5 losses in a row for the Bruins?! Is it a Sacco issue or talent issue?

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5 losses in a row for the Bruins?! Is it a Sacco issue or talent issue? #nhl Bruins legend Mike Milbury joins the show!

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00:00Good morning, mr. Milbury. Good morning. I am before we get the Bruins business. I am workshopping a

00:08bunch of roadshow new roadshow locations for the spring and

00:14I want to go North Shore and you have recommended your sister's restaurant. Yes, I have it's about time. He brought that up

00:22What is that called my place by the sea? Okay in is it in Rockport?

00:27It's in Rockport on Bearskin neck right at the very end. Okay, and it sits right on the water

00:35and she will

00:37She will deck herself out and her restaurant out for you guys to go there and and there's a couple of nice places now

00:44there have been a sort of

00:46scarcity of

00:48Hotels, but now they're starting to pop up all over the place in the Rockport area

00:52So we'll find you a good a good bed just to sleep in and you guys think how's her dirty martini? Oh,

00:59I mean, I'll attend the bar that night and you'll be fine

01:04Okay

01:10I mean, I know Mike's a friend of the show

01:12I don't give him any advantage, but I feel like I feel like it's oh, come on that happens all the time

01:18Inside inside advantage works for me. How many people does the place hold?

01:24She's got an upstairs and a downstairs and mostly upstairs is like a there's a deck

01:30Hopefully the weather is good. And you can I would say like a hundred maybe

01:35That's the great thing about a roadshow is somebody who grew up around him my whole life

01:39I get to explore places that I've never even seen or heard

01:41All new places. Yes. I enjoy it. Yeah, I'm a little nervous, you know about Kelly's roast beef has been sold

01:47Did you see that? Yes. Yes, that's scary to you. I mean do they stick can't screw that up?

01:53They're probably not even in the top 10 and it comes to the roast beef sandwiches. Yeah

01:59Yeah, we has not had them in his top 10

02:01So Mike if you if you really go look at the good roast beef and I'm known

02:06Not sure beef expert, but I do love a roast beef sandwich

02:10I like the shredded more than Kelly's is a little bit thicker and not as shredded

02:17Roast beef when they do it on their sandwiches. That's a fair point

02:21But I mean like there's nobody who makes a better sauce though than Kelly's

02:24Isn't it not really local anymore though? Because there's so many in Florida that it's like so commercial

02:30How can you quality control like it's not your yeah

02:33No, I can't speak to the Florida and Kelly's but I do know that if I pass one

02:38It's a rare occasion when I do pass one I eat it though

02:42So I mean, I'll still eat Kelly's I ain't gonna hate on him like that. Are you a three-way?

02:46Are you a three-way guy Mike? What do you mean three-way?

02:50mayonnaise sauce

02:52Yeah, that'd be fine by me. I mean just pour it on I'm gonna die soon. Anyway, I

02:58Heard you guys talking about that, California mayor can we could maybe we trade California for Greenland?

03:07Make a deal with Denmark and we we could throw in the mayor in Gavin gruesome as Trump likes to call him

03:14You have them all. I know Canada is interested

03:17Maybe Canada would be interested in a trade like we don't have to take all of Canada for the 51st state

03:23We could take the like the Northeast portion, right and give and give them

03:29California like that. I wouldn't I wouldn't want anything. I just give them, California

03:37Alright, what is the what's the five losses in a row here?

03:42And we're all getting older. What what is the what is the problem with this Bruins team?

03:48Well, you know, I'm very encouraged because I saw that after practice the other day. They had a group hug. Yes

03:54Did you see that? Yeah, I was very I warmed the cockles of my heart Greg

03:58It was just it was just incredible to see

04:02You know in my time we would have had a brawl at the end of practice and then gone out for Boilermakers

04:06But that's a different era, right? But I just I don't know

04:11What to tell you about that the special teams aren't good. I think Swayman's been okay

04:16He's not been quite as good as he's been in the past, but I don't have any worries about him

04:21The defense has been

04:23Lately has been a little bit

04:26Porous, but it it comes down to what we've talked about in the past right now

04:30If you you know

04:31if you looking at a power play, this is as anemic as this one is it has to be a talent related thing and

04:38the only way to fix that is through

04:40Personnel movement and and good drafting and good drafting is gonna take a long time to make it

04:46Make a big difference in this outfit

04:48So Mike if you think that it's a talent issue right now

04:51Then you don't put the blame on Joe Sacco like has this ruined the chance for him to be the full-time head coach next season

04:58No, I don't. I don't I don't see any

05:00There've been some glaring defensive breakdowns in the last five games

05:05But prior to that they seem to have you know

05:08righted the ship a little bit and gotten things figured out and I think his approach was

05:12What was needed for a team with this level of of talent and their personnel?

05:17but you know

05:19They ran into a a little bit tougher schedule and they've got a tougher one coming up in Florida in the next couple of games

05:25I mean this could very well go to seven games in a row, but it's

05:30It's a team that that needs to find

05:33Top six talent amongst their forwards if you're asking me Marcian at 36

05:38he need they're relying on him a lot a lot more than they should have to and he's a top six forward for now and

05:45Postenok and after that I you know, don't give me Zaka and don't give me coil

05:49I like them as players, but they're third line players and and Lindstrom has just been you know, blah

05:56You know overpriced talent and they thought they were gonna get something special and he's lucky to be in the top six right now

06:03Speaking of Florida the NHL announced the outdoor games next season Bruins get one you like that. I

06:11Can't show you but I'm yawning now

06:17Okay, it's okay for their ratings for their last outdoor game or you know miserable

06:23It's it's that it's tired

06:26Florida, you know palm trees and stuff

06:28It's gonna be kind of unique and I guess that's kind of cool for the people who live there

06:32But I'm not putting it on my calendar as a must-watch television event

06:37Mike wait with the trade deadline a little bit less than two months away

06:43What do you think the Bruins do it looks like they probably will be a playoff team, even though they're struggling

06:51What if you were the GM, I guess what direction would you go in?

06:56For me

06:58they have to be

07:00They're certainly not building for its Stanley Cup run that that's that that happened a couple years ago and it didn't work

07:06It was a great try by Don Sweeney

07:09I thought he did a good job of adding all those pieces near the deadline and just you know

07:14It just flubbed and and that's unfortunate and he cost himself

07:19Very valuable pieces in the draft

07:21But I think they have to hold still if they can make a major trade

07:26Which I don't I don't foresee happening that that would be good, but it's not it's not going to be a trade

07:32Based on how deep they want to go in the playoffs this year

07:35it's going to be a trade based on what their future will look like and that is a you know, a tougher and

07:43More I don't know

07:45prescient kind of thing you have to look forward to seeing what you're gonna look like and it's got to have it's got to

07:50Have the holes at the center position are massive right now

07:53And if they can do anything they can put them in a position to either draft or pick up a player that they think will

07:59One day be a top six center let alone a top

08:03You know top line center. That's that's where I'm looking at. I don't think they're going to be able to do that

08:09I think they're gonna stay on Pat and they're gonna have to work their butts off in the draft to find

08:13Pieces that are going to be long-term solutions to their problems

08:18Well, at least you got a good effort in the brawl from Trent Frederick the other night

08:23Well, it's the least he can do one goal in 14 games. No assists

08:28Sorry, you might be in grumpy today or what?

08:31Let's get rid of Greenland. Anyway, at least I'm not Ed Mike

08:35I know that you brought up Swayman already and saying that it's more a defensive effort that is lacking

08:40But it's not just the Bruins that are on a five-game skid like he's on a four-game skid right now and you look at Corpus

08:46Alo not much better, but a little bit at what point for you will will it reach where you're gonna start blaming Swayman?

08:55um, I

08:56You know

08:57If you look at some of the goals a lot of the goals coming from really weird angles like passes from behind the net to the

09:03Slot where nobody's picked up. I can't blame Swayman for that

09:06You know

09:07He's looking behind him over a shoulder and all of a sudden the pass comes out front bang

09:12Somebody in the slot is a one-time release. Yeah, I can't blame him

09:16I'm not and there's three guys in black and gold jerseys that are standing there watching. Yeah, they're watching

09:21Yeah

09:21their eyes are on the puck not on the guys that they're supposed to be covering and you're gonna and I saw Joe Sacco had

09:27It right when you're when you're playing defense, you have to have your head on a swivel me

09:31you're looking all around but you're constantly finding your check and I haven't seen a lot of that happening and that's

09:38That's in the last five games or so and it was happening prior to that

09:42But they are playing better teams and the task is a little bit tougher and it's gonna be tougher as I said

09:47going to

09:49To sunny, Florida, which should not you know, it sounds good, but not when you're playing Tampa and the Panthers

09:55Hockey guy in the twitch chat does not like me referring to that as a brawl

10:01So

10:03Come on let's touchy-feely days. Let's get so tired. I didn't we just elect a president so we can get rid of the

10:10Giving him no credit because he was punching helmet and we all saw his knuckles afterwards in the penalty box

10:16But I I give him credit for wanting to go and for trying for working very hard

10:21To to make that Corey Perry was like, I'm not really sure if I want to do this

10:26No, he didn't want to fight at all

10:27And you know what he and you had to give him the extra everybody was whining on TV about the extra two for Frederick

10:34Well, I mean the guy pushed him like yeah ten times and like he might as well just spit in his face mask

10:39But it was you know, it is tough now to have a good brawl with the helmets and the face masks

10:45it's it's you know, you wind up with a

10:47Tarnished knuckles, but not much else, but it did maybe give a little satisfaction to the bench Mike

10:53I know it's different sports, but you know, we're we were all talking about Mayo and

11:00Elliot Wolfe and the direction of this team when you look at the Bruins

11:04There are a lot of people that

11:07Put the blame on Sweeney Chime

11:10Yeah, Chimes one of them and Sacco started off pretty cool

11:14And now he's kind of fizzling out as far as like how the team has been playing if your ownership or maybe cam

11:21Nailio, I don't know who's gonna be the what direction are you going in after the season when it comes to both your head?

11:29current head coach now and

11:32Your GM and Sweeney right now

11:35Are you completely blowing both of those guys out or you run in the back with Sweeney?

11:40What direction you think they're gonna go in? You know, I it's a it's a good question, but I think

11:46You'd have to ask that question a while ago when Sweeney was trading all those draft picks and players to make a good run

11:53I think everybody was giving him an attaboy attaboy

11:57and now he's paying the price for it because you know that it didn't work out and so I

12:04Believe that Sacco knows what he's doing

12:06I don't believe they have the talent to be a real threat in the Eastern Conference and I think that

12:13Conversation has to go to how are we going to correct this? We're gonna correct this by having

12:18Great scouting great draft and you know

12:22If you're trading any of our key pieces

12:24they better be for a major deal and we have to work at finding a way to

12:29To solve the the donut problem the hole in the middle, you know

12:33There's just not enough sentiment there to make things happen

12:35And and and so that conversation has to happen do they need to change either Sacco or Sweeney?

12:41I don't I don't think so, but the they have to have a program going for they have to a vision going forward

12:48And that discussion needs to be needs to take place and when it comes to Mayo, by the way

12:53I mean I read a story where he after the Arizona game

12:56He went back to the back of the plane and started playing cards with the guys

12:59Well as assistants were we're watching film and that's that's time to go buddy. I'm sorry. You missed the bus

13:06Well, there's also I just read the latest in the Boston Herald's breakdown of the the season after the Bengals game the assistants

13:14We're trying to show Mayo and others

13:16That they got lucky with the punt return fumble that the team wasn't quite as dominant as they thought in that Mayo wouldn't hear any

13:23But he was on top of the world and then they lost their next week and they said they he acted like somebody shot his

13:28dog

13:29so the assistants

13:31anonymously cowardly are

13:33burying Gerard Mayo once again

13:36Well, it sounds like he kind of buried himself too, though. Yeah, the Gatorade bath. All right, Mike

13:42Thank you, and we will talk to you next week

13:45Goodbye guys

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