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? Picture this. It's like seeing all of your exes doing super well and getting engaged or having kids while you sit wrapped up in a comforter on the couch eating Ben and Jerry's from the carton. Thanks a lot, camon Don. This is a Bruins tape to tape snapshot.

0:25 Speaker 2: In my last snapshot, I accused the Boston Bruins of not playing with any type of emotion or pride, and that was not the case against the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night. The Bruins came out with a good deal of emotion and fieriness. They had two fights right off the bat by Andrew Peak and Jacob Bloco, both of which, however, lost their fights, but that wasn't enough to propel them to a win, as they lost to the Detroit Red Wings by a score of two to one. The Detroit Redwings thirty seven year old goalie Cam Talbot, who is under contract for the tune of two point five million dollars, outplayed your twenty six year old goalie who was under contract to the tune of eight point two five million dollars.

1:24 Speaker 2: Cam Talbot is the reason that the Detroit Red Wings won that game, and your goalie is one of many reasons why we find ourselves on the outside looking in this season. The first goal by the Red Wings was the result of a horrendous, horrendous turnover by Mason Lorii, which we have come to expect, unfortunately, and that is part of his growth and development. However, Jeremy Swayman had a clue, an unencumbered look at this shot that came at him, and he was unable to make the save on his glove side.

2:10 Speaker 2: Now it's not just me levying criticism at Jeremy Swayman. Ray Ferraro himself said that was a bad goal for Swayman to let in, And if that was the first bad goal that Swayman had let in this season, I would let it go. But it is not, folks. We have seen him let in goals such as that throughout the course of this season. It is simply not good enough, not good enough Jeremy. Then we have Nikita Zadorov taking a stupid, stupid and unnecessary penalty and putting a Detroit Red Wings team on the power play, who has their power play has been tremendous all season long, and they are able to score 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 not for Morgan Geek and David Pasternach connecting in some way, shape or form to score goals for this team, the Bruins would literally have no scoring at all. And once again we find ourselves with the Boston Bruins team who only has one line that can score goals. And to that, I say to Don Sweeney and Cam Neely, excellent work. Excellent work, gentlemen. So Cam, let me ask you this when you sat down with the Boston Globe recently to do your little soft landing spot piece about how things have been going or not going, as the case may be, this season, and you said, quote unquote everything is on the table.

4:00 Speaker 2: Does that include yourself and Don Sweening in that bucket? If not, you both need to put yourselves in that bucket. And my last question to Cam would be, how did Brad mar Shand look in the Florida Panthers jersey in his debut Friday night when he set up the game winning goal in overtime?

4:21 Speaker 1: You idiots, The Bruins have been the worst team coming out of the break. And that's no hyperbole, that's a fact. We get it. There's nothing to look forward to anymore. Even Soako's level of expectation from this team has hit an all time low. When asked by Emily Kaplan how he thought a recent first period went, he responded with quote, I think it went great. The guy showed up, put on their skates, have their sticks. Can't ask for much more right now? Oh my god. After this past weekend game ind Troy, the Bees also put Vinnie Lettieri and Patrew Brown on waivers.

5:05 Speaker 1: They obviously cleared since it's that weird time between the trade deadline and playoffs, so don't expect any players that are put on waivers to be claimed, as they are not eligible to play for their new NHL club any time between now and the end of the season. This particular move was to send the two players back down to the AHL, which might mean that we see either some new players called up, someone might be coming back from an injury, or they were just clearing cap space and it was a paper transaction and we'll see them on Tuesday against Washington.

5:42 Speaker 1: April first is Women in Sports Night at the Garden and the Boston Bruins will recognize the members of the Northeastern women's hockey team who won this year's Being Pot Championship. Tuesday is also another opportunity to see history be made when Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitol come to town. Obi is five goals from breaking the record. While the Bees are pretty terrible right now, I can't really imagine him getting all five, but it's entirely within the realm of possibility if he gets three, if not four, this is the first game in a long time where I can confidently say it's a can't miss game.

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