Don and Cam Have Ruined the Boston Bruins | Snap Shots Episode 44

0:00 Speaker 1: What's it like being a Boston Bruins fan these days?

0:03 Speaker 1: Picture this. It's like seeing all of your exes doing

0:07 Speaker 1: super well and getting engaged or having kids while you

0:11 Speaker 1: sit wrapped up in a comforter on the couch eating

0:14 Speaker 1: Ben and Jerry's from the carton. Thanks a lot, camon Don.

0:19 Speaker 1: This is a Bruins tape to tape snapshot.

0:25 Speaker 2: In my last snapshot, I accused the Boston Bruins of

0:28 Speaker 2: not playing with any type of emotion or pride, and

0:34 Speaker 2: that was not the case against the Detroit Red Wings

0:37 Speaker 2: on Saturday night. The Bruins came out with a good

0:42 Speaker 2: deal of emotion and fieriness. They had two fights right

0:48 Speaker 2: off the bat by Andrew Peak and Jacob Bloco, both

0:53 Speaker 2: of which, however, lost their fights, but that wasn't enough

0:58 Speaker 2: to propel them to a win, as they lost to

1:01 Speaker 2: the Detroit Red Wings by a score of two to one.

1:05 Speaker 2: The Detroit Redwings thirty seven year old goalie Cam Talbot,

1:10 Speaker 2: who is under contract for the tune of two point

1:14 Speaker 2: five million dollars, outplayed your twenty six year old goalie

1:19 Speaker 2: who was under contract to the tune of eight point

1:22 Speaker 2: two five million dollars. Cam Talbot is the reason that

1:27 Speaker 2: the Detroit Red Wings won that game, and your goalie

1:33 Speaker 2: is one of many reasons why we find ourselves on

1:36 Speaker 2: the outside looking in this season. The first goal by

1:42 Speaker 2: the Red Wings was the result of a horrendous, horrendous

1:47 Speaker 2: turnover by Mason Lorii, which we have come to expect, unfortunately,

1:53 Speaker 2: and that is part of his growth and development. However,

1:57 Speaker 2: Jeremy Swayman had a clue, an unencumbered look at this

2:03 Speaker 2: shot that came at him, and he was unable to

2:07 Speaker 2: make the save on his glove side. Now it's not

2:11 Speaker 2: just me levying criticism at Jeremy Swayman. Ray Ferraro himself

2:17 Speaker 2: said that was a bad goal for Swayman to let in,

2:22 Speaker 2: And if that was the first bad goal that Swayman

2:25 Speaker 2: had let in this season, I would let it go.

2:28 Speaker 2: But it is not, folks. We have seen him let

2:32 Speaker 2: in goals such as that throughout the course of this season.

2:37 Speaker 2: It is simply not good enough, not good enough Jeremy.

2:44 Speaker 2: Then we have Nikita Zadorov taking a stupid, stupid and

2:49 Speaker 2: unnecessary penalty and putting a Detroit Red Wings team on

2:55 Speaker 2: the power play, who has their power play has been

3:00 Speaker 2: tremendous all season long, and they are able to score

3:04 Speaker 2: a power play goal to put them up two to one.

3:07 Speaker 2: And there you have it, folks. And once again, if

3:11 Speaker 2: not for Morgan Geek and David Pasternach connecting in some way,

3:17 Speaker 2: shape or form to score goals for this team, the

3:21 Speaker 2: Bruins would literally have no scoring at all. And once

3:25 Speaker 2: again we find ourselves with the Boston Bruins team who

3:30 Speaker 2: only has one line that can score goals. And to that,

3:35 Speaker 2: I say to Don Sweeney and Cam Neely, excellent work.

3:40 Speaker 2: Excellent work, gentlemen. So Cam, let me ask you this

3:44 Speaker 2: when you sat down with the Boston Globe recently to

3:47 Speaker 2: do your little soft landing spot piece about how things

3:52 Speaker 2: have been going or not going, as the case may be,

3:54 Speaker 2: this season, and you said, quote unquote everything is on

3:59 Speaker 2: the table. Does that include yourself and Don Sweening in

4:03 Speaker 2: that bucket? If not, you both need to put yourselves

4:07 Speaker 2: in that bucket. And my last question to Cam would be,

4:12 Speaker 2: how did Brad mar Shand look in the Florida Panthers

4:15 Speaker 2: jersey in his debut Friday night when he set up

4:18 Speaker 2: the game winning goal in overtime?

4:21 Speaker 1: You idiots, The Bruins have been the worst team coming

4:26 Speaker 1: out of the break. And that's no hyperbole, that's a fact.

4:30 Speaker 1: We get it. There's nothing to look forward to anymore.

4:34 Speaker 1: Even Soako's level of expectation from this team has hit

4:37 Speaker 1: an all time low. When asked by Emily Kaplan how

4:41 Speaker 1: he thought a recent first period went, he responded with quote,

4:46 Speaker 1: I think it went great. The guy showed up, put

4:50 Speaker 1: on their skates, have their sticks. Can't ask for much

4:53 Speaker 1: more right now? Oh my god. After this past weekend

4:59 Speaker 1: game ind Troy, the Bees also put Vinnie Lettieri and

5:03 Speaker 1: Patrew Brown on waivers. They obviously cleared since it's that

5:09 Speaker 1: weird time between the trade deadline and playoffs, so don't

5:13 Speaker 1: expect any players that are put on waivers to be claimed,

5:16 Speaker 1: as they are not eligible to play for their new

5:19 Speaker 1: NHL club any time between now and the end of

5:23 Speaker 1: the season. This particular move was to send the two

5:27 Speaker 1: players back down to the AHL, which might mean that

5:30 Speaker 1: we see either some new players called up, someone might

5:33 Speaker 1: be coming back from an injury, or they were just

5:36 Speaker 1: clearing cap space and it was a paper transaction and

5:39 Speaker 1: we'll see them on Tuesday against Washington. April first is

5:43 Speaker 1: Women in Sports Night at the Garden and the Boston

5:46 Speaker 1: Bruins will recognize the members of the Northeastern women's hockey

5:50 Speaker 1: team who won this year's Being Pot Championship. Tuesday is

5:55 Speaker 1: also another opportunity to see history be made when Alex

5:58 Speaker 1: Ovechkin and the Washington Capitol come to town. Obi is

6:02 Speaker 1: five goals from breaking the record. While the Bees are

6:05 Speaker 1: pretty terrible right now, I can't really imagine him getting

6:08 Speaker 1: all five, but it's entirely within the realm of possibility

6:13 Speaker 1: if he gets three, if not four, this is the

6:16 Speaker 1: first game in a long time where I can confidently

6:19 Speaker 1: say it's a can't miss game. Make sure you rate

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