00:00I still think it's the right move.
00:01I'm still okay with it.
00:02I think that.
00:04Yeah, I know.
00:05I was going to tee you up for that.
00:07Yeah.
00:07You wrote about that at 98.5thesportshub.com.
00:10Still the right move to move on from Marshan.
00:12Like, I know there were people tweeting, like, he wanted to stay.
00:16How dare you, Bruins?
00:17Like, why didn't you just pay him what he wanted?
00:20It's like, no, it's kind of time to move on and turn the page
00:23and stop holding on to this.
00:24Like, so you want to keep Brad Marshan and just maybe Fred Water
00:28and get back to the play?
00:29Like, you're going to do that anyway.
00:31And so, like, it's time to move on to the new era.
00:33And, like, I'm not saying the new era looks particularly good right now.
00:37But, like, Marshan was going to be kind of a roadblock to that.
00:40I'm not.
00:40I still, even though he still looks good and he could probably win another
00:44cup or two or three with Florida, I don't know what he's going to look
00:49like when he's 40, 41, 42 years old.
00:51I did not have to give him a six-year extension.
00:53Like, they did not need to match that.
00:56And so, like, yeah, I think it was completely the right move to
00:58turn the page and move on, give him a chance to actually go win a cup,
01:02which is he was not going to win another cup here.
01:05And so, and Marshan also, you know, he talked to Steve Levy about this
01:08on ESPN last night.
01:09That's on Twitter.
01:10About how he actually, maybe he's just taking the high road,
01:13but he kind of said, like, I kind of regret the way I acted during the
01:18contract negotiation, too.
01:19And so, like, maybe that's just him taking the classy approach.
01:22Like, I didn't think he would take a shot at the organization or anything
01:25like that anyway.
01:26But, like, he was asked if he had any regrets.
01:29And, like, he said, like, I don't really regret it because I went to Florida
01:32and won a Stanley Cup, and that's what I'm in this for.
01:35But at the same time, like, maybe I could have handled it a little differently
01:38at the end of the road in Boston.
01:40So, like, he showed a little contrition there, but I think that just sort of
01:45speaks to why the Bruins were probably right to end up, you know, parting ways
01:49and moving on to this next era.
01:52So, you wrote about it, so you give your thoughts.
01:55Yeah, I think, unfortunately, the Bruins have to lose a little bit here.
01:59They had to lose last year.
02:01You know, the final game before the deadline was the Carolina game where
02:04Nikita Zdorov stick breaks on a last-minute breakout, and they lose the game.
02:10And it's like, that was a sign that, like, all right, you got to reset it here.
02:13Like, you can't keep, you know, just chasing it, right?
02:18And they were chasing it.
02:19And as long as Brad was here, they had that 2011 crutch to lean on and say,
02:24well, you know, we still got our members from 2011, and we've got to win it for them.
02:28And, you know, I think Brad Marchand is good enough, and I mean this in the nicest way possible,
02:34he's good enough to keep you from getting James Higgins.
02:37He has takeover ability still.
02:40He can still take over a game.
02:41You saw it in the playoffs.
02:43You saw it, even shades of it last night.
02:45Like, he can win you games.
02:48The Bruins needed to stop winning games last year.
02:51And Brad Marchand was a direct conflict to the long-term goal of the organization.
02:56And that's how I look at it from the Bruins' point of view.
02:59copied opening games.
02:59And that's how I look at it from the Mustangs' point of view.
03:00It's supposed to be aлично-COVID-19發 meeting here.
03:01And this is what you think about it.
03:02But at the heart of the touchdown, doesn't dominate it especially for you.
03:05And it is right.
03:06So we're also going to take a moment to keep it up and be in that situation in this direction.
03:09That's how we move on.
03:10So we're going to need to get to the website.
03:11First off the focus, this is going to go.
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