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yeah all right sharp one is Don Sweeney
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getting a free pass for the roster that
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has been built I think he is he sure is
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there's not a lot of talk there's a lot
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of talk about Montgomery right now yeah
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I think he is I mean like I said earlier
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uh $22 million to spend and you know
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this is what this is the roster you have
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and you know we've talked about it a
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bunch leading up to this and we'll get
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into it a little bit later but where do
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this Bruins top six rank among the top
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six in the NHL and I'll give you a hint
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folks it's low low it's low uh and he
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built this roster he signed these guys
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he let other guys go he traded away
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Taylor Hall traded away Felino I'm not
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saying Felino is any great shakes or
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anything but he traded away uh let Tyler
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bzi walk you know there were guys within
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the top six that had some offensive
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talent that he let go and he did really
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replace him you brought in guys like Max
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Jones who is you know taking the
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penalties uh and then you know PTO guys
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uh and he's just trying to fill it fill
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the the roster with you know Band-Aids
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real um you know offensive impact
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signings you know Elias Lindholm uh as
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much as I love the way he started and
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and I think he is a mini Bergie um
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good Faceoff guy good 200 foot player
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you know what they want in the center um
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but he's really a number two Center not
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a number one Center sure is uh and they
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gave him number one Center money and you
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know he had 44 points last year I mean
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Charlie Coyle and Pavo zaka both had
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better years than him last year yes so
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why are you spending all that money on a
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guy who had 44 points doesn't make any
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sense that's it so um and then you spend
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on a defenseman that you probably don't
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need so there's there's two guys that
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you spent you know fairly big money on
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big term big years um
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that you you probably should have looked
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elsewhere um and then you know the San
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thing you know whatever I I said all
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along I thought he botched it because he
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gave away his his his leverage when he
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traded allar away um and I I don't think
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he got enough back in the Omar trade he
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got Corp pasalo back and we would
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killing that at the time it certainly
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doesn't appear as though goalie B has
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fixed caalo up until this point no it's
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going to take some time I think so you
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know he he kind of he kind of missed I
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think this off season and um you know
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maybe at the time people were saying oh
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you know what's he gonna do what else is
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out there he's gonna do something else
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right um nope and he said going into the
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season that the roster wasn't finished
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but he has like 40 bucks in cap space so
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unless you can find you know diamond in
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the rough here you know you left just
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you left your roster short and you had a
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bunch of money to spend so why is your
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roster short if you had a bunch of money
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to spend on it and he and he and he even
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admitted that it wasn't a finished
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product yeah and it should be I mean it
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it should be you had $22 million to sh
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it up and all you really lost was to R
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of any you know of anything so you but
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you but you were already down a forward
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last year that's part of your downfall
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last year was that you were down a
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forward and then the brus leaves are
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down two forwards and who knows if Jake
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gensel comes or Jonathan maraso or
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Chandler Stevenson or Steven stampco who
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knows if any of those guys could be
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coerced to come here that's that's the
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other thing I mean there was a there was
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a list of players available but it was
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kind of a short list you know so I me I
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don't who knows if those players just
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weren't but Elias lolm was a bruin last
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year for God's sakes like it was the it
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was the biggest biggest unkempt secret
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in the league yeah I mean that was a
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sign they've been chasing the guy since
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he was good though that's the problem
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since he was good they were chasing him
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after he scored 41 goals with ma Matthew
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tchuk and Johnny GD like pretty good
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players pretty good players so like yeah
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of course you're gonna have a good year
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playing with those guys sure everybody
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has a good year playing with those guys
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yeah so right you know they've been
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chasing them since then so what is what
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is what does that mean how's your how
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good is your scouting if you're like oh
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yeah Elias lindholm's the reason those
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guys had a good that line was good no no
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it wasn't no they were line drivers and
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out and since that time he's gone down
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and down and down and down and down that
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was the for Vancouver a good playoff but
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Vancouver has good players too a bunch
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so I just I felt like that was a little
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bit of a reach as far as right um how he
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fits here I I don't I don't not like the
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player I like the player
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fine fine guy and I think they gave him
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too much money gave him too much money
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yeah five five and a half I think is
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more what he should get like coil money
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uh is what should have and then zadorov
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was really the one I think in hindsight
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that might really hamstring them like
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you you've got lyol hampus linol and
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zadorov both making you know five and
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six million and you know I I don't know
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if the left side and then lowai is gonna
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have to make you know with him you you
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paid all these other guys yeah he's
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going to get a raise so yeah I mean
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that's that's a tough one you're going
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have the three guys on the left are all
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going to be making five or six million a
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year like that's a lot for three for
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your three left side defenseman so yeah
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I mean it wasn't I again you don't know
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who's who's willing to come you know and
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in you know what what you would were
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left with when it comes to uh maybe it
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was theor of was the next best free
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agent you went to go get him I don't
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know but it doesn't seem like zadorov
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was really necessary as necessary as
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your biggest need which was a Winger or
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two here's here's what my problem is
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with it is they don't shoot high enough
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in my opinion right it's never it's
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never the top free agents available they
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don't seemingly look at those guys uh
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outside of John tarus and everyone
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basically knew he was going to Toronto
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because that was his hometown childhood
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team um but they don't appear to be in
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ever on any of the top guys big big one
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right with the big with the big guys and
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they also don't ever appear to be in on
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trades because they just don't have the
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balls Sweeny doesn't have the balls to
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do it he doesn't because he not gonna
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trade roster guys for he doesn't have
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the balls to shake up the roster because
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he could he could lose the trade the
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trade and then he'll look playoffs right
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yeah so I to me they just they're not
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the front office Sweeney in general is
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not creative enough is not um risky
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enough risky enough yeah to really
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improve the roster like it needs to be
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improved sometimes like
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sometimes you need to just shake up the
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DNA of the team you know Florida did
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that they traded away two of their best
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players the guy who who had 115 points
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yes and probably and probably the best
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defenseman right right he traded
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McKenzie wear and Jonathan hubero both
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top four d and a number one Center to
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get Matthew T and lo and behold you win
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the cup worked out pretty well fored out
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great it was the right move see those
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are the types of Savvy moves Alex Vegas
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trades Alex tuck and and some other you
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know young Capital to get Jack eel Jack
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eel goes to Vegas they win yeah me
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Cassidy goes there too but they win they
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kind of a risky daring trade but it pays
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off Vegas has always been willing always
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always to trade for high-end Talent
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that's what you need to win in this
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league High tal yeah it's high-end
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Talent high-end Talent wins it is and
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the Bruins do not have high-end Talent
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right now they have the only time they
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got a high-end like when they got Taylor
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Hall is because Hall basically said I
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want to go to Boston yeah like other
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than that it's it's it's really
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difficult and I and I we we said it on
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the Pod last year like maybe the center
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you need is not there so get the best
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Winger and you were all over Jake gensel
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like go get gensel go get gensel because
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you can't get the center you need which
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is a playmaker number one he's just not
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there it's just not there so get the
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next best thing which which is a 40 goal
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scoring Winger get that guy yeah I mean
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gensel and Mar were the two guys like
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get those guys instead you're just
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pissing me off now talking about it
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because it's true like you need goal
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scorers you need talent yes you need
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guys who can score can put the puck in
9:44
the net you need a guy who can break a
9:47
game more than one right like so if Paro
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shut down on a particular night or
9:52
whatever you can still win the game if
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Foo shut down now you don't win yeah we
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said it we said it then we said it have
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gensel and poshak and then figure out
10:03
the center later like figure out the
10:06
center later or put a center in there
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that's decent and he'll put up points
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because the other two guys can score
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fraking goals yeah give me a center that
10:14
wins faceoffs and is responsible
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defensively give me you know John
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Gabriel Pou or somebody you know yes
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give me a middle of the road guy that
10:24
wins face offs can penalty kill and is
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responsible 200 foot and put him with
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two Wingers who could score I guarantee
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you the line will be fine yes you know
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it's just yeah I I mean
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I I I I end up getting like a loss for
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words because I'm just it makes me
10:44
Furious to think about like all these
10:47
you know potential guys that they just
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pass on because they're like well you
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know all bent on the center we really
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need a center yeah so they overpay the
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center they need D so they overpay it
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yeah you know now they need a center and
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a wing yeah two yeah they need a center
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in a couple of wings yeah now they're
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now they're screwed yeah yeah uh
