Bruins Showcase Early Chemistry, Real Potential | Snap Shots Episode 50

0:00 Speaker 1: Hockey is back, baby, and boy are we about to get a whole lot of it.

0:05 Speaker 2: And lucky for us, Boston Bruins have started the season with a bang, showing us an unexpected level of unity, perseverance, and high energy playmaking, making the first two games of the season highly entertaining. But can the Bees maintain this pace with a concentrated schedule over the next four months. This is a Bruins tape to tape snapshot.

0:31 Speaker 3: Our Boston Bruins have turned the page and started the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six season with a new coach and a relatively new roster. While I won't say that it's an improved roster, I will say that after the first two games, they seemingly are all on the same page, working together for one common goal, which is very refreshing in my opinion. The Bruins started off the season beating the Washington Capitals on the Capitol's turf in what I would call a solid team victory. Up and down the roster, the special teams and the goaltending is what won the game for the Boston Bruins.

1:16 Speaker 3: While it wasn't ideal to give the Washington Capitals five power play opportunities. They were perfect on the night in the penalty kill and lo and behold, the Bruins scored a power play goal. Thank you, Elias Lindholme.

1:32 Speaker 2: Lindholm was fantastic over the course of two games. He has won twenty four of thirty five face offs. He's been where he needs to be to support Pasta and to quote friend of the Pod MF, this is the Lindholm we thought we were getting last season. Yes, it's early, but these early glimpses are a site to behold.

1:54 Speaker 4: The Bruins home opener, While it wasn't as fluid as the game against the Capitals, they did persevere, they did grind it out, they didn't give up, and they won the game in overtime on a beautiful goal by Fraser Mitton Welcome to Boston Bruins Hockey, young man, and some key saves in that overtime period by Jonis Corposalo. While I'm not going to go out on a limb and say that this is an eighty two game pace that the Bruins can maintain, I'm very, very optimistic at this point in time.

2:30 Speaker 3: Although it is early. The only damper on the two and zero start. Is the fact that campus Lindholm left the game against the Blackhawks in the first period and was nowhere to be found for the remainder of the game. It appears to be being downplayed by the Boston Bruins in terms of precautionary lower body injury not related to the knee. I'm hopeful that that is in fact the case, but we can ill afford to have Lindholm out for any extended period of time, as he is going to be a key component to the Bruins' success this season.

3:09 Speaker 1: I agree the Chicago game was more of a roller coaster than I would have liked. A few bad habits still manage to rear their ugly heads, odd man rush breakdowns in some sloppy passes, and the occasional bad transition. We also saw our quote unquote favorite problem giving up a goal right after gaining a critical lead. However, they were shooting the puck a lot, the power play was active, they had great zone entries for the most part, and managed to keep it in. I think we can all agree that we'd like to see a more decisive win over the Bruins' next opponent, the Buffalo Sabers.

3:47 Speaker 1: The Sabers come to Boston on Saturday, October eleventh as part of the NHL's Frozen Frenzy Spectacular. It's no brainer that the Bruins should beat the Sabers, because well, they're the Sabers. They're coming off of a loss in their season slash home opener against the Rangers back on October ninth. Like many teams, Buffalo has also been bitten early by the injury bug, with Zach Benson taking a puck to the face in practice and Josh Norris going down in their first game, and their starting goalie Ukapec Glucanen has been out since before the season even started with a lower body injury that has actually resulted in Buffalo putting him formally on ir.

4:29 Speaker 1: Alex Lyon is expected in net again. It's only been one game for the netminder, but in spite of his three goals against average, he still managed to point nine zero six safe percentage in the tilt against the Rangers. Swayman will be in between the pipes where we hope to see him be everywhere he needs to be, just like he was in Washington. It's refreshing to see a team that is seemingly coming together really well so early in the year, and so far, the attitude and effort on the ice after two games is nearly the same as what we saw in preseason.

5:02 Speaker 1: Let's hope they can survive the grueling thirteen games over twenty one days schedule. Make sure you rate and review the podcast to help us reach more listeners, and tune in weekly to our full podcast, available on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and all podcast platforms.