Slow Start, Strong Finish: Bruins Handle Utah 4–1 | Snap Shot 67

0:00 Speaker 1: The Bruins seem to be making it a habit to

0:02 Speaker 1: start every game in the bumpiest way possible right now,

0:06 Speaker 1: but they also seem to be making up for it

0:09 Speaker 1: by sticking to the plan and refocusing their energies and efforts.

0:13 Speaker 1: Last night's game against the Mammoth was exactly that, and

0:18 Speaker 1: much like a lot of their games most recently. Will

0:21 Speaker 1: we see the same pattern emerge when they play the

0:23 Speaker 1: Oilers on Thursday or will they dominate the struggling team

0:28 Speaker 1: for the full sixty minutes. This is a Bruins tape

0:31 Speaker 1: to tape snapshot.

0:35 Speaker 2: If there's one thing that we're learning about this year's

0:38 Speaker 2: Buston Bruins team, it's that they don't tucktail and run

0:43 Speaker 2: when they get behind in a game, and they have

0:46 Speaker 2: the ability to self correct and make adjustments to fight

0:51 Speaker 2: their way back into a game. That's exactly what the

0:55 Speaker 2: case was on Tuesday night against the Utah Mammoth at

0:58 Speaker 2: the Ted Garden. The Bruins won the game by a

1:01 Speaker 2: score of four to one, and the Utah Mammoth were

1:06 Speaker 2: the much better team in the first period, given the

1:09 Speaker 2: Bruins everything that they could handle, and Jeremy Swayman did

1:14 Speaker 2: his job, and did it well Throughout the course of

1:18 Speaker 2: the game. He stopped twenty of the twenty one shots

1:22 Speaker 2: that he faced. The Morgan geeky show was on full

1:26 Speaker 2: display again against the Utah Mammoth. He scored two goals,

1:31 Speaker 2: one of which came on the power play late in

1:35 Speaker 2: the first period, after the Utah Mammoth went ahead one

1:40 Speaker 2: to nothing on a powerplay goal of their own in

1:43 Speaker 2: the first period. But the story was the fact that

1:47 Speaker 2: the Bruins came out in the second period early on

1:52 Speaker 2: with an offensive thrust and push that the Utah Mammoth

1:57 Speaker 2: simply couldn't handle. Morgan Geek set the tone in that

2:01 Speaker 2: second period by scoring a mere twenty three seconds into

2:07 Speaker 2: the second period, given the Bruins a two to one lead,

2:11 Speaker 2: and the Bruins never looked back after that. Casey Middlstat

2:16 Speaker 2: added a goal in the third period and Mikey Isimont

2:21 Speaker 2: added an insurance goal four to one in the third period,

2:25 Speaker 2: an unassisted, beautiful goal basically going end to end to

2:30 Speaker 2: give the Bruins and solidify a solid win against the

2:35 Speaker 2: Utah Mammoth. The road ahead for the Bruins is not

2:38 Speaker 2: easy in that they have the Edmonton Oilers coming into

2:42 Speaker 2: the ted Garden on Thursday night, and then divisional games

2:47 Speaker 2: against the Ottawa Senators and the Montreal Canadians, so setting

2:51 Speaker 2: the tone for this homestand with a crucial two points

2:57 Speaker 2: is huge. The Bruins are literal league one of the

3:01 Speaker 2: best teams in the league on home ice this season,

3:05 Speaker 2: and they need to take advantage of the home cooking

3:09 Speaker 2: while they have the opportunity before going into the Christmas break.

3:15 Speaker 1: Thursday's face off against Edmonton is the first this season

3:19 Speaker 1: and the first time playing against former teammate Trent Frederick.

3:22 Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see how new goalie

3:24 Speaker 1: Tristan Yari plays for the Oilers instead of the Penguins.

3:28 Speaker 1: As you may recall, we've seen a lot of his

3:30 Speaker 1: antics over the years when he played for the Penns,

3:33 Speaker 1: such as, oh, I don't know nets coming off their

3:37 Speaker 1: post helmet go and fly in, and some pretty questionable

3:41 Speaker 1: stick work from this netminder. Yuri only has sixteen games

3:45 Speaker 1: under his belt so far this season to Swayman's twenty two,

3:48 Speaker 1: but he has been playing fairly well so far, with

3:51 Speaker 1: a ten ish GSAX, nine oh five save percentage and

3:56 Speaker 1: two point seven to seven goals against. In case you

3:58 Speaker 1: haven't seen lately, Wayman is now up to an eighteen

4:02 Speaker 1: point four GSAX, nine h nine save percentage and a

4:06 Speaker 1: two point seventy four goals against. Obviously, the biggest threat

4:10 Speaker 1: from Edmonton is the one two punch combination of dry

4:14 Speaker 1: Title and McDavid, but those two aren't getting a ton

4:17 Speaker 1: of help in the scoring department. Edmonton is just breaking

4:21 Speaker 1: even with goal differential after climbing out of a pretty

4:24 Speaker 1: deep hole of negative sixteen back around Thanksgiving. McDavid has

4:29 Speaker 1: twenty goals and dry Citle has seventeen. Third place Pod

4:34 Speaker 1: Colzen has a measly nine goals. In comparison, now, Boston

4:39 Speaker 1: also does have a weird spread between first, second, and

4:42 Speaker 1: third place and goal scoring, but at least we've got

4:46 Speaker 1: a much more even spread of goal scoring across the lines.

4:50 Speaker 1: Boston's lines have scored forty two, twenty nineteen and twelve

4:56 Speaker 1: goals so far this season. In Edmonton, it's thirty five,

5:02 Speaker 1: thirty three, seven and four.

5:07 Speaker 2: Yikes.

5:08 Speaker 1: No matter what happens on Thursday night, it should still

5:10 Speaker 1: be a pretty fun game to watch. Make sure you

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