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.

0:05 Speaker 1: Nobody in their right mind can call this a retool,

0:09 Speaker 1: and I seriously question the business decisions being made by

0:13 Speaker 1: management and ownership with regards to this team. Could the

0:17 Speaker 1: Bruins beat the Sabers record of most street losses this season?

0:23 Speaker 1: This is a Bruins tape to tape snapshot.

0:28 Speaker 2: I'm going to start the snapshot by sharing the definition

0:32 Speaker 2: of a retool and rebuild. A retool is to change

0:38 Speaker 2: something in order to improve it or make it more

0:40 Speaker 2: suitable for a particular purpose. A rebuild is to make

0:45 Speaker 2: big changes to a company, organization, or system that is

0:49 Speaker 2: no longer effective. Now, before I go into what's been

0:54 Speaker 2: transpiring for the Bruins since the trade deadline, retool is

1:00 Speaker 2: the word that was used by Cam Nealey, and I

1:04 Speaker 2: just shared with you the definition of rebuild. Given what

1:09 Speaker 2: has been occurring in the two games past the trade deadline,

1:16 Speaker 2: you tell me if the Bruins are in rebuild mode

1:21 Speaker 2: or retool mold, because currently on this recent road trip swing,

1:28 Speaker 2: and including the two games against Ottawa and Tampa, they

1:33 Speaker 2: have been outshot by their opponents to a tune of

1:38 Speaker 2: one seventy eight to one twelve. They have been outscored

1:43 Speaker 2: by their opponents to the tune of thirty goals to

1:48 Speaker 2: eleven goals. Their shot differential is a minus nineteen minus nineteen,

1:56 Speaker 2: which is the worst in the Eastern Conference currently. This

2:01 Speaker 2: recent West Coast swing has been nothing short of, I

2:07 Speaker 2: guess disastrous for lack of a better word. Maybe I'm

2:12 Speaker 2: being a bit dramatic, but to me, we are not

2:17 Speaker 2: in a retool mode, folks. We are in a rebuild mode.

2:23 Speaker 2: And where this team goes for the rest of the season,

2:26 Speaker 2: I'm sure that we all know that this team will

2:30 Speaker 2: be going nowhere for the rest of this season. But

2:34 Speaker 2: for Cam nearly to insult those of us with a

2:39 Speaker 2: semblance of intelligence that can check facts and figures for

2:45 Speaker 2: ourselves to say that you are doing a retool as

2:49 Speaker 2: opposed to a rebuild, Sir, you are delusional if you

2:55 Speaker 2: believe that your fan base is buying into the fact

3:00 Speaker 2: 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

3:08 Speaker 1: was struggling financially and they opt for some seriously deep

3:11 Speaker 1: layoffs and then the atmosphere for the remaining employees so

3:16 Speaker 1: depressing and abysmal that more people jump ship because it's

3:19 Speaker 1: not the same place anymore. That's the vibe we are

3:23 Speaker 1: getting from this current Boston Bruins team. The fact that

3:26 Speaker 1: the remaining players who are about to be free agents

3:29 Speaker 1: haven't signed makes us wonder if the Bruins have any

3:34 Speaker 1: intention of doing so, and even if they were, do

3:38 Speaker 1: they want to stick around after experiencing some of the

3:41 Speaker 1: worst hockey of their careers. Don Sweeney has a terrible

3:45 Speaker 1: draft record, and just thinking about him choosing all of

3:48 Speaker 1: those quote unquote valuable picks is terrifying. And with a

3:54 Speaker 1: free agency class that is met at best, who is

3:57 Speaker 1: going to want to come to Boston? The cure is

4:00 Speaker 1: certainly no longer what it once was. Take a listen

4:03 Speaker 1: to this comment from Nikita Zadora after the Bruins lost

4:06 Speaker 1: to the Kings, when asked about Swayman's defense of his teammate,

4:11 Speaker 1: 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?

4:25 Speaker 1: Is there anything worth looking forward to as we suffer

4:28 Speaker 1: through the final ten games of the season. That's to

4:31 Speaker 1: be determined. Boston has two more games to go on

4:35 Speaker 1: this interminable road trip with Anaheim on Wednesday and Detroit

4:39 Speaker 1: on Saturday. Keep your chins up, Bruins fam. We've been

4:44 Speaker 1: here before, and we'll be here again. The important thing

4:48 Speaker 1: is to know that this organization has become too profitable

4:51 Speaker 1: for the ownership to let it wallow at the bottom

4:53 Speaker 1: of the NHL pool for too long. Make sure you

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