Bruins fall to Montreal 5-2. David Pastrnak said the team's start was 'UNACCEPTABLE' Does #NHL Hall of Famer Ray Bourque (joins #live ) agree? What does Ray Bourque make of the recent Bruins' play?
"I have so much respect for Patrice" Bourque's thoughts on Bergeron's career? "Similar to how I kind of live my career on and off the ice"
One HoF player Bourque wished he could he played with?
"I have so much respect for Patrice" Bourque's thoughts on Bergeron's career? "Similar to how I kind of live my career on and off the ice"
One HoF player Bourque wished he could he played with?
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00:00morning ray morning everybody how you doing i'm good uh traveling these days but uh saskatoon is
00:12pretty nice in november i guess um i took some heat around here for saying i liked the sweaters
00:20last night what did what did you think you know what i initially when i saw them i liked them
00:27and
00:27last night you know kind of 50 50 on them because of the brown like you think it should just
00:34be black
00:34and gold or uh yeah i you know what i think i i don't mind the numbers of trying all
00:42that stuff
00:43i i just think if it if the jerseys were black more of a black thing with with that kind
00:49of logo
00:49and all that stuff and called it unacceptable you you agree with that assessment uh yes especially
00:57uh rivals like montreal and and how the division is uh is crazy tight with montreal tampa ottawa florida
01:06right there and just compare both games on sunday you know how they come out and how they're ready
01:12to play against a physical team like florida and then you're playing a skill team but still a huge
01:18rival on thursday night where you come in you come out kind of flat and and then you're you know
01:24you
01:25get down to nothing early in the first period and then by the time it's not even halfway through
01:30the game you're down four you're chasing the game all night long um it's it's it's tough you know
01:37it's tough to take i don't know they played sunday they had a few days of practice you thought okay
01:41they'd come out uh ready to play but uh obviously they weren't last night right we were kind of having
01:47a conversation when a team comes out flat we talk about in football and other sports is that more of
01:53the coach nodding not having these guys ready to go or is it more about the players not being ready
02:00to go like where would you kind of like if you had to put the blame where would you lay
02:04that blame
02:06i think if you look uh you look back on the game i think uh both coaches and players i
02:12think
02:14um wish they might approach it a little different um you know i think when you when you come out
02:21like
02:21that i think the coaches will say yeah i could have coached better and the players obviously could
02:25have said yeah we could have played a lot better so um you know this i was expecting a lot
02:32better i
02:33mean munchell's right there head to head with the bruins and um and we all know the rivals and all
02:39that
02:39kind of stuff and munchell's a skill fast up-tempo team so you're not going to have the pushback
02:46from them like if you're playing you know obviously the panthers where you know that
02:52you got to be ready to to battle and after every whistle there's scrums and there's crap that happens
02:58after every whistle munchell's not going to get involved in that kind of stuff so it's kind of a
03:02different game mentally and uh but you got to have your legs going you got to be uh alert and
03:08sharp
03:09because you can't give much all that much you know you saw yesterday man they they strike uh they
03:15don't need all that many opportunities to to score goals they're very uh skilled that way so um i think
03:22when you know answer is coaches and players i think are going to look back on this week and saying
03:28yeah
03:28we could have done things different ray did you agree with marco stern's um decision to pull jeremy
03:34swayman after those four goals yes i think it was a good move i think you just pull them get
03:40them
03:40ready for minnesota a really good team that are playing that's playing very good uh coming in
03:45saturday night right when you like look at this montreal excuse me rivalry do you think the the
03:53message is still the same in that dressing room from like when you played or is that kind of lost
03:59you think it maybe has lost some of his luster a little bit i think it's still there um to
04:07to the
04:08same level probably not um you know we used to we used to play montreal like eight times a year
04:15uh and then you'd meet every year in playoffs with the playoff format now you know i mean when was
04:22the
04:22last time the bruins played montreal in the playoffs and that it's been a while so um you know
04:29i think it's still there it'll always be there because of the history of both teams but not to
04:34the same level you have a favorite moment at the forum ray yes when uh we finally beat them in
04:43the
04:43playoffs in 1988 to get uh that year we got their finals and for me growing up in montreal and
04:51going
04:51back there every summer with my family i'd have to hear about it and that was the quietest summer i've
04:56ever
04:56had what are you doing up there now i had a little luncheon for a fundraiser uh yesterday and then
05:06i go
05:06to fort mcmurray oil country in alberta today for uh another event tomorrow night what getting any
05:14golf in while you're up there no i've been i so i i was at the uh induction patrice did
05:21an amazing job
05:22last week and i got to toronto on saturday and it was a lot of fun presenting him with his
05:27jacket on
05:28sunday night at the uh lease game and then he did an amazing job on monday night and um so
05:34then i've
05:35been traveling all week i can't wait to get back to florida on monday we were talking about that after
05:41and and i thought he did a great job with the speech um i enjoyed keith kachuk's uh speech i
05:49was
05:50talking on the show about i actually grew up with cindy curly uh lake boone stow massachusetts and
05:57um she was she was awesome you should have saw the crew that was there with her they all had
06:04the uh
06:05the same uh jackets on all her friends her family yes uh there must have been about 25 of them
06:12yeah it
06:13was pretty cool they told me um they so uh breeze uh dates dates a curly okay uh and uh
06:21her dad told
06:22me that he spent some time talking about how nice you were up there but um i mean patrice bergeron
06:27i
06:28know people sometimes knock the selkie but the fact that he was nominated for it or in the running for
06:3412 years and then won at six is pretty incredible what do you mean knock the selkie he's i mean
06:42okay it's
06:42one thing to be a shutdown forward and uh you know but to win the selkie now or or even
06:50all during
06:51patrice's time i mean he was he was doing it on both ends the guy's got a thousand over a
06:56thousand
06:57points a thousand games uh in the running 12 times one at six i mean they you know you have
07:03some people
07:03talking about renaming that trophy patrice bergeron uh instead of the selkie so uh if you're not getting
07:10natural so you don't know too much about the game when he finished the the speech in in uh in
07:17in
07:17french you knew the whole thing i'm sure right yes i understood everything it's amazing how
07:24he showed up here not speaking very much english and uh how the words he uses and how fluid he
07:32is in
07:32english now is amazing right when you look at this bruins team i i think especially charlie
07:38mcavoy i know it's kind of early in the season but what kind of grade would you give him based
07:44on
07:44what you've been able to see from him this season well he missed the first six games um you know
07:52obviously but uh just look at this whole team i mean their record and how they came out uh i'd
07:59give
07:59you know a b plus a almost uh is there more there yeah i think you know uh you're gonna
08:08see more from
08:08charlie as we go on here um but he's fine he's good you keep bringing up charlie uh he's he's
08:16a big
08:16guy back there you know he anchors that defense and uh he uh you know he does an amazing he
08:22does a great
08:22job and there's uh yeah you look at charlie and you seem like okay there's there might be a little
08:27more in there uh that's but that's just how talented he is uh you're always looking for
08:33the best out of your best players and uh i think you're going to get that from charlie
08:37four one three text which says greg please ask ray to join us for the greg hill classic in scotland
08:47oh when is that it's may like maybe we could get you to lock down as a celebrity attendee right
08:54now
08:54ray in may let me look at my schedule st andrews have you ever scotland i have not i have
09:02not been
09:02to scotland yet oh you have oh the accommodations look very nice ray it's the birthplace of golf
09:09where is it where in scotland st andrews the not my god no place other than the home of golf
09:15right
09:16that's just where we're going when uh when are the dates it's like the first week of may
09:21okay let me check that out are you are you i mean yeah i mean i i'd kind of like
09:26a commitment
09:27right now if possible everything's on the donut too look at my schedule yeah well can we avoid this
09:33for a second ray i just want to it's so cool to me the pride that you speak with regarding
09:40patrice
09:40bergeron guys that didn't play together that shared a jersey and share uh you know a history with that
09:47with that team and how that relationship just sort of continues even though you never shared the ice
09:53i find that to be such a commendable thing well i have so much respect for patrice i've played for
10:0022
10:00years and i think we did it in a lot of a lot of how patrice conducted himself or plays
10:06and all that
10:06stuff is very similar to how i kind of live my career on and off the ice and uh it's
10:11so impressive and
10:12when somebody does it that way you gotta have nothing but respect for somebody like that
10:17who did you run into at the hall of fame stuff that was most of interest to you do you
10:23see somebody
10:24you hadn't seen in a while um well you keep you know we're we're all invited back every year
10:33and it's just fun to run into you know other hall of famers that and and we wear our jackets
10:39uh at the
10:41event uh and it's uh it's pretty cool just to run into all your former or your your co uh
10:49hall of
10:49famers um you know i hadn't seen al mckinnis in in a long time or bernie for dirko or you
10:56know i see
10:56michelle gray every year but um no it's just uh it's just fun to run into the guys that uh
11:04you know i saw
11:05murphy that i i kind of went in with and that 2004 so um just run into those guys and
11:12and you know
11:12what actually meeting the people that are going in is a lot of fun because it's a it's a really
11:18long
11:18weekend for them they get in there on thursday and they have them busy for the whole weekend and while
11:24you're doing it you're like man we're busy we're busy but the minute you leave there and you you think
11:29back a couple days later and you just go wow what a weekend that was that they lived with their
11:34family
11:34so that's what i remember and it's fun to kind of talk to the guys going in and just reminding
11:40them
11:40i said i know you're busy but you're going to walk away from this and you're going to go wow
11:44what an
11:45incredible weekend raise last one for me it's such a it's such a prestigious club if there was one guy
11:52in the hall of fame going into the hall of fame that you would have loved to been able to
11:56play
11:57play with before your era during your era in this era who would that guy be
12:04patrice bergeron wow good answer that's a great answer yeah all right ray enjoy canada and we will
12:11talk to you again next week thanks guys have a good one all right there he is the great ray
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12:17on this show every friday