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00:00It's Bruins Thursday here on Jones and Keefe on WEI. I was Mike Milbury this morning with Greg Hill

00:05We got Andrew Raycroft of Nessun joining us now

00:07He's brought to you by John sewer and drain cleaning the name to know when your drains don't flow razor

00:12What was that the other night? What was that?

00:15Well, let's start with like the good news is we will never have to worry about firing coaches in a Patriots parade because they have

00:22zero chance

00:24Anything for a really really long time, so let me get that out there first

00:29No one's paying attention to them on Sunday

00:32Listen, they played a good first half of the game

00:34They took stupid penalties and and their power plays not good enough and their penalty kills not good enough. So a team that's been

00:41synonymous with the top seven in the league for the last

00:4515 years in special teams both power play and penalty kill you could you could set a watch to it

00:52isn't there right now and in a league that's very special teams dependent and

00:56You get that the other night the Leafs power play had been horrible and for the fourth time this season the Bruins give up

01:02Three power play goals in a game. You can't can't win that way

01:04Yeah, is there a reason that you could pinpoint for why they've been so bad killing penalties this year?

01:10I mean, I know they're constantly trying to kill penalties, but it does seem like a ton of goals are allowed

01:16Yeah, it starts with it starts with taking too many and it starts with taking ones

01:23So the two they take in in the game against Toronto in the second period when again there it was a good it you

01:29know, it was a

01:300-0 five on five not really much happening

01:34But that's a good thing when you go into Toronto kind of game and then there's a bad handoff between

01:39Swainman and in his defense the door I've had to take a penalty that that really should never have happened

01:44So it's unforced they score a minute and a half later

01:47They take another penalty in the neutral zone unforced not a scoring chance

01:51not a scoring opportunity and the Leafs score and it's to nothing and then you're chasing the game and then you're reaching and then you're

01:57poking so

01:59Again, it's it's the way you're taking penalties

02:01It's the fact you're taking too many and listen, they lost a little bit of depth last season. I know everyone

02:09There was it was easy to criticize a guy like Derek Forbert the last couple of years on the back end and all he's big

02:14He killed a lot of penalties the first one over the boards over on the left side and I

02:18Think I continually said that he's very important to this team. I think he's continually said he's an asset

02:23He's not there now Jake the brush turned in a really good penalty killer. Dan Heinen was another really good killer

02:29So I think they might be trying to figure out their their formula on the PK

02:35Personnel wise on top of just taking too many now razor

02:39I don't want to brag but Keith and I were in the building on Sunday

02:44Watching the crack and we were at we're actually we're actually

02:46Relatively in your section the gentleman in front of us was trying to get your attention the entire game

02:50He had a big sign. He was trying to get your attention. I don't know how successful that was

02:55Okay

02:57Not very usually those guys just want to get on the big screen. I think they like try and get my attention

03:02Oh, so they just see a camera and think that's gonna get him on the jumbotron. I see

03:07Yeah, you were locked in you were locked in you weren't given all the time of day

03:10You were you were focused on the job at hand, which I give you credit for but so we were in the building

03:15Pasternak gets benched in the third period the team wins that game and then they do what they did the other night

03:22Is that carryover? Is that a reflection in any way on Montgomery and how the team?

03:27Feels about him how Pasternak and another star like Marcian feel about him. Should we connect those two?

03:34No, I don't get that sense at all. I traveled with the team

03:38This weekend I went up to try and I thought everyone's in pretty good spirit

03:42They're pretty happy that they shut shut everybody out on the weekend

03:45I think it was a pretty good store perfect storm for the benching of David. You're up to nothing

03:53You guys saw it. They were out shooting Seattle

03:5625 to 6 after two periods

04:00The game did not need any more offense. The Bruins were going to win that game in the third period

04:05so it was kind of timely to be able to sit your goal score prove a point and

04:11Garner a lot of currency for the rest of the team and accountability on the season. I don't think

04:18They had they didn't skate what they don't know. They did skate Monday. Most guys skated Monday

04:23They had an optional skate Tuesday. So by the time that game started Tuesday, I'm assuming it wasn't in most people's minds

04:29And

04:31Again, I think it just comes down to that really comes down Tuesday night to the bad special teams

04:35You know NHL coaches get fired all the time and it's certainly not always their fault while the team is struggling

04:41But it's like the one move that the GM president or whatever can kind of do to spark the team

04:47Do you think the way things are going that Montgomery could survive a losing streak?

04:53Like let's say they rip off three love

04:55They've only lost one now

04:57The way things are going right now the team's below 500 if they drop to three in a row

05:02Do you think he's going to survive that?

05:06So I

05:07Do yes, I do

05:10Yeah, and that's you know, again, we did that we did the hypothetical last week

05:14After the 8-2 drumming and it all say, you know, they could easily lose in Philly. They could lose against Seattle

05:20They could lose in it. So it's tough for me to do that

05:23It's just not like the the way I think about the game and how it works

05:26I I guess the big thing right and the reason why we're talking about is the contract, right?

05:32If there were if he had a year left on his contract next year

05:35Would we be at calling for a firing would we like that's kind of the way I'm picturing this like, okay

05:42Let's take all the business out of it

05:44Would we be saying would I would you be asking me if you're gonna fire Jim Montgomery?

05:48Two of the best seasons regular seasons

05:52In in Bruins history the last two years and and lost to the Stanley Cup finalists in the Stanley Cup

05:58Winner in the playoffs the last two years. Would you be calling for his head this early in the season?

06:03I don't think so. I mean, I might be razor, but I can't speak to everybody else

06:06Oh, but but yeah

06:07I promise but I saw something going back to last year is great as his regular seasons have been I think if he doesn't get

06:13Out of the first round last year. He loses his job

06:15Like I think it came down to that that came to take over the second, right?

06:19Of course, but yeah, you know

06:21I've got a lot of sayings of but if this had this and that would be my uncle

06:26We can't do that, right?

06:29Well, yeah, so it again. I don't see it. I just don't see it. It's still early in the season

06:35He's got some time to build this group. It's not ideal to be under 500. We've talked to you

06:41You have to sort things out. I'm not saying everything's perfect

06:43I just think that you have to give a guy who's coming in. I guess that's it

06:48You know, you could do that game, too

06:49I don't know who's a better hire if we actually wanted to go down that road

06:53So again, I just I'm really I really think this group could turn it around

06:57I think the best players have to play better. I think that Charlie coils the Fredericks

07:01they have to get scoring and helping this group and I think they can get on a run so

07:07Again, you know again if they of course if they lose eight in a row here then then you know

07:11You can continue to ask me that change and I don't I don't know who would be better

07:15I really I really don't but on the current staff. Do you see any of those guys as future?

07:22NHL head coaches like some of the assistants right now whether it's here or somewhere else

07:25I got their guy like Chris Kelly or somebody that you feel like we have that guy's gonna be a head coach

07:30Well, Joe Sacco has been a coach in the NHL. He coached a long time, you know, he had coached in Colorado

07:35So I would you know, I I haven't asked any of those guys personally if they have aspirations for that

07:40But I assume like all of us we you know

07:43We we have goals and we continue to try and get better at what we do

07:48I would assume they they would want to be head coaches or wouldn't turn it down if they was offered

07:53But I don't know. I don't know what that dynamic is if Monty's so good and they like him so much

07:58How come they haven't given him a contract extension? I

08:02Don't know. I don't know. I don't know

08:05If it could be a lot of different things, I suppose term money

08:10But but that is that that's kind of what's hanging around this and I certainly have no insight on that

08:16We talked last week about Jeremy Swain man. Well, actually both goalies we talked about last week

08:20but I'm curious now to this point of the year and

08:23I get it that they're they're trying to kill off a lot of penalties and the you know

08:28Toronto scores three power play goals the other night, but just looking at the overall numbers

08:31He's now down to 40th in the league and goals against average. How would you say the the see?

08:38I know the stats don't always tell the story

08:39So, how would you say through whatever it is 10 starts that he has had Swainman is playing. I

08:45Think he's been good. I think it's really hard to have good numbers when you're giving up three power play goals because

08:51Essentially you have to be

08:53Really perfect the rest of the way and you have to get a lot of shots to get your numbers up

08:58So three power play goals you need 30 power play shots to end up 900

09:03Which is a respectable number in this league. The same percentages are going down shooters are getting better. So

09:09When you when you put up a six spot early in the season, that's going to inflate your six goals on in a half

09:14A game last week. Yeah, that's going to really inflate the numbers

09:18so I think the

09:20Numbers aren't ideal, but you can explain that I think his game itself has been good

09:25I think he needs a little bit of help both goaltenders on

09:27That penalty kill because again if you give up if you're a goaltender giving up three power play goals in a game

09:34It's just it's just never going to make your stats look good

09:37Because again, I can go and I could take those out

09:41Because I don't I think we can all agree like it wasn't like he had a chance on those power play goals Tuesday night

09:46In Toronto, so you take those out and he made 20 of 20 saves

09:50Five on five and look pretty solid outside of those

09:53So I think the the penalty kill numbers and this goes back guys to

09:58So maybe why the goaltending numbers have been so amazing here for a long time is

10:03Because the penalty kills been so good for so long and so much better than everybody else in the league that

10:08Those it we're seeing what can happen. If you have a bad penalty kill put goaltender numbers on top of

10:15standings

10:16There's a name out there that apparently is garnering interest throughout the league on the Bruins, you know short of firing Montgomery

10:22Maybe they can make a change to the roster. I guess where I'm going with this Kevin weeks

10:25Says that a lot of teams are interested in pending UFA Trent Frederick. He's drawing attention in the marketplace

10:31That doesn't mean the Bruins are gonna trade him if he's drawing attention

10:34But is there a name on the roster where you look at it and go?

10:36Okay, if the Bruins are gonna make a switch to their roster, they're not gonna fire Montgomery

10:40They're gonna have to change things up with the team to get penalty killing or whatever

10:44They need is there a name you look at that would be a logical guy to move is Frederick that guy

10:50Well, no, I don't think so because I think Freddy is very important to this group

10:54I think they expect a lot out of him

10:56And of course again contract business side of it that stuff starts leaking out and trust me agents the the

11:05the

11:06top guys on

11:08Elliott Friedman Kevin week the insiders and in all sports

11:13The first five guys in their list of phones who they call the most are five agents

11:18That's that's that's the pipeline. That's how that works and

11:22You know the start of the season hasn't gone Freddy's way, but but I think there's a lot in there

11:26There's a lot in there and and I think the he's a big piece of getting going not just the penalty kill

11:31But but scoring a little bit more so I think all the pieces are in the room

11:35I just think that it hasn't quite been to the level that each individual

11:39Expects and and they feel like they could turn that around starting tonight against Calgary razor before we let you go

11:45You excited for the flood of American celebrities moving to Canada. Are you guys excited for that? Oh

11:50Wait till they get to Canada and see how great it is up there

11:54Yeah, the politics in Canada is fantastic right now we everyone all my friends I was in Toronto

12:01Yeah, we had a interesting conversation

12:04So I I wish all of those high earners who make a lot of money making movies

12:10Good luck with their tax bill in Canada

12:13Yeah, they can share that with the whole rest of the country. All right razor. We appreciate it. Thanks so much

12:17You got it guys, thank you very good Andrew Raycroft joins us here every Thursday on a Bruins Thursday brought to you by John sewer and

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