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to the Bruins bers podcast it is pregame tonight as we prepare for the Bruins
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Maple Manan Smitty here presented by the inside the rink YouTube channel and uh
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better otherwise known as the handsome twins uh it's a Halloween party here at
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lobs brewing in W socket Rhode Island and we are are here pregame for the
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maple leaf Bruins game tonight and the Bruins are 34 and one they've lost a
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couple in a row the maple e uh three in a row actually the BR the maple e have lost two in a row to Columbus and St
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Louis so this is a matchup of two teams getting yelled up by their coach and ready to perform a lot better we're
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going to see who does that tonight yeah it'll be interesting to see what happens tonight uh I think both teams are
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looking for rebounds after their last outings um the Bruins especially have
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been trying some some new things in practice it looks like uh some new breakouts so we hopefully that will uh
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come to fruition on the ice tonight and Jim Montgomery certainly seems like he's on the hot seat uh if he's the seat's
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not hot it's it's definitely getting warmer at this point in time toasty for
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sure uh Riley tufty was played on waivers and the Bruins received some
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money to potentially sign Tyler Johnson haven't heard anything yet about it but
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that could be someone in the mix especially if tonight doesn't go so well yeah I think so I think Tyler Johnson
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should certainly be in the mix uh I've said before I my lines my ideal lines
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include Tyler Johnson and Fabian lysel uh I think they both should be in the lineup I think the team needs more skill
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and speed uh and I think struggling as the Bruins have been to to produce
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offense I think now is the time to certainly give that a try and then if it doesn't work out you know early in the
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season then maybe you look at the deadline to see if you can sign a forward to uh to help out your offense
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so now the Bruins have had a really hard time with giveaways and that's going to
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be a point of emphas it here tonight uh how much did Bruins give the puck away they gave it away 20 some odat
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times last game 13 in the first period you do that tonight is true yeah I so I
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in my uh in my in my junk draw column I wrote the last three games the Bruins have turned it over uh give given the
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puck away 21 18 and 22 times respectively in the last three games not a math major but that's an awful lot
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that's not good especially when you go around you look at the rest of the league and and you chart the giveaways
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for the rest of the league and and yeah you know some may be up in the you know
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13 14 range but it's really not a uh
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it's really not something that most teams are approaching you know 20 22 23
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so that's certainly something the Bruins are going to need to clean up and quickly if if if they're going to turn
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the season round and also taking an enormous amount of penalties the most miners in the league the most penalty
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minutes in the league with 110 they have given up nine Power Play Goals out of
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the 30 goals they've given up if you don't go to the box you give up a hell of a lot less goals and maybe you have a
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much better record than right now yeah I think that's I think that's 100% true I mean in a few of those games their minor
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minor penalties led directly to goals which cost them games I mean Colorado Riley tuy takes two miners in the
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offensive zone both goals end up in the net and you lose by you know two or three so you know that's the difference
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in the hockey game um you know Parker penalty ends up in the net uh you know
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Max Jones penalty ends up in the net so they've had problems with that all year
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and it's not just the max Jones Riley tuy in it's David Pak the last two or
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three games he's taken a terrible penalty that's ended up in the net right so uh as much criticism as Jim
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Montgomery's gotten over the course of you know the last week or so about the
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way the Bruins have played it really falls on the leadership of the team the makab boys the B the marians the panox
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of the world to to really write the ship I mean those are the guys that need to play better plain and simple right Jason
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says if they get blown out is Montgomery still coaching on Monday and I've said it before I really believe he gets fired
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Monday morning if they continue to do much of the same here today the the the
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players have said the right things the coaches said numerous times uh the right things they've talked about mon talk
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about their attitude and how their confidence is low the players know what they need to do they know the errors
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they've made especially the veterans the best players on the team are largely the C culprits if it doesn't get better
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today I guarantee you he's gone Monday so I don't think it's gonna be Monday I
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think it's gonna be Sunday during football yeah because I think the Bruins are cowards and they like to put out
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their uh their information um when not a lot of people have eyes and ears on
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that's an excellent point so I I think if if he does get fired it's going to happen on Sunday when everybody's
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watching football and uh you know less people care about it uh Bruins fans
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certainly care about it we certainly care about it and and uh we'll talk about it so it's not going to be lost on
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on the two of us if Montgomery is fired so um you know it's it's kind of make a
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break time for the Bruins it's it's not cutting time as they say um and we'll
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see what kind of effort they have tonight um but you know I I I don't have my hopes up and I hope I'm wrong but I I
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I don't see it changing at least this not not this quickly in the season I think there's too much they need to
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clean up to be able to fix it overnight in one game I feel like your Hansen wig
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is a little more realistic than my Rick Rick James special here you certainly do look a little Rick James I do look a
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little Rick James 17 yeah I look a little bit more like Howard Stern I think you you do have a Howard Stern
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that you might be Howard Stern for Halloween I I also might be able to get away if if I if I did a little bit of
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the nose I feel like it could be uh Humpty Hump from the digital yes yeah
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put a little tape on your nose yeah yeah yeah slide it down from your glasses right yeah put it on your nose and and I
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am sweating right now H I haven't had hair since 1990 and I'm seeing now that I'm glad
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because oh my God I don't know I don't know how girls do it with long hair I mean I love I love the long hair on
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girls I love the look I love the look of it yeah but I'll tell you I don't know how you all do it I really don't it's it
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is sure there's hair in my mouth constantly I can't I can't it's it's
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difficult it's difficult to look this pretty it is getting into my mouth a
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little bit too much it is a type of girl if I didn't have goatee this is the type of girl I'd be after like you know
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brunette big hair big hair the type of girl you like it's Rick
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James Rick James yeah yeah I go that's my style Pon says there were a couple of
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studs uh with that hair the hair absolutely the Bruins play the way they have lately even the wig will fall that
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is 100% true that's 100% true Reeves Reeves should be in the game tonight
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yeah I believe uh Pat's been dinged up for them one thing we talked about about the Bruins PK the map power play has
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been historically bad which is really a stunning development considering all the great forwards they have yeah they're 13
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for like 121 since last February it's ungodly bad like 10% well I'll tell you
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what uh the Bruins penalty kill right now will get people right uh they did against Colorado Colorado's power play
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was struggling going into the Bruins Colorado's power play three uh Power plays y so uh if if your power play is
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strugg struggling you hope the Bruins are on your schedule and you can get your power play can get right you guys
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can start feeling good about themselves um out there as as the Bruins just skate
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around aimlessly in their defensive Zone and and give up uh Power Play Goals
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here's here's another thing that uh Swan is in net again tonight he is so four in a row yes yes you know what that tells
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me that tells me that the coach is is getting more and more desperate and doesn't want to risk playing the backup
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Bender because he needs wins to save his job that's what it's telling me and I am
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really concerned about swing and going forward with the heavy workload how how many games are they going to play there
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I mean right now I thought it would be 5560 Christ we it might be 6570 yeah I
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mean does that happen in this day and age in the NHL no and it certainly doesn't happen to a guy who's never done
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it what is what is Conor hel like what's his games played like what is Conor H isn't he like in the low 60 I think he
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he plays quite a bit but I still think it's 62 I know I know he does I mean you
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would assume the backup Bender could play 20 games like for God's sakes 20 to
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23 games I'm really concerned about Swingman going forward like he hasn't done it ever and he's played half
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Seasons I don't has he played even 50 games in the season 45 games in the
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season so here's hell Buck the last uh three years he played 66 64 and 60 okay
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so he's up there but he is um Swan's on Pace for for in that range maybe a
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little more than that right now sure yeah so uh it'll be interesting to see how that that all shakes out uh because
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like you said he he's never really done it before so I would have to think he plays against Philadelphia against a
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struggling offense struggling team they won today I think Philly actually beat Minnesota I think yeah Mitch had a had a
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couple of nice goals I think so but I think he probably plays Tuesday because
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then you have Carolina Thursday I mean it's not a lot of space there to play for yeah Flyers won 75 wow take the over
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and out serious wow Minnesota was hot too they were playing really well y I mean they score goals a ton they have a
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good good forward group there yeah H mitov with a goal and assist today Travis connecting a goal and four
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assists vior had three goals yeah vior had a hattrick and two for Five Points now there's a guy cier who to torella
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scratched and really called out last season yeah um he he's not afraid to call out veterans Montgomery gets into
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Marian that's really the first time we've ever seen that with a veteran yeah and then Marian you know did the right
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thing said that it was you know he was you know coaches should be able to do that and he thought it was you know
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totally okay and Montgomery said they were fine and they probably are yeah but it was definitely out of character for
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Montgomery and then the whole TV time out there where he took out the Whiteboard he was screaming at the team
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to me that was a little bit like when you're a coach and you do those types of things you're almost
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showing the crowd like look I'm coaching my ass off these guys aren't playing it's almost like this this sort of
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subliminal like little thing you're saying to the team to the crowd or the media like hey I'm doing the right
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things they aren't yeah I mean I think he's probably to the point where he's like exasperating
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like I don't know what strings to pull with this team to get them to play and
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and you know that's on him maybe to a certain degree but like I said earlier I
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think it's on the players it's on the veteran players to play better it is I mean unless you want your coach fired
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it's on the veteran leadership that knows the mistakes they made this this is not a new thing like we talked about
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slow starts and games it's been like two years at least of slow starts and games
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they got away with it two years ago it was such a wagon but it's been this way for a while I think the core for
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whatever reason just doesn't seem to stay up for games and and I don't know
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what it is but it they just don't give 100% effort all the time and Charlie
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mckoy said something that kind of stood out to me the other day he said you know
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we've never won anything in October and it was almost like oh wait a minute does that mean you don't value the games in
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October as much like he was trying to downplay the losing streak but it was almost like well you saying that it's
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not as important in October right so it I wonder if that's kind of the mindset sometimes where we're gonna we're gonna
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kind of just buy our time we're gonna make the playoffs we're a really good team you know we're going to try to Pace
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ourselves to get to the playoffs this time and maybe they've learned that we can't completely gas ourselves and be
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left with nothing at the end but I don't think there is T talented now to get away with that yeah I think I think
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that's probably true I think to a certain degree they do do that they do try to Pace themselves during games I'm
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certain that David cnck Paces himself there in games because he plays 22 minutes a night uh and he's gliding
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around a lot of times out there and I think he's trying to conserve energy sure now that just doesn't look good in
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my eyes I would rather see him play 19 minutes a night and skate his ass off a little bit more I would rather to see
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guys skating their ass off why do you have to be down by two goals in the third period to all of the sudden decide
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to turn it on where is that effort in the first period or the second period get yourself a lead and then play that
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way you know give you the give the effort early on get yourself a lead and then you can you know post I mean I
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don't I still don't want to see that but but you know they they're not giving the effort when when the game is in doubt
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they're giving the E they're giving the effort when when the other teams essentially already won I I I just don't
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understand why that is um the way that they approach things I I it was funny
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when when the team was late to the ice for practice yesterday and the coaches were out there and it got to be about
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five to eight minutes late and people were saying wow they have a players meeting I thought to myself initially
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okay who's holding that meeting because all the best players sucked the worst right like who's holding the meeting
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like if if I'm if I'm Cole Ki and I'm sitting in that meeting and Charlie maoy is like come on guys we gotta get going
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I'm like screw you like you you guys aren't playing great at all and I I'm a plus nine yeah you know with the most
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points on the team like screw you guys you know yeah I mean I think that's that's kind of what it comes down to
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right now is that the the leadership of the team is not pulling their weight so
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how can they go out and question how other guys are handling themselves for
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the effort that other guys are putting in when they're not really given the effort that you would expect out of guys like that the the big name big money
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players have to play that way and um you know Pak has five goals but I feel like
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in in large portions of games he's kind of disappeared a little bit so it's it's
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really kind of fool's gold as far as that goes in my opinion he's not impacting the game the way you would
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want Superstar like David P to impact the game sure um you know it's like all
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of a sudden um it's a pass to the front of the crease and he scores but he's been invisible for 45 out of the 60 minutes
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that's that's not what you're looking for from your from your franchise player and and the and the Bruins need to kind
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of figure out how they're gonna do things offensively going
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forward I wish they would simplify I wish they would get Puck below the goal line and play more of a fourth line
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style or more of a Carolina style where the puck goes back to the points shots get in
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and the guys are crashing the net and looking for rebounds Carolina out shoots their opponents by seven or eight shots
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a game sure uh and the Bruins used to do that and yeah and the Bruins used to uh when they had Puck possession they were
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a little better at that this year uh thanks to Elias Lindholm you know winning some faceoffs and cast looks
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good on the the dot Beer's good on the dot um but Charlie CO's really struggled
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there struggled all year really not just on the face off Circle and Tren Frederick um you know had a career year
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last year and it's kind of Fallen back to what he was a few years before that you know they need more out of Freddy
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there's a bunch of guys on this team that have underperformed that they need more out of well I mean if you figure is
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AKA Coyle geeki Frederick all had career years yeah all four guys so do you are
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you really relying on them to have another career year or even the same type of career year that was I mean yeah
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that was part of my point last year when uh earlier when I said that I didn't think this team was good as last year's
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team because you can't have guys just repeat that especially a guy like Charlie KY who's you know in his early
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to mid-30s that's not happening again no it was 32 years old when he had his best year right that's not something that's
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that you can replicate uh usually right uh and and pav zaka had his best year
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too so I mean yeah those guys stepped up in the absence of berson and CI and you
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were you were grateful for that but it it really um it it wasn't exactly what what you
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wanted as far as goal scoring and and chances so you need they need to be
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those guys need to be as good or better than they were last year it's just not happening and I don't know why you would
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expect it to no I don't I don't know I know I know who I look like now if you're a big wrestling fan gorgeous
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Jimmy garage had like this big the big hair in the in the in the facial hair
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like gorgeous Jimmy gar proba older I think if you put sunglasses on you might look like slash for Guns and Roses
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yes yeah I should change it out to sunglasses you should yeah uh P pman
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talks about pak's uh careless turnovers you know one of the things about this is you know
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coaches been talking about this for a couple weeks now and they keep doing it and I really think the the reason for
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all the giveaways or a lot of them is the style that they play and that they haven't they aren't accustomed
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to playing it they don't have the right Personnel for what they play we've been talking about this for a couple of weeks now and I think that that's the problem
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trying to go too quick too north right away and it just doesn't fit the Personnel they have if they need to play
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a little more CL Julian D to d d to D work it up hit a guy in the middle closer to the puck and go and I think
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that would be much better suited for this team and I think that's why you're seeing montg gives a lot of leash and I
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don't think this team deserves it to be honest no they don't you know and I think that's part of the problem uh the
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lines yesterday at warm-up the practice p zaka on the first line with lomman Pak
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Martian Co ptra ptra on the right wi second line which is better Frederick keki
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brazo uh beer Castle Kei Frederick Kiki brazo is asking for problems I mean I
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know Frederick has not been great geeki has been less than good
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uh to bad and brazzo only does well when the Puck's near the net or below like if
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I directly directly in front of the net that's where he scores that's where he's effective getting there is another issue
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so I like pler in the second line I think that's fine but the third line eh
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I just I just don't love that third line I think it should be Frederick coil and Kiki and I've said that from the GetGo
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so if Tyler Johnson is signed I'd love to see Frederick Coy geeki and keep it
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there like for a while because that line actually played fairly well last year and I think that's a solid third line if
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any of those guys are up into the second line it's just they they're exposed they're out of position and I don't love
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it but I do like this lineup a little bit better having p on the second line I would agree with that I I was just
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looking up the the stats for the season on on Frederick and uh geeki and brazzo so Tren Frederick eight eight games
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played uh one goal one assist two points minus seven oh Morgan geeki seven games
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played no goals one assist uh minus four and Justin brazzo six games played one
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goal one assist two points minus three so that's minus 14 yeah you're putting
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guys together uh that have all been uh you know pretty bad yeah 14 combined
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yeah so that line a whole has been pretty bad all you know especially geeki
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and Frederick have been pretty bad all year and you're adding Razo to that line um combines uh what two total goals yeah
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so I I mean that's that's a line that's gonna see very very little time I would
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think so and and that Jason makes a good point you should make the fourth line the third line you should play them
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third line minutes I think that's probably what will happen tonight I I honestly do I think I think there unless
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those guys show something that they haven't shown all year to this point I think you'll see you know the fourth
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line key beer castc get more time than those guys at least I would hope that
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that would be the case right you know if that line has been your most effective line all year long they should be they
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shouldn't be the ones playing eight nine 10 minutes uh that should be the Frederick geeky brazzo line and those
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guys should be playing you know 12 13 14 minutes sure sure um Mason lry back in
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the mix tonight he's he satad healthy scratch par wild spoon went in wasn't a
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great idea H it uh you know it kind of took place what you thought would take
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place in that scenario and W spoon looked jittery with the puck lots of
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sort of giveaways and fumbles with fumbles with the puck just wasn't smooth plus he hasn't played in a bit yeah I
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mean you know that's the other problem yeah I mean you're kind of setting up a guy to fail in that situation yes you
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know the team the team is is struggling overall you come in you haven't played you know yet in this in the season or
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what once before maybe yeah uh so that you're just setting the guy up for failure right you know and and of all
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the guys to take out of the lineup I didn't think Lise was the right no was the right one to choose I thought there
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were other guys that were worse in that game um and you know he because he's a
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rookie I think takes the fall for some guys uh ptra as well and you know the way they handle young guys in general
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think um so you know the veterans get a pass and the young guys you know make
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one mistake and they're not the line yeah I feel like that's been a Taylor's oldest time for them cidy did it too
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let's not act like he didn't like that's been an organizational oh yeah that's an organizational thing that's not a that's
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not a that's not a Montgomery thing or Cassidy thing fact it was one of the reasons why they said Cassidy was let go
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is because Montgomery would be better with the younger guys that was a facade that was not true right um all right AC
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ni say I think we can all admit berson was carrying the bees for almost 20 years and should be no doubt Hall of
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Famer and he was probably underrated his whole career well I mean you can make a case that he was he was probably a
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little bit underrated I think he's rated fairly correctly just because the league start decided to buy in to who he was to
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yeah um I mean he has what sixis but yes I'll tell you this yes I'll tell you this they haven't been able to remotely
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replace them and it's and his departure is just as bad as you thought it would be yeah like that's that's true and it's
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and it's not just berson I mean if you look at Team yeah you look at just the
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team from a couple years ago that was a wagon to to to now they lost berson they
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lost CRA G they traded Taylor Hall away for spare parts didn't replace him and
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essentially let uh Jake the brus walk for a l and was not brought back and
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Tyler bruzi so five of your top nine went out yeah right and you replaced it
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with one guy one guy so that falls to General upper management that falls to
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Don Sweeney why are you letting all these guys go and not replacing it with
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you know similar tal I still I still think they should have gone for like a gentel or a Maro and throwing some money
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at those guys I mean creach brother yeah I think they should have just because the center wasn't 100% there that you
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need like you need a Top Line Center which God bless I don't think you'll ever get it unless you you know in the
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draft or something Falls in your lap somehow but I think that the Winger would have been a better play who can
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score goals because as you said this whoever the center is it elevates him
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when he has panak and gensel or Pak and Maro or you know yes he has two high-scoring winners you put 70 goals 70
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to 80 goals out there with any Center they there would be much yeah I mean
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look it Center wins an offensive zone draw back to the defenseman who passes
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to one of those guys and he scores he gets a secondary assists yes so all you gotta all you got to have is a guy who's
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defensively responsible and wins faceoffs with if you have two winners that can score sure okay you don't need
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a guy to drive the line and make plays you don't need a Conor McDavid or Nathan McKinnon or even a Patrice bers you just
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need a reliable two-way guy who wins draws and and will be good in his own
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Zone if if you're if you're teaming him up with guys who can score and I've said
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it a million times 40 goal scorers don't grow grow on trees so if there's a guy like gensel out there guy um you know
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Sam Bennett or Sam rinard guys like that out there that can score goals you should prioritize those guys
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because you need goal scoring on this team it is a major major issue with this
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team it is uh ac9 t well berson greater than Sid how about the berson copar
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debate that was going around a couple days ago uh who was better berson or copar and it's pretty close it is I mean
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in all fairness we don't see copar a ton uh you know so people are saying oh B
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Ron by a mile I mean I don't know if that's fair to copar who's a really great player um and I think they're
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probably fairly similar I think Bon's better defensively I think kopar is better offensively so I think it's
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fairly close I'd still take berson just because of the intangibles and all you know all of it and the fact that he
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could play in Boston and make it work some guys can't so I would take the sure
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thing in berson slightly yeah I'm with you there I think I I think it's a it's
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a pretty good argument I think Kings fans certainly have the right to say they guys better and I wouldn't begrudge
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them of that um but like you said because of the defense and the intangibles I would take berson but
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kopar is better offense than has more cups um you know doesn't have the Selfies because Bon was around but Bon
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wasn't around he probably would have he probably would have uh I mean you could certainly make a case for copar to be um
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better than berson but but I I would still I mean we love P trees here so we
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would certainly take trees Jason says uh if they suck I hope they really suck we
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could use a few good picks what you don't want right now is just sort of slightly above mediocrity right like you
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don't want that you don't want that we're picking 15 to 18 to 20 every year you don't want that you want to either
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have a bad year like they had back in 15 and 06 like those years or you want to
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uh be really really good and take runs at the thing so right now I feel like they're they have they almost have too
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many good players to be really bad like and a good goalie like how can they be
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really bad unless a couple guys get hurt yeah and that's the problem because you don't want to pick you know in the
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middle of the first round you want to pick at the top of the first round so you gota you have to be really bad like
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and if that may have to be what eventually happens to this team we've
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talked about it before um you know that the DNA of this team may need a shakeup
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yeah and that may require trading someone you know from the leadership for
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whether it's a Carlo or Charlie makoy or even a David poso if the price is right
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coming back to you I don't think Brad Mar she's going anywhere I think he's gonna end his career in Boston and that
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might be sooner rather than later folks depending on how um you know how this
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season goes for him and and whether he can do the things he wants to do as a
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player and and play the way he wants to play I think we both think he needs to
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probably change his game a little bit in order to um kind of maximize what he can do now with the skills he has now after
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the surgeries and and all that and getting up there in age a little bit um
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but I I don't I just don't see Maran really leaving the Bruins um you know I
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think he would retire before that sure AC lry is in today as far as yesterday's practice was concerned he's in with maoy
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and W spoon back out um yes I a core piece or
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two um I had this a little bit of a discussion with Jimmy Murphy on X yesterday about it I think it would I
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think a core piece moving would definitely kind of change not only the
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the makeup of the team but also maybe send a message that the players aren't going to dictate what happens anymore
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which I think has become a little bit of an issue uh so that you know that would be interesting to see if they don't make
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the playoffs number one or if they get bounced early again if if in the off
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season you might see a coil go you might see a zaka go or someone else uh I don't
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think it would be ma boy Marian but maybe somebody other than or san but it
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might be somebody other than that freed Freddy might be gone you know it might be some there might be some movement
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there uh on that that group um AC says I need to trade pasta M swinging well that
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would be drastic and that's not typically something that don't swingy does
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um he loves pasta and the bees need to rebuild quickly it's going to be it's going to be difficult because they need
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Center play and Patra needs to be as close to David Cree as he can be and if
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that happens they have a fighting chance if it doesn't they're in trouble they're
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in big trouble yeah uh and and I think that um now is the time really to see
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what you have in some of the young kids it's it's kind of make a break time for them I think you know fa and myself
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should get a chance um and even Georgie mov should get a chance and and just
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just just so you know what you have right if merula's not gonna be a player you need to move on from that sure uh
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and if ban lysell is going to be a really good forward player uh and not
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much at the NHL level you need to figure that stuff out so you can shape your team going forward Now's the Time um
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especially the way struggled offensively to get some of these guys in that have some offensive trops that have some um
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talent that have put up points in the American League and it and it's time to try those guys and not try them out for
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six minutes and if they make a mistake you bench them the rest of the game to really give them a chance with some good
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players and see if they can produce and if they can maybe you found something there and and maybe you have a little
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bit more than you thought going forward um so you know that gives you an opportunity to maybe address some other
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needs you have or move on from some older guys and kind of rebuild on the fly with a younger core hello Liam
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thanks for checking in P peson says uh Carlo could be a guy now Carlo could be
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a guy moved if you wanted to change a defensive makeup and kind of the kind of
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the culture of how the defense plays you know you might want to move on from linol or Carlo because maybe you aren't
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as tough as you need to be as physical as you want to be so that might be someone and Carlo makes really good
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money I mean he makes he has a real that would be an attractive player to me on a
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on a cup contending team goodness because he's big he has a Long Reach he skates pretty well when he's on his game
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he's a shutdown defenseman and he only makes like 4.1 yes can you imagine him on like Minnesota or someone who has
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Winnipeg yeah put them on Colorado put them on Winnipeg put them on the Rangers I mean if you know if if he goes to a
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really good team he could be like a second or third pair there and on a really really good team and and he would
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really add to their defense yeah Fabian lel's 21 years old AC if that's who you're talking about lowai is 24 23 or
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24 he's an older he played played a while at Ohio State uh and in the USHL um so the T going out to AHL
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Providence there about 1.1 in salary cap left you would think that that Tyler
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Johnson would get probably in the 8 to 900,000 range I don't think they'd want to give him a million and take up all
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the space yeah but you could also say that maybe someone else gets sent for waivers too depending on what happens uh
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but it puts them right up against the C which isn't a good sign when it comes to the trade deadline time no uh Mason Will
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23 23 uh yeah it it doesn't put him up I mean it's kind of interesting that
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Sweeny goes into the to the season saying the roster is unfinished but then
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he has you know $421,000 to spend uh on improvements
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which is not even a veteran minimum contract so you do not have enough money or did not have enough money before you
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wav tuy to sign anybody so how how would an how do you go in to a
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season with an unfinished roster when you had $22 million to spend on that
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roster in the offseason how does that happen uh poor management of assets poor
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management of assets yeah it is I mean you yeah I I don't think you you you you
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you did all that and you were a Winger short and that's just that's not great or two yeah or two and that's not great
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as much as as much as people uh [ __ ] on Jim Montgomery and the players for the way the season has gone deservedly so I
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might add uh I don't think John sweene is catching enough Flack for the for the I don't think so either I think people
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just assume because he spent all the money that that's fine and and and I don't love the roster construction and
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I'm and I guarantee you Montgomery doesn't either I would yeah I would agree with you I just have this feeling
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he doesn't like it like he deals with it every day the the amount of people he moves around would tell you he doesn't
36:20
like it it's almost like a baseball manager that makes these subtle moves to
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show management that they St like putting the same reliever out there and saying you wanted this reliever short
36:32
short Innings you know end of the game and I'll keep running him out there and he'll keep giving up bomb right like and
36:37
they keep doing it just to show the management like you guys suck this is not this guy can't do it I feel like
36:42
Montgomery is doing the same thing like he's moving everybody around so much that he's like I have nothing so I'm
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moving the deck chairs around yeah I I think that might be true to a certain degree with the top nine he's like I'll
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give you all the different combinations of all the top nine guys Y and none of them work and you know what the reason
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is it's because I don't have enough yeah I don't have enough guys that's the reason that um none of these
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combinations work yeah is because the roster is not good enough yeah yeah no
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on nesson tonight yeah I think 985 The Sports Hub on the radio and uh Bruins a
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34 and one Maple Lees the four and four so this is a battle of two teams that
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are kind of in the middle of the Atlanta yeah NH NHL network and N NHL network and Nest probably blacked out NHL
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Network yeah probably is blacked out Boston area so uh for for those of you that aren't in the Boston area um we
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Scotland I think too yeah and then probably on sportset and TSN in Canada for the CBC I believe
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CBC okay y so uh yeah catch it on all all the channels what did you think of
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the um the alternate cast that the brones did the other night with r fro
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verion rod in super it was it was what I thought it would be I didn't I thought it would be not as great as people
39:12
thought I just don't I don't know if the personalities are enough um there I
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thought there was a lot of kind of dead time um you know I just I just didn't
39:24
love it and I know they first time doing it yeah just it's just I I get Ras and
39:29
bir run and why you have them do it I just don't know if their personalities really jump off the screen like the
39:35
Mannings have the brother thing and they they have personality they're you know Payton's funny like there's some of that
39:42
rasque is very kind of dead pan I hear he's funny and sarcastic but in a dry way uh doesn't really come across right
39:49
and bergie's not an Oly charismatic guy so I didn't I had some I had some doubts
39:55
and I still do so I thought it was fine I didn't think it was great I thought
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the three of them actually when it was just them talking together was was fine it was it was it was decent uh but then
40:10
when they brought these other people in to ask them questions whether it was like betting questions or other things
40:16
it seemed just kind of awkward and forced and I didn't love it so I I feel
40:21
like if they're going to continue on with it just let the guys talk just let them talk and and figure it out as they
40:27
go and I think they'll probably get better at it as they go along I think they're going to do it you know a handful more times something like that
40:33
so uh yeah just let the guys talk and and stop trying to force like other people in there sponsorships betting
40:39
things it's stupid right they give them like you know uh like like uh auction paddles with
40:47
like up and down on it for like over and under things it was like it was kind of corny and yeah I I feel like well n is I
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mean n sucks H corny nesson is corny and and risk of Earth and you know they
41:01
played small talk and baby talk and kids shows and cooking shows and Billy Costa
41:07
does some ridiculous dining show and you know all of that like I mean they're not
41:12
going to do something edgy so let's let's you know pump the brakes there Pon is looking out for our General Health
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