The Bruins Hit Reset and It Finally Looks Right | Snap Shots Episode 57

0:00 Speaker 1: Stop the presses because the Boston Bruins are a five

0:03 Speaker 1: hundred team right now. For the first time in weeks,

0:06 Speaker 1: with their first solid sixty minute effort on Saturday afternoon,

0:12 Speaker 1: Boston showed the league that they do have the ability

0:15 Speaker 1: to play against one of the toughest, albeit most whitebread

0:20 Speaker 1: and boring of teams out there this season. This team

0:24 Speaker 1: has effectively restarted their season, but with only eleven games

0:29 Speaker 1: to go until Thanksgiving, can they position themselves into a

0:33 Speaker 1: playoff spot this far out? This is a Bruins tape

0:37 Speaker 1: to tape snapshot.

0:41 Speaker 2: The Boston Bruins secured their third win in a row

0:44 Speaker 2: after defeating the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday afternoon at the

0:48 Speaker 2: Teedy Garden by a score of two to one. This

0:51 Speaker 2: was probably the Bruins' most complete and best game that

0:56 Speaker 2: they played of the season, from start to finish. Were

1:00 Speaker 2: fast and physical for the most part, with the third

1:04 Speaker 2: period likely being their best period of hockey that I've

1:08 Speaker 2: seen them play since the season started. And for those

1:12 Speaker 2: of us who thought there might be a goalie controversy brewing,

1:16 Speaker 2: Marco Stern put a stop to that by giving the

1:19 Speaker 2: net to Jeremy Swayman and Swayman was excellent in this

1:23 Speaker 2: game against the Hurricanes. The Hurricanes are a legit solid

1:29 Speaker 2: hockey team with a relentless for check, and while that

1:33 Speaker 2: four check gave the Bruins a lot of trouble for

1:37 Speaker 2: most of the second period, come the third period the

1:40 Speaker 2: Bruins were able to get a couple of goals pasted

1:44 Speaker 2: Freddie Anderson, with the first one coming off the stick

1:47 Speaker 2: of Casey Middlstat after a great play with Charlie McAvoy

1:52 Speaker 2: coming in down low who took a pass from Pavel

1:55 Speaker 2: Zaka and Casey Middlstat was there to put the pucket

2:00 Speaker 2: in and beat Freddy first score of one to nothing,

2:03 Speaker 2: and then the Bruins were able to shortly after that

2:06 Speaker 2: extend that lead on a killer shot by Victor Arvidson

2:11 Speaker 2: after an assist from Casey Middlestat that made it two

2:15 Speaker 2: to nothing. Carolina tried to make the game interesting in

2:19 Speaker 2: the third period by pulling Freddy Anderson with about three

2:23 Speaker 2: minutes left in the period, and Nikishin just teed a

2:27 Speaker 2: shot up that blasted by Jeremy Swayman. But the Bruins

2:32 Speaker 2: stood tall and won a game against a very good team,

2:37 Speaker 2: and that was probably the first game where we finally

2:42 Speaker 2: saw the semblance of this defensive structure that the Bruins

2:47 Speaker 2: have been talking about and wanting to implement. The Bruins

2:51 Speaker 2: were without Elias lint Holme for this game, but Marco

2:55 Speaker 2: Stern was able to make some lineup adjustments and it

3:00 Speaker 2: Maret Hustadinov being elevated up to the first line and

3:05 Speaker 2: Mark Castelik was moved up to the third line. And

3:10 Speaker 2: credit to Mark Castelk, he has been working hard. And

3:14 Speaker 2: that line of Castellik, Janneau and Minton was very effective

3:19 Speaker 2: against the Carolina Hurricanes. And Charlie McAvoy and Nikita Zadorov

3:25 Speaker 2: are absolute wrecking balls playing together. They leveled so many

3:31 Speaker 2: hits against the Carolina Hurricanes. It was a thing of

3:34 Speaker 2: beauty to watch. And I'm begging you, Marco, please leave

3:39 Speaker 2: those two guys together. All in all, it was a

3:43 Speaker 2: solid team effort from top to bottom, which is all

3:47 Speaker 2: we have been wanting to see from the Boston Bruins.

3:50 Speaker 1: Boston gets a tiny rest this weekend after a series

3:53 Speaker 1: of wins at home, before they go down to Long

3:56 Speaker 1: Island for the first of three games and six followed

4:00 Speaker 1: by a grueling stretch of games every other day from

4:04 Speaker 1: November eleventh through November twenty ninth. The Bruins also seem

4:08 Speaker 1: to be cursed with having the most games under their

4:11 Speaker 1: belts compared to all the other teams at any given

4:14 Speaker 1: point this year. Let's hope the coaching staff can manage

4:17 Speaker 1: the player as well on and off the ice. The

4:20 Speaker 1: Islanders are pretty much in the same boat as Boston

4:23 Speaker 1: right now, but with three games in hand. Unlike Boston, however,

4:26 Speaker 1: the Aisles are existing on the border of bad and fun,

4:31 Speaker 1: meaning it's the Wild West out there on the ice

4:33 Speaker 1: when they're playing. They've dipped in terms of their goal production,

4:37 Speaker 1: dropping to a negative two in that regard, but they

4:41 Speaker 1: do play the Blue Jackets at home before hosting Boston

4:44 Speaker 1: on Tuesday. They tend to also win and lose in spurts,

4:48 Speaker 1: and they just beat the Capitals three to one on

4:51 Speaker 1: Halloween in Washington. The Bruins will have to keep close

4:55 Speaker 1: tabs on Heinemann and Horvat, two snipers who have pulled

4:58 Speaker 1: away from the rest of this game. On the Islanders. Horvat,

5:02 Speaker 1: Heineman and Palmery lead the team in goals in all

5:06 Speaker 1: situations with seven, five and four respectively. Sorokin has played

5:10 Speaker 1: eight games thus far and has had a less than

5:13 Speaker 1: stellar season as well. Like Swayman, his safe percentage is

5:17 Speaker 1: below nine hundred at eight seventy seven, and his goals

5:20 Speaker 1: against Daverage is three point four. Considering he was the

5:24 Speaker 1: goalie and net against Boston in Boston on October twenty eighth,

5:28 Speaker 1: it is a possibility that we will see backup goalie

5:31 Speaker 1: David Ritch. He holds a nine hundred safe percentage but

5:34 Speaker 1: a similar three point three four goals against Daveradge. The

5:37 Speaker 1: last matchup between these two teams also saw eight penalties

5:41 Speaker 1: doled out, something that Boston needs to make sure doesn't

5:45 Speaker 1: happen again. Jeremy Swayman seems to have hit his stride,

5:49 Speaker 1: but then again, like the rest of this team, there

5:52 Speaker 1: have been good and bad days, so let's hope we

5:55 Speaker 1: see him standing on his head again out on the Island.

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