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welcome to the Bruins Avengers podcast season 4 episode 13 with Maddie and Smitty this is not the sway brought to
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you on the inside the rink podcast Network at inside the rink.com in this episode we will discuss John torella
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comments about the Bruins possibly being a diving team Matt patcha it's on a
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five-game goal streak and what is up with Jeremy swayman all that more on
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at Mr Matty Barry and we are at Bruins Benders and here we are the Bruins back
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to reality after a uh meltdown after a
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complete Beatdown um and no one feels more beat down than us that's
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true that was just that was a kick in the nuts who's SS that song Back by the way back to to back to oh that's soul to
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soul in fact that's my first ever CD I got it for Christmas the first ever CD
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in my my possession was uh so to Soul excellent did you uh did you have uh
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like uh cassette tapes and and Records before that or I had cassette tapes I had I remember uh uh past the duy had
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Musical Youth yeah I had I belong to that Columbia House thing where you get
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like a thousand for like four cents or something yeah and then they Char you like 20 bucks for one for one at one
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point or something you had to buy like six of them over the 20 years but you cancel it they used to just send it to
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you in the mail they would they would kick like a random album of the month and send it to you in the mail if you
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didn't pull out the postcard and send it back to him yeah um but my first things that I had ever were albums and I had
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Queens uh Greatest Hits and I had uh cool in the gang okay I had uh app band
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and I had uh I think I had Sesame Street Fever yeah uh I had that one yeah yeah
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because I was [ __ ] eight yeah there for sure thank you for the
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kids welcome yeah so the Bruins sank and here we are again yeah I mean you gotta fill
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the you fill the program with something when the team sucks with something we
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got to talk about something yeah I don't want to spend uh you know an hour and
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you know an hour banging my head against the wall because that's what we do not again after every game uh on on the
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postgame lives and you should watch those because uh it's a lot of fun you can comment you get right in there with
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us and we can all be miserable together yeah the the The Fellowship of the
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miserable yeah here on on the Bruins Benders podcast rapid review uh 127
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verse Philadelphia the Bruins eek out a win over the philadelphians at home almost lost again
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to them but they get the win in overtime uh and all is right with the
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world for a hot second yeah uh I I mean these are the
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games they need to win these are the these are the these are the teams they need to beat these are the games they
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need to win um and uh you know they were able to pull it out there at the end and
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um you know torz didn't take too kindly I guess to some of the uh some of the
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Antics from the from the Bruins uh supposedly and producer Connor has John
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torella and this is what he had to say about
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it not dive maybe I should start teaching him that the way this is going
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should I do my torella impersonation right now maybe I should start I do mean John torella obviously a factor today
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but five on five were you happy with the body of work especially in the first per we played our ass off yes I thought we
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played really well when you feel like that like you just said those comments you made what does it mean to you
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especially defending your guys like that that you feel like maybe something was stolen from you guys tonight yeah I'm
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not going to go too deep into it I just I I it's one of the things we talk about most as a team we're going to play an
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honest game there's no cheating there's no embarrassing referees you don't embarrass the referees and that went on
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here tonight is just ridiculous so I'm proud of the way our team play did we piss another one away yeah but other
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people had a little bit to do with that also yeah he he wasn't happy uh and for
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him to be calling the Bruins out on that as a team that uh has played the right
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way and not Dove uh all those years going up against the Canadian teams for
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him to say that against uh against the brones is kind of laughable I mean I love torz and he's sticking up for his
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guys and he he should um and he's pissed that they blew it at the end but to say that his team doesn't
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dive he's full of [ __ ] I mean sorry John but he's full of [ __ ] I mean mechkov the
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first time makoy touched him he went down easy and then when makoy went back at him for diving the first time he Dove
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again twice in 20 [ __ ] seconds so don't give me this [ __ ] about oh we
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play the right way and I'm proud of the way our guys played but the other team Dives around uh no wrong
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sorry yeah BR yeah I mean it's wrong he's wrong that that the Bruins I I
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don't ever remember the Bruins being accused of diving in fact I think they should sell more penalties you know I
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don't think they do it enough I think other teams do it all the time to them and I I've never really heard anybody
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call Bruins uh diving team of any sort I mean every team in the league now throws
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their head back when they get hit when they get hit they do every single team
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in the league does it every one of them because they want to draw attention to the fact that hey I just got hit in the
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face with a high stick now does some teams not get hit in the face with a high stick and do that still yes but the
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Bruins aren't one of those teams no no they aren't no that that high scking
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thing happens a lot they'll do it but like the other the other night they were playing who are they Bruins playing with
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the poso high stick um
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what game I don't even know what game it was was it the was it the Winnipeg no it wasn't the Winnipeg game it was before
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Winnipeg who they play before winter Philadelphia I don't know I don't know
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who they played before that either it was def oh it was the Red Wings Red
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Wings okay yes yes I think you're right defenseman in the corner uh Bak like
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stick checks him and his own stick hits him in the face and um they ponak gets called for a
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penalty and it was his own guy and he threw his head back it was his own stick and he threw his head back yeah I
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mean his own stick and they and they scored on it I thought no I think it
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might have been Winnipeg it might have been during the Winnipeg so many goals scored in that game that I lost no no
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yeah David poock did get a two-minute minor last night against Winnipeg for a
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high sticking against Logan Stanley that's the one oh that's the one Stanley
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yeah Stanley yeah and then they Winnipeg scored and that was a big goal at the
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time that made it uh three to one I believe yeah so um you know that kind of
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put the game Out Of Reach and then the third period the Bruins obviously fell apart but um yeah everybody does it I
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don't I don't I don't I don't understand what what torz is calling out the wrong team if you want to pick on a team about
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about Ding and and flopping and [ __ ] like that like go back to Montreal and
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and uh and PK suban ARA uh Canadians oh my goodness and you want to pick on a team pick on those [ __ ] [ __ ] yeah
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the Mike reros of the world I mean come on those guys yeah um so then and then
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of course on on December 10th as we have mentioned the Boston Bruins were pounded
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uh Rey by the Winnipeg Jets 8 to1 a five nothing third period and that'll do it
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uh Bruins were just uh completely outclassed and then of course the response you know there were three
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fights in there at the end but you know the Bruins are just uh completely have
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been just completely outclassed by these really good teams in the league and this is several times now that they've been
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like really really belted by good teams not just losing to them
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yeah they don't and we'll talk about this later in the chairs but they don't they don't play well they haven't played well all year against good teams against
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playoff teams they just haven't um so there's a there's a gap there between the Bruins and uh and the teams that are
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really good in this league and and right now the Bruins can't close it they can't close that Gap so um you know it's it's
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significant it is significant Gap it is really is um all right and seven shups
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beers and events and SHP number one as we talked about with John torella thoughts on Boston's diving team uh what
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I guess what is the overall problem with the culture of the Bost Austin Bruins do you think um I don't think there's
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enough um guys that have been there when they were good and when um and I think
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some of the guys that were there were are still kind of too young like your Charlie makavo like he shouldn't
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probably be a captain right now he's he's he's still kind of young into the league and and I just the way that he
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loses discipline when the games get out of hand is not really what you want from
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a leader of your team that's not how you want other guys on your team to follow that's not an example you want them to
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follow so I I just feel like they need um they need another like of Kevin
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shaton Kirk a pat maroon a Nick Felino or Mark wcky like they need uh another veteran or two who's
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been through it who has some experience who's an integral part of the team so
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like The Maroons and the shaton Kirks of the world were like on the periphery like
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you can't it's tough to lead a club if you're a fourth line guy or a seventh
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defenseman you know you're out there for six minutes a night you know barely skating around in Pat maron's case and
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then Kevin ChatOn kerk you know was limited minutes or he was scratched uh for a big part of it so you
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know it's tough to to be Elita they need some veteran guys who are who are in the
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you know in the top six um that you know maybe like a Ryan O'Reilly type of guy
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like a guy who's been through it um you know I'm not necessarily advocating to
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go out and get a guy like that but they need some they need some more veteran presence I think um on the team right
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now I think that's fair I I do I think that's fair I think they need you know
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they they had some new people come in they had some people leave as you mentioned guys like shaton Kirk maroon
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uh probably this is probably why they've gotten those guys in the past twoo yeah uh and then they went in this year with
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thinking that maybe it'll be marand and Pak and makoy and and that nucleus
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doesn't really seem to be um providing the same type of good leadership that
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you need to provide I I still I still question the whole Marian thing like I think he's much more mature and I think
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he's a very good player and I think he's a good brewing and all that but the problem I'm having with him is that I
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still don't think he's really 100% Captain material and I and I don't think
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he's 100% comfortable with it I'm with you there I I agree with you 100% I I
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mean of all the guys on the team he should be the captain sure I there's not another Choice like he he earned it he
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deserves it he that he should be that guy I think he plays
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better um when he's a little more on the edge and I think as a captain he's
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trying to dial that back even more like I know he has a reputation already so he's trying to dial it back but he needs
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to be closer to the edge to be uh you know the effective guy that he is to win
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battles to you know he occasionally will slle with a guy or you know whatever it
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is yeah you know to win battles like he needs to be more on the edge he's 59 and
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100 and whatever like that's the way he needs to play and I think as a captain he's tried to get away from that a
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little bit and it hurts his overall game I think so too I think it's a valid point yeah I mean and I think if he
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wasn't the captain I think he probably would feel more freely to to play you
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know more to his identity that is what got him into the league yeah I I'm I
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think you're right on CH to Matthew potra five-game goal streak he has scored again tonight Wednesday night as
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well so games in five straight for Patra T we talked about this in the postgame
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live but do you think it's time for a call up from Matthew
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um uh I mean they could use the offense but I I I don't I don't think so I I
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really think he needs to I mean we've talked about this before like he needs to just leave him alone let him play Big
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minutes he's on fire right now he's getting some confidence like let him develop that confidence let him develop
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that you know so when he comes up to the NHL level he still has that confidence and when they put him in situations you
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know maybe he can produce and stick and give the team a bump so I say leave him
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down there for like a half a season at least and and let him let him just you
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know compete down there and and and develop and be confident play in all
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situations uh and then hopefully he can come up here and and and give the team a boost because they certainly could use
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it um but I like you said last night I think it's a little unfair to him the way they've handled it
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before um because he was kind of thrust into a situation where they were trying
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to make him fit like he had to a couple years ago he had to it was either on the
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Bruins or Junior Hockey and then you know so it it just it was kind of a
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tough spot for him and he could use some more development time he could I'm 100
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1,000% with you like I I always thought he needed the time that other others got
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um all the all the good forwards they've had in the past sure recent years have had significant time in Providence uh I
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don't think he should be the guy who cleans up your mess anymore like he's done it a couple of times you didn't
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have enough so let's play potra early on um and then this year I thought he
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should have start of the year in Providence he didn't because again you're a forward short because the general manager left you a forward short
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so so now it's potra again I I think that really I I think he did an admirable job but I think it was sort of
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unfair to him to come in and have to play at 19 years old 20 years old um
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because you didn't have enough offense or you didn't have enough centers or what whatever it is and I think that was
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fair to him I think now you're seeing this is exactly what you want to see is him dominate down there yes if he was
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just flying under the radar and not really producing much then that would be alarming but now he's the best player on
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the ice so so that's that's what you want that's what you want to see and you want to continue to see that and I think
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you bring them up again I think you're right I think you bring them up again and I just don't think it's the best for
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his development personally so keep him down there for a while and
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you know again your your your issues go far beyond Matt Patra oh yeah helping
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you so you're like I said before that yeah they're not one forward away
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they're multiple forwards away yeah they are they are you know they have a few good forwards and then a bunch of fourth
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line guys that are you know trying hard and that's what they've been you know their whole existence it felt like you
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know most of the time um they've always been forward short um so
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you know that's that's that's where Sweeny left him again yeah s swe Shir
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three uh Jeremy San is bad why uh hold out the contract uh thinking
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he's uh the has a masters from the University of main School of Business uh
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putting his contract demands in the media uh not saving soft goals uh
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pretending he's a bulldog when he gives up at the end of games uh you know you
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have any more I I keep going if you want yeah I mean that's that's about it I mean his his numbers right now 327 goes
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against 885 sa percentage and someone's trying to tell me on X today that he's
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uh not at fault and I'm and I'm not blaming the right people well I'll tell
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you he's right up there and I'll tell you what Brad marshand agre that he is because he didn't he didn't
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come to his defense when asked about Jeremy Swan and if he felt bad if Swan
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was still in net for eight goals he said no he's just as bad as the rest of us
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when typically yeah forwards would say boy we really let him hang out to dry we
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can't do that to a goenda he said not really not really
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doesn't feel bad not really so I mean look it was a 3-1 game it was a 3-1 game
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goal four was shot at the middle of the net low and it got through him goal five
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was low blocker off a rush and goal seven was from behind the goddamn net
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yeah so let's not pretend he's not at fault right and somebody I somebody did mention on next what about the what
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about the center with three goals that you're paying 7.75 and I said look if you watch or listen to any of our
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programs any of our content yeah you know that Elias Lindholm is not getting a free pass no I mean I've said all
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along that the they shouldn't ass signed the guy we've said all along that he's a third line Center we said all along that
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the two guys above him that are getting paid less than him had more had more points than him last year zaka and Coyle
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both had better Seasons than than Lindholm did last year and yet you paid him to come in and be the number one guy
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he had 44 points last year 44 not 84 not 74 not 64
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44 that sucks that's not worthy of $8 million a year at all no so don't
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pretend like we're blaming only Swan Swan is a problem and Swan's getting eight and change now so he's even more
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of a problem if he was doing this at five or six million even it would be
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more stomach you would be able to stomach it a little bit more but no he holds out everybody's
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pissed and and I don't know if the team's gotten over it yeah I mean we
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talked about it last night on on postgame live but I don't think the team has confidence in him when he's in net I
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don't think so I don't think so and they don't play as well in front of him
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because of it because if they make a mistake they know it's probably going in
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whereas in the past the Bruins goal tender goal tending bailed them out you
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know the last couple years the goal tending has been the reason this team has been good a lot y yeah this year
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it's not this year it's the reason that the team is mediocre is because he has the lowest goals saved above expected in
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the league in the league yeah let's not pretend he's not an issue because he's a
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huge issue yeah it's hu it's hu it's huge issue and and these games that
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happen on uh Tuesday night against Winnipeg seem to happen when he's a net
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like it seems to go down the drain when he's a net and the team isn't really
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helping to bail them out or kind of hang them out to dry it's just it's weird
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it's weird and I it's not normal so I don't know no say all you want about it
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yeah the defensively yeah defensively they're a mess at times of course yeah
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offensively they they can't score goals and it's a really terrible brand of hockey sometimes yes we we get all that
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but you can't just say your goenda blame at all because because you're not great
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defensively or you you can't say that because last year and the year before I
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mean the goalies were standing on their heads in games when the Bruins didn't show up but they still won those games
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because the goenda that's not happening so the goenda fault so can we look at
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people say that the Bruins players uh get left off the you know
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they get left off the hook because of Montgomery and everything else like the BL the players need to be more
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accountable well then why can't we keep the goal cender accountable like why why can't the go
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tender be accountable he should be accountable and and just so uh people
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don't think I I I just made that up about uh Jeremy Swan uh this is a tweet from Scott mlin after last night uh
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which was Wednesday night's game against Winnipeg Jeremy Swan now ranks dead last in the NHL in goal saved above expected
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minus 11.6 this season according to money par.com so I mean that's I mean
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what what other stat do you need like look you can't say one breath that the
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players get a free pass and it's everybody else's fault and then not not
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want to at least give some of the blame to the after he held out yeah he held out for
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for Big Time Monies to have a 327 goals against yeah and set the set the market
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for goalies well I mean he's gonna set the market all right because anybody that's decent now is gonna get like 15
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if he's getting right he's really set in the market with an 885 saes percentage Yeah Yeah anybody that anybody that
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plays average goal tending is gonna be making 12 million bucks a year now thanks Jeremy set in the bar set in the
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bar every goal he makes 825 and above yeah good for you Jeremy goes are going
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to be making 8.25 pretty soon this [ __ ] keeps up yeah and he's he's gonna be
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yeah he's gonna be one of them that's what he should be right now uh i' I've said it you know before I mean he did
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have a little stretch there when they won their three in a row uh where he was playing you know pretty decently um
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but the the net should be Corpus alos right now but
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wins and if he wins the game after that and you ride the hot guy now they don't
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have the luxury of of like trying to get swayan right in games now in the middle
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of this road trip against good teams they don't have the right they don't have the luxury to do that they got to put the guy in there who's winning games
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who's playing well and right now that goenda Salo as much as I didn't want him
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here to begin with um you know he's figured out his [ __ ] like uh Swan needs
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to get with goalie Bob and figure out his [ __ ] figure it out have a have a
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meeting have a go out to dinner with the guys on the team and have a blowout you know fight somebody he wants to fight
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everybody in the games fight somebody in practice you know I don't know he's gota he's got to do something to get his mind
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right figure it out because what what's going on right now is not working chirp
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four the Bruins aren't only losing to good teams but getting trounced is shouldn't be this bad right
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it shouldn't be but it is it is oh it is but that the wheels fall off against
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really good teams Carolina yeah uh you know Winnipeg Dallas that doesn't matter
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Dallas doesn't matter who it is NOP the wheels fall off they don't just lose
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they get killed and that escalated quickly did against Winnipeg three to
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one you're in the game got a real shot yep you know like said an iffy leaky
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goal and it's 8 to one all of a sudden yeah and they let they let the game just
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get away from them which is almost more alarming than losing to good teams is
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the fashion in which they lose yeah the the I mean five their goals they like
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the third period thing was like they were starting to break out of that where they they had like one of the worst
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third period teams in the league uh not anymore like last night five nothing Winnipeg in the third period mhm um so
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you know that's back um Swan seemed like unfocused or whatever towards the end
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like that seventh Bull from behind the net like come on dude like I know you want the game to end everybody wants the
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game to end but you can't let that go in no that's that was absurd that's just that's shitty so compete yeah I mean
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they have four and 13 against playoff teams teams currently in playoff structure right now they've scored 30
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goals and given up 58 uh they're averaging 2.3 a game against playoff teams and giving up uh almost
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four and a half 4.46 so I mean those numbers are b a d
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bad here here's a question I have you're just in the grand scheme of things in society as a whole like do you think
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there's an issue with just overall competitiveness anyway like players just
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being Ultra ultra competitive like do you think Jeremy Swan is just a gen Z
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kind of the new wave kind of athlete that you know is just kind of doing this for a job and not just super ultra
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competitive like the great like you would just assume players are really
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competitive like they'll compete to the end that they're playing as hard as they can you assume that it's not true but
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you assume it that a guy is just going to compete till the end and I question
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like the new athlete if that a if that's a thing any if that's still a thing
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anymore I feel like um Jeremy Swan as a whole as a to totality as in
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the totality of his work I think is competitive um I
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think I don't know if he's feeling contract pressure I don't know
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if he's feeling pressure from his team I don't know if he's not at ease because guys on team are pissed about the way he
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handled the negotiation I don't know if he's upset about the coaching CH like I
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don't know what it is but I just think he's he doesn't have Focus right now and
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that's not to say he's not competing and not trying because I think he is like I think you don't make it into
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professional sports unless you're competitive um well of course you just
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you just don't you just won't like you have to be competitive in order to be a professional athlete so I'm not going to
29:29
say that he's not he's out there just dogging it because I don't think he is I think he's trying I just don't think
29:35
he's focused I don't think he's mentally as sharp as he needs to be um and I
29:40
don't think he's as probably conditioned and um all that because of the hold out
29:47
I think that affected him so um but I do agree that overall I think there is a
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toughness factor or or a um uh I don't say it was like yeah
30:04
resiliency that today's athletes don't have as much as they have in the past
30:11
and maybe that's me as an old guy saying in my day they were better and bl um and
30:17
that's probably some of it um but I just feel like uh athletes these days with
30:23
the aou thing and all that stuff are like their asses are kissed from the time
30:30
they're like 14 years old so everybody's telling them they're the greatest you're the best and they I don't feel like um
30:39
they have to fight through as much stuff to um to achieve so when it comes to nut
30:48
cutting time when they're out there on the ice um you know can they fight through something and be able to uh win
30:56
or you know win a battle or make a save whatever the case may be so I just I don't know I mean that's probably some
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old man bias uh on my part but overall I
31:08
think today's athletes in general not everybody but in general are a little
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softer I think so a little softer than than they previously I think I think
31:19
they are quick to bring up an excuse or some something else's somebody something
31:25
else's fault rather than you know I me you you I mean you and I have both coached uh Sports and
31:34
um there's a lot of excuse making oh my God from uh from kids these days yeah um
31:43
so yeah I mean yeah they have it yeah
31:48
it's um not a lot of ownership and in things and I think I'm not I'm not saying that that's
31:56
what the problem is but think that would go a long way to uh to building
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character and building toughness on in within a a a player is like you know
32:07
owning up to mistakes owning like being self-aware like these are the things I'm
32:12
not great at these are the things I should work on because I'm not great at these things um you know there's so many
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thing body language I think kids these days is awful um so terrible yeah so I
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mean I don't want to this be like a thing about society as a whole but like
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yeah I think in general athletes today are are probably a little softer than they were do you think Brad I think
32:39
Patrice berson would have get provided the same answer as Brad Martian when it comes to Jeremy Swan being hung out to
32:45
dry in that game and uh feeling sorry for him what do you think Patrice Bergeron's response would have been I do
32:52
not think he would have given the same response I think he would have been you know that that's you know we we kind
32:57
kind of left him out there with this unacceptable how he played and you know the goal it's not the golender fault I
33:03
mean he's doing the best he can but you know we had our own issues and it caused
33:09
you know our team to not play well and we need to play better in front of him yada yada yada yeah I think he's more
33:15
diplomatic he knows how to talk to the press and and with Captain
33:21
speak uh uh it producer Connor said Patrice is a gentleman's gentleman which
33:28
is true he is that uh Marian's a little more fiery and and look I I feel like um
33:35
he's giving and it might just be a subtle jab but Jeremy Swan wanted his
33:41
contract stuff to be uh in the media wanted it to be public and marand uh
33:47
made a comment back way back that he wanted he said I don't talk ever about my contract in the media that stuff
33:54
stays between me and the team and so he he was probably thinking when that
34:00
question was asked oh Swan wants Swan wants to use the media to talk about
34:05
contracts and talk about stuff like that well I'll use the media yeah yeah Jeremy
34:11
you weren't you weren't good you were just as responsible as the rest of us you want to put it out there in the
34:16
media you want to Air Team stuff in the media well here you go enjoy it my
34:22
friend enjoy it I'm telling you that I'm telling you it's a thing it's a thing uh
34:31
in chirp five Brad Martian talked about how the Bruins were not performing in practice and that the practices were
34:37
sloppy and that this sets up for a bad game and here we are against Winnipeg so
34:43
my question to you is and it's probably already been answered but why is it that the team has slow starts why is it the
34:50
team has bad practices what is going on and what the hell if you're a the
34:57
general manager of the team and this keeps happening why do we just hear crickets about any type of possible
35:05
move um about the slow starts and the and the prati I think over the course of
35:10
a season that happens like you just It's a Grind I think you lose your game at
35:16
points in time um you know especially I feel like they never practice to be honest then they have a practice and
35:22
it's yeah I mean that's part of it you played you've played a lot of games they had backto backs know last week so they
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they weren't practicing all that much and then they get mandated days off now from the
35:34
nhlpa uh so some days they can't practice so if they have a b you know a
35:39
bunch of games on the schedule and then they they're supposed to practice you know twice that week but one of them's a
35:45
mandatory day off then you got one practice in in a week and you can't really work on things so I'll chalk that
35:52
up to um you know in season whatever about sloppy practices the starting on
35:58
time in the games though I I don't I don't get it I I just I don't get it uh
36:04
because it's it's been a constant here it's not like it's um you know oh once
36:10
in a while they they have a slow start it's like generally they start slow like
36:15
that's how they start that's the way they usually start games slowly the other team wins A faceof they get it
36:22
into the Bruins and they're hemmed in for two minutes like that's generally how they start games now work yeah so
36:30
um I don't know how you Rectify that I I really don't you could go with different
36:36
starting lineups you could you know have somebody win a face off I mean
36:42
I don't know what the answer is yeah I don't know um but they don't seem to have their legs um at the beginning of
36:49
games now do they need to do a different warm-up they need to start sooner I
36:55
don't know um there should be somebody trying to figure that out
37:00
though because it's been going on for a while it's not like it was just this year like it's been going on for years
37:06
yeah so yeah yeah you know the strength and conditioning guys need to do something different I don't know yeah
37:13
but they got they they need to figure something out with that thing because it's it's you know it's an
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issue correct chirp six three fights in the 8 to1 loss to
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Winnipeg did they accomplish anything with that sort of response no because I think when the
37:34
fight what was it when the fights happened like four 51 four1 wasn't it wasn't it five was it five six to one no
37:43
have been 51 yeah at least yeah so it was not GNA change the outcome it wasn't
37:49
gonna change the outcome of the game and Freddy picked on a guy that can't fight yeah right so there there's the
37:55
other thing yeah Fred think they said afterwards Freddy's had 37 fights in his
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NHL career or maybe in his in his hockey his professional the other and the other
38:06
guy had six penalty minutes yeah zero fights so zero fights yeah I mean the
38:11
guy probably should have not accepted the fight yeah um so I mean that's a
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little bit on him I would say um but I mean there is a code to that kind of
38:23
stuff MH and usually Fighters do not pick on guys that don't fight yeah maybe
38:29
Freddy didn't know that I'll give him the benefit of the doubt there that maybe he didn't know I had never fought
38:34
before I mean I don't I don't know I'm not in Freddy's head um but usually he
38:41
he should be picking on a guy that fights or you know is is more known as a
38:46
tough guy so um I didn't I didn't love that I mean you know knocked out
38:52
a you know one punch swed uh so uh you
38:58
what I mean whatever but not the angry SED not the not the oneeyed angry S no
39:04
no not Carl Soderberg um but uh the castc um Stanley fight was was more like
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that's more how it should be done I would say
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um and C won that fight pretty handy he's a tough he's a tough customer he he
39:25
is Click is a tough guy and like you know is a is a good fourth liner I mean I don't I don't mind it I I wouldn't
39:31
mind them reupping him one more time for one more year next year fine usually I'm
39:37
not on the fourth line train like usually I don't want to go a certain distance with them because they're so
39:43
interchangeable like I don't want to overpay my to stay like can we not do
39:49
that thing please with you but but he does yeah he does everything pretty well
39:55
like he's he'll for check he'll hit fight he's got a little bit of touch he's fast um you know so like he can
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fill Freddy's role uh what Freddy's doing right now yes he can so I can feel
40:10
Freddy's role you can let Freddy you can let Freddy walk and C can just slide
40:15
right in there and then when he gets up to wanting you know two three million then you can wave him goodbye um but I
40:23
think he's a pretty good anchor there for the for the bottom six so I wouldn't mind them uh reupping him either do you
40:29
do you think that what is your what is your best guess on Frederick what happens
40:35
with him um in typical Don Sweeny fashion
40:42
they will keep him on the team because they're making a playoff
40:48
push H and he will stay here until the end of the season he will walk for
40:53
nothing the end of the season uh the Bruins will not get any assets for him
40:58
and uh there you go that's how it'll happen because uh the Bruins don't like
41:04
to um get paid for their assets they like to let them walk away for
41:10
nothing uh so so he does a Krug in a de Brusque and he just leaves there's your
41:15
there's your you know smartest guy in the room Harvard Education just letting a guy walk who you you have no you're
41:21
not going to resign you have plenty of guys who could fill his role uh on the
41:27
team and in Providence Max Jones scored again the other night uh uh last night tonight whatever it is uh he's having a
41:34
good little run down there in Providence too like he's fast he's big he hits he's
41:40
has touch has hands he'll take penalties like Frederick does big penalties like Frederick will I I think he fights I'm
41:46
not 100 perc sure on that but you know uh so he's faster than Frederick is he
41:53
doesn't play center but Frederick really doesn't either so no he doesn't anymore he's you don't want Frederick plan
41:59
center so like they have replacements for him yeah so the whole like oh we
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can't trade him because because why he's he's minus [ __ ] nine or whatever it
42:13
is yeah and he has four goals or two goals whatever it is like he is
42:20
replaceable a th% he is they should trade him yesterday they should have traded him like after the two go game
42:28
goals yeah should have been that night Sweeney should have been on the phone with St Louis Blues saying you want uh
42:36
what do you think or the two goals he scored against the blues say he should have been on the plane with them yeah
42:42
yeah should have been on the plane with him yeah I yeah he should have
42:47
Rutherford after that Blues game when Frederick scored twice and been like
42:52
what will you give me for Frederick
42:58
yeah yes uh but no trip seven Alec
43:04
regula uh was placed on waivers was coming back from an injury uh but
43:10
claimed by the Edmonton Oilers so no more Alec regula in Providence leaves
43:15
the Bruins a little thin at right shot D in the miners in case of injury so what
43:24
yeah they are um I they are they're they're a little thin
43:30
they're a little thin um and everybody kept talking about Lefty and they went out and addressed it
43:39
with Lind Holm and then zadorov now um and W spoon plays Lefty but they don't
43:45
really have a right d no the righty is thin so he was one of your guys back
43:51
there for that and CU he's played NHL games I think he has 22 NHL games in his career yeah so he's played a little bit
43:58
of time in the NHL um I would rather have a legitimate right-handed defenseman than a guy that's a left shot
44:05
that keeps switching over there that that never really works no no switching
44:10
water spoon over there or like you shouldn't have to put yourself in that position no that's what I mean it never
44:16
really works now could the could the Bruins have done anything to prevent this not really unless they carried them
44:21
on the NHL roster as an ethd or whatever and then you now you're into
44:28
uh eating up a little salary cap space that you probably need to really save if
44:33
you want to make any kind of move at the deadline so he Sweeney kind of put himself in a
44:40
bad spot with this yeah yeah yeah he has they're short
44:47
a forward they don't have cap space they're short on right d and the guy
44:53
comes back from being hurt you have to pass him through because you can't carry him on the NHL club or you're going to
44:59
lose more cap space yeah so you lose the player instead yeah right I they sent
45:05
him through waivers and I bet you Sweeney thought he'd get through and he didn't yeah of course he did he thought
45:10
he'd get through and he didn't so but I read in the I read in the story today that you know a lot of teams are looking
45:17
for right shot defenseman depth defense behold lo and
45:23
behold yeah why you know Mr har educated man SWS did you not think that a right
45:30
shot def defenseman with NHL experience would get through waivers why would you think that
45:36
um I don't know I don't know I'm at a loss for words on that one but I mean to
45:43
me to me it's maybe you send W spoon down and you
45:49
and you keep reg reg regula as the uh as the extra defenseman you know yeah sure
45:57
if if you you know if you're worried about that yeah he wasn't worried about it but then they lost the player so
46:03
there you go they lost the player yeah and that's not good uh and then Mason lry reached the 70 goal threshold 70
46:09
game threshold I wish he had 70 goals but he uh he is now now not he has to go
46:15
through waivers if sent down ever which he probably won't be but you can't even make a transactional move with Mason
46:22
right now because uh you can't send him through waivers without getting claimed
46:27
so yeah I mean he he'll be on the team I mean he'll be on the team yeah he'll be on the team but speaking of defenseman
46:35
do you think some of their defensive issues of late we haven't really talked about this and I I wanted to make it a
46:42
chirp but we had already had them all filled out do they miss hampus Lindholm they do they miss lindol probably
46:49
playing the best he plays 24 25 minutes a game like
46:54
a lot of ice like defensive Zone starts and all that like
47:01
they they miss him they miss him big time quite a bit he's a you know look at we we say what we do about hampus he's a
47:08
good player and he plays a lot of minutes and and they've missed him big time because now lorai has to play more
47:14
and you know W spoon and every other [ __ ] guy whatever it is now in there now and or's been you
47:21
know he's been fine I mean against Winnipeg he he was even in 21 minutes of
47:28
time in an 8 to1 game is difficult to do yeah uh but yeah I mean he's but Lin
47:33
Holm yes Lyn lolm was probably arguably their best player from the beginning of
47:40
the Season until he got hurt like he was in the discussion a top all-around player like
47:47
and they lost him so yes that's a that's a big loss that no one really seems to talk about no so that's a great point
47:54
it's yeah and I hopefully he comes back soon but you know and then it's G to
48:00
take some time for him to get accustom to he's not hop on play 25 minutes and
48:06
be great so no he's not even skating yet no he's not skating yet so but it is a
48:12
good point like they miss him big time like big time and especially against the
48:17
good teams I feel like yeah yeah I mean they could really use hampers L home yeah this will be a this this road
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trip's certainly going to be a test for them yeah absolutely um but hey let's listen to
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doesn't it it sounds authentic you know we want to be in the in the nude we W to
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be in the N be nude nobody wants to see that no no I mean that's the next thing
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we do we lose a few more games and we're gonna have to I mean for Ratings I I don't know what we're gonna
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be able want to see us yeah n Tastefully done always tastfully done though
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actually it wouldn't be tasteful at all us oh would would be sight to see though
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maybe that'll be the topic on today's start bench cut well well well the trick
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is here no start bench cut today but speaking of pres like you guys were just
50:43
speaking of okay it's that time of the season and of course you know I've been out and about starting to shop for those
50:50
uh timely gifts of the season and it made me think
50:57
what is the best gift that you have ever
51:03
received for the holidays all right when you
51:12
go I got uh I'm I'm thinking recently I
51:18
got uh Winter Classic tickets okay um my
51:23
son and I got Winter Classic tickets to see bru uh Penguins yeah that family that's
51:30
that's right up there yeah okay yeah I mean
51:36
that's that's right up there yeah I got when when I was a kid it was probably like an Atari I think I got an atar one
51:42
year and I was like over the moon I'm still a big video game guy so um yeah I
51:50
can confirm yeah yeah I I I would say when I was a kid um I say that
51:58
probably video game related like Nintendo 64 or something like that was
52:04
probably the best um I did get I did get Celtics and Bruins tickets for like a
52:11
weekend where the Friday night Saturday night oh that's sweet that was that was a good uh that was a good take and that
52:18
was like a birthday Christmas combined MH because my birthday is you know 12
52:23
days before Christmas so uh um so that was that was good I don't I can't I mean
52:30
it's funny looking back uh I don't remember I'll tell you what I do love
52:35
the stocking like the stockings were like what I really loved because my mother did a great job with the stocking
52:41
like I had all sorts of great you mean Santa yeah Santa Santa sorry if your
52:49
kids are watching first of all you're a bad parent uh secondly uh sorry uh s
52:57
yes did a great job with the stocking he's a fine fine upstanding man but uh yeah I I love the stockings
53:04
and I miss the stocking to be quite honest with you that was a real great
53:09
thing at Christmas just running grabbing the stocking and my mother you know we would we would open the gifts into the
53:15
stocking at the end oh stocking was end huh stocking was at the end and um controversy
53:24
alert that is controversi used to kill me but yeah at the end you
53:29
just rip open your stocking and my M you know Santa would uh would wrap each
53:35
thing individually in there I mean it was like it was just great it really was and I and I missed that and we'll never
53:43
have that back so thanks for bringing that up we were always stockings first but
53:49
the stocking stuff was unwrapped it was just just you just dump it out on the floor and you're like yeah wow you just
53:57
love it you like a lot of candy when I was a kid it was always candy it was
54:02
always uh like some kind of baseball cards of or Rockey cards cards us to get
54:08
the sticker albums the baseball sticker album the stickers yeah you to get that in in wrestling magazines my mother I
54:14
used to love wrestling magazines my mother would put three or four of those in there yeah that was it was phenomenal
54:20
it really was that Lifesaver book you remember that thing with like the 10 different kinds of lifesavers yeah
54:26
in the book I used to get that that guy one yeah and then uh some kind of
54:32
tradition I think that by uh when my mom was at my grandmother's house uh Santa
54:40
used to give them an orange a walnut and a penny used to be in every stocking so
54:46
that that we got that too that's that that was uh part of our stalking every
54:54
time an orange or walnut and Penny yeah I don't know why but maybe that'll be
54:59
the title of next week's episode an orange a walnut in a penny yeah uh yeah
55:06
so that's yeah that's kind of I don't remember like a lot of big gifts though it's funny it just goes to show you that
55:13
you're wasting all your money on your children because they're not going to remember yeah I mean I think I got like uh I used to have like the um the gii
55:22
Joe stuff and the like Star Wars guys and stuff I think probably got like you
55:27
know a X-Wing Fighter or like a something Star Wars related that I was
55:33
over the moon for I'm sure yeah I think I got a actually I remember
55:39
one year I got a street hockey uh net oh yes and that in the pads and everything
55:46
and so that was that was huge because we went out there right away and we were F
55:51
yeah oh yeah yeah street hockey that was a big one yeah street hockey we' played
55:57
a lot of street hockey a lot of I mean I was a little confused and a
56:03
little curious about this little family tradition here so I found on a quick
56:09
Google search these are the two common things that I found is that
56:15
one the orange symbolizes a gift of gold from St Nicholas the Walnut represents a
56:23
small valuable treat and a penny significant uh signifies good luck and
56:28
prosperity but apparently back in the Great Depression in the 1930s when money was tight it was a uh a treat or even a
56:37
luxury to find things like orange or walnuts so they would gather those and put those in stockings back in the day
56:44
there you go that was from my you know that was from my grandmother so that's where that whole thing started so I
56:50
thought it was because you're a little fruity and a little nutty you know
56:56
for your thoughts yeah that's that's all true that's all true that's great uh all right Beauty for this week and the
57:03
beauty is a beauty an all-time Beauty uh and it's Maddie it's not [ __ ]
57:10
sorry I love you that's that's ress uh yeah it's my birthday in
57:18
12 days birthday happy birthday M so this Thursday and uh 's birthday Friday
57:27
the 13th Lucky 13 doing Johnny Johnny grro big 13 guys
57:34
big 13s yeah me and Taylor Swift on December 13 yeah Tay Tay and Sergey
57:40
federov is the one good hockey player on December 13 there you go so there you go
57:46
yeah I'll be I'll be uh 29 again 29 again you doing anything uh special for
57:51
your 29th birthday yeah I'm coaching high school basketball at night that's the [ __ ] black
57:57
and then Saturday night I'll be up till [ __ ] 3 in the morning doing postgame live so there's there's your birthday
58:03
that's that's rights we are Maddie turns turns sideways and shoved right up Mikey
58:08
ke I mean yeah that's good times had by all right there it crack open the bourbon and all the all the other
58:14
alcohol I mean you should do that 100% you should do that probably the basketball
58:20
game yeah I a little urist action yeah out there Dennis hoer
58:27
just yeah I'm gonna be drunk and get you know belligerent Court yeah yeah you
58:34
should do that do you have a chance do you have a chance of winning that game no no no in fact we're gonna get the
58:40
vaselino and that one I yeah just like um so I coached my son's baseball all the way up until he was uh you know 17
58:48
18 years old and we had a travel game on my birthday and we traveled to uh
58:54
Framingham to play another team and it was a beautiful stadium so that was nice but it was like a 45 minute drive
59:01
through traffic to get there and then we absolutely got annihilated just ripped to shreds that's
59:10
beautiful yeah on my birthday and then at the end it was like here some cupcakes and I just wanted to throw them on the ground and go home and drink but
59:18
uh yeah it was it was a nice it was a nice thought by everyone um but it was
59:23
uh yeah it's a birthday I'll probably always remember because I I traveled uh and uh got to watch my son
59:31
play baseball which is nice but we got absolutely destroyed yeah this is going to be not great too but Saturday night
59:38
we'll have to celebrate with some with some Spirits yeah we'll do some birthday shots birthday shooters for Maddie
59:45
birthday Shooters against what are they playing the Calgary Flames they have a chance to win yeah Adrien was talking
59:51
about tequila maybe you could do some uh tequila shots off of uh off of Adrian
1:00:01
again yeah sure yeah I mean she's not anywhere near you yeah I don't know
1:00:09
where she lives I think she lives in Florida maybe no no she lives in uh uh
1:00:15
North Carolina North Carolina that's right she lives will say reg whatever outside of Asheville or something she
1:00:21
has pointed out her husband helps procure the alcohol so he does he also doesn't like mashed
1:00:28
potatoes or something I something happened in Thanksgiving that was catastrophic can't remember but no I
1:00:34
just uh all in good fun Adrian uh of course uh you did mention she did
1:00:40
mention she was drinking tequila in the last postgame live yeah she was she had tequila and uh yeah tequila and limes
1:00:48
which hey I'm I'm All About squeeze all the limes in there sure love it um yeah
1:00:53
so there it is the big 52 coming up Riley good for you boom boom Oh we
1:01:01
should do a bender I guess uh yeah uh the Bender this year is uh
1:01:09
Christmas shopping I hate it I do I just hate it
1:01:14
like I've never been good at it I'm always out there Christmas Eve like I've decided this year I'm just not I'm not
1:01:21
I'm not going to be out there Christmas Eve you're not doing it you're just not doing it I'm just not doing it not just
1:01:26
I'm be of a Jehovah's Witness or something I just don't I don't want to do it I don't want to shop it's just
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like I don't know you go out there with and I know Amazon and all that other
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stuff but I'm a traditional guy go to the store first of all I don't know what the [ __ ] to buy so I have to go see it
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smell it feel it like I don't I don't know I just want to I just want to I don't want it to happen I don't want to
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do it as much I just don't yeah I don't I don't like I don't
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like to the stores I do I do most of it now through Amazon yeah I tell you they
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say that everybody's you know shopping online the stores are packed well all
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all it's because you go out on the 24th all the last minute you can't get it shipped in time that's why they're all
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packed then yeah I know that's right you can't get it shipped if you just went on Amazon like you know tomorrow yeah it's
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me and all the other guys two weeks away from divorce it's all of us just sort of around like just angry miserable yeah
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you know I'm going to grab this [ __ ] hat and mittens you know I did I did used to uh I liked before I got to where
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all the people were back in the day because I go I go over to dunks I get like a peppermint moch of coffee or
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something put me in the turn on the holiday music in the car and I'd be feeling all great as I'm driving there
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until somebody cuts me off and then I tell [ __ ] off 4,000 people in there and I tell all
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them to [ __ ] off yeah sorry you're driving home Listen to Three Doors Down you're just like this is this is not
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what I said home Nirvana or or [ __ ] n Inch Nails or
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something oh God n nail is a downward spiral is what you listen to on the way
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home from Christmas shopping speaking of downward spirals
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Bruins are down spiral oh [ __ ] I don't know uh but hey
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Prospect Spotlight is always said hey here's here's good news the Bruins have the worst Prospect pool in the National
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Hockey League and here is an example of one Becket Hendon Beckett is a uh you know is a
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good Prospect I would assume in the grand scheme of things he's another guy that hopefully is has some middle six uh
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you know aspirations for the hockey club three years from now um he is playing at
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the University of Minnesota because he's a Minnesota tan or whatever the minank
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Minnesotan he has two goals and two assists for Minnesota in 18 games as a
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plus uh is an even uh so two goals to in
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his first crack at College hockey Becket is uh large he's about 63 I don't know
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I'm hitting popups everywhere on this uh screen but 6280 pounds or so Center good um you
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know he's a he's a guy with a little bit of upside he'll probably play three years in in college hockey and then
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we'll see what happens yeah I mean they need to they need to hit on some of
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these you know middle round Prospect guys um they do they just they just need
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to um they do you know they need needs to be Braiden Point that's I was just
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going to say that they need to find their braid and point or they're you know they need to they need to lock into
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one of those guys um and and we'll see um you know there's some potential there
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and with some of their prospects having some breakout Seasons so you know maybe
1:05:18
those maybe there's a little something there with with a few of these guys so um you know hopefully that's the case
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yeah um hey we had a poll this week yeah
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should the Bruins trade Trent Frederick to avoid losing him in free agency and
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we had 336 votes and and the yeses win 70% say yes 30%
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say no which was I was a little surprised about because of the Trent Frederick apologists out there how many
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votes were there 336 I voted 3 30 times you did you
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skewed it a little yeah little Ved yes that they should trade him that was me
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yeah yes yes that's different than I feel like I feel like fans are a little more
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down on Frederick than they have been yes I feel like that has swung and I think that most of um you know agree
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with us there was a devil's fan who chimed in and gave us this trade
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scenario uh Nathan Bastion who was a you know forward rugged
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forward 20252 a 2026 4th uh to Boston for
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Frederick Bastion a second and a fourth yeah that's that's what he yeah now that
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now they don't have a second the broomers don't have a second in 2025 so that kind of slots in there and then
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they get the fourth and 26 and Bastion who's been who's been injured I think
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he's still I think he just came back from injury um but he's a he's a freder
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huh how much has he make you know he makes two he makes about what Freddy
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makes I think that yeah it's like two. sish or something like that I'll look it
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up but um but yeah the the money kind of was even okay but he has this is his I
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think he's going going to be uh an unrestricted free agent at the end of this year so we get a second and
1:07:31
a fourth and a guy to fill his spot for the rest of this season is what you're tell this season is basically what we're
1:07:36
saying so we're getting the second and the fourth I would I would uh jump on
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that and then I would drive um Freddy down to New Jersey i' do a quick pouette
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on the um on the on the Boardwalk pick up Bastion and drive him
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up yeah Bastion is 135 so they actually save he makes half of what Fredick makes
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yeah yeah because Frederick's at two6 that is in enormous win for for the
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Bruins if Don Sweeney didn't do that trade he should be sued for malpractice and then fired I said I said
1:08:20
on there that I would do that just because you save a little bit of money um you probably don't res maybe you
1:08:27
resign Bastion but you probably don't it probably comes down to Bastion and Catholic you probably don't but so what
1:08:33
you you get him at a reduced rate same type guess type of player a second and a
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fourth get a second and four yeah yeah can't do it yeah it's not even a
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question that should be like immediate yeah I almost want to send it to Donnie and say hey can you call New Jersey and
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just offer this see what Happ send it to that guy Don that Don SW s on on X who
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pretends like he's Don Sweeney maybe he really is Don Sweeney so yeah you should send it to and just like the New Jersey
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Devils want to do this can you get it figured out yeah I am with you I think
1:09:11
that that's that that could be something right there well that guy to talk to whoever the general manager of the
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Devils is and and general manager of the Devils is uh is it Tommy Fitzgerald Tommy
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Fitzgerald yeah is it uh yeah is this fish darald I'm
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pretty sure it is yeah yeah I think so um but yeah make
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that trade send them send him to the% make that trade and the Devils could use it I mean that that I think that's a
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pretty good trade for both I really do I mean Frei plays to his capabilities um
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you know he could add something to that team he gives them a little toughness what that they probably um that team
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needs uhhuh yeah and he's a you know he's a good down the down the you know a bottom
1:10:03
good bottom six guy for them you know they have plenty of skill and scoring you know they need a little grit a
1:10:08
little toughness and oh yeah you could certainly add that for them and and
1:10:14
score occasionally and look when he plays with good players he's not bad put
1:10:19
him with Dawson Mercer and Bruins just don't have good players to play him with right now no I mean he was he was pretty
1:10:25
good when we played with Taylor Hall like we've said like that was a good
1:10:31
matchup for him because Hall had speed and skill and and you had to honor him
1:10:36
because he's a number one pick overall uh so he had the talent and he created some space for Freddy and Freddy
1:10:43
did his thing and you can put him right now with Eric Holla and Paul cter or
1:10:49
Eric holler and Stefon noen and that's a pretty good line sure go ahead
1:10:56
you know go go ahead is what I say week ahead for the Boston Bruins 1212 at
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Seattle 12:14 at Vancouver both 10 o'clock starts eastern time 12:16 at
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Calgary is a 9 o'clock Eastern time starts so it's going to be some late nights for Bruins Benders postgame live
1:11:16
and if you're not watching it right now you are missing out on a grand old time uh even better when they lose to be
1:11:23
quite honest with you colorful uh
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inflammatory all the good all the good words everybody everybody's inflamed
1:11:36
everybody is everybody is hung over yeah H it's a
1:11:44
a great time man and uh there's lots of swearing so if you are letting your kids
1:11:51
watch you shouldn't let them watch that at all right that would be a mistake yeah don't don't do that at all don't do
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that all unless you want to teach them some colorful language yeah what not to do in life yeah if you want them to
1:12:04
learn you know the streets yeah yeah if you want them to learn colorful language
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we your guys we're your guys Street sense that's our new slogan Street sense yeah that's what we
1:12:19
do we we we we give the streets yeah because we are all about streets yeah we
1:12:24
bring streets yeah the authentic what is there was a leaf fan on there that
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called us Blue Collar Blue Collar yeah blue blue collar if we wore collars
1:12:35
they'd be blue I don't know that I don't know about blue yeah I don't know about uh
1:12:43
blue collar no Blue Collar just just screams to be like hardworking yeah yeah
1:12:49
I mean yeah I mean look we we both we both put our time at the UPS facility oh
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didn't we ever in Massachusetts 1997 that
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was that I've never miserable in my entire life you have no more fingertips
1:13:09
because of iter I may have killed the uh United
1:13:15
Healthcare CEO might have been me yeah they had the wrong guy they have their wrong I don't have any fingertips
1:13:22
because uh I burned them all off on on uh boxes in the back of semi-trailers
1:13:27
working for UPS they were 5,000 degrees Yeah wet like a pig that was that was
1:13:33
just good times then went on strike and never returned never returned we we owe
1:13:38
$38,000 in the union dues right counting
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yeah we do um so hey so yeah join us for Bruins brenders post game live hey go to
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thanks a lot byebye happy birthday
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Maddie yay
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