Bruins Banking on Defense and Goaltending to Grind Out Wins

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00:00All of those guys in the bottom six you were talking about,

00:02with the exception of Minton, Scream, Checking Line, Sandpaper,

00:08it doesn't seem like there's a lot of offense expected out of the bottom six,

00:12and it also seems like if the Bruins are going to win games,

00:15you're going to be calling a lot of 2-1 and 1-0 contests.

00:19Yeah, that came up the other day, too, and Cam Neely said,

00:23listen, if we've got to win games 2-1, then that's what we're going to try and do.

00:26That puts a lot of pressure on your defense, a lot of pressure on your goaltending.

00:30But that should be a strength of this team in both of those regards.

00:37One of the things that we did during the preseason,

00:42if you remember, if anybody was paying attention,

00:45the game in New York early on in the preseason,

00:48where the Bruins came from three goals down,

00:50and Mikey Asimant scored two of those goals and set up the other to tie that game,

00:55and they went on to win it in overtime.

00:58Beers and I interviewed Asimant after that win on our postgame,

01:02and he said he feels like he's got more offense in him than his previous teams have let him really showcase.

01:10He kind of feels like maybe he's been pigeonholed into being a third- or fourth-line guy

01:16and just a checking wing, and they don't really rely on him to score.

01:21He seems to think that he can do more of that.

01:24And so this will be his opportunity.

01:28On a team that will be needing everyone to chip in offensively as much as possible,

01:34he's going to get those opportunities.

01:35And Minton is a guy, as a center, who's not, you know, listen,

01:40he's not a top-scoring guy at this point in his career,

01:44but I think they hope that he grows into that.

01:47And so maybe they, you know, the two of them together

01:50can kind of help each other in the offensive zone.

01:53And so,