How the Mighty Bruins Have Fallen | Snap Shots Episode 42

0:00 Speaker 1: Yikes, Bruins fam, we are in deep trouble at this point. Nobody in their right mind can call this a retool, and I seriously question the business decisions being made by management and ownership with regards to this team. Could the Bruins beat the Sabers record of most street losses this season? This is a Bruins tape to tape snapshot.

0:28 Speaker 2: I'm going to start the snapshot by sharing the definition of a retool and rebuild. A retool is to change something in order to improve it or make it more suitable for a particular purpose. A rebuild is to make big changes to a company, organization, or system that is no longer effective. Now, before I go into what's been transpiring for the Bruins since the trade deadline, retool is the word that was used by Cam Nealey, and I just shared with you the definition of rebuild. Given what has been occurring in the two games past the trade deadline, you tell me if the Bruins are in rebuild mode or retool mold, because currently on this recent road trip swing, and including the two games against Ottawa and Tampa, they have been outshot by their opponents to a tune of one seventy eight to one twelve.

1:41 Speaker 2: They have been outscored by their opponents to the tune of thirty goals to eleven goals. Their shot differential is a minus nineteen minus nineteen, which is the worst in the Eastern Conference currently. This recent West Coast swing has been nothing short of, I guess disastrous for lack of a better word. Maybe I'm being a bit dramatic, but to me, we are not in a retool mode, folks. We are in a rebuild mode. And where this team goes for the rest of the season, I'm sure that we all know that this team will be going nowhere for the rest of this season.

2:34 Speaker 2: But for Cam nearly to insult those of us with a semblance of intelligence that can check facts and figures for ourselves to say that you are doing a retool as opposed to a rebuild, Sir, you are delusional if you believe that your fan base is buying into the fact that you are doing a retool as opposed to a rebill.

3:05 Speaker 1: Have you ever had a job at a company that was struggling financially and they opt for some seriously deep layoffs and then the atmosphere for the remaining employees so depressing and abysmal that more people jump ship because it's not the same place anymore. That's the vibe we are getting from this current Boston Bruins team. The fact that the remaining players who are about to be free agents haven't signed makes us wonder if the Bruins have any intention of doing so, and even if they were, do they want to stick around after experiencing some of the worst hockey of their careers.

3:43 Speaker 1: Don Sweeney has a terrible draft record, and just thinking about him choosing all of those quote unquote valuable picks is terrifying. And with a free agency class that is met at best, who is going to want to come to Boston? The cure is certainly no longer what it once was. Take a listen to this comment from Nikita Zadora after the Bruins lost to the Kings, when asked about Swayman's defense of his teammate, You guys appreciate that Jeremy.

4:17 Speaker 2: Is all what it is.

4:20 Speaker 1: For common yikes. So where do we go from here? Is there anything worth looking forward to as we suffer through the final ten games of the season. That's to be determined. Boston has two more games to go on this interminable road trip with Anaheim on Wednesday and Detroit on Saturday. Keep your chins up, Bruins fam. We've been here before, and we'll be here again. The important thing is to know that this organization has become too profitable for the ownership to let it wallow at the bottom of the NHL pool for too long.

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