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welcome to ruins fenders postgame live with Maddie and Smitty on the inside the rink YouTube channel go ahead and click
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and I am at Mr mdy Barry in game one of the 202 4 25 season is a six to4 loss to
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the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers wasn't really that
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close was not and as we get into the game recap it begins with filling a huge
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glass with some bourbon folks Creek uh is in uh yeah on the uh
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on the nice Bruins Bender uh mug which you can get by using get bent 25 on the
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inside the rink shop on the Bruins Benders page our merchandise is right
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there go ahead and use get bent 25 get 25% off buy yourself a mug pour some bourbon in it because the Bruins are 0
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and one on the season and the first period the first few minutes of the first period especially a complete mess
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of Epic Proportions I I'm I'm not sure if they didn't knew the regular season started I
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mean they were outshot at one point I believe it was 14 to2 nine nothing I think after 10 or so minutes 91 maybe um
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didn't show up didn't show up didn't show up I don't know if they were
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expecting the game to get cancelled probably would have been better off for the Bruins if the game had been canceled I don't know um but uh Full House for
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for the Panthers the fans were in it uh raised the banner up and and the Panthers played like Stanley Cup
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champions and the Bruins played like a team that should probably not be in the
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playoffs this coming season if if that's their level of play I I know it's early
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on uh and they have some things to work on and some things that they can't improve on uh but you know it needs to
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get much much much better for the Bruins if uh they're gonna do anything this year and I know it's it's probably too
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early to say that stuff but um you know that was a scary loss I mean just the scary loss yeah I mean it is it is the
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first game of the season there are a couple of things though first Unis cop pasalo he the first six or eight shots
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he makes he makes the saves he actually looks fairly sharp in the very early going and then the first goal goes in
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off his shoulder up in the air Bennett's there to knock it home and it that seemed like to throw him completely off
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his game where then he couldn't track the puck his rebound control was horrific then another goal happens right
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after same sort of thing rebound goal again Panthers getting any type of
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territory they want in front of the net and they bang home the rebound and now Corp pasalo is reeling like he doesn't
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know which end is up yeah and you know then it becomes after zaka scores a short-handed goal then he gives up two
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more goals same kind of fashion and it just it just seemed like I was actually
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pretty I was actually pretty optimistic in the very beginning saying okay he's doing okay and then all of a sudden it's
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the wheels fell off yeah I I even when he was making saves early I didn't feel
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like he was really tracking the puck very well like he he wasn't ex really sure where it was and then as the game
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went on Jesus he's sliding around like [ __ ] madman sorry John he's he was
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all over the place sliding out of his crease getting off his angles I mean
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it's a miracle he made some of the saves he did um and his rebound control like you said just horrendous leaving them
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dropping them right in the slot for for anyone to to uh you know get a whack at
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so um you know there's some things he obviously needs to clean up for him as well as everybody it's early um you know
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definitely look Rusty and I'll go back to the coaching on this I think they did
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not play the veterans enough during the preseason to get them some chemistry with each other I mean I know they had
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some injuries Max Jan played like a game and a half uh people are destroying mat Jones in the comments which is you know
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I I mean kind of hilarious the whole team was bad um not just Jones um and he
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took some penalties I mean all the new guys took penalties so that was fun but the coaching I just don't think they
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played enough together in the preseason the veterans barely played um you know a
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game here or there maybe one game the whole team was together during the
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preseason how are you supposed to have any kind of continuity especially with so many new guys so many new line
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combinations how can you develop anything if you're not playing together
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at all in game type situations I just don't understand it I don't I don't and
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and here's the thing every line except for the geeky Martian Coral line had a new guy on on the line from the team and
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then geeki had really hasn't played with Martian Coy because debrus was there so basically every line had someone brand
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new on the line and they didn't play a lot like you said together at all in the
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preseason and a lot of you know minor league guys and young guys and they really gave lysel and merula a chance
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and all that but then none of them made the team so now you just you prepared Providence Bruins went out smoked
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someone the other night because they're ready to go yeah Trev had a hatrick everybody's fired up let's go
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everybody's ready to roll but not not the atin Bruins no let's head down 95
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let watch awful that was just it it you know it they couldn't complete a pass
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and here's the other thing we've talked about it last year and I'm not a hockey coach okay I I get it but it just seems
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as though they're trying to make these passes from the goal line to like the blue line and Beyond stretch passes to
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evade the the Florida for checking when I thought it was clear as day as get
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Center like like down below the half wall like make a quick little short pass
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to make the next pass so that you can you can leave the pressure you know what I mean you can alleviate the pressure so
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but I just didn't think they were doing that it was kind of blindly flipping the thing in the slot or they were flipping
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it up to the blue line steel steel steel and it was just like it was like
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watching a high school basketball game where the other team is completely off
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and can't break the Press like it was just like turnover turnover turnover turnover and and the Bruins couldn't
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even possess the puck into their own end for like nine or t minutes of play and
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it was just and they have good players so I see to me I think that all of those
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players I have on the ice they they are pretty good players so if you if you
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look that bad to me some of that has to be the coaching
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I think so I mean I I feel like it's tough to beat a hard for chucking team
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like Florida when you have stationary players at the half wall like you just can't do it they have momentum they have
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speed they they're very good at the four check they get sticks in Lanes they get pucks um you know sticks on pucks they
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get bodies on guys to disrupt plays they do all that if you're standing still you
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have no [ __ ] chance sorry John no [ __ ] chance to to do anything to get
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the puck out of your zone so it's a then it becomes like a high lob and a wish play at Center ice or you know it's a
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it's a chip off the boards and you're hoping that you can beat a guy oneon-one to make him turn and go get it like
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there's so many different ways that they should be handling this I think you
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bring more guys deep or you fly somebody fly them like you know like you would do
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a press break in basketball going for a home run pass like fly somebody make somebody go back to cover that guy and
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open the ice up a little bit almost like a you know a Hail Mary in in football
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like you you need to either stretch the ice the long way or bring your guys back deeper so that you have shorter passes
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to make and you can get the puck out of your Zone the other thing is you're sending your weak side defenseman as
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soon as it comes up the boards he's gone now you don't have an outlet back to the the other side no you don't so they have
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to figure that out the break out much better especially against this team and
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they haven't made any adjustments against this team in two plus years so I don't know what the [ __ ] they're doing sorry I don't know either I don't either
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because and we've talked about this last year in the playoffs like make a d Tod pass like they're so worried about north
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south north south that it plays right into the hands of the Panthers yeah so you know the old clo Julian bring it
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back to your D two or three times and then work it up actually I think would work against this team I think so what
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you mean because they would be so aggressive that you make a couple passes and then attack I think you have a
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chance there was one play example of a play that totally that totally uh speaks
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into what you're just saying it was about a minute into the second period and lowai has the puck on the half wall
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with his back to the center of the ice and he doesn't quite know what to do with it and kind of stands up still and
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I think was Lo Stan who came in and just blew right through him took the puck and right to the back of the net and then
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scoring chance for londell like it was like lorai catches the puck at the half wall stands there kind of looks to see
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if there's anybody there and all of a sudden he just gets blown by and the puck is gone and that is a that is a
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prime example of what was happening along the half wall yeah and I don't
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know who mentioned it I don't know if it was someone on Twitter or someone um during the broadcast but the Florida
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Panthers um you know were expecting to play a hockey game and win a hockey game
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and I think the Bruins went in expecting a street fight and wanted to turn it into a street fight and Florida was just
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like having none of it uh so the Bruins I think were off the game off their game from the very beginning because they
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wanted to you know show how tough they were the Bruins took seven minor penalties they had a fighting major um
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you know they I think they wanted it to be a blood bath and and but Florida
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doesn't play that way they they've never really played that way they're in agitating under your skin you know make
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you commit penalties and then go on the power play and the Bruins played right into their hands um you know Florida was
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ready for what the Bruins were going to do and and they kind of baited them into
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it uh and and you know took control of the game early and and never relinquished it no and it's and it's
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true that they I mean the Panthers had more power play opportunities than Boston did and they were they were doing
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the same look look the Panthers aren't afraid of the Bruins the Panthers don't
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have to prepare for the Bruins the Bruins have done everything in their power to figure out the Panthers and
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they can't do it like they can't do it they don't they don't match up well with them now they're getting heavier and
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that that doesn't that didn't work tonight like it's just it's I don't understand I think it's more of a of a
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style of play situation then it is the Bruins just on their heels passes on
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their heels yes until the Bruins can figure out an adjustment to the Panthers
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for check it's going to be like this it's going to be like this it's going to be like this until the Bruins coaching
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staff decides they want to adjust this is what's gonna happen every [ __ ] time sorry you can't force the thing
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right up the ice right away you have to kind of rope a dop them up the ice and and then make a good smart pass and then
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you have some numbers if you get past the first level they haven't figured out how to get past the first level of that
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pressure and that's and until they do that they're they're screwed uh and you know and again the the lack of chemistry
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offensively we've said this before like their defense is going to be fine tonight was it was a big bag of dicks
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all of them but it's G to be fine that's going to be the strength of their team and of course Swan is going to make more
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saves than Corpus Alo does but at the end of the day their fraking offense is a is a problem because they have they
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had four guys they had they played Four fourth Liners in one fifth liner tonight
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so that's I mean so their third and fourth lines they had a bunch of fourth liners on it beer was the only guy who
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played a halfway decent game I thought in that bottom six and I know they scored the goal at the end who cares
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that that Frederick Jones brezo line was horrific for much of the game and it
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wasn't Frederick's fault really he's playing with two guys who just aren't third line players they just aren't and
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they have a and they have a fourth line or a third line guy on the second line so there you go right there you go they
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have geki on the second line so so and they have a second line Center playing playing was a third line Center really
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in coil so it's just a lot of imbalance so they when ptri comes back and I know
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we both have advocated for him to start the season in Providence there's no way that that they can do that there's no
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way they can do that it's going to be like last year where they had to play him last year because they had a problem at Center they don't have they don't
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have enough offensive Talent without him in the lineup they need him in the top six and they need him to play well and
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produce which is a lot of pressure for a 19 20 year old kid um but they he he has
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to be on the team and he has to play in the top six and he has to produce like that's he does that's a lot of pressure
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to put on a kid like that at um at this stage but that's what they need otherwise their top six is awful I mean
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it's it's already you know we said all along that they were going to have problems scoring
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goals and their top six wasn't great their first line will be fine I think yeah you know their first line will be
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fine and you know Martian probably needs a little time to get his legs under him
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after all the surgeries and Coy you know is responsible and he'll give you you know 50 points
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um but they need PARTA there with Martian to be able to make that second line an offensive line um otherwise it's
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you know it's Martian and the guy who like Coyle who occasionally can score and occasionally be like wow where's
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that you know all the time but you know flashes uh and then Freddy needs you
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know a geeky on the third line and somebody else on the third line not Max Jones not Justin brazzo uh as much as
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people love him and think he can score and and whatever he's slow as [ __ ] um sorry John um but you know
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it's they have issues in the bottom six they got a bunch of guys so hopefully you know somebody will pop and they can
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figure it out but um you know the offense is going to be a problem all year long I think they got a million
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fourth line players they do and they have three or four more in the miners that could that could easily play over a
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couple of these guys here I mean you can't tell me differently like Trevor Kar and Riley Durant those guys could
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play and do what the hell they did tonight of course they could like John FR andachi these guys could they aren't
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there's not much separation between the NHL players and NHL players in the bottom six there just isn't um and know
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now we'll take a quick look into the box score and the one that jumps out at me is Mason lowai and you mentioned it in our little chat group during the game
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like lorai just looked overwhelmed he looked out of sorts he was a minus three he played the lowest amount of minutes
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only 16 minutes in the game um it really looked he really looked inexperienced
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and young um in in in sort of game play
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tonight um it was just kind of swarmed under a lot tonight and and didn't show a lot of you know he made a few good
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breakout passes early yeah but he really also didn't play he didn't look to play with the same conviction he did in the
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playoffs which was disappointing it was uh but and I'll and I'll put part of the
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blame for his poor performance on his partner Brandon Carlo who was equally as terrible oh he was he
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was he was passing to the other team all night he was bad um so I mean I I'll
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chalk that up to a bad day for the defense um and I'll say you know Carlo obviously will be better and I think
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lorai will be better too I I think you know that's a bad matchup for him kind of getting trying to get his feet wet
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again you know after uh you know you know for the start of the season so um
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you know he didn't play a lot in preseason either really so Carlo did not play a lot in preas I mean Carlo didn't
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I yeah I I just I I don't get it I don't get it you know they're talking about shrinking the amount of preseason games
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too it's it's um I don't know I I just feel like the coaching staff went about
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the preseason all wrong like if you're going to give all these fourth line guys
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um time to addition for jobs you know it would be cool if some of them made theam
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team MH you know like well that's what I'm saying that's what I'm saying they
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played a bunch of guys a ton of minutes you know Riley tufty seemed to play 25 minutes a game and he's nowhere to be
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seen like I you know this there were guys there that played a lot that just didn't end up playing Billy Sweezy
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played a ton and they waved his ass like I don't I don't understand like I don't get it right I don't I I don't I mean is
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that what the really the purpose is to see if we get something out of Billy sweez like going to play in Provence at the
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most yes that's what I mean that's what my problem is with this why are we not trying to get the guys that we need to
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get ready ready like why is that not the objective of training camp I feel like it should be right now LOL was out early
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and Marian was out late and Patra got hurt in the middle of it and so there
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was some unsettling things there but you know for for God's sakes get some guys
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in there play them together you have to have an idea what your lines are going to be like the and it really didn't
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change all that much we kind of knew what the lines were going to be especially the top two yeah so just play
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the fraking guys together well I mean but it's also the defensive pairs like you you go into Camp saying it's gonna
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be zadov with makoy they played him one game together they were atrocious and
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then they gave up on it they gave up on it and then they put lindol with makoy who lindol with makoy last year wasn't
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great that's why played with Carlo right so you know can we can we figure that
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[ __ ] out in training camp and not during the [ __ ] season sorry John can can we
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can we get a hold of that beforehand and maybe we would have looked a little crisper tonight in the home in the in
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the opener rather than you know looking like a bag of dicks which you right
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right so El talked about yeah uh you know the the fourth line I mean you Cole
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Ki played 8 and 825 I mean we're going to do that in game one we're going to have guys playing eight minutes in game
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one like can you play guys who can play 12 at least 12 13 minutes at least the
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beginning of the season I mean we're going to do this where we don't play the fourth line at all from the start of the
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Season like high school hockey we're gonna play top two lines and no one else gets a sniff I'll tell you what though
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they're they're gonna need patre and they're and they're gonna need Tyler johnsonan they're gonna need somebody
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they're gonna need someone like that to get to get in there and and if lysell doesn't come out in Providence and light
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the thing up the first two weeks then he's a complete a-hole because this is his opportunity right now to go out
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there and score five goals in the first 10 games or whatever and then get a call up and then stick and then show that he
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can stick I mean he's bitching and moaning about he played well and all this other stuff and thinks that he was
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wronged so show us why you think you were wronged because it's again every
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opportunity and then the other thing was can you IM imagine you know Jeremy Swan could have should have waited two more
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weeks to sign because he would have gotten $12 million because there would have been an
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uproar an uproar after this one uh with Corp pasalo and the other thing is with
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Corp pasalo like here has a $3 million do guy who's not very good and Brandon you mean to tell me Brandon busy
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couldn't do that tonight I mean I know he hasn't been great but he could do that he he sure could do that I mean he
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certainly can 100 Grand yeah and he could do it for two you know two and change cheaper yeah than cor pasalo did
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that I mean we said it the time I I just don't I don't I'm not sure why you got a goalie back in the thing in the trade
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know either all right let's get into some go ahead go ahead go ahead let's get into some fan comments uh Jason says
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why is Jones on the team excellent point I don't I don't know and here's the other thing he barely played in the
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preseason and then automatically gets a third line spot yeah you don't even know you don't even
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know the guy you don't even know what he can do and then you put him on the third line like I I don't I don't get that at
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all and I know patra's out and I know that for whatever reason merkulov and lysel you just won't give a chance to
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see that to me this is the time to give those guys the chance you're not g to blow the season in the first three or
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four games give them the first three or four games to see if they can actually do something and if they don't send them
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down but at least start the season at least with lysel who played better than merkulov give lysel a shot on the even
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if it's on the third line even though I'd rather have play in the second line but give him a shot for four or five
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games and see what happens and then send him down instead of this nonsense you
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know then Liam says hey boys would love to hear what you think about Max Jones fantastic game tonight it was less than
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fantastic Liam I mean look if Fabian lysella is gonna play uh you know come
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up and get his chance and he's going to play 10 minutes max Jones played 9:42 tonight so you can't tell me that you
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couldn't put Fabian lysel in the third line and have him play 942 yeah and and
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and not take penalties and maybe have some scoring chances right that gives Frederick another guy with offensive
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ability there I mean like you said you know what they you know what they did they and this is what they did this is
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what they think they did they they wanted to go in like you said with a street fight and put all their big bruising guys in there and try to pick
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fights and it backfired because all of a sudden it's 4 to one and the Panthers aren't going to respond to that like
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they don't have to so you know if if you're gonna do that go out in the first shift and just take a penalty and go
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after a guy and start chucking knucks and then then maybe that can happen but
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they went about it all wrong like they should have just put lysel and you know and not put Max Jones in the third line
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and all that and but they went out think think we're just going to put all of our big guys out there that's why I think the whole heaviness thing is a little
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overrated it's not just about how big are you or how fat are you it's about
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can you are you Tough Enough is your culture so you know such that you can
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withstand the the bullin from a team like Florida or Carolina the teams in
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the St Louis the teams in the past who've done it to you it's about a culture thing it's not about size
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because they last year they had like 14 guys over 200 pounds they weren't really that small it was that they weren't that
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tough no yeah that I mean that's what it's about we've said we've said that before a lot of the toughness uh that
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you need actually needs to come from your star players those guys need to
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stand up to the hits and the and the abuse that they're going to take in the playoffs and still produce that's what
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you need to have happen you need your star players to be tough enough to handle all the side [ __ ] all the
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drops all the extracurriculars all that stuff and still be able to play through
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it and produce and not whine and cry and [ __ ] and complain they need to tough it
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up nut up and play well that's what it comes down to those guys need to be
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better against teams that you know bully you to a certain degree and you know the
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breu stars have not lived up to it uh against this Florida team and you know
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some of it's that some of it's coaching I think some of it's not being able to make adjustments um but you know until
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the Bruins can can kind of get a hold of of those different things it's going to
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be the same result yeah uh Christy delisi was on our pod uh recently who writes for uh some Panthers content for
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ITR uh she say she was shocked that Boston didn't put San in at all and I even texted to you guys I was like are
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they gonna really pull Corp pasalo in the first fraking game of the season and they didn't when I thought they might
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have been able to when it was 4 to one like he just didn't look like he wanted to be there and uh and to put swan in
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there would have been quite the story yeah I I I just think they probably were
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like look you know if we were GNA play him at all we would have probably just started him um so I think probably the
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plan going in was look you know you'll go in if he's hurt but other than that like yeah I I just don't think at that
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point I to put them in there when they're when the Panthers are rolling you you are taking on water I mean yeah
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the thing about it too is you don't want to give the Panthers any more ammunition like if Swan goes in and he's a little
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you know he's not quite up to Snuff and he's a little rusty and they put three or four by him you know that gives him
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even more confidence you know after swing was really good against them in a postseason so uh I think probably they
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handled that the right way I I think um you know maybe you want to get swimming
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in there and and you know get a little you know rubber on him and and shake the rust off but I think they probably
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handled that the right way and then Corp pasalo gets run by Bennett after the goal uh again Carlo just kind of lets
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him run him like he didn't even like finish the play with him the shot was on net and then Carlo just kind of lets him
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go by and completely run Corpus Alo over I thought he would be out of the game there he looked like he was real shaky
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he stayed in but again that was just that was that was a little bit alarming
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tonight was the way the ruins who have been preaching we're going to be bigger on defense that's all I heard about in
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the preseason in the summer like they're huge on defense like makavo like I'm the smallest guy at 61210 or whatever like
27:40
we're big we're huge and they played soft as hell in front of the net so
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they're I mean they are big but they have two softish guys back there in lindol oh three sofish guys back home
27:54
and lindol lowai and kylo and Carlo oh yeah they might be big half your D but
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they're not they're not physical and nasty like kylo was more in the playoffs
28:04
Lind Holmes never been that guy and I don't think lowai is gonna be that guy they'll use their size and their reach
28:10
and their stick position to break up plays but they're not going to clear the front of the net that's just not in
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their nature no it's not in their nature and it and as much as you want it to be
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and you're infuriated watching it and I don't know how um you can watch it you
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know and and think think to yourself like if I
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was there I'd be killing that guy like yeah but but they just won't do it they
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won't do it so I I you know there's there's not much you can do there with
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that they're on the team they those are going to be your guys so you know unless
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they can change their DNA somehow that's what you're going to end up with you're going to end up with some guys who will want to clear the front of the net and
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half your half your D won't and that's and that's part of the reason why I think lorai and lolm are too much
29:02
alike and I think that that going forward if you decide that you want to give lorai a long-term deal like I think
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those guys are too much alike I think you need to really revisit whether or not lyol is on the team long term if you
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decide to commit to lowai because they're the same guy on the left side
29:23
that's not really that physical or tough and I think that that could be issue for
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a while for as long as they're teammates I just think they're they're the same yeah I agree with you and I think L
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gives you more offensive upside so yeah and he's younger and he's more talented offensively than lolm is and he skates
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better so you know there's all of those things so you know I mean we've said it
29:49
before that you know if it was up to us you know that we would consider moving
29:55
lindol yes I would you could put in W spoon I mean there's guys that you could
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play there um you know low R can certainly play a ton of minutes he
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didn't look great tonight but lindol didn't look great tonight either and I'll tell you what in the off season Lind holm's contract is not that bad it
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isn't it's not it's six and a half with a cap of 92 million not bad like he only
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makes a million and a half more than zidor does yeah so you know not not bad Dan manard says uh he only managed to
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watch a small part of the first period but it just didn't seem like Corpus solo would cover the top half of the net and
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that was my problem with the goal by Bennett or Reinhardt I think it was
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against makoy makoy made a horrific play I thought he didn't close the space he kind of let him take up too much space
30:44
just kind of stuck his stick out there and gave Reinhardt too much room but then the shot and they were saying on
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the broadcast that it was a great shot it wasn't a great shot he hit him in the he flipped it toward the net he hit him
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in the shoulder off the shoulder and up under the bar like that's a save you have to make he that he was too small in
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net like that he's got to come out another step cut the angle down and just make the save that's an to me that's an
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easy save and he just didn't make it yeah because he wasn't covering the net he should make that save and it was a
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bad play by makoy defensively he didn't get back and then he just kind of held the stick out and allowed Reinhardt to
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skate and get a step on him and he he just kind of didn't get back as as fast
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he should have and gave Rin an angle to the net which he shouldn't have and then
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Reinhardt makes a great play and and you know but it is it is a save you need I
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think in that situation you do need that save I mean it would off his it would off his shoulder and and and into the
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net and I don't know if mavo thought the forward back checking was going to catch up and disrupt or what it was but he
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just didn't have much sense of urgency no to get back at first and it was just an odd kind of play um then Camarino
31:56
says does Monty Care at all about Chemistry Between the preseason usage and how he randomly switches up lines
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and we've been saying this from for a while I'll tell you what if you don't
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believe and I saw this on Twitter today I think it was Greg wasinski who put out something that it was a there was a the
32:14
vibe was off for the Bruins and something about the Monty extension and
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how they say that they're working on it but there isn't one yet and he's going into the last year of his deal I'm
32:25
telling you right now if you think that that's a done deal right now you're wrong you're you're wrong because I
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think they still aren't sure that they're going to that this guy can bring them to the pr I know they're 80 games
32:39
over 500 over whatever with them but when it comes to can this guy get them over the top in the playoffs I don't
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think that they're sure about that yet and I'm telling you the jury's still out
32:51
on whether he gets that extension I I would agree with you I I I
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think the jury should should be out because I'm not sure um and whether that's the guys he
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hired to coach offensive and defensive and power play or if it's his own
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systems I'm not sure that that is what you need and they're not making the
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proper adjustments um when it's called for so if you can't adjust or you can't
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tailor your system to your guys to the style um that your guys can play not
33:26
just style you want play the style that your guys can play the guys that you have on your team what what do they do
33:34
well tailor a style to what they do well not a style to you know if you have kale
33:40
ma yeah if you can get the puck to the weak side D and it's kale M and you can blow up the ice and then pass it to
33:47
Nathan McKinnon yeah you're great but if it's you know Andrew Peak passing it to
33:54
Max Jones it's not the same [ __ ] thing so you know I I I agree I I mean I I'm I
34:04
am frustrated by the whole thing because I it's been like this for too long in my opinion um where they haven't adjusted
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to um how other teams play against them and it's the same [ __ ] over and over
34:16
again and it frustrates me because it's like chip up the board chip up the board standing still chip up the board pass it
34:22
blindly into the middle and it and it's and it's it happens over and over and over again and why does someone in the
34:29
video room or one of the coaches not sayl we're going to do it a little differently today we're going to we're
34:34
going to go D to D or we're gonna bring the center down low or we're gonna have the Winger uh cut into the middle the
34:40
weak side Winger cut into the middle to give you another outlet but no it's the same [ __ ] over and over and over again
34:48
over and over and over again yeah and it's something that Andy Brickley has been preaching for a long time like the
34:54
short pass like the little two- foot pass yeah that that leads to the breakout and that's what they need to
34:59
get get to and and I you know look they had a great regular season but then here are the facts they had a great regular
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season two years ago historic but then his decisions were part of the reason
35:11
why they blew the first round series his decisions which he admitted and then the
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next year they get by Toronto just because Toronto has a hex over them they should have beaten Boston but they get
35:22
by them because Swan stands on his head then the next series what happens against Florida
35:28
exactly what happened tonight they can't get the puck up the ice and the and the Panthers beat them and then this year
35:35
here here's what we have again and I think that the Bruins are in a the Bruins have decided that defense in in
35:41
goaling is how they're going to go because they know they're screwed at Center they know it they know they're
35:46
screwed at Center and they know that you know Martian's getting older and they're G to be screwed at Wing though it's
35:52
going to be a real uphill battle to stay competitive for them because they haven't had high draft picks they can't
35:59
get those elite players from the ground up they can't do it I mean they've done well enough just to get ptra and low two
36:06
second line guys two second round guys so but they they know that they're screwed I mean look at centers don't get
36:13
the free agency and centers rarely get you get in trade unless there's a Mal content or something happens like a lion
36:20
something you know he's not a center but someone like that like some Center that just is a pain in the ass and you and
36:27
you get him try to rehabilitate him other than that or you draft him other than that there you can't get them so
36:33
they're the hottest commodity hotter than goenda me can't put my finger on it says
36:40
Liam Perkins yes Pierre Luke deis is an excellent example of that uh Freddy and
36:46
you know look he was my Whipping Boy two years ago in this program uh I thought he couldn't play hockey I thought he was
36:52
a deer on ice I mean and all that he's done more a hell of a lot better than I ever thought he would
36:58
he's a third line player who is developed who's found his game to be a
37:03
15 to 18 goal guy and that's fine that's fine what he is now is fine he's not a
37:11
second liner he shouldn't get a big contract he shouldn't get a long-term contract he shouldn't get any of that he
37:19
shouldn't no but God knows what they'll do because they love them some
37:25
Freddy he he should not get a long-term high value deal I tell you what there's
37:30
a probably a pretty good chance he goes home I think okay yeah I think St Louis
37:36
Tory krugs his ass and gives him gives him a gives him a big deal to go home and I he takes it and goes home I will I
37:42
will drive him to Terminal B at Logan Airport and send him off with the
37:48
biggest hug in the world yeah I mean good for him if he does great great for him but like but like you said he's fine
37:56
he's fine where he is he's a he's a third line player that chips in um you
38:01
know offensively he's better than both of us thought he would be I thought the guy couldn't skate a lick when he came
38:07
into the league and now he can and he produces a little bit so you know good on him I thought he was one of the
38:14
Bruins who was engaged the whole way did he play great no but he was trying um so
38:22
you know that's good on him I guess but um you know uh the Bruins have bigger
38:29
problems uh other than Frederick here's a good point by chrisy Florida gets beat one of two ways you outwork them or you
38:37
outspeed them and make them pay for being overly aggressive and the Bruins have
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neither right that's are capable of neither that's why it's a bad matchup right that's why you know in a team like
38:49
Toronto could give them trouble because they have you know Matthews and Marner and neand are on the outside Matthew
38:55
knees is fast uh n is fast as well um so they have some speed guys that could
39:00
give Florida trouble if they can get by the initial pressure um you know uh
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Boston doesn't have that they don't have any guys that if you get by the initial
39:12
pressure can have Breakaway speed um that can create a two-on-one because
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Florida back checks hard I mean they work hard they're a disciplined team they're a hardworking team um they do
39:24
things the right way other than the sneaky dirty crap whatever um but they play hard and you know they really are
39:32
sound defensively so you have to do things the right way in order to get chances and the Bruins I don't think
39:39
have the speed really or the skill to do that right and you you might be right that they aren't when I asked you
39:45
earlier on a couple episodes ago whether or not you thought this team was better and you said they weren't quite as good
39:52
yeah they weren't and I think you might be right like I think you might be right and I think look we can say what we want
39:58
about Jake de brus but at least he balanced out that second line gave him a legitimate top six Winger on second line
40:05
yeah he underachieved and he was a pain in the ass and he was inconsistent and and all of that but at the end of the
40:10
day he was a really good def turned himself in a really good defensive forward and he could score a goal he
40:16
could play on the power play and the kill like he was a legitimate top six forward and you lost him and didn't
40:22
replace him and he had speed too and he had speed which was actually speed that
40:28
others didn't have on the team so he he set himself apart uh cam from the cam
40:34
show says Freddy feels like Gregory Campbell but with more ice time and less benefits which is a excellent uh
40:41
analysis yeah um and then Christy delisi says uh I have terrible news for you
40:47
Florida just announced an 8 by7 extension for vei so that just happened tonight so carder hegy gets eight time
40:53
seven the that means that barov Reinhardt could chuck forsling lell and
40:59
BAGI are all signed through at least 2030 so that's a good little tidbit thank you Christie um that's a pretty
41:06
good long a pretty good core and I'll tell you what that's a pretty good deal that's a pretty good value at eight time
41:13
seven for vagi what do you think Bennett's gonna get and do you think the Bruins would be interested in Sam Bennett if he uh hits
41:21
Jesus I I would and I don't know if they I mean now if you look at the that list of guys can they Bo Bennett I mean you
41:28
know well they were actually talking about it a little bit on the broadcast and said that you know guys take less to
41:34
stay there which it appears ver hiy may have you know signed a little bit below what he could get but uh or you know
41:41
right in the ballpark maybe um but you know if Bennett has another really good year you know is he seven eight in that
41:49
mix and I don't think Florida can afford that I don't think so um so unless he takes less you know that's a guy that
41:56
might be available and you know that's a center I believe right s Bennett plays
42:01
center doesn't he San Bennett plays center yeah yeah so I mean that's a that's a that's a center where you're
42:09
you know especially with Charlie Coyle I mean I mean Charlie CO's getting up
42:14
there a little bit you can move Charlie Co to second line right wing if you're not happy with ptra or lysell or anybody
42:21
else um so you know maybe Bennett's a guy and he adds that physicality and
42:27
toughness and dirtiness and and all that stuff and I'll tell you what L lyol Bennett Patra is pretty good yeah middle
42:36
you know what I mean you know next year that that's pretty good up there I mean that's that's better you know than what
42:43
you've had yeah you could you could push Cole back to third line
42:49
center with you know Bennett and Patra oh that's that that's that's enticing
42:56
that I would just play the guy and he's on us now he's on our team you know if you can't beat him join him I think what
43:03
we're going tonight yeah I mean right now I can't stand the guy I know it I want to be on my team next year yeah
43:10
t-boss 42 actually agrees with me he says that heavy doesn't equal tough and that's
43:16
true and also we prepped a bunch of PE Bruins for their season in our camp and didn't keep one of them um and then he'd
43:23
say tuy over Max Jones I mean that's that's um you know Macintosh over
43:29
[ __ ] grny Smith I don't know it's yeah okay great like I you know my my my
43:36
thing is is that again this this is a pretty thin uh offensive team it's the
43:41
depth is not tremendous a lot of fourth line guys not a lot of middle six yeah I
43:49
I I feel like if you want to give tufty a chance I I certainly wouldn't be opposed to that cuz Max Jones isn't
43:55
offering much of anything right now and tuy scored a goal in the preseason um you know he's a big kid so yeah if you
44:02
want to throw him out there fine uh I I need somebody to be to go in there and
44:08
play well and and do some of the right things not go in there and take penalties and and do stupid [ __ ] uh like
44:15
slashing a linesman like I could do without that um you know I don't right
44:20
100% place all the blame on him blame on him for that play but um you know yeah
44:27
give tuy a chance I mean that's fine like I said all those fourth line guys are pretty much interchangeable
44:33
they are they are one if if if you said to me that Jim Montgomery puts all the
44:39
fourth line guys names in a hat at uh before this before the game and just
44:44
pulls him out and is like okay that's my fourth line I wouldn't I I wouldn't be surprised if that's what actually
44:50
happened yeah and and I wouldn't be S and I wouldn't question it like like what difference does it make he's like
44:56
honestly beer yeah Duran countar yeah nope sorry
45:04
tell count had a hatrick the other night bring him up I know you know bring him up I mean he's a feisty grinding you
45:10
know I'd rather have him in there than fraking Max Jones yes taking penalties and slashing officials and you know I'd
45:18
rather that I mean Dan says uh you think you will see swayan take Corpus solo
45:23
under his under his wing the same way allmark did for sway what's our future in the net fellas here's what I would do
45:29
I would either wave send him through waivers and keep the 1.25 and bury him
45:34
in the miners uh Corpus Alo that is I don't think I would buy them out yet because I don't know what the
45:40
ramifications are salary-wise and I hate that thing like I hate that thing that Mike Riley thing still irritates the
45:46
[ __ ] out of me even though it's not a lot of money like but I would bury him down there I bring busy up and I play
45:52
swayman and busy for a while and I and i' take that valuable extra one point 25
45:58
in in cap room and I'd sign Tyler Johnson tomorrow for 900 Grand or whatever and I'd say okay and ptra comes
46:05
back I'd have ptra and Johnson and busy and I'd go with that for 10 games or so
46:11
see what happens I'm with you I mean that's they can make that work cap wise
46:16
I would honestly I I'm and we've said it all along they don't have enough offensive Talent so Tyler Johnson scored
46:23
a bunch of goals in this league uh he scored 17 last year sure I think most of
46:29
them on the power play but still scored goals and the Bruins power play right now is dog [ __ ] so if Tyler Johnson can
46:36
go on the second line uh second unit power play and score goals fine uh fine
46:43
he should be in the lineup and ptra should be in the lineup and I think Fabian lysel should be in the lineup and
46:48
if you think that's too many kids in the lineup and not enough heaviness well what did heaviness get you tonight a
46:54
whole big pile of [ __ ] uh got you tonight you took seven minor penalties with those heavy guys um doing nothing
47:02
so give me some skill in the top six top nine and and let's see if we can do that
47:08
and then you know the fourth Line's the fourth line but um they need more skill
47:13
uh in in the forward group and then ninac says d looks big and slow and it
47:21
did it did look slow and like it did look a a pace behind everything like it
47:26
just looked sure of itself it looked slow to pucks it wasn't winning many battles for the puck uh getting spun
47:33
around a lot not clearing in the front of the net a lot it wasn't a great effort but again did they all play
47:39
together once in the in the fraking preseason like it that's the other thing you know you had a couple new guys in
47:45
there lorai looked overwhelmed and so forth um Christy says that forsling has
47:51
signed at eight years eight years at five million what a great deal holy C
47:56
like that's a great great deal um and then eblad may retire so that could be the way to get him in there she says so
48:02
you know we'll see what happens there um all these nuggets ch's got the
48:07
Nuggets yeah and they're all great nuggets but they all are pissing me off
48:14
christe because all you're doing is saying that Florida's gonna be good for a long long time I we have no
48:20
answers hear it christe yeah frin have no answers yeah it's just
48:27
knowled on us and just making me depressed and want to pour more alcohol in my mouth I know we're gonna have to
48:32
find a Western Conference team to root for this is going to turn into the Avalanche Benders podcast yeah um all
48:40
right I love sway says dan M but we can't put all our chips on him surely and that's the thing too he's got to
48:46
play 55 games or so you can't overplay him he hasn't done it yet no even at 55
48:52
games so you can't do that thing either so you need to find a reliable backup which I think they'll get some you know
48:58
they should be able to get by with a reliable backup for 25 to 28 games they should yeah um but you know we'll see
49:05
who that is and then finally the Charlie makoy thing like as I'm watching the
49:10
game and we we've be we've we've been on him a little bit more so lately like we
49:16
used to be totally in love with him but now there's a little bit of
49:21
the coming off and I'll tell you nine and a half is too much money for him and
49:27
I just came to that Revelation today like and it's no and you know it's nothing against him we just have
49:35
underestimated or overestimated the type of player he is he's not super great
49:41
offensively and he's not he's not a number one guy he's probably the second guy to a number one guy like a guy who's
49:48
a real stud like and I just don't think that makavo is a9.5 million player and I
49:55
came to the Revel today and that doesn't mean he's not A7 million player 8 million whatever but he's not a95
50:04
million player and that's just the fact that's and this is who he is and we're
50:10
not gonna suck anything more out of him he's fine he's very good but he's not
50:15
great and I've just finally succumbed he just
50:20
isn't yeah I'm I'm probably more willing to give him the benefit of the out than
50:27
you and producer Connor is um but he's tell you the last year plus he's not
50:34
he's not helping me since Jim Montgomery became coach yes like to me I I am sticking to that it's 100% true I said
50:42
it uh I don't know a few weeks back or a month back on the podcast since
50:47
Montgomery's been coach he's given makoy too much rope too much freedom to roam
50:53
around the offensive zone to be more to be kale Mar and he does not have the
51:01
same skill set no he doesn't be the Charlie McAvoy that was on the blue line
51:08
when Bruce Cassidy was here the stud two-way player awesome
51:14
defensively fine I mean offensively you know 50 points but great
51:20
defensively give me that guy that's fine and that's fine guy I want back that's very good that's fine and if and if he
51:27
shoots more maybe he's a 60-point guy maybe but be the be that guy right be
51:33
that guy and then shoot more and then you're my favorite player in the whole wide world yeah just be that guy Be
51:38
steady more you're my favorite defensively and pick your spots offensively yeah and get your points and
51:45
be fine like just be that's it and you know what I don't I'm not sure it's just macavoy it's like all the guys like I
51:53
there was a play tonight and it's it's such a uh Jed position because Florida
51:59
plays so well together and so they're so positionally um good and and cover the
52:05
Zone the right way there was a play the Bruins had the puck down below their uh offensive goal line I don't know who it
52:12
was that had the puck they make a backhand pass into the slot the forward's just off to the rightwing side
52:19
misses the pass [ __ ] Andrew Peak is charging in from the blue line behind
52:25
the forward so there two guys basically in the same [ __ ] spot and the puck goes out of the Zone because there's no
52:31
one at the right Point like can we play our
52:36
positions and not have the guys you know all wanting to be Bobby or can we can we
52:45
can we play our positions part this is the part I don't like Florida the right defenseman is getting that pass moving
52:53
to the middle shooting on net with two guys in front tip the shot but with
52:58
Boston it gets out of the Zone because we have a forward not in the slot and a
53:04
right defenseman up the forwards [ __ ] ass sorry John no hey here's the problem
53:11
is that only like a couple of guys like linol and lorai can kind of do that thing like they don't have the Personnel
53:18
to completely they haven't they haven't put their roster together to to actually
53:25
match up with that philosophy so this is a part of the Montgomery philosophy I
53:30
don't love with this Personnel yes is that it just doesn't fit the Personnel
53:35
right so they can't kind of play that way like and I know they need a little bit more offense from the defense but
53:42
right now they just have to be more solid defensively and then just make
53:48
good breakout passes pinch when they can but be Stout on the blue line on both
53:54
blue lines and just be fine in front of the net just you're big you're strong you're whatever like I I I don't know I
54:01
just I don't know there's questions about the right I mean it's it's the first game of the year yeah and they
54:06
they play like a like a big like a hor they did they did and I'll tell you what
54:12
this is the first season open they've lost since 2018 19 season seven to
54:18
nothing to Washington and then went to game seven of the Stanley Cup finals so it's possible to still have a good
54:24
season after you get your blown off in game one it's it's possible there's there's precedent there I love that I
54:31
love that we should end on let's end on that positive that that we didn't get
54:37
blown out as much as we did then uh went to the Stanley Cup finals we did we went
54:43
to the Stanley Cup finals so here we're going to the final we're going finals boys you know on this train get on early
54:50
we going Bruins in Montreal Thursday night at T Garden for the home opener
54:58
Jeremy Swan should be in net for that one rockus crowd I'm sure you'll get a Better Effort against a lesser team in
55:06
Montreal uh the Rivalry renewed I'm sure that the Bruins will respond because
55:11
they have over the years I mean they were resilient crch for the most part you'll see their effort uh I expect to
55:18
win and then you have a really tough weekend of of kings and Panthers at home
55:23
so that's that's not easy either but uh you can join us Thursday night after the
55:30
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YouTube We Appreciate everybody jumping in tonight we had a good crowd here tonight uh it was a it was a difficult
55:41
result but I'll tell you what hopefully it's an eye opener um and it off the bat it gets the
55:48
the management the coaching staff the players gets them to take notice that they're not quite even though they made
55:56
directions to the roster and so forth they thought they made good additions it's still not where it needs to be so
56:02
maybe that's a good thing you know maybe there's more sense of urgency right off the bat here and and we'll see what they
56:08
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