How important is this offseason for GM Sweeney and the #Bruins? Mike Milbury joins!

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How important is this offseason for GM Sweeney and the #Bruins? Draft targets? Which players will be available via FA/trade? Bruins legend Mike Milbury joins! #NH

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00:00Are you able to verify whether Cam Neilley was an extra in The Outsiders or not?

00:05I think Wiggy brought that up yesterday.

00:08No, but I mean, it'd be easy enough to verify.

00:10I mean, I could just call him and ask.

00:12Yeah, can you do that?

00:13Can you text him while we are talking right now, please?

00:17I don't know.

00:17That might be difficult for me.

00:20Because it's all over social media that he was an extra in The Outsiders.

00:26One of my favorite movies of all time.

00:28And I went through the different scenes with the Soch.

00:31And he couldn't find him.

00:32And I'm trying to.

00:33But then again, he's 18 years old.

00:35So maybe he looks a lot different.

00:36He's Soch number two, I believe.

00:38Yeah, yeah.

00:38But you don't know who's Soch.

00:40Yeah, I don't think that's legit.

00:43But there's an article about him talking about how he was into acting.

00:47Well, but that's because of Dumb and Dumber, not because of The Outsiders.

00:52Well, you say Mighty Ducks was important to him.

00:56He said that?

00:57Yeah.

00:57He was in The Mighty Ducks, too?

00:58Or what?

00:59No, he wasn't in Mighty Ducks.

01:00Are you sure?

01:01I think he was.

01:02I think he was.

01:03Yeah.

01:04The second Mighty Ducks.

01:05Oh, maybe he was.

01:06Maybe I stand corrected on that.

01:08That's why we need to get Cam.

01:09Because if he was in The Outsiders, that's a classic cast right there.

01:13Yeah, his IMDb has him, Dumb and Dumber, me, myself, and Irene,

01:17the Mighty Ducks D2, stuck on you.

01:20Yeah.

01:22All right.

01:22Well, listen, just on The Bruins.

01:24There's a couple other topics I have ready to go.

01:27They're limping to a finish here, which I think we all gave up on a while ago.

01:35But a very important offseason, I would say, for Don Sweeney.

01:41I mean, we're talking about Cam.

01:42I think Cam is not going anywhere.

01:45But an important offseason for Don Sweeney.

01:50Well, from everybody's standpoint, it's an important offseason.

01:54I mean, they have to.

01:55They've got some people they need to sign.

01:57Somebody like Geeky looks like he's worth signing.

01:59They need to straighten out Swayman, who played actually pretty well.

02:03No, very well against Washington, despite the fact that they lost.

02:07They've got to straighten out Lindholm and McAvoy.

02:11Get them on the right track.

02:12But obviously, what they need is talent.

02:14And their talent is mostly, you know, naked in the center of the ice,

02:18which is the most important offensive position.

02:21So yes, it's a critical.

02:23And you're not going to find the answers for this upcoming season in the draft.

02:28It's just not going to happen.

02:29I mean, it would take a stroke of genius or great luck to find somebody

02:34that's going to step into the top six and be effective in his first season.

02:38It's just it's very unlikely.

02:40So free agency and, you know, more money to spend.

02:44The cap's up.

02:45So let's see what they can do.

02:47I don't even know who right now.

02:48I don't know who's going to be available.

02:50Teams will be scrambling to complete contracts before free agent free agency comes around,

02:56but they need to do some good business because they are they are riddled with holes.

03:01Mike, I think the most obviously it seems like the most important piece

03:04in the first thing on the menu will be the direction of the new head coach.

03:09Like what what direction do you think they go in?

03:13Do you who would you go after if you were in Cameron Sweeney's position?

03:20So I think that's probably the most important piece first, right?

03:23Well, the talent wins.

03:26You know, that talent is the first thing that you have to address.

03:28And, you know, you need a guy now that looks like you're dialing back the age of this team.

03:34So you're going to need a teacher.

03:35You're going to need a disciplinarian.

03:37You're also in this day and age.

03:39You need a good communicator.

03:40You can't just beat them to death.

03:42You have to be able to relate to them.

03:45And that's a lot to ask of a coach.

03:47And I'm going to guess that you're going to find a name that you probably

03:53haven't heard of before.

03:54Somebody that's younger, somebody that's newer to the game.

03:57And look at what this guy's done in Washington.

04:00He's been he's been terrific.

04:02And their team's turned around.

04:03And I think what they do need to do is get younger.

04:06And with a younger personnel approach,

04:08they're going to need a younger coach behind the bench.

04:11They kind of have to stick with him.

04:13But any thought about Jeremy Swayman and what he ends up being next season?

04:19And is there I don't know that anybody would take him at that number.

04:23But I mean, is do you have to consider trading Jeremy Swayman?

04:28I'm not considering it now, but I certainly want him to just stop the puck and shut up.

04:35I mean, really, do I have to listen to him talk about these,

04:39you know, platitudes after every game?

04:41I mean, you lost nine straight.

04:43I mean, just be humble, you know, go back to work and see what you can do.

04:48But, you know, I bleed black and blue and all this kind of malarkey.

04:52Like, can you just can you just be part of the picture, not just the center of it?

04:56So he's got some growing up to do.

04:59But when he's on, he's a hell of a goaltender.

05:01I mean, when I hear Swayman start talking about Mangione laws in California,

05:06when I just want to talk hockey.

05:07In all sincerity, Mike, why do we believe that Don Sweeney, who fired Cassidy,

05:14who went on to win a cup and Monty, who went on to have one of the better

05:19second halves in all the NHL, is the right guy to hire the next coach?

05:24I guess based on, you know, a long history here,

05:27they've had some good runs that been mostly successful during his tenure.

05:32But it does seem a little odd that both of those guys have been able to

05:36turn around different franchises after the move.

05:39I mean, sometimes you just don't know when is the right time to fire a coach,

05:43but it's mostly feel.

05:46It's relationships between the players and the coach.

05:48And clearly, when Montgomery was here, things weren't going well.

05:51A little different story with Cassidy.

05:53I think the team was in pretty good shape, but I think they needed to

05:56maybe grow up a little too because he was being a little too firm.

06:00But, you know, that's history.

06:02But it's a good question.

06:04Mike Milbury, a texter wants to know what you think of Jay Pandolfo,

06:08who is coaching at BU right now.

06:10Would that be somebody you'd be interested in?

06:12Boy, he had a hell of a career in New Jersey.

06:16He was a reliable player, intelligent player,

06:20you know, not overwhelmingly gifted player.

06:23But, you know, he was he put a long, strong career.

06:26And obviously, here's a guy that got his team in the final four.

06:30And you'd have to consider him.

06:33I mean, I think there's reason to consider a guy like that.

06:36He kind of fits the profile of what I was just talking about, correct?

06:39You know, he's a younger guy, responsible when he played as a defender and knows

06:46the game intimately and obviously can work with young players.

06:48So, yeah, he'd be on my radar.

06:51Mike, you bring up Montgomery and the firing of him, but they were eight,

06:54nine and three when they did fire him at the beginning of the season.

06:58And he led this team on a historic run just a year ago.

07:01So was that a mistake?

07:03In hindsight, when you look at the derailment of the season,

07:06was that did they actually shoot themselves in the foot?

07:10I it didn't work.

07:13I can put I can put that in perspective.

07:16It just didn't work.

07:17I mean, you're right.

07:18They weren't playing very well.

07:19And it looked like they were discombobulated.

07:22They were out of sync.

07:22They weren't playing with any kind of rhythm offensively in their structure.

07:27Defensively had had been lost.

07:29And rather than waste the season, they decided to make a move.

07:33Now, it didn't work.

07:35It didn't turn it around.

07:36And and there were lots of other factors involved,

07:39losing key players for for pretty good stretches of time.

07:42But, you know, I don't know how to gauge that, except that now it looks

07:47it looks bad for Sweeney.

07:48It looks it looks tough on him.

07:50And but and I feel bad for Joe Sacco because he was given an impossible task.

07:55And he's probably not going to get an opportunity to do the job going forward.

07:59But c'est la vie.

08:01These are tough decisions that guys make.

08:03But you make them sort of in the spur of the moment.

08:05And you try to do the best for what's going forward for your team.

08:10And sometimes you win.

08:11Sometimes you lose.

08:12And sometimes you make a good one.

08:13And sometimes you make a bad one.

08:14He's made some tough ones lately, Don Sweeney.

08:17But his history says that he's he knows what he's doing.

08:20But will they give him that opportunity?

08:22I don't know.

08:23I believe Scheim has one for you as he prepares his NHL draft lottery mock.

08:29No, no, no, no NHL mock drafts, Greg.

08:32But Mike, on a non Bruins related note, are you excited to watch Alex Ovechkin

08:36over the next couple of games, try and break that Gretzky record?

08:39You know, I am.

08:40He's he's really put in a great body of work.

08:45I mean, he's I remember scouting him when he was in just a junior.

08:49And, you know, they won the lottery to get that pick.

08:52And it was what a bonanza for them.

08:56But it took a while for him to figure it out.

08:58Not just the fact that he could stand in the face off dot and fire

09:01wicked slap shots.

09:03And, you know, I come to admire him for rounding out his game.

09:09But clearly, you know, nobody thought anybody was going to reach the total

09:13that Gretzky has.

09:14And he's just plowed forward.

09:16His tenacity and determination has been admirable.

09:19So, yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to it.

09:21Looking forward to it more than the colonoscopy I'm having tomorrow.

09:25That's important, though.

09:28Is he the best player of this generation, Mike?

09:30Or is it still like Sidney Crosby?

09:33You know what?

09:34I'm always partial to the guys that are two way.

09:36And he's much better two way player than he was when he broke in.

09:41But I'd still stick with Crosby.

09:43I mean, he's he's he's really he's got it all down.

09:48So that's my answer to that.

09:49But there's nothing wrong with going with a guy that does what you want to do to win

09:53the game, which is score goals.

09:54And he scored a ton of them.

09:56Mike, bigger ick as a guy owning or having a cat and being single or rushing off an airplane

10:03when you land.

10:06Wait, one more time.

10:07So if you're a single guy and you have a cat or.

10:10Well, first of all, that's a mistake, right?

10:13Or a single guy has a cat.

10:14What the hell are you doing?

10:16I don't know.

10:17Go to a strip joint or something.

10:18Forget the cat.

10:19Cutting the cat.

10:20Jesus Christ.

10:21He got his eye on the wrong cat.

10:23Oh, my God.

10:24Exactly.

10:27I think you gave us the answer.

10:28Perfect.

10:29One of your I'm I'm getting text messages from apparently one of your political opponents

10:35who listens to the show.

10:37And it's Brad from Newton.

10:41And he says that he's afraid they're going to find your head when they do the colonoscopy

10:45tomorrow.

10:45So just that's funny, Brad.

10:50Is he working still?

10:52I don't know.

10:53All right.

10:53Well, we're going to see you.

10:54You're going to be behind the bar on June 26 for the pregame at your sister's restaurant,

11:00right?

11:01I will.

11:01We'll have fun.

11:02I guarantee it.

11:04There he is.

11:05Mike Milbury on a Bruins Thursday and a half.

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