Bob Beers on Bruins roster decisions

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00:00You mentioned that. It is the final game before next Wednesday.

00:03Still some spots kind of up in the air.

00:05I think they're down to 17 forwards.

00:07That third line feels it can go a lot of different ways.

00:11Yesterday at practice, Marco Serm talked a lot about Frazier Minton and Matty Potra

00:16and what's next for them and how they could make this team.

00:19What have you seen on that third line battle,

00:22specifically from guys like Frazier Minton and Matty Potra?

00:26Well, very different players.

00:27So, you know, Minton is probably going to be a sentiment if he's going to play.

00:31And he's reliable, probably not as offensively gifted as a Potra,

00:38but better at other things than Potra.

00:41Potra's better offensively maybe than, you know, vision-wise

00:44and handling, you know, creating offensively maybe than Minton is.

00:49At least that's what I've seen through camp.

00:51So, you know, they've got a decision to make there.

00:54I mean, there's a handful of guys, right?

00:57I mean, they brought in Blumell and Steeves, and, you know,

01:01you've got Beecher sitting there, Husundinov.

01:05You know, there's still some major decisions to be made on those forwards.

01:09You say 17 forwards.

01:11I'll take your word for it.

01:12I can't remember exactly when I looked yesterday,

01:14but 17 forwards with only 12 drafts, and you can only carry 23 players overall.

01:19So, you know, there's got to be guys that are going to be sent down,

01:22and there's some waiver things involved.

01:25You know, teams could pick up a player that the Bruins send down.

01:28So there's a few decisions to be made here moving forward on who's going to make

01:35this team final.

01:36And you're going to carry at least one extra defenseman.

01:38You know, your goaltender, DiPietro, do you send him down?

01:44He has a two-year, one-way contract, which may deter people from other teams

01:49from signing him because he has that one-way deal.

01:52He has to clear waivers.

01:54If he's the guy that goes down, I assume it would be, unless they carry three.

01:58If they carry three, then you can only have one extra forward, one extra D.

02:01So there's a lot of decisions still to be made.

02:08So there's a lot of decisions still to be made.