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it's Bruins bers post game live on the inside the rink YouTube channel go ahead
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and CLI click subscribe to watch us all season long and the Bruins get back to
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even they beat the Montreal Canadians tonight 6
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to4 uh at TD Garden in the home opener it's Maddie and Smitty madd's at Mr mdy
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Barry on X and Smitty is at Bruins I'm sorry at Benders
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Smitty and we are at Bruins Benders follow us on X for game updates and all sorts of fun stuff so this was a better
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result there were times when the Bruins were really really good and there times again with the Bruins have some
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defensive coverage issues uh but all in all A Better Effort in more of the
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urgency that Jim Montgomery talked about yeah I it was A Better Effort overall I
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thought uh especially early on the game they were crisp they seemed focused they had their legs moving uh and it's
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amazing what you can do offensively when you can make a pass out of your own
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defensive Zone it is and I'll tell you the Canadians gave the Bruins all sorts of
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room tonight I thought even at the points like it Bruins were able to get all sorts of time get Point get pucks on
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net from the point uh it just seem to be a lot more space now the Montreal is not the greatest defensive team ever they
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gave about 48 shots to Toronto the other night they still won the game but Mont
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Bros you know just stood in his head so they could win that game so this is not a great defensive team so let's not get
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all horny about it right but I will say that the Bruins had a lot more time and space and were able to make a hell of a
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lot more plays tonight they did they did and uh I thought there there was urgency
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I thought the fourth line tonight was fantastic they were excellent Ki celik
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uh beer um all with points really good Ki a goal and two assists I think he had
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three points in like his previous 30 NHL games or something and he had three
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tonight uh and cck was really good um obviously and then you know beer using
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his speed drives the net wide and allows kepy to bang The Rebound in so they all had their moments and and I thought they
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were physical and uh really a bright spot for the Bruins and you
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know if it's if it's up to me I'm probably keeping those guys together for another game giving them another go and
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uh seeing if they can continue that you know who else was pretty good tonight was Elias lolm who had four points
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tonight um I'm sorry did he have four points no did he have three points tonight four and all four and all goal
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and two assist yeah goal and two assist so he's had four points in two games which is a great sign he had a great tip
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for a goal MH uh from about mids slot that was really nice and a couple of
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assists on the on the night um playing a really solid game much better than the
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first game where he had an assist but was pretty invisible the rest of the night but tonight much better
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performance by him uh and I thought you know there were a couple of times tonight again where he wasn't great and
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a couple of decisionmaking situations that weren't great but Charlie makoy I thought was much more assertive and
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better than has been I thought he was very good tonight I thought he was very
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good tonight I thought he had a shot mentality on the power play which if that continues all season long uh is
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gonna bode well for them because he has a really good shot he just doesn't use it enough um and if he starts to shoot
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more that's going to open up the wings and you have two really good players on the wings to be able to make plays and I
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think Elias Lindholm um has been kind of their best bumper player even though
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it's still real real early uh he's looked as good um as anyone there since
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Veron I mean he he he possesses the puck he he's He makes himself available for
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outlets for the guys in the wings if they're in trouble or the point man if he doesn't have anywhere to go with the
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puck so he's just really smart so he makes a lot of little smart plays that
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maintain possession of the puck and I think that's huge on the power play because you're trying to generate chances so um a really good game from
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Lind Holm uh Elias and um makoy I
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thought really was um you know more like himself tonight than than he has been in
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a while yeah he seemed a little bit more assertive there was that one play where he kind of muffed the puck and it turned
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into a penalty on the other end for Boston but for the most part he got some pucks through uh which is good he had
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that really I mean that goal was a snipe yeah that was a terrific shot like you
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I'm and I'm kind of screaming at the TV like why don't you shoot more when you shoot the puck like that he got some
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space he took a couple of backpedal skate you know backpedal moves and and fired on that top shelf just kind of a
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great shot uh to score that goal and and he he was he was physical and and
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aggressive and um you know it was a it was a pretty good effort all around for
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Boston I thought that it you know they set the tone early with that first shift
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Montgomery starts Martian Coy and geeki instead of the third line he went a little bit heavier against Florida I
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thought that was an overthought then and I still think it is now and he goes with Mar and the captain in that line and it
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was terrific they they get a great shot great chance early then they get a face off in the zone and then they get
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another shot on net and they draw a penalty like on the first 25 seconds of the game right so that's yeah yeah I
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agree I I thought it was I thought it was a a a great shift and it and it certainly set the tone for the way the
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Bruins played in the first period I mean they should have been up more but you know a couple of defensive lapses cost
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them and and brick made a good point during the during the broadcast on nessen that the Bruins defensive
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structure is so important and their centers right now are most of them are
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relatively new Lind Holmes new celix new uh Frederick didn't play a lot of Center
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last year so you have guys up the middle and the center is really lied upon um
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tremendously in the defensive Zone and the Bruin system and those guys are still kind of learning it so there is
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going to be some maybe you know times where um the Bruins look a little loose
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in their defensive Zone coverage and I think that's it's going to take some time for those guys to get kind of used
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to the breu system um you know in in order to uh kind of clamp down a little
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bit more defensively now before the game in the Press conference early on in the day um
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actually it was actually was after the game against Florida Montgomery talked about how the team seemed kind of
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slow and it and it kind of I almost kind of thought and Felgar Mass talked about
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this today on their program like when it when I initially heard it I thought is
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he not be is he not 100% behind the roster construction like it almost felt
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like that was a little bit of a dig at or just a maybe not a dig but maybe just
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him sort of saying like look we're we're much bigger now but we need to be just
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as fast skating like we need to be able to keep up with the pace and it seemed
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as though it was a pointed comment like boy we're slow and we can't be this slow
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and I wonder if he's a little apprehensive about the Fring size on
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this team I mean I I don't know if he's apprehensive about the size I think he
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might be apprehensive about their speed though sure I mean yeah there's there's
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teams that that are just much much faster than them they weren't fast last year uh and they and they I mean we
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haven't seen the full capability of guys like Max Jones he's supposed to be big and fast like he's supposed to be big
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and fast cic big and fast like so we'll see how that plays out but but uh
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certainly against Florida they looked slow and you know I think that's you
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know it it goes back to you know them not being sharp if passes are in your
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skates you can't you can't take a pass and stride and and and use your speed so
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uh it's an overall sharpness that they just didn't have in Florida and Florida causes a lot of that uh especially
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against the Bruins because they seem to know what the Bruins are going to do with the Park before the brues do it so
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um you know I I don't know it you look at the two games and you'd say that
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Florida game that's not the Bruins and you look at this game and you'd say yeah
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the first two periods probably I mean they're playing Montreal that's probably not the Bruins either they're not score
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six goals a night right that's not them so it's probably somewhere in between
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the two um you know Florida does that to a lot of teams they didn't do it to just the Bruins they did everybody I mean
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they won the damn Stanley Cup it's not like you know you go up against that team and you know other people have
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found a way to beat him because they won the whole damn thing so um you know a
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tough open on the road there um and we probably were a little too hard on them
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um but you know they need to they need to get better in some areas you know
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clean some things up and and I'm still worried about the scoring overall even though they had six tonight I am too I
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mean I and like you said Montreal's on a great defensive team I mean they're rebuilding they're young group they had
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three you know first year rookies on the team I mean they have you know they're very young um and it's you know it they
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gave up 48 shots the other night like that you know they you're gonna get some chances against Montreal and like you
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said against Florida I mean Florida is the team that's the bar and that that's where you kind of have to get to I'm
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really looking forward to Monday because at home against Florida to see what kind of adjustments are made
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to see you know what kind of effort is is made and if Florida is able to continue to do what they've done to
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Boston again on Monday and if they and if they continue to do that and hem Boston in to their own Zone over and
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over again Monday then I'm still GNA be concerned about it now if Boston comes
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out Monday and plays well and beats them and it's just a different type of game then I'll feel much better but right now
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I don't feel great and Monday I'm really looking forward to that game now the kings in between they're pretty good too
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I mean Quinton byfield's an excellent young star and they're they're pretty good too copar is a you know
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generational type player underrated player in the league for years and years so that's still a pretty good team they
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have they have they good team yeah they do they have a good team they're good so uh this is a tough little stretch to
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start the year and um you know I I was more encouraged tonight just from that first shift like they just played with
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more urgency my question is that why does this keep happening over and over again yeah where they don't start on
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time and that's with Montgomery this has been kind of the case the last last
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season and now into this season like they're not starting on time enough and
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why is that like why is he calling for urgency the second game of the year why
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do you need the coach to talk about urgency when you're playing the team that that eliminated you two years in a
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row like why why is that an issue I beats the [ __ ] out of me sorry John I
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don't know yeah I have no idea uh I was I was I mean look it's gonna make it
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look like you don't have any urgency when the other team is on top of you get buried yeah sure right so I mean that's
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part of it for sure uh Florida makes you look like you don't have urgency because you can't do anything they don't they
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suffocate you you have no time to breathe no time to think no time to move the puck um so it makes you look
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probably worse than you are but at the same time you know there was some stretches there where they could have
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probably got something going a little bit and they couldn't find a way couldn't couldn't get things going when they cut it to two to one and you're
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like okay maybe it's a game now and then bang bang two goals and you know under two minutes and it's over basically uh
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in that Florida game so um you know the Bruins need to need to be able to uh um
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kind of weather the storm against Florida play with a little more Poise uh and and hopefully you know find a way to
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figure out that four check and be able to beat him but I I thought tonight was a good step in the right direction
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overall I thought um you know you wanted to see more points from the defense they
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had five points from defenseman tonight kylo had two assists zadorov had two assists and makoy had a goal so that's a
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positive I still thought kylo was bad tonight he had two assist I he was
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passing the puck to the other team just like he was in the Florida game um I I so he he still hasn't found his game uh
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yet in my opinion so you know he's got a little bit of work to do I did like the fact that they went back to zadorov and
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makoy together and I thought for the most part they were pretty good together um so I think that you might see that
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going forward um because the mfo lindome thing just for what whatever reason
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doesn't really work and lorai I don't know if he's lost his confidence or what
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maybe it's just playing against Florida we'll see um but you know right now I
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think he's probably better suited to play a little bit down the lineup until he kind of finds his footing again yeah
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so what do you think about having him this is a tale's old's time like what do
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you think about him just being benched after game one like I look I know he was
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minus three he was minus four at one point in the game like I know he was bad didn't play well this as bad as I've
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seen him play I get it yeah but what do you think about this is again the Bruins
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coaching that just buries a rookie or a young guy uh when veterans have played
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terrible like Carlo you mentioned Carlo like you veterans have played terrible
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and not missed a shift for years and years like so a guy that's a young guy
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like easy just an easy target you know what I'm saying just easy target to sit
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his ass the next game and say and Montgomery plays it off as we want to get everybody in not in the second game
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of the year like sit him on Monday when you play Florida again but to sit him
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the next night I mean is this why the the the young players have such a hard
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time breaking into the league and getting any type of footing because the first mistake they make they are just
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ostracized to the corner of the room you know with their duns cap it's just unbelievable yeah I think that happens
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here and look I don't know if that's a coach thing or if that's an upper
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management thing I think it's an organizational thing because Cassie with Cassie it happened too well that's what I was gonna say it seemed like it
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happened with Cloe it seemed like it happened with Cassidy and it seems like it's happening now so yeah I don't I'm
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not sure that's a coach thing I think maybe that's an organizational thing like you have to prove Pro yourself kind
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of a thing well how do you prove yourself if every time you go out there they don't give you enough ice time or
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when you do get ice time and you make a mistake you're benched in the second period like they did it to ptra last
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year too why are you playing the kid if all of a sudden you're like well you
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know it's the third period and we're defending a lead so he's he he's not going to see the ice now like how do how
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does he learn to be the two-way player you want him to be if you won't put put him on the [ __ ] ice sorry John I mean
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so I I don't understand their philosophy in developing young people young players I I don't get it and and I haven't
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gotten it for a long time and I don't really understand like why is Fabian lysel not in the lineup yeah he had a he
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had a slow start to the preseason but then he played well towards the end so
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you know you you called him out or maybe you said something to him in one after one of the early games and he responded
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scored goal but then he doesn't get you know you don't see him anything after
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that and you got a shitload of fourth line guys and you're just running all those guys out there and the team lacks
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offensive talent and scoring punch and Fabian lysel maybe maybe I don't know um
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maybe a guy who can give that to you yeah and I'm with you and tonight again
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Montreal's not a great defensive team so the six goals and you know Ki scored and Castle had two and but that's not going
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to be every night like you're going to need some offensive Talent against really good teams especially as you know
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when it gets to the playoffs like it you know it's hard for guys like Cole Ki to
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score goals in the playoffs like it's just it's just is I mean they the defense gets tighter you know they're
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they want to win so the video the the The Scouting all of it so that it
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becomes really hard for guys who aren't natural goal scorers to score in the playoffs it's just becomes hard so yeah
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I'm with you on see it to me isn't it a time at the beginning of the year to see
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a Fabian lysel give him six or eight games or or merkulov to give him six or
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eight games now where you're not going to blow the whole season if he screws up once or twice like isn't it a time to do
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it now than to try to squeeze them in in February when you're trying to win the
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division or or you know it's getting a little bit of nut cutting time like isn't it better now to try it now and if
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he fails fine then you can do it but they spend money on Fourth liners see to
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me I still think guys like cutar and foni and Duran and those guys instead of
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going out and spending money on these fourth liners or you know bringing in these guys from outside the organization
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why don't you give lysel and merav a shot and if it doesn't work then figure
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it out from there yeah I'm with you I think I think Fabian lysel should have been the second line right wing to start
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the year because Patra was hurt um so that's I don't think it should have been geeky I think geeki should be on the
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third line um and he's been fine on the second line
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but you haven't noticed him what he had uh well one shot tonight I think um and
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he didn't really do anything against Florida I didn't see any big hits or anything like that so he's not really thrown his weight around he's not
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generating any offense so you know it seems to me that that's a mistake you
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need an upgrade there uh and geeki should slot back into the third line where he fits better and I think you
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know that that may be what happens down the line when ptra comes back healthy
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hopefully um so we'll see how that all shakes out but yeah lysell should should
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have gotten a chance off his preseason I I mean Max Jones just draws right into
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the lineup after he played one preseason game was hurt and you know that guy earns a spot somehow I'm not sure how
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how that worked and then he was awful in the game against Florida uh and and is benched so why does lysell not earn that
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spot I I just don't I just don't understand yeah I don't either all right let's dig into the to the box score a
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bit and the guy that stands out with me who hasn't been good the first two games is Charlie Coyle tonight he was a minus
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two no shots on net played 20 minutes um I worry about
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Charlie Coyle who had a career year at 31 years old and we've talked about this
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like can you expect that again at 32 and as we go forward I just think it's
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wishful thinking to think he's gonna put up another 60o year at this age I think
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he accepted the role last year and kind of surprised some people now it just
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seems like in the beginning of the year here and I know it's only two games but not great
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and they need him and if he's your second line Center not producing and
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looking like he's aging that's a problem it is it uh I thought he was okay
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tonight I didn't think he was that bad tonight uh he did have a play where he had a two-on-one with Martian hit a
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crossbar so um you know I I overall I thought tonight he he had his legs going
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and you know that's the big thing for him now I think at his age is you to be
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he has to skate if he's not moving his feet then he's you know he's he can't do the puck possession and all that stuff
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he's still smart and he's plays a good two-way game and he'll you know be about
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50% on faceoffs I think tonight he was only five of eight but uh or five and
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eight sorry yeah one five lost eight yeah one five lost eight um so he needs
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to be a little better there um and you know if Martian's going to generate you
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know things offensively Coyle has to help Coyle has to be there there has to be another guy on that line to drive
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offense and if it's marand and Coyle and geeky it's martian with two guys who don't really Drive offense so you need
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to you know in my opinion that should be ptra I think ptra should Center the second line you said that too move coil
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back down to third line Center where he where he's a a better matchup and and
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then you have you know two guys on that line who can drive offense and ptra marand and then maybe geeki is fine with
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the two of them um because you know he can be a net front guy and a win pucks
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out of the corners guy and create space for Maran and and ptra so you know maybe
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they'll mix some things up I can't see Montgomery giving ptra the second line
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Center Spot over coil though I just don't see it happening um this year anyway so um you know maybe he's the
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right wing there for now and you know he grows into that spot hopefully because
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you know the Bruins could certainly use some uh some playmaking centers is there
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is there enough accountability to the veterans on the team has has there been the last couple of years I mean I feel
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like there's just times when the veterans don't play that great like we just talked about and is there enough
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accountability there like it you know are we too afraid to drop coil down a
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line or or scratch him for a night or sit him for four shifts because he's not
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playing great I mean I don't know I you don't really see that around the league no you don't you
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probably that was that was like do you remember when Steve Casper did that NE was it Ney and Kevin Stevens NE and
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Kevin St all night yeah yeah and it that was a that was yeah that was I mean that
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was a new story throughout the league it was when it was two guys you know they
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kept showing him on the kept showing him on the bench two guys that you know are stars in the league or had been stars in
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the league up to that point you know benched um that's a huge story so it
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just doesn't happen with veteran guys it just you're right um you know could they
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take the ice time back a little bit you know could they could they give them you know 16 minutes or 14 minutes instead of
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20 minutes yeah they could do that um uh would would he drop him below a guy who
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hasn't proven himself in the league from a second line Center to a third line Center no um you know that's just wishful
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thinking on my part I think um patra's got to earn that and basically take that job away from coil by producing um at
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the wing um at first so you know it it's GNA take some time for them to kind of
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figure all that stuff out figure where everybody fits they need to get everybody healthy and then you know
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we'll see kind of where the pieces can fit best um but you know as you've said
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before some of Montgomery's coaching decisions and and line kind of switching
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and moving around um I I don't know if we if if I have
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faith in him to put the right guys together yeah right yeah I mean that's a
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concern I've had and other people say I'm crazy but that's the concern I've had uh and then tonight Jeremy Swingman
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three even strength goals against 833 save percentage obviously you hasn't had any training camp
25:28
comes in tonight I thought he made some some decent saves at times uh the Coffield goal is you know how do you let
25:34
Coffield stand there by himself Morgan geeki in that play I watched it a couple of times on that play the defenseman has
25:42
a guy in the front and there's another guy to the left of the goenda and then caufield's on the right
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Morgan geeky is standing in no man's land in no man's land yeah and CRA Field's behind him and it's a goal easy
25:56
tap in goal at the post like you can't let Cole Coffield have any type of space
26:02
around there it's ridiculous so I don't I don't blame Swan for that one there was one before that the goal before that
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was kind of a you know that's I don't really blame him a ton there either but you know I guess you know you gave up
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four goals a little leaky a little but I don't I don't think I'm you know overly
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concerned because he did made a couple of sparklers so I think he'll be fine uh
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and you you know was to be expected I thought going into this game you were going to get a seven to3 six I thought
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this would be this type of game to be honest because I know Montreal is coming off that that win the other night um
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where they gave up all those shots the Bruins are gonna be hungry because they were kind of embarrassed so I I thought
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this would be the type of game and it was a really open ice type of game yeah
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uh and Josh Anderson had a tip on another goal on Swan so right I mean certainly I don't think you can fault
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him on many of those um when I first saw the shot though that went in on the Anderson tip I'm like how did that go in
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like please don't tell me that just beat him clean from 55 feet like we we can't
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start we can't start letting those in no but inoc had a nice tip on that and kind of the high slot uh tipped it down so um
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yeah sw's gonna it's gonna take him a little bit but he seems to be back into his you know um Ron hexall kind of a
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thing yeah with a Nick Suzuki you see that he gave a little a little little punch so Swan's a Swan's feisty he is I
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love his cache I love I love that from the playoffs last year like he's not afraid of that he gives you a little bit
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of attitude at the back end which Thomas did like yes and I think you'll see more and more of that now that he has the big
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contract and he's what have settled in like I think you're going to and I think it's a good thing I really do yeah I
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agree I agree um all right let's get into some uh one one last thing about the Box Cole Ki plays 720 and gets a
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goal and two assists like and I'll tell you what I'm going to eat crow because I you know I just didn't think yeah he had
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a good preseason but he's playing against largely AHL players like but I and I questioned the lysell thing and
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and all that why are we playing Cole Ki why are they playing Riley tufty like why are they playing these guys but Ki
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has continued to be pretty good into the regular season so you know hey if he's
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gonna do that from the fourth line then Jesus yeah I mean he seems to have some
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chemistry with those guys that's what I said you got to ride that let them give them another game and see if they can do
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it again right and it doesn't have to be you know a goal and two assists and two
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goals for castlec but can you generate chances can you keep the team in you
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know can you keep the puck offensively and stay out of your own zone so it
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momentum changing shifts that's what you want from the fourth line you want them to win shifts and give it back to the
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you know to your team with a little momentum you know whether it's a big hit or you know scoring chance whatever it
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is uh can they continue that and so I would give them like I said I give him another game and and let him see if they
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can duplicate that uh but Ki was really good um and he's faster than I thought
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also which um you know I guess that's good because they they do need the speed
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yeah that's he made a really good play on the wall on the on the cleic uh I
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think it was a cic cast go yeah the castle G in the half wall stepped out and ripped that shot Far Side yeah uh no
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it was the I think it was yeah the second one where he was he oh no it's his own goal it was his own goal he he
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had the puck on the right uh the right uh right sideboards Center Ice boards
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and kind of Spun and gave it to beer coming with speed right yeah and then he but then he got on his horse and beat
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somebody the front of the net after he was kind of pinned on the wall bang in that rebound that was kind of yeah
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banged in the rebound so that's just a good hustle play it is a great pass that's a greasy fourth line play yeah to
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give it to a guy coming through the neutral zone with speed but then you beat your check to the front of the net and score I mean that's yeah you can't
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ask for more than that from a fourth line guy no all right let's get us some fan comments Ry tufty right on at t-boss
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42 says tufty a breath a breath the fresh air he's a big kid another big
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[ __ ] heavy kid and again a little bit of a head scratcher that you know we're GNA
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put tufty in there and but he he played pretty well tonight and he he did his job and he played about nine minutes and
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and did fine uh Forest G says you guys should play Montgomery's press conference right now I wish we had that
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kind of ability Forest I love your I love your thought process uh you think Forest G is Forest Gump yeah maybe
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R run forest uh t-boss 42 uh sidorov finally a
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crunchy hit he did have a hit along the boards there that was a that was a frakin Dandy he does he does get a
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little a little Connor Cliff than he running round for hit but he's a he's a big enough guy that so those hits are
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gonna uh matter to people he's not five you know 10 like Clifton is no no no uh
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cam says from the cam show is it too early to say the Bruins won the hmark trade I mean Castle gets two goals I
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mean that snipy had come coming off the half wall that's a goal scorers goal I
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that was that was something I didn't think he had in him uh if he does that you know look he's not going to score 48
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goals this year but you know if he if he could pot you know 15 or so and if he
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pots 15 goals the the Bruins are are going to the E there's no doubt about it
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15 goals we're going to sit and drink Knob Creek on this very Broad C all
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night long because that would be quite the uh Miracle of sorts cam also says
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maoy Le like normal makoy for the first time in a long time and and Smitty agrees and I and I and I agree as well I
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just thought he had more conviction um you know he was shot first mentality which he should be doing a ton
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he had 12 goals last year he should have 15 goals this year I mean just if
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they're going to be good if they're going to be where need to be they're going to need to make up for some of the
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offensive deficiency and some of the forward group and the defense has to be able to to lend to more offense I mean
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Johnny Boychuk and and Seidenberg and Chara when they were really good I mean
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those guys you know chipped in you know offensively and they they they'll need
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that from the back end and has to start with makoy especially if they're going to continue to play him on the on the
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power play one unit Jason says keep Jones away for the love of God and I'll
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tell you you know he look he missed most of preseason he did um and he gets in
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late in preseason doesn't play with anybody like they're playing like the the you know the AHL guys he really
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didn't play with a regular unit he tries to go in and do too much he takes I think he was one of the guys who took
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two penalties I think yeah yeah he took that like we're GNA make it a fist fight personally yeah it took some bad
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penalties like Tren Frederick used to do you know and he slashes an official and it just got out of hand you know but I
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think I think you know I I'm Gonna Save The Jones you know stuff for a little
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bit later on when we see what he can do because he is talented he was a higher pick and he is a talented guy um and
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then tboss says noticeably fresher position play on the power play Let's get Tyler Johnson in there to solidify
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it now look I've been clamoring kind of for Johnson to get in there I don't know
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how you do it cap wise and what he what he'll take for MoneyWise and all that but mgy did say today he was being
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patient waiting his time I think Tyler Johnson will help it's a matter of where
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you put him like do you put him with marand and have the you know the grandfather line you know with marand
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and Johnson is that too old is that too slow is that too small might be too
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small with ptra and if you put ptra Martian Johnson out there that's too small yeah I mean they wouldn't do that
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I mean it would be with Co so right so Johnson play third line there's a possibility it could work I yeah I mean
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I don't know I I would I wouldn't mind giving Johnson a chance you know they
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have a bunch of third line fourth line guys um and if some of them start falling off and not producing uh I
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certainly see Johnson maybe getting a chance or if someone gets injured uh Johnson can certainly step in uh I think
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it's going to be a heand situ ation he's going to hang out around Warrior Ice Arena um you know hang out with the boys
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for a bit and um you know when his time comes I think he'll step in and and he's a you know a Savvy veteran a guy who's
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been around and and he'll fill in and do pretty well I think yeah I think I think
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for sure um now Rob Spectre says can we appreciate how boned our season would
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have been without sway on that and I we can right now I mean it's been confirmed
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that that we would have been like sitting on a cactus tree all season long if if Corp pasalo and whoever were your
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Goldies I mean that would have been really disast uh boned for sure uh and then uh
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Matt ptra talks about t-boss talks about Matt ptra who's getting closer Montgomery said it'd be a real jolt I
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think for them I think that would really help them he his creativity is sorely needed they don't have again like
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Playmakers like guys with vision and playmake ability and and Patra does now
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he's 20 and he's still fairly slight and he's still fairly inexperienced but he
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does have some skill sets that other guys don't have so that's uh that's helpful to them um and then tufy and
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tufty and Ki um you know look I like them on the
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fourth line with like celik like you know what I'm saying like guys on the third line over the course course of
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time is a little bit of a stretch for me so if beer can actually perform and
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produce then he could put him up with Frederick and somebody on the third line
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that would work better but I think tuy if tufty or Ki are on the third line I
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just don't think you're I just don't think you're as good as you if as you need to be no uh no over time I I I
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think the for line and and look I I love beer maybe he's hit his ceiling maybe he
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hasn't um he's never been an offensive player right at any level really you
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know he wasn't he didn't score a ton of goals in Michigan no he hasn't been with the development program um he was in
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checking roles in both with you know both of those um programs because there
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was so much more offensive Talent uh on those teams so maybe it's there and it's a you
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know he's a piece of coal that you need to shape into a diamond um but I just don't see it I think he's Danny p with
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size you know no hands uh but he has size like and and I'm not sure if he has
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the greatest hockey I either like tonight at the end of the game if he just stands still and straddles the blue
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line he takes the pass from coil turns to his forehand and fires it into the open net but no he's moving
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because he's trying to get away from the guy look you're fast already dude you don't need to do that um so it's just
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like little things like that where he's he doesn't have the offensive you know IQ to make it work I don't think so to
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me he'll always be a fourth line guy and that's fine because I think he's he does
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well in that role to the net you know yeah crash in the goalie and maybe
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it goes in like right fine yeah um and you know good penalty killer fast like
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all that stuff I think he he'll have a long career in the NHL as a bottom six
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guy to me it should be on the fourth line but then like cleck and Ki fine Max
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Jones and tufty to me are guys who should be fourth line guys they should be Replacements or uh substituted in if
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cleik has a bad game or if Ki has a bad game or if beer has a bad game you know rotate those guys through that's fine
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with me and then the third line should be Frederick and it should be geeky and
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it should be whoever right Ty Johnson somebody with offensive Talent yeah you
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need to have a line with somebody on there that has some offensive Talent
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yeah and and that's what I want it to be I want the offensive talent to get down
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into the third line not be Frederick and a couple of guys you're like yeah they may score right sometimes
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someday um so that's what that's what I'm looking for really um maybe we'll see it
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maybe we won't I think that's obviously it's up to Jim Montgomery but um that's
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what I would like to see if uh I was running the team you know that's three guys Frederick geeky Johnson who can
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score 15 goals yeah so that's fine your third line like I'm okay with that you
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know and they you know get some speed with beeer and you get some grit with Fred and you got geeky who's you know
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big and fairly talented and I think that's a fine line uh to be you know Johnson is you know small and uh but
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he's a ver veteran and a Stanley Cup winner and he can score goals yeah so I
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I I like you know I I'm I'm on board with that and then cik and tufty and Ki
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and whatever just go out Jones and beer like that's there's like five or six guys
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there for three spots and just there's a lot just switch him through there like
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if a guy if a guy lets off the pedal take him out take him out put him somebody else that's gonna be hungry to
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take his spot put that guy in let him bang some bodies and maybe he gives you some energy maybe he chips one in maybe
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he gets in a fight whatever it is but if those guys on the fourth line aren't giving you
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110% take them out of the game take there's your accountability right there yeah scratch him and then the next guy
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goes in and he's now it's your spot until you you know slow down and when
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you slow down you're coming out right and and just do it like that that's what I would do if it was me but yeah I don't
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get to make those decisions not you what about what about John
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beer going forward um you is he a guy that they
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kind of dangle at the deadline or is is does he have legs in this organization
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with all of these guys we just talked about plus the guys behind them in Providence who are probably ready next
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year does he have legs going forward I don't know I don't know what
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his value is I don't know yeah it's hard to say it's hard to say it's hard to say
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if he's enough if he separates himself enough to be worth it yeah do people
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value him as much as you know the Bruins valued Mark cic in the alar trade right
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know I'm not sure I don't I would probably say no yeah I mean I probably
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would too I'm not sure teams around the league value him as as as much so
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because he he's he's physic he'll hit but he's not really a fighter and you
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know he certainly doesn't have the shot M cck has Beach is never done you know
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pull it off the wall rip one bar down so um I don't know I don't know where he
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kind of fits into all that to me I think Trevor countar should yeah Duran and countar should
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make the team next year at the latest yeah and you there's a couple of guys there that that that should be gone
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because those guys should make the team they year picks they're close enough
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they're going to be there next year they they play the way that you like them to I mean all right tboss wants me to go
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on my Justin brazzo rant and here it goes brother okay look tonight in front
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of the net great I mean don't interfere with the go but fine I mean that's it was a it was a soft call and I get it
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whatever but and he wasn't he was a net front presence which they need you know they they don't do enough um but the
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I'll tell you what I put I put out something where we kind of were putting guys in and taking guys out and brazzo
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was one of the guys out and I'll tell you what you would have thought I was taking Cam Neely out and putting you
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know Sandy MRE in like it was unbelievable the response like how could you ever
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take Justin brazzo out here's the thing he has 21 games in the NHL he's almost
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27 he has five goals in his career if you take Riley who is it uh was it Riley
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T who had Riley tufty had 18 games or 18
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goal no I'm sorry brazzo's highest number of goals in the AHL in the pros
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altogether was 18 tough at 19 and he has like three goals in the NHL in his
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career like it's very similar to the two of them look I I think brezo is a nice
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story I think he does some decent things can't skate worth a lick like but he can
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get in front of the net he has some offensive IQ which I like you know what I mean but he is a 13th forward period
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end of story like he is a 13th forward like you can't really I mean yeah you could put him on the fourth line I guess
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he doesn't hit he's huge he doesn't hit he doesn't grind he can't he can't catch
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up to a guy to hit him he can't yeah he he doesn't grind he doesn't front of the net a little bit he doesn't play the way
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a tuy kepy and castc can play like he doesn't play that way and your fourth line should be wear guys down for nine
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10 minutes that's what what it should be so he's either a third line player or he's nothing and I just don't think you
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know look he's a borderline NHL player which he has been his life his whole
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life like so let's not over rate the guy like he's he's fine it's a nice story
45:08
you know he had a nice little run at the end of the year he had a nice little playoff but if you're relying on a guy
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like Justin brazzo I mean he's one foot out the door he's one foot out the door
45:21
so look I again it's not that I don't like him I think it's a good I think
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it's a good story I think he has good hands I think he can play Around the Net
45:31
a little uh I think he can play below the goal line a little like he showed in Florida like he can do those things but
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he's got to get there on a on a horse and buggy ride to get down there to to
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play so I look again it's not nothing against Justin brazo like it's a nice
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story he'll be 27 in February like this is not a 22y old guy like making his way
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this is not Fabian lysel this is Justin brezo Hanging On by a thread and when
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you hang on by a thread you're a 13th forward so that's that's kind of what it
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is to me like I I'm looking at a realistic approach like if he goes on a tear or he scores a bunch of goals then
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I can change my mind fine but I don't think it's happening so let's meet back
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here in a couple months so that's all I have to say about it like and it's a far
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less this afternoon when I was at work I was screaming at my monitor when people
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when people kept responding and I was like I'm gonna go on this epic rant I am very subdued right now but I'm telling
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you five hours ago yeah it was frakin brutal like I was beside myself so there
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there it is I mean look I want him to do well see TB says see you then yeah okay man that's fine and I and I'll tell you
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what tune in day for the next two months boss I will tell you right now okay
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right t- boss I will send you a Bruins Bender shirt if he if he scores 15 goals this
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season okay there it is there it is you get a shirt it'll be like Oprah you get
47:16
a shirt you get a shirt you get a shirt if he scores 15 goals clip it yeah yeah
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clip this one right now and we'll revisit it and I will eat crow right here I will take a pro SW of that
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bastard both of us eight Crow uh on Trent Frederick so it's yeah two years
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ago I thought Trent Frederick couldn't skate yeah like to play in the league
47:43
so you got it you you wear it every day brother I appreciate it uh yeah so
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that's what we'll do but I think I just think in a more realistic thing I think
47:54
that he's just you know he's a 13th forward he's a guy that's kind of there and and kind of you know he's he's on
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borrowed time you know and and that's okay like he's he's played a lot more NHL than I have so I'm not saying it's
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bad uh I'm just saying let's pump the brace on there's no way you can take
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them out of the lineup like come on I mean for God's sakes like if that's if
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that's what we're if that's what we're doing then this team's not going anywhere right it's not like if if we
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cannot take Justin brezo out of the lineup it's not good enough the team
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yeah exactly right that's that's what it is I mean that's just down to yeah yeah
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if you can't take brazzo out or you can't take you know a certain guy out of the lineup you know then the team's not
48:47
good enough to to win anything if you're relying on Justin brazzo to be in the lineup and score goals you don't have a
48:54
very good team yeah someone someone on there was like is the eighth best def offensive player on the team if that's
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the case then the Bruins aren't good enough the Bruins are going to lose in the first round at best right if he's
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the eighth best offensive player you have because that's top nine he's you know
49:12
look okay but that doesn't just because he's top nine on this team and you think he is doesn't mean he's good enough on
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the grand scheme of things doesn't mean your team is good enough right you know what I mean there that means it's just
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not that very good of a team so and the jury's still out how good the team is right now yeah it is because their
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forward depth is a concern um but that's just sort of the realistic approach of it I again I I I
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like some of the things he does I do it's not this is not a brezo bashing he sucks all that stuff it's that's not it
49:47
it's just that he's not what people think he need needs to be and again it comes back to the Bruins fan
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nobody loves the bottom six players like Bruins fans they latch on to them
50:03
there's still yaka blco fans out there who watch him in Minnesota like it's
50:09
unbelievable like it it really is You Know Jack St Nika never got a chance they ruined him really well four other
50:17
teams thought he sucked too like you know I mean so uh it's uncanny really
50:24
and you look it speaks to the passion it's why it's why podcasts like this one do well is because there's a we've
50:31
learned this yes Smitty and I have been writing for other teams and stuff and that you know the Facebook groups and
50:38
other teams it just doesn't compare to Boston no I mean it the passionate fans
50:43
in Boston are unbelievable why it works like if we were doing the San Jose shocks podcast
50:49
right now it'd be I'd be fast asleep you know and Smitty would be playing solitire and you know it just it just
50:56
doesn't but in Boston people are just passionate no one loves to hate their team like the Bruins fans yeah I mean
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it's just it's it's cical that's all of it all right three three stars tonight
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Smitty three stars tonight um I'll go uh
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can I go the whole fourth line as as onear hell sure all right onear third third star will go uh we'll
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go Charlie McAvoy three we'll go IAS Lindholm 2 and we'll go fourth line
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number one all right I I went I was going to go makavo 3 lindol 2 castlec one so there you go there you go yeah
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right right on it yeah sympatico sympatico yeah so it was a good it was a
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good night for the Bruins overall I mean they played with more urgency they played better you know they played a
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little bit more what Matt Montgomery was talking about they'll need to be just as good Saturday when they take on the LA
51:54
Kings who are a really good team uh with good players Quinton byfield's a good one
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Kopitar like uh like was said earlier here in one of the comments Kopitar is a
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as a berson sort of uh you know berson
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2.0 kind of guy yeah so the Kings Kings beat uh beat Buffalo tonight 3-1 an
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copar natural hattrick in the third period I mean no there you go yeah you
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go I mean that that's what I'm talking about so that's a good team coming in uh on a
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MAA on Saturday at 1 pm and we will be with you postgame live on Saturday
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afternoon because we don't have much of a life and we're GNA do this every single game this year as much as we can
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