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Bruins Benders Live: 1/14/2025 vs. Tampa Bay Lightning
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Jan 31, 2025
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[Music] it is Bruins Benders postgame live on
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the inside the rink YouTube channel with Maddie and Smitty click subscribe get your Bruins Benders merch on inside the
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rink.com Bruins Das Benders follow us on social media at Bruins Benders and the Bruins
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get a six to2 win their second win in a row out of nowhere against the Tampa Bay
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Lightning tonight outshot again but it doesn't matter the Bruins are opportunistic in this one and jump out
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to a four nothing lead get two empty net goals by the grace of God empty short-handed goals short-handed empty
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net yeah it's one of those nights as the Eagles would say yeah so there they go
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we take that and run all the way far away Charlie McAvoy not in the lineup uh
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nope who else who else was not in the lineup C in the lineup hus L's not in
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the lineup she going with Michael Callahan gets his debut yeah Michael
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there 79 in your in your book Maddie ptra comes in gets an assist yeah right
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right off the Hop yeah get the ball rolling and uh I thought the brones
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tonight played with a sense of urgency and a sense of focus that you have not
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seen from them uh this year in about 90% of the games I would I would agree with
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that I thought they came out feisty and focused and ready to go I think it was a
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result of the play late in Thursday night's game with the cross check from
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liberg cck and uh but I thought the Bruins look the Bruins held their
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discipline tonight they they hit liberg at every opportunity they were feisty in
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front of their own net they protected the front of their net hard tonight like I loved the way they played in front of
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sing tonight in the crease the defenseman were ready to jump on ready to drop gloves with people like w
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thepoon was ready to drop him Freddy dropped with um uh liberg liberg yeah
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dropped with per uh Ser cervix fix what the hell fck uh
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fix yeah um so you know the the Bruins were ready to go in this one and they
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were feisty and I and I and I liked it a lot I I wish they would play this way more often this is their recipe not the
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giving up 40 shots and taking 20 not that part of it that's not good the way they defended uh in front of swan
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tonight was excellent um you know they took probably a two few too many icings in the third
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um but overall that's a real nice win against the team you know that look is is points percentage wise better than
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you they still have games in hand on you um but you jump back over them back into third so they got to catch you again
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even though they have games in hand they got to win those games now you're you're in front of them so uh a good win all
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around I would say yeah I thought the defense which you know you you going in you thought boy this is a rough this is
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a rough group yeah but I thought like you said they kept it simple they were in front of the net they just kind of
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you know really cleared out in front of the net for swayan who all of a sudden is kind of finding the top of his game
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all of a sudden and H I mean yeah this is what we need from him this is what we
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need from Jeremy um you know if he wants to if he wants to get hot and go on a
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run here um and and Propel this team into the playoffs and steal some games
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you know we've said all year that he hasn't really stolen a game well he did uh against Florida that was a stolen
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game uh and tonight he was he was equally as good uh his positioning was excellent tonight how many times did
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Tampa shoot it and just hit him right in the crest right in the and you know no rebound um you know really good
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positionally tonight uh one of his best games for sure uh against a quality opponent yeah that wasn't happening
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earlier in the season as we talked about and but for the last I don't know for the last three four weeks he's getting
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better and better and better and and now he's he's he looks to be kind of the jemy Swingman of the past um made a
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couple of really big stops in this one when it was 4 to one and four to2 too and you were like here we go um but you
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know they hung in and he kept them kept them with a two-goal lead and um and I
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thought tonight that um you know it was nice to see ptra get an assist right away make a play to Frederick to
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score um I think that 23 games in Providence really helped him out I mean
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you could just see it in even in the pregame when he was talking uh to the media just like he just looked like he
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he matured in the 23 games like he just looked like it um and he was out there
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and he was and he played I thought he played really well tonight um and then people were saying well you know they
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they shouldn't have sent him down I think they should have I think you're missing the boat if you think that they shouldn't have and he would have been
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like this the whole way I don't think so I think that I really think when you look back it's it's going to be a really
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beneficial to him to have that time down there I agree with you I think I think he developed a confidence down there
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that I I don't know if he could have uh either gotten or maintained at the NHL level I just think going down there he
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had what a seven or eight game goal streak down there so that's got to boost your confidence and you know as as much
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as we love the kid that's not happening at the NHL level he's not going to have a seven game goal streak at the NHL
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level so I think that just helps his confidence helps to boost his confidence and and you know it should Propel him
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here going forward you know he comes back up plays pretty well gets an assist right away
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um you know uh and he's maybe one of these playmaking guys that can unlock some other forwards maybe this gets
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Frederick going he needs a guy to pass him the puck uh and and make plays on
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the line for him you know maybe he has a guy now that can do that and and Frederick you know as much as we've
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ripped on him the last you know three four five games his legs have been going he's been playing a more physical style
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he's starting to score more all those things are good so he can continue to do
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that as long as he wants up until the trade deadline or past it uh if he's gonna
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continue to play well and you know the Bruins go on a little run here they're gonna you know obviously they'll keep
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him because that's the Bruins yeah but um you know some positives definitely
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for sure and I'm gonna crack open my sip right now oh good good sip for you I I'm not sipping right now because I'm on a
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I'm on a keto type of thing right now uh so I am not sipping tonight I got the
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Lop bar down oh he's got the bar down New England IPA IPA from lops
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show us where you're from that'd be great I think we might have to start a fan club in Australia yeah I mean that's
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we are overtaking Australia we might actually run for office in Australia yeah I think Australia or uh the
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maritimes of Canada we're big there yeah we're big there yeah in Missoula Montana
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yeah all three of those um yeah so tonight two gu two ni score Andrew Peak
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and Parker wspoon both get their first goals as Bruins and Parker wspoon with his first how about that one yeah that
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was a snipe too I mean I mean he'll remember that one forever takes goodness takes a pass from David POS and rips one
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high short side like my goodness and and uh like he was BR Burns or something I
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know [ __ ] like a boy Parker yeah good for you buddy yeah um now I think it's
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uh Matt barowski has the the most amount of games as a bro without scoring a goal
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131 so Peak and WM were both on that list closing in closing in but uh but
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Matt Bow's record is intact again tonight um yeah some other guy you know
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I you know Cole Ki hopefully he's okay took a shot late um that was an
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interesting what did you think of that play I I there was a lot of uh there was
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a lot of stuff I mean brick at the time um said it was a good hit with an unfortunate circumstance even after
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seeing the replay um a lot of people say that's a clean hit um I mean I'm
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watching the thing and and they also said turn turn it around and if that was a Bruins player if that was zadorov
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hitting you know s amont to somebody would you want that to be a penalty yeah
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of course you wouldn't want it to be a penalty but I feel like if a Bruins player did that it is a penalty like
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it's always a penalty against us sure sure I I agree so I mean to me the
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principal point of contact is the head he could have not hit him in the head he was reaching I mean it it wasn't like he was
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already um initiating the hit he could have taken a different route he could have shoved him instead of driving his
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shoulder through his chin I mean it was shoulder to it was shoulder to Chin I feel like makoy had one of those last
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year was it last year where he hit a guy like on the chin like that or near it or something and there was a big upro about
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that because maoy likes that hit too and I and I get it but I also know that you
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know sometimes guys have their head down too you know what I mean and sometimes when you're coming in and you want to
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hit him in the chest and he has his head down I don't know it's a that's a tough one it really he was reaching for the to
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me he's reaching for the puck to try to poke it out and he was vulnerable yeah and he's yeah I mean if you want to do
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the NFL vulnerable thing or defenseless Player thing well I mean that's supposed to be like I think that's I don't I mean
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I don't know if it's a vulnerable thing in hockey but the primary contact to the head like that's supposed to be a rule I
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thought sure yeah I mean contact to the Head should should be a rule and I don't know I mean watching that he he made
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contact with his head there's one clear message for Taylor radish EA Sports [ __ ]
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yourself yeah I mean he can be like uh yeah Ken Brewer is from Nova Scotia we have some Nova scoas in the uh in the
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crowd uh Abby says first time vassie has let up four goals since November 30th so
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they got to vasileski tonight with the four goals against that was good to see
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ponak with seven goals in six games now with 20 and as we've said before he's
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probably going to get 40 again even that's his ninth uh his ninth consecutive 20 goal season ninth
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consecutive can you imagine Obie has 20 in a row I mean that's 20 that's why
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he's going to be the all-time goal scoring leader just had this 20th the
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other night and 20 years in a row that's unbelievable some consistency right
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there yeah that was that was unbelievable so Rob says it was unfortunate outcome but it wasn't dirty and I'm probably leaning toward that um
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as well because I you know you want you want some hits in the game and I think that that's a hit that you know kind of
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makes people stand up and not you know I think it's a good I don't know I I think it's a I think it's an okay hit you know
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what I mean I don't know it's it's that's a hard one those are hard ones they really are that's not the total
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Blind Side no knew CH knew he was going to get hit
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yeah but I just feel like it could have it could have been handled by radish a different way but I mean it look it's a
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rivalry and none of these guys really like each other all that much they just played Thursday there was some bad blood
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you know the Bruins had already beat up a couple of your guys so I could see why you know he's looking to deliver a
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message there um and he did he did deliver a message so it'll be interesting to see uh how that all
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shakes out you know when they I guess they play again in March again a couple
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times close together oh boy that's gonna be it's gonna be a Donny Bur yeah so there's going to be some fireworks in
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those ones especially if they're jock playoff position still yeah you're going to see Jeffrey VL for at least one of
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those I think uh just news flash uh Rob Spectre my sip is whatever Poison Poison
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Control recommended after I bought Drano following the last gers stampa and I think Jonesy said he had
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winter warlock for Jones tonight boy um let's see who else is here
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uh uh pesman not quite a 60-minute effort but best one of the Season also Swan starting to look like 2024 playoff
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wayway and I think that's true and if that's the case yeah then the Bruins at least have a chance to stay afloat here
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they do you know now four games in hand have the lightning on the Bruins and the Bruins able to you know to get back to
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even I think in points so hanging in hanging around up one I believe up one
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up one okay great uh Swan was awesome tonight says an Tang greedy the suspect
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63 is that the old rat 63 they look so much better with these young guys and
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they actually have speed and are making plays um yeah I mean there's some of
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that um again I was an advocate for potra going down I was even an advocate
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for him staying down a little longer but he did pay some dividends tonight and he does look he did look better just in the
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short sample size right now W spoon's been capable here and there I mean he's not great but he's been capable o he's
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been capable uh and I think Michael Callahan's the same type of guy too yeah
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he's a good dep guy he's good dep guy he did fine tonight did fine he jumped up
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in the play at one point almost got a goal yeah they the fourth line had an amazing shift and it it ended with
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Callahan you know ripping on fire and I think uh vasileski got it with the block or the catching glove um but um yeah he
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played pretty well tonight um you know in his first game against the team you know with that kind of offensive Talent
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you know they were minus Braden point tonight so take that under advisement but um you know a really good effort by
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the defense overall um Swingman had a 43 saves and a
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956 tonight wow well that's that'll do it that's a that's that's a good good trend
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from San cam show cam show brings up a good point not sure he's ever seen two defensive Zone empty neck goals
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before that was out and short-handed short-handed two defensive Zone shorted
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short-handed goals and one of them by a guy getting his first goal as a bruin
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too that's a lot of first tonight lot lot of yeah a lot of things you know you
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had your first NHL game for Callahan you got your first goal for Parker wat spoon first Bruins goal for Peak 600th career
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game for Brandon Carlo 20th uh you know ninth consecutive 20
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goal season for Pak right Point night for POs you know a lot of lot of uh
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couple of fights you know there was a lot of action tonight there was a lot of action it was nice to see Freddy kind of
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to kind of get an answer from uh willberg there yeah kind of it was a good bout yeah it was really good bout
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that the the officials kind of let it go another second round pick uh yeah sure
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send them right now send them for first if they want them abolutely I'll tell you what you you prepare yourself for
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the threee extension what we getting what are we getting prepare you prepare yourself for three times four for 12
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from Trent Frederick it's coming and I'm gonna [ __ ] laugh my balls off and and
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then cry because I'm not going to like it at all I'm going to rip him a new [ __ ] for three more years I'm telling
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you right now it's only going to be you think it's only going to be a three-year deal I think I think three times four
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they can only give them three years because they're gonna give brazo an eight-year extension yeah [ __ ] brazzo
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here we go I mean I'll tell you what if they resign geeki and brazo if they run it they're running it back I mean why
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would you do that I mean I don't understand people are clamming for oh you gotta sign this guy or you gotta sign that guy oh really well you just
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said your team sucked so you gonna run it all back with the same guys yeah doesn't make much sense does it no
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doesn't doesn't make much sense at all uh I trade brazo yesterday I trade Fredick yesterday three days ago six
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weeks ago I trade geeky right now I mean there not a lot of guys I wouldn't trade
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right now to be honest Johnny beer if anybody will take him I trade him for
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[ __ ] I don't know I trade him for a new pair of gloves or [ __ ] you know
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hand warmers something I don't I mean trade him get rid of him um Liam Perkins
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he here here's one that Smitty will will appreciate because you actually texted us and said that Nik Nikita sidorov was
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growing on you yes Liam Perkins says I might be alone on this one but I love zador off yes he takes down penalties
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but he plays out and sticks up for the boys there you go uh I agree with you Liam that's all true and um on this uh
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most mostly train wreck of a season for the bronin uh this year he's one of the few defenseman that is a plus player him
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and makoy there's not many others so I mean we were on him a lot early on and I
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thought in the first month of the Season he wasn't good at all and then uh in November he was F he was fine but I
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think the last couple of months basically since the coaching change I would say um he's been pretty good he's
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been pretty good like he's not turning the puck over as much he's playing physical he is sticking up for the boys
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um you know he has 10 points I think which I think I looked at his stats and
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I think he only had 14 points all of last year is that right and he had a really good playoff yeah yeah yeah so
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you know he might be on Pace for you know a a career
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year so Sweeny Donnie Sweeney can really pick him can gets them right before the
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career years swings out there just picking up guys right before they're gonna have a career year it's what Don
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Sweeny does yeah it's what he does finds Diamonds in the Rough yeah and just molds them and brings them onto the team
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and then overpays them does for five years uh Joe Sako
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says no update on Cole Ki yet um Co Ki had no idea where he was he had and he
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was like he was worse than Catholic the other he was he was Street yeah he was
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he was uh Matthew Curtis says potra up for the rest of the season question
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mark um if they can afford it I think they
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had to put lindol hampus lindol on long-term IR in order to make the ptra
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callup um and the Callahan callup uh because they don't have the money so if they can afford it I think
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he will be up here all year uh if they cannot I think he will stay until four
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nations and then they will send him down mhm during the four nations so he can
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play with Provence while four nation is going on and get you know keep sharp get
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ice time if they can afford to do that I have no idea the cap R ramifications on
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all that but I feel like that's probably what will happen so you're say it's 50
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fifty
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oh you gota watch the regular episodes you do you have to watch the episodes uh to get that joke yes I think it is only
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for our DraftKings Reed yes just fast forward to the gra yeah
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DraftKings oh [ __ ] um yeah so uh New Hampshire Bruin 77 great win tonight
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8.25 million actually looked like it tonight uh should have gotten retribution with radish oh well good win
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says t-boss um there was a little bit of a liberty taken late by cernak he tried to
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take Martian's head off the elbow he did he tried he he was trying to give him the flying elbow and gonna try to injure
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him bch yeah and Maran who does that low bridge like nobody ever has yeah got
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right out of there spun out of it turn over him it was excellent St
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coming yeah there's going to be uh those games in March are going to be
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must-watch television they are they are 100% going to be watch there's a there's
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a you know these teams have already you know been Rivals um they have been it's
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heating up a little bit now it is with some of the some of the hits and so forth so uh yeah they'll take a number
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on radish um yeah for sure you could see zadorov or somebody looking to answer for that uh in March making him answer
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for that in March yeah Kylie says her ship is a shot of pink Whitney for each
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goal feeling good Jesus you got to get you're get hammered by the you know the Bruins have six
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goals tonight that never happens getting rocked on a Tuesday night good for you
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some alcohol poisoning all around tonight six goals yeah for sure pink
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Whitney have you ever had pink Whitney I have not is that is that masculine enough for you or uh not particularly no
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no I mean I haven't I haven't had pink Whitney um what what is it tell you what
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this is what I would do instead I would take a good vodka uhuh uh like a Tios or
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badier or something else that's good and I would pour some [ __ ] lemonade in it and drink that instead yeah some Kettle
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One and some yeah Kettle One whatever whatever your your choices yeah and then
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throw some real actual lemonade in there instead of uh lemon flavoring uh pink
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lemon flavoring is that what it is pink pink lemon pink pink lemonade it's pink
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lemonade vodka that's what it is oh okay so yeah so just get some good Le good
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vodka and pour pink lemonade in it like get simply lemonade or Newman's lemonade
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and throw some vodka there and it's [ __ ] delicious okay yeah Adrien likes
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it too there she said that it was a nice sip Kylie so you know go no sip tonight
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for Adrien doing my doing her nails while she's listening what color are you painting them black and gold you got to
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tell us you got to tell us what what color the nails are black and gold Nails Adrian yeah it was it was Karma kyli
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Kylie says this was karma for the bolts it was Karma tonight in a big way um why
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isn't merula playing instead of beer it's an excellent point um I think the answer is because
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one is a fourth line guy that can win off and penalty kill and the other one
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is should be a top six player and they don't his size has his Fleet of foot mer
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neither space really yeah they don't you're right merkulov is a top a top six
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player they don't have the space Vinnie later's parked there big can Vinnie yeah
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Vinnie ler he's got his big SCH menza right in the middle of the action tonight uh he played with venzo played
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with uh Martian tonight didn't he yes he play ler was fine ler is a fine player
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like he's a he's an he's a 4 a he's a he's an AHL tried and true but he's fine
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I mean he understands how to play he's actually a very good AHL player sure he is but he uh you want me to tell you
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what V is he played he actually played 43 games for the wild last year he did
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46 yeah Vinnie ler on the top line for the Boston Bruins is Don Sweeny buying a
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$10,000 billboard and slapping it on the first line to say this roster is
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incomplete that's what that's his own fault his own laugh it's his own fault
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swing um lysel would look decent there yeah he would he would and so lysel so
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tonight you bring that up lell I guess had some conversations with Adam McQuade and Ryan Mel tonight and it didn't look
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like he took the trip to Syracuse not sure what was going on there didn't get this is from Mark de there on X Y not
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sure came of it but there were some extended conversations it sounded like
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people were mentioning on a tonight that he was recalled from Providence with
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Patra and uh ler in C but scratched yeah
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and so like a paper transaction or something so I don't know I don't know so I don't know maybe maybe it's like uh
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you know he's he's going to get the play he's going to play in the next game they didn't want to play him in this game but he's the next game kind of a thing I
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don't know I have no idea just all speculation and they play What SAT uh
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Thursday Saturday Saturday is the next game I believe Saturday Ottawa Saturday
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that's right three o'clock three o'clock at Ottawa yeah um Bruce Bridger different
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team when we play with a lead instead of chasing down a couple true I mean offensively they can't come back they
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haven't come back when they get the lead especially at home they're a much different team and I mean they're better
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at home anyway but um tonight they were able look they were opportunistic they
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had four goals on nine shots like it wasn't like they were you know playing like a buzs saw and I mean the lightning
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was still offensively outplaying them and out shooting them out attempting them I mean it wasn't like the Florida
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game where they gave up 110 shot attempts whatever the hell it was no but it was but it was still you know Tampa
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getting a lot of chances and the Bruins just being opportunistic and and and a couple went in yeah and that certainly
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helps your team especially when you've been struggling to score so if you score a couple all of a sudden you're feeling
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a little bit better about yourself and that really carried them through quite a bit of the game if not all of the game
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yeah I thought in the first period it was pretty even I think the shots might have been like 13 to8 or something like
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that like it was fairly even and then the second the Bruins I thought carried the play in the early part of the second and scored
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a couple but then you know the second half of the second you know the shots on gold thing kind of got away from him in
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the third the Bruins hardly played offense at all uh it was it was icing
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after icing after icing so um I feel like it it it got worse as the game went
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along but you know for the for the first half of that game I would say it was pretty it was fairly even I would say
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yeah I think that's for sure yeah um B says Mossy LED T vodka and freshly
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squeezed lemonade on a warm Summer's Day is Like Heaven oh my God doesn't that sound unbel that's an amazing Arnold
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Palmer right there it really does sound amazing I'm gonna probably try that this
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summer yeah I'm gonna go out of Limb and say I am drinking that drink this summer oh when you're grilling with the uh oh
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[ __ ] oh 100% yeah you quick f Maine it's
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from M mosy LED is from Maine oh quick fact check on the Fabian I pulled the
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NHL game report he was listed as a scratch for the game today but the
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Bruins have zero mention of calling him up yeah so if he it as a scratch though
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he was recalled because he correct but they haven't they didn't list it in any of their call-ups today and any of the
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emails that me or Maddie get nothing no nothing okay atam Main Maddie is down
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the road from Etna yeah uh be is down the road from Etna but where the hell is
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that Etna is up uh by uh Orono like um
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up there you know Orono Bangor okay yeah so we're talk we're
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gonna make make a trip up to Orono to see the black bears play yeah we could certainly do that to get some that be
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works for the main system so yeah I think she could pull some strings maybe I don't know um and then
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uh who was it um Jonesy says bees knees where is that I just lost it bees knees
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is a good lemony drink made with gin great summer drink but use real gin like Hendrick or sipsmith I'm a big Hendrick
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guy I like the Hendrick Jin give me all the gens yeah all the gens I like the so
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bees knees yeah oh you know what one of my brother I should have had one on the
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cruise my my brother's wife was drinking those on the cruise bees knes should
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have had one be KN that was a mistake on my part I don't think I ever asked what was in it that was a fail yeah it really
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was Matthew Curtis said they're going to turn into [ __ ] again weird gut feeling they figured out their [ __ ] but
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who [ __ ] knows here's the here's the caveat I have Matthew is that Matthew
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they've been outshot and out attempted fairly severely in these two games and have won now it's not that they haven't
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played poorly but they have been opportunistic as I said offensively if they aren't opportunistic and continue
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to be outplayed like this then it's not a rep recipe for Success going forward
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let's let's just be honest I mean it's good to win and I think they feel good about winning and getting these two wins
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is really important even though it's only January really important to beat these two divisional foes right here um
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and to try to continue to stay in a playoff position into the four nations there um but I think you're asking a lot
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if they don't kind of you know tidy it up a little bit defensively you can't
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get outshot 90 to 40 and expect to win no U you know these two games uh most
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nights you're not going to win these games um you know soyan with a couple of
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really good efforts and then o opportunistic opportunistic
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scoring do 505050 uh Mike professional says no more wallstrom this should prove that we
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don't need to see that anymore yeah I honestly did not miss him
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I did not realize that he was scratched so there you go didn't miss yeah yeah I I didn't
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realize he wasn't I I didn't realized he was not there to be honest with you I forgot I
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forgot who he even was now he scored the other night didn't he he scored he did
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last game yeah yeah um but again and it was a nice goal too by Johnson and walstrom and all that it's just after a
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while I mean those guys aren't going to be around long so I don't I don't see them signing
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walstrom no again yeah I think they were just looking to catch liting in a bottle maybe they bring him in maybe you know
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he does something in you yeah a little hot streak for a couple I mean if ptra
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continues to produce and needs to stay up here isn't it time to trade a geeki or a Frederick you know to make it make
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that happen to make the money right if it's about the money isn't it timee to have him take the spot of one of those
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two guys couldn't you just like wave walstrom well that's the other thing
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yeah I mean St walr there there's you know there's things you can do I think
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to to you know make that happen without yeah I think you got you got to make it
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happen um yeah I mean look if there's a if there's a good move to be made to
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improve your team um if especially if those guys aren't in your future then you do that yeah I just I don't know why
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you wouldn't you know yeah for sure uh Jones says uh brazzo is my Binky I know
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he's not great but I love his reach hands and size that's what she said has all those things the reach the hands the
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size the speed not there what about hand size does that matter hand size is that
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hand size hey do you have a thing about I have this thing about women in hand size if their hands I have big hands for
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for a man like I have big hands I could p a basketball like as a sophomore high school so um if a woman has hands my
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size have a real problem with that really real real problem I don't know about it I I just the man hands on women
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not a fan of yeah my wife has smaller hands than me so I mean women should
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have some kind of smaller smaller dainty you know cutiest hands you know what I
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mean yeah on the one night where the chats filled with a couple extra ladies Matt decides to have this conversation
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well I mean it wasn't it had had that it didn't have that in mind but I was just I was just I was thinking of it when you said hand
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size you know we're talking about hand size we're talk talking about hand
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I was like yeah he's talking about hand size hand
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size that's all I'm talking about okay you bastards um it's hard being a bees fan
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says Kylie and a Humane fan in P which is my home state where I still am but I
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also pump up a great beer logger from PA youngling best Slugger out there I've
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had the Yingling many times yeah I like the one of my we're in Pennsylvania Kylie
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one of my hockey buddies uh used to um that's all he would buy after Budweiser
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was bought out by European company he switched to Yingling because it was still American made so yeah he was a
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Yingling guy so I I used to partake of the of the Yingling oh yeah yeah yeah it's good
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it's good stuff I it is pretty good stuff it is pretty good stuff uh here we
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go says it's brower's hand size and reach Elite Smitty um
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Elite oh [ __ ] his um is it his Puck possession
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down low is very good it is not very
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good it's not yger it's not yger Elite he's not Mario l no he is J brezo yeah
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um it is very good and I and I like the fact that can do that I do think his reach helps him at times um with
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controlling pucks getting pucks out being able to make plays right hold people off because he has a big frame
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and and a good reach so all of that is good if you can get the puck to him down low get him in front of the net he can
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be effective it's the skating back and forth part that gets in the way for him
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yeah because he's just not very fast no but he he can if he can if he can do the
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stick position thing and be good defensively that way by getting his stick in passing lanes and disrupting
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people and being physical like he can play in the NHL he's proven it he can play in the NHL is he gonna be an
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All-Star no he's not um but he can be a valuable bottom six guy on a on a decent team but that's what he should be he
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should be a valuable bottom six guy on a decent team sure he shouldn't he shouldn't be a top six guy at all no at
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all in any team um and you know if you want to throw net front on the power play fine that's a second power play on
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a decent team sure but that's that's what he is he's not
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anything that's fine and he did a great job getting here and doing well I like
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the guy I'm happy scoring goals all of that but let's not Crown his ass right
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in fact let's in fact let's trade his ass to be honest while the iron is hot
37:56
uh Chris L valy who was at the game tonight says they looked better defensively without makoy now you could
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say that uh to a point I mean they did give up a ton of shot attempts and shots
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but uh they were better in front of their net now a lot of times you lose a guy like makoy everybody kind of focuses
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up steps up you know plays a simpler game the guys you bring in play Simple
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you know so there's that part of it too like I don't think playing without mckoy 5 six seven games is going to be very
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helpful at all but tonight anyway I thought that that's part of it yeah they
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stepped up in his absence for sure but like you said I would rather have Charlie mavo for five or six games than
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Michael Callahan no no s to the to the flank to the Franklin native there but
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um yeah I think you I think you want mavo back yeah I think that that's I think that's imperative really uh for
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for anybody um let's see swan has definitely regained form says Trav tra good to see
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you there yeah welcome back buddy wilbury Scranton area of Pennsylvania
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says Kylie uh AHL team is the wils bery Penguins yeah so I grew up with them but
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bees fan for life because my mom is from Maine excellent that's where I live as
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well um let's see totally agree that question was more of a joke than actual question
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about brazer say New Hampshire Brewing but that was a that was diplomatic answer by by Smitty yeah I mean he's
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been effective for them so you can't really knock the guy he's been effective
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um but you know like you said he's he is what he is he's not Elite by any stretch
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but um you know he has his moments down low in his own he does he does have his
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moment to handle he's a big dude so there's not many guys that are as big as that in the league so you know he can
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gain an advantage on a lot of smaller defensemen just by his reach and his you know Puck
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possession uh Shawn Michael says a woman with large hands is not a woman so uh
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there's that um because there's Adam Adam's Apple situation yeah I guess
40:13
proder Conor would like to speak he is he is beckoning us one for you okay I
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need a A vibe check a pulse check I don't know what it is okay but let me just lay this out for you okay yeah the
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Bruins after tonight they don't play until Saturday okay with tonight's win
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they still did not leap the Tampa Bay Lightning because of the points
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percentage and the games in hand so they are still first in the Wild Card right
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problemo Ottawa W Columbus W and
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Montreal is beating Utah currently so all of those teams will still be within
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one to two points and they all play at least one or two more games between now
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and the time that the Bruins are active again I see so my question to you is how
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good are you guys feeling that by the next time the Bruins play a game they'll
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be in a playoff position look I said I said going into this whole stretch when
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it's when the stretch ended they were going to be in fifth or sixth and I'll stand by that I think they're going to
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be being fifth to sixth I didn't expect them to win either of these games I'll be honest with you there yeah but but
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you know they they've played more games than all these other teams and everybody around them's hot everybody in the
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[ __ ] Eastern conference is hot right now Columbus is nine2 and one in their
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last [ __ ] 12 games nine2 and one yeah so everybody's playing well Montreal
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caught fire all of a [ __ ] sudden you know everybody's playing well Ottawa went through a little rough stretch but
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they have you know seem to have regained it they just called up for omark just blanked the Islanders tonight yeah I
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mean well the Islanders terrible there's a team that shouldn't even be exist yeah um no one
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cares no one cares about the Islanders they should be in you know Cincinnati or something I have do you know who has who
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scored the most home goals this season most goals at home this season
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team is is it going to surprise me yeah probably
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Utah Columbus Blue Jackets yeah I mean look they have some offensive Talent
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they do marchenko is on fire he's marchenko is ridiculous right now yeah yeah yeah and they have cyinder and Fant
42:44
Tilly and Kent Johnson like they have talent yeah they Doan young Talent yeah
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they have talent monan I wanted a guy of the Bruins to get a couple years ago with me yep
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yep he would have been a nice fit at a cheap price yep back then he was making like three million for one year he went
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to Montreal didn't he yeah he was at Montreal and Calgary and couple other
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spots uh Trav says that if the Bruins going on a six game winning streak after losing six he'll definitely return to
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his streaking ways that's what I'm talking about TR well you
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are I want you to stre across Canada yeah yeah uh Gump ran across the United
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States right right uh so cck and makoy both out for a bit I guess uh makoy
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actually Joe Sako said a few games yeah he's gonna miss the Ottawa game yeah
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missing the Ottawa game Ottawa at Ottawa is a big one if you can beat Ottawa then you've won three games in a row against
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teams that you need to beat yeah division rival a big one this a big one Saturday and then you gota think shars
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coming back Monday at home which is a danger Will Robinson danger
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danger um because that's a trap trap afternoon yeah
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afternoon why is that an oh is it Martin Luther Martin Luther King day so that's
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that's a trap trap trap trap and then Wednesday devils and then you have the
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Senators at home on Thursday so the Senators twice in you know four four days so uhhuh could be that could build
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some hatred Tampa Bay having two wins two wins in the division that is yeah
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they're not good in the division at all at all that could CA a playoff spot it definitely could that that's yeah two
44:44
wins in the division beating up on bad teams is one one thing they've done but
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yeah in the division not good at all um not good at all and you know we'll see
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what happens Saturday Saturday but the Bruins you know get two wins here against Florida and Tampa
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Bay um two huge wins really yeah they're now at 50 are they at 51 points Now 49
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49 points uh on the season and um you know it's a big stretch coming up here
45:15
you've got we said January is going to be a real killer for them they're surviving right now so aota and then San
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Jose um you know wi win a couple of those and I think Winnipeg's coming down Colorado's coming up in January and the
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Devils as well so there free quality opponent's coming up as well so this has been a tough stretch but you know the
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Bruins have starting at least their goal tenders finding his game which is a huge
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thing oh yeah you know and I'll tell you this I mean is Corp pasalo somebody who
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gets dangled out there trade deadline time probably not you don't think so
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no I don't think they wantan to as much as they'll ride Swan and I think they
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will especially if he's playing well I just feel like they won't just in case he gets hurt I I
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don't think they want to they would want to go with the guy like and it would be D DPO I think it would be it would he's
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been much better than busy um I just don't think they would want to go with a guy that untested unproven down the
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stretch you know when they're fighting for a playoff spot I just I just they would do it the only way they do that in
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my opinion is if they got got another goalie back in return yeah yeah and why
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would you do that why would you do that well they've done it before I they just [ __ ] did it why would they do it
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again well my point the first time was why would you do it even the first time should they have done it the first time
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no they should not have they should have saved the three million bucks and spend it on some [ __ ] scoring sorry
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yeah um Kylie makes a makes a point here uh she says they do well the breeds do well in home mat a games I always
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thought for longest time they didn't but I think if you look back in recent time I think they probably have done pretty
47:10
well I think I feel like they have done better like that's turned around it used to be that they stunk they did mat like
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for the longest time but now I feel like in recent in the last few recent years
47:23
that that's gotten a lot better yeah so but that's going to be tough one because you just played Florida Tampa bay Ottawa
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and then you play the lowly sharks at home on a Monday afternoon that that's
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one of those games you could fall asleep you could fall fast asleep in that one so hopefully that's not the case uh Swan
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was locked in tonight one of his best games of the Season 100% for your Boston Bruins well uh Saturday is a three
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