Bruins Sleepwalk Through Detroit Loss as Injuries Expose Leadership Gap | Snap Shot 65

0:00 Speaker 1: How many times do you think the Bruins can touch

0:02 Speaker 1: the bottom? We've seen them hit rock bottom, and they've

0:05 Speaker 1: flirted with it a few times already. But last night's

0:08 Speaker 1: game was just shy, just shy of an all out embarrassment.

0:13 Speaker 1: The officiating was ridiculous, and Boston just didn't seem to

0:18 Speaker 1: have the energy or desire to be engaged in the

0:21 Speaker 1: contest until it was too late. So they head back

0:25 Speaker 1: to the Garden to face off against their old coach

0:28 Speaker 1: and a team that is worse for wear. How will

0:30 Speaker 1: this team get it together in a leadership vacuum without

0:34 Speaker 1: David Posternock and Charlie McAvoy. This is a Bruins tape

0:38 Speaker 1: to tape snapshot. Listless, lazy, and uninspired. Those are the

0:46 Speaker 1: adjectives that I will use to describe the effort by

0:49 Speaker 1: the majority of the Boston Bruins roster, including the goaltender,

0:54 Speaker 1: in a game against the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday night,

0:58 Speaker 1: which they lost five to four. The Boston Bruins played

1:02 Speaker 1: very little good hockey throughout the first two periods of

1:06 Speaker 1: that game, and while I'm not going to lay the

1:09 Speaker 1: loss totally at the feet of Jeremy Swayman, he did

1:12 Speaker 1: not have one of his better games. As a matter

1:15 Speaker 1: of fact, Swayman ended up getting pulled in the third

1:18 Speaker 1: period of the game after Detroit scored their fifth goal.

1:22 Speaker 1: When you spot a team in the NHL a three

1:25 Speaker 1: to nothing lead in the first period and you're not

1:29 Speaker 1: playing a brand of hockey which dictates winning puck battles,

1:34 Speaker 1: moving your feet and staying out of the penalty box,

1:38 Speaker 1: then I don't see how you stand a snowball's chance

1:42 Speaker 1: in hell in winning that game. And that is exactly

1:45 Speaker 1: what happened to the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night. And

1:48 Speaker 1: I have a message for Hampus, lind Home, Hampus, you

1:51 Speaker 1: are going to wind up with the biggest pile of

1:54 Speaker 1: coal in your stocking if you don't stop taking penalties. Now,

1:59 Speaker 1: there were a couple of good things during the course

2:02 Speaker 1: of that game. In that Jonathan Asparo got his first

2:06 Speaker 1: goal as a Boston Bruin, Steve's scored two goals, and

2:11 Speaker 1: the Bruins did, for a very short period of time

2:15 Speaker 1: make it a game when they pulled to within three

2:17 Speaker 1: to two. However, the Boston Bruins doing Boston Bruins things

2:22 Speaker 1: allowed the Detroit Red Wings to score a quick goal

2:27 Speaker 1: which made it four to two. After the Red Wings

2:30 Speaker 1: scored their fifth goal of the game, Jeremy Swayman was

2:33 Speaker 1: pulled from the game and Jonas Corposalo took the net instead.

2:38 Speaker 1: Now they lost an opportunity to gain additional points. However,

2:44 Speaker 1: what I will say about this team is we have

2:47 Speaker 1: seen this season than that when they suffer losses such

2:52 Speaker 1: as the loss they suffered in Detroit, they generally have

2:55 Speaker 1: bounced back in the next game. Nobody's favorite goalie, Jordan Bennington,

3:00 Speaker 1: has had a terrible season thus far. I love that

3:03 Speaker 1: for him, and not just because of the team in

3:05 Speaker 1: front of him. He's got a minus five point six

3:08 Speaker 1: GSAX eighteen games in with his eight seventy eight savee

3:12 Speaker 1: percentage and over three goals against average, It's no wonder

3:16 Speaker 1: Jim Montgomery pulled him the other night, much to Bennington's

3:20 Speaker 1: Let's say dismay. Now we've seen this Boston Bruins team

3:24 Speaker 1: turn plenty of crappy and no name goalies into resident candidates.

3:29 Speaker 1: But let's hope that doesn't happen on Thursday night. I'd

3:32 Speaker 1: be surprised if Swiman gets the net after his awful

3:35 Speaker 1: performance in Detroit, so look for Corpusolo. Saint Louis only

3:39 Speaker 1: has nine wins thus far this season. They play a

3:41 Speaker 1: very boring brand of hockey and are currently holding a

3:45 Speaker 1: negative sixteen goal differential. But remember, just because they're bad

3:49 Speaker 1: doesn't mean that they don't have good individual players. Boston's

3:53 Speaker 1: big weakness this year is their inability to smother and

3:57 Speaker 1: shut down opponents' key players with any kind of consistency.

4:02 Speaker 1: Jake Nabors has been their most impactful sniper, with a

4:05 Speaker 1: one point one two expected goals per sixty minutes, and

4:09 Speaker 1: he's producing one point six per sixty. Dylan Holloway, Jordan Cairou,

4:14 Speaker 1: and Justin Falk round out their top goal scorers. Each

4:17 Speaker 1: of them has six to seven goals apiece. The player

4:20 Speaker 1: I'm most excited for to follow in Boston at this

4:23 Speaker 1: point is Alex Steves. He seemingly has come out of

4:26 Speaker 1: nowhere and has blossomed in the big league since his

4:29 Speaker 1: arrival last month. He's quickly become tied for fourth in

4:33 Speaker 1: goals on the team, and he is everywhere, and with

4:36 Speaker 1: his most recent game in Detroit, he officially has played

4:39 Speaker 1: enough NHL games that he would be required to clear

4:42 Speaker 1: waivers if Boston decided to send him back down to Providence.

4:46 Speaker 1: As Maria mentioned, the Bees often do come back after

4:49 Speaker 1: a bad stretch, but losing these winnable games and taking

4:53 Speaker 1: an absurd amount of penalties will only continue to chip

4:56 Speaker 1: away at the team's odds of making the postseason, even

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