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00:00you need more from your top six. Show up on time, get more than two shots. Is it going to be now
00:06like they get two shots in the first period in game five, one in game six, and then just zero
00:10in game seven? We're just going to find- If that's the case, then I think we just
00:14pack it up and head to the media room and- We're good. We're done here.
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00:40to get $20 off your first pair of tickets. I'm Evan Maranofsky and joined today,
00:46first time with me on Bruins Beat, second time overall, Joe Pajarilis of the Hockey News and
00:52NHL.com. Joe, what is up? Not much. Appreciate you calling me in here today. Obviously,
01:00pretty big point in the season and the playoffs coming up here, but yeah, lots to unpack.
01:06Lots to unpack. I figured, you know what, we got to switch up the guests. Bruins are starting to
01:09lose this series. I was like, we need a jolt. We need a young gun to come in here, kind of,
01:15rattle the cages of guys like Connor and Scott McLaughlin. We got to shake the veterans up a
01:22little bit, get them going. And that's what you're here for. You're like the Jaco Blauco,
01:26except you have better hands than Jaco Blauco. That's the finish a little bit more around the
01:32net. Yeah. Well, we'll see. Yeah. You've got that. But so you're with the Hockey News. You're
01:37with NHL.com. Sick mustache too, I must add. Thank you. I appreciate that. The playoff mustache is
01:44in full effect, I assume. Yeah. I mean, I played around with it in the middle of the season.
01:50Didn't hear much about it. Dropped it for a little bit. Then people were wondering where
01:54it went. It was sort of like, you don't know what you have until it's gone. That's sort of
01:58what I felt. And I was like, all right, I guess I'll bring it back for a little bit. And yeah,
02:02we'll see how it goes from here. But yeah. I think it was a couple years ago. As you can tell,
02:07I'm not the best at growing facial hair. And I think it was like two or three years ago
02:10from November. Oh, I think it was like 2021. So we were still wearing masks in public places.
02:16So I was like, I'm going to try growing a mustache. And I still have the pictures on my phone.
02:20It is. It is. And no one could see it. I'd take my mask down. People would be like, oh,
02:25oh my, ew, what is that? And so it was not great. It looked like Sidney Crosby when he was younger,
02:33when he tried to grow a beard. And it just was awful. So I haven't tried to since.
02:39But people who can do it, do it because it can certainly look cool.
02:46Anyways, Bruins, when I asked you at game five, do you want to come on Bruins beat? I figured,
02:51all right, preview the Florida series, line matchups, not the case at all. Bruins, no show
02:59in game five, no show in game six. We're doing this on Friday, entering game seven.
03:04What was your reaction to these last two games? What were some of your big takeaways?
03:10I think, I mean, for me, game five, like the way they started out in the first period,
03:15like they're up 3-1, they're coming back at home. Mentally, maybe you can kind of expect that slow
03:22start, what they had. I mean, they're outshot, I think 11-2 in the first period. That kind of
03:29expected, dud game, all of that. Game six, that was where I was really surprised, where it was
03:34pretty much the same thing, where they didn't get a shot until they were shorthanded on the first
03:39power play, like 11 minutes in. Period ended 12-1, very similar story. The fact that for the second
03:46game in a row, and on the road where they've done better this season, all those factors just led to
03:52the same result as game five, where they could feel the pressure of the game, and they could
03:57where they could feel the pressure, especially after last year, and the fact that they weren't
04:01able to string it together again until 30 minutes in or whatever the time was. That was really
04:07surprising, the fact that for the second game in a row, they kind of struggled to get off to that
04:11start that they were looking for. I think you're right, and to show up in two elimination games
04:16and put out the effort that they did, which was just a complete lack of effort in game five. I
04:22mean, noticeably nervous, not making passes, getting hemmed in their own zone in game five,
04:29and then game six, they were a little bit better in the first, but still to get one shot. I know
04:34Toronto was blocking a lot of shots, I know that there were some chances and they were missing the
04:38net like crazy, but it's still like, you've got to get the puck on net. And Joseph Walu comes into
04:44this series, right? Comes in, no playoff experience before, he's a rookie, and you get two shots on
04:51net in the first period, in his first playoff game. And to me, he's been great for them,
04:57for sure. But you scored on one of those shots, you scored on one of those shots in game five.
05:03And to me, it's the no show element of it, right? This is a big stage, you have a chance to end the
05:09Leafs in both game five and six. And as you said, and you're right to say this, they're better on
05:13the road this year. They play a simpler game, they were structured as hell in games three and four,
05:18that's why they won those games. And I don't think it's Toronto being that much better.
05:24And I think they've made adjustments, like we've talked about on the post-game show,
05:28they're clogging up the neutral zone, they're forcing more dump-ins, they're quicker on puck
05:34carriers in their own zone, which has hurt the Bruins setting up offense. But those aren't
05:40things that you can't overcome. Those are things you can adjust to. And so to me,
05:47that's been, as you said, the real sticking point of, it's not like the Maple Leafs have just
05:53flipped a switch and it's been all systems go. They don't have Matthews. They don't have the
06:00best goal scorer in the league right now. And they've found a way, I think the Bruins have
06:04found a way to just kind of shy away from the moment. And I think that that is a really,
06:10really disturbing thing going forward. Yeah. And I mean, to the same point as Matthews,
06:15they mentioned today at their media availability, they've noticed sort of the change in Toronto's
06:20game that they've sort of simplified things. And not to say that, oh, the only reason Toronto's
06:26winning is because of what they're doing. These types of changes, if you notice what they're
06:30doing with their game, whether they're simplifying it or whatever's going on, the fact that they
06:34don't have the top scorer in the league, I mean, that's just, if you're able to dissect those or
06:40sort of figure out what their changes are, the fact that they're clogging up the zone a little
06:44bit more, wouldn't it make, wouldn't it be maybe not easier, but simpler to sort of diagnose the
06:50issue and, and, you know, change it and, you know, impact your game to sort of counteract what
06:56they're doing. That's the thing. And I think that's the thing that is pissing everybody off.
07:01And, and it's that, you know, it's, it's them, it's the Bruins, like the Bruins are doing this
07:06to themselves. This is not, you know, something the Leafs are doing and, you know, props to Sheldon
07:11Keefe, you know, he takes Reeves out of the lineup, but puts Gregor in and he adds a little
07:16spark. And, but again, like how did the Leafs score their, their one goal prior to the third
07:21period in game six, just a little shot from the point from sustained ozone time, it bounces off
07:27McEvoy in like that's that, and that's the kind of thing. And that's what this series has been.
07:32It's been super low scoring. And, you know, I thought that would, I would thought that would
07:36benefit the Bruins and it did for the first four games, but the Bruins five on five offense has
07:40been non-existent. And what's really been non-existent is any real good play from the top
07:45six outside of Marcian this series. I mean, Marcian was great in those first four games,
07:50but you know, the last two for him, he's been a little bit less impactful. And I think over
07:53the course of the series, Pasternak has been really invisible at times. Zaka no goals now
08:01in 18 play out career playoff games coil, I don't think has any five on five points in the series.
08:06Um, you know, you just haven't gotten anything. And I think it starts with Pasternak and I think,
08:11you know, Montgomery called him out after game six. Uh, that's not something he normally does.
08:17And, and, you know, I think it feels like that's like a break glass in case of emergency type move
08:22for Montgomery, right? Yeah. I mean, it's definitely, I'm trying to think of maybe other
08:27times in this year where he's really, you know, singled guys out. It's not a normal thing to do,
08:33but I mean, at this point, the way you see momentum slipping away and sort of, as you
08:38mentioned, I wrote about this in some other stories I was writing after last night, Geeky's
08:44goal with, you know, 0.1 seconds left, however much that was the only point from the top six
08:49forwards in each of the past two games. So that lack of, uh, lack of scoring from the top six,
08:55I mean, is just really apparent and it starts with Pasternak. He was the leading scorer by
09:01however many point, I mean, over a hundred points a season. Uh, he's the engine if he's not going.
09:06And obviously, you know, as you mentioned, Martian was sort of pulling the weight earlier
09:10in the series, but you know, it's one thing of one guy sort of pulling the weight while the other
09:14guys are waiting to catch up, but it's, it's got to start with Pasternak sort of coming in and
09:19having a Austin Matthews game two type of performance to pull the team to a win.
09:24It's sort of take that win that you'd expect for your star players to do.
09:28You need it from him and it hasn't been there. And the effort hasn't been all right to compete,
09:32you know, simple things like that, you know, uh, and I know like, again, in a playoff series,
09:37obviously you game plan around star players, you look to shut them down. You're more physical
09:41on them, of course. But I mean, the Panthers did that last year to Pasternak and he had two goals
09:47in game six and a goal in game seven. Like you can do that. He can do that. And I don't know what
09:52it is. Like, I don't, is there an injury we don't know about? Um, you know, what is it, but
09:57it's getting knocked off the puck. Easy plays are dying on his stick. The routes into the offensive
10:02zone are not good. Like there's a lot of things there where there's just no impact. And like,
10:07even it felt like on, um, I think he had four shots on net, uh, in game six and a lot of them
10:12were just from the perimeter. I remember there was one where it was kind of a one-timer from
10:16near the blue line and it's like, well, like, what did you expect? And so there's no offensive
10:21zone creation. There's no, you know, and again, it's interesting. Cause like, um, I thought last
10:26night that Martian coil geeky line did get some things going at five on five at times. They didn't
10:31score obviously, but I thought there was it, but I haven't even seen that at all from the Zaka line
10:35with Pasternak. And I think that's a really concerning thing because, you know, can he just
10:41flip a switch and do what he's used to doing in game seven? Or is this kind of a thing where,
10:47you know, he's just not visible in this series. And I think that, you know, I think they're,
10:53if, if they're going to win on Saturday, if Pasternak shows up and you can throw a Martian
11:00in there too. I think you, if the Bruins want any chance at winning that game, those two are
11:04going to have to have outstanding games. I think if those two don't show up, I, I, I doubt, I don't
11:09see the Bruins having a good chance. I'm curious what you think about that. Yeah. I mean, that
11:14that's sort of the point you're talking about with the type of shots that Pasternak was taking.
11:18That was the one thing that Montgomery pointed out this afternoon is that the biggest thing that he
11:23wants to see on the offensive side is getting inside the dots, playing inside the dots, becoming
11:27more of a threat, which we didn't really see that much of from anybody on the offense with the,
11:32you know, except for maybe a few plays here and there. It's getting on the inside. That's sort of
11:37what they want to do, create traffic in front of wall. I mean, they've made it relatively easy on
11:43him based on, you know, what they've been offering up. So I think that finding a way to get guys
11:47inside and establishing the real estate there, that that's going to be the step forward. And,
11:52you know, you got to do bring the extra element beyond that and go beyond that. But that that's
11:58where they're going to look to start. And, you know, we'll see if they'll actually do it or if
12:01it's just, you know, another thing that they say and follow through on. Yeah. All the, all
12:07the meetings that they're going to have in, in between games, they're going to fix everything
12:12on the ice. I want to get into game seven because I think everyone's kind of looking
12:18past game seven, myself included, the post game show. After game six, we spent like
12:2420 minutes just on like what happens if they lose, like what if they choke this?
12:28And I was like, wait a minute, we actually have veered way away, but it was fine. It's a good,
12:32you know, we're going to have that conversation a lot. If things go south on Saturday. Yeah,
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13:55Seven, um, if they did lose, right. And I, how do you, first of all, how do you feel going into
14:00Game Seven? What, what do you, what's your vibe on this? I like, I've, I felt, I felt good going
14:08into Game Six or what we, you know, we're talking about earlier about get the, you know, stinker out
14:13of the way in Game Five, come back on the road. Now, I mean, they keep pushing away the notion
14:19of like, we're not dwelling on last year. We're not, but the way the script is playing, I mean,
14:23it's just on one hand, it's the Leafs and the, you know, Bruins Leafs Game Seven. We know how
14:30that's gone for the past 10 years, but I don't know how you can look at the past two games and
14:34feel good about what's going to happen in Game Seven. If you're the Bruins, obviously it's a
14:39new game, depending on how they start out. You know, I think that's going to be the real key,
14:44how they look in the first five, 10 minutes, but going in now, I mean, it's not a, don't feel good
14:50if you're for the Bruins, but no, you can't. And I agree with you. If you're going off the last
14:55two games, you can't. I think the only way you feel somewhat good about this is number one,
15:00they're the Leafs. It's a choke off, right? I mean, these are two teams that have not been good
15:05in elimination games of late. The Bruins have not won a Game Seven since 2019 in the first round,
15:11which 2019 is sneaking out like five years ago, which is makes young guys like us feel old.
15:17But the other, so there's that. The other element though, you know, during this regular season,
15:22the Bruins would have good stretches and then have bad stretches. They'd have stretches where
15:25it's like, what are they doing? Like, you know, there's just no fire. There's no energy. I remember
15:29around the trade deadline, they had an extended stretch where it was like, do they like need to
15:33sell? And I think with like, is this series a sort of a combination of that where you have the first
15:42four games, obviously game two, the exception, but you know, for three or four in the first and
15:46looking good and structured and disciplined and then two complete duds. And like, is there any
15:53way they pull out of it for seven? So to me, like those are the only two real things you have to go
15:58off of where it's like, oh, Bruins are in good shape. Um, any of Swayman, right? Swayman's played
16:03outstanding. There's no reason to think he won't do that again in Game Seven. I think last year
16:07definitely sticks in his head of, you know, what, what happened there. He stayed here during the
16:11summer. And I know that that had a big impact on him, but you just look at the way they're playing,
16:15right? No fire upfront. The pressure is on them. Like the pressure was so on the Leafs, um, after
16:23game four, like, you know, I remember, uh, Chris Johnson wrote a story in the athletic being like,
16:27are they done? They need to trade Marner. Like, you know, Sheldon Keefe is gone, you know, up,
16:33up all the goaltending, all that stuff. And the script has flipped that I, and I were having those
16:38conversations. Now it's, you know, Montgomery is coaching for his job. And I think that is true.
16:42Like we can get into roster stuff later on, but I think the big takeaway, uh, for me for Saturday
16:50is he is a hundred percent coaching for his job. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's weird to S it's,
16:57it's weird to say that, like just, you know, the, the idea of it at first, just because
17:02look at the season they had last year, obviously, you know, they fell apart in the first round
17:07and then given all the changes, the fact that they were able to play as well, they play as well
17:12as they did. Nobody expected them to do as well as they have as a whole after all the departures
17:19from last season. So looking at that part of it, you know, it wouldn't appear that way, but
17:24if you're up three, one, two series in a row and blow both of them, I mean, that's just,
17:30I don't know how you recover from that just as, you know, as they're looking to next year and
17:34what they can change. I mean, it's, it's weird to think that, you know, cause you know, last week
17:40or even a few days ago, that wouldn't have really been the notion, but the way it's played out. I
17:44mean, I agree. I think that's sort of the conversations that they're going to have to have.
17:48If worse comes to worse for, for Boston tomorrow, it is. And I think that's the tough part is,
17:54you know, he has these two great regular seasons, um, you know, last year over performs with a
18:00roster last year that was stacked in the end, but going in there were a lot of questions,
18:04you know, about that roster. I remember people saying, Oh, maybe they won't make the playoffs.
18:08They ended up being like the best regular season team ever. Uh, and, and you have real cup
18:13aspirations. You're the cup favorite, you win the president's trophy. And then even this year,
18:17you know, I mean, that was, it's, it still isn't a great roster on paper. I mean, I think it's,
18:21it's fine for what they had cap space wise. They had to replace a lot of pieces,
18:26you know, the money ball Bruins kind of thing, and he made it work and props to him,
18:30but you can't, you can't blow two straight through one leads. There would be that they
18:35would be the first team in the NBA, the MLB, the NHL and the NFL or not the NFL.
18:41That doesn't make sense. Well, technically the NFL, but yes,
18:45actually the NFL too. The only NFL is blown a three one lead two straight years. Um, but in
18:49the leagues where you have those types of series, no team has blown a three, one lead two straight
18:53years. And when we were growing up, I remember, wasn't it the Warriors blew a three one lead.
18:56That was like a meme for like a good year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Twice. Um, and you know, again,
19:02coaches get fired for much less, uh, playoff success matters. I know that even though this
19:07year they were, you know, kind of a transition team, you're getting 109 points. You're in first
19:11place. Most of the year you have expectations. You got to at least get past the first round.
19:16And I think, you know, again, I think it'd be one thing if they went into the first round and
19:20got like crushed, you know, if they lost in five games, like, all right, well, the roster
19:24fell back to earth, you know, but to be up three, one, and that's kind of where,
19:28and I'm seeing more rumblings about this from different writers and social media,
19:33which isn't always the best thing to go off of social media. I always want to go off Twitter.
19:37Um, but, but there's a lot of talk of, you know, is it a deeper issue than the coach?
19:42And that's where I think people are onto something. Like I do think it is a deeper
19:46issue than that. I don't think it is just Jim Montgomery. It is not, you know,
19:50Oh, get another coach in there. And it's perfect. Cause there were some of these
19:53issues with Cassidy. They had trouble in closeout games. They had trouble in home playoff games.
19:58Um, you know, and again, they looked nervous in game five. You look at people like campus Lindholm
20:03who can't, this is the two straight playoffs where he just has a really tough time breaking
20:08the puck out of his own zone. Um, you know, McAvoy with mental mistakes and, you know,
20:13you look up front with just, uh, you know, no urgency, no ability to go in the offensive zone.
20:19And it's like, is that coaching? Yeah, that's definitely coaching. And Montgomery will take
20:24the fall if they lose, but it's also on the guys, like it's on the roster and it's on those guys to
20:30step up in those big moments. And like Swayman has done that. But to me, like nobody has stepped
20:36forward in either of these last two games to step up. And I think, you know, you're going to need a
20:41couple at least to step up in game seven, I think. Yeah. I mean, it's, I mean, yeah, it's,
20:50you can't just put it all on the coach. I mean, but it's kind of just a bizarre conversation to
20:54have because everywhere around the league and I, with my work with nhl.com, I'm going to the
21:00visiting locker rooms a lot after the game. That's right. You're always going to go into
21:03enemy territory. And so what vast majority of the time, if the other team is losing,
21:10they'll talk about how the garden is a difficult place to play. And just the fact that the Bruins
21:14have, you know, this culture, you know, Bruins culture, it's something that is respected around
21:19the league and the, you know, why they've been able to be a consistent playoff team, despite,
21:24you know, change over with the roster every few years and made different coaches coming in.
21:29That's sort of been a consistent thing. The fact that I don't know if you can call it a culture
21:33thing, but the fact that, I mean, if they lose on Saturday, then that kind of becomes part of like
21:39the deal. If it's not already just the fact that they've taken that lead's been evaporated
21:46to begin with, but it's just a wild conversation to have based on the context around this team and
21:53just sort of how everyone views them from the outside. It's, I guess, such a tough place to
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24:02show. So, uh, we've talked, you know, about things that need to change, right? Gotta be better on
24:08face offs. You need more from your top six, um, show up on time, get more than two shots in the,
24:14is, is, uh, is it going to be now? Like they get two shots in the first period in game five,
24:18one in game six, and then just zero in game seven. Like, you know, we're just gonna,
24:21we're just gonna find the case. Then I think we just pack it up and head to the media room and
24:26we're good. We're done here. There is a little, like one other thing I mentioned earlier,
24:30there are two reasons to be optimistic. If you're a Bruins fan, I'll add a third,
24:33a third, you know, add a little, another little positive in there. Um, I said after game four,
24:39that it felt like the Leafs hit rock bottom. And when you hit rock bottom, the only way to go is
24:44up. And that's what they've done, right? Feels like the Bruins are at rock bottom. Now they
24:50could find a way to make it even lower on Saturday, but if game six is really rock bottom,
24:57I don't know, maybe they come out better. So there is that too. There's that too. Um, lineup wise,
25:03uh, Montgomery, um, mysteriously changed the lineup after two straight wins. They've not won
25:08since you changed it back to what it was, uh, pretty much what it was, um, in game four last
25:14night in game six. Um, what lineup changes, if any, would you make going into game seven?
25:21Huh? I think, well, part, part of it depends on the health of Heinen, which has kind of been
25:28a bit of an unknown. I feel like that he had some maintenance days, um, at practice and then
25:35practice and then played, but then came out. I don't know. There's a whole thing with that.
25:39So if he's healthy, I think he goes back in and it's tough to say you, you take out probably
25:47Brazzo. I mean, not that I think he's been horrible, but I think adding that he just hasn't
25:54shown as much of that scoring touch that I think Heinen can bring, uh, in those situations,
26:00depending on, you know, how you want to line those guys up. And I mean, they've been losing
26:05the face-off battle a lot. So I don't know if, you know, part of the reason why Beecher's in
26:09the lineup is to win those face-offs. So if he's not doing that, he penalty kills too.
26:15So that's an important aspect with him. But, um, yeah, I think aside from that,
26:20maybe you shuffle the lines a little bit, the defense with peak out, I think you don't really,
26:27there's not really much to touch there. Uh, you know, Grizzlik, I, I wouldn't put him back in
26:32either. And I think you just kind of have to roll with what you have, what you have there from,
26:36from what's left. You keep swimming for game seven. Oh yeah. Yeah. I would. I bet. Yeah.
26:42Cause there is no, you can't worry about, you know, how much rest all mark is going to have.
26:46He's already sat for a long time anyway. And based on the way Swain's played, um,
26:53I don't think you can, you can take him out. Even though you lost the last two games,
26:57he's, you know, been playing super well. I don't see a reason you can't worry about next game.
27:03And I think he gives you the best chance based on how he's played recently to get you to that
27:07next game. Should be Swainman. I don't think there's any debate about that. Um, upfront,
27:12um, I think you're gonna get a little faster and you gotta be a little quicker on four checks and
27:17things like that. Uh, the Bruins did not do that. I have not done that well enough the last two
27:20games. I would consider Yaka Blanco, um, for a guy like Pat Maroon. And I know Maroon brings
27:26the veteran presence. I like it. I think it's great. But Ryan Reeves was taken out. Uh, Reeves
27:31was out near the dressing room for the leafs, like cheering him on and stuff. If Maroon can do
27:35something similar, I think that's awesome. Um, I like Maroon's puck protection and all that stuff
27:40when he has the puck on his stick in the ozone. But I like the, the havoc that Lauco can bring
27:45for a game. You need to win a game. You need to pressure Toronto's D I like what Lauco can do.
27:51That's one. And then you're right about the health of Heinen. If he can go,
27:54does he go in for Brazil? Does he go in for Van Riemsdyk for a game seven? I kind of want a guy
28:00like Van Riemsdyk in there. You know, he's been there on the other side of it in 2013. Um, but
28:06he's been there and I think, you know, you can rely on him a little bit as a vet, as a veteran
28:11player. Um, so for me, it would either be hiding in for one of Brazil or Van Riemsdyk. Um, and then
28:18on D I'm not touching anything. I like Grizzlik. I like what he brings, moving the puck out of his
28:22own zone, all that stuff. I just think that you won with that decor in games three and four.
28:29And I think you just got to stick with it and you got to roll with it and hope it works. Um,
28:34and I think that's really all you can do. And it goes back to like, why change the lineup going
28:38into game five? I didn't understand it then. I don't understand it now. Um, and again, I like
28:45Grizzlik, so I was fine with Grizzlik going in, but it's like, you've won two straight games. Why
28:48are you, why are you futzing with this? And so, um, you know, it's a big reason they're in this
28:54spot. And I think that's really all you can do. And, and, you know, they got to win face-offs.
29:00They've got to win face-offs, whether that's Beecher stepping up like he has in the past,
29:05um, or, I mean, Zaka was awful on draws. I don't have the numbers in front of me,
29:09but it was embarrassingly low. Was it like nine of 10? He lost.
29:14It was, I don't have the number. Yeah. I don't recall specifically, but it was,
29:17it was something, yeah. Something along those lines. It was awful. And so again, like,
29:22you know, we can get into his future and things like that, but I, you just need to win draws.
29:27You need to come out firing and, and that's really all you can do for a game seven. So
29:32do you want to make a prediction for what happens in game seven?
29:36Oh, uh, you know what, why not? Um, I, the vibes were not good. I feel like
29:44I wouldn't be surprised at either result if they, you know, turn around and win it. I'm going to go
29:52Leafs three to two in overtime. Oh, I like that. I mean, I don't, you know,
29:56love the result, but I liked that you went that bold. You ever watched Seinfeld,
30:01you a Seinfeld guy? Uh, not as much, like not regularly, but I've seen a bunch of episodes.
30:06Yeah. Do you know, like the storyline, the opposite where George starts to do the opposite
30:09of what he, like, do you know that whole storyline? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of
30:13what I like. It's this series, every game I've been like, they're going to lose like in the
30:17first four games and they won three of the four. And then after that, I was like, Oh,
30:21the series, you know, in my own head, I'm like, well, it's probably done soon. And they've lost
30:25both. So I have the Bruins losing in game seven. Um, that's my gut. So I want to go against it.
30:31I'm going to stick with the Bruins lose in game seven and, um, I'll say three to one
30:35Bruins lose three to one. That's what I think happens. The Leafs win three to one in game seven.
30:40Um, I just, and I also go off of like, this would be now four times the Bruins beat the
30:48Leafs in a game seven. Like at some point the Leafs have to overcome it. Um, and with the way
30:53the Bruins look down and out right now, you know, I don't, you can only play with fire so much.
30:58And I just think that, uh, that's where they're at. I hope I'm wrong. I hope we get to, we cover
31:03a second round because for, for us, it's great. Right. It's fun. Get to cover another round.
31:07Playoffs are a blast. Um, and when it ends, it's like, all right, now we've got to talk and write
31:12about the off season for three extra weeks that we normally wouldn't have to do. Um, so hopefully,
31:19uh, things turn around. Uh, anyways, uh, Joe, what can the people look forward to from you
31:23over at the hockey news and nhl.com? Well, that mainly depends on, on how much further the
31:29Bruins go, I'd say at least for, you know, in the immediate, the immediate future. Um, but yeah,
31:33I mean, as long as they're still in and, uh, usually write-ups about both teams or maybe
31:39news stories on both teams with nhl.com. I do a lot of stuff with the visiting side as well,
31:43just to sort of, you know, be all hands on deck for them. So if they do make it, you know, to the
31:48second round, some stuff about Florida, looking at them, obviously other stories about the
31:53Bruins. And then with the hockey news, that's fully about the Bruins. So that would be like
31:58the full off season coverage if we get there on Saturday or, you know, whenever that may come.
32:04So either of those sites, that's, that's where you you'll find most of my stuff.
32:08You'll have a story up on Sunday morning, just like five centers, the Bruins should
32:12target in the office, like, damn it. Like already we're doing this. Um, but, uh, anyways, Joe,
32:19thanks for coming on for the first time with me. At least we'll have to have you on again.
32:23Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Glad to be here. Of course. And, uh, Bruce B listeners,
32:27you can look for the Bruins post game show after hopefully more games. I was going to say every
32:32game, but at least after Saturday's game, you can come vent. A lot of people were venting after,
32:36uh, game six last night, which was fun. A lot of the comments, a lot of Leafs fans coming in
32:40and taunting Bruins fans, which is, you know, always a blast, but you can look forward to the
32:44post game shows and, uh, yeah, that's it. That's this week's birds beat you,
32:48Bruce B listeners. Try your best to have a great rest.