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welcome to the Bruins Benders podcast season 4 episode 18 it's the two
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paths welcome back it's Connor it's Smitty brought to you by the inside the
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rink podcast Network in this episode we will discuss NE says the team is
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prepared to take two paths Matt Patra back up with the Boston Bruins is
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Charlie macavoy sitting out for a potential four nations run would you extend Morgan geeky now would you trade
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Michael DPO Jonas Corpus Alo all that in this
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episode and of course Mr Smitty how are you doing this week I'm doing well I'm
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doing well it was kind of an up and down week but uh you know we're coming off a a pretty big win against Ottawa and
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we'll get into uh you know the weekend review here in in a few minutes but uh
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yeah you know uh the Bruins have been kind of what they've been all year long which is an up and down team you know
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good days bad days trouble scoring um issues on the Power Play Issues penalty
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killing then they have some good moments uh and can score some goals and
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keep the buck out out of their own net but you know that's the way they've been up up and down all year and that's why
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they're you know kind of in in flux here in the in in a tough spot for uh playoff
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positioning yeah and if you Benders fans listening to this episode have been keeping up with Maddie and Smitty on the
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post game live you are full well probably heard at least a third of that
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from one of the two on the postgame live so thanks for joining in on this too obviously this episode sounds a little
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bit different no Maddie this week we'll miss Maddie he'll be back in a few days
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you'll get him next episode we're going to change things up a little bit not going to be your your typical episode
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going to give it a little Conor and Tyler flare to it yeah I'll call you Smitty I'll call you Tyler when when I'm
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here is that cool okay yeah whatever use the government name so the rapid revieww
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this week starts off on January 18th against the Ottawa Senators they lose
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six to5 in a shootout followed up by what we would say is a gutsy win against
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the San Jose Sharks six to3 Victory they get blown out in New Jersey I think that
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score was six to2 five to one or six to2 five to one five to one and then
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followed up yesterday with the somewhat shocking blanking of the Ottawa Senators
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two nothing on the back of Jonas Corpus Alo so an up and down week a loss a win
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a loss a win enough to keep you engaged and tuning into some
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games yeah I mean we'll start with the the six5 loss in Ottawa that was a gut
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punch because they give up you know the uh the tying goal with what three
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seconds left or something like that I mean and then they lose in the definitely within the last two minutes
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um and that's been a problem for the Bruins all year long Ty Anderson's been chronicling it uh I believe it's 20
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times now just this season where they've given up a goal in the last three minutes of a period which is
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ridiculously bad awful um and you know
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that's been a problem for them and until they can clean some of that stuff up you know the the as you as you said before
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um anus pucker in time there when uh you get towards the end of the game and the Bruins have a you know a short lead a
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small lead a oneg goal lead um you're you're going to be worried about it all year long because they haven't proven
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that they can close those things out without everybody [ __ ] their pants sorry John yeah I mean screw the Ford
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final five it should be the Xanax final five yeah for the Boston Bruins fans can
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we get a weed uh a weed sponsor for this and we can just smoke weed in the final
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five minutes so that we don't have to worry about um you know you know we can just be a little more calm and relaxed
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as we hit that last Ford final five F-150 Ford final
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five it'd be worth it it'd be cool yeah we eatting snacks I think that's what we should get maybe we can get
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Fredo and uh you know I don't know and Pepsi work together so you could
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probably get you know a bag of Doritos Mountain Dew and a doobie you know yeah that's what I'm talking about I think
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that'd be perfect yeah and then you know what can we have that be like the by the
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be the producer Connor and Smitty you know special yeah it's not the sip of
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the night when we're together smoke of the night smoke of the night hell yeah there we go we're gonna do producer
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Conor smoke of the night I think that's thing we just came up with um I love
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let's uh move on over to the chirps presented by lops Brewing use code
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week Mr Smitty yeah cam Ney in his comments at uh a recent Boston Bruins
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event and his quote two paths that the Boston Bruins are prepared to take this
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season one is adding to this team if they continue to be in the playoffs if
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you can imagine that I can't second is a
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retool as he called it Yeahs yeah I I mean anybody with eyes
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knows its path to and it doesn't matter where the club is in the standings they
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need to retool the roster uh I mean we've said this ad nauseum but Sweeney said the roster was incomplete going
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into the season well let's make a complete roster and that involves a retool so guys that are ufas guys that
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are rfas that you don't think are going to be a part of your future um even guys under contract that maybe you don't
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think are going to be part of your future getting a little up there in age or that you could get something pretty
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good for at the trade deadline you got to ship those guys out it's time um you
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know I think they need uh a little shakeup to the core of the team as well
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I think that would help maybe um you know it's been kind of a country club atmosphere over there since Bruce
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Cassidy left and I think they need you know an enema
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of sorts in the organization from top to bottom and that to me is a retool uh I
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would go as far as to call it a rebuild not a retool because I don't think they're gonna get this thing right on
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the fly like I I just don't think they will maybe they'll surprise me and and
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it'll work out and I hope it does because I would rather watch good hockey than shitty hockey and and this year
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it's been boring ing shitty hockey for the most part um so I would rather not watch that and rather watch something
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good so would it be fair to say that as an NHL organization you obviously want
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your players to be comfortable in a sense of having the amenities Etc but
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have the Bruins let this team get comfortable to the point where actually
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the team and the management is comfortable to the point where nobody's really afraid of losing their job yeah I
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I don't know if it's amenity wise I think it's more um they're not held accountable for
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mistakes well no no no no I meant like as an organization you want your players to be comfortable like the Arizona
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Coyotes two years ago like they couldn't pay Hotel bills they were having they didn't have any luxuries as an NHL club
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and players do value that when they sign with a franchise so in that regard I'm saying you want them to be comfortable
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and taken care of but on the ice probably not so much yeah I mean you do
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want them to have all the all the amenities around the organization that would draw players in that would make
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them comfortable to make their families comfortable um you know state-ofthe-art training methods good weight room like
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all that stuff the good practice facility that they have now all that stuff makes a difference for sure but
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the on Ice stuff is where they've gotten too comfortable in my opinion it's it's
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they H they're not he held accountable for mistakes you know we've talked about it um with how they develop their young
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K their young kids their young guys and it's you know those players are held
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accountable for mistakes they lose playing time they're shipped down whatever the case may be the veterans on
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this team have it easy they are not held accountable at all they very rarely lose
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playing time I I the first thing first time I can remember anything like that
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happening at all remotely was When Brad Marian was benched um I was it in the
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Ottawa game the end of the auta game um where he caused turnover he was benched
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for all of overtime overtime yes yes yes um and he said shootout loss and he
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didn't participate in the shootout either so overtime in the shootout he was not out there that's the first time
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I can remember anything like that happening under this regime so that's a consequence
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that you don't care what the outcome of that game was you were sending a message
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to that one particular player regardless [ __ ] the game at that point yeah and I
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think because of who it was and who it is he's the captain of the team that sends a message to everyone else on the
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team or it should look you know if you don't do things the right way you're
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going to sit and that's the way that it should be now can sacko um you you know get them all to
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buy into that at this point in time at this point in the season after doing things a certain way for going on three
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plus years now I don't know maybe um and but after that you know they come out
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and they don't look great against San Jose still find a way to get a win um
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then they get trounced by New Jersey and then they play well against Ottawa so
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you know is it is it really sinking in with these guys I don't think it is it's just like with their starts like I don't
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think that stuff get it doesn't get through to them they don't have a sense of urgency every night it's occasionally
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they have a sense of urgency or in a period in a game they'll have a sense of urgency but it's not there all the time
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and that to me means you got to shake up the core somehow let me assist you with some statistics about Mr Bradley Marian
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I would love it since that game where he was scoreless and dash one against Ottawa
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the next game he had a goal and an assist and was plus4 against San Jose congratulations you beat one of the
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worst teams in the league and you had a moderately decent game congrats however
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the next game he was scoreless and dash W against New Jersey and even in the
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Ottawa game completely scoreless yeah I I mean look and his ice
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time is going down down yeah look that line
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hasn't been good they put them together and they haven't been good the Martian with Lind Holm and you know insert
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random forward here as the third guy Lind Holm is a ghost he rarely appears
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at all um in any way other than oh there's Lind Holm
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taking a face off and then he disappears until it's the next time to take a face
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off so he's playing with a guy who has almost no offensive ability and then
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another random dude so I'm not gonna put a 100% of it on Brad Martian while he's
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not producing but you know he's on the line he should
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be the one driving the line but you know it's tough when you're with two guys who
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can't play offense yes and uh as a professional would perfect Segways are in order today
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o Joe Sako came out and had a wonderful conversation with the media that I sent
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you today where they talked about Matt Patra and um his use so we'll head over
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to chir two Matt Patra being back with the Boston Bruins and you just alluded
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to Elias lolm in his usage they said that poy will play on
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the second line with Coyle and Marian until they are potentially late
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in a game with a lead and then Elias lolm will go back to that line to
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play why because it goes back to the
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accountability thing and the veterans not held to the same standards as the rookies the rookies are
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held to a different standard Patra can't be out there in late game situations because God forbid he makes a mistake
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and they give up a goal where Martian's done it and was benched po pono's done it Lind holm's done it Coy's done it
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Frederick's done it lowai done it they've all done it but for some reason
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the young forwards are held to a different standard than everyone else and it doesn't make any sense at all
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it's part of the reason they won't give marov a sniff or lysel a chance I I don't understand it and we'll
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get into it later because their Player Development sucks it sucks ass it's awful and I if I was a young player I
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would think twice before I signed with the Bruins as a as a free agent as a you
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know Street free agent if you're a college free agent geie melov you're
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like get [ __ ] yeah sorry John I would yeah I'm telling the Bruins to piss off
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I'm not coming here if I'm a young player because they won't give you an opportunity unless you're a defenseman
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then Sween is all you know fully engorged ready to ready to [ __ ] let
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the young defenseman you know do whatever they want lowai is out there turning the puck over every other game
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for [ __ ] sake and and it's perfectly fine but you know if you're a forward
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you can't do that forwards can't get away with it they have like a bias against young forwards um so I don't
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know what the answer is there but it it doesn't make any sense for the development long term how is he ever
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going to be any good in late game situations unless you give him some late game situations is ptra you know when
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he's five or six years into his career every time the Bruins get a lead late in the third gonna get benched even if he's
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a second line Center putting up 60 points he's gonna get benched because ah can't do it can't do it in late game
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situations we got to put Elias Lindholm out there because we paid him [ __ ] $8 million a year to do nothing other than
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win faceoffs and be defensively responsible that's a [ __ ] joke sorry
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John Sween needs to answer for that that's shitty that's a shitty contract
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and a shitty way to develop young guys now you know what never mind I'm Gonna
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Save that one for one of the later chirps okay um what are your thoughts on
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pis overall since he's been back up has he given you anything to be mad about
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anything to be happy about or just kind of milk toast uh he's been up and down I
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mean when he first came back up the very first play he made in the first period
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maybe even his first shift was a two-on-one where he makes a great and I think it was a backhand pass like waits
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for the defenseman to go down holds it long enough threads the needle with a perfect pass to Frederick and Fredick
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scores great play um showed some Poise with a puck which you don't see a lot
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from guys on this team never mind young guys on this team you don't see it from many guys at all on this team um you
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know Brandon is doing that he's throwing it into the defenseman's body Charlie Coy's probably holding it Taking It
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Around the Net and totally not getting a scoring chance so you know the fact that
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he made the play is good um along the wall I think he's still a little bit
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green like he's still a little bit not necessarily soft and I don't
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know if he's even timid because he'll go in there but he just gets ragged all around like he's he's just not strong
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enough he needs to play put on some some muscle to be able to battle in the walls cuz he'll go in there and he's smart
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enough to use positioning sometimes if he if he's not getting thrown around to kind of position himself between the the
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defense and the puck and and come out of there with it like but he still gets
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thrown beer was the same way early in his career now it's kind of different
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yeah so you know I I still don't love his play along the wall I I and I talked
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about this a few times on the post game this whole or maybe it was just you guys in the text but this whole like when
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he's done with his shift his body language coming back to the bench [ __ ] blows it's terrible it's like oh
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thr the head back I've tried my hardest and I'm skating as hard as I can to the bench because I'm just completely
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exhausted it's like dude just skate hard to the bench enough with the slump shoulders and [ __ ] like I know
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you're tired everybody in the NHL at the end of a shift is tired just get to the
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fun [ __ ] bench and stop with the you know with the Antics about it like yeah
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everybody can see but it makes it look like you're out of condition that's what
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it shows that's what it demonstrates it makes it appear like you have a
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conditioning problem not that you're exhausted from trying so hard it makes it look like you don't work hard enough
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in the off season so cut that [ __ ] out and and just do it the right way that
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one that one thing bug totally bugs me about him um but the rest of his game I
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like like I I think he can be an asset just one small part just well it it is a
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small part because it's like once the shift is over and you're just skating to the bench like figure that out like you
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you can you don't have to do the like the uh I'm going to the bench and I'm so
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tired like just go to the bench so getting back to the good parts though
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he has a playmaking ability that they need on the team clearly and I think he
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can be his upside I think is a second line Center like he can be I think he
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could be a 60-point guy I don't think he'll ever score a lot of goals I think he might be like a 20 20 goal you know
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40 assists guy and if you're talking highest that high that he can go maybe
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he gets to like 20 and 60 and he's an 80P Point guy but that's the ceiling of
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all ceilings that's as high as he is going to get um that Don Sweeney middle
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six player I mean I know and I hope he makes it there I hope he is that guy I hope
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he's an 80-point guy on the second line that's you know David Cree like you know
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that he's can make the plays and he can score a little bit um and I think know
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clearly they need that but they have to also be able to give him the responsibility let him do it let him be
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out there let him make M make mistakes let him play in late game situations let
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him play on the power play hell let him [ __ ] penalty kill I don't give a [ __ ] but like put him out there and let him
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grow into the role is what I'm saying couldn't have said it better
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myself right three Charlie mcvoy being out recently with an injury he was going
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to miss a few games according to the Bruins he is still out at this
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time is he himself or the Bruins pulling him out of regular season games and
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hopes that he is prepared and ready to play for the four nations tournament oh
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my God if that's the reason I hate the whole thing I hate now disclaimer this
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is all allegedly we are asking this question yes it is a hypothetical question um but if that's the case I
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hate the whole thing I hate the team for doing it because I think it's stupid I hate him for wanting to do that because
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this team needs him uh you can see that it needs him and hampus Lindholm to come
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back so if that's the case it sucks and it's terrible um lolm I think is uh
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lined up to play on one of the teams as well if he's healthy if I'm not mistaken yeah he might be what Sweden
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right I believe so yeah I can that later but yeah Elias Lind home's
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gonna be on team Sweden winning faceoffs so if makoy holds out for all
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of these games and they take him off ir and he plays game one of the four
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nations yeah I'm gonna be M pissed yes yep I will be I will be because to me
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what should be happening and look if he's hurt I want him to get healthy because they need correct stret yes they
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need him the stretch so let me get that right out of the way you know but if the priority behind the rest is not for the
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Boston Bruins that's where the problem is who pays the paycheck come on now yeah so this is what this is what I
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would say if if he's not healthy and they want him to get right I think they
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should and they should get him right but he shouldn't play in the four nations like if if he's hurt up until four
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nations he should skip it and just get more healthy or as healthy as possible
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and skip that tournament and then be ready to go when the Bruins start two weeks later like that's what it should
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be it shouldn't be like I'm gonna miss all these Bruins games and I'm gonna play the four nations and I'm gonna play
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the Bruins Season like it should be I'm not playing any games up until the
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Bruins start again and I'm ready to go on February 22nd or whatever it is like
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don't don't do the four nations thing if you're if you're hurt
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you know up until that point it just it rubs me the wrong way and I think it'll rub fans the wrong way and I think if
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the team and he are expecting um you know a different reception if he comes back for the four
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nations I think he's mistaken yeah I think it'll be really interesting to see how the fans will
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react I think some people might not even put two and two together to be honest but there's a lot of very well educated
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Boston Bruins fans out there who that [ __ ] test it won't pass the sniff no
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if they're not Bruins fans they probably won't care and won't know um but the people around here and this is where the
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tournament is here in Montreal so the people around here will know uh you know
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so he's got another thing coming if he thinks he's just gonna go from not playing at all to hopping into that
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thing and everybody's going to be like oh great happy to have Charlie back for Team USA in a madeup tournament that the
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NHL is pocketing the money on that's you know they're they're calling a best on
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best but Russia's not there CH is not there you know there's no gold medals there's no International full
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International competition so it's made out [ __ ] um but whatever
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congratulations for the extra ched bman yeah anywh who chirp four Jeremy Swan
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recently uh a little injury scare seems to be uh nothing at this Point yeah but
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we saw Michael DP uh Bruins Bender podcast alumni here called up to the big
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Club to back up for Corp Salo in the 20 uh blanking of the
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Senators with the trade deadline coming up with the Bruins where they are Corp pasalo has played okay Jeremy
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Swan seems to be going back to the way that he's been playing and you've got somebody in
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Michael DPO down in Providence who's playing pretty well would you would you potentially
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look at moving Corp pasalo or DPO at the deadline for some space or
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just as a packaged asset for a little something something I would consider moving cor
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pasalo at the deadline I just don't think the Bruins will do it CU I don't think they want to go into a situation
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where you have an unproven guy at the NHL level backing up swinging so I I just don't think they
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will um if the price was right I would certainly do it I certainly would um and
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because I think DPO deserves a shot and he's been playing well enough um in
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Providence I I would be hesitant a little bit if it's just trading someone
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to get an asset that isn't really that worthwhile just because the depth in the
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organization after D patro is busy and he's been up and down and then after
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that it's you know there's not much there so if you fill in the blank if you get rid of one of those guys you know
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and then somebody gets hurt then you might be scrambling a little bit so that's really the only concern um so I
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it would be tough for me to do it but if the return was what right I would um but
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I just don't see the brones doing it I just don't fair enough for the people that
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are watching on YouTube down below hit it in the comments who
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would you trade dph or Corpus solo and Y we'll be looking and we'll talk about it on the next episode how about that I
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love it don't miss out chirp five extending Morgan geeky or letting
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him go I'm extending Morgan geeky right now what's your ideal price tag my ideal
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price tag I mean so we did a thing on the postgame live where I believe it was 4times 3.25 is is the um what the
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prediction is I believe or um close to it it was either three or four years but
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3.25 was around there yeah so like I'd be okay with that
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obviously I would like it to be a little bit less just because I'd like to have the Bruins to have as much money as
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possible to go out and and get Elite Talent um to be big buyers oh big buyers
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I mean we'll see they've never really bought big um unless they were bidding against themselves for guys except for
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Nikita zadorov yeah LOL LOL so um know
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that doesn't really instill a great amount of confidence in uh in their ability to
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find guys uh is a hell of a guy resigning people though yeah so to me
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I'm looking at I would love it to be like four years three 3 million or even four years like
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2.8 2.9 I mean that won't happen but uh
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I'd be fine with the three with the four times 3.25 because I think he can be uh
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he's shown he has some chemistry with popok number one and then I think he can play up and down the lineup because he h
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he will play physically uh even though he's not really a fighter he'll he'll hit he can skate he has an elite shot uh
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and so he can play anywhere up and down the lineup and he's shown chemistry with posnock so I think there's value there
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and his two years in Boston on the whole have been pretty good and you know early
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early part of this year wasn't great but you know in the last couple of months he's been one of the best players and
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last year he was really good when he got more opportunity uh after coming over from Seattle so um I think that's one
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guy that I would like to keep around um for the Brows yes he does Feel Pretty good
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overall and I mean if you can score with David poock and gain any kind of chemistry feel like Sween is gonna get
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an absolute man chub for you and throw you the bag so book it four years $4
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million Here Comes chuch Chu yep Church six Mason lowai would you move him to
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forward no as much as I can't stand the way he plays defense right now he's not
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as valuable as a forward I don't think I I mean I he he he may be able to do it and it may
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um it may help the team they may score a few more goals but it's not like he's going to go from being
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uh you know 50o defenseman to a 75o forward like that's just not happening
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like if he goes to forward he's probably just going to be you know 45 or 50 point forward like he was a defenseman because
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it's going to come from the power play where he would probably still be a quarterback on the power play um and I
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just I'm not sure if he makes great enough decisions like along the walls and stuff as a defenseman where he has a
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little more time to survey the whole ice where as he's if he's a forward on the wall he has a defenseman crashing down
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he's got the center of someone coming to hit him like I I I'm just not sure I I
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would I would be willing to go through those growing pains especially at the
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NHL level with a guy who's already 24 years old like it would take him probably a few years to acclimate
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properly there and now he's 27 and you're also getting into RFA years now
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where it's like what's his value you oh we want to pay you as a forward well you
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know that's more money generally um so you get into all of those things so I'm
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leaving him at defense I'm living with the growing paints for now and I'm hoping he can become adequate there um
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enough to you know make it worth their while to hold on to them so you're
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willing to live through some Growing Pains which is
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basically Player Development yes it is my God seven Boston Bruins Player
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Development absolutely sucks go ahead Tyler I I don't we've talked we talked
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about a little bit before I don't know what they're doing I don't think they have a plan for the young guys I really don't I don't think they have a plan
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it's not like they said to Georgie merkulov look we want you to play in the
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AHL in all situations we want you to be one of the best players in the league you do that for a year or two and then
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we'll bring you up we'll put you in the lineup and we'll give you a chance in the top six or the top nine no because
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he's done that that's what he's done he's he has I'm GNA mess up the stats
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here uh maybe you can look them up uh in the AHL he's essentially has about 160
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or so games played and he has about 140 or so points in those games around there
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um so he's done what he should have done in that League there's nothing more for him to prove down there he's done it all
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so now it's he deserves a shot here for the way he's played in the system and
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he's not getting one so if I'm him I tell them to [ __ ] off and I go to the
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KHL because and he's had some there's been some Rumblings there early in the
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season it came back again a few weeks back it was probably when they were yanking him around about whether or not
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he was going to come up to Boston or not come up and there was a report from somewhere in Russia
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um about some talks that he may or may not have had so like what are they doing
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I don't think they have a plan for him it's just like well there's no room on the on the Bruins roster because we
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brought in all these fourth line guys that are clones of each other and there's no spot for you well th why are
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those guys just given spots when it's a you know a guy like Max Jones who's a
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fringe NHL Cole Ki a fringe cheller Riley tufty
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a 4A player like why are those guys given spots and chances and merkulov is
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not given a chance when he's proven everything he needs to prove for this
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team within your organization not coming from outside and he's not given a chance at
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all or 58 points and 177 AHL games what is it 158 points 177 G games okay so
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actually points wise probably a little bit better than I thought um in a in a few more games so he's played a ton of
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games there played over two full seasons and he's not getting a shot I mean
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that's production at that level now you need to see can he do it at this level and if he can't then you can get rid of
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him and not feel bad about it but to have a guy down there that's putting up
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points like that and not give him a chance when your team can't [ __ ] score is mindboggling to me how dense
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they're being in upper management with the Bruins like Sweeney and Neely what is their thought process I don't know
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what it is and I'm not sure they know I don't like I said they don't have a plan he's just down there because they don't
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have a spot for him and they do it with lysell too like
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he's been more up and down than has and he's had some injuries he's played well at times not played well at
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times there's been some concerns about his defense because there's always concerns about young guys defense when
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they come to the Bruins is he a two-way player blah blah blah this and that look
35:45
they need guys who can score and produce he comes up he plays one game gets an
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assist right in his one game uh I believe so yes or scored a goal maybe
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even did he score was it a or was am I thinking of a preseason game where it was like the uh
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short Side High like wrist shot was that a preseason game I don't even remember uh give me two seconds I
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switched from his AHL stats he has an assist in three games with the Bruins this season his overall career is seven
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games one assist yeah so like not enough of a chance
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really and look there was some growing pains and he was still young and now he's getting up what is he low 22 now
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maybe he's 24 24 okay so he's running into the same kind of thing he's getting
36:40
to the point where it's like [ __ ] I get off the pot can I play in the NHL or can't I and they keep giving these
36:46
Fringe guys chances where they have guys down in the farm that have done enough
36:51
to Warrant a chance and are not given one so that's not Player Development
36:57
that's just having guys in your system like it doesn't matter if you draft them
37:02
in the first round or college free agent or the seventh round it's just having guys like we got some guys because we
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got to have a minor league team but that's it like they're not in the future plans of the Bruins at all or they
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wouldn't have signed all these Fringe NHL guys and 4A guys bunch of plugs so I
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don't get it do they do they not fit the new style of how they want to
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play yeah maybe not but why are you drafting guys like that if you if they don't fit your style of play what is
37:36
your style of play what is your loty tickets maybe they think they're lottery tickets that they can trade later on
37:43
yeah they don't know any of that stuff they don't have a development plan they don't have a style of play they don't
37:50
have a type of player they want to go after none of it and it's
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ridiculous that this organization an original six organization has no plans
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at all for doing anything with their young players it's
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woo not bad overall we made it a little out the gate we might edit that out
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probably not probably not probably not yeah but now we get to come to the fun
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the fun section here no start bench cut this episode because who the [ __ ] cares what I think I get to ask those
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questions so we're gonna wait for Maddie to get back so we get to go into the
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Beauties and the Benders and this week's beauty is David poock this will teach
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those filthy bastards who's lovable David poock made the NHL three stars of the
40:25
week probably the only shining thing in the Boston Bruins realm at this point in
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time David he's playing well third star of
40:37
the week here's here's another interesting stat David poshak since December 14th is uh I believe either tied for
40:46
third or third in points among all players with 28 only Nathan McKinnon and
40:54
Mitch Marner I believe have more points than him over that time I believe you're correct in his last five games he has 11
41:03
points he's got four goals the rest are assists baby and he is plus six in that
41:09
time yeah uh and so he's been playing well and as we said a million times when
41:16
he plays well and he scores hey the Bruins usually do well uh and it's
41:22
amazing what can happen when you don't have to play with people you don't like allegedly
41:28
you're gonna you're gonna bring that up ad nauseum that's going to be an all-timer GNA hear that all the time
41:34
just like uh Jim Montgomery didn't like to change lines at all either Jim
41:39
Montgomery did not I haven't changed lines a lot this year no no Jim you
41:46
haven't I'm here but I can still do it yeah he's a he's a he's just like Cloe
41:51
Julian where he's just rolling four lines all the time Jim and clo like two pe's in a pod
41:58
um so let's get to the bender and the Bender this week is your Edmonton Oilers
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EA Sports go [ __ ] yourself oh Edmonton so uh the whole there was a big
42:14
brewhaha with Edmonton and I believe it was Vancouver am I correct in that that
42:19
is correct it was Connor Garland to be specific yeah uh
42:25
so McDavid cross checks Connor Garland in the face mouth um Connor Garland gets
42:32
12 stitches or something like that I think um in and around his facial area
42:39
and then uh Edmonton releases a statement that's saying uh that they
42:44
were essentially offended by uh the NHL's decision to suspend Conor McDavid
42:51
for three games that he shouldn't have been suspended um because he's a in the
42:57
league I guess uh I don't know why they think the rules don't apply to stars in the league Martian been suspended a
43:04
bunch of times when he does dumb [ __ ] McDavid cross checked the guy in the face uh that's suspension worthy so hey
43:12
Edmonton uh get over your [ __ ] selves maybe they're hoping that Gary bman will just give him the commissioner's pardon
43:20
yeah more suspension that going yeah I mean I just I I don't get it I I don't get off your
43:25
high horse like guys get suspended when they do dumb [ __ ] your guy did dumb [ __ ] and he got suspended like that's the way
43:31
it works um so you're the you're the Bender this week because uh I I just uh
43:36
I don't like that I don't like the way they handled it absolutely the bender and there's been people in media in
43:42
Canada who suggested that he should withhold his services from Team Canada and the four nations as like shut the
43:49
[ __ ] up you bunch of crybabies oh my god well I mean just talk about it as a
43:55
whole I mean Montreal was calling the cops on is Dan oara uh back in the day
44:00
when uh he ran Patti into the curved glass there so true there was uh some
44:05
alleged arrest warrant or something like that issued for him yeah but before we
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wrap up the show yeah week ahead we're facing off it is a MAA tomorrow and I
44:17
think it'll be you and me on the postgame show tomorrow yeah Matty's still on vacation
44:22
I think I think so yeah he's in uh he's in North Conway living it up Patty and had
44:28
drinking uh drinking Cosmos or some other you know girlish drink so we've
44:33
got the MAA against Colorado tomorrow and we've got the Buffalo Sabers on the
44:39
28th what's your pulse for these next two games uh Colorado's gonna be a
44:44
problem because Nathan McKinnon's gonna be a problem and kale Mar's gonna be a problem and nio ranton is gonna be a
44:50
problem you know what I'd like to see is I'd like to see uh well first of all let
44:55
me get this out of the way I'd like to see the Bruins win I do not think the Bruins will win but I would like I would
45:00
like to see the Bruins win and hey they're 91 and one in their last 11 home games so there's that there's a chance
45:08
um but telling me there's a chance yeah what I think is going to happen is I think Colorado's goingon to score a lot
45:14
of goals and you're going to lose um pretty easily pretty handily like it's not going to be close it's gonna be like
45:19
a New Jersey game it's gonna be like 51 5-2 one of those but what I want to see happen is I want to see Mo ranton score
45:26
four right in front of Don Sweeney's face so don Sweeney will go out and be like hey
45:32
let me see if I can pay that guy and get him here because that's what I want I
45:38
want guys that can play and score on this
45:43
team don [ __ ] Sweeney Don [ __ ] Sweeney yeah we'll
45:49
see we'll see how that goes but yeah I don't um I don't think it's going to go
45:54
well tomorrow so we'll have a of angry commenters which usually leads to a pretty good post game
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live yes it does and you will see me and Smitty tomorrow for the post game live
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