Sweeney Gaslights Us as Bruins Lose to Chicago | Snap Shots Episode 47

0:00 Speaker 1: It was revenge of the x's as three former Bruins

0:03 Speaker 1: scored on the Be's number two Star of the season

0:05 Speaker 1: in very quick succession. Late in the game, Don Sweeney

0:09 Speaker 1: had the audacity to criticize the players openly that he

0:13 Speaker 1: hired by the Way, about their lack of shot first mentality,

0:17 Speaker 1: which was quite literally the company line for the last

0:21 Speaker 1: few seasons. Remember quality shots over quantity. Yeah, me too.

0:28 Speaker 1: This is a Bruins tape to tape snapshot.

0:33 Speaker 2: The Bruins tried something new and different on Thursday night

0:36 Speaker 2: as they lost to the Chicago Blackhawks by a score

0:39 Speaker 2: of five to two. This time, the unraveling and the

0:44 Speaker 2: meltdown occurred in the third period of the game, where

0:47 Speaker 2: they allowed three unanswered goals in a very short period

0:52 Speaker 2: of time to the Chicago Blackhawks. Unanswered goals that were

0:57 Speaker 2: let in by your goalie who named the overall second

1:02 Speaker 2: Star of the season by the Boston Bruins as they

1:07 Speaker 2: were presenting their awards, which is mind boggling to me,

1:11 Speaker 2: but that's a story for another day. The Bruins were

1:16 Speaker 2: destroyed by a handful of former Boston Bruins in that

1:22 Speaker 2: Nick Felino scored a goal, Ryan Donado scored a goal

1:25 Speaker 2: and Tyler Bertuzzi scored a goal. You did have David

1:30 Speaker 2: Pasternach and Morgan Geek continuing on their offensive tear, but

1:36 Speaker 2: again it wasn't enough, as it seems that those two

1:40 Speaker 2: players are the only ones who can consistently put the

1:43 Speaker 2: puck in the net. Be that as it may, this

1:48 Speaker 2: season can't end fast enough. But to me, the story

1:52 Speaker 2: of this game was the fact that Don Sweeney started

1:57 Speaker 2: the second period by chading with jud Surat and Andy

2:02 Speaker 2: Brickley at the start of the second period, where he

2:06 Speaker 2: said a lot of things, but the comments that caught

2:11 Speaker 2: my eye were the fact that he was openly criticizing

2:15 Speaker 2: players such as Elias Lindholm and Pavel Zaka for having

2:20 Speaker 2: what is the equivalent of a you know, deferring or

2:25 Speaker 2: not a shoot first mentality, to which I say to

2:30 Speaker 2: Don Sweeney, it's all well and good that you're openly

2:33 Speaker 2: criticizing these players, but aren't you the one who brought

2:38 Speaker 2: these players in and shouldn't you, who allegedly is a

2:42 Speaker 2: good GM have an awareness that these players may have

2:48 Speaker 2: a propensity for deferring and passing. Call me crazy, but

2:54 Speaker 2: isn't that your job to identify that, and you're the

2:58 Speaker 2: one who has signed these plays. I don't know, maybe

3:01 Speaker 2: I'm not understanding fully what your role is, but for

3:06 Speaker 2: you to stand up there and pontificate at this point

3:11 Speaker 2: of the season is absurd, absolutely absurd. This season can't

3:18 Speaker 2: end fast enough from my liking.

3:20 Speaker 1: The Bruins play their final road trip of the season

3:23 Speaker 1: this Sunday afternoon. Not only do we have to suffer

3:25 Speaker 1: through a matinee between two terrible teams, the Pittsburgh Penguins,

3:31 Speaker 1: it's a nationally televised game, so we will also need

3:35 Speaker 1: to sit through the broadcast talents of Ray Ferraro and

3:38 Speaker 1: Sean McDonough yepie. While all of the Bruins that were

3:42 Speaker 1: quote unquote fired this year are all well positioned for

3:46 Speaker 1: the playoffs, several of the former Bruins who opted to

3:49 Speaker 1: leave Boston last summer are not in great shape. Notably,

3:53 Speaker 1: Vancouver's whole lot of former Boston players will be starting

3:56 Speaker 1: their vacations next week. It's probably our local boy, Matt Grizzlick,

4:00 Speaker 1: who we will see this weekend in Pittsburgh. Won't fault

4:04 Speaker 1: you if you opt to do something a little more

4:06 Speaker 1: fun this Sunday afternoon. As a small bit of housekeeping,

4:10 Speaker 1: we will have a snapshot episode the day after the

4:13 Speaker 1: last game of the season, and our end of season

4:15 Speaker 1: episode will be out on Thursday. But never fear, we

4:19 Speaker 1: will still have entertaining content all summer long, so make

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