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Evan Marinofsky of New England Hockey Journal and Conor Ryan of Boston.com discuss the new Bruins sweaters, Matthew Poitras and their biggest questions entering training camp.  This episode of Bruins Beat is brought to you by Fanduel Sportsbook, the exclusive wagering partner of the CLNS Media Network. Visit FanDuel.com/BOSTON and start earning BONUS BETS with America’s #1 Sportsbook!  21+ and present in MA. First online real money wager only. $10 Deposit req. Refund issued as non-withdrawable bonus bets that expire in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at fanduel.com/sportsbook. Hope is here. GamblingHelpLineMA.org or call (800)-327-5050 for 24/7 support. Play it smart from the start! GameSenseMA.com or call 1-800-GAM-1234  0:00 - Bruins hire John McLean as an assistant coach 4:00 - What do we think of the new sweaters? 9:00 - The future of Matthew Poitras 15:00 - Thoughts on the Mike Babcock situation 20:00 - Biggest questions entering training camp 24:00 - How different will the Bruins look?

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00:00 Bruins Beat is brought to you by FanDuel, the exclusive wagering partner of the CLNS

00:04 Media Network.

00:07 And welcome into the Bruins Beat.

00:08 It's September 19th.

00:10 I'm Evan Marinovsky.

00:11 That's Connor Ryan.

00:12 We're presented by our good friends over at FanDuel.

00:14 Connor, what is up?

00:17 Evan, I'm doing well.

00:18 How are you doing?

00:19 Doing great.

00:20 I am doing great.

00:21 And we have no shortage of things to talk about today because a little piece of Bruins

00:25 news dropped on Monday.

00:28 We were waiting kind of all off season to see who would be the final Bruins assistant

00:34 coach.

00:35 It comes out on Monday that it's John McClain.

00:38 Local guy from Wakefield.

00:40 Played at BC.

00:41 Long time head coach at Malden Catholic.

00:45 Recent head coach at Austin Prep.

00:46 Worked with the Bruins last year in a skills and development role.

00:50 He now gets promoted to the bench.

00:52 So good for him.

00:53 And I think it also shows that they have a guy on staff who his focus is going to be

00:57 development.

00:58 And I think if they're going to be having a lot of younger guys come in the lineup,

01:03 not a bad hire.

01:04 What do you think?

01:05 Yeah.

01:06 Yeah.

01:07 It's going to be essential whether you look at not just the influx of you hope younger

01:10 players, but you're looking at quite a few guys on this roster.

01:13 You've already talked about them countless times, but you know, a guy like Frederick,

01:16 a guy like Loco, guys who are already on this roster that they want to take another step

01:20 forward and emphasizing that development, that skating and skills is going to be essential

01:25 to it.

01:26 It felt like there was going to be someone like a, like a McLean, you know, like a Kim

01:32 Brandville, those kinds of coaches in terms of guys that are trying to unlock another

01:36 gear out of these players.

01:38 Montgomery already more or less said that Joe Sacco is shifting his role to be more

01:43 focused on the defense.

01:44 Chris Kelly's looking at power play this year.

01:48 So a few roles getting shifted around now that John Gruden left during the off season

01:52 to go coach the, uh, Colonel Marley's in the Napoli system.

01:56 But, um, yeah, it makes plenty of sense for you.

01:59 Look at just how I think the coaching roles have shifted what the Bruins need as they

02:04 kind of revamp and retool this roster.

02:08 You know, focusing on a guy like McLean makes, uh, makes plenty of sense.

02:11 Great beard as well.

02:13 Great beard.

02:14 Uh, and you know, it's funny, like Bob Vicenza is goalie Bob.

02:16 He's like the goalie whisperer.

02:18 Maybe John will be like a skater.

02:20 John, you know, he's like the skating whisperer or the skill whisperer.

02:25 Trent Frederick's going to start dangling through guys and go on top shelf every shift.

02:29 It's like, oh, John McLean at it again with Trent Frederick.

02:33 I've only seen about two or three diehard, uh, shifts so far.

02:38 So good people are keeping that contained right now.

02:41 So as they should, as they should.

02:44 Uh, but the big news over the weekend, and this was very controversial, but he had a

02:48 different take on this, uh, but the New Jersey's I know, right.

02:51 The New Jersey's were released and the Logan fashion show.

02:55 How was that?

02:56 How was the environment there?

02:57 They wouldn't let you fly the plane.

02:59 Unfortunately, I thought that was kind of disappointing.

03:01 I thought, you know, just a quick little loop around, even though I got, I don't have to

03:04 take off, like just put me on like the Ted Williams tunnel, like do a little, just drive,

03:09 drive through there and go through South a little bit, show off.

03:12 Like you got the jet blue plane.

03:14 Didn't work out.

03:15 Yes.

03:16 The wings scraping the front of like the Broadway, that wouldn't be the worst thing.

03:19 Yeah, exactly.

03:20 Yeah, exactly.

03:21 So, you know, uh, that was just a point and couldn't fly the plane.

03:25 But, um, first fashion I've ever been to, uh, I tried to like, uh, get my, like my locked

03:31 in composure, like as a New York fashion week.

03:33 And I just see a bunch of like Bruins, uh, sweaters and all that stuff walking up and

03:37 down the runway.

03:38 I don't know what to do.

03:39 I felt like I was like Ricky Bobby.

03:40 I'm like, do I, do I like have like a look like this?

03:43 What do I do?

03:45 Um, but yeah, it was, it was entertaining, interesting.

03:49 Uh, it'll be the first of I think many very different events this year for the centennial

03:53 season.

03:54 But of course I think what everyone focuses on, not on the merch, on the jerseys.

03:58 Um, uh, they're interesting.

04:00 Like I think what I usually do is I think they're pretty solid.

04:04 I think again, you can only do so much with them.

04:06 I know a lot of the discourse I think it revolves around the striping, especially on the sleeves.

04:11 Um, but how I always view it, even if you're on the fence about jerseys and sweaters, which

04:17 of their on the ice in their full, the full garb, I feel like that's when you really kind

04:21 of see, see how it pops out there.

04:23 So one thing to like wear as you're like, you know, uh, walking through the concourse

04:27 at the garden or whatever, we'd see it on the ice with all the full gear on.

04:31 I think that's how you can best kind of judge, uh, judge it out there.

04:34 Yeah.

04:35 And the aesthetic of the new logo on the ice and things like that.

04:38 I agree that I think there are too many stripes on the arms of the home and the ways.

04:42 I think that's my one point of contention with them.

04:45 Some people were like the gold doesn't pop the way it should.

04:48 And it's like, I think that's just a lighting thing.

04:50 I'm curious to sort of see that in person, uh, on the ice, how that looks on TV.

04:56 Um, but the stripes, I don't know, that was my one area where it's like, I think you could

05:00 have went to three stripes instead of six.

05:02 I think that, you know, I don't know.

05:04 That's my take on it.

05:05 I mean, I believe the, the, the stripes at six in an honor of their Stanley cup championship.

05:11 So I understand why they did it.

05:12 Okay.

05:13 Well, I get that, but, but you could do it another way.

05:15 It's like, I liked how the, um, the, the alternate Jersey, which I really, I'm really excited

05:20 to see how that looks.

05:21 Once you have the, the, the helmet, the gloves, the pants, all that stuff with it, how it

05:26 has like the, uh, six championship years, uh, inside the collar.

05:30 And it's in like the Massachusetts sign kind of format and how they have it.

05:34 So you can, you incorporate the six Stanley cups without having like these big, uh, big

05:40 blocks more or less on your arms.

05:42 But again, I digress.

05:43 We'll see how it is once we get on the ice.

05:45 Also Connor, we're not, we're not math guys, but if you put three stripes on one arm and

05:50 three stripes on the other, you get to six.

05:54 I think that could work too.

05:55 Three plus three, three times two.

05:57 I think that's six.

05:59 So maybe that could also, I think that could also potentially do it with my math cap on

06:04 the math cap is on.

06:07 Um, but I like them.

06:09 I do.

06:10 I don't, I don't have any terrible problems.

06:12 I mean, the stripes is something I think people, we get all, we can all get over.

06:16 Um, I liked the, the, the logo they went with.

06:19 I think they like, they went the right direction on them.

06:22 Um, you know, I think the Bruins are one of those cool teams where they're not like the

06:27 red wings where like, there's not much you can do, but they're not like the coyotes or

06:32 the Panthers who are like, you know, these eccentric small market teams, like you can

06:36 be creative with the Bruins without stepping so far outside the box.

06:40 Like you're, you know, you can, you can be creative without just completely like blowing

06:45 everything up.

06:46 The colors are the same, everything like that.

06:48 I also think like they'd had those home and aways for since oh seven, oh seven, oh eight

06:54 was their first year with those.

06:55 Like I think that, you know, it's been a long time.

06:59 It's a new era.

07:00 It's kind of like what the Patriots have done.

07:02 You know, the Brady era had their jerseys and then Brady leaves, you get new jerseys.

07:06 I think, you know, you look at Bergeron, Chara, Creechie, Rask, they're all gone.

07:11 It's a new era, you know?

07:13 Now the Patriots, I hate their home jerseys.

07:17 So those I'm not a fan of.

07:19 I like the, obviously the red ones.

07:20 Oh yeah.

07:21 I was going to say, I thought you were talking about the actual, yeah.

07:23 No, no.

07:24 I mean the blue ones, the blues they wear.

07:26 I don't like those.

07:27 Those are, you know, not up to par, but these I like.

07:31 I like these, you know.

07:33 Do you know if these are going to stick past this year?

07:36 Have they said anything about that yet?

07:38 I don't believe so.

07:39 I think especially the home and away are just going to be for this year.

07:42 Maybe the alternative, if they're really popular, maybe they throw them in the rotation, kind

07:47 of like how the big gold bee, one we've seen, that one I think was only supposed to be a

07:51 year or two and it stuck around as well.

07:54 But so yeah, I, but I believe the regular home and away for this year are just this

07:59 year.

08:00 It's funny.

08:01 Cause I was saying this to someone this weekend, they, the Bruins have had a lot of really

08:05 good sweaters over the last four or five years that you'd love to see get like, come back.

08:12 You know, you look at like the poo bear last year, you look at the yellow jerseys they

08:16 wore in the COVID year that they wore at Lake Tahoe, the winter classic jersey, like five

08:21 games.

08:22 Yeah.

08:23 They barely wore them.

08:24 They were so good.

08:25 I loved those.

08:26 Those were awesome.

08:27 And if they've had a lot of banger jerseys, like, and I would love to see some of those

08:31 kind of come back at different times, you know, in the future and future years, obviously

08:35 this year is the 100th year you're using what you're using.

08:40 But I just think that they've been fortunate.

08:42 I think the Bruins are one of the fortunate teams that, you know, they, the, the colors

08:47 are good.

08:49 The jerseys work.

08:50 The designs have been good over the years, the logos, all that.

08:54 And I like the innovation on these.

08:56 So and the alternates, by the way, are awesome.

08:57 I love those.

08:58 Those are, those are great.

08:59 So I'm excited to see what they look like this year.

09:01 I think everyone's excited to see those on the ice and, and all that stuff.

09:06 But another thing that was happening this weekend was the prospects challenge up in

09:09 Buffalo Bruins went one and two through the three games.

09:13 And it's funny, I was reading Mark Diver this past weekend, who's a, you know, knows everything

09:18 about the Providence Bruins inside and out.

09:22 But he had a story on Matthew Poitras and, you know, Poitras kind of, you know, his,

09:28 his development and how he was looking and obviously the Bruins staff was very high on

09:31 him Lang and Bruner, Evan Gold, the whole, the whole crew there.

09:36 And it's interesting, like we always say, you know, they're, they're barren at center

09:41 in the, in the prospect system and they kind of are, but it feels like he could actually

09:47 be someone that not this year, making the team does not make, I don't think he's making

09:50 the team this year, not ready yet, but down the road could be a guy that they look towards

09:55 as maybe this is a top six center.

09:57 What do you think?

09:58 Yeah, I think he's probably, when you look at the team's need at center, you look at

10:03 his playmaking capabilities, his production, especially last year in the OHL, he's arguably

10:08 probably the most intriguing guy you have in the system.

10:10 I mean, Laura, if he hits not a lot of six, four guys that can move the puck like he can.

10:16 So he's right up there as well.

10:17 But I think when you look at just how desperately this team needs a center to pop, and it's

10:21 not to say they need them to, again, don't need them to be version on a crate.

10:25 She'd love for that to be the case, but if he is a capable guy that in the NHL level

10:30 can give you a 45, 50 points and build into a role there, there's a lot to like about

10:35 what he brings.

10:36 And again, he's not as dynamic, you know, he's not as good of a skater as a guy like

10:40 Beecher is not maybe as dynamic offensively as a Lysell, but you listen to all these different,

10:46 you know, player development coordinators, coaches, GMs, you know, Langenbrenner, McQuaid,

10:52 everyone, they all mentioned, you know, the skills that he has, it's, it's tough to really,

10:56 you know, learn.

10:58 It's all like his on ice IQ processing ability.

11:03 You know, the way he reads plays, how he gets inside ice.

11:07 And I think that's what sticks out about him.

11:08 I remember watching him in development camp.

11:10 The one that stuck out is the passings are obviously you don't have 70, 79 assists in

11:15 61 games, you know, HL without having that flaming table capabilities.

11:20 But what stood out to me during dev camp is that instead of, you know, for a guy with

11:24 that kind of playmaking style, you'd imagine he'd be like on the outside looking for seams.

11:29 He would always, you know, drive towards the net, you know, collapse the defense.

11:34 And then he would have that wherewithal in that split second to then be a little backhand

11:38 dish, you know, for an easy chance, what have you like that's something I think you really

11:41 can't teach.

11:42 That's just, you know, a naturally aggressive and aggressive playmaker, which seems like

11:47 it's a weird way to kind of phrase it, but he has that skill set and that need to make

11:52 plays happen as opposed to letting the play develop and capitalizing.

11:55 He makes it himself.

11:57 So again, as you said, I think the Bruins are going to give him a good look this this

12:02 camp just because he's in that really unfortunate kind of spot where do you have the NHL, the

12:07 OHL you, you know, if he had free reign, it would make so much sense to just throw him

12:12 into the AHL and, you know, kind of learn on the fly there.

12:16 It goes back to the OHL.

12:17 Of course, it's more games, more reps.

12:19 He's probably going to put up a crap ton of points.

12:21 A lot of stats this winter.

12:23 Yeah.

12:24 So, you know, he's still going to develop in that regard, but you probably want to push

12:28 in and get more of that development acceleration with a year in Providence.

12:32 It's not going to be the case.

12:34 So I'm sure they're going to give him a good look to see again.

12:37 They probably don't think he's ready quite yet, but if he's all sudden get into the preseason

12:42 games and he's lighting up and you have to give him a long look, even if he doesn't make

12:45 the team, which still seems really unlikely, it'd be a great learning experience for him

12:49 just to get those reps anyway.

12:51 So he's definitely a guy I think you have to watch during camp just because he's again,

12:56 you look at how barren the system has been for top six centers or even just capable NHL

13:01 centers over the last decade.

13:04 Right.

13:05 Like it's really a lot of them.

13:08 He at least offers a lot of promise in terms of, you know, what the production, but also

13:12 just the way he plays, like the way he processes the game.

13:14 It's something that's really, really hard to teach.

13:16 It makes them a really unique prospect in that regard.

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14:06 Yeah, I just think the hockey sense element is what intrigues me most.

14:10 You just look at, you know, to be a top six player in the NHL, the hockey sense has to

14:14 be there.

14:15 The hockey sense is a must.

14:16 I think that's one of the biggest things that separates top six guys from bottom six guys,

14:21 that hockey sense.

14:22 I think he seems to have it from everything that's been said about him.

14:26 And as you said, I mean, if he really lights it up in the preseason this year, my guess

14:30 is he still goes back to the OHL.

14:32 But think of the hype that's going to be around him next training camp.

14:36 And suddenly, if you have this confidence that he can be a top six center, can you spend

14:41 money in other places?

14:42 I still think you need to go out and trade for a number one center or get one.

14:46 But in the, you know, break glass in case of emergency that you don't do that.

14:50 Again, I'm getting so far ahead of things so far.

14:54 Training hasn't even started, but I do think it's important to think about, you know, could

14:58 could this save you down the road if you could wheel out, you know, Poitras and Zaka in future

15:04 years?

15:05 But again, got to have a good training camp first.

15:07 Got to have a lot of good things, you know, before that.

15:10 Speaking of training camp.

15:14 Starts this week.

15:15 It's big time.

15:16 It's like Christmas.

15:17 It's what it is.

15:18 Just it's all coming back.

15:20 Training camp, though, not the biggest story in the NHL right now.

15:22 That'd be Mike Babcock.

15:23 The biggest story in the NHL right now.

15:26 So I you know, it's funny.

15:27 I was trying to find a way to tweet out the vid, the clip of the Dylans Burger skit from

15:33 I think you should leave.

15:34 And he's like, give me that.

15:35 Give me that.

15:36 You know, I'm just joking.

15:37 I'm joking.

15:38 Well, you know, like I'm thinking that's Babcock with.

15:40 Do you see like the quote that Jarmo Kekulainan said, like, oh, yes, for my phone, too.

15:44 I didn't you know, I guess I could see how that's man.

15:47 Like what is obsessive, taking people's phones.

15:50 Give me your phone.

15:52 Let me see.

15:53 I need to see what's he must have been a menace when Doodle Jump was a thing.

15:56 You're just taking everyone's phone.

15:57 You let me I'm going to be your score in Temple Run.

16:00 Yes, exactly.

16:01 Give me that.

16:02 No, he was sabotaging.

16:03 He didn't intentionally run you off the cliff every time.

16:06 If you if you if you didn't back check in the game, there you go.

16:10 You're done.

16:11 Well, it's like when I was when I was younger, I was really little.

16:14 My sister used to play Minecraft on her iPad.

16:17 So one day I went into her.

16:18 I just took her iPad one day and I burned like everything she created in Minecraft,

16:22 just lit it on fire.

16:23 It's my area.

16:24 They say she I was like, you know, 10 years old.

16:28 I was a dick.

16:29 And you know, a couple of days later, she like, you know, and so I lost privileges of

16:36 my own phone and my iPad for quite a while because of it.

16:39 So I'm worried that it was pretty funny.

16:43 I might have been worth it.

16:46 But again, I just I'm stunned at the idea.

16:48 I mean, imagine like going in for a job interview and I say, you know, to the guy hiring you,

16:52 hey, can I like just check your phone real quick?

16:54 I just want to go through your photos.

16:56 I want to go to Twitter.

16:57 I'm going to throw it on the TV, too.

16:59 That was the best part.

17:00 I see what you take.

17:02 Talk for you, pages.

17:03 You know, yes, exactly.

17:04 What do you what kind of videos are you liking?

17:08 Yeah, that's a baffling situation that keeps getting better by the day.

17:14 I find again, I find it hilarious that Columbus with a roster with a lot of very high, highly

17:20 talented young players, but with Mike Babcock as the as the choice there.

17:24 So, yeah, another team that just can't get out of its own way, which is always fun.

17:30 But yeah, training camp coming up.

17:32 We went we had to crack a few jokes about the Babcock situation.

17:36 We did not do it.

17:38 So biggest questions, things that are on our mind entering training camp and we'll you

17:44 know, we'll have more in-depth training camp stuff, obviously, throughout training camp.

17:49 But I think I'll start with a question.

17:51 And it's one we've talked about quite a bit.

17:53 And it's can Charlie Coyle be a top six center?

17:56 You know, I at the start of the offseason when birds were on, when it felt like they

18:00 were birds around and great, you were retiring.

18:02 I kept kind of thinking, oh, I don't know about Coyle.

18:06 You know, he's never really stuck up there.

18:08 The production's never been there.

18:10 But the more I've thought about it, the more I've looked at point totals and what they

18:13 would need out of him and playing him with the Brusque and Marchand for full time.

18:18 I think he can be I don't think he's going to be like the world on fire.

18:21 But my guess is he'll be a formidable number two center.

18:25 What do you think?

18:26 Yeah, I think it's all going to we talked about this even with with Zaka as well.

18:30 It's gonna come down to I think they're both capable in terms of what the what the task

18:35 and what the ass is going to be from Jim Montgomery in terms of what those roles are.

18:40 But I think a lot of it's going to fall on the players around them, the guys on the wing

18:44 to really drive play there.

18:46 And you know, whether it's Coyle with Marchand and the Brusque who, you know, Montgomery

18:52 has high expectations for in terms of driving play there.

18:55 You know, Pasternak as your top offensive conduit.

18:59 If you're looking for a way to get Zaka settled in there, putting a 60 goal score next to

19:03 him the whole year probably helps him out quite a bit.

19:05 I think it'll be a couple of nice primary assists off of just feeding it to him on a

19:09 one time or chance.

19:10 So but I think for Coyle, yeah, he's a guy that I think took steps last year in terms

19:17 of really rounding out his game and being a very solid two way player.

19:20 He was arguably like their defensive MVP up front in terms of the amount of ozone starts

19:26 that weren't afforded to him that made it easier for guys like Bergeron and Creechie

19:30 to get easier starts there on the ice.

19:33 So if Coyle can keep that up and he's got a higher or stronger supporting cast with

19:39 a guy like Marchand who's produced with whoever you put out there.

19:42 DeBrusque, who I think took a big step forward last year.

19:45 And he's a guy that, you know, if he's playing his game, he's going to generate great chances.

19:50 Again, it's for him.

19:53 He fitted very well with Marchand and Bergeron.

19:55 But when DeBrusque is on his game, he's hovering around great A.I.s.

19:58 He's making things happen.

19:59 If you have a guy like Coyle who also likes to possess the puck, you should be able to

20:03 generate chances there as well.

20:05 So again, I think both Coyle and Zaka have the means to step into.

20:09 I don't even think that's like you have to view it as the role.

20:12 It's just like the added minutes, the more featured spot there.

20:16 But I think it's all going to then come down to whether these guys that are going to be

20:19 tasked with really driving play offensively can kind of bring them along as well.

20:25 Yeah, I think that's huge.

20:27 And I think it's going to be sort of the sum of the parts type thing with him.

20:32 And the other thing is just consistency.

20:34 People kind of point back to that Florida series when Coyle and Zaka were really strong

20:39 one and two down the middle.

20:40 Can you do it over 82 games?

20:43 They're going to be stretches of the season where the production is down.

20:47 My guess is it's going to there's going to be some ups and downs to start.

20:51 I think you'll have Coyle put up five points in three games, and then you might have two

20:56 in six or seven or something like that.

20:59 But I think what Coyle brings on the defensive end is just so important.

21:04 And I think, you know, shouldn't be overlooked.

21:06 I think, you know, when you're evaluating Coyle, I think you also have to judge if he's

21:09 getting, which we presume will be the case, a lot of D zone starts and tough matchups

21:14 like the production is not going to be as big as people would hope.

21:19 But if you're preventing other teams from scoring, it's not bad either.

21:24 I kind of like view it almost like was was Coyle and Zaka.

21:29 It's almost like the Dolphins with two.

21:31 I think like two is a pretty solid quarterback, but also the Dolphins done a good job of surrounding

21:36 him with elite talent that pulls them along and drags them kind of into this elevated

21:41 role.

21:42 And it's not like an indictment saying like to a suction, these guys aren't capable guys.

21:46 But when you don't have a guy like a bird run or a crazy, it falls on, I think you surrounding

21:51 these guys who are stepping into greater roles, have more talent around them that can make

21:56 it easier for them as they step into more minutes, more responsibilities.

22:00 And I think if guys like Pasternak and Marchand and the breast can deliver, it makes life

22:05 so much easier for those guys who already have a big ask in front of them going into

22:10 this season.

22:11 It'd be cool if the football team from here decided to take a great on that.

22:15 Yeah, exactly.

22:16 That'd be really nice.

22:19 What's the question that you have going into training camp?

22:21 Yeah, I think it's going to be just what that bottom six is going to look like.

22:25 I don't think you really have to worry too much about the decor in terms of how it's

22:28 made up or the gold tending or anything like that, barring a steep drop in production or

22:34 anything like that injuries.

22:35 But that bottom six could not tell you what I think that line is going to look like.

22:40 I couldn't even tell you what it's going to look like in the first day of camp when we

22:43 see those guys out there on the ice.

22:44 Right.

22:45 It's going to be fascinating to see how they not just the personnel, but you have so many

22:50 guys with different skill sets, right?

22:51 Like Brent Frederick is different from Loco.

22:54 He's different from blue cheese.

22:56 You're different from geeky, you know, to high end and chase on all those guys have

23:00 such different skill sets.

23:01 Not even looking at their own thing camp.

23:04 Yeah, exactly.

23:05 And not even counting the younger players.

23:07 Right.

23:08 Like we obviously know the guys who could be fighting for fourth line spots like a McLaughlin

23:12 or Beecher or steam, but could a guy like Mark you off hit, right?

23:16 Could a guy like my cell really take a huge step forward?

23:18 Like there's so many different twists and turns that, you know, we could probably go

23:22 through during this training camp in terms of finding the best, you know, six men unit

23:28 there on that bottom six grouping.

23:29 So I think it's going to be fascinating to see just how that continues to develop all

23:33 year.

23:34 You have to imagine that the veterans, some of the incumbents have the early advantage

23:39 there, but we'll see.

23:40 And again, we've talked about it before, but you told me going into last year's training

23:44 camp, the local is going to make team out of camp.

23:46 I've been like, no, no, no, no, no.

23:48 I don't know about that.

23:49 Proved a lot of people were wrong and then made the most of it.

23:51 We doubt there.

23:52 So we'll see if I know it's going to hit in that regard.

23:54 Yeah.

23:55 I mean, the only like.

23:58 Lou, she's going to be somewhere in there on that fourth.

24:00 I have two feels like, I mean, they have them everywhere.

24:03 They have them at the the Jersey fashion show.

24:06 They had with the Patriots game on, which I think that was just his own thing.

24:09 I don't think he was.

24:10 I don't think the birds like Milan, you have to go to a July.

24:13 I think Lucci 100 percent want to go to July.

24:15 I think he just loves I think he'll throw out the first pitch.

24:18 I think he's just happy to be back.

24:21 It's funny.

24:22 Someone said to me the other night they were like, I don't care if he's the worst player

24:24 in the NHL.

24:25 I'm just happy he's a Bruin again.

24:26 And it's like, you know what?

24:27 I can get behind that sentiment like that.

24:29 You know, I'm not saying he is the worst.

24:31 I'm just saying they were saying even if he was the worst, just having him back feels

24:36 right.

24:37 I'll go off the board with another question.

24:40 How does Brad Marsh and look?

24:42 Because, again, Marcia was coming off double hip surgery last year.

24:45 Obviously, didn't start until about November.

24:49 Came back early.

24:50 But, you know, what's he looking like?

24:52 How's he fitting with coil?

24:54 How's he doing post Patrice?

24:58 You know, is he he's getting older like, you know, I think that's these are valid things

25:02 you have to watch with him.

25:04 Obviously, we expect him to produce.

25:05 We expect him to be the captain, most likely all those things.

25:10 But how's he on the ice?

25:11 You know, is he a step behind?

25:13 Is he with everybody?

25:14 Is he faster?

25:15 Like, so I'm very curious to see what he looks like and sort of, you know, again, it's gonna

25:20 be hard to tell from training camp.

25:21 It's kind of something you might get more of in the first five, 10 games of the actual

25:26 season.

25:27 But curious to see how he looks, how he's feeling and how he's doing.

25:31 So that would be one.

25:33 Do you have any others that are burning?

25:35 Yeah, I'd say.

25:36 I have none.

25:37 I have none on D. Yeah, I my only viewpoint is just how when you look at just how different,

25:43 you know, the strengths of this team are.

25:46 Obviously, it all runs through the defense and the goaltending.

25:48 But how kind of like Jim Montgomery changes his scheme around?

25:51 Maybe we looked at last year at how much of a luxury you had.

25:54 Not only the scoring depth up front, but you had, you know, such a layered team structure

26:00 where you could have guys like Lindholm and McElwain jump up in the play and impact the

26:05 game in that regard.

26:06 Like Montgomery's got to change things around a little bit, not just say that his defense

26:10 doesn't have the capabilities of doing that, but you just don't have that maybe extra layer

26:14 in front that can kill plays before they get into the D zone.

26:17 So I think him and his coaching staff maybe shift things around.

26:20 You know, you can only kind of make do with whatever the roster has out there.

26:24 And you just don't have the amount of scoring depth or the amount of guys like a bircher

26:29 on who can be so responsible in their own end that you may have to make some sacrifices,

26:33 maybe be less aggressive in order to kind of be more of a stingy defense first team,

26:39 which again, that's going to be the biggest key.

26:41 If you want to view how this team gets back to playoffs, it's can you shut down opposing

26:45 teams, grind things out and, you know, find avenues to generate offense.

26:49 But it's going to, I think, rely, you know, depend on Montgomery and his team kind of

26:54 tinkering things a little bit of how they approach, especially offensively and how they

26:58 protect their own net.

26:59 Yep.

27:00 I completely agree with you.

27:01 You got to switch things up a bit.

27:02 And I'm curious to see how that is also Montgomery without Persia run.

27:06 How many times last year did we hear, you know, oh, you know, it's like having another

27:09 coach in the locker room.

27:10 That coach is gone.

27:11 I'm Patrice Bergeron.

27:12 So I'm curious to see how Montgomery is.

27:15 I'm also curious to see, and this isn't a training camp thing.

27:17 It's a regular season thing.

27:18 But how does this team look when they hit the skids?

27:22 How do they look when they slump?

27:23 Because it's going to happen.

27:25 Never happened last year.

27:26 Never seemed to lose many games in a row last year.

27:30 But they will this year because they're a they're a hockey team.

27:33 Every team does.

27:34 Last year was sort of an outlier.

27:35 So curious to see that.

27:37 One other question I have regarding training camp, Fabian Lysell.

27:40 What does he look like?

27:41 How is he doing?

27:42 How is he developing?

27:44 Does he put up a fight to make this team?

27:46 Because I think if he if he is lighten it up in training camp in the preseason, I don't

27:52 know.

27:53 Maybe he'll put something there and they feel that, hey, he'd be a good third line

27:56 right winger.

27:57 Or, you know, maybe he makes things interesting and, you know, kicks Van Riemseke out of the

28:02 top six or something.

28:03 I'm not saying it's going to happen.

28:04 Me and you are both on the same page on.

28:06 I think more seasoning for him would be a really good thing.

28:09 But if he just lights the world on fire in training camp, you know, what how does that

28:13 sort of change their outlook on him?

28:17 So again, that'd be like my my prospect that I want to kind of keep an eye on.

28:20 I mean, I would bet you point to us already.

28:23 But Lysell obviously is the interesting one.

28:25 And we've we talked bottom six with Beecher and stuff like that.

28:27 So we'll have more with training camp in the future.

28:30 And one place is I know there's gonna be a lot of training camp content from is with

28:34 you over at Boston dot com and the Boston Globe.

28:36 Yeah, we're going to be covered throughout the long days of training camp.

28:40 Thank goodness.

28:41 And you've all been waiting for days where we almost have too much stuff to talk about.

28:45 It's finally here.

28:46 We'll have all of it over at Boston dot com so you can read all of our stuff over there.

28:50 You can follow me on Twitter.

28:52 You can at Connor Ryan underscore 93.

28:54 Go do all that.

28:55 And I saw Connor, your blue checkmark is back on Twitter.

28:58 Oh, I heard.

28:59 Yeah, I saw that.

29:01 Welcome back.

29:02 I can't say welcome back.

29:04 But they can say welcome back.

29:06 The blue check.

29:07 It's like that little gif of the kid.

29:09 I think he's got like the spelling bee with all the confetti swallowing on him.

29:12 So I feel like the blue checkmark back.

29:15 But at what cost?

29:16 At what cost, Evan?

29:18 You left us peasants.

29:19 It's ridiculous.

29:20 You're back on the elite.

29:22 You're an elitist now, Connor.

29:24 Sad.

29:25 I'm sad.

29:26 I'm sad.

29:27 Against the working men and women.

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