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of course chirp one this week Mr Smitty
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yeah Cam Neely in his comments at uh a
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recent Boston Bruins event in his quote
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two paths that the Boston Bruins are
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prepared to take this season one is
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adding to this team if they continue to
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be in the playoffs if you can imagine
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that I can't second is a retool as he
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called it yeah thoughts
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yeah I I mean anybody with eyes knows
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it's path to and it doesn't matter where
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the club is in the standings they need
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to retool the roster uh I mean we've
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said this ad nauseum but Sweeney said
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the roster was incomplete going into the
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season well let's make a complete roster
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and that involves a retool so guys that
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are ufas guys that are rfas that you
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don't think are going to be a part of
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your future um even guys under contract
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that maybe you don't think are going to
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be part of your future getting a little
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up there in age or that you could get
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something pretty good for at the trade
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deadline you got to ship those guys out
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it's time um you know I think they need
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uh a little shakeup to the core of the
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team as well I think that would help
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maybe um you know it's been kind of a
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country club atmosphere over there since
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Bruce Cassidy left and I think they need
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you know an enema of sorts in the
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organization from Top to bottom and that
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to me is a retool uh I would go as far
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as to call it a rebuild not a retool
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because I don't think they're gonna get
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this thing right on the fly like I I
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just don't think they will maybe they'll
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surprise me and and it'll work out and I
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hope it does because I would rather
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watch good hockey than shitty hockey and
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and this year it's been boring shitty
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hockey for the most part um so I would
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rather not watch that and rather watch
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something good so would it be fair to
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say that as an NHL organization you
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obviously want your players to be
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comfortable in a sense of having the
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amenities Etc but have the Bruins let
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this team get comfortable to the point
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where actually the team and the
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management is comfortable to the point
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where nobody's really afraid of losing
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their job yeah I I don't I don't know if
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it's amenity wise I think it's
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more um they're not held accountable for
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mistakes well no no no no I meant like
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as an organization you want your players
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to be comfortable like the Arizona
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Coyotes two years ago like they couldn't
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pay Hotel bills they were having they
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didn't have any luxuries as an NHL club
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and players do value that when they sign
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with a franchise so in that regard I'm
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saying you want them to be comfortable
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and taken care of but on the ice
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probably not so much yeah I mean you do
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want them to have all the all the
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amenities around the organization that
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would draw players in that would make
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them comfortable make their families
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comfortable um you know state-of-the-art
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training methods good weight room like
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all that stuff the good practice
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facility that they have now all that
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stuff makes a difference for sure but
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the Oni stuff is where they've gotten
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too comfortable in my opinion it's it's
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they ha they're not held accountable for
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mistakes you know we've talked about it
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um with how they develop their young K
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their young kids their young guys and
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it's you know those players are held
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accountable for mistakes they lose
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playing time they're shipped down
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whatever the case may be the veterans on
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this team have it easy they are not held
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accountable at all they very rarely lose
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playing time I I the first thing the
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first time I can remember anything like
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that happening at all remotely was When
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Brad Martian was benched um I was it in
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the Ottawa game the end of the Ottawa
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game um where he caused turnover he was
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benched for all of overtime overtime yes
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yes yes um and he said shootout loss and
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he didn't participate in the shootout
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either so over time in the shootout he
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was not out there that's the first time
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I can remember anything like that
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happening under this regime so that's a
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consequence that you don't care what the
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outcome of that game was you were
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sending a message to that one particular
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player regardless [ __ ] the game at that
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point yeah and I think because of who it
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was and who it is he's the captain of
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the team that sends a message to
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everyone else on the team or it should
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look you know if you don't do things the
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right way you're gonna sit and that's
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the way that it should be now can
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sacko um you know get them all to buy
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into that at this point in time at this
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point in the season after doing things a
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certain way for going on three plus
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years now I don't know maybe um and but
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after that you know they come out and
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they don't look great against San Jose
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still find a way to get a win um then
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they get trounced by New Jersey and then
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they play well against Ottawa so you
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know is it is it really sinking in with
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these guys I don't think it is it's just
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like what their starts like I don't
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think that stuff get it doesn't get
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through to them they don't have a sense
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of urgency every night it's occasionally
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they have a sense of urgency or in a
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period in a game they'll have a sense of
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urgency but it's not there all the time
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and that to me means you got to shake up
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the core somehow let me assist you with
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some statistics about Mr Bradley marshan
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I would love it since that game where he
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was scoreless and dash one against
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Ottawa the next game he had a goal and
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an assist and was plus4 against San Jose
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congratulations you beat one of the
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worst teams in the league and you had a
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moderately decent game congrats however
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the next game he was scoreless in dash
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one against New Jersey and even in the
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Ottawa game completely
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scoreless yeah I I mean look his ice
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going down down yeah look that line
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hasn't been good they put them together
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and they haven't been good the Martian
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with Lind Holm and you know insert
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random forward here as the third guy
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Lind Holm is a ghost he rarely appears
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way other than oh there's Lind Holm
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taking a face off and then he disappears
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until it's the next time to take a face
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off so he's playing with a guy who has
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almost no offensive ability and then
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so I'm not going to put a 100% of it on
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Brad Martian while he's not
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but you know he's on the line he should
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be the one driving the line but you know
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it's tough when you're with two guys who
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offense yes and uh as a professional
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would perfect Segways are in order today
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oh Joe Sako came out and had a wonderful
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conversation with the media that I sent
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you today M where they talked about Matt
