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00:00:00 Wow. Wow. Bruins win it 2-1 in overtime. Like I said, remember, Game 6, I said they're winning

00:00:12 2-1 in OT. It's Impostor Dog got a beautiful play from him. That's exactly what's going

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00:00:30 You want to go to round two, get $20 off with the promo code CLNS. They win. They won it.

00:00:40 Despite some sloppy play, despite a lot of the things we talked about in games five and

00:00:46 six, they pull it out. They pulled it out. And guess who? David Pasternak wins it. And

00:00:55 you know, we shouldn't be surprised. I'm not. You know, I didn't say this wasn't great,

00:01:00 but in a big moment like that, you expect your best player to step up and he did. So

00:01:05 what was your initial thought and takeaway from this game?

00:01:07 Well, I think my initial thought is, while I'm still a fan, like I think you had alluded

00:01:15 to the fact in a few text messages, the idea that this is nerve wracking. I had butterflies

00:01:21 in my stomach from the start of the third period on. And once Nylander scored, I just

00:01:31 assumed the game was over, right? Like the game had been played as if that first goal

00:01:36 was going to be the game winner. And I think the number one key to that game for Boston

00:01:44 tonight was that third line. Frederick, Van Riemsdyk, Brezow, they were their best line

00:01:52 all night. And then Hampus Lindholm decided to play in the third period and he was a different

00:01:58 player and he was the difference maker there. Obviously scoring the goal to tie it. And

00:02:03 then that's an unbelievable play to try to make that in overtime. So I would say those

00:02:11 two things are the things that stick out. While Frederick's line was really good, Brezow

00:02:16 was probably your best player all night. And then Hampus Lindholm in the third and then

00:02:21 overtime, that's the type of player that you kind of expect from a puck moving defenseman.

00:02:27 It is. I mean, you look at Lindholm in that third period and you're right, he looks like

00:02:31 a different guy. I mean, that confidence with the puck and he scores that goal right after

00:02:36 Brezow who you mentioned almost scored. And then again, that's like all series. I think

00:02:42 that's what we wanted them to do. Just that's a quick shot from the faceoff dot. He didn't

00:02:48 try to look for a pass and the Bruins still tonight were trying to find passing lanes

00:02:54 that weren't there. And there were a couple instances around the net where there were

00:02:57 just no shots taken. And that Lindholm goal was a perfect example of just shoot the puck,

00:03:03 shoot the freaking puck and it goes in. And then you see that the great pass Torrey Krug

00:03:08 used to do this all the time. That, you know, the slap pass basically and from the red line

00:03:15 and you know, posture not goes in and that's like a that's a perfect posture not goal,

00:03:19 right? Has it in the perfect spot, takes it to his backhand and finishes it. So I mean,

00:03:25 yeah, you're right. I mean, Lindholm was a difference maker in that third, which was

00:03:29 huge. I mean, you know, we've criticized him a lot through this series and rightfully so

00:03:33 we had some bad turnovers in the first and second, but came through in the third when

00:03:37 it mattered. And then, you know, David Poshnok, I like David Poshnok, you know, had a rough

00:03:42 start to this game, but I thought there was at least more of a desire to get to high danger

00:03:47 areas tonight, at least in the third. And I think you can say that for the Bruins as

00:03:51 a whole. And then, you know, he gets that OT winner. And I wonder, like, does this open

00:03:57 is this is this going to, you know, break open the dam for posture rock? Is this going

00:04:02 to be what, you know, propels him to play well against the Panthers in the next round?

00:04:07 And I don't want to get too ahead of ourselves with the Panthers yet. Let's let's soak this

00:04:11 in the Leafs fans, you know, walking away from Maple Leaf Square. Let's enjoy this right

00:04:17 for his fans. Enjoy this. But posture rock again. I mean, what do you think of Poshnok's

00:04:21 game overall?

00:04:22 Yeah, no, he wasn't good tonight. He was a little bit better in the third. I'll give

00:04:29 him that. I think there was some some urgency to some urgency to try to create his own shot

00:04:34 tonight. I still think wall battles lost. I think I think on the four check non existent.

00:04:45 But right, like he has that capability to turn turn the game around with one play. And

00:04:51 you I think that's what you're hoping moving forward is that this is the foundation that

00:04:56 this goal, which is obviously a huge goal, right, like will help springboard him because

00:05:02 they have no chance. And I know you don't want to talk about Florida. You have no chance

00:05:06 if he doesn't play well or if he continues to play the way I completely agree. Yeah,

00:05:11 if he continues to play the way he's been playing, you're out in four or five and thanks

00:05:16 for coming. But yeah, he's an elite hockey player that a very few people can pick that

00:05:22 up off the wall at full speed. Like if you watch that, he has an idea that that's coming

00:05:27 right from like the second he passes it to Linholm on that on that hinge pass. You can

00:05:35 see him wheeling and Linholm obviously with the great great geometry class there. But

00:05:44 to be able to say, yeah, to be able to make that stick handle in the blue paint. That's

00:05:51 that's why you score 50 goals a year, right? Like and I guess we've gone we've gone six

00:05:57 minutes and we haven't said anything about Jeremy Swain and he was again the best player

00:06:01 in the game tonight. Not I mean, the save after the goal is why they win this game.

00:06:08 So he makes that save on the tip. I think it was Edmondson. I don't know who was driving

00:06:12 through the middle there, but that blocker save is that's huge. That's huge. And you

00:06:20 allow you allow your team like it looked like that face off right after the goal. It's that

00:06:26 you kind of let down because because they kind of that assumption. Oh, this game's been

00:06:30 so tight all game. One goal was going to be the difference maker and he makes a huge save.

00:06:36 And that was there was some momentum there.

00:06:39 There was there was. And, you know, I mean, again, there were you know, I have to look

00:06:44 at the natural such, by the way, my Wi-Fi is not hot. It's not great right now. So if

00:06:48 I drop off for any bit, I will be right back. But I don't think that hopefully it doesn't

00:06:53 happen right. But, you know, I don't have natural statute open at the moment. But Swain

00:06:59 and made some freaking huge saves, huge saves. And again, the one goal that goes in is not

00:07:05 his fault. Carlo tripped over himself and turned it right over. And Nylander was wide

00:07:09 open in front for the now open net. Of course, he's going to score that Swain into me was

00:07:14 the MVP of this whole series. The Bruins on the Bruins win this this series because of

00:07:19 Jeremy Swain. He keeps them afloat. I mean, you know, there were there were still tendencies

00:07:25 tonight that I didn't like from the Bruins. I mean, again, like we texted about it a lot.

00:07:30 The breakout still. I mean, what is that? You're throwing it up the strong side. The

00:07:35 four check. Why are you not being more aggressive on Toronto's D? But Swain was the one constant,

00:07:41 you know, even with the turnovers behind the road, Ned, even with the turnovers coming

00:07:44 out of their own zone, he was making big saves consistently. And if I'm Jim Montgomery, I

00:07:50 am buying Jeremy Swain, whatever the hell he wants. And same with the team. And I think

00:07:55 Jeremy Swain has now played his way into getting a fat P.H.A.T. contract this offseason. I

00:08:02 think it's because, again, like he's the reason he's the reason that we're not sitting here

00:08:08 going, all right, Jim Montgomery should be gone and then this and that. And and, you

00:08:14 know, they're on the ground, too, because of Jeremy Swain. And there's no doubt about

00:08:17 that. Yeah, I mean, without Jeremy Swain, you're not you're not playing right. Like

00:08:23 you look at his numbers throughout the series, I think. I mean, I don't even know what they

00:08:27 would be up tonight heading into today's game. Was it nine, four, nine? Yeah, it was less

00:08:34 than two goals in every game against. I mean, you heard on the national broadcast, I'm all

00:08:40 talking about him being the best goalie throughout the NHL playoffs. And he was out again tonight.

00:08:46 So I think and maybe this is too early, but I think you go right. I know. I know where

00:08:53 you're going. Go with it. I think you go right back to him on Monday night. I think he's

00:08:59 locked in and probably that idea that he is. Challenging for a large contract, and he's

00:09:08 playing that level of, you know, an upper echelon goalie. So I think you got to I think

00:09:13 you go right back to him on Monday night. That's a great comment. The for sale sign

00:09:18 of her house down. I agree with you. I agree. And that doesn't mean he plays every single

00:09:23 game of the series. It looks like you should. He's playing out of his mind. Right. I think

00:09:28 the plan going into playing Florida is you start swimming in game one and you see where

00:09:33 it goes. Like you play until you can. And I think that's what you run with next series

00:09:38 is Swain's earned the right to definitely get game one and then kind of get the benefit

00:09:43 of the doubt, at least for game two.

00:09:45 I mean, why you won this series, you're not going to go away from your best player. Someone

00:09:49 just asked me, someone just asked me how loud was the garden, Evan, on pasta's goal. Deafening.

00:09:56 I think I tweeted the building was vibrating. It was like that. Like this place went bananas

00:10:03 when that in obviously, I mean, it's 8pm. I think everyone was so tense throughout that

00:10:08 intermission going into OT. It just exploded, which is awesome. So it's good to see a good

00:10:14 crowd tonight. But yeah, I mean, like Swain starts game one. No doubt. No doubt. No doubt

00:10:21 in my mind. I think you're going right back to the same

00:10:23 lineup. I do think it for the first period and then the last half of the third and the

00:10:30 last half of the third into overtime. That's the team that you expect on any given evening.

00:10:37 And I think you roll out that same line out lineup. Sorry. I think by and large, people

00:10:42 played well. I think certainly too many turnovers in the defensive end that cost you. And I

00:10:50 think if with Florida's four check, that's going to be an issue. And someone asked the

00:10:54 question did Boston make an adjustment to Toronto's F2? They did at times. Not enough.

00:11:02 So what Boston did tonight at times, and it happened on the, and this I texted you, interesting

00:11:10 face off at the beginning of the third period. So Boston puck goes into Boston's end. They

00:11:17 invite the first four checker that is coming with speed and they reverse it. So you're

00:11:23 taking it strong side and you reverse it back to your partner. So your partner comes underneath

00:11:28 you and then you go back up that strong side. So at times tonight, they did reverse the

00:11:33 puck. They were, they had a little bit better zone exits, but far too, far too often. Again,

00:11:40 they were chipping it up strong side. I think what they were trying to do, and this is having

00:11:47 watched it now, I think that Toronto's defense pinched on absolutely everything. I think

00:11:53 they were trying to play it over their head, but under pressure, you never, never really

00:11:58 able to do that. So it consistently got, it got bottled up just at the top of the circle,

00:12:05 Toronto's defense keeping it in. And so that's something that they're going to have to change

00:12:09 because you know, Sam Bennett's coming, right? Like he, he is going to be aggressive. Kachuk's

00:12:16 going to be aggressive. They're going to finish every hit on Lindholm and McAvoy and make

00:12:22 that series really difficult on Boston's defense. If they do zone entries have got to be far

00:12:30 better.

00:12:31 I agree. And then, and again, like Florida.

00:12:36 Zone exits, not zone entries, zone exits.

00:12:38 But your zone entries need to be better too. You're right though about zone exits. I mean,

00:12:42 cause again, Florida kind of started that problem last year with the Bruins where you

00:12:47 know, they were having a tough time moving the pot of their own zone and you know, Florida's

00:12:52 going to be harder on them. Kachuk, Farcock, guys like that. And I think there's a lot

00:12:59 to improve upon. I think it would have been nice to have a little bit of a break. That's

00:13:03 why I think everybody wishes that this series ended after game five, you had a little bit

00:13:06 of a break before game one.

00:13:10 But we don't know. I don't think we know yet when game one is going to be in the next series.

00:13:14 I know that people think it'll might be Monday. I don't know yet. So we'll see what happens

00:13:18 with that. But I think, you know, the big, the big picture is Jim Montgomery probably

00:13:29 saves his job, right? That's number one. That's number one on the list. And number two, and

00:13:34 like, you know, we've been negative about that though. Can we talk about that just for

00:13:38 a second? Let's do it. But we can talk about it for a long time.

00:13:43 I want to talk about this. We all, we all agree that David Poshnok struggled, right?

00:13:49 Yes. Okay. Consistently the whole game at home tonight played against Tavares and knees.

00:13:57 Nice. All right. And they had said before the game that Matthew Nyes had played, had

00:14:03 logged 45 minutes against David Poshnok in the series. At no point did you go away from

00:14:10 that? I don't, I don't know why. And this, if we

00:14:15 were, if they had lost, I think we would have, I don't know if it would have been an open

00:14:20 or an opening take. We would have talked as we are right now. They never went away from

00:14:24 matchups. Like you always fourth line against fourth line. And like, I don't know why you

00:14:32 didn't try to gain an advantage and maybe that's because he has, doesn't have faith

00:14:35 in the fourth line's ability to go against, you know, Tavares's line. But you take that

00:14:40 chance in game seven. You take that chance. And I agree with you. I agree with you on

00:14:46 that. So the thing was just, you had the fourth

00:14:50 line four times, take offensive zone draws, which I get now, if this is a regular season

00:14:56 game and you're putting your fourth line out there, right? You're 200 feet away from your

00:15:02 net. So go ahead. But offensive opportunities in the playoffs and especially in a game seven

00:15:08 are so hard to come by. That's where you're trying to gain the advantage. Put out your

00:15:13 best line against their fourth line. And you, and you didn't do that. And if you, yes, Brandon

00:15:20 Carlos falls, but that's Matthews and Neylander out against Boquist, Maroon and who, and Beecher

00:15:29 on the, on that goal against now, that's probably a recognition from right. Like Montgomery

00:15:36 probably already had them out on a change. Toronto recognize that, Hey, to their credit,

00:15:41 we recognize that. Let's get them out there right away. And that's in the back of the

00:15:43 net. So you've got to do a better job at home of, of creating advantages for Pasternak,

00:15:51 especially right. Let's call a spade a spade. And we've been, everyone has been saying it

00:15:55 all year and it's come to fruition. Your lack of your lack of offensive center depth hurts

00:16:03 past.

00:16:04 Right. So in right, you moved to dock it to the wing coil at a good first period, but

00:16:12 then after that disappeared. So you've got to create it. You've got to create matchups

00:16:19 that Pasternak can exploit. And they didn't do that throughout the whole series. And that's

00:16:24 just, you stuck with, you stuck with Pasternak against Niles and that, that didn't help them.

00:16:32 By the way, game one is Monday at 8:00 PM in Florida. So we'll be right back at it.

00:16:40 Very quick turnaround. Yeah. I mean, I agree with you. I didn't like that. I didn't like,

00:16:47 cause again, like when Bruce Cassidy, they were pretty good at exploiting matchups and

00:16:52 they would, they would aim at those. And you, you know, you'd, you'd try to find that. They

00:16:56 also had a fourth line back then that could go against teams top line. I don't think this

00:17:00 fourth line is fully capable of that, but your third line could be, I thought we opened

00:17:05 with this, but like Frederick Brazzo and JVR were outstanding tonight.

00:17:08 I mean, on that, on that Lindholm goal, Brazil almost scored right before it. And that was

00:17:13 just a great four checking play around the net, you know, like getting dirty and like

00:17:18 that line looks good. Brazil was great tonight. Brazil was awesome. I thought the way, you

00:17:24 know, he fought for interior ice, he's confident with the puck. Like I, I, I, you know, used

00:17:30 his size. Well, I liked him.

00:17:34 That was at the first period too. He goes inside out on Morgan Riley and misses a high

00:17:41 blocker side. I did not see that. I did not, I did not see that agility coming, but his

00:17:47 ability to possess the puck and be a threat down low. He's going to be more important

00:17:54 in the second round because the game will be a little bit more physical. There'll be

00:17:59 a little bit more possession of the puck low for Boston. So he, he was, he was really good,

00:18:05 but Van Riemsen was great too. So credit to that third line all night.

00:18:12 Credit to them. So continuing on with what we were saying before about Montgomery, like,

00:18:17 you know, I think this win saves his job for now. Again, we'll see what happens in the

00:18:22 next round, but I mean, he has not now blown two straight three, one leads, you know, he

00:18:28 has not. But I think this, you know, we talked a lot about after last episode, this team

00:18:35 needs a shakeup. The core needs a shakeup. They're, they're choking too often and they're

00:18:40 not winning the big games. Yeah. Shout out Evan Snipples. I know allergies are killing

00:18:44 me today. Absolutely killing me. Even inside my allergies are not doing, not doing me any

00:18:49 favors. So I apologize. Thankfully I don't have my mic. So, you know, I'm not like, like

00:18:54 right into the mic, at least my AirPods kind of have crappy sound quality. And I apologize

00:18:59 for that. But again, like we're not asked, you know, I think there are questions with

00:19:07 this roster. I think there are definitely areas to improve. No doubt. I talked about

00:19:14 those hags the other day. Like you need to find, if you can get a number one center,

00:19:18 go get it. You know, if you can get depth in the top six for, for wings that's great.

00:19:24 Like do it. But it, you know, as for now, like I, you know, do they need to shake up

00:19:30 the core? I mean, they just want a big game. They didn't play their best. They played better

00:19:34 than the last two for sure. But you know, I don't think you need to shake up the core

00:19:38 quite yet. We'll see what happens against Florida. I don't think anyone's really picking

00:19:41 them against Florida. I think it might be a little bit closer of a series than people

00:19:45 think. I haven't put a prediction together, but like everybody always thinks series are

00:19:49 going to be lopsided. I don't think it's going to be fully lopsided, but I think this wind

00:19:56 does a lot for this core. They're, you know, yes, they've choked away some stuff, but they

00:20:02 got this done. They got this done. The Leafs are still beneath them, still beneath them,

00:20:08 which again, if the Leafs had won tonight, Bruins would have went right down here. Yes.

00:20:15 Toronto played better than them tonight. And, and yeah, but the Bruins won. Yes, they, they

00:20:21 won. I, and there was, I would, would you enjoy moving forward was that there was a,

00:20:27 there was resiliency. They didn't quit when they went down one, nothing, but I think by

00:20:31 and large, and especially in that second period, they, and this is, this is on their forecheck

00:20:37 and I don't know who puts that together, but Boston allowed Toronto to dominate them through

00:20:43 the second period. And yeah, if you had faith in your rate, like you're calling it your

00:20:53 core. If you had faith in your core to put pressure on, on Toronto's D all night, you

00:20:57 would have let them go. And you didn't, right? Like you were trying to create turnovers in

00:21:01 the neutral zone. You, you weren't sure that you were fat and this is what I think. I don't

00:21:07 think you were sure that you were fast enough to put enough pressure on Toronto's D to create

00:21:11 turnovers below the goal line. So you try to bottle up the neutral zone, but in effect,

00:21:16 you just allowed zone entries all night. And this is, would be a question for anyone, right?

00:21:24 You're obviously, and we, I think we talked about this after game one, you're a better

00:21:27 player when you have time and space, right? Anytime time and space is taken away from

00:21:31 anyone, the game becomes hard. Boston continually sat back in the neutral zone, but not on the

00:21:37 offensive side of the red line. They sat back on the defensive side of the red line, right?

00:21:43 And the reason you would be on the, the reason you, and it's a simple, the reason you're

00:21:48 on the offensive side of the red line when you're going through a neutral zone forecheck

00:21:53 is so that if they have to dump it, they ice the puck. So you move back past the, into

00:22:01 the defensive side of the red line, then you're just, you're allowing them to get pucks in

00:22:05 deep with speed. And that was, you were constantly under pressure all evening. I don't know if

00:22:13 that changes for the Florida series. That is something that they're going to have to

00:22:16 change. You are not going to be able to allow Florida to put pucks in deep and then just

00:22:23 physically, physically outplay you below the goal line. And you don't want Lynn Holman,

00:22:30 McAvoy and Carlo taking hits for the majority of the season.

00:22:35 No you don't. But again, like obviously the Leafs played better tonight. I agree. The

00:22:39 Leafs played a better game, but in three years, when we remember this, we're not going to

00:22:45 remember that. We're just going to remember Bruins pulled it out. Bruins won. And I agree

00:22:50 with you. There are roster questions with this team. No doubt. No doubt. We've gone

00:22:55 so in depth on it. And we will continue to in what they need and what they need going

00:23:02 forward. But tonight was a step in the right direction. I think no doubt. I mean, again,

00:23:08 it was not their best game. I agree with you. I was texting you all game. I thought they

00:23:11 were, I thought they were so cooked. I thought the Bruins were done. I did. I did. I did.

00:23:18 But they pulled it out and props to them. Lynn Holman, Pasternak stepped up when it

00:23:22 mattered most. Swam in was outstanding. This series, you know who I thought had a really

00:23:27 good game tonight and we can get it. I want to get, we'll get into McAvoy in a bit, but

00:23:31 I thought Mason Lowry was outstanding. He was, I think one of the big takeaways from

00:23:36 this game and this series is you got something in him and you think it with a prospect, but

00:23:41 you never know until you see it. Right. And I remember in 2017, Charlie McAvoy was fresh

00:23:47 out of college and the Bruins had no D depth. They were, everybody was hurt and they brought

00:23:55 McAvoy up from Providence and had him come in and go against that wagon of a Senator's

00:24:00 team. And he was phenomenal. And it was really because he just played freely. He just did

00:24:06 his thing. And Lowry to me, you know, we talk about like Carlo and Linton, Holman McAvoy

00:24:11 being kind of iffy with the puck and you can see that the pressure gets to them at times,

00:24:15 right? Lowry just played freely. You know, he tried to dangle through and he almost did

00:24:21 it, you know, just smart, simple passes at times. He's such good vision. He's good. You

00:24:28 know, he's, he's, he's, you know, he still has a little work to do in his own zone, but

00:24:32 you know, aggressive stepped up in the neutral zone on certain, like, I just, I thought Lowry

00:24:36 was great. And I think the real positive you have now is he's not just coming in for a

00:24:41 game. Like he's in, he is in the lineup and he is a bright spot, I think, for this team

00:24:46 going forward.

00:24:47 No, I think the thing is he plays with confidence, right? He, he understands what his game is.

00:24:54 His game is skating with second period where he tries to go between the legs off, off a

00:24:59 nut, off a nice rush. But I think moving forward with McAvoy, Carlo and Lowry, you're, you're

00:25:07 going to be in a good position on defense, right? Like you obviously have to fill in

00:25:10 the gaps around him, but, but certainly someone that can, can run a power play that's going

00:25:17 to chip in offensively. And as he starts to round out his game, he's going to be a good

00:25:22 defender because of how well he skates because of his length, because of his athleticism.

00:25:26 So you're going to want to continue to develop the defensive part of it, part of, of his

00:25:32 skill set. But he had a great night tonight and he was, he was not scared by the moment.

00:25:40 And that's what you're going to want from what I, what I think you would agree is a

00:25:46 core part of your team moving forward and, and his confidence. That was great tonight.

00:25:54 It's almost like, you know, when you're young, kind of a rookie and a little bit naive, you

00:25:58 don't really, you don't start to understand the gravity of the situation. It's like, I'm

00:26:02 just going to go do it. And he did, and he was confident in what he was doing. And I

00:26:07 just, again, like, you know, do we say that he's part of the core going forward? You know,

00:26:12 I don't know. He's not, you know, I don't know if he's there with Pasterak and McAvoy

00:26:17 yet, but the encouraging signs are that he is headed in that direction.

00:26:21 He's headed in potentially being a top left shot defenseman on your team. And I think

00:26:27 that's a really good sign because he's six, five, he skates well, he's got high offensive

00:26:31 upside and again, it's, it's, it's, you know, a game and it's been a series, but I think

00:26:37 the, you know, like if this was a stock would be like, all right, it's trending in a, in

00:26:41 a very good direction. You know, we don't know what's going to happen against Florida,

00:26:44 but so far I've really liked what I've seen from Lowry. I really have.

00:26:49 And so what I'm saying to you, like part of the core with, with any stock, people will

00:26:54 call and ask you to trade. If someone calls you tomorrow and is looking to trade for Mason

00:27:00 Lowry, are you, are you answering that call?

00:27:03 No, not right now.

00:27:06 Okay. So he's part of your core then. He, he's a good player. He's a good young player

00:27:13 that you wouldn't trade. Right. And, and so on your team right now, you're probably looking

00:27:18 at Swain and posture knock McAvoy, low Raleigh, Patra. I don't know.

00:27:25 I mean, it's, it's funny. Cause like that injury sucked to Patra. Cause I was so curious

00:27:31 to see how his, his trajectory was going to happen, like go over the course of the season.

00:27:37 What was he going to be able to do? Where was he going to fit? I know he kind of cooled

00:27:42 off a bit right before he got hurt, but it would have been really interesting to see

00:27:45 what, where he would have fit with this team at such a young age. And, and, and sort of

00:27:52 what he could end up doing. But again, you're getting something out of low ride and that's

00:27:57 enough. That's a prospect, right? Like he's worked, he's been good. And so I think that's

00:28:02 an encouraging thing.

00:28:05 One thing that has not been encouraging is Charlie McAvoy. And I think that's been, I

00:28:09 don't mean to get negative on y'all. I know it's a big, big night. We've talked a lot

00:28:13 of positive things. We do have to discuss this. You know, I don't know what it is, but

00:28:20 when I was talking to some of the other writers about this, he's good at getting shooting

00:28:26 lanes. Like he's good at getting defenders to bite at the blue line and go in a different

00:28:31 direction. But he's always looking for the pass. He's all, it's like, just shoot it.

00:28:36 You saw when Holmes goal there, right? Like just shoot the puck, shoot the puck. And I

00:28:41 think with McAvoy, it's like, just throw a shot on net. And I know the Leafs are blocking

00:28:45 everything, but he's doing a good enough job to open up the shooting lane. Do it, just

00:28:50 shoot it. So, you know, I, I, you need more from McAvoy going forward.

00:28:57 Yeah. I think the one thing that I liked about his game tonight, I think offensively he tried

00:29:01 to be more aggressive. Like he was aggressive tonight. I think oftentimes, and maybe overly

00:29:07 aggressive in and around the net, pinching down the wall. Yeah. He, he definitely overhandled

00:29:12 pucks at opportunities, but I think moving forward, you're going to want him to be that

00:29:17 aggressive. The one thing that is to his disadvantage, and you look at his numbers, he played nearly

00:29:24 30 minutes tonight. That's a, that's a lot of hockey. And what I don't think people,

00:29:30 no, I, I know people understand this consistently. He's getting asked to play minutes against

00:29:36 top lines. And then you're expecting probably more offense out of him than he's capable

00:29:42 of giving you. He's never going to be a 70, 70 point, 70 point defenseman at his, at tops,

00:29:50 right? It'll get you 60, 65, but he's shown through the early part of his career that

00:29:55 he's in that high 40s, 50 range. And you want more from him because he's your number one,

00:30:01 but he's an, he's an elite shutdown guy. And that's that plays on edge that plays physical

00:30:08 that can skate. And it just, just recently in the last three, four or five, three, three

00:30:15 games here, he's, he's turned the puck over a little bit and he's going to have to manage

00:30:19 the puck better in the Florida series. Cause you know, right? Like we've said this a number

00:30:24 of times, they'll put a target on McAvoy and they'll try to take him out of the series.

00:30:30 I agree with you. I agree. And again, he does play so many minutes and you do have to take

00:30:34 that into consideration, but you've got to own it. You've got to own it. And, and I think,

00:30:40 you know, when, when you have those shots, when you have chances and he does join the

00:30:43 rush, he is good at moving the puck up ice, joining the rush. And again, he, he didn't

00:30:51 set you. I mean, you know, he didn't contribute to a goal against, there was one goal against,

00:30:56 but I like, again, on that power play, I tweeted it like, you know, shoot the freaking thing.

00:31:01 Like, you know, I had an open shot and just trying to pass it. So again, I think, you

00:31:06 know, if you can change that one little thing, he's going to continue to be your horse going

00:31:10 forward. We know that he's super physical, which is good. And then in a series, like,

00:31:15 like he's built for this time of year, Charlie McAvoy is built for this time of year. And

00:31:19 I think, you know, you can make those adjustments, which they weren't creative, any adjustments

00:31:24 during the series, but if they can make that adjustment, I think they can get something

00:31:29 out of that.

00:31:32 And I think the same thing that you're talking about with Paschenau getting the goal, hopefully

00:31:36 that will springboard, maybe for the team to maybe they'll maybe having made it to the

00:31:43 second round, they'll definitely be the underdog. Maybe they play a little bit looser. Maybe

00:31:48 there's some freedom to their game. And instead of playing not to lose, they'll go out and

00:31:55 try to win. And I think a commenter is exactly right. They need to win game one. Like Florida

00:32:02 has been sitting there for an extended period of time. They're going to have to knock the

00:32:07 rust off a little bit. Yeah, there'll be fresher, but that's all that's a long time not to play

00:32:11 a game. So game one's huge.

00:32:15 Teams don't do well with a big layoff. They don't. Teams are not great with that. I mean,

00:32:20 it's good to get healthy, but you know, the Bruins are coming off a big win. They'll be

00:32:25 right back at it. It's Sunday, it's 12 AM. So tomorrow they'll be right back at it in

00:32:30 Florida. So, you know, you wonder if that plays a factor in that. Also, you have the

00:32:37 revenge idea from last year and you also have this thing and I can't like fully back it

00:32:44 up. I can't quantify it, but I think when a team has a scare like this and overcomes

00:32:51 it, like I think their worst fear was last year happening again.

00:32:55 And that was what was happening, right? Three, one lead in the first round, game five, lose

00:33:00 an OT game six, just a tough loss. You don't show up, you don't show up in game five either.

00:33:07 And then in game seven, you're going to OT again. And it's like, holy crap. And they

00:33:12 almost scored an own goal at the end of the first period, at the end of the third. And

00:33:17 like, yeah, like to me, and then they win it. At the 11th hour, they make sure it's

00:33:25 not like last year. And you just wonder if this team's going to play a little looser

00:33:29 and you just wonder if this team with the revenge on the mind from last year is going

00:33:34 to be different. And sort of, you know, it's funny, like, I don't know how close you watch

00:33:40 the college hockey playoffs this year, the tournament, but Denver was a number one seed

00:33:47 based UMass. UMass outplayed them the whole game, took them to double OT, outshot them,

00:33:54 had way more chances. And Denver escaped with a win. And I remember thinking at the time,

00:33:58 like, huh, the team, that does a lot for confidence. I'm like, all right, we got past round one.

00:34:04 Now we can do anything. And they went on to win the national championship. I'm not saying

00:34:07 the birds are going to win the cup. My God, that's not what I'm saying. But what I am

00:34:10 saying is I think they put up a fight against Florida. I do. I do. And I just, I just wonder

00:34:18 if this is a monkey off their back, you know, it ends with posturing scoring too. So now

00:34:24 he's not known as this guy who doesn't show up in the playoffs. Like you showed up when

00:34:29 it mattered most. So to me, I just, I think this is a big win for that group in moving

00:34:34 on in just not just getting the second round, but getting this out of the way. And Montgomery

00:34:40 finally makes it to the second round, which I think is another huge thing.

00:34:44 No, no, I mean, it's, it's, it's, and I think that's exactly what I was saying before. Like

00:34:52 the idea that you've gotten over this hump, there's no expectations for the second round.

00:35:00 I would imagine everyone across the board, as far as sports writers are going to pick

00:35:07 Florida to win the series and probably five or six. But that's why I think it's imperative.

00:35:13 The way that you finished the third period and you finished overtime, you have to play

00:35:19 that way. Game one, you've got to be desperate. You've, you've got to recognize that you have

00:35:23 an opportunity. You've, you played a seven game series. Yes, it was physical, but you

00:35:31 have Florida that's been sitting there for some, for some time. You've got to put pressure

00:35:38 on them early. And if, if they lose game one, then like, see what, see what happens from

00:35:44 there.

00:35:45 And if you can steal one in Florida, that goes a long way, goes a long way in a, in

00:35:52 a series like that and cleaning up play at home. And, you know, obviously they're better

00:35:56 in net with Bob Ross. He, no doubt he's been outstanding this year as the candidate. So

00:36:01 like you do have that, they don't have holes. Florida doesn't really have holes. So, you

00:36:07 know, you gotta make it, you gotta be better at making adjustments. You gotta try to find

00:36:11 a way to, to maximize matchups.

00:36:16 That's interesting. I, you know, I'm surprised they won this game. I am. I, I, I'm very surprised

00:36:24 the way things were trending. I'm like, I've seen this before. I've seen this just, you

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00:38:02 So one thing that was huge in this game, and I think this is a big reason, like if the

00:38:07 Bruins had lost this, we would have been like, holy crap, what a bag fumble. You get Ilya

00:38:12 Samsonov, you get Ilya Samsonov instead of wall. Now granted, you know, the Lindholm

00:38:19 goal was off kind of a net front play. You know, I don't know if it's soft. Probably

00:38:26 maybe should have had it. I'd have to go back and watch, you know, the breakaway goal. I

00:38:30 mean, that's a posh kind of breakaway. Like that's, that's going to happen. But you know,

00:38:37 again, that's a big break for the Bruins to get Samsonov instead of wall in a game like

00:38:42 this, whether that's mental, you know, Hey, we, we, we've had success against this guy

00:38:47 or just not having to face wall.

00:38:49 But you also have the other side of it where it's like, well, they couldn't really get

00:38:52 a lot going offensively against Samsonov anyway, and they're vacuuming around me. So I apologize.

00:39:00 Like at least like at least they've come away with the win. I think that's him. So enough

00:39:05 late addition was stunning. It was huge news. And you know, I don't know if they win because

00:39:11 of Samsonov, but they did win and they, they beat Samsonov again. So I'm curious if you

00:39:18 thought Samsonov made a huge difference in this game.

00:39:21 I thought he was really, I thought he was really good early on, especially and you could

00:39:26 tell that he was locked in usually when a goalie is locked in, they're swallowing up

00:39:32 rebounds and he did that early. Like anything that was hitting his chest, he didn't drop

00:39:37 any rebounds. I think on the, on the Lynn Holm goal, Lynn Holm probably doesn't get

00:39:42 enough credit for some poise there. He allows the Toronto, I don't know, forward or let's

00:39:50 just call it a defender to kind of slide on by. He has the patience and then, and then

00:39:55 the shot. So I think, I think Samsonov is probably reading initial shot and then the

00:40:02 half second hole probably gets him to pause and then leaves that, leaves that top corner

00:40:08 open a little bit. But I can definitely not the reason that Toronto lost. I thought he

00:40:15 was good. I thought early in the first period where Boston had shown you that, that they

00:40:21 were committed to putting more shots on net. I think he kept Toronto in that first period.

00:40:27 He did. He did. And I think it's interesting because that first period was all Bruins and

00:40:36 they still only had four high danger chances. I didn't think they had enough from great

00:40:40 AIs, but you still, it was more encouraging in the first period than games five and six.

00:40:44 So that's a good thing. But on the other end of it, you know, he saves in there. And

00:40:49 then that second period, it was all Leafs, the Leafs dominated the second period.

00:40:53 And I think for both teams to come out zero, zero, it was sort of a confidence boost for

00:40:59 both, but I would agree. I don't think the Leafs lost because of Ilya Samsonov. Like

00:41:03 I, I don't think, I think the Bruins should take more advantage of it. Right? Like there

00:41:07 was a play in the, I forget what period, I'm in the first or second where he had the puck

00:41:14 around the Toronto net and he cuts right from behind the net, right to the middle and looks

00:41:20 to pass it. And it's like, dude, just shoot it, shoot it. And it's those types of plays.

00:41:25 And we've said it before, like, it's great to, to to want to get better chances with

00:41:31 him passing it. But my God, if you're in a good spot, shoot it. And I think in general,

00:41:36 in a game like this, it's game seven, the guy against the Alex Samsonov, shoot the freaking

00:41:39 puck, no matter where you are in the offensive zone, shoot it. If you have an open shot,

00:41:43 take it. And they didn't, they still, I still don't think the Bruins did enough of that

00:41:47 tonight. I still don't think they did.

00:41:49 - So I think that's going to be hard to get out of their DNA, right? You played 82 games

00:41:54 where you try to create more quality shots than quantity, right? So you, you have these

00:42:02 opportunities. I think they're conditioned to look for that additional pass. And so that's

00:42:08 going to, that's going to be a hard habit to break. Even as you move forward in these

00:42:13 playoffs, I think you're going to continually be frustrated by Boston not taking the shots

00:42:20 that you want, right? Like, and P.K. Subban had alluded to it on the telecast, you know,

00:42:26 made, made Samsonov too comfortable early in the first period. You got to take non-traditional

00:42:32 shots, putting pucks at his feet, putting it low pad, crashing, crashing the net. And

00:42:37 that's just not, just not who they are. We, right, like having intently watched Boston

00:42:43 for seven games, I can't see that changing throughout the playoffs. And it's, it's, it's

00:42:50 going to get me mad, but that's who, but that's who they are. That's what the game plan is.

00:42:54 And I've got me, myself, I've got to get used to that.

00:42:59 Evan, you went out, you're on mute.

00:43:05 I muted myself because there was a vacuum around, but I didn't want to hear like,

00:43:11 thank you for reminding me on that. Yeah, you will have to get used to it, but I mean,

00:43:18 they also have to make some adjustments in that, right. And they did a little bit to

00:43:21 that. I mean, they finished with 31 shots. Okay. You know, but I thought there were just,

00:43:25 there were chances they passed up. We talked about McAvoy, that he played, there were some

00:43:30 others. You know, I see like, you can hear, shoot like in, like, cause we're right above

00:43:37 the balcony. So you can hear everybody being like, shoot, shoot. And I think a lot of the

00:43:41 times they're right. Like a lot of the times you're like, oh my God, but they are right.

00:43:45 And they were right in this series. Some interesting quotes coming out of the locker

00:43:49 room. Montgomery said, Swayman was our best player in the series and it wasn't even close.

00:43:55 That's indisputable. That is a fact. He also on low ride game six and seven were moments for him,

00:44:02 where I hope it's his coming out party, knowing you belong and how much you mean to the growth

00:44:07 of our team should be really comforting. I think that hits the kind of what we talked about,

00:44:10 you know, a few minutes ago in the sense that like, he's now moved into like, he's moved from,

00:44:15 oh, you know, he should be a piece. Let's see what he can do to, all right, this guy might be a top

00:44:20 pairing left shot defenseman. And I, you know, to me, like the two biggest takeaways I have from

00:44:26 this series for the Bruins going forward is that about low ride, you know, that he's now probably

00:44:32 on track to be a core piece and Swayman is your goalie of the future. I think there's no doubt

00:44:37 now that Jeremy's playman deserves long-term money, a long-term and to be the number one guy.

00:44:45 And I'm really fascinated to see what he does in this next series. Cause he did have the

00:44:49 advantage of owning the Leafs all year. So there was that, but I just how good he is. And Carl,

00:44:54 like you've seen it, like just the poise and, and a commenter mentioned his rebound control,

00:45:01 just, you know, it didn't let in soft goals at all. This series made the necessary saves made

00:45:07 saves that he shouldn't have made someone earlier. Diego Bass said something along the lines of he

00:45:13 had like 7.4 goals saved above expected. I'm sorry. My brain's fried. If I messed that stat up,

00:45:21 Diego, feel free to comment it again. But like it stuff like that to me, like you now know those

00:45:27 two are Swayman definitely is and low rise on track to be. And I think that's an encouraging

00:45:33 thing with this roster, at least going forward. Yeah. I think with the roster moving forward,

00:45:40 depending on which campus Linholm comes to play net, let's say next series,

00:45:47 if he's capable of building off what he did in the third period and the overtime,

00:45:55 and he gets back to playing at the level, look, the four defensemen that you have McAvoy, low-rise

00:46:00 Carlo Hampus, Linholm, like you can't ask for more than that. There isn't many teams in the

00:46:05 national hockey league that are going to be able to roll those four players out there on any given

00:46:10 evening. And I know that's a what if on on Linholm. But low-rise, I think is going to be a guy that

00:46:20 has the capabilities of putting up 40 points in the National Hockey League. I think he's just so

00:46:24 supremely confident in his abilities. And that's the same thing that you see from Jeremy Swayman.

00:46:29 He plays the game confident and he's really sure in the skill set that he has. And he plays with a

00:46:36 little bit of he plays with a little bit of arrogance, right, which is which is right.

00:46:40 And I think I'm not rolling. I'm not rolling my eyes at you. I'm rolling my eyes. They're

00:46:44 switching this over to the Celtics part day and it's loud as hell. So apologies to people at home.

00:46:50 Oh, my God. That's all right. I just I think I think I like I think the Bruins enjoy playing

00:46:57 in front of Swain. And that's not to say that they don't play hard for at least home market. Just

00:47:01 there's there's a confidence to Swain in game. And I think he is the guy moving forward. And

00:47:07 I think someone asked in the comments section, right, like, you continue with

00:47:12 with this like the goalie rotation moving forward. And I think it's probably pretty

00:47:18 clear that you're going to you're going to have to trade all mark. Oh, yeah. I mean,

00:47:24 that was clear going in. I don't think that's anything new trading all mark. I think we've

00:47:29 that's been on the table since before the playoffs. I think the interesting thing and I

00:47:34 highlighted this comment for a reason. They say, you know, John says, no more talk about

00:47:37 a goal setting rotation. Thank God. I don't know if this ends it. I think what it does,

00:47:44 though, is Swain is definitely starting game one and most likely game two. And I think you're

00:47:49 really only switching to all mark if Swain is struggling or if the Bruins are down like two.

00:47:55 Like, you're that's all you're doing. You're not going into Florida going,

00:48:00 all right, Swain gets game one. Oh, Mark's game to Swain in game. Like,

00:48:04 they're not doing that. I think Swain has been too good. I think he's earned the benefit of that.

00:48:09 And I think it's a new series, right? You can try this out a bit. You know, if they really wanted

00:48:14 to go back to all mark in game two, but like, what will it have been then two weeks since he

00:48:20 will have started a game. So I just, to me, like, I don't think the rotation's over, but I think

00:48:28 it's very clear that Swain is the guy. And if you go to all mark, you have to be confident that he

00:48:35 can, I think they're confident he can do it. But I think you only go to all mark if Swain starts

00:48:40 to struggle at this point, because Swain has been that good. I mean, Swain, I haven't looked at the

00:48:44 goalie stats after tonight's game, but he's probably the best goalie in the playoffs right

00:48:47 now. Stats wise, you're not going to sit him if he's, if he stays on, if he has a great game one,

00:48:53 you're not going to take him out for game two. It's bananas. So yeah, he's going back in. I think

00:49:01 he, I think you, I think you ride with him until he gets, until he gets tired, probably. Right. I

00:49:09 would think that that's probably the reality of the situation that he's in, right? Like he's at

00:49:13 a 9.56 percentage, 1.60, you know, for, for guys that have played more than two games, he's,

00:49:21 he's the number one goalie in the, in the national hockey league during the playoff. So

00:49:25 I think he's gone. I don't think you pull them out unless you're down O2 and it's in large part

00:49:32 because he played poorly. Yeah, I agree. I agree. There's no reason to stray away from Swain and

00:49:39 he's been that good. And he, and he's a lot of the commentators are mentioning how common

00:49:43 collectivity is. I don't know if I've told this story on the post game show. I know I've said it

00:49:47 on Bruins beat and the podcast, but when I was at UMass, Swain was at Maine and UMass student

00:49:55 section is pretty big. And it's always like right behind the opposing goalie for two periods.

00:49:59 And you know, they would taunt the hell out of whatever goalie was in there, but Swain would

00:50:04 have fun with them. Swain would, you know, toss the water into them, wave Adam, you know,

00:50:08 skate right over to him. And he always had a smile on his face and he was laughing.

00:50:12 And I think you, he's so calm and he, and just that demeanor of he's so confident,

00:50:19 like you nailed it. Just the confidence in his game and how he's always square and he can get

00:50:25 to any puck. Like that's your guy. That is, that's your guy going forward. You developed him,

00:50:31 you drafted them like, and he proved it. He won you this series. He said, and it's funny.

00:50:37 Cause remember how hard he took that first round exit last year. And he only played in game seven,

00:50:43 like they threw him into the fire for game seven. And that wasn't why he wasn't why they lost the

00:50:48 game at all. And nothing to do with him. But I remember him saying like, I stayed in Boston this

00:50:53 this year. I never want to feel this way again. That was awful. And that's why, like, I don't

00:50:57 know if you've seen the video floating around on Twitter of him skating out of the net after they

00:51:00 won and him just kind of like going like this, you know, it's like the mean it's like, oh my God,

00:51:04 I can't believe this is my life. You know, that was, that was that. So he's your guy. He's your

00:51:10 guy. I think that him and low ride, you know, you have legitimate pieces there now, you know that.

00:51:17 And I think that's a very good thing. Yeah. I just want to say congratulations to Mello who,

00:51:21 who caught the train at North station by a minute. That's

00:51:25 I didn't think let's go boys. That's hard. I made the trip. Wow. I made the train rotation

00:51:31 by a minute. My first playoff game and it was a good one. You know what Mello props that is,

00:51:37 I have missed many trains at North station and just the T in general. So if you can,

00:51:43 when you can make one, that's a, that's a huge win. I just need to know, did Mel have to sprint

00:51:49 where they're like some pushing and shoving to get to the T or were you, were you there in time?

00:51:54 How did you get, if you can respond, how did you get there on time?

00:52:00 That's the key. I like that. How did you get there? Is this the perfect, because you know,

00:52:04 that there is something embarrassing when you do have to run for a train. It's like,

00:52:08 oh, this is like the meeting doing this, you know, this is like, if you're running for training,

00:52:12 like my God, I played in the NHL and now I'm running for a train. Like what, what am I doing?

00:52:18 No, that, that moment comes every time I have to pick up sticks on a high school bench.

00:52:23 I'm standing on the bench and they throw all their extra sticks at me and I got to bend over

00:52:30 and pick them up. That's the, oh my goodness. I can't believe I'm doing this. At one point

00:52:36 I was playing here. Now I'm picking up high schoolers sticks. That one hurts.

00:52:41 How reality hits you. And you're, and you're talking to me about,

00:52:45 about, about, you're talking to me. That's, that's where you're at. You're talking to me now.

00:52:49 Uh, this is fun. This is the fun part.

00:52:52 This is the fun part. Um, so Swayman big, big bright spot, low ride, big bright spot. Um,

00:53:01 we've talked McAvoy, posture knock. I mean, I like, do you think we don't know if he's dealing

00:53:07 with an injury or not? Nothing has been said on that. I think we'll be set on that. Um,

00:53:12 do you think that that goal is going to, can spark him for a good series against Florida?

00:53:21 I think it, I think, I think at any given moment can spark him. And certainly, I mean,

00:53:28 the energy that must be running through him right now to score a game seven over, I don't know what

00:53:33 that's feelings like, but like, although I might have done that a million times in my driveway at

00:53:39 19 packs and road in Framingham, Massachusetts, I don't know what it's giving your address.

00:53:44 Well, no, that's, that's my childhood address.

00:53:48 Oh, wow. Okay. I thought that was like, geez. Yeah. So I, yeah, I might have scored those a

00:53:56 bunch when I was a kid in the driveway, but in all my 19 games in the national hockey league,

00:54:02 I did not score a game seven overtime winner. So the energy that's going through him must be

00:54:09 palpable, right? Like he's a great player. I'm assuming that this is going to get him to be a

00:54:15 little bit more aggressive to look for his, his own shot, but I'm, he needs help. And I don't just

00:54:21 mean from, I don't just mean from the centers. He needs help from, he needs help from Montgomery.

00:54:27 He needs to get match-ups. He needs to have, right? Like if the fourth line's out there because of,

00:54:33 of an, of an icing, you gotta, you gotta get his line out there. Right? Like allow him to get away

00:54:41 from some of the match-ups that Toronto, right? Like Toronto did and Florida will also look to do.

00:54:48 He, he needs some help from the coach. And, and that is,

00:54:53 that, that, that, that is easy to do, right? Like that's not, that's not a hard ask.

00:55:03 Well, I don't understand like, okay, so next, next series, right? Let's say,

00:55:10 you know, in Florida, obviously you're not going to have the advantage.

00:55:12 Barkoff is a, is going to win a selfie this year. He's the best defensive forward now in the league.

00:55:17 You know, if he's up against that, you know, that Zaka line with Pasternak on it,

00:55:24 there's nothing you can do for games one and two. But when you come back here,

00:55:27 if there's an ozone draw and Florida trots out their fourth line or their third line,

00:55:33 why not put out Zaka and Pasternak? I don't know. And like, I just, I don't get that. I,

00:55:40 I don't understand it. That's an easy way to free up Pasternak. That's an easy way to get

00:55:45 him away from Barkoff. And maybe they'll make a more conscious effort of that in the series,

00:55:48 because Barkoff is that good. And, and, and Florida is, you know, well, physical and things

00:55:55 like that, like a Chuck is going to make life hard. And people are asking, like, is it over

00:55:59 in this next series already? I don't think it is. I think the Bruins are gonna put up a fight.

00:56:02 Um, I don't think it is as lopsided as people think Florida is a way better team than Toronto.

00:56:09 And this person says, you know, for Bruins play their best hockey, they can definitely beat

00:56:12 Florida, which I agree with if they play like this last series or we'll eat them up. I also agree

00:56:17 with that. I think if they play the way they did in games five through like parts of seven

00:56:23 against Toronto, I think they're cooked. But I think if they play structured kind of like game

00:56:28 four, um, you know, uh, making life difficult on Florida, pressuring them, not giving them time and

00:56:35 space, and then also trying to win match-ups, not just putting your second line against second line

00:56:40 and things like that. I think you have a much better chance. And I think that's an adjustment

00:56:45 they're going to have to make. Um, I want to ask you about adjustments, you know, on ice adjustments

00:56:51 you want to see them make, uh, going into the next round. Uh, but first I'll let you think on it for

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00:58:53 So in terms of on ice adjustments, we talked a lot in this series about use the weak side.

00:59:01 We talked a lot about four checking Toronto's defense. Florida's defense is better. Florida is

00:59:07 better in general. I know we haven't gone super in depth on the Panthers. We won't do that yet.

00:59:15 We were focused on Toronto so much, but on ice adjustments, you'd like to see the Bruins make

00:59:20 going into the second round. What are they? I think just overall with your four check here,

00:59:26 it's the same. I think Florida's forwards are going to have an advantage. They're

00:59:33 depth wise more talented than Boston is. You're going to have to put more pressure on them

00:59:40 to have to have good zone exits to come 200 feet. What Boston did tonight was

00:59:50 only their first four check was really aggressive. Everyone else, and at the beginning of the series,

00:59:57 they were on top of Toronto's forwards. Today they sag back, gave too much time. If you give too much

01:00:03 time and space to water and allow easy zone entries, I think they're going to eat you up and

01:00:09 it'd be a short series. I know we had talked about two on two as a super aggressive four check that

01:00:20 it takes up a lot of energy, but I think you have to be more aggressive on the four check.

01:00:26 You're going to have to create turnovers and be able to attack the net from below the dots as

01:00:34 opposed to, I don't think Boston's good enough to come 200 or 150 feet after turnovers and create

01:00:44 those opportunities. I think your offense in this series is going to have to be as a result of a

01:00:52 good four check. Either that two on two or some sort of flood, one, two, two, flood, they've got

01:01:01 to make that adjustment. I think relying on, not only relying on the weak side with your zone exits,

01:01:12 but I think relying on the reverse because you know that Kachuk and Barkov and those

01:01:23 Florida Panthers will be aggressive and finish their hit. You've got to use that to your advantage.

01:01:29 You're probably going to have to come low too and support the puck with a team that's overly

01:01:33 physical. If the puck moves in five and 10 foot increments, you're going to be successful,

01:01:39 right? Especially if Florida's looking to finish all of their hits throughout the series. You have

01:01:45 to make them chase a little bit. If you're going to try to stretch it on them, it might be a little

01:01:50 bit difficult, but yeah, they've got to, I will. I said if Boston won game seven and as we go into

01:02:01 game one of the Florida Panthers series, I will pull out the whiteboard for game one. I just don't

01:02:08 think a 1232 on a Saturday night is the right time for the whiteboard, but Monday evening,

01:02:15 mark my words, I'll have the whiteboard. - I love it. I'm so excited. It's whiteboard

01:02:20 season. That's what it is. Hashtag whiteboard season. I agree with you. Florida's D is better.

01:02:26 You can move the puck a lot better. So you should be wary of that. And I think again, it goes back

01:02:32 to kind of what Florida did to you last year, which was four check the hell out of them. And

01:02:36 it's gonna be a physical series. And I don't love sitting back in the neutral zone, especially

01:02:43 against talented teams, because if you give them time and space, they're going to make

01:02:49 most likely good decisions. And I don't like sitting back, go at them. And I know that sometimes

01:02:56 leads to odd man rushes, which isn't the best, but I still would rather forcing turnovers in

01:03:03 the offensive zone and placing a premium on that, I think is the most important thing.

01:03:07 And against Florida and a guy like Sergey Bobrovsky, yeah, you're gonna want high danger

01:03:14 chances for sure, but you also want shots that are surprising. You want shots he's not gonna

01:03:18 be able to see. And I think that's gonna be huge going into round two. - Yeah. And I think,

01:03:29 and not to keep harping on this, at home, you've got to win the matchup battle.

01:03:35 You have to, that's one to make the game easier. I think two, I think you need to establish

01:03:43 a number one power play. I think Boston started the series really well on the power play, but

01:03:51 like that first power play today, Brad Mowershawn played five seconds of a crucial power play,

01:03:58 right? Like you had Breazeau and Van Riems like out there, like establish a number one,

01:04:03 put your five best players on that and say, right, like Poshnack will stay out for two minutes. I

01:04:10 think it's fine if Mowershawn and or McAvoy stay out there for close to the two minutes. You can't,

01:04:17 no offense to them, they played great tonight. You can't have Breazeau and Van Riems like staying

01:04:23 out for a minute 45 of a two minute power play. Establish your number one power play, get them

01:04:29 going. And I don't, right, like I don't know what Florida's penalty kill is, so try to exploit

01:04:37 whatever the weakness is there. But I think that would be another, two other parts, right? Like we

01:04:41 talked about the matchups, but establish your number one power play. - One guy on the power

01:04:48 play is Kevin Shattenkirk that we've talked a lot about. And Martian had an interesting quote out

01:04:52 of the room just now. This is from Ty Anderson, who I was looking at off camera, that was who

01:04:58 was flipping me off. So I had to defend myself against Ty Anderson. He said, Martian says,

01:05:03 Shattenkirk and team, an incredible speech on Friday night that allowed them to settle down.

01:05:08 Well, we knew that everybody was going to bring their best game and do their job. You felt it and

01:05:13 you could see it on everyone's face. I think that is the benefit of keeping Alex Shattenkirk in the

01:05:20 lineup is that experience, being a guy who's been through a lot of these types of games,

01:05:27 been in these situations. And I think you look at guys like McAvoy and Pasternak, who seemed,

01:05:32 you know, in those last couple of games to just the moment, you know, just not owning it and just

01:05:38 holding their stick a little too tight. And I think, you know, Shattenkirk's speech,

01:05:42 there were still some of those problems tonight, but I do think, you know, having guys like

01:05:46 Shattenkirk and Maroon help this time of year, because those guys have been through it and kind

01:05:52 of getting that veteran guy who can go in there and be like, guys settle down. And it's interesting,

01:05:56 because like for a guy like Lowry, it's almost like he doesn't know any better. You know,

01:05:59 like it's like, this is just, he's going to go out and do it. He's a rookie. Whereas same with

01:06:05 Beecher, right? Beecher's just flying in and scoring. Whereas when you have guys like McAvoy

01:06:10 and Pasternak, they know what's at stake. They know what it's like to lose. They don't want it

01:06:14 to happen again. And for some players, I think that's, you know, just a relentless, they're just

01:06:18 going to go, you know, balls to the wall to make sure that doesn't happen. Whereas some others

01:06:23 hold the stick a little too tight and they get, you know, play a little more conservative and

01:06:26 trying to pass first. And I think, you know, I, I think that crept in a bit and I think, you know,

01:06:33 sounds like Shattenkirk's speech played out pretty well because they did come out better in the first,

01:06:37 which also was a big, we haven't talked about that at all. The first period, they didn't get as many

01:06:41 height in your chances that we wanted, but they certainly got more chances than they did in the

01:06:45 last two games, which was, which was encouraging. So good to see Kevin Shattenkirk given that

01:06:51 speech, I guess it was, you know, they're going to do documentary on it. They're going to have to do

01:06:54 like a movie on, on Kevin Shattenkirk. Keep Kevin Shattenkirk in the lineup because he give good

01:07:00 speeches. That's a Brunswick Bruin right there. You're talking about, all right, that's a, that's

01:07:05 a Brunswick alum. That's right in our wheelhouse. Shout out Brunswick. Yeah, no, I good player.

01:07:11 You know, I, you can, I'd have to go back and look at minutes, but minutes across the board,

01:07:19 you know, I didn't, didn't play a ton throughout the series. You know, you're, you're, you have

01:07:25 them out there and they use them quite a bit when you notice them with offensive zone draws and most,

01:07:31 most often with that fourth line. Yeah. But that, that veteran leadership is important at times.

01:07:38 I, I, I think though with retrievals, it's retrieval against floor is going to be tough

01:07:45 for him. He doesn't play with a ton of pace. I know that, I know that our fans will get on

01:07:51 Grizzlik doesn't like the physicality and that would be an issue. I just, I think at, at times

01:07:57 in the next series, you're probably going to see, I think you're probably going to see Grizzlik at,

01:08:02 at, at some point. Shot and Kirk will definitely go game one. I think you do roll out this lineup.

01:08:09 No, I keep them going, but I just Bruins fan Grizzlik will be in the lineup at some point

01:08:17 during the series. I would assume, I would think you'd need it. That was a big problem against

01:08:23 Florida last year was just the bad breakouts and they're putting the court together again. So that's

01:08:27 why you're hearing the drilling. And I, sorry, I interrupt. Yeah, I am. Yeah. Yeah. Is there any

01:08:38 status on, on him playing? So he was skating according to Twitter. He was skating on this

01:08:45 morning or Saturday morning at, at Mark's gate. I think he's still week to week. So I would assume

01:08:54 like you probably do want to rush. I want to rush him back for this series. It doesn't mean I would

01:09:02 like, as of now, I wouldn't expect game one or two, but could it be game three? Could it be game

01:09:08 four? Could it be later in the series? Like, I think in that sense, maybe yes, maybe yes. And I

01:09:15 think he, he brings, you want a guy like him in the lineup. I'm, you know, you wanted him to,

01:09:19 you wanted him to hate, you wanted him against Toronto, but I agree. Like they, the Bruins had

01:09:24 a really tough time. We were, we did the post game shows last year. How about the fact that

01:09:28 we're not a curse? Cause you could have made the argument. We did the two years of your post game

01:09:32 shows. They blew three, one leads. And I was a little worried. I'm like, can we run it back

01:09:37 next year if they lose in game seven? Are we, are we the bad luck? Yeah, I think we're not,

01:09:43 I think we're not the bad luck. Yeah. I was worried about that this evening. Like Montgomery,

01:09:47 I was worried if Boston lost, I was probably getting fired. Yeah, me too. We were gone.

01:09:55 It was. And no one, no fans, no comment section would ever get to see the whiteboard. So I,

01:10:02 I think that's probably why the butterflies were so, so high tonight. The thought process

01:10:08 that you might fire me. We're going to have to have a tough conversation. That was, it was,

01:10:14 it was going to be tough. Um, I said, I think I'm going to have fired myself too on that. I think I

01:10:18 would have, you know, it's accountability. We gotta, gotta do that. We gotta figure out if,

01:10:23 if this goes longer, we gotta get a live podcasts or at Lock and Tina or something like that.

01:10:32 That's right. For the framing and people out there who know lock and Tina is a goaded restaurant,

01:10:38 unbelievable value in Framingham, Massachusetts. So big shout out to lock and Tina. We gotta get

01:10:43 them as like a sponsor lock and Tina to sponsor this. Um, I like to me, I, you know, you look

01:10:50 back last year and the Brewers had a lot of tough times breaking the puck out. That's where I think

01:10:55 growth might help you in the series. It's going to be physically imposing, you know, guys are going

01:11:00 to target his corner. They're going to dump it in his corner. They'll have to put them through the

01:11:03 glass. But I do think, Oh, we do have someone who concurs on lock and Tina that, that that's all I

01:11:09 needed tonight and we can end it right here. Um, but I do think that, you know, having that,

01:11:16 having grizzly can align up would, would help. Um, for sure. There's a lot of people in here

01:11:22 in the comments talking about the future of the leaps. So do we want to give a quick thought on

01:11:26 that? I think it's an interesting one. We were, but we mentioned, you know, this series, uh, or,

01:11:31 you know, whoever lost game seven, their coach probably losing their job. I thought Sheldon

01:11:35 Keith got better as the series went along. I don't know if this probably doesn't save his job. He's

01:11:40 probably done. Um, you know, another first round exit, they did almost come back in the series.

01:11:46 So like props to them for that. But I just, I don't think you had to win the series. You had

01:11:50 to move on. So that's kind of my number one thing is Keith is most likely done. And then the other

01:11:57 is, you know, do you trade Marner? Like, cause after game four, we're like, we got to trade

01:12:02 Marner and this and that. Like, do you still do that? I would say, I don't know. Did you know?

01:12:09 I love Marty. I'm a big Mar this series put me off a little bit on them in the sense that

01:12:18 I think at times over the last couple of games, he was in large parts, Boston gave him a ton of

01:12:24 time and space. Like he's creative. And when he has control of the puck, he's scary. He just didn't do

01:12:29 enough in the series to help, to help Toronto win. And in a game seven situation, you're looking for

01:12:38 your best players to be your best players. And with Matthews, clearly not at a hundred percent,

01:12:42 you needed Marner. You needed Marner to create some offense and he just wasn't able to do it in

01:12:49 the series. So I don't, I still don't think you trade him. I mean, you, the, the difficult

01:12:58 part for them is their top four guys make so much money. I just, I don't know how,

01:13:08 I don't know how you offload those, those salaries. Right. I mean, you'd have to be giving up

01:13:13 something to go along with it for someone to take it. Right. Like,

01:13:17 you know, at this point, Tavares is probably the one that you would want to

01:13:21 unload because he's getting, he's getting older. He's, he's still a good player, but

01:13:33 yeah, for sure. For sure. Key's gone. You need to figure out what you can do. And that you haven't

01:13:40 been able to solidify that for some time. I can't think of, I know Leaf fans will,

01:13:46 I mean, I can't think of anyone Curtis Joseph. Yes, he was one. It was grace.

01:13:55 Was Belfour the Leafs at all or no? I'm completely. Yeah. Belfour is with the Leafs,

01:14:01 but I think Curtis Joseph is Curtis Joseph was after Belfour. So I'm not sure.

01:14:07 I remember Curtis Joseph from his Phoenix coyote days. That's how I know Curtis Joseph.

01:14:13 Cause that's more my time. I Marner, like to me, we talked a lot about a Chuck Hubert type trade

01:14:19 with the Bruins and I still don't think that's out of the realm for them. If you can find one,

01:14:24 I don't know who you pick though. The Leafs, I think need something like that.

01:14:29 Whether it's to bolster their defense. I don't know if you could really do it for a net,

01:14:36 but just shake things up. And everyone points at Marner as sort of the guy that would be the piece

01:14:44 to go because he's valuable as hell and a team would, you know, you could get a haul from Mitch

01:14:50 Marner. I think like, I don't know who the fit is. Cause it would probably have to be a team.

01:14:54 That's contending out West. Is it a team like Utah who wants to kind of have a, another marketable

01:15:01 player alongside Clayton Keller? Like is Utah be a potential spot for Mitch Marner? You know,

01:15:07 but also what are you giving up? And what is Toronto getting? I, they still want to compete.

01:15:12 You still have Austin Matthews. You still have me Lander. So like, you're not going to, you're

01:15:17 not going to retool or anything like that, but like, what do you get for Marner? What are you

01:15:22 looking to get from Marner? Is it, you know, a couple of roster players? Is it a roster, you know,

01:15:30 a top roster player and a couple of firsts? Like, I don't, you know, so again, I'm a spit ball in

01:15:35 here and I'm not a Leafs expert, so I don't, you know, have all the answers for that. But I think

01:15:42 I would assume the Maple Leafs and their media are going to be asking a lot of tough questions

01:15:47 with guys like Marner and he's not trading Matthews, not trading me Lander. It's probably

01:15:52 Marner. I'd assume it would be Marner. So we'll see if they do it. We've said this for years now,

01:15:58 will they do it or not? And they haven't, but this, this, it feels kind of urgent.

01:16:05 I don't know. I mean, I know they came back. So there's that, but I still think

01:16:10 I still think they probably, well, they're going to do something. They're going to do something,

01:16:13 right? Like they can't, they have to, yeah, they can't run it back and expect things to change,

01:16:18 right. Over the course of the last five years, they made it out of the first round once.

01:16:22 So, you know, Toronto fans aren't going to stand for that. Like too good of a city, too good of an,

01:16:32 like too good traditionally of an organization with a passionate fan base. So

01:16:38 you would, and I've said this throughout this series, when there's a Canadian team

01:16:42 in the playoffs and not just in the playoffs, but in the next rounds, the games are so much better.

01:16:50 Games are so much better. Obviously we, we love when the Bruins move on and then

01:16:57 in the national hockey league playoffs, but

01:17:02 there's just a different passion level when you go up to play or watch a game in any of those

01:17:07 Canadian cities. And it is fun to have them, right? Like no team has won since 1993,

01:17:12 like Patrick was Patrick was Montreal Canadians that has to change. And you see, right? Like the

01:17:22 way that the, that's kind of changed a little bit. Like players are smarter.

01:17:30 Players are smarter, Florida, Tampa Bay, Nashville, Seattle. Although they didn't

01:17:37 do all that well this year, I guess Las Vegas, what, what do those all have in common?

01:17:43 Income tax free.

01:17:47 And there are places that people want to play, but you're right. The income tax free is a big one.

01:17:55 And I think now with Kate, like, you know, I know stuff has been mentioned by

01:17:59 Maple Leafs players and Canadian players that, you know, it's a great market to play in,

01:18:04 but it's tough when times are tough, it's bad. It can be bad. And so I think when you go play

01:18:10 in Florida, right with the Panthers or the lightning, you know, the no income tax,

01:18:15 and then also on top of that, I mean, there's pressure, like I'm not saying there isn't,

01:18:23 but it's not crazy. I think, you know, Panthers and lightning players can often go to, I would

01:18:28 assume, go to bars and sometimes not get recognized where if you're like Austin Matthews, you can't

01:18:33 walk into a Toronto bar. Like that's, that'd be insane. You couldn't do it. So I think there's

01:18:38 also that too, but I do think Toronto does need to shake things up. Is it Keefe? Is it Shanahan?

01:18:44 You know, but we're not asking those questions of the Bruins right now. We're not.

01:18:52 Not yet. No, that's correct. Not yet. We'll see what happens in the next round.

01:18:55 And what can come of that? We haven't, you know, we haven't gone too deep on the Panthers yet. So

01:19:06 I'm not going to be like, Oh, what do you predict? My only prediction right now, and I have to kind

01:19:11 of look more into the Panthers in the next day or so. My prediction is that I think the Bruins put

01:19:16 up more of a fight than people think. I do, but they have to make those changes. They have to

01:19:22 make those adjustments. We've talked about numerous times. You need to adjust. And I think

01:19:27 that's going to be a big thing going forward. Do we have any leftover thoughts from this series?

01:19:33 Anything that you'll remember? Anything we haven't talked about?

01:19:37 I think, I think getting over the hump, not just winning game seven, but going down one, nothing.

01:19:46 And then having the resilience. Having the resiliency to score a minute 23 later and then

01:19:53 win in overtime. I think that's big, not just for the next round, but possibly moving forward.

01:19:58 Cause I don't, Boston's not a place that makes wholesale changes. They're not going to do a

01:20:05 complete re rebuild. So I think for the, for the group that's important now for the next series,

01:20:13 I still have, I still would have Florida and six, but can you get game one and can you put some,

01:20:21 can you put some, can you put some pressure on, on Florida?

01:20:25 So I'm so glad you brought up the resiliency in that third period. Cause when Neylander scored,

01:20:31 I said, that's it. I turned to the writers next to me. I said, that's it. It's over.

01:20:35 Maple Leafs just won and the Bruins could have rolled over and they didn't. And you mentioned

01:20:41 the third line, that Frederick line with Van Riemsdijk and Breazeau just a minute later,

01:20:46 have a long offensive zone sequence. They have a great followup shift to give it to,

01:20:52 the Bruins giving up a goal and it leads to Lindholm scoring. And like, to me, that is,

01:21:01 that was huge. I think that says a lot about that line, the resiliency to just not care,

01:21:07 go right back out there and do that. And I think if there was any moment where I think Bruins fans

01:21:14 could feel good, it was that one where it's like, all right, that's, that's a good sign.

01:21:19 That's a good sign. And you know, what's interesting, I meant to read this earlier and I,

01:21:23 and I, I skipped over it. Jim Montgomery mentioned after the game, he told his staff,

01:21:30 he was never more confident that they were going to win than he was entering overtime,

01:21:36 said whole day and game felt different. Now I don't agree. I was not in that camp. I,

01:21:43 I think you were not in that camp either. Felt like a lucky bounce for the Leafs was going to go

01:21:48 in and they would have deserved it. But you know, again, I, I give the Bruins full credit, like

01:21:54 own the moment they did. And that was that, but I, that, that, that shift from Frederick's line

01:22:01 was huge after that goal. And I think you have to keep that Frederick line together, right?

01:22:06 Yeah, I think that was your best, best line. I think the one thing that will be interesting is,

01:22:13 is Danton Heinen ready to play? Like, cause he's gonna, he'll, he'll slop back into the lineup.

01:22:18 It's just, who do you take out? I would, I, you know what I would, I don't know,

01:22:25 cause it's going to be a physical series. So probably Maroon stays in. It's just who would

01:22:29 come out if, if Heinen is ready to play, but yeah, you got to keep that third line together.

01:22:33 Yeah. Thank you. Do you know what's interesting? I was just thinking about this. So historically

01:22:40 now the Bruins every time at 13, 18, and now this, they have blown three, one series leads

01:22:47 to the Leafs only to win in game seven, which is pretty funny, but it's interesting when you go

01:22:52 back and look at those years, not so much 2018 cause they went to the second round and got

01:22:57 crushed by Tampa. Maybe that's what's going to happen in this case, except it's just Florida,

01:23:01 not Tampa. But you think back to like 2011, right? Bruins faced the Canadians in round one,

01:23:07 went down two Oh, um, looked in really bad shape. They lost both. They lost both games in Boston to

01:23:13 open that series. And there were a lot of people saying, Claude needs to be fired. This is

01:23:16 ridiculous. And they ended up winning that series in seven games and then going on to win the cup.

01:23:21 And you look at, uh, you look at 2013 too. Right. And like, uh, you know, that series against the

01:23:27 Leafs down three, one down for one in the third period of game seven, everybody's like, Oh,

01:23:32 Claude Julian, he's done. Um, and, and, and, uh, said that, uh, you know, they ended up going to

01:23:40 the cup. I know they don't win, but they ended up going there. And you do wonder, like the thing I

01:23:43 mentioned a little bit earlier of when a team kind of overcomes adversity, granted adversity given to

01:23:49 themselves by bad play, but still to overcome that and get over the hump, you do wonder if this is

01:23:54 sort of going to propel them further. Um, I, you know, I, I, I don't know if the cup is not there.

01:24:02 I'm not there, but I do think the second round is going to be more competitive than people think.

01:24:06 Well, I look forward to, I look forward to watching it on Monday night.

01:24:11 Yes. I mean, we might still be on the air at that point, but, uh,

01:24:19 yeah, we're going to go, we're going for another, uh, 48 hours.

01:24:23 I mean, I look, I look forward to the series. You know, that it's going to be fast. You know,

01:24:29 the games are going to be close and competitive. I really think it hinges on the Boston's ability

01:24:37 to win the series solely rests on game one. Can they steal that one? Can they get it done? Because

01:24:43 they've been playing for a while and Panthers are, are pretty cold right now. So you gotta be,

01:24:50 they've gotta be aggressive in game one and put pressure on floor all over the rank.

01:24:56 I completely agree. I completely agree. I think we've hit on just about everything. Swainman,

01:25:02 Lowry, Lindholm, McAvoy, the third line, Posternok, I think Montgomery, we've hit on everything.

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01:25:35 time CLNS prize picks. I think we've touched on everything. I think we have, I don't think

01:25:40 there's anything we haven't hit on. Montgomery saves his job. Bruins, not complete chokers.

01:25:46 They move on. Uh, Toronto continues its, uh, downwards spiral. Six and a third, I think is a

01:25:53 big Leafs fan. They've been on like every episode that we've done of this and they've sat through

01:25:58 everything. Mad props to them. Yeah. Thank you so much. The Leafs fans have been great. I really,

01:26:04 like most Maple Leafs fans, there've been some that have not been so great, but most

01:26:07 have been very respectful and, and have watched our stuff. So, um, hopefully things turn around

01:26:13 for them and, uh, much appreciate and much, much appreciated to them, uh, for, for their,

01:26:19 um, tuning in to these shows. Um, and that's it. That's it. So we're back. How about that?

01:26:25 That's like Carl, it's like we've been renewed for a second season. No, I can't, I can't wait.

01:26:31 But, uh, uh, last thing I think someone says, uh, don't forget to check out Lock and Tina to all

01:26:37 those people out there. Great Framingham spot and to six and third. Yeah. The six and third. Thanks

01:26:42 so much for tuning in every night. Uh, really appreciate, uh, you having some thoughtful

01:26:48 comments here. So good luck to Toronto. Yes. And Viva Lock and Tina. That's, that's what it is.

01:26:53 Viva Lock and Tina forever and always. Um, but yeah, that's when the post game show Bruins move

01:26:59 on, they survive in advance. Hofstra wins at no T. Swain makes a bunch of saves. Uh, and we move on

01:27:06 to round two. So we will see you on Monday night.

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