Best Of Bruins on WEEI: Is Marco Sturm Making the Right Adjustments?

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Celtics with a win last night.

Excellent signature win for the Celtics last night.

Against a good Phoenix team.

So and Jalen Brown stood out last night.

We've been talking about that all morning long.

Bruins with a loss in overtime.

And despite the best efforts of David Posternock

did not happen for the Bruins last night.

So I don't know.

That team is, we've talked a lot about them over-achieving.

I don't know if they're going to finish the season

over-achieving the way, but some of us would have liked.

I get concerned about them.

They just like sloppy at times.

Like the McAvoy turnover that led to that,

the goal, I believe, that made it,

it might have been three, two or three,

I can't remember which one, the three on two goal.

It's just like at times you see them getting sloppy.

And I don't know what that is.

We talked about, obviously, they were playing in New Jersey.

So maybe it's because they play on the road.

But those are the things that you kind of look at.

And you go like, oh, they get sloppy.

And they do things that lead to the other team

having the opportunity to capitalize.

And I feel like, is that like a coaching thing?

I know Michael Sturm has done a good job

coaching all year long.

But is that like a coaching thing

when a team kind of gets sloppy?

Or is that just the lack of focus by the players?

I think it's just, the team isn't as good as they are at home

and not as bad as they are on the road.

I feel like they're just sort of mediocre.

Maybe they have a potential to be the last wild card,

but I don't think that this is,

I think Sturm has done a great job to get them where they are.

None of us really had them as a bubble playoff team

when the season began.

Yeah, there were plus 400 just to make the playoffs this year.

So I mean, all things considered,

I think they're in a pretty good spot.

This was always going to be a bit of a bridge year anyway.

And I don't, you know, if they, you know, they sneak in,

I don't, to me, I'd love to get a series of playoff hockey.

I think that'd be entertaining here,

but I don't think you should bank on it.

Yeah, I mean, I, I feel like they are,

if you're Don Swini came nearly,

you are looking ahead and looking toward,

you, you have to be internally considering it

since the trades that you made last year,

like you have to be considering it,

like looking at it like somewhat of a rebuild.

Like, I mean,

which is kind of like shocking a little bit, right?

You didn't feel like you had anyone on your team

that was worthy of being your captain.

Yeah.

So I thought you kind of kind of feel like shocking

that you look at it as a rebuild when you think about

all the veterans that you had coming back

and the money that you kind of invested into those plays,

like you think of, you know, Elias Lindholm,

you spent money on him,

Hanpas Lindholm, you spent money on Zedorov,

you look at, you got Pasta, you bring Zaka,

you obviously have Swaman and Gold, McAvoy.

It's, don't you, I always feel like a rebuild

is a team that has a bunch of young players

and you're looking for pieces.

I know that I just kind of miss the point of rebuild

when you're like, look at all the,

no, I don't want to say talent,

that could be the wrong word,

but look at all the veterans that they expected

to take their game up to the next level.

And they're not doing that.

I mean, I think some of it goes back to,

like as far back as, look at drafting,

shake the bros, thinking that that was gonna be

your superstar of the future, but you're right,

but I mean, you also, you know, good or bad,

part of ways with veteran players,

not that long ago, a year ago, like Charlie Coil,

I said goodbye to guys who had been here

for a long, long time, so I, but yeah,

so you're disappointed when it comes to,

if this is, if they're looking at it as a rebuild,

and this is what you've gotten out of it,

you're disappointed.

Yeah, I would think you would be as,

like especially the die-hard Bruins fans

that, you know, know a lot more about hockey

than I do, when I think of rebuild,

I think of like a young,

don't sell yourself short,

you're pretty good over 30 hockey players.

Well, yeah, I mean, that's a player.

All he catchers, yeah.

But I think, when I thought,

don't you think about rebuild,

you look around the roster and you go,

okay, it's a young team,

it's got young players around it,

we're hoping that some of these players,

and then, what do you do?

I mean, you have one of the best young players

in the league in Morgan Eeky.

Right, but I'm saying,

think about how many like veteran type of players

that are on this team that you have high,

you had high expectations for,

and you look at and you go,

your goalie wasn't a young player that you were like,

all right, he's young, we gotta see where he is,

you have defenseman forwards on this team,

your best player is a guy who's been in the league forever,

and not everybody's been in the league

a long time with David Posinock,

and he's been spectacular.

I didn't go into the season going like,

this is a rebuild team.

It's, I think it's more of a retool,

because it's almost like a bridge.

They're just trying to get to a point

where the younger guys continue to come up.

So like, who's the Dean of has another year under his belt?

Minton has another year under his belt,

and it almost feels like they're wasting Posters prime

a little bit with Sucks,

but at the same time, they just don't have,

they're also trying to reset the cap

from kind of pushing the limits the last few years

with signing guys under contract trading

for guys that did that line,

making pushes with those teams

that were really talented

that just fell apart in the playoffs.

And so I think it's more,

I think rebuild is probably the wrong word.

Then Wiggy, maybe it's more of just kind of a retool,

reset your cap situation so that next year

you can make a better push.

Well, it's kind of like Stiz's argument

about the Patriots that it would have been good

if it ended with the AFC Championship game.

It's like that record breaking season,

that's best regular season ever,

forced them to go all in

and to spend at that point

to the detriment of the future for a little bit, maybe.

Yeah, I think absolutely.

And I think Sweeney had done that

at multiple deadlines.

It wasn't even just that one.

It was, this team was in contention

relatively towards the top,

so they were pushing the envelope year after year,

and it eventually kind of bit them in the ass

because then their farm system wasn't as strong

and they were losing draft picks.

They didn't really have a way to replenish it.

And so now you're kind of seeing them try to replenish

and then be more aggressive.

Here's Postor Knockup by Saka,

home on himself for the Patrick Emonistic.

Shoots and Gomez may have gotten a piece

of that half a minute left.

Now Huxen, kind of shaped three from Postor Knock Huxen

to the slot Suzuki fires the score.

22 seconds on the clock, and over time last night

there was between six and seven,

and you only come away with one point poke game.

Our two Jones and Keith W.E.I.,

that was the Bruins last night

at the Bell Center in Montreal.

It was not as frustrating as two nights prior, Keith,

or the night prior, I guess, the two nights ago,

when they blew a two goal lead against Devils who were terrible.

You did have two different leads in the game,

but there wasn't two goal lead.

It was two different leads.

You had just another great chance in over time.

I thought, I said this way, I had enough time to look to Kat,

who was not paying attention at all in the care,

but I'm like, Patrick, I'm like,

there's enough time to be like,

Zaka's about to get the hat trick to comment on it,

sit there, let it get all the way to my stupid brain,

look at my wife, say it, look back at the TV and be like,

no, what the hell didn't happen.

So they had another brilliant chance at it,

just like the night before McAvoy rang the post.

So this to me wasn't as frustrating as the Devils lost.

They did get a point out of it to your point, Keith.

Four points on the road trip.

We all said we wanted three going into this trip.

They're terrible on the road.

They won the first game.

They got points in each of the next two

with over time losses in the final 30 seconds of OT,

where you're just about at a shootout.

And yet I don't feel great about where the trip ended.

They've lost two of these games.

The one they won was the worst shootout I've ever seen,

where they needed nine rounds to take out the capitals.

So to me for some reason,

I don't feel great about these last couple of games.

And last night was frustrating again,

because as you just said,

they're blowing lead.

They had multiple leads in that game.

I know.

And so obviously they don't do well on the road.

And so before the trip began,

we were saying, you don't want to get too greedy,

but then the way the games play out,

then that obviously changes things.

Plus we keep looking at, or I keep looking at teams

like Columbus right below them

and waiting for the Bruins to lose that playoff spot.

But in reality, they were close to Montreal.

They still are close.

But that could have been a big swing game.

Had they beaten Montreal in regulation,

they would have been actually the third team

in the division and not the second wild card team.

So it gives you a little bit more room for error

like the rest of the way.

Instead you end up losing in over time.

And so you get the point.

And I guess that's good news for wild card race.

But Montreal extends an extra point.

I think they've played one less game as well.

You have a game out of hand against the Canadian's.

And you're all done with them.

You've played four games against them.

They went two and two, or I guess they went,

what, two, one and one.

I guess is what they went.

But yeah, frustrating, because you had it.

You know, three games all going over time on the road.

And you didn't get a win.

But man, what could have been a really good trip.

Yeah.

And now, right, you could add six points on this trip.

And now you're third in the division

and you're chasing the lightning for second.

Like that's where you'd be if you took care of business on this trip.

And so you didn't.

So you're not.

You're tied with the Red Wings right now.

82 points and 68 games.

Columbus has a game in hand, game out of hand for the Bruins.

They're only one point back.

So two of those three teams are making the playoffs,

I think, unless a team like Montreal drops down.

So that's kind of what we're looking at

and dealing with here with what is it?

Another 14 games to go.

If 14 games left, they are tied with Detroit.

They play Detroit on Saturday in Detroit.

And then they're just holding on for dear life.

One point over Columbus and they have two more games

with Columbus both in Columbus.

We talked about the beating of the month.

They're like, they have a ton of road games left.

And those are the three biggest games they have,

the rest of the way and all on the road.

So a couple of comments here in the Twitch chat.

One I agree with, one I disagree with.

And it was butter guy, I think,

said Zedoroff is playing better.

Disagree.

Zedoroff got bitched around on that Anderson goal last night.

Like he's giant.

He's much bigger loss, loss is positioning.

So at the beginning of the year, he was actually

I watched the game last night and I'm like,

this bombs Zedoroff who's getting third pair minutes.

So I disagree on him.

I do agree with the Twitch chat.

I think it was Kevin who said this.

Laura is playing better.

Laura in that OT against New Jersey was a man out there.

And again, that's minus.

Now minus Laura.

Last night.

I would have like to shoot it in overtime last night.

Say it again.

Would have liked to shoot it in overtime last night.

Fair.

I think that's completely fair.

You're allowed to let one rip.

But I think in general, he's been better.

I disagree on Zedoroff who I,

I'm with you, Keith, at the beginning of the year,

look like there was some promise.

He's dropped down the lineup.

And you know, you can't get out position on that goal

for the redirect in front of Swaman last night.

What do you think of Swaman last night?

Fine.

Yeah, nothing.

You know, I saw if you care about some of the advanced metrics,

I think, you know, he was facing another million high danger

chances and all the goals he surrendered or on high danger

chances.

So look, I mean, you got to keep the puck out of the net.

No.

And when you're on a roll, everybody starts citing your goals

against and you're saved percentage.

And when you're struggling, everybody starts

citing the advanced metrics.

So I feel like it's always a moving target with goalies

in general and specifically goalies here.

This used to happen with Tuka.

It happens now with Swaman.

But I didn't have a big problem with how he played last night.

I thought he was fine.

No.

And it was a missed opportunity to get two points.

I still feel like because we're running out of games

and we just keep talking about this each day,

I do still think they're a playoff team,

but it's not going to come without, you know,

the edge of your seat stuff, the rest of the way.

I mean, those two Columbus games

can't decide the whole season right there.

Well, now we get to the head coach,

who Keith, it's hard to focus on what he says.

I can't hear a word.

Because of how he says it, erotic, it is.

It's him and our gal there in Orlando.

Oh, yeah.

What's her name again?

Her name is our queen, our queen, Alexa Lorenzo.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sultry.

Yeah.

Is what she raspy.

She is pretty raspy.

And so, you know, Marco Sermon has a little bit of that going on.

So just try, try to get past that.

Have you got the ramp of that U-Haul?

See that?

Right here.

The suspect, Alfio knows Sephora.

Yeah.

She is a queen.

So if you can get past the sexiness of how

Marco Sermon delivers the message and just try to try to focus on the substance of what he says,

if you can.

You know what we might have to do?

Well, I want to hear it.

Yeah.

But then maybe one of us should read it so people can actually calm down a little bit.

There's enough like AI program.

Should we put it?

Should we put it through like a filter?

So it's less sexy.

We might need to do that.

Just my voice.

We know that woman that what hurts you talking about lobster really like that.

Oh, that is a good way.

I will talk about that though.

I mean, that's more what I was doing.

I know what I sound.

Everybody's got a time.

That's true.

That's fine.

But this is Marco Sermon.

No big deal.

They lose to their rivals.

No big one.

Listen, I'm, yeah, it's always disappointing when he and I come out with the two points.

But you know, we know it's going to be hard one tonight.

We played last night.

They didn't just waiting for us.

And guys worked so hard yesterday.

So I was just hoping they don't have enough juice.

And they did.

I'm proud of them.

My guys are just, you know, those moments, especially in OT.

We just, you know, yesterday hit the post today.

We had a break way.

Unfortunately, we wouldn't finish.

But, you know, we going home very proudly with over 500 here.

That's exactly what we want.

I'm going to.

He said he's proud of his team twice in like 40 seconds.

He's like, I'm really proud of my guys.

And we go home.

We go home proudly.

I'm very proud.

Increased.

He's definitely free.

So like, I don't know.

You just lost FYI, Marco.

Like just, you know, yeah, you're bitter rival or so we were told.

So this is why hockey is so annoying because you get points for losing.

Yeah.

You get points for passing to the guy who passed to the guy who gets the goal.

Like it's just all of it.

So frustrating.

But basically what he said, if I could translate, we good.

Well, not only we good, it was a scheduled loss in there and we're happy.

We got a point.

We're on the second night of the back to back.

They weren't there fresh.

We're not so good for us.

We got our point, which, which to me looks past how you blew multiple leads.

You blew it the night before New Jersey as well.

You're happy with those results.

So to me, that, that's just a little frustrating to hear from him.

But also as sexy as he is and as sexy as he says it.

That's frustrating.

Fantastic.

But he also is looking at it the way we did last Friday when we were like,

Hey, if they get three points on this trip, we'd be happy.

They got four points on the trip.

And he's like, we had a winning record on the trip.

They didn't.

You were one and two.

You lost twice.

In every other sport you're one and two.

You lost twice.

And you were lucky to get the win.

That was the, again, the worst shootout I've ever been subjected to watching.

It was like clockwork orange watching that thing.

With over 500 here.

That's exactly what we want.

Is he lucky to get, you're lucky to get that.

Yeah.

I guess.

I mean, I guess that's how it points down.

Points percentage wise.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But you were not over 500.

Good point.

He lost two of the games.

Every other sport on the planet you were one and two.

Yeah.

But also he's, it's fine to take those points.

But then when you're in the games and when you lose the way that you did,

or you have the lead, you have a two goal lead against Jersey,

who's not very good.

And then Montreal was a better team.

But you have two different leads.

You're winning in the second period and then you lose.

And you do have some golden opportunities in overtime.

Yeah.

He's taking it a lot better than probably he should.

But maybe this is another thing where it's like he didn't think the team would even be in the spot.

And he feels like, I'm not going to rip into these guys.

I don't think that's going to help me.

So I'm just going to keep propping them up and maybe do that all the way to the playoffs.

You know what happens when you rip into the guys here in Boston.

You get fired.

You wind up coaching somewhere else and winning cups typically.

Job security.

But yeah, no, that does wind up biting you in the ass.

$10 shakes us.

That's how you took his comment.

Yeah.

That's how I took it.

He started.

We have a winning record.

We started the comment by talk.

Well, not even that.

He started the comment by saying we were we played two nights on a row.

They didn't or whatever.

He said right at the beginning.

They were waiting for us.

Yeah.

That's how I took the comment.

It's what he said.

He basically said it was a scheduled loss last night in Montreal.

It is a sport of scheduled losses.

Everybody.

And he's not unique to it.

Wait.

Is the Julian you said you would all the time.

Next one's a home game, right?

First home game after a road trip.

Yeah.

Scheduled loss.

That's a loss.

Yeah.

That works.

Yeah.

So what he's got to give because they really lose a home.

Wow.

That's also what he just did.

Wow.

That's what the schedule literally.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that's I think that's technically a scheduled loss.

The first home game after a road trip.

They got loss.

Buzzer is a lock.

Yeah.

So no, that's and I'm with you, Keith.

If Margot Stern wants to say big picture.

Guys, look at my roster.

Look at what I went through the rock.

We gave the Bulls music till the Bruins roster.

Keith Eeks.

Remember that.

Oh, sure.

Keith Eeks indeed.

And so it's like I they're better than we thought.

They are better than we thought, but then it's like, okay, I feel like we've already given

you credit for that.

Like we've already given you credit for being in this position and getting more out of

the team than we thought.

Now you need to win some of these games and now it would go a long way to get two points

instead of one and it would go a long way to finish out that road trip with a couple

of wins.

Right.

And so I feel like we've already given you credit for being more entertaining than we

thought and being better than we thought.

And even though Margot Stern, my barely see his lips moved during the game, he's been

a better coach than I thought hangs out.

So like, I feel like we've done that all year.

Now you got to get I can't give you credit for all that and then just shrug if you fall

flat on your face and miss the playoffs.

Like, and I feel like that is some of what he's doing where it's like, well, look, I mean,

this is the roster that I have.

We're fighting for a playoff spot.

That's pretty good.

It is pretty good.

Yeah.

But now you got to finish the job.

Well, that's what's scary because you wonder if the last two games could be a microcosm

of the season.

Like, they have this lead.

They're in the playoffs until the last week and then they lose it like, that's definitely

a reality.

That's that for sure.

And by the way, I would blame Sweeney more than Stern for that.

I think Stern's done a pretty good job coaching what he has.

Oh, good afternoon.

I don't know what's going on anymore.

Sweeney decided to do nothing at the trade deadline.

And I don't really like the roster.

He assembled the start the year.

So that, that to me would be way more Sweeney than Stern, but that doesn't make the head

coach your blameless.

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But the Boston Bruins played last night, Montréal, and they lost three, two, in overtime.

Dan Ball.

This is a bit of a trend here that I've been noticing developing, not just that they

lose at home.

We've talked about that with Razor and other- I mean, on the road.

We've talked about that with Razor and others.

Now there's almost like a formula to it.

It's like fight good, fight go to overtime, lose very quickly, in overtime, on the road

to the Canadians.

Now, they're still fine.

They're still tied for the top wildcard spot or however you want to, but they-

Both of those teams are just a point ahead of Columbus right now.

So it's a little bit of a dog fight situation.

You got a couple goals from Zaka last night, but nobody named Pasta, Geeky, McAvoy for

Ted.

None of those big guns are put in the puck in the back of the net.

Issues?

Issues continue to concern you?

Yeah.

Scoring depth concerns.

I think is your biggest thing.

It's your best player's not scoring and that's why when Razor comes on and he'll talk about

the power play, that's a factor of Linholm not scoring, Geeky not scoring.

And it really allowing other teams to close in on David Posternock.

Like if Pavel Zaka doesn't score a couple of goals the last two games, you're losing

two games in regulation and then you're much less fine in the wildcard.

So, yeah.

Unfortunately, though, those scoring woes that kind of came out of the post Olympic break

are now continuing to be an issue and becoming a bigger issue and you got other teams that

are catching up to you and gaining ground.

So, you're going to need somebody that you pay a lot of money to go on a hot streak

in a very short order or someone else.

And the someone else I'd point to is for the better part of a hockey calendar year, Geeky

was a great story, right?

Like one of the best.

First half of the season.

No, no, no, but it was like end of last year beginning of like, okay, so if it crosses

over seasons, you think, well, maybe this is just who he is.

Maybe it doesn't cross over calendar years because it was almost like as soon as it became

20, 20, 25, he was awesome.

He became a pumpkin again.

Ooh, we sold his soul for one good season or something.

Yeah, to try to get on team Canada than he didn't.

And now he's just kind of back to like a whole because it's kind of weird.

And we thought that 12 game streak, whatever that streak was was like, okay, that's his

hiccup.

And then back to being a reliable goal scorer.

I don't know.

Maybe that was a sort of sign of things to come in that you're kind of the pumpkin type

mentality is back of the five of the previous six games.

The Bruins have played.

How many have gone over time?

Oh, I don't know.

Five.

Oh, yeah.

No, they're good.

This is close to the vest.

This is more than a trend now at this point.

This is becoming a habit.

Yeah.

I saw it put on Twitter by Pete Blackburn.

The Bruins are a fun team with zero killer instinct.

And I think that's actually an interesting way to describe it where you got talent.

You got guys that are easy to root for.

They're much better than I think some people thought they would be.

But you don't get that goal when it matters most to either get your two points or avoid

over time and continue to have yourself worn down.

Like you leave all these extra points that on the table when you go to OT.

So I really liked how he put it.

I thought it was a great way to kind of describe the major issue with this group.

And the other issue is we talked about it last week.

They are who we thought they were.

You know, you go to overtime because you can't score, right?

They're low scoring games to two, two games like because you can't score.

We've talked about this.

They avoided playing to their scouting report for a long period of time.

Now regression to mean or whatever you want to believe in.

They're sort of playing to their scouting report.

The real intriguing thing that ties in directly to the offense in the next two weeks or so

is whether or not they sign James Hagen's to a contract.

Because I think he fits into your top nine right away.

How good or bad he is.

I don't know.

I don't know if he aids you to get into the playoffs and then make a run.

But you get a couple games under his belt at the end of the season.

It's a nice addition right now for a third line that desperately needs it.

And then he goes into an off season knowing exactly what to prepare for.

So I wouldn't be surprised to see that within the next couple of weeks seeing him sign a

deal and become a big part of what this team is trying to do.

So over the course of the season, I would say on the spectrum of this show in regards

to the Bruins, you were the most negative starting the year.

Yeah.

You told me to prep for the top pick in the draft and things of that nature in meaning

realistic.

And well, no, because it's been realistically wrong.

They've been a playoff team almost wired to wire.

And when we asked Razor about it a couple of weeks ago, he said, oh, yeah, they're a

playoff team.

He had them at 103 points.

I think we figured out what is speaking of realistic.

Well, where is reality?

Is this reality like is this like tooth and nail fight your way into the playoffs?

This is going to go down to games 80, 81, 82 and you're either going to get in by a point

or be out by a point.

Is that what this is?

That's absolutely.

Because I'm a little worried that it's actually trending a little bit more negative than

that.

I don't love the way they're playing.

And maybe it's because the road games, maybe it's because the formula for losing lately.

I hope that's the case.

I hope they get in in the number two or first or second wild card seed by a point or two.

That means tomorrow's show we're going to have to ask Razor then we'll have to ask him last

week.

He said if they go 96 and three, guarantee playoffs hasn't gone so great the last week.

So what's the revised record they're going to need to get?

I feel like they're trending in the wrong direction.

That is just my vibe.

And I don't know.

And I think part of that for me being in a, you know, puckhead heart, maybe a little superficial.

What am I hanging my hat on right now?

If I'm a Bruins fan, like what do I say?

Yeah, but this is really good.

Yeah, but this is going to carry us.

Yeah, but what is the yeah, but, uh, well, the, it's the reason why you are skeptical because

it's what they were supposed to be the entire time, which is defense and goal tending and

you don't trust the goal tending, so that's what you're going to try to sell them on down

the stretch.

I think there's one more push that's going to come out of this group, but it all depends

on how many games you can pick up and, and when that starts and when it ends.

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Joining us right now is the voice of the voice and the face of the Boston Bruins on

us in Jutsu Rock.

Good morning.

Morning.

I am so bummed.

I miss Shimeyoki.

What's the next installment?

Why are people gushing over Shimeyoki's performance?

It's all about low expectations.

Yeah.

Don't tell me you're a karaoke guy.

I mean, I've done it before.

It's not like my go-to or first thing, but you know, he replayed his version of train

this morning.

Yeah.

I don't know what was better.

His lead singing, or you, Giglin?

Yeah.

I'll just tell you.

He is a karaoke person.

He loves to karaoke, so he comes by, naturally.

I don't not my thing, but there are people who love it, and Shime is certainly one.

Like when people look at me.

Yes.

We are aware of that.

You are.

You like the attention, Shime.

Yes, I do.

So this team currently, first wild card spot, as we sit here this morning, but they have

the toughest remaining schedule in the NHL.

So it seems like from the outside, one or two losses, and you may be out, play off-wise.

They're grinding away.

What are they?

Five, three, and three since the Olympic break, and they've definitely cobbled together

some points.

It was certainly good that they were able to pick up four of six on that road trip.

I think that game in New Jersey, that's the one where you think about, okay, there's

a point that got away there, but I think Marco Stern and everybody else, you know, and

I think we probably felt the same way in Montreal that, you know, that was a pretty gutsy

effort.

Third game in four nights.

You're playing back to back against the team in Montreal that was sitting there and waiting

for you, and you were able to put together, you know, a really good outing and pick up

a point against the Canadians.

One of the things that we've kind of been talking about all year is just, you know, what

is, you're some of these, like, breakdowns and just the scheme or how, how, like, the

Bruins are playing.

And so I guess the question that I'm trying to get answered is, when you see these late

game breakdowns turn over things like that, you know, lack of focus, is that more about

the players or more about the coaching not having maybe guys prepared for the end of

game situations?

I don't know if I've necessarily seen that here lately, Wiggy, like, if you look at

what happened in New Jersey, I think the issue for the team is the Bruins, they got

off to a great start.

That was a terrific opening 20 minutes.

But one of the things that, in listening to David Posternock or Marco Stern or even

Pavel Zucker talk about after that game, the Bruins came out and started turning over

Pucks to start of the second period, to start of the second period.

And that fed exactly into what New Jersey's game is.

And that's a speed transition, rush attack game.

And the Bruins, thanks to David Posternock, who was terrific that night.

He was the best player on the ice, scored twice and helped the Bruins forge a point.

But I can't think of here lately where the Bruins have had an issue like you're talking

about, whether it's with game management or unable to execute late in the game that

that's cost them.

But I think it's a little bit of both, whether it's the coaches or the players.

I think it was more like for me, it was a sloppy play.

The McAvoy turnover was one of those plays that led to the three on two in the New Jersey

game where I'm just wondering, there are things that you won and you say, okay, is that

the player or does the coach got to make sure guys get a little bit more focused towards

in critical situations?

Charlie on that after the game.

One of the things that he said is, I know better in that situation.

I think, you know, anytime coaches look at the blue lines, whether it's five feet just

before or five feet after it, those are typically called the danger zone.

So anytime you see turnovers happen, that's when transition takes place.

And it gets to team like New Jersey or a team like Montreal that really features a lot

of speed and skill.

That's where you really have to be careful.

I think for the Bruins overall, and again, they've been grinding.

So if you look at what made the team successful to this point that's put them in a playoff

spot, goal tending, power play, stingy and hard to play against, the one thing that has

not been there since the Olympic break has been the man advantage.

It was essentially top five, basically all season until the Olympic break.

But since the Olympic break, it's drifted near the bottom.

That's the area that they really need.

If they're able to fix that, and you saw the Bruins score to open the game in Montreal

that maybe they can build on a little bit of that here tonight against the Jets.

Do you feel that there are any meaningful adjustments that they can make through the

rest of this tough schedule to improve their defensive play?

I think defensively they've been pretty good.

And the goal tending has been outstanding.

I want to say that the Bruins, and there was a great stat that was in the athletic today

that Jeremy Swam and of all the goal tenders in the league is leading the league

in what is called quality starts by the analytics community.

But I think defensively the Bruins have been pretty sound.

They have really cut down on the amount of minor penalties that they have taken.

I think they were only shorthanded once the other night against the Montreal

Canadians.

They are near the bottom in overall penalty minutes taken since the Olympic break.

And I think that's helped them also five on five.

What you'd like to be able to do, and this goes back to your point, Wiggy,

when it comes to puck management, can the Bruins get puck's deeper?

They are built to grind teams down low.

So Megan, in answer your question, when you have those opportunities,

if you can't carry the puck in cleanly with possession, get those puck's deep

and start to grind away.

That's the way the Bruins are built.

Any meaningful adjustments they can make to stop coughing up leads?

Like as what would it be?

Would they need seven, like a seven eight goal lead?

Is that what you would advise?

Maybe.

You know, I understand, you know, if we look here in the last couple of games,

but if we look in the wider picture, if you look in the wider picture,

I think the Bruins, they're unbeaten in regulation when they take a lead

into the third period, has it always looked clean and perfect?

No, but I think that's the case for a lot of teams.

And for the most part, they have done a good job of managing games late

when they've been tight.

They've been pretty good, but I think in the bigger picture, you know,

because the margins are so slim for this team to be able to get into the playoffs.

So you start to think about where there are other games that maybe got away

from them early in the season.

Yes, where they had an opportunity to manage the game a little bit better.

I mean, you can go all the way back to October against the Florida Panthers

or a game at Madison Square Garden where the Bruins had a lead late in the third period

and it got away from them.

But there have been other times where they've been able to rally and cobble together points.

And at this point, that's what it's about.

Let me get your opinion on this because you brought up the devils.

Jack Hughes wants his puck back from the Hall of Fame.

And the man, we owe him a debt of gratitude for the gold medal.

Does that puck belong to him?

The hockey Hall of Fame says they will not give it back.

Well, it does not belong.

Is the hockey Hall of Fame in Canada?

Yes.

Well, then that's the way.

Does Dugman Cambridge still have the 0-4 ball?

Because that was a real waste.

I don't know, but does the, it's an interesting question.

Because does the memorabilia item belong to the player who accomplish the feat

or does it belong to the game?

Belongs to the player.

It does.

Belongs to the player.

The player is the one who scored that goal.

That's his puck and, you know, we rocking take from Wiggy.

Well, but that's what it is.

We've seen at the end of whether it's basketball games, football games,

you know, guys run and get the ball so they can give it to that specific player.

And I think in this situation, that puck should go to that player.

How does it work with home run balls?

Because we've seen guys in the past, like they hit, you know, some milestone home run.

They have to pay the person.

And then security goes and grabs it, but does the player then get the ball?

Or does that go to the group or something?

Well, sometimes the team will reward the fan to get the ball back for the player.

But it's full of the player.

The player is the one who accomplished that feat.

He's the one that accomplished that feat.

He's the one who hit the home run.

He's the one who scored the goal.

He's the one who scored the touchdown made the shot.

That should go to him.

When Tom Brady threw his, I forget what it was.

Touchdown and then Mike Evans threw it into the stands.

That ball belongs to the player for his accomplishment.

It should not belong to a museum first.

That seems stupid to me.

It should be private ownership.

And then the person who accomplished the great feat should decide whether or not in time

they want to donate to a museum.

Yeah, it's a great debate.

You know, I know that I saw Jack's original comments, you know, about, you know,

that should be my puck.

I believe that he changed his tune the other day.

And maybe was a little bit more conciliatory where he understood why the hockey hall of fame

would want that puck.

I don't know, it's a really good argument.

Who has the puck from 2011?

Berge, Martian, Timmy Thomas.

It's got it.

It feels got it.

Yeah.

But it's the same way with the jersey, right?

You go down the Patriots place in Gillette and you see, you know, like a game won Brady

jersey is in the hall of fame.

I feel like that's that play as jersey.

If he wants to then donate it back to the organization.

So they can put it in, you know, some type of, you know, glass case.

And that should be on the player.

Not them saying, well, you play for our team.

It's technically our jersey.

Texter says possession is nine tenths of the law.

So they have it.

Do you remember the loser we had on Greg that like knocked kids out of the way to catch

foul balls in the stand?

Yes.

Christian R. Can.

I had a question for Jeff, because we were talking about this the other day.

On whether this was a rebuild, a retool.

How does the, how did a Bruins look at this season?

As more of a retool or do they feel like they're rebuilding?

How about reset?

You know, they're all sorts of our words.

I think the whole idea was winging that they felt at the start of the season that

this should be a playoff team.

That's what Don Sweeney and Camnelly had talked about at the start of the season.

And right now, they're certainly in that position.

That was always their goal to be able to get back into the playoffs.

Where I think the reset had to take place was with the culture.

I think we had talked about it at the beginning of the season that with a lot of core

pieces that were moved out.

And certainly if you, if you back up and look at,

hey, some of the guys that the Bruins have had to replace over the years,

that they needed to recapture, maybe another R word, some of the culture that they had.

And I think that they've been able to do that for the most part.

You know, if you talk to the GM Don Sweeney and some of the guys around the Bruins,

what it was like early in the season, it maybe took a while to figure out

how the leadership was going to be able to function.

That's not an issue at this point.

You know, and if you look since January 1st, the Bruins have been one of the best teams

in the national hockey league, the hard time, they've had a hard time, however,

gaining ground because so many of the teams in the east have been just as good.

So I think it's a reset, but they also had to repopulate the roster with a lot of talent.

You know, I think that that was the whole idea.

I could keep going with the R words, but they needed to take a look at what they had in their system,

picks, prospects.

They've been able to do that.

And I think that that was part of the reason that you saw the Bruins for the most part,

stay fairly quiet here at the trade deadline because there was no need to trade some of those

commodities to get a rental here to just get you over the hump and in the class,

because I think there's a bigger goal.

So we should just relax.

Right.

Well, I mean, they basically have to win out.

So, and I don't know if they have to basically win out.

You know, as we talked about the last time we were here,

if you can get to 100 points that usually is the marker that will get you in the playoffs,

it's not going to be easy.

So I think at that point, when we were here last week, that was 11 and 7 and their last 18 games,

to this point, I think they are what, you know, they've still been able to put together points,

but they need to go further.

I want to say they now have to go nine and five here down the stretch.

Okay, nine and five.

And they have to be able to win on the road.

Yes.

And they have some, they have some difficult road games coming up here.

You know, after, after they play the jets, they're going to go on the road against Detroit,

Detroit, by the way, playing Montreal tonight.

That's a game.

If you want to kind of keep an eye on, that's going to really impact the Bruins.

And they're going to have to go to Columbus twice.

That's the team that's right behind them in the standings.

The other thing to keep in mind, because the margins are so slim in the Eastern Conference,

keep an eye on, on the tiebreaker.

So the first tiebreaker in the National Hockey League is regulation wins.

And at this point right now, the Bruins have more regulation wins than Detroit and Columbus.

And if the Islanders slip down, add them into the mix.

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Great to see you guys.

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