Bruins Beat w/ Evan Marinofsky Ep. 407
Evan Marinofsky and Conor Ryan break down the hot stretch that the Bruins are on, and the offensive production they continue to find up and down their roster. Could Jim Montgomery roll out consistent lines now that scoring is at a high, or will he continue to rotate the lines? That and much more!
Topics:
- Danton Heinen is a great story
- Heinen opens up a big thing for the Bruins offensively
- Mason Lohrei and Johnny Beecher sent down
- What do we think of the lines?
- The Bruins can’t stop scoring goals
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Evan Marinofsky and Conor Ryan break down the hot stretch that the Bruins are on, and the offensive production they continue to find up and down their roster. Could Jim Montgomery roll out consistent lines now that scoring is at a high, or will he continue to rotate the lines? That and much more!
Topics:
- Danton Heinen is a great story
- Heinen opens up a big thing for the Bruins offensively
- Mason Lohrei and Johnny Beecher sent down
- What do we think of the lines?
- The Bruins can’t stop scoring goals
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00:00 But when you're up five goals on your rival on a Saturday night, you can do whatever the hell you want.
00:04 You can do whatever you want. You can bring out the Macarena if you wanted to.
00:07 And again, like I give those people, it wasn't like one or two full rotations of the wave.
00:12 They did it like 11 times in a row.
00:15 Like they had some staying power there.
00:16 You're up there counting, you're like, "That's one, that's two, that's three."
00:20 The game was well on hand at that point, so I'm like, "They're keeping this rolling."
00:23 They might go, they might just stay in the bowl of the guard until after the game's over.
00:27 [Music]
00:36 And welcome into the Bruins Beat on CLNS Media.
00:39 My name is Evan Maranofsky, and I am joined today by Connor Ryan.
00:43 Connor, what is up?
00:45 Evan, I'm doing well. How you doing?
00:48 Doing great. Doing great.
00:50 I imagine you are stoked this upcoming weekend.
00:53 BCBU, it's the rivalry renewed.
00:57 It's going to be a pretty big couple of games.
01:00 Top two teams in the nation.
01:02 Will you be there at either of those games?
01:04 I actually will not be there, unfortunately.
01:07 Again, it's going to be a great matchup, number one versus number two.
01:10 I believe the first time ever that's a one-two, which seems crazy,
01:14 but you know how the rankings work. There's always the one versus three, two versus three, all those things.
01:19 So one versus two, which will be a great set of games, both at Aganis and that other kind of crappy place, Connie.
01:26 But unfortunately, I won't be there. I'm actually going to be in Bermuda this weekend.
01:31 Oh, lucky.
01:33 Yeah, a solid excuse if there ever was one.
01:36 So I'll be away on Friday and Saturday. Be back Sunday, though. Quick little jaunt.
01:43 Oh, wow. So it's a quick just get warm, relax a bit, and then right back on the plane home.
01:48 I was going to be too stressed out to be within like a 10 mile epicenter of BUBC.
01:54 Didn't want to bring any bad luck to the Terriers, so I decided to leave the country.
01:58 I'm fleeing the country for two days.
02:00 You're out of here. You've got places to be.
02:03 That sounds fun. I am envious. I am jealous of that.
02:07 I tried to book a vacation midseason that was like warm in a way, and with the schedule, it just really could never work.
02:16 But kudos to you for finding a time to go do that because that sounds immaculate.
02:22 I'm jealous. Yeah. Well, you know what, Connor? It's unfortunate you're gonna be gone Friday because New England Hockey Journal,
02:30 our TV show, runs right before the BCBU game.
02:33 And it is a preview of its BCBU and how good both teams are.
02:38 And you won't see my face in it, but you hear my voice in it.
02:42 So what could be better than that? I guess seeing and hearing me is better than just hearing me.
02:47 But yes, you will hear me. So if you don't get enough of me on these podcasts, you can watch me on TV, too.
02:54 So, you know, the presence is still there. It's like the Allstate guys voice.
02:57 Like as soon as I know Evan's talking, we know who's commanding the show.
03:02 I think I was sitting in this seat in this room when I voiced over the show, too.
03:06 They were like, you can come in, but you also have a mic at home.
03:09 And I was like, oh, that's an easy one. We're going to make this one.
03:13 So it sounds great. It's a good episode. So you guys should go check it out.
03:16 But exciting matchup and also a little bit of bad news.
03:20 This is being recorded before the game on Monday night. Sorry.
03:24 It's just it's the way it goes. Last Monday was easy because it was in the afternoon.
03:28 It's January. We're not going to hop on at eleven thirty, twelve o'clock at night.
03:34 Maybe we maybe we should. Maybe we should have.
03:37 We should jump on. You come home from the garden at like one.
03:40 You're tired. You're like, I just want a piece of pizza or something to eat.
03:43 And you're like, I got to do 30 minutes of that. And again, so I mean, I would also say that in terms of the workload and stuff that goes into this,
03:52 there's a lot of people behind the scenes who work extremely hard putting all these things on social.
03:58 Yes. Get the audio right. This is definitely not.
04:01 There's definitely times where we completely fuck these things up.
04:03 We got to go through and cut it. It's more than just me and you just recording going on YouTube.
04:08 There's a lot more people behind the scenes that work a lot of hours on us that do these.
04:12 So that's why you're not getting these at eleven forty five at night.
04:16 We're not recording them post game on most situations.
04:19 A lot that goes into this beyond these two doofuses here on the mic.
04:23 So I agree that is that is probably the primary reason is I'm not putting that on them.
04:29 And the other thing is during the playoffs, my guess is we'll do the live post game.
04:34 We'll do some quick. We'll do quick hitters. Yeah, exactly.
04:37 So there's guys. It's a marathon sprint. Exactly.
04:40 And there's also a lot we do like poke the barrel be out Tuesday or late Tuesday or Wednesday, whenever it's going to be out and it'll have that game.
04:47 And I mean, there are people who follow the YouTube channel.
04:50 Burns Rigs YouTube channel is a million podcaster at the week. So everything gets covered at some point.
04:56 But the big thing to me was Saturday, you know, even as bad as Montreal is.
05:02 Thumping them like that, just taking their face and shoving it in the mud there.
05:08 I know they're not a great team and they're rebuilding, but it is still so satisfying when that happens.
05:14 Nine four. It actually looked close going into the third period.
05:18 That was the best part. I was like, this is going to be a wild third period.
05:21 It'll be back and forth. You know, can Lena Solmark stand up? And the Bruins just said, we're not even going to need a goalie in this period.
05:27 We're just going to completely go full throttle. And I think the best story.
05:32 All right. All right. Red Sox. Yeah. Poor winter weekend. It didn't get the coverage it deserved.
05:39 Crazy, right. But Danton Heinen, I think to me, he was the story of that game.
05:44 He's been maybe one of the best feel good stories of this team this year in terms of, you know, every guy obviously has their own story.
05:53 And so, you know, Potts has been a cool story. But to me, Heinen takes the cake.
05:58 He gets a hat trick against Montreal on Saturday night. You were there in the building.
06:02 The place seemed like it was jumping at one point. I'm like, what are those people doing?
06:05 They're doing the wave. And I'll say, Connor, I don't like the wave.
06:08 But when you're up five goals on your rival on a Saturday night, you can do whatever the hell you can do, whatever you want.
06:13 You can bring out the Macarena if you wanted to. And again, like I give those people, it wasn't like one or two full rotations of the way they did it like 11 times in a row.
06:23 Like they had some you're up there counting. You're like, that's one. That's two.
06:27 Exactly. The game was well on hand at that point. So I'm like, they're keeping this rolling.
06:31 They might go. They might just stay in the in the bowl of the guard until after the game's over.
06:35 Might be might be midnight recording a podcast late at night.
06:39 He's got a still doing the wave. Who knows if you've seen the guy on Tik Tok who his goal is to stay in stadiums as long as humanly possible until he gets kicked out.
06:48 Have you seen that, dude? No. Seems like a very fulfilling objective.
06:53 It's an interesting one, but he has a whole big following on it.
06:56 And sometimes I'll be like Wrigley Field or like the Rose Bowl.
07:00 And now security guards just recognize him and they'll just be like, dude, we love you, but you got to get out.
07:04 It's like an hour and a half after the game. Yeah. So that made me think of that.
07:09 But I agree. You know, to me, the way that Heinen has just fit in with this group.
07:17 I mean, he wasn't signed at the beginning of the year. He was. I've said it before.
07:19 He's kind of like that kid on JV who hung around the varsity hoping to make the team makes the team has a valuable role.
07:25 I think he's going to continue to have a valuable role. I mean, he was on the fourth line technically Saturday night.
07:30 But we'll get to the lines in a bit because I want to touch on that a little bit.
07:35 Heinen is a story in general, I think, has just been really, really good and a good value add by the Bruins.
07:42 Yeah, without a doubt. And I think you look at that game right on a night where you have 16 different guys getting a point, which is absolutely insane.
07:49 Poor Forbert and who's the other one?
07:52 Patra. Patra. Patra. It's time to send him back to Guelph.
07:55 If only if only on that second goal from Heinen, which is a snipe, if only he did a little like back and forth pass with Patra.
08:01 He's on the rush with him only a quick little move there maybe would have changed things around.
08:06 But is Dehn Heinen selfish? I mean, I think we have to ask that question.
08:09 People are people are raising the bringing up that question, Evan.
08:13 No, I think, as you said, it's very easy to think for Rufo Gallagher Heinen considering the year he's had.
08:20 Right. I mean, didn't have the best season with Pittsburgh last year.
08:25 But again, you look at like what his floor as a player is in terms of his versatility, really kind of makes costly plays in the D zone.
08:33 Like, you know, he's not flashy at all, but you kind of know what to expect as a plug and play, you know, fourth line guy, third line guy.
08:41 So the fact that he went the entire offseason without one contract has to settle on the PTO, has to, you know,
08:48 go through weeks of preseason and training camp, kind of just fighting for a spot.
08:52 You're going over guys like, you know, Alex Chiazon, who would sign to a PTO like two weeks before Heinen, too.
08:58 It's not like the Heinen was the first guy. I forgot about they had Chiazon.
09:01 Yeah. That was like forever ago.
09:03 And I think they signed Heinen like right before right before camp anyway.
09:08 So like it wasn't like it was the first signing like, right.
09:11 Heinen's still out there. We'll grab him first. It's like, all right, we got Chiazon.
09:14 Oh, oh, shit. Dan's out there. Let's grab him to see how he is.
09:19 So the fact he does that still doesn't have a contract.
09:22 The end of, you know, plays himself into a spot, doesn't get a contract till eight games into the regular season.
09:27 Right. And just stays the course. And it's been, you know, great for what his role is, especially when you factor in that money.
09:33 Like, I think, you know, especially that first tenure with the Bruins, Heinen had his share of detractors.
09:39 I don't know whether it's, you know, he's not stop. He's maybe stop and start in terms of offensively.
09:44 You're looking for more from him. He's maybe not a prototypical Bruin that he doesn't beat the shit out of guys or anything like that.
09:51 But I think there's not any Bruins who have, you know, qualms with this contract and how he's played. Right.
09:58 You look at the fact he's making seven, seven, five, his versatility can go up in the lineup.
10:04 It's on the fourth line, third line, again, rarely makes a boneheaded play in the D zone that leads to an odd man rush or a quality scoring chance against.
10:14 Like for what that value is and what he's provided all across this lineup that is completely overhauled when you look at it this season.
10:23 He's been huge for the team. And in a season where you've had so many guys step up and exceed expectations,
10:29 especially in conjunction to what their contract is, the JBRs, even geekies, the Shatton Crooks on the blue line, what have you.
10:37 Heinen for what he's provided has been immense for this team. And as you said, like, I don't know if he's going to be having a lot of hat tricks,
10:43 but he's he's still even when he's not like scoring goals or contributing offensively, he's really been like a negative out there whenever, you know,
10:52 in whatever role he's been in. And there's a lot of value to what he provides as that kind of Swiss Army knife on this team.
10:58 Yeah, I think the issue with that contract at first was all the Bruins are going back to, you know, Heinen, who's kind of, you know,
11:06 didn't fully work out here as a traded away. You're not getting someone new or you're not playing one of the kids.
11:12 But, you know, I remember, you know, what the Bruins brought in last year. We've talked about this a number of times.
11:17 They were the moneyball Bruins. And, you know, you had a lot of veteran signings like Patrick Brown and James Van Reem's like,
11:23 you weren't fully sure how they were going to materialize. And you had young guys like Beecher and Lowry and you had Merkuloff and
11:31 and Patra in the mix. And you weren't sure how they were going to fully fare. And Heinen, you know, from the Bruins perspective,
11:40 was here's a guy they know they developed. You have an idea what you're going to get with a guy like him.
11:46 And I think his return on investment's been higher than what you thought you would get.
11:50 I thought Heinen was going to be kind of a guy who was in and out of the lineup, who would be OK, you know,
11:55 but to expect what he was three years ago as a consistent top nine winger was a little much.
12:02 But he's really been that. I mean, and again, I think the Swiss Army knife element to it is correct,
12:09 because he has a big impact on this team in a big area that was underutilized for a long portion of this year.
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13:02 So Heinen, interesting case, obviously, and he was on the fourth line on Saturday night.
13:10 He was down there with Jesper Boquist, Matt Potra and himself. Johnny Beecher and Mason Lowry were sent down on Saturday.
13:19 And a lot of people are going, oh, Montgomery won't play the kids anymore.
13:24 You know, this is ridiculous. And Beecher, I thought was OK up here for what you needed.
13:28 Like Lowry still has a little bit of development to do.
13:31 Now you have Forberk back, Wotherspoon wasn't going to clear waivers.
13:34 So you have issues there. You know, let him develop in Providence for a bit.
13:39 See if guys like Forberk and Grisla can kind of stay on this team as the trade deadline looms.
13:45 But keeping it up front, though, with like Boquist, who has really stepped in and kind of taken Beecher's job in in recent weeks.
13:54 I think what him and a guy like Heinen provide is sort of that somewhat veteran presence in that bottom six.
14:02 Because you have Potra, right? You've got Jakob Lauko, who's still kicking around down there.
14:09 Lord of the Rings master. And you need guys you can rely on down there.
14:15 And I think Jim Montgomery is going to play that fourth line more when he relies on those guys and he can trust them a little bit.
14:21 And not having it just be kind of an all kid line. And I like the idea of playing the kids.
14:26 I do. But you're getting to the end of January here. You're going in the last two months of the season.
14:32 There's a playoff push. Then the playoffs come around.
14:35 I don't know if it's super sustainable to have what they had for the past couple, you know, for a little bit of time there where it was Lauko, Beecher, Steen on that fourth line.
14:45 And they were getting underutilized. Heinen, we mentioned this before.
14:48 Heinen provides kind of that veteran presence down there that can that allows Montgomery to trust them a little bit more.
14:54 Yeah. And I think it's also one of those things where even if you're more inclined to play the kids right, every NHL coach,
15:00 unless you're a team that's really rebuilding like the San Jose Sharks would have you that are taking the long look, trying to win games.
15:07 And if you're a team like the Bruins, it's not like they're a wildcard team that, you know, you're trying to get the best of both worlds of developing the young talent while trying to stay, you know, remain competitive.
15:16 Bruins is still first in the East. It's still, you know, right in the mix with the with the president's trophy.
15:21 And again, you say whatever you want about the president's trophy, because like the Bruins are playing really high quality hockey right now.
15:26 And Jim Montgomery wants them to keep on building that, you know, that positive game.
15:30 It's probably the best stretch of the season they've had in terms of kind of everything firing off on all cylinders.
15:35 So I think you want to keep that kind of current constitution in place.
15:39 And as you said, like, Laurie, I think you sent him down to Providence, have him play 20 plus minutes a night, get power play reps.
15:47 He had that goal in their last game, which was really impressive.
15:50 And I think that's what you want to see, right?
15:52 Like for how talented Laura is, especially offensively, have him play those minutes, get confident in his game.
15:59 I don't think, you know, I'm sure you saw the move.
16:01 He had that overtime winner.
16:03 I don't think you can do that in the NHL.
16:05 Like we do that.
16:06 Really?
16:07 Yeah, he did against Montreal, like Michael Pizzotto would like just like roundhouse kick him in the face or like just like crosscheck the shit out of his back, you know?
16:14 So but going down to Providence, having him built his game, as you said, a bit of a tough break for Beecher, because I think he has been solid for what his role is really good on face offs.
16:25 But he also scores a goal in that same game as Laura.
16:28 So I think for especially in Beecher's case, the fact that he's exempt from waivers plays into that, as opposed to a guy like Steen or Boquist or Lauco or anyone else that you really don't want to get plucked off the waiver wire, at least at this stage of the season.
16:43 But as you said, like if you're Jim Montgomery, you're trying to win games right now.
16:48 I can see, you know, trying to satisfy all parties at the same time where you're still fielding a veteran group up here.
16:55 You're still accumulating points, but sending guys like Beecher down there where he's maybe in a top six role, Laura in a top pairing role, have them kind of continue to work on their game while still, you know, getting the experience they need down there in Providence.
17:09 I think that's kind of more or less their approach, but I do think that the waiver wire and especially in Beecher's case, do kind of factor into how they approach this kind of latest roster reshuffle.
17:19 100%. I mean, you look at the lineup, they trotted out Saturday night.
17:23 Marcian Coel Pasternak is the top line.
17:25 I mean, that looked outstanding the other night.
17:27 Van Ream's Exaka DeBrusque. DeBrusque has been playing a lot better of late.
17:31 He seems to be finding his confidence and producing because of it.
17:35 Lauko, Geeky, Frederick, and then Boquist, Potra, Heinen. That's weirdly deep.
17:40 I know that there isn't the star power you maybe want in there, you know, after that first line.
17:48 But again, like Van Ream's Dyke's done his job. DeBrusque seems to be kind of hitting his stride, as I mentioned.
17:53 The bottom six there, I mean, Geeky and Frederick work well together.
17:57 And then, you know, you have Boquist and Heinen kind of not sheltering Potra, but as two veteran-ish presences with them.
18:03 Like, to me, that's sort of more emblematic of a playoff lineup where, you know, I know obviously nobody wants Potra on the fourth line.
18:10 He's not a fourth line player.
18:12 But if your fourth line, if you want it to be used and have a little bit of, you know, skill to it, he does bring that.
18:18 Where, you know, so I still think you probably need or would like to go out and maybe add another wing if that's possible at the deadline.
18:27 I know you and Ty talked about that last week, but that lineup isn't bad.
18:34 I'm not saying it. I thought it was bad.
18:37 But for a while there, they looked like a team that was, you know, very much heavy on their top three lines.
18:42 And now, I mean, with the lineup they rolled out Saturday, I'm fine with that fourth line playing 12, 13 minutes.
18:50 Like, you know, maybe even a little bit more.
18:52 So I think it's emblematic that they're a little deeper than we thought.
18:57 And Montgomery's been a little bit better at kind of divvying up that talent.
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20:37 So the Bruins get nine goals on Saturday.
20:40 And if people haven't been paying attention, the offense has been a lot better.
20:45 How much better has it been?
20:47 Well, Scott McLaughlin, I got this from Scott so I've got to give him credit.
20:50 I didn't look this up myself. This is in his story.
20:53 Bruins are at 4.46 goals per game since Christmas, which is the highest number in the NHL.
20:59 Now, if you will remember, pre-Christmas, pre-holiday break, things were not looking so hot.
21:04 The offense was drying up.
21:06 They weren't getting scoring from a lot of different areas.
21:09 And things since then have been basically the complete opposite.
21:12 Why do you think the Bruins have been so good offensively over these last bunch of weeks?
21:18 I mean, I think a lot of it is just simplifying their game and doing the simple things.
21:23 I feel like every time, as is the case every season when teams go through offensive ruts, what usually solves it.
21:31 Yes, you can look at the guys who are the offensive zone cheat codes like Poffs are not getting hot and what have you.
21:37 Those are the outliers, right? When those guys can just out of the blue, just get your offense rolling there.
21:42 But I think you look, especially in the game against Montreal, a lot of it is just bringing guys to the front of the net.
21:47 They're getting a lot of grade A chances.
21:49 And it's kind of what we saw last year with the Bruins, right?
21:51 Maybe they're not peppering the net the same rate they were when they had Bruce Cassidy and his approach in the offensive zone.
21:58 But some of it might be an indictment on Montreal and how shitty their defense is.
22:02 Yeah, that defense is not good. That defense wasn't great.
22:05 A lot of those plays, though, were guys cycling the puck, bringing the puck down low, moving it around and having guys pointed at the net front.
22:14 Like you look at the coil goal was like a signature coil play there where he drags the puck he's got.
22:19 It was like Jordan Harris. He had a few other guys like trying to just follow the leader there.
22:25 Martians waiting at the net front.
22:27 Zaka's waiting at the net front when Dubrovsk has that really, really good feed on his goal as well to get him rolling.
22:33 So a lot of the stuff, again, it's never reinventing the wheel with this team, right?
22:37 You can try different combinations, but a lot of their chances, whether it's, you know, guys driving to net defense and knowing to activate like offensive dynamo,
22:45 burning Carlo gets a goal there from activating there.
22:49 I think with this team, it's not like the you need to keep on switching the lines to find the right combination.
22:54 This guy is just playing the right way and making things happen there.
22:58 And I think that's been the biggest contribution.
23:00 You go maybe a player or two in a different role that has changed things around.
23:04 Like I think Leuker has points in back to back games on the third line.
23:07 That's a guy that seemed like he was in kind of this weird limbo for a while.
23:11 His confidence was down. Put him on the third line, get him rolling for a little bit, a few more minutes, and he's produced there.
23:18 So I think for the Bruins, it's not anyone out like an outlier or one player going in absolute heat or anything like that.
23:26 It's just playing the smart, simplified hockey that that, you know, this team has shown it can do in the past.
23:33 And it kind of goes back to that game against the Rangers way back when, where they got where they lost seven to four.
23:39 And Coyle was like, we have the talent to finish these plays, but like we can't have Posternock be the the one guy waiting there.
23:45 We have we have to have guys waiting at the net front and have, you know, wear teams down, hold on to the puck, possess the puck, win puck battles on the floor check.
23:55 And then when we have that talent in place to finish off those plays, makes it a lot easier.
23:59 We can't just be one and done off the rush. And you really haven't seen it all that much unless it's offensive dynamo didn't hide in with that that shot on the rush.
24:07 But look at a lot of those goals against Montreal. A lot kind of more or less followed the same script there, which is a pretty good formula for, I think, consistent offense production over the course of a full year.
24:17 Yeah. And I think it's shown that time has been the best thing for them in the sense that as time has worn on with guys in new roles and you have new guys like James Van Reemstuyck and Patra in there and Kiki.
24:29 And then you have guys, as I mentioned, in new roles like Coyle and Zaka.
24:32 It takes time to get an offense down and to start generating goals in positions you really haven't been in in past years.
24:39 And I think, you know, Montgomery's talked about this all year. And I know he talked about it Saturday night again.
24:44 It's like it's a lot of winning puck battles down low. It's a lot of, you know, you know, getting the puck down low and getting it to the front of the net, as you mentioned.
24:51 And I think you're seeing that more now, obviously. Yeah. Montreal has their problems, many problems on defense in that.
24:58 But that's OK. Sometimes you need a game like that to kind of remind yourself or to reinforce those values and those teaching points.
25:05 And I think Saturday was was definitely good for that. But and that's how you score in the playoffs.
25:09 You know, you're not dangling through guys and scoring off the rush in the playoffs. It's a lot of cycle work.
25:15 It's a lot of sustained ozone time. I mean, that was one of the emphasis, you know, emphasis points for Montgomery when he came here was like, hey, let's have, you know, long time on attacks.
25:25 You don't have to outshoot everybody. We need quality chances, which is a very valid point.
25:30 And a lot of good NHL teams have transitioned to that. But you're seeing that now.
25:35 And I think, you know, when the playoffs come around, that's how you're going to get your goals, you know.
25:39 And last year they had a more talented roster than anybody. And they had a tough time scoring and defending their own zone.
25:46 But now, I mean, again, you know, I think with defense and goaltending being a strength, you do have to get this this down offensively,
25:53 as I mentioned, kind of down below the dots and low in the zone, which they have done.
25:57 So I'm curious to see how this kind of progresses again. Monday night against the Winnipeg Jets.
26:03 What a game. I mean, the stars were out for that one. I mean, my God, it was just without a doubt, Evan.
26:08 I'm sure it will be fantastic. Yeah. Unforgettable game. It was all that.
26:13 Do you want to do a prediction? I know this will come out after. But do we want to say a prediction?
26:17 Do we want to want to do this? You do a three to overtime win.
26:22 I'm going to say. How about Matt Pottser with an overtime goal? Get him rolling a little bit.
26:28 I like that idea. I like that idea. I'm going to say the Bruins lose four, three in overtime.
26:34 That's it. I think they'd be downer. I know. Debbie Downer. They're kind of do.
26:38 So I'll say four, three. Oh, T loss. But it'll be close. It'll be a good game.
26:43 So that's my that's my prediction. So you guys can throw egg in my face if this doesn't come true.
26:49 Hopefully it doesn't. Anyways, Connor, what can the people look forward to from you over at the globe and Boston?
26:55 Yeah, you can follow my stuff over at Boston.com. The globe will have breakdowns, features, game reports, columns,
27:03 all that good stuff throughout this season. And if you want to follow me on Twitter, you can at Connor Ryan underscore 93.
27:09 Go do all that. That's Connor Ryan. I'm Evan Marinovsky. You Bruins beat listeners of a great rest of your week.
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