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 scored on the Be's number two Star of the season in very quick succession. Late in the game, Don Sweeney had the audacity to criticize the players openly that he hired by the Way, about their lack of shot first mentality, which was quite literally the company line for the last few seasons. Remember quality shots over quantity. Yeah, me too. This is a Bruins tape to tape snapshot.

0:33 Speaker 2: The Bruins tried something new and different on Thursday night as they lost to the Chicago Blackhawks by a score of five to two. This time, the unraveling and the meltdown occurred in the third period of the game, where they allowed three unanswered goals in a very short period of time to the Chicago Blackhawks. Unanswered goals that were let in by your goalie who named the overall second Star of the season by the Boston Bruins as they were presenting their awards, which is mind boggling to me, but that's a story for another day.

1:14 Speaker 2: The Bruins were destroyed by a handful of former Boston Bruins in that Nick Felino scored a goal, Ryan Donado scored a goal and Tyler Bertuzzi scored a goal. You did have David Pasternach and Morgan Geek continuing on their offensive tear, but again it wasn't enough, as it seems that those two players are the only ones who can consistently put the puck in the net. Be that as it may, this season can't end fast enough. But to me, the story of this game was the fact that Don Sweeney started the second period by chading with jud Surat and Andy Brickley at the start of the second period, where he said a lot of things, but the comments that caught my eye were the fact that he was openly criticizing players such as Elias Lindholm and Pavel Zaka for having what is the equivalent of a you know, deferring or not a shoot first mentality, to which I say to Don Sweeney, it's all well and good that you're openly criticizing these players, but aren't you the one who brought these players in and shouldn't you, who allegedly is a good GM have an awareness that these players may have a propensity for deferring and passing.

2:52 Speaker 2: Call me crazy, but isn't that your job to identify that, and you're the one who has signed these plays. I don't know, maybe I'm not understanding fully what your role is, but for you to stand up there and pontificate at this point of the season is absurd, absolutely absurd. This season can't end fast enough from my liking.

3:20 Speaker 1: The Bruins play their final road trip of the season this Sunday afternoon. Not only do we have to suffer through a matinee between two terrible teams, the Pittsburgh Penguins, it's a nationally televised game, so we will also need to sit through the broadcast talents of Ray Ferraro and Sean McDonough yepie. While all of the Bruins that were quote unquote fired this year are all well positioned for the playoffs, several of the former Bruins who opted to leave Boston last summer are not in great shape.

3:52 Speaker 1: Notably, Vancouver's whole lot of former Boston players will be starting their vacations next week. It's probably our local boy, Matt Grizzlick, who we will see this weekend in Pittsburgh. Won't fault you if you opt to do something a little more fun this Sunday afternoon. As a small bit of housekeeping, we will have a snapshot episode the day after the last game of the season, and our end of season episode will be out on Thursday. But never fear, we will still have entertaining content all summer long, so make sure you stick around and make sure you rate and review the podcasts to help us reach more listeners, and tune in weekly to our full podcast, available on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and all podcast platforms.