:57 Speaker 5: We have a winning culture and I'm good with making

33:02 Speaker 5: under a million dollars. And again, you know, we could

33:05 Speaker 5: talk ad nauseum. You know, some of it might be

33:09 Speaker 5: you know, I know it's a tax free state, but

33:13 Speaker 5: I think if I'm a player, that is a consideration.

33:18 Speaker 5: But more importantly, you are walking in to a set organization.

33:25 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, burd InHand, you know what, you know what

33:27 Speaker 4: you're getting right the old expression everybody's least favorite player

33:36 Speaker 4: in the league hands down. Tony di'angelo also signed an

33:42 Speaker 4: extension in New York with the Islanders for one point

33:45 Speaker 4: seventy five million dollars.

33:47 Speaker 5: So you know that that kid is like crap that

33:52 Speaker 5: sticks to your shoe, I.

33:53 Speaker 4: Know, I know. Well, the league does have an issue,

33:58 Speaker 4: a problem with actually shedding garbage human beings for good. Right,

34:04 Speaker 4: So he came back. They can't seem to get rid

34:08 Speaker 4: of Vander Kaine. Quinnville is back in the fold. So

34:12 Speaker 4: this is just, you know, your typical.

34:16 Speaker 5: NHL handling of the reclamation. Look at and I you know,

34:23 Speaker 5: I do believe in second chances. However, my determining factors

34:32 Speaker 5: is based on what you did for me to have

34:36 Speaker 5: to give you a second chance. If what I thought

34:39 Speaker 5: you did is so egregious that I want nothing to

34:41 Speaker 5: do with you, you're not getting a second chance for me.

34:45 Speaker 4: But that's just my how I think. All Right, Philadelphia

34:52 Speaker 4: has just the dalis Stars have a new coach too.

34:57 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, who do they end up picking?

35:00 Speaker 5: They are hiring Glenn Gullitson.

35:04 Speaker 4: Oh okay, yeah, yeah.

35:05 Speaker 5: Apparently he's worked with the organization previously, because the post

35:13 Speaker 5: from the NHL is he's back with a star, So.

35:16 Speaker 4: Yes, yep, all right, it looks like Christian de Vorak

35:23 Speaker 4: has left Montreal and he is heading down to Philadelphia

35:27 Speaker 4: on a one year deal for five point four million

35:30 Speaker 4: dollars cap hit, twenty nine years old, twenty nine year

35:33 Speaker 4: old center.

35:38 Speaker 5: Oh and they let's see, Oh did we talk touch

35:40 Speaker 5: on this? The Montreal and Canadians and Saint Louis Blues

35:45 Speaker 5: made a trade.

35:47 Speaker 4: No, the Blues.

35:50 Speaker 5: Have acquired defenseman Logan Malu from the Montreal Canadians for

35:57 Speaker 5: Zach Oldock.

35:59 Speaker 4: Yep, that's gonna be a big one. That was right

36:01 Speaker 4: before uh noon, So there you go, and now we

36:08 Speaker 4: just wait patiently to see uh if Rockbesser he's probably

36:14 Speaker 4: the next biggest one.

36:15 Speaker 5: I think he's probably, in my view, maybe the only

36:19 Speaker 5: big big fish remaining.

36:23 Speaker 4: Yep, yep, So let's see Christian Vorak. We are marking

36:30 Speaker 4: him as in Philadelphia for what did I say? One year?

36:35 Speaker 4: Five point four million dollars? That seems like a lot,

36:41 Speaker 4: just a little just a little five or well there

36:47 Speaker 4: you go, reading patiently?

36:56 Speaker 5: Come on, yeah, there was so much activity yesterday.

37:07 Speaker 4: Well anyways, so tell me.

37:12 Speaker 1: Who do we have?

37:13 Speaker 4: Who else do we have left? Who hasn't signed? Who

37:16 Speaker 4: would be up for free agency? Let me pull up

37:19 Speaker 4: that list, and let's see because at this point, I

37:21 Speaker 4: think we have to assume that they have not been

37:26 Speaker 4: given any kind of offer, so we know there are

37:31 Speaker 4: a number of besides Jacob Blauco who has not been

37:37 Speaker 4: given a qualifying offer. We haven't heard any news about

37:45 Speaker 4: Cole Kepke, so I'm assuming at this point he is

37:49 Speaker 4: going into free agency. Viniella Terry is another one that

37:56 Speaker 4: I'm a little bit surprised that we haven't heard anything about.

37:58 Speaker 4: Parker Wotherspoon. I mean, I think we knew that that

38:04 Speaker 4: was probably going to be the end of the road

38:06 Speaker 4: for him if he didn't get an extension. Thoughts on

38:10 Speaker 4: any of those guys, I just let's wait it out.

38:16 Speaker 4: Let's wait it out. I mean, let's just wait it out.

38:22 Speaker 4: None of those guys like you know again.

38:26 Speaker 5: We yeah, it's a belt and you can't rebuild with

38:34 Speaker 5: what if you're going to rebuild, you can't kill everybody

38:36 Speaker 5: that you already had, right yeah, I mean.

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40:02 Speaker 2: So what is the NHL Free Agency and how does

40:04 Speaker 2: it work?

40:05 Speaker 4: Well?

40:06 Speaker 2: New contracts are signed every year on July first. When

40:09 Speaker 2: a player's contract expires on June thirtieth, he becomes one

40:13 Speaker 2: of three kinds of free agents, restricted free agents, restricted

40:17 Speaker 2: free agents with arbitration, and unrestricted free agents. These statuses

40:21 Speaker 2: are determined by the Collective Bargaining Agreement or CBA. The

40:25 Speaker 2: CBA is an agreement made between franchise owners and the

40:28 Speaker 2: players association. It all starts with what's known as the

40:32 Speaker 2: twenty seven rule. If a player is twenty seven years

40:35 Speaker 2: of age or is completed seven accrued seasons, then they

40:39 Speaker 2: are automatically an unrestricted free agent, and they can negotiate

40:42 Speaker 2: their next contract anyway they'd like. If the player doesn't

40:45 Speaker 2: meet either of those terms, then they're one of two

40:48 Speaker 2: kinds of restricted free agent. RFAs are defined by the

40:52 Speaker 2: amount of time that they've played professionally their age by

40:55 Speaker 2: June thirtieth, in the age they sign their very first

40:58 Speaker 2: or entry level contract. By Wait, what's an accrued season

41:02 Speaker 2: versus a pro season and how are they different? Well,

41:06 Speaker 2: accrued seasons are used in the twenty seven rule. A

41:09 Speaker 2: single accrued season is defined as forty games rostered for

41:13 Speaker 2: skaters in thirty games rostered for goalies. Pro seasons are

41:17 Speaker 2: used to determine if an RFA is eligible for arbitration.

41:21 Speaker 2: A pro season is defined as a minimum of ten

41:24 Speaker 2: games played in any kind of pro league like.

41:26 Speaker 3: The NHL, AHL, KHL, or SHL.

41:29 Speaker 2: The number of pro.

41:30 Speaker 3: Seasons needed to become an RFA with arbitration rights depends

41:34 Speaker 3: on the player's age when he signed his first contract.

41:37 Speaker 3: Players who are between ages eighteen and twenty have to

41:40 Speaker 3: play at least four pro seasons, three seasons for those

41:44 Speaker 3: who sign at twenty one, two seasons for twenty two

41:46 Speaker 3: and twenty three year olds, in one pro season for

41:49 Speaker 3: those who signed at twenty four or older. If a

41:51 Speaker 3: player hasn't met these thresholds, then they are an RFA

41:55 Speaker 3: in must accept the qualifying offer presented. If they do

41:59 Speaker 3: meet these thresholds, then they have arbitration rights, which means

42:03 Speaker 3: they can actively negotiate their next contract, and if there

42:06 Speaker 3: is a disagreement, they can request a mediator to assist

42:09 Speaker 3: in negotiations. Players who opt to hold out as an

42:13 Speaker 3: RFA must have a contract by December first of that

42:17 Speaker 3: year in order to play in that particular NHL season.

42:21 Speaker 3: All RFAs expect to receive a qualifying offer this is

42:25 Speaker 3: the franchise deciding to hold on to the free agent's

42:27 Speaker 3: playing rights. All QoS must be at least one year

42:30 Speaker 3: in length, increase the player's salary by a certain percentage

42:34 Speaker 3: based on the previous contract's total value, and preserve the

42:37 Speaker 3: one way or two way clause from the previous contract.

42:41 Speaker 3: If an RFA with or without arbitration is not presented

42:45 Speaker 3: with a qualifying offer, they automatically become a UFA. Hope

42:49 Speaker 3: this helps make sense of the NHL free agency? Who

42:52 Speaker 3: are you keeping an eye on this year?

42:53 Speaker 5: So if you hear, if you hear someone else chiming in,

42:58 Speaker 5: it could be my one year rod granddaughter with any

43:01 Speaker 5: hot takes who wants to share.

43:03 Speaker 4: That sounds good. Well, while we still wait for any

43:07 Speaker 4: sort of huge blockbuster, And you know, at this point

43:10 Speaker 4: for our team, are you talking about our teaming? It's

43:14 Speaker 4: still pretty slow. It's still pretty slow, and we're sitting

43:17 Speaker 4: and waiting. I want to hear your reaction to the

43:22 Speaker 4: brad marshand extension and signing.

43:26 Speaker 5: Well, I don't think I'm surprised by the fact that

43:31 Speaker 5: he was going to stay there the way he talked,

43:34 Speaker 5: even in a drunken stupor. I don't even know if

43:37 Speaker 5: he's sobered up yet. And good for him because he's

43:42 Speaker 5: party in like a rock star. Absolutely, the money aspect

43:47 Speaker 5: of it is a great deal. Yeah, And I almost

43:52 Speaker 5: like flipping the bird with both of his Stanley Cup

43:55 Speaker 5: rings on at the Boston Bruins.

43:58 Speaker 4: What I was a little.

43:59 Speaker 5: Surprised at was the years because that'll and that'll bring

44:07 Speaker 5: him into what his forties. And yeah, I know Jackey

44:11 Speaker 5: players can play be you know. Yeah, but he's he's

44:16 Speaker 5: had some you know, he doesn't have chronic injuries, but

44:20 Speaker 5: the last couple of seasons or so, he's had some

44:23 Speaker 5: you know, surgery related injuries.

44:28 Speaker 4: Yeah. I definitely want to spend some time reading and

44:32 Speaker 4: learning a little bit more about his contract because I

44:35 Speaker 4: wouldn't be surprised if it's built in a very special

44:38 Speaker 4: way that sets him up for payment and retirement.

44:43 Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, but a great I mean money money wise,

44:48 Speaker 5: like yep, Well, he a great deal for him.

44:54 Speaker 4: You know, he found himself a really good landing spot.

44:58 Speaker 5: Excuse me, somebody, he's got too many cucumbers in her hands.

45:06 Speaker 5: He's going to be you know, if he continues in

45:08 Speaker 5: the role that he served them for when they acquired

45:14 Speaker 5: him at the trade deadline, then he likely will be

45:17 Speaker 5: able to play throughout the length of that contract because

45:22 Speaker 5: he's not going to have to play those really hard

45:25 Speaker 5: minutes that he was accustomed to playing with the Bruins,

45:30 Speaker 5: which is every you know, his regular line pow will

45:33 Speaker 5: play penalty kill, you know, when you know the bench

45:37 Speaker 5: had gotten you know, when you shorten the bench, you're

45:41 Speaker 5: throwing him out there. The Panthers have so much flexibility

45:46 Speaker 5: with their core and their death that you know, if

45:50 Speaker 5: they need to give them a breather, they can give

45:53 Speaker 5: him a breather.

45:54 Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, and I think also if if you consider

46:01 Speaker 4: the fact, so his contract for six years is worth

46:07 Speaker 4: thirty one and a half million dollars. So yes, over

46:10 Speaker 4: six years, he's taking less money than what we've heard

46:16 Speaker 4: rumored was the conversation in Boston. But think about how

46:23 Speaker 4: many years he wanted in Boston. He wanted three years, right,

46:27 Speaker 4: Let's be honest. As much as I love Brad Marshan,

46:32 Speaker 4: there's no way that he is playing until he's forty

46:35 Speaker 4: three years old. If he does, and he can phenomenal,

46:39 Speaker 4: But what I think happened is some very creative thinking

46:45 Speaker 4: in terms of the accounting, because if you take that

46:50 Speaker 4: thirty one and a half million dollars and he does sign,

46:53 Speaker 4: he does play for three years, which I think that

46:56 Speaker 4: definitely I wouldn't be surprised if he plays for another

46:59 Speaker 4: two three seasons. If you were to take that total

47:02 Speaker 4: value and divide it by three, that's ten ten million dollars.

47:09 Speaker 4: So it is a better deal. He is getting paid

47:13 Speaker 4: more ultimately by Florida because again, every season, the cap

47:19 Speaker 4: is going to continue to go up. His five and

47:22 Speaker 4: change million dollar contract is going to become a smaller

47:27 Speaker 4: and smaller percentage of the cap. And he has guaranteed

47:31 Speaker 4: himself this money.

47:35 Speaker 1: So I was surprised.

47:37 Speaker 5: I thought, yeah, you know, and maybe he didn't get

47:41 Speaker 5: the opportunity to be offered more. But I bet that

47:44 Speaker 5: there would have been a team out there that would

47:47 Speaker 5: have offered him more than that. But again he had

47:51 Speaker 5: not for that about the considerations, right, good organization, a

47:56 Speaker 5: culture that he doesn't have to bust his ass trying

48:00 Speaker 5: to rebuild because it's already there. He's still on the

48:05 Speaker 5: East Coast, he's still nearby his family, quick quick flight,

48:10 Speaker 5: So you know, I mean, honestly, good for him, and

48:14 Speaker 5: you know this this second Stanley Cup all but guarantees

48:19 Speaker 5: that he'll be in the Hall of Fame.

48:21 Speaker 4: Yeah, and he might have.

48:23 Speaker 5: He probably would have should have get in there get

48:26 Speaker 5: consideration even before this second Cup.

48:28 Speaker 4: But this is like a no brainer now, right exactly. Hey,

48:32 Speaker 4: look somebody is in the waiting room. Oh hi Adrian, Adrian,

48:38 Speaker 4: welcome in.

48:39 Speaker 1: I okay. Ever, by the way, thank you. It was

48:45 Speaker 1: really bad last week and oh my god to take

48:48 Speaker 1: care of as you can see, reporting to you from

48:50 Speaker 1: an old timey jail, old tim jail. Yeah yeah, uh

48:55 Speaker 1: now I was popping in because uh I got tagged in.

48:58 Speaker 1: But Maria, you're back, yeah, back.

49:00 Speaker 5: But I think I appreciate the backup because you know,

49:03 Speaker 5: as we all know, you both have young children. Never

49:09 Speaker 5: know what I'm gonna have to say.

49:10 Speaker 1: Excuse me, yeah, of course, of course. Uh while I'm here,

49:15 Speaker 1: can you guys quickly tell me about this armitson guy?

49:17 Speaker 4: And uh wait, there's some breaking news. There's breaking news

49:21 Speaker 4: about Rockfesser. It looks like he is Was he playing

49:29 Speaker 4: for Vancouver before, Yes, so he signed a new contract

49:33 Speaker 4: with Vancouver. He's staying there. Oooh seven years, seven point

49:39 Speaker 4: two five million dollars. So there goes that one a.

49:45 Speaker 1: Lot of really long extensions I'm seeing. Yeah, well, we.

49:49 Speaker 4: Were speculating it's because the changes in the CBA that

49:53 Speaker 4: are likely.

49:54 Speaker 5: And also, you know what the other thing I thought

49:57 Speaker 5: of too, because you know a lot of the sports

49:59 Speaker 5: of money driven, as caps continue to go up for teams, right,

50:04 Speaker 5: what's to prevent these guys from, you know, potentially turning

50:07 Speaker 5: mercenary and then just stopping themselves around to the highest bidders, so.

50:13 Speaker 1: You walk them in at a low salary for a

50:15 Speaker 1: long term. Yeah not yep, there you go.

50:20 Speaker 4: But yes, Arbondson Maria. Oh, at least he doesn't have

50:25 Speaker 4: to worry about ending up with JT. Miller again, that's true. However,

50:28 Speaker 4: he does have to play with Evander Kine, so that

50:32 Speaker 4: that does Yeah.

50:36 Speaker 1: Thanks.

50:37 Speaker 5: So what did I say that Scott McLoughlin shared with

50:40 Speaker 5: me about hold On I can Yeah, apparently he has

50:47 Speaker 5: does shoot. Okay, yeah, he does shoot a lot.

50:50 Speaker 4: No, he's.

50:53 Speaker 5: Not an elite finisher. He has scored twenty plus goals

50:58 Speaker 5: five times. He can make things happen on the rush,

51:02 Speaker 5: and he's good on zone entries and something we all

51:05 Speaker 5: knew was a debacle all of last season five on

51:09 Speaker 5: five and on the power play.

51:11 Speaker 1: So so are we thinking second line for him or

51:20 Speaker 1: sounds like you described a second line guy but or

51:24 Speaker 1: or where do you seem slot again?

51:27 Speaker 4: Well, here's my take this season.

51:30 Speaker 1: Okay, And if you're repeating yourself, I'm no.

51:32 Speaker 5: No, no, no, no no.

51:33 Speaker 4: This is just something that popped into my head.

51:36 Speaker 5: Put these guys wherever they have the best chance of

51:42 Speaker 5: succeeding and contributing. I don't care at this point if

51:48 Speaker 5: it's first, second, third, or fourth.

51:53 Speaker 4: Yep, Okay, yeah, it seems like he's gonna be potentially

52:00 Speaker 4: one of those players. I'm reading about him right now

52:05 Speaker 4: from Sportsnet that he is effectively a cap dump by

52:09 Speaker 4: the Oilers, but it should provide him with an opportunity

52:12 Speaker 4: to secure a top six role with the Bruins. Despite

52:15 Speaker 4: averaging one oh six of powerplay ice time last year,

52:18 Speaker 4: he manages three points with the man advantage. If he

52:21 Speaker 4: can secure a bigger role in Boston, the thirty two

52:23 Speaker 4: year old Suede should be capable of pushing for both

52:26 Speaker 4: the twenty goal and forty point marks in twenty twenty five.

52:29 Speaker 4: So that's of course the biggest question mark because at

52:34 Speaker 4: this point we've got so much unknown going into this

52:37 Speaker 4: season with a new coach. We don't know what kind

52:40 Speaker 4: of coach he's going to be. We have no idea

52:42 Speaker 4: what the hell management is up to are they? There's

52:46 Speaker 4: going to be a ton of young guys, a ton

52:47 Speaker 4: of new guys. Who's the captain? So can the leaders

52:53 Speaker 4: of this team get the most out of someone who

52:57 Speaker 4: has this potential? That's one in Boston sees.

53:04 Speaker 1: All right, I don't know. I don't know.

53:09 Speaker 4: This time last year, I'm like, trust the process.

53:11 Speaker 5: This year, I'm like, no, no, no, any we know

53:14 Speaker 5: what the process is and it can't be trusted because

53:17 Speaker 5: it is named Neely and Sweeney.

53:20 Speaker 1: So yeah, I was thinking last night that I just,

53:25 Speaker 1: especially after the expected news of Marshand, you know, signing

53:30 Speaker 1: somewhere and likely Florida, because I don't know where else

53:34 Speaker 1: who would go? Carolyn off top of Carolyn and I

53:38 Speaker 1: talked briefly and I seculated it if we were going

53:41 Speaker 1: to get a chance at getting him back, winning a

53:44 Speaker 1: Cup and just coming home would have been a lovely story.

53:48 Speaker 4: I know, a happy ending, right I mean, and not

53:50 Speaker 4: in the way that everyone thinks. Yeah.

53:52 Speaker 1: Minutes after that discussion that became moot. But I went

53:56 Speaker 1: through the rest of the evening just realizing that, like,

53:58 Speaker 1: I just don't recognize the team anymore. I don't know

54:01 Speaker 1: who is left. It seems everything seems like it's down

54:04 Speaker 1: to the studs with the pillars of swimming McAvoy, Imposternach,

54:09 Speaker 1: three very expensive players that had, you know, okay seasons

54:14 Speaker 1: last I mean, must have saved a season. But they've

54:17 Speaker 1: just been okay. So everything else is just murky. And

54:23 Speaker 1: unless we're nailing somebody that's like a ten pole player,

54:26 Speaker 1: which the are, and it seems like there's those auctions

54:28 Speaker 1: are diminishing. Wherever we pick up WHOA just doesn't seem

54:33 Speaker 1: like it's kind of like, okay, let's see what you

54:36 Speaker 1: can do.

54:36 Speaker 4: Yep.

54:38 Speaker 1: Honestly, with the signing of Geeky, in my head, it

54:41 Speaker 1: just seems like we're hoping to land another Geeky two

54:43 Speaker 1: seasons down the road. Yeah, someone that's going to come

54:46 Speaker 1: in and blossom because there's nobody in front of them,

54:49 Speaker 1: right and but you know, with this arbage, I guess

54:54 Speaker 1: he's thirty two. Didn't know that, But okay, so that's

54:56 Speaker 1: less that's not a long term investment. That's kind of

55:00 Speaker 1: if you're looking for a little bit of age and

55:02 Speaker 1: grit Darren and hopefully someone that can set up plays

55:06 Speaker 1: and but yep, I don't know.

55:12 Speaker 4: Other breaking news, William Ecklund has signed a three year,

55:17 Speaker 4: sixteen million dollar contract extension with the Sharks. So there's

55:23 Speaker 4: that three years at five point six million dollars contract

55:27 Speaker 4: extension for the twenty two year old left winger. So

55:30 Speaker 4: that seems like a good chuck and change.

55:33 Speaker 1: He's also been.

55:34 Speaker 4: Injured, so we'll see. I'm re interested in seeing what

55:39 Speaker 4: San Jose is doing because between San Jose and Anaheim,

55:45 Speaker 4: thinking about all of these teams out there that are

55:47 Speaker 4: just basement dwelling teams, they seem like they're actually really trying,

55:55 Speaker 4: compared to like Chicago and Buffalo, who are like, hey,

55:59 Speaker 4: we're just here.

56:00 Speaker 5: Yeah, So I think that seemed yeah, Adrian, to your point,

56:05 Speaker 5: the only thing that makes me this whole process palpable

56:10 Speaker 5: is the fact that another original sixteen is in just

56:15 Speaker 5: the same state of disarray as we are, which would

56:19 Speaker 5: be the New York Rangers.

56:20 Speaker 3: Right.

56:21 Speaker 5: No talk about talk about you know, our reclamation rebuilt

56:26 Speaker 5: project going on there. If we think we have issues

56:29 Speaker 5: with our GM, they're feeling the same way about Chris

56:34 Speaker 5: Drury as we feel about our management team, like where

56:38 Speaker 5: are you going?

56:38 Speaker 4: What are you doing?

56:39 Speaker 1: What is happening here right now? Yeah? Yeah, I mean

56:43 Speaker 1: I guess our if you look at the you compare

56:46 Speaker 1: our plates to theirs, ours was sort of like a

56:49 Speaker 1: mappable slow descent that we thought we might be able

56:52 Speaker 1: to pull from, pull up from, and didn't. The Rangers

56:56 Speaker 1: was just a nosedive, an unexpected, completely out of the blue.

57:01 Speaker 1: Nothing worked, and now they blow it up. Yep. And

57:06 Speaker 1: being someone that lives in New York and like will

57:09 Speaker 1: frequently log onto meetings in the mornings and working with

57:13 Speaker 1: Ranger fans, you could tell the tone of the meetings

57:15 Speaker 1: this entire season of like, you know, me logging in

57:18 Speaker 1: holding my Bruins mug and then like other people wogging

57:21 Speaker 1: in hold with the Ranger hats and just being like,

57:23 Speaker 1: you know, it's not good. So yeah, you're right, And

57:27 Speaker 1: it actually is funny because I'd forgot about them because

57:28 Speaker 1: I actually thought you were talking about Chicago. No, they

57:31 Speaker 1: don't care at of the original six teams are are

57:35 Speaker 1: screwed at this point, I know, And the league seems

57:40 Speaker 1: to belong markets that don't even have ice. So we've

57:47 Speaker 1: got two Florida teams, one in Las Vegas and Texas.

57:51 Speaker 1: I guess, you know, so it's like it it. I

57:57 Speaker 1: guess the.

57:58 Speaker 5: Master plan is working brilliantly, which is, you know, they

58:01 Speaker 5: brought these teams in and you know through various means,

58:05 Speaker 5: and I'm not saying there's collusion and stuff like that,

58:07 Speaker 5: but you know, the league loves nothing better than to

58:11 Speaker 5: have these small market teams. And again, these small market

58:15 Speaker 5: teams were talking about the Florida's, the Tampas, they were

58:19 Speaker 5: bad for a long period of time while the rest

58:22 Speaker 5: of us, you know, were raking and you know, having

58:26 Speaker 5: winning seasons and competing in playoffs and whatnot.

58:30 Speaker 4: But this kind of business is really good for the

58:34 Speaker 4: league because.

58:36 Speaker 5: You know, teams enfranchises like the Bruins, the Rangers and

58:40 Speaker 5: even you know, the Blackhawks, so the you know, the Canadians,

58:44 Speaker 5: their fan bases just love hockey. Ye, those buildings are

58:49 Speaker 5: as bad as a team can potentially get. Those buildings

58:53 Speaker 5: will not be empty.

58:56 Speaker 4: All right. Some more breaking news to UH two signings.

59:02 Speaker 4: One Bruins legend Dan Blidar his heading. He's going to

59:10 Speaker 4: Philadelphia for a two year contract with a three point

59:14 Speaker 4: three five million dollar cap hit and then details have

59:18 Speaker 4: not yet been reported by Sportsnet, but perennial Cup loser

59:26 Speaker 4: Corey Perry is heading back to California and he is

59:31 Speaker 4: allegedly signing with the LA Kings. So so we know

59:37 Speaker 4: who's going to lose. We know who's going to lose

59:40 Speaker 4: in the Cup final next year. Ye right, market.

59:43 Speaker 1: I'm just trying to see the appeals Corey Perry. I

59:46 Speaker 1: don't forty years old.

59:48 Speaker 4: I don't know, like I don't. I don't understand either.

59:55 Speaker 4: But here you go, Uh Corey Perry two l A. Yeah,

1:00:03 Speaker 4: I can't imagine uh what they're thinking.

1:00:10 Speaker 5: That.

1:00:11 Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going to bring something, uh other than heartache.

1:00:16 Speaker 1: I mean, I tell you what, He's not going to

1:00:18 Speaker 1: bring a Stanley.

1:00:19 Speaker 5: Cup follow each team so they okay, yeah, well they

1:00:25 Speaker 5: may make the playoffs, they're.

1:00:27 Speaker 4: Not going to work.

1:00:28 Speaker 1: There's a polarity issue there, Like is any part of

1:00:31 Speaker 1: the Cup that's magnetic like Tory Perry brings an opposite

1:00:35 Speaker 1: charge and can't get near it.

1:00:38 Speaker 4: What did he come to after winning the Stanley Cup?

1:00:42 Speaker 4: What curse did he uh invoked after winning that one

1:00:47 Speaker 4: time in two thousand and seven?

1:00:49 Speaker 1: I don't think it's a curse at all. In fact,

1:00:51 Speaker 1: I think he probably got what you know, I think

1:00:54 Speaker 1: about daily, and there's not a part of me that

1:00:58 Speaker 1: that every post he's in is in her mind to

1:01:00 Speaker 1: the fact that standing in on the corner of you know,

1:01:04 Speaker 1: Welexington and twenty fifth Street in twenty eleven watching the

1:01:09 Speaker 1: Bruins play Game seven, saying please God, I just want one.

1:01:13 Speaker 1: If we just get one, I'll never ask for another one.

1:01:16 Speaker 1: We never got another one again, And the fourteen years later,

1:01:19 Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I can't really get that angry about me.

1:01:22 Speaker 1: I said, I just wanted one, So, you know, so

1:01:26 Speaker 1: that's probably what happened to Corey Perry. You know, he

1:01:28 Speaker 1: just unfortunately keeps getting close and the universe is like, yeah,

1:01:31 Speaker 1: but you just said, just give me this one and

1:01:33 Speaker 1: I'll never ask for anything else. You don't get another one,

1:01:36 Speaker 1: he didn't word his Yeah, you gotta exactly exactly. So yeah, well,

1:01:43 Speaker 1: so all those those near Cup victories in Boston is

1:01:46 Speaker 1: my fault. As any true fan just blames himself somehow.

1:01:50 Speaker 1: You're responsible for.

1:01:51 Speaker 4: It, right right, Like last year I had to stop

1:01:54 Speaker 4: flying the flag altogether because.

1:02:00 Speaker 1: It was just making me exactly the one time he's

1:02:02 Speaker 1: got to hang you win and you're like, oh, you

1:02:04 Speaker 1: know exactly.

1:02:05 Speaker 4: Yep. I forgot once and they threw the whole season off.

1:02:08 Speaker 1: But no, I mean, listen, when I went to the

1:02:12 Speaker 1: Centennial game, I was like, you know, someone asked me, like,

1:02:15 Speaker 1: what happens if you pay all that money and they lose?

1:02:16 Speaker 1: And I said, listen, they have to win this game.

1:02:19 Speaker 1: If they lose every other game this season, I'm fine

1:02:21 Speaker 1: with it as long as they win the Centennial game.

1:02:22 Speaker 1: And they pretty nearly did so yeah, thanks man. Again,

1:02:26 Speaker 1: I keep I'm not I'm not helping to anybody here.

1:02:28 Speaker 1: I'm really sorry.

1:02:30 Speaker 4: We'll blame you entirely, but all right, well it is

1:02:36 Speaker 4: not you. Yeah, totally okay.

1:02:40 Speaker 5: So we can't blame last season on anybody but the

1:02:46 Speaker 5: players in the middle.

1:02:47 Speaker 4: I'm sorry. So yeah, yeah, yeah, oh he's not here,

1:02:52 Speaker 4: let's blame mo. Well, so we are sitting and waiting.

1:03:00 Speaker 4: We don't have to sit and wait too much longer.

1:03:05 Speaker 4: I have a sneaking suspicion that we won't necessarily hear

1:03:08 Speaker 4: anything from our boy Donnie. I don't know how that

1:03:13 Speaker 4: makes me feel, but we will certainly report out in

1:03:20 Speaker 4: future episodes. What happens, but our hour has gone about

1:03:26 Speaker 4: is any of us surprised?

1:03:28 Speaker 1: No, I guess not.

1:03:31 Speaker 4: I guess what.

1:03:32 Speaker 1: We didn't land anybody big.

1:03:34 Speaker 5: I mean I never think we were in any position

1:03:38 Speaker 5: to do so. Nor how attractive are we at this

1:03:43 Speaker 5: point in time?

1:03:44 Speaker 1: I know, yeah, yeah, I mean I think the things

1:03:47 Speaker 1: that we had going for us seemed to o eroded. Like,

1:03:51 Speaker 1: I don't think we can make this. I don't think

1:03:53 Speaker 1: we can stand on culture. I don't think we can

1:03:55 Speaker 1: stand on on winning. You know, the best bet shore

1:03:58 Speaker 1: is leadership. You know, it's yeah, it's kind of it's

1:04:03 Speaker 1: it's market like you can basically try to sell the market.

1:04:06 Speaker 1: But again you also, I mean, I think you're dealing

1:04:10 Speaker 1: with the front office that I that I don't necessarily

1:04:12 Speaker 1: believe in the negotiating power. I think that they believe

1:04:14 Speaker 1: one thing about their negotiating skills that are not true true.

1:04:19 Speaker 5: I watch the skills and I really, I really truly

1:04:24 Speaker 5: believe that cam Neely has a play card that he

1:04:28 Speaker 5: pulls out and he looks at and he says, Okay, right, Winger,

1:04:32 Speaker 5: this age, this is as high as we're gone.

1:04:36 Speaker 1: This is the max.

1:04:37 Speaker 5: They have their own internal values that they have established

1:04:42 Speaker 5: and they won't they won't budge from them. And I

1:04:45 Speaker 5: had another another thought too, about even their scouting staff,

1:04:50 Speaker 5: because I know how frugal that Jacob's family is, you know,

1:04:55 Speaker 5: and a lot of the players that wind up in

1:04:58 Speaker 5: our system turn out to be local players because they

1:05:04 Speaker 5: won't put the resources into allowing discounting staff to circulate

1:05:12 Speaker 5: in order to identify. That's just and I could be

1:05:16 Speaker 5: totally off base, but it's just something that popped into

1:05:19 Speaker 5: my head.

1:05:21 Speaker 4: Although it is it does help that some of the

1:05:24 Speaker 4: best college hockey programs are in Boston too well, which

1:05:28 Speaker 4: one right, that doesn't mean you pigeonhole yourself.

1:05:33 Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I think there's a story that they like,

1:05:39 Speaker 1: that they like farming local folk, and perhaps they're thinking

1:05:43 Speaker 1: down the line that they can parlay anybody into like

1:05:45 Speaker 1: a hometown discount. But on the flip side of that,

1:05:50 Speaker 1: I think that they are building off what you said, Maria.

1:05:53 Speaker 1: I think that they also have this notion of them

1:05:55 Speaker 1: as being very shrewd negotiators. But their contracts, their last

1:05:58 Speaker 1: big ones, have been fairly bloated, you know. And I

1:06:02 Speaker 1: don't know whether I missed it earlier. What you if

1:06:05 Speaker 1: you guys talked about geeky. But it's sort of like

1:06:08 Speaker 1: that's you know, I mean, I guess it's I don't

1:06:10 Speaker 1: know how I feel about it, but it's like, it's

1:06:11 Speaker 1: a lot of money, right, And he had a he

1:06:15 Speaker 1: was hot the second half of one season, like a

1:06:17 Speaker 1: certain goaltender I could recall and again and probably themselves

1:06:22 Speaker 1: into a good payday. And and as I got that,

1:06:24 Speaker 1: I'm like, and what was the problem with Marshawn? Tell

1:06:27 Speaker 1: me why you didn't have money for him?

1:06:28 Speaker 4: Now?

1:06:28 Speaker 1: Like I like you, you keep being like, oh no,

1:06:32 Speaker 1: we've got to do what we have to do, and

1:06:33 Speaker 1: we've got to be shrewd and we're going to Harbor

1:06:35 Speaker 1: Trac and bla blah blah. But its.

1:06:38 Speaker 4: Gek.

1:06:39 Speaker 1: These are expensive players.

1:06:40 Speaker 4: I hate.

1:06:42 Speaker 1: I don't want to cross sports.

1:06:44 Speaker 5: But sometimes their mindset and their approach reminds me of

1:06:49 Speaker 5: the Boston Red Sox front office in that they think

1:06:53 Speaker 5: that they are truly the smartest people in the room,

1:06:57 Speaker 5: and that the rest of us who listen and launch

1:07:00 Speaker 5: and read and follow the team don't know what we're

1:07:03 Speaker 5: talking about, and we should take everything they do was gospel.

1:07:07 Speaker 4: Yep, this is all very much giving. I don't know

1:07:11 Speaker 4: if you followed this news story a couple of months ago,

1:07:16 Speaker 4: when all of a sudden, all the socials were filled

1:07:20 Speaker 4: with videos of folks from China saying, Hey, your AIRMEZ,

1:07:26 Speaker 4: your Louis Vauton, your Nike whatever, that you're paying this

1:07:31 Speaker 4: you know, premium price on for this luxury good actually

1:07:35 Speaker 4: costs us like five dollars to make here and it's

1:07:39 Speaker 4: actually something super cheap and it kind of like, yes,

1:07:45 Speaker 4: in the long run, it didn't truly do damage to

1:07:48 Speaker 4: those high end products. But I feel like that's what's

1:07:52 Speaker 4: happened to Boston. That Boston was was a high quality product.

1:07:57 Speaker 4: What they had was special, and they kept trying to

1:08:01 Speaker 4: say like no, no, no, it's still there. And someone

1:08:03 Speaker 4: just came in from China and said, but we actually

1:08:06 Speaker 4: make that in our factory for five dollars, so really

1:08:08 Speaker 4: that's worthless. And people are seeing that now and it's like, okay,

1:08:14 Speaker 4: what do we have to offer?

1:08:15 Speaker 1: Then?

1:08:15 Speaker 4: If you know there's nothing special toxic culture, I can

1:08:20 Speaker 4: go to New York for that and I get to

1:08:22 Speaker 4: live in you, or I can go to you know,

1:08:24 Speaker 4: someplace else and like what and they'll pay me more?

1:08:28 Speaker 4: So why you know, what I'm saying, like, that's kind

1:08:31 Speaker 4: of how I feel Boston has gone.

1:08:33 Speaker 1: And it also says something that that the players I

1:08:36 Speaker 1: seem to remember the most out of over the last

1:08:38 Speaker 1: few seasons, of the people that were only here for

1:08:40 Speaker 1: one year. Yeah, you know, the like the the amount

1:08:43 Speaker 1: of the amount of one year turnovers we're having on

1:08:45 Speaker 1: a lot of principal positions, like like the cores eroded

1:08:50 Speaker 1: down to three guys, right, And and I remember more

1:08:55 Speaker 1: about the names of the people who don't play here

1:08:57 Speaker 1: anymore than the people that are kind of coming in

1:08:59 Speaker 1: and hanging out. I can't even remember most of them,

1:09:01 Speaker 1: you know, which, you know, when you compare that again

1:09:05 Speaker 1: to what has been built as a winning culture down

1:09:08 Speaker 1: in Florida, where the list of people signed for seven,

1:09:12 Speaker 1: you know, for for five, six, seven years now is

1:09:15 Speaker 1: like every single one of them is a difference maker.

1:09:18 Speaker 1: And I don't think we've got we don't have a

1:09:21 Speaker 1: lot in the tank. And it seems like we ought

1:09:24 Speaker 1: to have space to be pursuing these people, but doesn't

1:09:27 Speaker 1: seem like we're we're doing it, you know. No, And

1:09:33 Speaker 1: again I may be circling back on stuff you've already

1:09:35 Speaker 1: talked about. No, no, no, no, no, no no. But

1:09:37 Speaker 1: I mean it's just kind of coming in.

1:09:39 Speaker 4: We haven't talked about it today. We have talked about

1:09:41 Speaker 4: it in the plast I mean, it is what it is.

1:09:43 Speaker 5: It's part and parcel of you know, a lot of

1:09:46 Speaker 5: the reason why we find ourselves where we are, yeah,

1:09:50 Speaker 5: right now, and we could only hope, we can only

1:09:55 Speaker 5: hope that we have a mon at a more success

1:10:02 Speaker 5: than we did last season.

1:10:03 Speaker 4: And I don't think that's a big threshold to be looking.

1:10:07 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think there's this, there's any silver

1:10:10 Speaker 1: lining that one could look at, is that you are

1:10:13 Speaker 1: you were truly starting from from almost saying the zero

1:10:17 Speaker 1: inertia at the beginning of this season, and a coach

1:10:20 Speaker 1: is gonna have to come in and go okay, like

1:10:21 Speaker 1: as a as an organization, you just got gut punched,

1:10:24 Speaker 1: like you've got you've really got no tread anywhere. So

1:10:28 Speaker 1: whatever happens now is someone that we've got to build.

1:10:30 Speaker 1: We're not coasting on anything, you know, kind of Macavoyd

1:10:33 Speaker 1: come in and say, no, good never comes from winning

1:10:35 Speaker 1: in October, as if something's going to happen, right, So

1:10:39 Speaker 1: hopefully everybody who is there goes whatever happens now is

1:10:43 Speaker 1: on us to make it happen. The culture needs to

1:10:45 Speaker 1: be rebuilt. And if everybody buys into the system in

1:10:50 Speaker 1: this in the Sturm system, whatever it might be, then

1:10:55 Speaker 1: maybe they can get something going. Yeah, and say, I

1:11:00 Speaker 1: don't think we're gonna win, you know how competitive will be.

1:11:03 Speaker 1: But like, what what I'm looking for is just something

1:11:06 Speaker 1: that's entertaining and engaging to watch. I want to see

1:11:11 Speaker 1: him crying, you know, I want to see and something

1:11:13 Speaker 1: to builds on, right, something to build on. Yeah, And

1:11:19 Speaker 1: so I guess in that in that case, it doesn't

1:11:22 Speaker 1: really matter, you know, who's on the ice, because it's

1:11:24 Speaker 1: not where it's trying to slot in a position to

1:11:27 Speaker 1: like it makes something happen. Were and and and by that,

1:11:33 Speaker 1: I mean it's not like we're looking for a couple

1:11:34 Speaker 1: of pieces too to put us in a position to

1:11:37 Speaker 1: actually succeed. It's like we're starting from here, so you know,

1:11:43 Speaker 1: show me what you got and hopefully it's I'm not

1:11:46 Speaker 1: going to get bored or frustrated or whatever.

1:11:48 Speaker 3: You know.

1:11:51 Speaker 4: Well, so, uh yeah, with all that, why do we

1:11:59 Speaker 4: We'll call it a day? Kind of a fizzle of

1:12:02 Speaker 4: a free agency frenzy.

1:12:04 Speaker 5: For I was afraid that would happen with all of

1:12:08 Speaker 5: the activity that occurred yesterday because I saw a lot

1:12:11 Speaker 5: of social media posts about what a not that it's

1:12:14 Speaker 5: a bummer. It's exciting, but it's more fun when it's

1:12:18 Speaker 5: on the actual Yeah.

1:12:21 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. It's like when all the Super Bowl ads

1:12:23 Speaker 1: come out before the game, it's like why why why baller?

1:12:26 Speaker 4: Yeah yep, But whoever ends up signing. Like I said,

1:12:31 Speaker 4: we will do some player deep dives, figure out who

1:12:35 Speaker 4: these guys are, maybe think about where we could see them.

1:12:38 Speaker 4: Plus we're going to be talking about uh development Camp

1:12:43 Speaker 4: next episode. We've got our very own Mary Beth on

1:12:48 Speaker 4: site at dev Camp this week representing Bruin's Tape to tape.

1:12:53 Speaker 4: If you remember from last year, she hopped on the

1:12:55 Speaker 4: show and gave us a real great rundown of those

1:12:59 Speaker 4: players and gave us a heads up on the players

1:13:03 Speaker 4: who showed up for rookie Camp. So she'll be doing

1:13:06 Speaker 4: that again for us. There will be some pictures and

1:13:09 Speaker 4: things also on our socials about what's happening there. And

1:13:15 Speaker 4: the last kind of housekeeping announcement, we're going to have

1:13:20 Speaker 4: a special guest for our one hundredth episode which is

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1:13:39 Speaker 4: In the show notes and any final thoughts, Maria Adrian.

1:13:47 Speaker 5: Do have a final lot No, no, just give me

1:13:51 Speaker 5: a reason to watch hockey again. Just give me a

1:13:53 Speaker 5: reason please to watch the Bruins again.

1:13:56 Speaker 4: You know it all right? Well, thanks again everyone, and

1:14:01 Speaker 4: as always, go be