"Boston Bruins are much better than I expected them to be". Pasta is back!

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Scheim is admitting he's WRONG. "Boston Bruins are much better than I expected them to be". Pasta is back! Bruins have won 3 in a row- Swayman has been amazing. How much credit should GM Don Sweeney get for Morgan Geekie? 50 goals?!

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00:00Back-to-back days here.

00:01I would like to admit that I was a little bit wrong on something.

00:05The Boston Bruins are much better than I expected them to be.

00:08I didn't give them a ton of credit before the season.

00:10I very much believed they would suck, and they have not sucked.

00:14They've actually been pretty good.

00:16They're tied for the division lead in points right now with the Lightning.

00:21Yeah, they've played, I think, an extra game.

00:23But even still, still being at the 36-point mark alongside the Lightning

00:27is a good spot to be in.

00:28They've been excellent at home, which I think is the big difference.

00:31They're 11-5 at home where they're 7-8 on the road.

00:35So it's great that they're playing well at the Garden.

00:38Jeremy Swayman has played phenomenally since the 1st of November.

00:42He is 10-3, so he has been playing very, very well.

00:47Credit to him.

00:48I think that's a big reason why they're having so much success

00:51is he's been great as their backstop,

00:53and then they've been able to score some goals by mixing things up,

00:56and that's a good job by Sturm.

00:57I didn't think they'd be able to get this kind of goal production.

01:00I didn't expect Morgan Geeky to be fighting with Nathan McKinnon

01:03for the league-leading goals.

01:05But credit to them.

01:07This has been a lot of fun to start the season.

01:09I hope it continues.

01:11I'm not convinced it will just yet, but I hope it does.

01:14At some point, you're probably going to have to give the Sweeneyes

01:19some credit on the Morgan Geeky trade.

01:21Oh, and the contract, the contract extension,

01:24that's an absolute steal if this is what Morgan Geeky is now.

01:27Yeah, he got him for nothing.

01:28Yeah.

01:29And I think in Seattle he had, I don't know, he had nine goals or whatever.

01:33I mean, he should get 40, and he may be on a pace to maybe get 50.

01:40Back-to-back 30-goal seasons, the contract is where you give Sweeney credit.

01:46But I give him both, both the trade and the contract.

01:49Yeah, because when you traded for him, you gave him a contract

01:51that was like two years, four million.

01:53It was kind of like a prove-it deal, and then he continued to get better.

01:57They gave him this big contract, and now he is making massive,

02:00massive strides forward in a direction I didn't think he ever would.

02:03So 100%, Sweeney deserves credit for that.

02:05Oh, and last night, I mean, it includes David Pasternak,

02:09but bottom six, you're getting a lot of production

02:12from all the lines on that hockey team, Sean.

02:16Yeah, and I think that's the important thing, right?

02:18It's not just like that one perfection line.

02:21You're getting production from all different spots across the lineup,

02:25and that's kind of what is going to continue their success

02:27as long as Swayman is playing well.

02:29Yeah, and I would also add that look at who they played last night.

02:32They played Monty in the Blues, and given what Cassidy did

02:36in the immediate aftermath of his departure from the Bruins,

02:39it took some serious balls to say,

02:42we're not going to keep you, Monty.

02:44We're going to fire you knowing you're going to get a job immediately

02:47and what that would have reflected on Sweeney

02:49if Monty went to St. Louis and did something similar

02:52to what Cassidy did with Vegas.

02:53I think Marco Sturm is doing a pretty good job.

02:57I think he's getting by.

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