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Oct 30, 2024
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0:05
hey it's mornings with Maddie again this
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morning in the Bruins a two- two after a
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loss the second loss of the Season
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already to the Florida Panthers and now
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head on to Colorado on Wednesday night
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9:30 Eastern on TNT and Max to face the
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struggling Avalanche were 0 and3 on the
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season and defensively challenged for
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sure and we have Khloe Wright with us is
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who uh Chloe actually writes Avalanche
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content for the inside the rink.com
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website and Chloe it looks like the
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Colorado Avalanche are having some real
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problems in net in Alexander georgev
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just not getting it done to say the
0:49
least and it's not a new problem either
0:51
is the worst part um towards the end of
0:54
last season particularly in the playoffs
0:56
especially you remember that first game
0:57
against Winnipeg in the Western
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Conference
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um divisional round there there was some
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major questions about gorev's
1:04
performance especially his mental real
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estate he's known to be a pretty
1:08
emotional guy and Bednar said after the
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first loss that it's just a mental game
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for him right now after the second loss
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he's our guy we're going back to him and
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then this most recent loss uh our team
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was terrible top to bottom so I can't
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signal anyone out so he's in a rocking a
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hard place with the goalie right now now
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is it just the goal tender or is it the
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defensive structure what is happening
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with Colorado who's a fair you know
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super talented team what's happening
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with Colorado as a whole why giving up
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so many goals this early on well before
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the game at Columbus I would have told
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you it was just in goal um those first
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two games they only allowed a combined
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2.6 expected goals against but managed
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to give up in each game uh six and eight
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respectively so not not good um but last
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game against Columbus everything fell
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off the wagon and a big part of that is
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Health uh Devon Tao is one of their top
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two Defenders obviously kale marar is
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forever partner now for a lot a lot of
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years uh he was a game time decision
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ultimately was ruled out and his
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replacement making his Avalanche debut
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Oliver Shillington who last was seen for
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the Calgary Flames only getting into 20
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games in the majors uh he had a really
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bad night so the wheels fell all the way
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off the wagon and I think it's a
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combination of injuries and just some
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new additions who haven't really gelled
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with the system yet and and when you
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don't get that you need good goal
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tending and that is part of the problem
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the goal tending has been very very bad
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now part of the reason also is the
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forward group suffering some injuries
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and the latest one was Jonathan Dr drwan
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any any uh update on drwan so we know
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it's an upper body injury it was
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sustained uh against Vegas initially he
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returned to the game but then was ruled
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out afterwards they're doing weekly
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check-ins with him right now so he's
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considered week to week this week he's
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out so he will be not playing against
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the Bruins not playing for the rest of
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the week and then they'll reassess on
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Monday so no druin which is especially
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crippling because he was filling in the
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power play Spot previously occupied by
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also missing Valerie NuSkin um and
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without druin or nushin on the power
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play it's started to decline in
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productivity now there's been an update
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on nushin and his situation with the
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player assistance program what what
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happens there so he we have a date now
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it's November 13th that's when he's
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eligible to apply for reinstatement what
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does that mean it means that since he
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failed and is actually the first player
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in its history to fail in the second
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stage of the NHL's player assistance
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program what that means is he went
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through the program was initially
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reinstated with further testing and then
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failed those tests the club has
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obviously been very um protective over
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what exactly he was being tested for but
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I think we can make an educated guess
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that uh some of his previous troubles
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he's opened up with about substance
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abuse
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um and issues related to alcohol and
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narcotics um are reemerging since he
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failed in that specific stage he is
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going to have on that November 13th one
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week where he'll have to reapply
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essentially so he'll have to re-enter
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the player assistance program on the
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13th and then we'll have to clear a
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series of screenings before then being
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eligible for reinstatement so
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realistically we're looking at the end
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of November as a timeline for him to
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come back now if we look at some of the
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stats here for the Avalanche and it's
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pretty gross uh you know some of the
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minus numbers it's Callum Richie at
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minus six although he did score his
4:37
first in NHL goal against the Islanders
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uh minus fours for for McKinnon and Ma
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and and just all around just just a real
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stinker of a beginning of the season for
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them which is really uh you know kind of
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shocking really because it's a it's a
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really good team they do have had some
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injuries in the forward group but it
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shouldn't be this bad I think what a lot
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of you're seeing is two things one like
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we mentioned the goal tending is really
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ghastly I think the AVS as a team have
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always played with a very offensively
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inclined defensive core you have your
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kale marar but you also have guys like
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Sam Gerard and then newcomer uh Sam
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molinsky all of whom are Defenders you
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expect to shoot the puck you expect them
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to pinch up in the zone and challenge in
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the corners that means that when things
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do break down you're going to have
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rushes coming back the other way gorv
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has struggled particularly with medium
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and low danger shot chances he's
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actually been very good about high
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danger chances from like setup so on the
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power play he's been great he's a better
5:41
goalie on the kill than he is at even
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strength it's when there are two or
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three people rushing into the Zone
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firing from above the circle what you
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don't think is going to be dangerous
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those are the goals that are going in
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right now and I think that's where
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you're seeing a lot of this that second
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pairing for the ABS in particular is Sam
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Gerard and Josh Manson they're always a
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bit of a roller coaster they're either
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the best Defenders on the ice are the
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worst and when they let those odd rushes
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in and it's always in the back of the
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net they're going to be the worst now
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the one thing that could be a breakdown
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for the Bruins is they are the most
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penalized team as far as miners are
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concerned with 28 on the season so they
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average about six miners a game so I
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guess the Colorado power play could be
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in effect this uh Wednesday night and
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and maybe that's a way that Colorado can
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get in the wing column so like I
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mentioned with Drew and out they are
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really missing that netf front presence
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kind of guy someone to create the
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traffic in front of swan or Corpus Alo
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whoever's starting and allow McKinnon
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Mar and ranin to have their onetime
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shots th those that's a really important
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role in their power play it was nushin
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then it was druin right now the guy
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you're going to want to watch out for is
6:44
Casey middle stat he's actually been the
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ab's best goal scorer he has three goals
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in three games no one else does well
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Ranon has three goals but they were all
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in the first game he's been Dreadful
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sense so three goals in three games
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middle stat has been consistently
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producing and he is now moving up and
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taking sh both with the top line and the
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top power play unit whereas previously
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he capped in the second power play unit
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so look for him to be a guy in front of
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the net trying to make those deflections
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trying to get that screen in to make
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that presence if he's effective their
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power play still can be but what we saw
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um the other night specifically against
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the Islanders is that he really
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struggled adapting to that role and
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that's why their power play was 0 for
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two on the night now if my mem serves me
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correctly middle stat did have some
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success with the sabes against the
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Bruins so that could be a good uh
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foreshadowing there and then finally you
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know Jim mtgy the head coach of the
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Bruins talked about getting up for the
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Florida Panthers and in that comment
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just before the Panthers game he
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mentioned Colorado he said not against
7:44
the Panthers if if it's Colorado or a
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team we don't play often I would say yes
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meaning the team isn't going to get up
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for it but not against the Panthers if I
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look at the two years both organizations
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Boston and Florida are similar there's a
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standard of what's accept cable and
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what's not accepted that accountability
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along with how hard the teams play I
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think lends to success so it was
8:06
interesting that Montgomery actually
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mentions the next team they play so now
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you have to worry about will the Bruins
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maybe have a little bit of a letdown
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after playing Florida uh just on Monday
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afternoon there's a lot working against
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the Avalanche here from Health we don't
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know if Taos is going uh he's going to
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be a game time decision we know dru's
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out we don't really even know what the
8:27
roster will be like as they on paper at
8:29
least sent down their most productive
8:31
rookie Nikolai kovalenko uh down to the
8:34
miners maybe they're going to call him
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right back up before game time maybe not
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really don't know there's a lot working
8:39
against Colorado what's working in their
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favor I think that quote comes from last
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year where the Bruins absolutely had
8:45
been taking the avalanche's lunch money
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uh we came to the Garden twice lost
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twice and both times they were Grizzly
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uh what's working in the apps favor is
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that this game is in Colorado it's going
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to be at that altitude if you don't get
8:56
up and get ready for a game at that
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altitude
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sometimes that can cost you now with the
9:01
Isles the first five minutes of that
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game you would have thought exactly the
9:05
same thing Colorado uh rookie Callum
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Richie scored his first goal less than a
9:10
minute into the game looked like
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everything was gravy then that goal
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tending issue reared its hands uh gorv
9:15
LED an an easy one momentum was downhill
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from there I think for the Bruins you
9:20
can expect Colorado to come out hot
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they're going to be angry there's been a
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lot of shouting in the locker room
9:24
there's a clip going around you might
9:25
have seen of McKinnon uh taking a
9:27
lumberjack to his stick on the bench
9:29
after a call near the end of the
9:31
Columbus game this team's angry right
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now and when you're angry and when
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you're at altitude with a team as fast
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as the ABS you might find yourself in a
9:38
two-goal deficit early the good thing
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for the Bruins right now A two-goal
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deficit is not nearly enough you're
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going to have to score four or five to
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be able to get out of this game with a
9:46
win and I don't know if the ABS have
9:48
that in their tank against a a better
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goalie than some of the ones we've seen
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they didn't have it against roken we'll
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see if Swan or Corpi can do better wow
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certainly things to look for Chloe we
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appreciate it so much great stuff and uh
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the Bruins take on the Avalanche
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Wednesday night 9:30 Eastern TNT and Max
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2 and2 Boston 0 and3 Colorado uh
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something has to give until then as
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always go Bruins
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