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00:22I'm Evan Marinovsky. That is Connor Ryan. Connor, what is up?

00:27Evan, I'm doing well. How are you doing?

00:30Doing great. Doing great today. We're getting negative, baby. We've, we've seen some of

00:35the comments we've heard you on our, uh, positive videos over the last two weeks of best Sweeney

00:41this best Sweeney that today we're gloves are coming off and we're, we're looking back

00:47at the bad stuff. We're getting down in the mud, fists up, bang, bang, you know, getting

00:53ready to see the, the bad things that, uh, that have happened since Don Sweeney started

00:57in 2015. Uh, and we're doing one episode cause I initially, I thought, okay, maybe we can

01:02do a bad draft picks and separately, a bad signings went back and looked. There's not

01:07enough bad draft picks to, um, do two episodes or do it one episode.

01:14There's a couple, but there's not a huge group. It also helps when you're not picking the

01:21first and second round for like years on end. So that's the thing. If they were, we

01:25could rip on that. Um, but again, it's like, I was saying this to you, it's hard to quantify

01:30like a third round pick as bad or like a fourth or fifth, sixth or set. Like those are for

01:37lack of a better term, crapshoot picks. You don't know what those are, you know, what

01:41those are going to bring. Um, so I'm not going to put, you know, like Curtis hall as a, as

01:47a selection here. Cause again, fourth rounder in 2018, I mean, you know, what were you really

01:53expecting? If you get anything, that's terrific. But, um, so how we're going to format this

01:58is we're going to do the, the, the, the, we each draft three, but we're going to pick

02:02between draft picks and signings. We're not going to do separate cause there aren't even

02:06enough bad draft picks to do like three and three.

02:10I know people are like, yes, there must be, there has to be back around 2015. He was a

02:15terrible pick in the seventh round. Like, no, can't do that. Uh, we're, we're not going

02:19to do that. Where's the Pavel Shen or ratio? It's like seven ground pick. Um, God, I think

02:28that might've been my first dev camp with Pavel Shen. I remember, uh, it was my first

02:32dev camp in 2018 and Jack Becker was there cause he was 2015, uh, pick. And I remember

02:37Sarah Sivian friend of the show, Sarah Sivian, uh, back then was like, you know, I've seen

02:42this kid at Penn state a bunch of times and by God, he stinks. Like he's not that good.

02:48Uh, and uh, yeah. And he was seventh rounder. Like again, like, you know, not expecting

02:53a heck of a lot crap shoot. Yeah. I mean it's, that's what the seventh round pick is. Um,

02:59so uh, we'll do a coin flip again. We'll do a coin flips crazy. I have the same coin.

03:03We did the coin flip for, Oh my God. It's almost like recording these all in a row.

03:09No way. We would never do something like that. It sounds like I'm wearing the same

03:12exact thing. They're like, wow. Evan and Connor, they never changed clothes. Same thing. Glasses,

03:17hat, fan, everything. He's a Sims character. Well, the fans are like, we know that. Yeah,

03:22that's true. That's true. Um, I, I stopped mine, but sometimes I'll sit in here and just

03:27like boil as we do these episodes. I'm like, I just leave it on. Um, but anyway, uh, let's

03:34have you pick first or pick a, what do you want to pick? Heads or tails? Tails. All right.

03:39So you did tails last time at work. Let's see what happens. And it's tails. So you get

03:44the, you get the first pick. You get to pick the worst, either free agent or draft a pick

03:51since John Sweeney began in 2015. The floor is yours. Uh, I don't think I'm breaking any

03:55new ground here, Evan, but I got to go with Zach Sennishen 15th overall in 2015. We all

04:00know about the 2015 draft at this point. But still, when you look at just the number

04:05of players that would have, uh, you know, helped out the Bruins in short order, uh,

04:10would have potentially put you over the top and, you know, 2019 at the very least, but

04:14who knows if one of these guys, you get a Kyle Connor or a Shabbat or any of these players.

04:19And I don't look at like the guys that like dropped out of the first round. Like I don't

04:23look at like Sebastian Aho, everyone missed on him in the first round. Right? Like, but

04:27even I think we mentioned this on the last podcast that we definitely didn't record 10

04:31minutes ago. Uh, I have like a Travis connecting, right? Like I got a solid middle six player

04:39that plays the in the right way can impact the game. Um, just even one more of those

04:43players I think would have maybe been the difference. Yeah. I mean, you lost game seven

04:46of the Stanley cup final four years after the draft, like just any other roster player,

04:51maybe it would have been the difference there and helped you out. So you look at that and

04:54the ramifications of 2019, you look at, again, a lot of very good rosters before and after

05:012019 that maybe would have been put over the top. If you add another solid, you know, player,

05:07let alone a franchise, a bars all or someone like that. Um, again, I don't harp too much

05:13on Zaborrel because, you know, again, didn't work out, but was rated exactly where he was.

05:18Like that was a guy people thought was going to be a top 10 pick. Um, but Senechum was

05:23way off the board. That's almost like we, we got our two guys, let's swing for the fences

05:27for a guy that had speed, had some potential of what he saw in the OHL, but still was quite

05:32the reach when you had quite a few guys that you look at where they were like a guy like Kyle

05:37Connor looms large in terms of maybe if there was ever a draft where it wasn't smart to swing

05:42for the fences, when there was surefire production and talent there in front of you, that's a tough

05:47one. You look back and we've done this a thousand. I mean, this is not like breaking new ground.

05:51We have done this times and we will probably do this more bars, all 16,

05:58Connor, 17, Shabbat 18. Uh, I mean, again, like, you know, Eric's in act 20,

06:06Brock Besser, 23 connect me 24, uh, Bavalia 28. Like you had legit NHL talent come after.

06:16Um, and I agree. I mean, I, you know, I understand the thinking of like, Hey,

06:19we're going to take a swing on a guy who we really like, but probably isn't a first round pick.

06:25But I just think, you know, you look back and you're like, Oh my God,

06:28like that, like right there. It's right there. And Barzal was highly rated. If memory serves

06:34at the time, people liked him, obviously he's the 16th pick. I don't believe he had good,

06:39uh, draft pre-draft interviews. What I heard was the thing, but also like, look at like Kyle

06:44Connor, who, who I also, I forget. I don't think he had his first year in Michigan, right? It was

06:49the next year where he put up like 70 points, but I think he'd lit up the USHL. If I believe,

06:55I believe that's right for a guy like Kyle Connor. So, uh, you look at just what he provided him to

07:00just pure offense. Um, and you're the Bruins where you already have in 2015, you have a guy

07:05in David Pasternak who didn't realize his potential, but you realize something pretty

07:09early on. This is a guy that should not have gone 25th overall the year before you got something

07:13here. What if we pair him with another guy who lit up the USHL and Kyle Connor, right?

07:18And again, like it could have just been a connecting. We're not asking for a 30 goal guy,

07:21like a Besser or a Kyle Connor or someone like that. Like even just a guy that gave you 20 goal,

07:26another DeBrusque, you know, which another DeBrusque would have helped that team

07:31pretty good. Oh, David crazy would have been pumped. I also think like, again,

07:34Barzal was the next best. He was best available at 15. If, if I remember correctly. So like,

07:39if you just went with the best available there, but boom, like that guy on, uh, the,

07:44the guy on Tik TOK, the kid who always eats at Costco, like boom, you give me weight.

07:50I know you, I know you sent that in a text recently. I had no idea what you're talking

07:54about. I'm already starting to get caught up on Anderson. I didn't actually didn't know about

07:57that either. So I guess I'm behind the times in terms of what you already told me about,

08:02uh, sketcher or whatever it is. And I'm still far behind on that. So a lot of this is true.

08:07I have to get caught up on all these new things. I'm still doing the dab and it's 20, 20.

08:11That's right. You saw it. I respect that. Um, and then I remember Ty sent us the video of the dude

08:16on Tik TOK. Who's a dresses up as like a wizard and runs behind like the counter. I hate that.

08:22That's all I get. Now the guy's just harassing people at TJ Maxx.

08:26That's all it is. It's all it is. Uh, yeah. Kyle Connor lit up the, that's interesting. He did

08:31three years in the USHL from 12 to 15 at 80 points crazy in 2015. And then went on and anyone

08:38psycho mode in Michigan. Yeah. And 71 in Michigan. And he didn't win the Hobie Baker. I don't think.

08:45No. I wonder who won it. Was it, was that Jimmy VC who won it in 2016?

08:492016 absolutely was. Yeah. That's who it was. Oh, wow. Um, that's crazy. My God. Um,

08:57but anyway, so yeah, I mean, I, yeah. Seneschen number one, that's an easy one.

09:01Um, I, I don't, uh, begrudge you from that. Uh, my pick, this is a tough call because there are

09:08two free agent signings I'm looking at. Um, both were high paying one more than the other. Um,

09:17I guess I'll for my second pick, I will go with, I'm going to go with Matt Bolesky.

09:26Um, yeah, cause actually I have the next two picks so I can, it actually does not matter.

09:31Matt Bolesky, uh, five years, 19 million over those five years. Again, um, not crazy money,

09:36but like, I was just going back and looking and again, the cap was different then. So like,

09:41you know, just under 5 million per for a winger was a fair amount of money.

09:46And I looking back at his numbers with the ducks. So he had kind of a breakout season in 2014,

09:5315, 22 goals, 32 points. Um, you know, had 24 points the year before wasn't a proven guy.

10:01Kind of looked like he was on the upswing though. And like the Bruins were coming in at sort of a,

10:05you know, Hey, this guy has potential. Um, wasn't the case at all. Uh, came in here,

10:10had 15 goals and 37 points in that really weird 2015, 16 year where everybody was injured at all

10:17times and he didn't really produce. And then 16, 17 was embarrassing. Three goals, eight points,

10:2249 games. And then it was just, he fell off. Um, had some injury trouble, uh, ended up in

10:28Providence for a while. That next season, um, just wasn't worth it at all. Ended up getting

10:33traded to the Rangers. And after that never really regained his footing in the NHL ever

10:39like completely fell off. Um, he's still only 36 and this all took place the end of the last decade.

10:47So, um, really a tough signing for the Bruins that was post Luchich, uh, cause they had,

10:54that was that 15 off season. They had traded, uh, Luchich and then the draft had happened.

11:00And then they wanted to kind of re-sign a cheaper version of Luchich, uh, who had younger upside,

11:06all that stuff wasn't Bolesky at all. Um, and again, like one of those other bailed, uh,

11:14David Creechie wingers where just like, they could not find a fit for him.

11:19Um, I think that's what they, yeah, that's who they paired him with. If memory serves.

11:22I believe so. And he had a great playoff run. I know right before free agency too,

11:26but like he did the way he played with it. I think he primarily played with gets a lot of,

11:30quite a bit, like a very different player from a guy like David Creechie as well. Like it just

11:33wasn't a good fit. You were kind of banking on him carrying through what he saw in the post

11:38season just did not work out at all. He had that OT goal against the Blackhawks where he like slid

11:43on his butt and I'd be like, that's him. That's the guy like, you know, we got to have him. Um,

11:48guys, he doesn't score every goal like that. No guys. Yeah. Unfortunately he doesn't. Um,

11:53but yeah, unfortunate for the, for him. I mean, obviously like, you know, fourth round pick in

11:57oh six, um, just didn't, just didn't really pan out. I mean, he kind of panned out. He had some

12:02good years in the NHL. Like, yeah, that's great. But for the money that he was given and again,

12:06we're pro getting the bag. So like go, go off, Matt Bolesky, get that money. Um, but for the

12:11Bruins just, uh, wasn't really a, um, a smart signing. Uh, I want to get to my second pick

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13:40It's that easy. So with my second pick, this was who I was considering taking with my first pick,

13:45David Backus, five years, 30 million, 6 million per, really nice piece in St. Louis. It's

13:53interesting. I think we've talked about this before, how the best American players of the

13:58two thousands of that time kind of had the David Backus mold of like gritty, hard-nosed,

14:05good around the net, like not very fast, not super skilled, but just like gritty

14:11guys. You want your room leaders. Like that's the kind of player you want. Obviously you do

14:15Patrick Keynes, but like David Backus was, you know, that was kind of the prototypical American

14:20player. Bruin signed him right before his age 32 year for 6 million per looked at him. I mean,

14:28again, this was, you know, when they had Bergeron and great, she looked at him as kind of another

14:32leader in the room, looked at him as a right wing just never really could take off here.

14:37I mean, he did have like that first year, 16, 17 had 38 points. Yeah. Like 38 points in 74 games.

14:45The tough part there again was the Bruins, you know, invested in him as his career was going,

14:50you know, on the downtrend rather than, you know, picking a guy who was going on the up. So like

14:55looking back and again, I was, you know, I wasn't covering the team then.

14:59Were you covering the team in 2015, 16? I was not. No. So like we weren't around then we would

15:05have been like, wow, that was a terrible pick. I mean, who would ever want to do such a thing?

15:08But when you look back though, you wonder like, oh, they're, you know, signing a guy 6 million

15:14per, I don't remember the reaction, but 6 million per for five years for guys 32 and not very quick

15:19in a league that was quickly becoming all about speed. You look back and you wonder like how that

15:24one, how that one happened and like what the rationale is. And I think that was also a reaction

15:29to like getting another Luchich type player of big physical and it just didn't work out.

15:36Yeah. I feel like everyone had the same kind of scenario play out when Bacchus signed,

15:40because it was, I think it was Bob McKenzie who tweeted like Bruins signed Bacchus

15:44one year, 6 million people were like, oh, that's great. Hell yeah. Like got a new veteran voice

15:51come in. And then like five minutes later, he's like, sorry. Uh, it's five years. Everyone's like,

15:57okay, not as good. Yeah, exactly. And as you said, like I get the rationale in terms of having

16:03this veteran guy, a captain of a team, well-respected a guy that really good, really good

16:09guy. Yeah. And played a key role in terms of, you know, with this, with that roster kind of being

16:14in transition, a lot of younger players coming in, I get that sentiment, but for 6 million for a guy

16:19that played a style of game that wasn't going to translate well, once you're past the age of 30,

16:26again, I mean, this is a guy that was scratched in game seven of the Stanley cup final against

16:30his former team. And you can make the argument that probably shouldn't have been the case, but

16:34like Carson Kuhlman kind of outplayed him and did more in a top six role than Bacchus in that

16:38series. He has scored a goal in game six, an elimination game, Carson Kuhlman. So again,

16:45I get the ration of why the Bruins would target a player like that, but for that term and for that

16:50price, like that, which kind of hindered you from making other kinds of marginal moves, it probably

16:54would have moved the needle more for you. Again, in 2016, when you needed that veteran presence,

17:00I get it. But when it's 2018 and Pasternak is taking a huge step forward and Rask is still

17:06playing at a high level and he's still a Bergeron and Creechie, that's when you look at what David

17:09Bacchus was bringing you and what the price was, it just wasn't worth it. No. And I mean, it is

17:15like, again, it was a sad ending because like you had that loss to his former team in the cup final,

17:22you know, missed his chance at a cup, didn't play in game six and seven. And then, you know,

17:28I think he got, did he get bought out? Was that what it was? He could put on, I forget how his

17:33time ended here. He was put on waivers, I believe no one took him and then they had to dump his

17:39contract more or less to Anaheim. So they got Andre Kasha, who they hoped was going to be the

17:45potential top six guy with high upside and gave up Axel Anderson draft pick and Bacchus to kind

17:52of dump that contract, Bacchus' deal, but ended up not working out. But again, it's not good when

17:57you have to give up draft capital just to get a contract off your books. Yeah. But again, Bacchus

18:03had a really great career with St. Louis, you know, 45 points the year before coming here,

18:0958 before that, highest 62 in 2010-11. But just, you know, and you're right, that contract was

18:16annoying. Every year we would talk like, oh, if the Bruins had that extra 6 million, imagine what

18:21they could do, or even like some of that 6 million. So not fun there. What's your second pick?

18:27I'm going to stick with free agency, actually. I'm going to go with John Moore,

18:32who signed 5 years, 13.7, so 2.75 million per year. Assigning that, you know, when they got

18:39him, you looked at the term, especially for a guy that I think was 28, was solid in roles with

18:46the Devils leading up to that, solid kind of puck moving guy. But you look at just the term,

18:50especially for a guy that you didn't really know what exactly he was in terms of, was he a guy that

18:56you view as a top floor fixture? Is he a guy that you think has more room to grow? It just didn't

19:00work out. Only kind of played one full year, dealt with injuries quite a bit. He only played,

19:06played four total years with the Bruins for his time here ended, but only played 97 games over

19:10those four years. So he dealt with a lot of injuries. Wasn't super effective in terms of

19:15what his overall role was. Great guy in the room. Guys loved him. Great guy to talk to, but in terms

19:22of what the price is, and especially I think the term more than anything, it just was, it was one

19:27of those contracts you look at like on Cap Friendly, prayers up, but like, you'd look at like his,

19:33how many years he was. RIP in peace, Cap Friendly. Yeah. But you look at like, you know, when they'd

19:37have like the chart of like how long guys are signed for, and you look at like another three

19:41blocks for more in terms of his contract, you're like, I don't like that that much. So I think,

19:46especially the term and what he provided just didn't really work with what the Bruins were

19:50trying to do at that point, where again, that was even before they went to the Stanley cup.

19:54So they were a team that was trying to build for now and for the future. And the overall

19:59investment in more just didn't work out. Do I remember right? He had a heap. So he played in

20:04game seven against the blues and I think he had a, like a scoring chance or two in that first period.

20:10Like people probably not went back and watched why they wouldn't have. Yeah. But in that first

20:16like 10 minutes, the Bruins dominated and they had a bunch of chances. And I think he

20:22set one or two of them up, which like, when I look, I think back, I'm like, imagine if those

20:26had went in and like John Moore was like a folk hero, things would just go so differently.

20:33But I agree. And we, you know, that was another one of those contracts where like,

20:36it doesn't kill you, but to not have that 2.75 mil and have it tied up in that,

20:42where he's just not really playing. It just, it didn't help anybody. It didn't help anybody.

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22:39what's it going to be? So I mean, you could look at the moral, because I think you look at the

22:44consequences of that draft, but I'm going to go with another player from 2015. Because you look

22:48at just where he was projected how desperate and the Bruins were for this to be a pick that panned

22:54out. I'm going to go with JFK, Jacob Forsbeck to Carlson, 45th overall in 2015. And again, I feel

23:01kind of bad because as soon as he was drafted, everyone was like, Oh, this guy's an ex Bergeron.

23:06It's not that great to compare him to the best defensive forward of all time. You're kind of

23:11starting from a rough spot there. Yeah. I do think you look at just the fact he wasn't able to put

23:17put it together at the NHL level. You look at 2015, where they projected him to be and he gets

23:23you know, had a solid little stretch there for a while, I think in 2018, 19, that season, but that's

23:28a guy that when you look at where Bergeron was getting up there in age for Craig, he was getting

23:32up there in age, but you can look at a guy like Sidnika, who is 2018. And you hopefully you hope

23:38that he would pan out. But like, JFK was a guy that you needed to hit and, you know, arrive in

23:442020, 21, where he could step in when and ease the workload for a guy like Bergeron or Craig Jean,

23:51it just didn't work out. So there's a lot of different options you can kind of go to in terms

23:55of weighing, you know, necessity, their overall skill set, what have you, but I think JFK, a guy

24:01that I think had a, even it's not fair to compare him to Bergeron was mapped out to having a pretty

24:06solid floor of like, all right, he's not Bergeron, he'd be a really good three C, good at face offs,

24:11good at all these things, wasn't able to put it together. No, he wasn't. That's a great pick. I

24:17was not expecting you to go with that one for that. So now I'm like scrambling. I'm like,

24:23Oh, shoot, what's going to be my third pick? I'm like, I'm like taking Michael. I'm like

24:26taking Michael Pennix, Jr. overall, just throwing everything off. I'm like, Sean, Sean McVeigh.

24:32When the, when the Patriots drafted Cole strange, I'm like, what the fuck are they doing?

24:38You know who I'm going to go with? I'm going to go in line with what you just mentioned.

24:41Um, same kind of situation, Jackson, Nika in 2018, uh, Jackson, Nika taken 53rd overall.

24:49So second rounder and similar type of thing of, you know, that was a time when, you know,

24:552015 was, you know, Bergeron had just been on the cover of, um, NHL 15. Um, you know,

25:01crazy was great. They weren't really like, I don't think the future of the center ice position was

25:08like fully on people's minds. 2018 was the first time or one of the first years when I think you

25:13really started to hear that. And I think that was the same off season. The Bruins like went

25:16super hard for John Tavares, um, kind of replaced David crazy and crazy was pissed.

25:23Yeah. Crazy. I think the best season of his career that next year, that would have been

25:26perfect every year. Just like go for someone and try to, you know, get them going. Keep on

25:30trying to sign Jimmy VZ. Just piss off. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Um, but Seneca,

25:37again, a guy that, you know, had a lot of high expectations, um, you know, was a high offensive

25:43centerman had chances and just never really could hold onto it. Now, you know, is some of that

25:50Bruce Cassidy, maybe like, uh, I've mentioned to you, you know, people remember back, um,

25:55it was that 2020, 2021 season when he started out the season as like the top line center.

26:00I think was it Bergeron who was hurt, uh, to begin that year. Um, and he was there for like a game

26:06and then into the shadow realm he went. Um, so again, maybe with a coach that was more lenient,

26:12sure. But again, like hasn't really fit anywhere else. Like didn't fit in Vancouver. Um, you know,

26:21did you see his numbers with the shocks this past year, which again, you're looking at like,

26:24all right, on the Bruins tough to crack the lineup, but like his numbers are the shocks,

26:27especially where, let me tell you, there's a lot of plying time up for grabs. That team was,

26:31we might be able to play on that team. I think we could play on the sharks, but I have his numbers

26:35here. 0.0 goals, 17 games. I can't get across these plus minus. I can't imagine it minus minus

26:42four minus 14 playing 1149, 1149 of ice time a game. Like it's not good. Yeah. Like that fell

26:50off. And I w you know, you wonder like what happened. And again, like not every second round

26:54picks going to hit, we get that. Uh, but they had such high hopes for him. Um, and you know,

26:59just kind of, I don't want to say a bust. Cause like a second rounder is it's not like he was

27:04like, you know, third overall, but like for what you hoped nowhere near, and then you traded him

27:10for almost nothing to Vancouver. I mean, I know you're like Michael D Pietro, um, back in that

27:15trade and didn't they get like a defenseman back in that deal? They got, um, Myron Berg,

27:20right. I remember who just saw it. Def camp. That's right. Um, so again, not a heck of a

27:24lot for him. Um, we talked a lot. I remember in those years, uh, 19, 20 of like, Oh, do you dangle

27:30stud Nico? We kept being like, no, like that's a guy you want to keep and have as your next

27:34franchise centerman. And I think people look back like hindsight's 2020, obviously, but like,

27:39we look back and it's like, they didn't have a lot of other good young talent at that time.

27:44So like, I think that's why I said Nico looked as good as he did. Um, so, um, tough for said

27:49Nico tough for the Bruins. The, my, uh, my pick, I was debating going with that one actually wasn't

27:54the Boral because the Boral again, like it was a bust. Um, and he would've been picked at some

27:59point, but you know, at the time, like was projected to be like the 13th overall pick

28:05that wasn't, they didn't draft like, you know, crazy out of the blue for him. Wasn't like

28:10um, Nick Foligno two years, 7.6 mil. Uh, it was only a two year deal. So like, you know,

28:17not the end of the world. Um, but a lot of money tied up in a guy who had, I think it was at 13

28:25points. Yeah. 13 points. His first year was a minus 13 on that 2021, 22 Bruins team. I know

28:30him and Cassidy obviously didn't get along. Um, and then, you know, he had an uptick the next year

28:35with the Bruins 26 points, 60 games. Um, you know, just kind of slower, a fourth liner. Awesome

28:43quote, really good guy. Um, great for the culture. Awesome for the room. Uh, and actually had a like

28:49fairly okay season for Chicago last year. Like Chicago gave him a ton of money. Yeah. And he was

28:54good last year. He was good his last year with the Bruins too. Like for what his role was once you,

28:58once you knew that he was all right, he should be more of a, a bottom six player and his value

29:02maybe isn't always directly on the ice. Again, you don't want to be paying a guy

29:067.6 million over two years for justice off ice impact, but at least rebound a little bit. And

29:11that's a guy that you compare that to like the back is contract, right? Like maybe you overpay

29:15for a guy who's veteran presence. You really lean on not when it's five years, two years. Okay.

29:21Yes. Five years bit much. Um, I agree with you, but yeah, I mean, unfortunate for those two years,

29:27but again, he was great for the content, a fun guy to be around. So, um, not, uh, not bad. What

29:34else would, what else would you have gone for? I mean, yeah, there's like, you look at like a guy

29:38like Axel Anderson, who I think is just playing in Sweden. Now he was a second round pick. Um,

29:43they, again, they kind of trade him as part of the deal to get back to his contract off the books.

29:47So it wasn't like he went somewhere and ripped it up or anything like that, which wasn't a good

29:51pick for where the Bruins had him in the second round. You maybe say like Fulbert for three years,

29:56you know, 3 million per again, like steady in terms of what his job was, but dealt with quite

30:00a bit of injuries. It kind of hampered his game, but it was kind of the ones that stand out to me.

30:05Yeah. I mean like, and then on the free agency front, like you could go with like a Derek

30:09Forbert, but again, like you still got something out of him for 3 million. It just, the expectation

30:15was he was going to be this top pairing guy with McAvoy for cheap money. Wasn't the case. And then

30:21that was that same off season as Felino as Holla as Omar, when you had all this money to spend,

30:26and you just kind of signed a bunch of, you know, aside from Omar, you signed a bunch of,

30:30you know, middle six or bottom pairing guys. Um, one draft pick who I left off the worst. Cause I

30:36just, I forgot for some reason I put them under the best, but like legit probably worst, uh,

30:42round one pick 18, 2017 or whole back in Heinen. Um, you know, I know he's having a nice little

30:47run out there in Anaheim. Now, uh, you traded him and that happens. You got, yeah, you got

30:53something like legit, like you would hope back in Heinen turned into Lindholm. So he just went

30:57out and got Hampus Lindholm anyway. Um, but never really developed into a, you know, top pairing

31:03defenseman or anything like that here. Um, so that'd be another one that I'd probably.

31:07And also I believe it was the two picks right after back in Heinen in that draft,

31:11where I think we're Josh Norris to Ottawa and Robert Thomas to blues.

31:15That's right. I forgot about that one. So yeah, that too, that too. So again, like, I mean,

31:23for worst picks, I think we had six listed, including back in, I just included back in

31:28Heinen. Like, you know, we had Anderson's to Nika's, a Boral Senechen, JFK, and then free agency.

31:34Like, you know, Craig Smith didn't, you know, wasn't as great as he could have been, but like

31:39still gave you a value third line guy, volume shooter. I'll tell you. Yeah. Like Craig,

31:45we don't, we don't put so much, we don't put so much Craig Sith Sith. Exactly. Craig Sith. No,

31:49we don't. So like, I'm fine with that too. So like, again, there haven't been a ton,

31:54but there've been a couple that it's a bit of, we're egregious, like Bacchus,

31:57Bolesky, Senechen. Those three are like, you know, that's bad. Um, so yeah. So we'll see

32:04what happens in the next couple of years. We'll see like, where does Dean Letourneau fit in?

32:07Where does Elias Lindholm and Nikita Zadoroff, where do they slot in? Um, I mean, I picked Lindholm

32:13with my first pit or first pick in the free agency draft. So man, that guy better be good.

32:19Um, but, uh, yeah, that's this episode of Bruins Beat. Uh, Connor, continue to enjoy your honeymoon

32:25in the future. Uh, you enjoy it swinging from the vines and hanging with the animals and lions and

32:33tigers and all that stuff. Maybe you'll encounter a real bear. That'd be kind of sick. That'd be,

32:38that'd be very, that'd be very strange if I ran into a bear where, where I'm going, but.

32:41I know, but you know, maybe one can dream. One can dream. Yeah. I shouldn't. Yeah. I shouldn't

32:47besmirch. I shouldn't besmirch a unique idea that you threw out there. I'm sorry. Sorry for

32:52ranting on your parade. What if I, what if we brought the bears over from like Maine and just

32:56stuck them in like Tanzania? I feel like, I feel like we would, we'd probably be put on like a UN

33:01panel about destroying the ecosystem and it would have killed us. And rightfully so. If we did

33:06something like that. Um, anyways, Connor, go enjoy your future honeymoon. Uh, that is Connor

33:13Ryan. I'm Evan Maranofsky presented by PrizePix and GameTime, you Bruins Beat listeners. Have a

33:17great rest of your week.

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