Was there tension between Jeremy Swayman and Brad Marchand after Swayman's contract holdout? Bruins PBP Judd Sirott joins!

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Did Swayman's holdout bother Marchand? Was there tension between Jeremy Swayman and Brad Marchand after Swayman's contract holdout? Bruins PBP Judd Sirott joins!

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00:00Hi Curtis. Do you think that Jeremy Swayman and Marshan got along well after the lock after the

00:05holdout last year? Yeah I don't think that there was any problem between the two.

00:10Marshan didn't have a problem with Swayman not practicing in camp?

00:14Oh I here if you're asking me you know do I think that he should have held out?

00:19No I'm not asking you I'm saying do you think that that bothered the captain of the team?

00:22That Swayman was being so ruthless as a negotiator?

00:26Well you know I think a lot of that had to do with his agent you know I mean ultimately the

00:31player has control um you know over the agent because the agent works for the player that's

00:37not a conversation that I necessarily had with a guy like Brad Marshan um you know but I think in

00:42the big picture uh you know Jeremy Swayman I think would have preferred to be in camp on time get it

00:50signed get it all set um because you know as Donnie Sweeney had mentioned you know if we're going back

00:55to last year again um that there is just no replacement for reps uh when it comes to training

01:01cab and getting yourself started for a season there is just no replacement for that you know

01:06and I think it took him time to basically catch up so I don't think it was anything necessarily

01:10uh that Brad Marshan had talked about with respect to a guy like Jeremy Swayman you know I think for

01:16everybody if you're involved with the team you want to put the team in the best possible position

01:20in order to succeed as soon as the season starts do you look at it as being a unique thing because

01:28I think it might have bothered Swayman more because you have another player who's talking about a guy

01:34and a current contract dispute like I was always taught in the locker room we never mind that man's

01:41money you know what I mean do you think it bothered Swayman a little bit that Marshan just chimed in and

01:46said you know he needs to get this thing done well I never heard Marshan talk about that directly

01:52um he basically said we don't do things like when talking about a holdout he said it's not the way

01:57we do things right out here I'm paraphrasing but that's what he said yeah so um I but maybe it was

02:04honestly maybe I'm misreading what Charlie McAvoy was talking about maybe he was talking about they

02:09they needed to get Charlie Coyle out of here he was a real problem maybe maybe that's what that's why

02:15the chemistry's better I just think that there were so many different factors that were going on

02:20um you know you had you know remember Jim Montgomery was up for a contract last year he was extended

02:24uh an offer uh to stay on that never got settled you know Brad Marshan was up for a contract offer

02:30the team they obviously this is you know um you know long-standing stuff that the team had had put

02:38out an offer they wanted him to stay they couldn't get that deal done then you had the Jeremy Swayman

02:42contract negotiation uh that was an issue you know and then also mix in once the season started

02:47Hampus Lindholm was gone 17 games in um you know and I think the general manager Don Sweeney would tell

02:53you you know had I known that he was going to miss the entire season I would have tried and gotten out

02:57and gotten some help because this team was still very much in the mix um right around Christmas time

03:03you know after the coaching change was made and Joe Sacco remember things turned around the Bruins

03:08I think it was right after Thanksgiving when that uh that that was made because the firing took place

03:1520 games into the season that all of a sudden the Bruins started to turn themselves around and they

03:19started to play well but it was after January 1st they just had no traction whatsoever and because of

03:25that you saw the sell-off uh or the changes that were made uh at the trade deadline somebody in

03:30Twitch is like Greg why are you reading into this why did you read into it yesterday I'm reading into it

03:35because of the way that Charlie McAvoy started the sentence if he didn't start the sentence with

03:41I need to I'm gonna tread lightly or whatever it was I don't like tread lightly on this okay when you're

03:47treading lightly on something it means that you're right careful how you say it I like I I wouldn't

03:53read into it if he didn't start it that way I so I you know that's that's where and it's certainly

03:59understandable because I I just don't think that he wants to um you know in many ways and I think the

04:05word that he used he didn't want to disrespect any of the players who weren't there uh anymore

04:08because the Bruins for a long time um you know this the culture and that room was the one that

04:15was envied around the National Hockey League for almost two decades um and there were a lot of

04:20changes that obviously took place you know when it really you know you can trace it back even before

04:24last season even before that you know so you have Patrice Bergeron departs David Krejci departs

04:31you know uh you're not that far removed from Zeno Chara departing and you had this whole

04:35secondary tier of leaders uh that are also they had gone either they retired or they moved on to a

04:42different team and that impacted uh some of the environment of the room pretty good brawl at the

04:47end of that one the other night I don't know if it was pretty good I enjoyed Feliz Navidad playing in

04:52the background that was pretty good no the holiday spirit was definitely out somebody on the social

04:58media is we're recommending every time there's a Bruins fight they ought to play Feliz Navidad

05:01and I am I am I'm I'm in favor of that and we got a pretty good one tonight yeah Wiggy's favorite

05:09guy is in town you're going I wasn't gonna go but I was gonna ask you this right you've seen a lot of

05:14hockey uh you know calling games have been what's it like to see because I mean I've only seen it on

05:19television what's it like to actually see Connor McDavid in person I know he had a filthy goal the

05:24other night against I think it was the Penguins what what what's it like to see that type of player

05:29in person there's nothing like it um you know he and Nathan McKinnon are are similar only in the

05:36aspect that they are they play fast but the difference is like when I think of Nathan McKinnon

05:40I think of a dragster and when I think of Connor McDavid I think of a Formula One car because he flies

05:46on the ice you cannot believe how fast he is but it's not only how fast his feet are it's how fast his

05:53hands move um and and there are a lot of guys that have that in the past you know they're faster or

05:59they have fast hands but they can't think the game to go along with how fast their feet and their hands

06:04are moving well he can do all three all at once and I was talking with Elias Lindholm about this the

06:09other day because he had a chance to face him a lot in the uh the Battle of Alberta when he was in

06:13Calgary you know how do you check this guy how do you deal with him and you know you have to start

06:18checking Connor McDavid 200 feet away from the net as much as you possibly can in many ways it's

06:24almost like football it's like that that great you know defensive end or that great blitzing

06:29linebacker you got to get you got to chip him you got to you got to you got to have your eyes on him

06:34at all points on the ice whether that's in the d zone the neutral zone and certainly in the offensive

06:39zone and that's going to be the task for the Bruins and it's not just the guy who's going to be

06:43checking him up front whether that's uh Lindholm or Pavel Zaka everybody's going to have to have a

06:48piece of him tonight in order to try and slow him down and oh by the way they just have a guy in

06:53Leon Dreisaitl picked up his 1000th point one of the fastest ever in National Hockey League history to

06:58be able to do it so you got a two-headed monster there well hopefully they overfed uh McJesus at

07:04Strega last night a couple extra meatballs here's some free ones for you oh that's good that slow

07:09you down or is it the veal parm that slows you down I think it's the meatballs that'll slow you

07:13down they slow me down plenty of times well listen uh go get them tonight we will be we will be

07:18watching and we will uh talk to you again soon I'm off a little bit for the holidays all right

07:22have a great holiday maybe I'll take in a game are they on the uh on the road out you guys on the

07:26road after this oh yeah all sorts of fun Buffalo and then off to western Canada and in Seattle

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